skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of different small subsets of users who can poison or destabilize the system, and yes, that is a huge problem with the forum. It doesn't follow that any such subset dominates the site's overall userbase. Each certainly believes that the opposite subset does, though. That's the phenomenon I'm trying to describe.

It's not true that what I'm arguing for or perceiving is based only on extreme comments. I tried to explain this in the very comment you replied to. It's based on massive numbers of comments, some extreme and most not. I probably read more of this forum than anyone, for the simple reason that it's my job. I've also spent thousands of hours working on evaluating it as objectively as I possibly can. That does not mean my perceptions are correct or that I'm immune from bias; au contraire. But it's not nothing either.

Based on feedback I've gotten and posts I see, I don't believe that women feel less comfortable posting here than they used to. I believe there has been a slow trend in a better direction, though not everyone agrees. Race is a harder issue to assess because that issue has flared up so massively in society at large lately that the macro trends simply dominate whatever is specific to HN. We can't expect this site to be immune from that.
Trex currently uses deno.land/std, deno.land/x, nest.land and any repository. nest.land provides a blockchain-based service, we just take the way npm is used for our CLI. Trex doesn't try to look for the same npm issues, we just take the import maps and create a tool to manipulate them in a friendly way for those who already know the nodejs ecosystem
> They figured that in the worst case slapping a specific brand on a few hotels in a few major Chinese cities is a cheap price to pay.

Did they do that?
Worth looking at David A. Wheeler’s 2009 work for countering trusting trust attacks: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
> I'd probably just use a lot of words like "surreal" that don't say anything

Here's one to add to your list from today (now flagged dead) that I thought was particularly surreal in its logic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808107. It's short, so I'll just quote it in full:

Hacker News pays close attention to the content on the main page. They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning or counters the standard left's corporate interests.

For example, I posted a link to Michael Moore's film in which he eviscerates bio-fuels. This post was mysteriously removed. It was also removed the second time I posted it. This was despite the link the "A year wearing shorts to work" as another HN article link at the time continued to exist.

A link to a Micheal Moore (the quintessential 90's leftist documentarian) film "eviscerating bio-fuels" is "mysteriously removed", but a fluff piece about shorts remains: Collect underpants, ?, profit!
There’s a difference between taking cello classes for some rich kid to get into Princeton and normal people. I didn’t grow up in a particularly bad neighborhood, but time I spent playing baseball, Boy Scouts, etc kept me away from trouble. I wasn’t directly exposed to drinking, smoking and other not so smart things in middle school. I got the benefit of encountering those things when I was older.

When I was in high school I volunteered as a counselor at a summer program affiliated with my dads job in an inner city environment. The stuff we did help keep those kids, 2-4 grades younger than me, away from (or perhaps delayed) getting recruited into the drug trade.

Asking bankers and economists to measure educational and social outcomes sounds pretty dumb. Enrichment isn’t designed to produce ROI, it’s to enrich your experience as a human being. We don’t have the income mobility we once did, so folks are likely to land in whatever income strata they came from. Using income as a metric to measure whether enrichment activities are worthwhile or not is the same as evaluating the quality of apples based on the price of oranges.
I agree Confluence is a pain to use, and pages with a lot of info or a lot of macros can been nearly impossible to edit because of how slow they are.

On your point about inserting code blocks you should be able to type `/code` and hit enter. If you’re not using the newer version or a page with the new editor, I think you type `{` instead of `/` but it’s been a while since I’ve used that one.
I love this question.

JIRA.
It's something that exists in macOS, but as far as I know applications have to explicitly choose to use it. Most applications that support it have a "File > Revert To > Browse All Versions..." command available. BBEdit -- as often the case -- has a more useful variant of it, which brings up a diff window with "Search > Find Differences > Compare Against Previous Version". (It actually lets you choose any recorded previous version.)
Pedantically, that phrase chafes. No agreement is required to disagree. You can just let a thing go.
I tend to agree..it's a style thing. It has been when the lead author has written for other sites as well. I think it is subtly different from blog spam in that those pargraphs provide a ton of valuable information, but in an attempt to be detailed and precise can become redundant and a bit of a slog. Tyler has an enormous amount of knowledge and...sometimes overexplains or over introduces the simple point he is trying to make for my tastes. It seems to assume every article reader starts from absolutely zero knowledge.
hey github desktop team if you are reading this post...

a feature i love about github desktop is auto-generated commit messages. some commit messages are not worth spending time on. and yet people insist on us wasting time writing them. github desktop makes me extremely happy with these "boring" but so useful messages.

auto-generated commit messages are the best things any git client has ever done!

hoping that the team will continue to work on that feature. in fact, i would love to not have have to write a single commit message except for merges, amending, and pull requests.
Puerto Rico doesn't make much sense to me - they should either be a state and have the full rights and federal oversight that every other state does, or be their own thing entirely. Living in this limbo world where you're a citizen but sometimes in name only if you're on the island seems wrong.
I’ve done way too much investigation into this. They are fixing these issues finally[0] (I’m mc0 mentioned in the thread). It does absolutely suck and is mostly caused by hacks to support macOS inotify event propagation into the docker VM. They are also working on making a different system for syncing data using Mutagen[1] that should fix this completely. That being said, it is very usable today depending on the workload.

0: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/12#issuecomment-652...

1: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/7
Not me, but my wife - an EMR.

God they're fucking terrible. The actual EMR's are often fine. Then some hospital administrator gets involved and completely destroys usability.
>> is needed to make the Raptor's super maneuverability a reality.

The term is "Supermaneuverability"... all one word. This is characterized as post-stall, sometimes called "non-aerodynamic" controlled flight. In short, it means the aircraft remains under pilot control even after the flow has separated from the wing (aka a stall).

The 22 is not considered supermaneuverable by many. It can use thrust vectoring and some fly-by-wire tricker to ape supermaneuverability but it pales in comparison to many russian aircraft. The 22's wing becomes very unpredictable in stall, hence the need for all the fly by wire. It was meant for flying fast in a strait line, and for stealth. It was never meant for things like Kobras or Kulbits. That it could eventually do them was an afterthought. The Russian aircraft have wings designed for slow speed/high AOA maneuverability.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jks6TTFsglk

Kulbit / Chakra at about 05:20 and again at 06:20. Note how slow/tight the show is. An f-22 could never perform repeated maneuvers like this in such a confined space.
> The 2nd gen were all extreme improvements though

Welcome to the state-of-the- art in the mid 2000’s. That’s what Intel used to offer and why it was worth it for Apple to transition from PowerPC to Intel. But Intel hasn’t improved much in years. Yes, Apple will probably release significantly better processors in ARM macs in the upcoming years. But they likely would not be able to release Macs with significantly better Intel processors if they stick with Intel.
While I generally agree with your sentiment, I didn't watch the video and was satisfied reading summary in the linked article.
> Having a new source of immigration when you have just screwed yourself over in attracting European immigrantes due to Brexit is common sense rather than altruism.

Immigration is not actually something you need to have.
Automating Abstract Interpretation
Can you elaborate on how you learned to be that effective? I’d much rather work less, but I find I can’t get work done in 40 hours, and my coworkers doing the same work can. I often need to put in some extra hours here and there.
It would be flatly illegal per the fourteenth amendment. We don't have special classes of citizens in the USA, period. Doing this constitutionally would require something like ceding the territory to a new government or something.
Apple's XCode. In particular its configuration (project and environment) features. Yet, making distributions and the whole signature magic is, ummm, something. Seems like it is in principle impossible to generate and build native UI project outside of XCode...
I don’t understand where people get that idea from.

In practice nothing the US has done has hurt the CCP. If anything, it has strengthened them domestically.

The major actions the Trump administration has taken against China are:
1) Tariffs which only served to hurt American farmers, considering there was hardly any drop off in Chinese exports to the US (and that’s on paper, since a lot of Chinese exports are now hidden as Vietnamese exports, etc) but significant drop offs in American exports to China.
2) A long sustained battle against 1 Chinese company. While Huawei is suffering, the likes of Xiaomi, etc are still doing just fine.
3) Whining about the nomenclature around SARS-COV-2.

On the flip side, the administration dismantled TPP, which was a decade+ long effort spanning multiple US administrations, and nearly every non Chinese country on the Pacific, that would have actually dealt a huge blow to Chinese bullying by providing companies doing manufacturing in China much more attractive alternatives in the countries surrounding China.
Thank you for the explanation, very interesting, and makes me want to dive more into lisp and see what's possible with this approach. Next thing you know, I am Clojure fanboy.

Can you help me understand, what is the purpose of (+ x 3) at the end of that let statement. Is that just the default return from the original function, using input given by the let function? Thanks!
Human Trafficking Arrests
Funny thing is surveillance probably doesn't prevent looting and/or property damage, lol

Not arguing with your post, as you mention prosecution not prevention; I agree. Ultimately, we'll be trading more liberty for 'security' I imagine.
Why haven't we been doing it this way all along?
Code snippet editing is awful in Azure for all the same reasons. Inserting code and then going back to normal text is like trying to exit vim for the first time.
Absolutely not.

There are 2 mods running HN. Responding to people is TAXING - as in its hugely costly. And it has some terrible edge cases which destroy the process:

The costly occasions are when you meet people who are either

a) Angry

b) Rule lawyers

c) malignantly motivated

AT this point their goal is to get attention or apply coercive force on the moderation process.

These guys are an existential threat to the conversational process and one of the win conditions is to get people to turn against the moderators.

Social media is a topic that HN gets wrong so regularly, and without recourse to research or analysis so frequently that I would avoid discussing moderation in general here.

The fact is that if people are arguing in good faith, we can have some amount of peace, and even deal with inadvertent faux pas and ignorance, provided you never reach an eternal september scenario.

But bad faith actors make even this scenario impossible.
You might be interested in Hack Club Bank (https://hackclub.com/bank/), which we built for our students at Hack Club after they kept having the same problem (but with smaller amounts of money).

Today there are hundreds of student orgs running on Hack Club Bank, a few larger orgs (one with a budget of ~$100K/year, one that just signed on with anticipated budget of $1M/year), and now Hack Club HQ itself runs on Hack Club Bank (our finances are also open source on it - https://bank.hackclub.com/hq/).

While the page on Hack Club Bank on our website is still focused on student-led hackathons, we've recently started support for nonprofits not led by students. Perhaps it might be a good fit for Ardour?
I like Bitwarden's CLI too, but this is cool as well. Nice work :-)
No matter what I’ve tried, nothing beats google docs for me (in a mixed discipline work environment). It has the familiarity of a folder structure, good collaboration features and version history that works well for non technical users. It works well enough that few users fall back on v2_final-edit naming nonsense. Other tools have a slight edge for organizing information, but no good way to keep both files and Documents together. Which means people use files locally and don’t keep them up to date on the system.

It had 3 pain points for me that are resolved recently. First, they got rid of the desktop clients so users can’t move stuff to their desktop without understanding this is removing files for others. Second, team drives resolve the mess that was shared folders. Third, it can now edit office documents directly, avoiding the confusion of google doc copies appearing.

I use confluence a lot and I never trust that files on it are up to date. It doesn’t quite have enough features to make “native” documents, so it ends up with a lot of content stored as attachments, which inevitably get updated and passed around by email. It’s not convenient for storing files so all of the miscellaneous small files never make it there. If you use a lot of addins, it becomes usable to make documents but since it’s atrocious at outputting files, eventually a final version of something needs to be edited in word and now it’s even worse, you have what looks like an up to date document but the latest version is a word file, which is either hidden as an attachment or not even uploaded. I can see it working well in a team of only software engineers, however.
Another option is to include a dynamically generated svg image. Usually these are used for tiny badges, but they can be used for displaying data as well. There's an app called feathub that does it. Here it is in action:

https://github.com/agershun/alasql#miss-a-feature
hahaha, the forum apocrypha!

I've found that having some amount of time spent to just keep a timeline of notable events on a forum is extremely crucial for any forum that lasts a long time and has political discussions on it.

This should probably be a feature for all subs/forums.
The only thing worse than Outlook is Outlook on Mac. So much wrong and terrible interaction. I've been on it a year at a new role and it baffles me how had it is to use.
The "happy coincidence" to a genuinely welcome offer is a huge boost to a collapsing real estate market.
Maybe this might interest you:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-29/the-commu...

"From ancient Rome to modern Atlanta, the shape of cities has been defined by the technologies that allow commuters to get to work in about 30 minutes."
That reminds me of this webcomic from 2001.

"Only once you can successfully wrestle a herd of monkeys will you truly be ready to manage your forum."

https://megatokyo.com/strip/209
Great idea. I have been having this idea for years of doing a little stream editing to change the color of the grey text to match the other comments. But I use a text-only browser so I cannot see text colors anyway.

I think what happens is we learn to "play to the crowd" when posting comments, knowing certain "inside the box" ruminations will garner support. This seems almost like a form of self-censorship that we are doing, sometimes without even realising it.

Is there really any definition of a "vote"? It is ambiguous. Better that we ask commenters "Is this what you mean?" Many times voters are probably misinterpreting comments. It is quite challenging to write comments where every single reader gleans the same meaning.

Another idea is you could pull new comments from the Firebase endpoint and insert them into their respective threads, randomising the order, or maybe just have chronological order. It would be an interesting experiment, if nothing else.

The web today has seemingly become a series of filtered, ordered "lists" where the top spots are the only content that is deemed to matter (and, for the vast majority, the only content that is seen). Not saying this is necessarily ill-advised, but one has to consider the effects, which are becoming more difficult to understand as we lose the ability to choose non-opinionated ordering (alpha, chronological, etc.).
Does anyone follow British domestic politics? They can't stand Polish (et al) immigrants amongst their numbers, much less browner skinned Indians and muslims. Brits are an increasingly irrelevant, racist, and post-Imperial bitter and reckless island nation (the size of Morocco) that can't feed itself. As an American citizen, I advocate a 2nd 1776, whereupon we set their miserable Brit "ship of state" adrift forever. Our future is better secured by a fully reciprocal "nationalism" that does not sanction racist jingoism. Consult John Mearsheimer for broader exposition of a fruitful and respectful reciprocal nationalism without pretenses to "universalism."
Think about it. You had troops in China that were ready and willing to not only kill their countrymen, but also desecrate their dead bodies and discard them in an unimaginably cold manner.

Contrast that with Kent State, Jackson State, and other places where troops were deployed and the situation escalated.

The ultimate difference here is that it’s perfectly legal and acceptable for us to talk about what happened at Kent state. The events are not in dispute.

China, on the other hand, jails people for talking about Tiananmen Square. To acknowledge the existence of such heinous acts is itself a crime in that country.

The fact that we can sit here and argue about this without fear of going to prison is itself proof that these situations, and countries, are incomparable.
How many hours does it take?
I got burnt by apple's airpods in a very similar way. The unavoidable firmware update made my Version1 airpods useless despite everything else being okay. I now actively avoid Apple products because they seem to not care. Same with the battery related slowing down of iphones. The new version of Airpods also did somehting scummy with the NC being toned down after an unavoidable firmware update.

Also, considering how much these thngs cost, too much money gets thrown out when just the inbuilt lithium batteries wear out eventually. I now avoid buying anything with embedded and unremovable batteries if possible.
What about blacks and latinos older than 65? Do they not matter?

Why are they and Asians unaccounted for?

What's the actionable info we get from this crap? Moar gov spending targeted at young non-Asian minorities urgently needed?

BL(<65YO)M!
Nonsense babble.
Can you tell us more about your problems with LastPass?
Oh, that would explain why I had no problem with JIRA.

My company had paid for the locally hosted version of JIRA for security policy reasons.
Our USA runs a larger prison labor colony far larger than any real or imaginary Soviet Gulag. Get real real. Brits are filthy racist losers who deserve every harm that comes their way. Narcotics peddlers. They would be wise to behead their landed "royalty" and catch up to "modernity."
50k? Serious question from someone who's never tried: why not just get a loan? I've only watched one episode (I hated it, it reminded me way too much of black mirror's "15 million merits") but the deals they were cutting were... not good. Is it really that hard to get a loan for 50k as a business? Isn't that what small business loans are for?
Can someone correct the typo in the title?
One of the things that they get right in Russia, and even places like England, is that its much easier for a poor city family to have a cottage outside the city or an allotment garden that is subsidized by the state.

And I think benefit to city kids is enormous, as far as an entire new environment to be exposed to. And even the growing of food.

This should a program in North America too. Giant farms have taken almost all the land. And some of it is just a waste anyway. If the government can subsidize growing corn to turn into car fuel. An extremely wasteful energy inefficient process.

Government could be buying some of that land back, and letting return to nature or forest, and allowing building even tiny cottages. For poor families, it could be such a quality of life boost, especially for kids.
The question I would put to you is how do you guys maintain zen?

Sure HN isn't as bad as some places on the web, but tech still has its subcultures, blind spots and tribes - not to mention politics.

The biggest strain is mod burn out in many places, or even mods getting influenced by the content they police.

Do you guys have any plans or issues like that?
My understanding is that most specifications for OT have obscure failure cases if a central server is not used. Some papers have fixed these issues to enable fully P2P OT, but IIRC the resulting ops require similar amounts of metadata per-change as sequence CRDTs.
I do not believe I'm typing this, but I've recently made a switch from Firefox to Microsoft Edge as my primary browser on Mac OS X.

Edge is very similar to Chrome in performance and features while seemingly being slightly better on memory. It also doesn't have the Google's creepiness, as Microsoft appears to be the modern day underdog.

It also supports chromecast, a feature I missed the most in Firefox.

Overall it's a surprisingly competent browser.
MacOS VMs are only a rarity because you're only allowed to run them on Apple hardware. If that wasn't the case we'd likely even have cloud support for the platform and Cross-Platform development would be significantly easier.
The French wisely censor American broadcast "media." Broadcast lies never delineates "free speech." I went to Harvard. I have written paychecks for former NSA employees. I have friends and family at the World Bank, Reuters and NYT. They are paid handsomely to lie, with "talking points" dictated by CIA at Langley.
I did a Chicago <—> central mi camping trip this weekend.

How do you a) handle charging in that case (given 120 RV hookups) and b) haulage?
I have not noticed any build quality issues with my Model X
Not really for people who have their shells configured to auto-(de)capitalize the name of a command or binary, but for those that don't, it's a departure from what's normal. It's easily solved through an alias or similar, but still: why introduce the impedance?
Honestly, that would give me pause if I were targeting iOS. It helps that if you're targeting iOS you already live and die at Apple's whim, so maybe that's a sunk cost; on the other hand, that's the kind of thing that would make me nervous about living in Apple's walled garden in general.