skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has studied extremism on their platform and they disagree:

> The high number of extremist groups was concerning, the presentation says. Worse was Facebook’s realization that its algorithms were responsible for their growth. The 2016 presentation states that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools” and that most of the activity came from the platform’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” algorithms: “Our recommendation systems grow the problem.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-di...
I maintain that your logic is faulty, mainly because of the timing of when these things were said.

We had a window in late February/early March where we didn't know how nasty this thing was going to get in the states, and the responsible people in charge (namely, Dr. Fauci and not the administration writ large) made a claim based on previous experience ; as soon as it became apparent that it was getting out of control, there were calls for PPE donations, and the Federal Government refused to act, going so far as to steal PPE purchased by states.

There are many reasons for having institutional distrust, but to claim that the singular person in the administration who fought the President on his strategy (and was subsequently muzzled) was actively misleading the public is beyond frustrating.
> "It is funny because the little animal probably has no idea what it is doing and does not care for anything but its lunch."

That sounds like an accurate description of most soldiers.
I do not believe that the UN is the arbiter of who is and is not a country. And Taiwan should avoid doing anything that might provoke the CCP (like declaring independence without consulting with the CCP first).
There is a REALLY big difference between country-wide protests and a hot civil war. Without support from the Gulf state and the West, I think it's quite probable that this civil war wouldn't have started.

>I don't buy into the idea that the Syrian government can claim some level of legitimacy by default and everyone else is subject to criticism for gathering support from other places....

The fact that the government is recognized internationally (see my first comment) DOES automatically give it a legitimacy in the eyes of international community. Unilateral support of rebel forces opposing the recognized government without UN Security Council sanction is generally viewed as an act of aggression and usually condemned, but I guess the US is so "exceptional"[0] the usual rules do not apply to it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxndIsku2W8
It’s quantity * quality. If you use one piece of software that works 99% of the time it’s great.

But if you use 1000 programs a day that work 99% of the time then 10 of your programs are broken all the time.

We need to figure out how to increase quality and reliability somehow or it’s just going to keep getting worse.
Wow! I wish I saw this a couple of months ago when I set up server-side transcoding for a client ;_;
Von Neumann proved that there exists an unexploitable strategy for any zero sum game, where playing that strategy gives you the best possible outcome if your opponent knows your strategy and can play perfectly against it. Poker players refer to this strategy as "Game Theory Optimal". It is not necessarily "optimal" in the sense of making the most money in real life, EG if your opponent always folds to big bets then you should bet big more often than a GTO strategy would.

Over the last 15 years or so high level poker strategy has increasingly focused on approximating GTO play, and people are moving away from any type of exploitative play, whether that's psychological tells or adjusting to weaknesses like an opponent folding too much. So a GTO player actually will bluff quite frequently, but it's due to the math indicating that it's an advantageous spot to do it, not because of anything he's observed about his opponent.

That said, there's still room to adjust to exploit an opponent, and the weaker the opponent is the more profitable it can be to deviate from "correct" play.
Why progress estimates are difficult
Nuance? In a discussion about China? How dare you.
Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
pomp on hacker news.. love his substack!
Another one in this genre is a Garry's Mod gamemode called "Trouble in Terrorist Town", where similarly a minority of the players are traitors and the innocents need to work out who they are before they kill everyone.
Nice. Password manager or secure keychain over the air. This is going to be a fun raspberry pi project.
Can you post a link to those talks? I'd like to take a look.
This is off topic but it’s always bugged me that Wikileaks isn’t really a wiki.
It’s true bolder is the Berkeley of Colorado
> Music awards keep being given to people who clearly didn't deserve them.

This is a new angle to the incident that I haven’t heard before. Are you saying Taylor Swift didn’t deserve the award, and Kanye was justified to speak out?
Word "Interpreter" and "fast" don't belong together in my brain :).

Probably why I love native binaries.
These have nothing to do with free press, judiciary and places where minorities can worship.
Re format, I mostly see people use markdown syntax.

> This is not a real pretty quote.

> But the good news is that even in uninterpreted form form markdown is pretty readable.
> I'm not sure I'm on aboard with an anti-maintenance attitude. If there are bugs I'd like them to be fixed!

Me too! I'm not trying to be anti-maintenance (though I do wish technology will be developing towards less and maintenance required, but that's another topic). I'm pro-quality. The impression I'm having is that maintenance burden on software is being created in order to justify subscription model - and that the ability to do post-release updates made vendors and devs no longer care about delivering reliable and quality software (customers become the new QA, bugfixes can always be added latter, except they tend to be deprioritized in favor of new features).

Note I'm not postulating a conspiracy theory, just a spontaneous coordination of the entire industry due to market incentives. But the effect is still there, and I feel it needs to be countered.
Docker push to uffizzi cloud. 1-click Continuous Deployment
Jessica never gets the credit she deserves. I understand that Paul’s essays give him a lot more visibility outside of YC, and outsiders probably think she’s just Paul’s girlfriend as a result. But as Sam said, those of us who were there when they were know that the reality was very different.
Actually, I've reached out to HN to have them delete, but it hasn't happened yet. It did not occur to me that there was not a "delete" button.
Strawmen are killing America. Insert strawman here.
In the project directory run:

mkdir ./make ./build

cd ./make

qmake CONFIG+=release ..

make -j<cthread_count>

mv ./prettyeq ../build
Weird! But thanks - we've changed to that from https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/1PHhxBxSe....
People want Facebook to censor vaccine misinformation. That has nothing to do with "a specific candidate". The issue is misinformation, which disproportionately benefits one side.

Also, just wait until you hear about movie ratings, video game ratings, censorship of profanity on TV networks, and people getting fired for racist beliefs.

The truth is that corporations always have and always will enforce a narrower range of ideas than the First Amendment allows. That's fine, because the First Amendment is about protecting us from bad government.
That would be fine if other people's interpretation of media was always harmless to me.
Perhaps the submitter was reading TechCrunch and not randomly browsing Amazon's press releases or wherever you might find that.
I can't speak towards his attitude toward security flaws, but I think his reaction to not wanting Calibre updated is reasonable.

Anytime a UI is updated, you're going to completely modify the behavior or of the people that are using it. So any change someone else is making that isn't as closely tied with the product as he is, is probably going to be suboptimal. Not only from a user experience perspective, but also from his ability to answer questions on the forum as people are asking him questions about how to achieve certain things.

This means that he'll HAVE to be closely tied with a redesign. Which is probably not where he wants to be spending a significant amount of his time.

There's also the added complexity of legacy users that are just book people, that are quite used to the design as it is, so any migration over the new one, no matter how gradual, is probably going to make the product harder for them to use.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with him, but his reasoning is valid. This isn't a project where you just hand off to someone completely new and let them do what they want. That's how you end up with a broken product.
Price = value of art + distribution cost

The art itself hasn't changed, so it makes sense to demand that the price follows when the distribution cost approaches zero.

As for whether that would actually happen...
Dear HN@hackernews: I've reached out to you to delete this. Please help me out.
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) Is hiring a Growth Associate
10% faster with less memory use and simpler code / data models - nice work! Excited to see the end result.

Hopefully HN users on nightly are able to try it out and give feedback.
This is incredible, I definitely believe it's possible with psychedelics. I've stuttered all my life and have accepted it as part of my life, but I think I'm going to try it. Definitely not taking an ounce at one time though!
With this context in mind, can anyone elaborate on the similarities between Reddit and HN? Which one copied the other?
We're considering removing HTTP/2 Server Push support
The measures being used seem to have less to do with public health and more to do with public control. Politicians hate to be challenged, and we don't challenge them nearly enough in America. Enough is enough. Open the schools, open the businesses, and let people govern their own behavior.
It would help a lot if more journals required preregistration of research designs.

In 2018 I heard an economist at UCSD who evangelizes preregistration list something like ten benefits. I can't remember them all, but among them are:

(1) It makes impossible most cherry-picking of one's data and model.

(2) Journals can choose to accept a paper based on the design, before the outcome, the eliminating publication bias toward positive or interesting results.

(3) Studies that don't get published in a journal are still recorded somewhere. (The preregistered design can be updated to include the results.) Not only does this prevent the loss of knowledge, but also unnecessary duplication of effort.

I haven't read this Wikipedia article on preregistration but I'm including it anyway just to be dangerous:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science)
Berlin‘s old new airport BER running Windows Embedded Standard in the elevators
I think this is an interesting point, and I think most would have agreed with this position 15 years ago. Unfortunately the reality of these networks to propagate garbage which negatively impacted real life was too much for them to ignore.

As far as supporting one candidate over another, one candidates supports baseless facts being spread on these networks: QAnon, covid hoaxes, racist conspiracies, and the other doesn't.
The last chart is really a sign of things to come. The us school system was already split and I think after a year an a half of covid it will be completely segregated by economic class.

What your are basically seeing as a complete failure of all government programs and safety nets. Everything from schools to libraries to homeless housing has failed. Anyone wealthy enough to not use those services extensively is ok, everyone that needs them is f-Ed. Moreover the folks using those services were an optional luxury in many cases and simply got cut.
That’s the checkbox that enables glyph dilation. See my other comment in this thread for a couple of links about that.

Bit of a crock calling it “font smoothing”, I reckon, but that’s what they call it there and I can’t stop them.

(In all this about macOS, I’m going almost entirely on what I’ve seen and heard from others. I’ve never had a Mac.)
I've never seen one of his paintings. Unless, did he paint the cover of
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html ?
Religious qualifications for public office in the United States
The Pursuit of Appiness
Transmission power hasn't been the cap fo a long time.

The analogue phone line signal is digitised at the exchange, and the digital channel is explicitly 64kbit/s.

Modems can only do "56k" by co-operating with the digital system; one of the modems actually has a digital ISDN connection.

Without that ISDN connection, analogue modems reach up to 33.6k. Theoretically they can do more (but never more than 64k), but in practice that was the last standard produced prior to the 56k, semi-analogue-semi-digital standard.
> the HN rules state that you should not downvote a comment only because you disagree

Despite this. both pg and dang have said this is OK.

Edit: Actually, I just went over the guidelines in detail (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and there is no mention of appropriate or inappropriate use of the downvote. Where did you see this?
Maybe it is supposed to be the more grammatical:

> The Labour opposition had proposed that activist shills take control of the editorial policy of ...

It's your turn to ask for "evidence please", I believe. (-:
Y’all can’t even imagine how bad healthcare IT is. Multiply all these problems by the cost of human life.

If you think you’re frustrated imagine a heart surgeon trying to access a patients file but their password keeps getting rejected.

Or they were forced to change their password monthly for sECurItY and theY can’t remember it. And the reset process involves calling the Hospitals IT Helpdesk
Congrats to Magawa! He and his handler are doing great work. The amount of success both of them have achieved is amazing. Wishing them both continued safety.
After using it some more, I have to say tweaking the spectrum while the music is playing is fun! Far better experience than dozen sliders found in graphic equilizers.
The miss efficient way to learn is to use all medias available appropriately. You can integrate video lessons into habits that wouldn’t be practical in other forms.
The US military funded tor to give its employees a way to use the internet without divulging to the US's adversaries what sites they were reading.
My nemesis is bash. Every intuition that I have about programming languages doesn't seem to apply there.
Why is it titled "PG and Jessica"? I was little concerned reading a title like this.
Brain drain is really not an issue at all in Western Europe. Sure, some people move to SV, but the majority likes sane working hours, streets without poo, and schools without metal detectors at the entrance.

Anecdotally, the amount of European programmers I know that moved to the US slightly exceeds the amount of American programmers that moved to Europe. I strongly doubt a different visa system would impact that significantly.
The command line has suffered like everything else. Complexity creeps in and builds on itself. But scripts aren't the problem, scripts were part of the design as the intent was to glue together the many CLI utilities. Scripts bind them into performing a repeated task (versus one-offs).
I've never met a healthy adult human being for whom I would bet against their ability to solve level 2 of this [1] given some time and motivation. Have you?

(I'm referring to the last sentence. I can accept that many animal intelligence researchers don't buy into the idea of a general intelligence)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix2AVVUwe0
Posting because I just found out the surprising fact that some states have laws on the book that prevent atheists from holding elected office.
KubeVela
It's America's obsession with self righteous indignation. "How dare you not go along with the mob and put on your mask. What kind of horrible person are you?" Americans, of which I am one, have this mentality that if someone disagrees, they are a terrible, horrible person that must be crushed by your rightness.
My mom has SFSN and my brother has CIDP. From what I've seen IV IG is the only treatment for this kind of condition currently available and, even then, it's not a permanent fix. My brother has had it several times and it saved his life but the side effects are horrible. There are some interesting advancements happening in the States using stem cell but it's still very early days and even more expensive than IV IG. Just due to the process involved it's hard to see it coming down in price all that much.

This result is particularly exciting since it sounds like it's a drug and not a bio-product like IV IG or stem cell therapy.

Also, sorry to hear about your SFSN. Hope you're doing ok.
It was also the perfect moment in time. The .com gold rush was still in an early phase and the iphone hadn't yet happened. The tech industry is much more consolidated and mature now.
Ive been rewatching all the Harry Potter movies recently, and have kept a very small list of cool things I’d like to try to replicate in the HP universe with software. So it’s funny to see this in the front page of HN, as it’s a perfect example of doing just that! I’d love to see some classic Renaissance paintings brought to life to display in the house, like the paintings which line Hogwarts.
Where's the content in this post? It essentially boils down to "I want a SaaS company".
I mean, Colvin did not had to pay price Parks paid. And Parks knew what it will cost.

And no Parks sit in was not engineered by NAACP. It was her own decision at the moment. It would be pretty hard to stage that situation. It even seem she had legal right to stay sit, the driver did not had to press for charges and the bus did not had to be full...

Besides, the massive protests after surprised everyone including Parks. And someone else staying too just proves that people were repeating patterns.

People were troubling busses more often to.
Do as they say, not as they do.
A textbook?

Colored pencils and paper?

Not sure what you are getting at. Playing one song on loop for 10 years doesn't sound fun.
Wait till you find /r/Sino

I don’t know why this stuff is allowed to exist.
They well deserve some donations, and I just sent some quid, but would also buy some merchandise for me and gifts for friends/relatives if shipping costs make it worth, but apparently there's no way to purchase from them.
A search brought some sites selling Mozilla branded items, but I'd like to be sure the money, or most of it, goes to the Mozilla Foundation. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Hi @Gunax,

I just saw your comment and you’re completely right. If someone knew this he/she could alter the image data in a way that this approach wouldn’t work anymore.

Thanks for your comment, I’ll add it to the Limitations section!
Toy programs like Linux kernel, once an heavy user of VLAs, which only GCC and clang ever implementated, while everyone else just moved from C89 to C11 without ever caring about them.
I heard at one point that Hotspot had crossed a million lines of code. Looks like V8 is close to 2 million sLOC.

The same source says SpiderMonkey is about 540k sLOC.

Bak has learned a lot of lessons along the way I'm sure, and unless Cliff Click decides to write VMs again (sounds like he's semi-retired, doing something else) then he may be the best person for the job. But nobody's perfect. For me this is Exhibits A-C.
>There is nothing surprising that a guy who put “I’m CEO B1tch”...

I've commented on this before around HN, but worth repeating: people do change over ~20 years.

If I were judged by the shit I did in high school or my 20's, and assumed I was the same person I would be fucked. (I'm guessing many on these threads would empathize.) It just reeks of pseudo-cancel culture BS where one mistake will follow you for your entire life.
It is a great open-source media server. Might be useful for your projects
Maybe I'm naively optimistic, but at least the scientific community has had centuries of amazing progress of approaching truth and steering away from misinformation. I'm not sure one could provide a similar example for the war on drugs.
Doesn't seem like it [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_of_Babel_(Bruegel)
??? Taiwanese expression of identity has nothing to do with 'foreigners'. There's no reasonable defence for the dystopian nightmare the CCP is pursuing and the arguments fall flat. Europe was at war for 2000 years and didn't need help from outsiders, the same can be said of most places.
isn't that the meaning of democracy?
Next tech bubble: organic learning.

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Goyal doesn’t have to be closely involved in the forum helping users. I question the importance of his doing so while the UI is what it is. It could be that while a small number of users are helped by his personal attention on the forum, a much larger number of users are left frustrated by the UI.
> Almost all customers care about quality.

yes, but not to the exclusion of features. I work on a B2B product where our customers bill their customers by the hour, so they tend to have a pretty good idea of how much time a feature saves them. if a competitor adds a feature that cuts the time needed for a project in half (not unrealistic) but crashes and forces them to start over a quarter of the time, the customers will still buy their product instead of ours. they'll complain incessantly on the competitor's forums about the crashes and threaten to switch back to our product, but they won't actually do it unless we come up with something new that saves them even more time.

customers care about saving time and/or money; they only care about quality to the extent that it furthers that fundamental goal. if there is some bug-ridden alternative that solves their problem faster, they will do their best to find it and purchase it.

edit: to be clear, I mean "reliability" when I say "quality"; their are many other "qualities" a product can have, one of them being "cheap".
Tips to Overcome Fear of the Dentist
Economic Tracker
Education has always been the true driver of inequality. Once you are highly educated, you can leverage that to obtain compounding levels of success indefinitely.

But if you suffer from poor education, you fall behind and it gets increasingly harder to catch up, to the point you may never truly find the motivation to dig yourself out of the hole, and even if you do, it may be too late. Your life will be battered by bad, uneducated decisions that you spend most of your time trying to fix.

Inequality in America will not be fixed until after the COVID generation. If at all.
Well then what constitutes misinformation? Is speculation misinformation? Are opinions misinformation? How does misinformation differ from someone exercising their right to free speech, but miswording what they say?

I think that is a slippery slope. In fact you just described communist russia where the government would get citizens to turn each other in for saying the wrong thing(this can easily be used for nefarious purposes). You are now allowing the government to suppress less-popular opinions by labeling them misinformation.
Is there any way to directly donate to firefox (and not other mozilla related things)?
Every product of a human is not perfect. Only God can make perfect things, but even those things made by God don't seem to be perfect from our point of view - e.g. illness, brutal death.
People have been reluctant to do that because Goyal has shown that he would be hostile to any fork and would seek to frustrate any such attempt.