skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading some kind of fantasy anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. In one story there was interesting twist on the famous quote "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.". It was changed to the effect that "once whatever remains is ridiculously improbable, you should probably reconsider what is actually impossible".
i agree. thanks hacker news. i love you all.
I kind of agree. If these social media sites were located in Europe I expect it would be much worse.

I live in the UK and here we have thought police units who will knock on your door to "check your thinking" if you post jokes that are too controversial. While it's obviously a problem that billion dollar foreign internet companies are regulating what we can say online they are at least, for the time being, more aligned to the values of free-speech than many European governments.
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Yeh is it "I don't agree with president Trump" or more conservative twitter users objecting to companies tweeting about BLM or Pride.

I actually suspect the latter.
sacriciing nothing. perseverance is hard work. it's all it is.
also i'm on twitter as nidnogg if you wanna know what hard work is yo i'll tweet you back if you like.
Food can be (and there are those that are) designed to optimize for the desire to eat more. Slot machines payouts are designed to encourage people to play one more time. There are games that are famous for eliciting "one more turn... oh my god it's 5 a.m. already".

When a stimulus reliably elicits a particular response on a large enough population, you can reasonably say that it's the stimulus and not the individual's failure to apply moderation/critical thinking/what-have-you.
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What's sauce for goose is sauce for gander - if this justification is considered valid, it will be primarily used by those in power against the minorities they don't like; e.g. Trump reserving the right to suppress ideologies that are intolerant to "Blue lives matter" cause or conservative politicians reserving the right to suppress ideologies that threaten christian family values. You won't succeed in claims that your ideology is special and deserves protection that the opponents' ideology does not - that hypocrisy simply won't be accepted by everyone who doesn't already share your ideology. Your enemies have similar motivations as you do, they consider your political agenda as harmful and dangerous to society where it would be morally justified to ensure that the politions of power are cleansed from (for example) the liberal agenda.

A line in the sand of "we won't harass people because of their political views" generally works as protection against oppression, even if you have to include oppressive political views as well in that basket.

In essence, the choice in this matter is simply about escalation or living side by side with your political enemies by agreeing to specify where "the battlefield" is - IMHO, ideally, limited to debates and votes by elected representatives and discourse in media and social circles. If it's escalated to "let's fight our enemies" in the field of employment or providing services then it's not as bad as street fights (which were used in political 'discourse' a hundred years ago) but still going to lead to a lot of people harmed on both sides.
If you want mailslam.com I'll transfer it to you. I was going to build something similar but in reality I'll never get around to it.
I think what you're describing is a lack of public transit, not the impossibility of it. And I'm not 100% sure why 1/2 the space would be parking, this seems like a fairly large exaggeration. More likely lots of the space, was lawn? Space between houses?

I've lived in lots of cities where minimum lot size was an acre, which is 200x200ft. Public transit all around, grocery stores all in walking distance (few blocks at most), with loads of corner stores, etc.

I think that as I mentioned in another comment, zoning laws are important. Too much? Too little? It becomes broken.

But for example, large-scale developers typically can't build here, without dedicating some space to park, to retail, without making an actual community out of the place.

And people in most rural areas I've lived, typically aren't bad off for it.

This may be a cultural thing, or a historical thing such as, how cities were build, and therefore, how they are now.

edit:

An added thought here.... when I visited the US, I noticed that a lot of grocery stores were often larger. I've seen some where it's literally a few minutes to walk end to end, when inside.

Maybe this is the difference?

Most of the grocery stores here are smaller. Maybe we just have smaller grocery stores, but more of them?
you can live on more than $200 a month. give back and receive bro, it's really easy. come to my nidhogg tournament and i'll give you the game.
Pfizer and Exxon don’t get to decide which hashtags are allowed to be on trending or what stories people should see in their feed.
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> 2020 is the beginning of a decade, because colloquially it's easier and understandable

But 2020 is technically the start of a decade, not just informally.
An incomplete list of contiguous US city homicide rates PR is closer to than El Salvador as of 2018:

X 60.94 - St. Louis

X 58.64 - Baltimore

38.88 - Detroit

37.09 - New Orleans

28.52 - Memphis

22.78 - Washington DC

22.12 - Philadelphia

22.07 - Buffalo

20.70 - Chicago

18.88 - Cincinnati

18.84 - Pittsburgh

18.46 - Indianapolis

17.74 - Atlanta

16.62 - Milwaukee

16.27 - Oakland

14.95 - Fort Wayne

14.88 - Tulsa

13.60 - Orlando

13.45 - Toledo

13.26 - Nashville

12.62 - Greensboro

12.32 - Albuquerque

12.18 - Jacksonville

11.77 - Houston

11.38 - Dallas

11.09 - Columbus

10.54 - Stockton

09.72 - Miami
Oh man. I was mildly amused that people couldn’t access their fitness history. I just tried to access flygarmin.com to update my aircraft’s aviation databases, and this shit just got real.

My airplane is grounded for IFR flights — I always fly IFR.
I pay Garmin $865/year for subscription. There are thousands of aircraft in the same predicament.
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That's what I though "how very dare they show me a tweet from that ultra left politician tony blair"
> Job acceptance rate into industry.

Can you provide evidence of this.

> Structural racism runs deep.

What makes you think Duke is some all-white club. I went to Duke and there were lots of African-American students. My guess is that Duke has among the most Affirmative Action of any school.
Twitter set out to be the public square, the place where matters of importance are discussed by the people. I think JD was serious about that, still is.

The problem is that Twitter is a private public square. That contradiction is not something JD can accept, because "his salary depends on his not understanding it.” It isn't reconcilable.

We don't have many examples, in modern times, of of non-companies filling roles like Twitter of FB fill. But, that doesn't mean they can't exist.

The WWW itself is a platform for speech and is a "public square." Wikipedia is another example. A really good example, if you think about it. If wikipedia was a commercial company, imagine the issues they'd be facing... all that authority as an information source.

Meanwhile, we really need to consider the economics of companies like twitter & facebook. Does FB really need 50k employees and a $70bn budget to provide the world with facebook? This isn't a question you could ask about Toyota.

If Facebook fell off the edge of the disc, we would very quickly have a replacement. People wouldn't lack for social media. If Toyota fell off the disc, we would have fewer cars. Rebuilding that capacity would require real resources.. Until then, we'd lack for cars.

This last part is key. Commercial viability is nearly a non-issue. Social media can be viable on a tiny fraction of its current revenue. This explodes the number of possible actions.

I really hope we're not heading for a regulatory shitshow... I hope, but I can't say I'm optimistic.
still building! we killed the saas thing for now and are releasing a web framework soon - declarative crud apps from nothing but function defs, specs, and datomic! All IO is managed and composes like Datomic Peer fns compose. Userland has no async, error handling etc. Complex pickers with typeahead search, query params etc are declared in one LOC
Hello HN, this is a prototype of a chrome extension I built over a weekend to create links to any part of a webpage.

There are still a few bugs in its current state and does not work entirely for all websites. I only picked up javascript recently (you can tell from the source code) and would love some suggestions/contributions.

Source: https://github.com/aavshr/anchor
Backend Source: https://github.com/aavshr/anchor-backend
I don't know why you've been downvoted, this is exactly what I thought.
Made this interface using the Gradio[1] library.

[1] https://github.com/gradio—app/gradio
I remember reading the 8ish line version of a Towers of Hanoi solver in the BBC Computer manual when I was 7 or so, and having my mind blown. How could it solve it in 8 lines? Took me a few years to work out recursion.
Why organic Google Analytics and Search Console data doesn't match up
Well she was an extremely privileged woman. Same with Grace Hopper. They both had unique access to one-of-a-kind equipment at the time. So you're really not saying much more than she was in a unique position in history. Being important to computer science and just "being along for the ride" are two different things. The difference with Grace Hopper is that she very clearly made contributions that still affect us to this day. It's not so clear when it comes to Lovelace.
That is just not true.

GCS for example and its the same with S3, costs space, egress and requests themself.

Data Storage 50 GB Standard Storage * $0.026 per GB $1.30
Network 10 GB egress * $0.12 per GB $1.20
Operations 10,000 Class A operations * $0.05 per 10,000 operations $0.05
Operations 50,000 Class B operations * $0.004 per 10,000 operations $0.02
Am I missing something? Isn't a $3 VM referring to a VM service in a cloud somewhere? If you try to do the same thing without cloud you'll have to end up renting space in a datacenter, install your own servers, connect to an ISP, power bills, etc etc. Cloud definitely seems cheaper in comparison
Humans made it to Australia without any Land Bridge. Island hopping is completely plausible: once you have crossed one waterway, the next is easier.

We know that populations of humans subsisted on coastal shellfish 50kya. There is no reason to assume they stayed at one place on a coast that had shellfish everywhere along it.

Of course all those shell middens are now 30-50m below sea level.

If there is an Atlantis, that is, too, for identically the same reason, although the timing would differ. It would be hard to credit an Atlantis originating before, say, 12,000 years ago--sometime in the Younger Dryas cold spell--although up to 20,000 years ago is conceivable.
> but deep down we all know...

From 18 July Wall Street Journal:

Face Masks Really Do Matter. The Scientific Evidence Is Growing.

New research suggests that face coverings help reduce the transmission of droplets, though some masks are more protective than others.[1]

Face masks are emerging as one of the most powerful weapons to fight the novel coronavirus, with growing evidence that facial coverings help prevent transmission—even if an infected wearer is in close contact with others.

Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believes the pandemic could be brought under control over the next four to eight weeks if “we could get everybody to wear a mask right now.” His comments, made Tuesday with the Journal of the American Medical Association, followed an editorial[2] he and others wrote there emphasizing “ample evidence” of asymptomatic spread and highlighting new studies showing how masks help reduce transmission.

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Researchers say the benefits of widespread mask use were recently seen in a Missouri hair salon, where two stylists directly served 139 clients in May before testing positive for Covid-19. According to a recent report[3] published by the CDC, both wore either a double-layered cotton or surgical mask, and nearly all clients who were interviewed reported wearing masks the entire time.

After contact tracing and two weeks of follow-up, no Covid-19 symptoms were identified among the 139 clients or their secondary contacts, the report found. Of the 67 who were willing to be tested, all were negative for Covid-19.

%< snip %<

Wearing a mask is “one of the most urgent things we can do to get our country under control,” said Melanie Ott, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology. “We’re all waiting for the vaccine, we’re waiting for therapeutics, and we’re not there.”

“We have masks, we have social distancing, and we have testing,” she continued. “But there’s not much more in the toolbox here.”

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/face-masks-really-do-matter-the...

2. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768532

3. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm
Someone from Fathom was on HN a few weeks back saying they were going to announce their new way of dealing with GDPR and ePrivacy without cookies, and I've been watching their blog eagerly waiting on that announcement.

Still no announcement, but I did find this blog article about their tech stack. Thought it was interesting that they use a few different things:

• PHP (a favourite on HN ;)

• Caddy (IME nginx or HAProxy are far more common in production)

• ChipperCI (hadn't even heard of this)
I would argue that the problem started with the introduction of “youth marketing”. Marketers saw “getting them early” as a way to have a customer for life and therefore make more money overall, and they dove in.

This resulted in prioritizing those things that younger people are drawn to, such as novelty and attention.

Imo, this resulted in a huge cultural shift that has now resulted in “boring level headed opinions [based on years of experience]” being lost in the sea of people fighting for more attention through more novelty.

The internet just threw rocket fuel on the problem.
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What required function do social networks fill? Your wording implies objective requirements exist in the general sense which can only be fulfilled by social networks.

The two things you've said are access to "real time musings" which is absolutely not a requirement in the objective sense, and connecting to friends and people, which is a requirement that can be easily fulfilled by other applications.

Phones and email are still completely viable methods for communicating with anyone. Chat programs such as Signal or Apple Messenger or WhatsApp really only add the additional functionality of group SMS. Otherwise standard SMS is fine.

I think your point about moderating your eating is a good and valid point though.

Let's take the metaphor further. Let's say social networks as they exist today are like restaurants that serve 3500 calorie meals. Sure, a person could choose to pay $30 for a 3500 meal and then moderate their consumption and take the rest home in a doggy bag, but that clearly is not what is happening. Instead what is happening is people are eating the whole dish. And on top of that, the restaurant is adding a ton of stuff that makes the food taste more addictive, and other stuff that makes you not feel full so that you'll want to order that dessert too.

And to beat the metaphor to death, I just don't go to restaurants anymore, I make my meals at home.
If you are interested in following SEC filings of companies, I wrote a RSS-bridge against Edgar which takes in tickers and sends a notification every time that companny files something to the SEC.

Code: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/pull/1011

If you have a list of tickers, you can generate a OPML feed from here: https://opml.bb8.fun/ (against my rss-bridge server, no uptime guarantees)
This is a really nice test! Well done. Really looking forward to try cloudflare workers on our deployments.
There are so many government officials on Twitter, and causing any number of them to tweet something plausible but untrue could be a big deal - from moving markets to moving troops.

Just imagine if Donald Trump's account tweeted that Antifa should be shot on sight. I'm certain people would die because of that.

Or, perhaps slightly less plausibly, that Boris Johnson tweeted that he's had enough and is abandoning negotiations with the EU. That would cause a frantic reaction from the markets before any official statement could be put out.
Bringing production of semiconductors back to the United States
It's interesting though. The networks really were created to increase connection/communication between people, and it did in many ways.

What was unexpected is the effect. One had expected that people would feel less concerned by the state of the world, cause they would talk to their friends and family rather than bingeing on the global news.

But instead, this increase in connections created a sort of phase transition in society. It's kind of similar to the article that was posted here the other day, where scientists realized that atoms in a solid glass were more connected to each other than in liquid glass. In a way, social media literally "cristallized" polarization.
I am shocked there are people who get 3 square meals a day all paid for by their job

I'm apalled that there are adults getting 3 free meals and are upset that they now have to get those meals themselves

And why would you pay $2000 for a "couple more" bedrooms? You're telling me you can't put an L-desk in your living room? This thread just has ridiculous scenarios upon ridiculous scenarios, like the guy who would need to take a "40k pay cut" to get a home gym and a 3D printer.
Our stories are very similar,
especially since you experienced the same "cycles of energy" and feeling like yourself after doing nothing for a while.

I think most importantly the new connection for me is that i simply get worn down outside or among other people incredibly fast for some reason - same with work projects.

I am still unsure of the actual physiological cause, as it seems to me that i can also get a crash even if i run alone in the woods - ie. no other people, but it's still a "performance" and "you" still judge it with your own mind.

What makes me sure that there is something this is the fact that you have experienced both this AND the feeling of powerlessness - and the paranoia around this - i hadn't really seen this before but i totally also have that - down the fact that i have also been high on new fads, diets, lifestyle changes but only for a few weeks or months before i try something new.

So in short "the crash" is related to feelings of being in control, bodytension and not letting things go properly, instead judging hard, becoming perfectionist and having feelings of "not good enough" - even though i just finished something. Being a hermit with your laptop is fleeing from all responsibility and letting the mind rest, just as the body, and you are probably right that the mind is just as important.

So to sum up mostly for myself. Letting go, being kind on yourself, and being comfortable with "other peoples eyes" around me, appreciating smaller incremental victories, and just as you also mentioned in you first comment - building self reliance is something i have to learn to do. I have probably had a pretty high level of anxiety inside of me that i have ignored like "everyone has imposter syndrome", or "everyone is afraid of getting exposed (whatever that means)", but it wears you down.

Just writing this out is untangling a few things for me so thank again!
My thoughts exactly. I plan on checking and maybe using Ceasefire, but if it succeeds the critical theorists will declare it another means of intersectional oppression. And then the mob will start. And then Ceasefire will not be big enough not to bend the knee.
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Sorry, but you do not understand that this product isn't for everyone. All it takes is one management loony to throw money at this and make employees own homes as their prisons.

How ever, unlike the parent comment I wish you would succeed and you will account for the visceral hatred from a lot of us to build a lot of privacy features into your product and not get tempted to turn this product into virtual peeping tom for micro managers.
Social media companies are megacorporations. Not just that even among the megacorps they are 2nd to big pharma in terms of lobbying budgets.

You call social media the megaphone of the protests, but when Trump went to threaten the protesters “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” he did it on social media.
looks like it's been slashdotted.
I like this, because nostalgia adds fun to news!

My personal preference, however, would be to see Hacker News look like IRIX.
I reimplemented one benchmark using TF and the speed up wasn’t the 10x or so hey we’re claiming, but more like 1x..
"enjoys" can mean "gets to".
I understood the parent to be commenting that Garmin is repackaging customer revenue as a securities product, i.e., their common stock, which they sell to investors. Point being that investors are the key stakeholder, not customers.

It's not a unique POV for a company to have, it's just it's maybe more a subject of laser focus for companies in this era.
Which is what most probably was the case. Resources are limited, so why waste them.

Besides, I do not really get why those dog&pony shows still exist in the first place.
Go needs proper typed annotations like Java
The main advantage of the cloud for me that it provides PaaS services. You don't have to administer a VM, etc, you just use the services and it's someone else's job to install security updates and stuff.
I have no idea how comment bots run today, but for anyone only slightly invested, it would mean one additional hurdle (get accounts for actual people who are not using the service), but not a blocker (like captchas: they mostly serve to annoy regular users).
Just curious, why rotate and popcount? It's been a while since I did any serious asm, so a bit rusty.
That is why it is important the reports from security audits include what was looked for and at least a little detail about how.

If they were appropriately thorough and all they found were low-hanging fruit, then that is a good thing.

Of course a detailed report is no absolute guarantee: we once had a test done that I think was more than shoddy: there was not nearly enough activity on the web server over the testing period for the amount of automated work they claimed to have done, and I spotted an issue a couple of weeks later that at least one of their documented processes really should have picked up on. That company is no longer in business thankfully.
I haven't tried knapping yet myself, but it apparently takes planning several flakes in advance, because one needs to leave well-positioned striking platforms for each flake.

Single-click shopping sounds much less mentally taxing than stone age technology.

https://peterborougharchaeology.org/archaeology-skills-techn...

http://www.pugetsoundknappers.com/how_to/how_to_instruction/...
One I use is a brand called "Plugable". I don't think they still make the model I have, but they have a newer version of the same: https://plugable.com/products/usb3-switch2

I've used it with Windows 10, MacOS and an RPi, with no issues.
Last time I used KiCad the UX itself was fine although it was totally lacking polish but the parts management was absolutely atrocious.
love it. economic localization.
For whoever cares about this topic:

Strong Towns may be of interest. They address this topic, and put everything in a bigger picture.

https://www.strongtowns.org