skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculous, pearl-clutching nonsense.

> This is scary.

That a profile where half the comments are rude gets downvoted? If I want to get called an asshole and read rude, barely intelligible comments I'll go to 4chan. You can disagree and present well-reasoned arguments without devolving to "LOL WAT? U IDIOTS"

> We need to remove downvoting temporarily for next 6 months.

"Need" is an overstatement if I've ever heard one, wow. Sort of an arbitrary timeline, too.

> Cancel culture.

Equating downvoting and community moderation with "cancel culture" is pretty far off base.

> Dissent and attack on free speech.

You have absolutely no right to free speech on HN, nor should you, nor did you ever, nor is that what free speech actually means.

The number of people who equate "the government shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" with "I can be an asshole in a private forum and you're not allowed to call me an asshole" is astounding, and that is the real problem here.

> Smearing of truth.

By downvoting rude comments?

> People are afraid to speak up.

They're demonstrably not.

> Chilling effect.

Word salad.

> @dang - this is urgently needed.

It's not.

> It’s raising alarm bells like no other to me.

By most news accounts the US is careening toward a totalitarian apocalypse, China is literally sending train loads of Uighur muslims to re-education camps, and we're in the middle (or start, in the US) of a global pandemic, but HN's community moderation standards and practices are what's got your spidey sense tingling?
At the end of the day, we must remember that just because we can believe something to be true is not actually evidence in support of it being true. Even the most mundane of claims should not be taken on faith alone. We may not verify everything, but we shouldn't repeat or make serious decisions based on claims for which we have not seen compelling evidence, no matter how believable the may seem.
Nothing bad came of it, because it highlighted a potentially abusive clause in the terms that many developers might not even have been aware of when they agreed to them.

"Apple is evil" might be wrong, but "Apple reserves the right to be evil" is still closer to the truth than "Apple is not evil".
Always Rebase: Git at Markforged
> in the longer term supply of basic goods should increase to match increased demand

Why? What would be the reasoning?
Based on the experience of my uncles, and my dad, grandma have had it. I am not sure that I want to know early that I am might have Alzheimer's years in advance.

Personally, I think Alzheimer's is a horrible illness and worse than cancer.
CPC Gray had a video on why rage/anger related materials spread around internet.

TDLR: Materials that cause anger/ rage make people want to reshare it at higher rate (I want to do something) vs positive materials that make you feel good.
> What might work is that we require replication work for a PhD

I don't think this will work. All it will do is devalue the value of replication studies because only PHD students do replication studies. It's also not in their best interest especially if they dispute findings of established researchers.

Also, we have to get away from the idea that the scientist's job is to think and write, and literally all of the other work can be shuffled off onto low wage (or no wage), low status workers. This is one of the biggest reasons that science is going through such a crisis. If you want enough papers to consistently get grants you probably need at least 4/5 PHD students every few years. This causes a massive glut in the job market. It also dissociates scientists from their work. I've met esteemed computational biologists who could barely work a computer. All of their code was written, run, and analyzed by graduate students or post docs. They were competent enough at statistics, but that level of abstraction from the actual work is troubling.
This is fallacious. The push against forced deinstitutionalization was made because of the systematic abuse within that system. The role of any modern society is to offer people who need it treatment and basic support (and that should include housing, of course), without impeding their basic human rights.
We have an analytics joke but it would take between 10-30 hours to develop
[Spoiler]

My favorite line in the whole thing: "and a large warning sticker that threatened electrocution and prosecution, perhaps simultaneously"

He really is a master of the language. Thanks, Cory, wherever you are!
Haskell always struck me as a language you'd want to use to feel superior to the people who code in JS and python, and crypto always struck me as a field you'd want to work in to feel superior to the people who work in industries that actually generate profits.

Also, another possible reason is that many crypto people tend to confuse complexity with ingenuity. While the bitcoin whitepaper tries to make a complex topic as simple as possible, a great many crypto companies and people purposely use language that is needlessly convoluted and verbose.

Perhaps they're doing it on purpose to seem smarter?
US prosecutors seek years in prison for Uber exec who stole Google trade secrets
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis
For a survey of AI and ML I really liked "Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans" by Melanie Mitchell. I've written a summary of it here:
https://henrikwarne.com/2020/05/19/artificial-intelligence-a...
Talk about putting the cart before the horse.. what if Americans are avoiding or postponing having children due to lack of financial prospects?

(I’m not American, and generally have a lot more support where I live, but even I am questioning the rationality of having kids in the world we live in.. For me personally, living in the US would mean an automatic no to having kids)
Learn Infrastructure as Code
> devolve ownership of essential infrastructure for social reproduction

I think you might want to pull the vocabulary back to conventional terms if you really want to discuss this productively.

With almost all of those, there are existing practical examples in the real world: the UK NHS covers hospitals, lots of US municipalities have experimented with public housing projects, public schooling is The Way It Is Done through most of the US already, one could argue that existing subsidy regimes all over the world constitute state "ownership" of farming, etc...

Frankly I don't think there's much mystery at all in what you're asking. Try picking a specific policy and arguing for that.
Netflix exclusives do get released on disk eventually. Maybe not all of them, but I found e.g. Lillyhammer and House of Cards on Amazon.
Double map it, like a JIT does. Once writable, and once executable. Put the pointers into different shared objects so that ASLR puts a randomized offset between them and you can't discover the write pointers from the execute pointer, and vice versa.
'Ok' is tricky — we're weighing an unhealthy reliance on the government that gives it a dangerous amount of power against the well-being and guaranteed sustenance of our fellow citizens.

If people truly need to rely on the government for food, it would be absurdly inhumane of a society to let them starve.

Simultaneously, promoting reliance on the government and attempting to make that reliance universal has the potential to take away our freedoms.

Food stamps is an acceptable principle to Americans because it's meant to be temporary and need-based, and if you remove those two characteristics, it isn't just a reductio ad absurdum argument of taking the same concept further; it's entirely different.
This sheds some light on the topic - thanks. Still, the author states that Haskell's reputation is used to legitimize bad business. It seems to me that shady companies using the language internally is not enough to raise alarm about it.

Is there some kind of (un-)official sponsorship from (supposedly) shady actors?
The Windows 10 security guide: How to protect your business
A lot of times I decide not to contribute because I am afraid of being downvoted into the abysss, usually all it takes, is one reply to interpret my own comment wrongly or assuming things I don't specificy. Then the HN readers will read my comment and the disagreeing reply. At this point, I get downvoted (or upvoted) based on the interpretation of my comment by the reply.

So if I don't spend 20minutes making sure my reply is perfect, I will get downvoted.

Let's see if I get downvoted here too, as I wrote this on the go without checking all my facts.
”For a while it has been a public secret the Haskell ecosystem has become increasingly entangled with an unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector as one of primary mechanisms for funding development.”

And those would be? I code in Haskell every day and I have no idea what he’s talking about.
Of course they're relevant. Many businesses are permanently closing because of this. The long term impact is unknown but it will be significant.
Show HN: Hand-drawn timelines using RoughJS
I don't do a ton of editing in a non-graphic environment but enjoy confusing the other C# coders at work by editing a code file in vim with ConEmu from time to time. I never thought to see if Nano was also in ConEmu until reading the linked announcement and these comments -- and it is! I'll have to play with Nano a bit more but it seems like the difference between editing in Notepad versus VS Code: good for really simple stuff but the power of vim is needed if you're doing something non-trivial.
In this case, "the truth" is misleading. Apple presumably doesn't do what was claimed, but it reserves the right to do it.
Insert obligatory warning about timezones here.

Seriously, I've been working with the US west coast for most t of the last decade (i'm in Europe) and its reall realluy hard because of timezones.
Indeed.

Or to workaround regulations designed to prevent that emptying, find they are indebted, or will shortly be, to an amount equal to their trust fund.
Someone posted a model for funding open source software that relies on GitHub doing it.

Most models today rely on “charity” mechanisms.

This can leverage an actual network effect, and keep data private, creating a free market in data and software. Like the way Google Spreadsheets can be locked so you can view but have a really hard time copying data out. It solves many problems of bulk data collection and helps monetize software and content.
There are plenty of diseases we can detect but not, yet, treat. There are other uses for such knowledge. The diagnoses person can adapt their lifestyle to accommodate the inevitable disease progression. That directly aids the individual. And knowledge of the person's inevitable decline can be used by the rest of society. Children can make necessary arrangements. Safety measures can be put in place, preventing unnecessary injury to the individual and others. If someone has been diagnosed with an inevitable rapid onset of Alzheimer's, they probably shouldn't retire to a cabin atop a mountain accessible only by helicopter.
Oh please, HN is one of the least trustworthy areas of my life primarily because of its echo-chamber, vocal minority ways. All online communities that allow upvoting / downvoting devolve to this. In fact, I’ve started perusing old-style BB sites of my interests which explicitly have no upvoting or downvoting, forcing me to read through comments and replies and where the only nominal “upvoting” occurs in popular threads with lots of posts that continuously push to the top of the BB.

It’s a literal breath of fresh air. I’m close to done with community sites that allow upvotes/downvotes.
I love the name "OpenAI" for something kept closely guarded and tightly controlled.

Perfect Orwellian double-speak for our new internet.
Very much a generic anti-cryptocurrency rant, and very little haskell-specific clarifications. I understand not wanting to name specific projects (Cardano comes to mind; "Cardano is a blockchain platform built on the groundbreaking Ouroboros proof-of-stake consensus protocol, and developed using the Haskell programming language: a functional programming language that enables Cardano to pursue evidence-based development, for unparalleled security and stability."), however it would be interesting to have some examples of haskell developments that are fueled specifically by cryptocurrency applications. FTA: "the economic machinery that shapes everything we do and informs the problems we chose to spend our cycles on"; what are these specific problems?
I downvote when I feel like a comment doesn't belong to HN, be it quality, insults, etc.
Black-Box Isolation Checking with Elle (Kyle Kingsbury, Jepsen.io)
The community lost the land when it was doled out to the first private landowner, which may have occurred centuries ago.
This is touched upon in the text :

"the Haskell community itself has simply become a tool to buy legitimacy and pump token values."
You think suburban people stay home all the time? What sort of overgeneralization is that? Suburbs = guaranteed vehicle = travel not just mandatory for commuting, but at will, as desired.
GPT-3 has already commented on some HN threads.

In some cases, GPT-3's presence has been disclosed. See, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886503

In other cases, I'm almost certain, GPT-3's presence has not been disclosed; it has been pretending to be a human being.

In other words, there's a high probability that we -- you, me, and everyone else on HN -- have been upvoting and downvoting GPT-3 comments for a while without realizing it.
And now that everyone has a bachelors degree, they need to spend another 2 years getting a Master's degree so that they can get their "dream job".

Our society tricks women to think that working for some corporation is "empowering" while staying home and raising kids is "oppressive". It's no wonder everyone is depressed and not getting married anymore.
Yeah, it's the same as the switch from offices with actual rooms to cool and hip (in the early 2000s) open offices:

1. Cram xx% more people in the same place under the pretext of creating a collaborative environment == save xx% on rent.
2. Invest a small percentage of that sum on noise cancelling headphones, because (shocker) people need to be alone from time to time.

No one is arguing that the same won't happen with remote becoming more mainstream. There's value in remote, especially from a utilitarian/equality pov, so we need to be mindful and try not to fall in the same traps (i.e. don't drink the kool-aid).
And you end up with black markets an 20+ queues ... Just like in Sweden.
How do we communicate with the rovers when Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the Sun?
As far as I understand it, they plan to do that. [0]

The history of the project is a bit confusing though. Not sure if a name change will not confuse things even more. Though the new name sound better to me as well.

[0] https://github.com/codimd/server/issues/452
I'm sure we can scrap together a few thousand Pentium 4-based Dells to send.
This has provided an opportunity for exercising my seldom used downvote button. How apropos. This comment violates the first guideline on comments:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
UBI really stands for Universal Basic Inflation
Do you even know what "verbose" means? Haskell is obviously the exact opposite of verbose. In fact some more verbosity often makes it easier to understand.
The death rate in the US is now substantially higher than in Europe. The EU+UK have 355 deaths per million [1], while the US is at 465 [2]. Of course, those are the official figures - it's possible that the excess mortality shows a different picture.

[1] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Why do they want to build in near Curaçao? Sounds like a great way to ruin the already weak water ecosystem near Curacao. I have to admit I have a summer house in Curaçao so might be biased.
> A lot of the problems in academia, I believe, come from incompetence, a lack of questioning or at least of doubting others' competence and your own competence, and reliance on unsound ideas about scientific methodology.

I kind of agree, but I will state it somewhat differently. Note my experience is in physics and healthcare, so may not apply for all fields.

In my experience, the desired skill set shifts to more management/admin/bureaucracy/money-chasing once your in a professor or professor-like position, as opposed to nitty-gritty researcher in the grad school phase. The incentives for the grad school phase is good science. The incentives for the professor-like phase is grants/papers/awards.
US defense and aerospace sectors targeted in new wave of North Korean attacks
[Big Spoiler]

The best line of the book, a big reveal, is hidden in the last line of the story.
Yes, it's quite common too.
A current front page article - "Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds" is [FAKENEWS]

You want to fight that battle?
This is one of those articles that attempts to talk about some situation to make it more common knowledge, but is written in such an incredibly abstract way that all you can really take away from it is 'some unknown people are upset about some unknown issue'.

I feel like this 'elephant in the room' article doesn't tell me what the elephant is, why it's in the room, or why people don't want it to be in the room.
>You idiots here on HN

>so idiots don't have to think too much

Do you really not understand why you might get down-voted if this is how you address people?

Tone is important. How you address those reading your comment is also important.
I know, lets pretend like we know nothing about fraud / security and say "vote by mail" is a solution...
By principle, a pretty risky and negligient attitude.

On the spectrum of events possible, mass deaths is a viable outcome and this guy feels OK rolling the dice on it.
The reason to include alternative views isn’t for when you’re right (as in climate change), it’s for when you’re wrong (Iraq, Libya). You cannot know in absolute terms when you’re right or wrong, so you have to allow for dissenting views. It makes things more muddied and complicated, but the alternative leads to top down authoritarianism “because we said so!”
I think radicalized is a good word. Some laws and rules just don’t deserve respect. I have no respect following IP laws that protect printer manufacturers to rip off customers with their overpriced supplies . A lot of US laws about importing pharmaceutical drugs don’t deserve respect . Neither do most of the drug laws in general.
Emacs has supported loadable C modules for a while, so I'm surprised there isn't a loadable native JSON parser for pre-27 Emacs already.
It's not "irritatingly misleading", it just needs to be contextualized — which ironically was missing in your "precisely worded" statistic.

I provided that context in the elucidation:

> While it's true that the top 5% owns a disproportionate amount of stocks, that's just a function of the wealth distribution. If everyone in the US had half of their personal wealth in the stock market, the top 5% would still own a large % of the stock market just by virtue of what it means to be in the "top 5%" today. This fact doesn't change the fact that a stock market crash would still be devastating to the middle American that owns stocks (directly or indirectly).

> In fact, when the stock market crashes, it's median stock holders that are the worst off, because the wealthiest stock owners will still largely remain millionaires even if the stock market plunged.

Just because the top 5% owns a highly concentrated amount of the stock market by nominal value, does not mean that the median American is immune to shocks in the stock market, and arguably the latter is impacted more adversely than the former.

> Moreover the stock market is inversely correlated with wages as a % of GDP. If wages go up and the stock market goes down that DEFINITELY helps the median citizen.

Stock market being inversely correlated with wages as a % of GDP does not imply that when the stock market falls, wages will rise, there is 0 evidence of that having ever happened in history. When the stock market falls, unemployment increases, so average wages fall.

The reason why a healthy stock market inversely correlates with wages as a % of GDP is because stock market increase as a % of GDP can be much higher than wages as a % of GDP. You can't take that observation then conclude that if you tank the stock market, wages will magically rise. As a % of GDP, they may stay the same, but that's just because GDP dramatically falls.
The Impossible Chessboard Puzzle
nano is a GPL-licensed clone of pico, which in turn was originally conceived as the integrated message editor in PINE, the popular UNIX e-mail client first released in 1989. If you look at the overall interface of PINE you will recognize that it is consistent with pico/nano, but other than that there really wasn't much consistency in terms of keyboard commands between apps in 1989.

More importantly, while for instance ^S for "save" might seem more natural than ^O for "writeOut", remember that dumb terminals over slow lines were still very much a thing in 1989 and ^S was already used as a terminal control code for XOFF (software flow control) -- which is why nano throws that "XOFF ignored, mumble mumble" message when it catches ^S.
I don't think much of this article.
The Brown M&M example seems a bit convoluted and anyway "what to do instead" is just a bunch of platitutes.
"Write doc to make it searchable" ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my experience one of the big problems (I just had a call from one of my users demonstrating exactly this point) is that often there is a disconnect in terms of vocabulary.

What the business calls a "refresh" of System X123 could be any of "full copy from prod of the whole X123 data", "can we please just import the subset of data I created in X123 Test?", "X123 provides a sort of materialized view of the sale prices to Z567, but it seems that the view is outdated, can we please refresh that"?

This happens (albeit less severely ... "usually") inside IT itself at least when the organization gets over a certain size. So dataset are named with their content, but the actual content might change scope or the part which is more relevant varies for each consumer, therefore both the provider and the N consumers tend to refer to the same thing with slightly different names while the "correct" name is already used for something else in different context (e.g.: "Sale prices" - is it now? future? historical? only for agents? only for a specific country/market...?).

Even just having a single, unambiguous lexicon would help a lot (and would make the "searchabilitly" a bit less mythical) but I don't see this or similar points addressed, while apparently the detail of the sound and light equipment deployed by Van Halen seems to definitely require some space.
Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Neuroscientific Implications
I'm near Kissimmee Florida (think Walt Disney World) right now. It's a ghost town compared to normal typical traffic and people present.
CPaT Global introduces groundbreaking student verification for airline training
That can go in nanorc