skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my team my personal Zoom room has become a communal channel. Somebody would join my Zoom at ~8:30am and it keeps going until about ~5:30pm everyday. People are free to come and go as they wish, people from other teams join, when people come looking for us they come into the Zoom call etc. This includes other people from other teams from different countries. If things do get private/technical/disturbing we just go into breakout rooms. When I finally get online at 9am or so there are usually four or five people already in there.

So to answer the questions: I don't miss them because I didn't lose them, and it has worked great -- our team is the highest performing one with the least amount of cabin fever. The reason why it's successful is because it isn't management-driven "mandatory talk time." It's just a bunch of people hanging out.
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. In the next few years we will cross a threshold. Past that point of no return, we will have significantly less certainty about the past. There's an opportunity to preserve much of that certainty simply by securely hashing as much existing content as possible.

Future historians will be in our debt, should we manage it in time.
And every month in Lafayette, how much money goes to the interest on mortgage debt?

And how many human-hours a month do people in Lafayette twiddle away on corporate busywork so they can pay that interest?
I did this for some of my projects and it worked quite well. I think it's a nice balance between supporting free software community, and avoiding being a sucker who does free labor for corporations.

Financially it works orders of magnitude better than asking for donations or individual patronage. Corporations operate on a completely different scale of money.
Surely only 1 is enough, otherwise how does the first one spread in the first place?
really nice job, I like

you have an XSS vulnerability tho :)
you should escape / strip out tag-like content

more info: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Sc...
Considering that Reddit's own popularity was boosted by Digg's collapse due to unpopular changes and dysfunction, you'd think that Reddit would be more aware of the risks of pursuing an antagonistic relationship with their users.
I wrote a bit about it in another reply[0].

- Disconnect from the internet

- Unplug your laptop from the charger, or go somewhere else

See how much work you can get done on a single laptop charge, without internet. No commute these days? Leave your charger in another room and start working. Once you get in the zone, you'll find it hard to leave to get your charger, similar to how you delay going to the bathroom when watching a movie, even though you could just hit pause.

You'll be surprised. By the time your laptop's battery is at 6% or 5% you'll be slaying dragons.

This is extremely useful when you want to implement a feature or fix a bug and you've been dragging your feet. The code doesn't need to be great, but you'll often have a prototype/proof of concept with the rightish abstraction, which you've been dragging your feet on.

Some of my most effective work was done on a bus: "Come what may, I have 40 minutes to solve this issue". When I did it twice a day, that's a lot of issues taken off the backlog.

It also works with learning something you've been delaying. "I have 40 minutes to go through this tutorial on Kubernetes/Docker". I won't learn all the subtleties, but it does work.

Call it Bus/car Driven Development, or Battery Driven Development. Basically introducing a hard, physical, constraint that is a bit more real than a pomodoro timer. You actually have to get off the bus/car, or the laptop actually dies. It's more exciting than an alarm going off.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547259
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In 2002 I installed widows xp and after 30 minutes of use I realized that Microsoft will never get their shit together. I'm on Linux ever since. Best Linux distro was Ubuntu 8.04, everything worked out of box, not even video tearing! It's downhill from back then but still good enough to stay. I'm using non mainstream wm so I'm not affected by fads anymore. I need to work, not change my habits on every os release.
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Back in the days of Windows 98, I got tired of the "blue screen of death" that my computer was giving me most days.

I heard Linux was more stable, so I ordered a physical copy of red hat and got it running. No more blue screens.

I still use Linux today as my main driver at work and at home.
Do you have an actual argument, or is your view simply that it's not restricting free speech if it's bad speech?
Corporate owned media demonstrably lied about covid to make it sound maximum scary for maximum U.S. shutdown. You and your ilk made a 99.97% survival rate virus sound like the black death. Your day of reckoning is coming.
It wins because it's not really democratic.

No-one votes for the EU president. No-one votes for the membership of the European Commission (which decides all the policies) [0]

I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Seeing the mess that democracy has made in the UK and USA at the moment, it's nice having at least one global power that isn't vulnerable to populist theatrics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_legitimacy_of_the_E...
Do you have a source for "their audience is becoming narrower and narrower"?
Ask HN: Do ”blue light” glasses work?
I spend all day staring at computers, but don’t wear glasses. I try to take breaks for the sake of my eyes (and back). I’ve seen a lot of ads for glasses that reduce the blue light from screens. Do these actually do anything to protect my eyes? What are the best alternatives?
So nice! It's evergreen, officialy supported and host <-> client interop seems really easy. Hope it supports h264 video, which has been lacking in other open-source chromium based alternatives due to licensing issues.
See what I mean GP? We're really not supposed to talk about this stuff.

mrep, you're either misinforming me, or you're misinformed. That 3.2% that you named doesn't cover domestic military spending (Homeland Security, FBI, NSA) nor does it cover pensions for widows and retirees, nuclear weapons research, nuclear waste disposal, nuclear weapon manufacturing, interest on war debts, the VA. Factoring in these costs actually puts military spending second on your list: 993.8 Billion Dollars, just 7 billion shy of the trillion we spent on social security. We now have a growing number of "civilians" in the military too; these private contractors help to make military spending look smaller than it really is.

And keep in mind the military budget has only grown since 9/11 never shrinking. We're still blowing up Yemen, Somalia, the Levant and Afghanistan as I type this, after already blowing up Iraq, Libya and Pakistan over a period of 20 years. It's expensive.
I read the whole thing waiting to get to an example of what a "frivolous" violation is. I probably agree with him or her but it does hinge on that and it's an important detail to leave out.
Pfft. LOL.
Read Nadine Strossen.
Learn a little. Stop using phrases you heard somebody dumber than you say.
To piggyback on this, here is a quote from Karl Popper (the "discoverer" of the Paradox of Tolerance):

> I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.
because reddit programmers are so bad they couldn't just add an _if_ statement, or a limit?
The question is who should have this control in media? Traditional media had gatekeepers that allowed for extreme (but popular) opinions to be suppressed.

We've seen what it looks like when opinions form in a bubble online without oversight and spirals out of control in the real world. From conspiracy theories and extremism to doxxing the wrong person in mass murder.

We should be aware of the limitations around a model based entirely on unfettered free speech. Otherwise we are just ideologues trying to put out a fire with more fire.
Same experience using a Surface + Surface Pen.
I think stating a bug matter-of-fact-style is fine, personally. As long as there isn't a negative tone, I don't think you need the introduction. "Tried this, expected this, got this", with a title containing a clear summary.

I've created and maintained some libraries, and I think if a library maintainer takes issue with totally neutral, fact-stating bug reports, that's entirely on them. If you're stating nothing but the technical details, there's really no implied sense of entitlement or bitterness. Maybe it comes across as cold, but it's an issue tracker, and posting issues is the point. It fits the context.
It is not built with expectations of growth and its useful life will end at approx the time the debt has been paid off (about 20 years)

Typically when building a septic system, it is one per household, not one per family member, though.

A family of four does not need 4 septic tanks.
Yes, it also on a wide scale leads to silos being formed where you only share content with people you know that will upvote it this is why reddit gets a subreddit on every subject and even then those communities tend to split over and over until they get their perfect echochamber.

Heck there are two primary subreddits for the Labour party in the UK - Labour and LabourUK.

A year ago someone asked what's the difference between Labour and LabourUK and this was pretty much the answer (I've quoted one comment but the same answer was repeated across that entire post):

>r/LabourUK is a Blairite echo chamber for bitter right wingers, and if you dare criticise Israel they'll call you an antisemite and ban you. You can call for the destruction of the left as much as you want over there but don't dare say anything against the Blairites, that's another bannable offense. Not sufficiently sucking up to the mods, also a ban.

>r/Labour is mainly frequented by supporters of the Labour Party and not by people who are praying for Labour to lose so they can replace Corbyn.
There is so much great media that exists, but is expensive or hard to find. I'm hoping to solve these problems once and for all.
Thanks for your reply! I played around with Monogame[0] in the past and I absolutely loved the "code first" approach. I will definitely try out NasNas.

[0](https://www.monogame.net/)
I find this idea totally weird. Can you look at the last decade of US military actions and say this has increased European security? I think most people would say no, of course not.

Sure, the US pays a lot for defense, but is that money well spent? Did the EU benefit from the US invasion of Korea? Probably not. Vietnam? Also no. Iraq? Afghanistan? In all these cases, certainly no.
I was a young programmer in the 80's, cut my teeth on CP/M and then Unix .. MIPS Risc/OS, when MIPS made pizzaboxen .. sufficiently productive to be able to afford my own home lab gear .. and in at work comes a brand new 386 system instead of the X Workstation I wanted, and which apparently 'solved the problems of the x86 platform' .. yeah, no. I found some respite in a Quarterdesk/Desqview configuration, multitasking DOS terminal sessions, but it was .. severely .. lacking in what I wanted.

So, at home, I got a copy of a similar 386 box set up, and did what everyone did at the time: got on USENET to find out what else could be done. GNU/Hurd was 'gonna happen any day now', and I'd already switched to using a bunch of gnu tools, but nothing was really working out .. which lead me to minix-list.

Which is where I read Linus' post about his little kernel project.

And, in the months and years to follow from that point, I became an avid Linux user. Not long after, I brought a bootable Yggdrasil CD into work, and turned my cruddy DOS 'workstation' into a viable X host, albeit after about 5 days of compiling ..
Well, the random delay thing is not really relevant in modern switched networks where each switch port is a separate collision domain.

The whole core concept of Ethernet of a shared "ether" which messages are sent through has pretty much died because switched networks provide better performance and moores law made them economical
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In Karl Popper's own words:

> I do not imply for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would be most unwise.
You don't need subways and trains in a dense 100k town.
You need a fixed decimal float to represent currency.

2.25 or 1.10
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But their success proves that they don't have to care...

I mean seriously this "Diggs past will come for you"-line is being repeated for years but it's not happening.

Meanwhile "alternatives" come up and and become irrelevant or nests of hate.
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Weird to call it "Spanish". Catalan is also "Spanish" (though you'll find a very small number of speakers in Southern France). Usually Catalan is opposed to Castilian.
That's literally what they did and it was already considered censorship by some.
I like the idea - it would at least help to visualize how much useless code you pull in and hopefully to make you realize how the few parts actually used could be implemented without those dependencies.
I'm bipolar. It is far more complex than "what you eat."
So while I like the idea of asn-like multiple encoding standards, there are some fragments in the description that make me just see potential issues:

> Support for the NUL character (u+0000) is implementation defined due to potential issues with null string delimiters in some languages and platforms. It should be avoided in general for safety and portability. Support for NUL must not be assumed.

I believe it's easier to force awkward languages to support nul character than deal with the chaos of not knowing if it's supported or not. They're are other places where they say "this is hard, we'll let implementations to not support it" and it's a ticking time bomb.

Also it doesn't look like you can deduplicate map keys:

> A reference must not be used as a map key.

Which means as much repetition and space waste as in json.
But like R has a great packaing system, and it copied Perl, which is much older than Python. Meanwhile Python has a bunch of incompatible packaging systems which cause so much pain to so many programmers.

Did you know that pip won't even resolve dependencies, and will break your programs silently? I certainly didn't, because Python wasn't my first language and therefore I assumed that the package manager will handle dependencies.

Like seriously, when a language designed by statisticians for statisticians (R) has a better packaging story than everyone's second favourite language, something has gone horribly wrong.
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Forgive me for being slightly facetious with the saying, of course there are many more factors involved that require close and careful study.
Sorry,free speech does not mean that private companies have to provide their resources and time to support your hate speech. It means that you, on public property, using your own resources, have the freedom to say what you want without reprisal from the government. But even that should have limits, especially when your “free speech” limits the right to liberty and prosperity of others (most isms).
I blocked most of Reddit (also, deleted my account) when I say this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSVqoW1rz6w&t=850
>>> Especially, if it’s sized with the expectation of any kind of growth.

I don't think that most villages are growing. They're usually shrinking slowly as the old inhabitants die and the young leave to cities to find work. It's quite risky to go big and plan for growth when the taxpayer base is likely to shrink 10 years from now.
The great thing about this is that it is directly usable in a gui . Someone will build a gui and make it even more accessible.

I love it and plan to use it in my data as it is.
Hi, Great to see you here! I just love your newsletter, especially the quirky links generally at the bottom.
I don't think Swartz was an actual reddit co-founder. Wikipedia says pg gave him the title, whatever that means.

People need to cool it with the conspiracy theories about everything all the time.
I think this is wishful thinking. Reddit at its inception was sock puppet-boosted discussion of atheism and coding. Every choice its leaders have been made have been in support of further growth, not some philosophical ideal.

It’s now one of the most vibrant discussion forums on the internet. It’s been growing faster than it can manage, but that’s been the case for years. Hostage to a brittle moderation model that doesn’t scale, certain discussions can’t be safely or productively had at its scale.

It’s a practical reality...in support of further growth. For every open internet advocate that abandons it in disgust, another dozen grandmas and teens register and download the app.

Whatever the case, I do hope you’re right and a competitor finds a way to do this better.
As I recall, Aaron was doing his own startup through YC (Infogami).

Paul Graham introduced him to the Reddit guys and I believe suggested they merge Reddit and Infogami.

As part of that merger, Aaron gained the title "cofounder", IIRC.

This is backed up by comments in that Reddit thread, FWIW.
I did see some homeless people, but overall it still felt like a nice place. Of course I avoided the tenderloin and other dodgy areas (and this time I didn't use the BART, unlike previous times).
Still the same issue of CISC v RISC. The ARM ISA as I understand it is simpler hence why when well architected it will be faster especially with a 2T dollar company behind it.
I've always wondered if the mythical 10x engineer is actually 10x as good at doing their job, or 10x as good at self promotion.
Same projects in Western Europe are coming in significantly lower. Labor is cited as the main cost but it’s easy to hide corruption in labor costs.
It's the conflict of interest we're worried about. Not competence to make the assessment.
The first half of your statement is true but irrelevant here as the controversy touched on in the OP is that reddit as an organization _used to_ purport to stand for free speech.
From what I understand the etiology of bipolar is not well understood, with different correlations like dopamine dysregulation or the inflammatory markers you mention (which could indeed be influenced by the gut biome), but as with unipolar depression it's probably too simplistic an approach to try and reduce it to a single factor.
Almost all bipolar people have relatives that were bipolar. That points rather strongly to a genetic cause than an environmental one.
All those political bannnings by admins aren't really the big issue (and only relatively recent). The big issue re: reddit and free speech has to do with things that Reddit corp has trouble monetizing and putting ads beside. Sure, some of the bans might come from a partisan political place but the vast majority of reddit admin actions are just that of corporate drones protecting corporate image in order to make more money.

Centralized corporate run proprietary systems will always end up like this. It's the circle of web life.
Nonsense. Do you think movies of child abuse are "free speech", or recruitment/instruction videos tot terrorist organizations, or inciting violence and hate? What about Assange, he published some stuff, could that be free speech? Or violations of copyright?

To me free speech is like free markets. The word does not adequately cover the implementation as boundaries do apply. There are little to non truly free markets (no tax, no imp/ex restrictions, etc). And there is not truly free speech.

And to limit freedom to speech to prevent hate/violence inciting crowds to get a platform may --according to me-- be necessary in some cases and is allowed by many of the worlds constitutions.

On top of that Reddit is a private platform, so they are free to set their standard, just like you may prohibit some speech in your own household (under the thread of being expelled or "no longer welcome).
I have no problem disagreeing and indeed our views are worlds apart.

Social media means moot to me, I think internet has reached its limits long ago and better things are done without this.

Now that reddit is hypocritical about its motto.. very plausible, and I personally, consider reddit as a toy, not a tool, nothing more. And you stated it yourself, both subs you mentionned became too extreme, this was the sole reason behind the removal.

IIUC you're afraid that this is a precedent leading to more and more chatting place shutdowns and a new form of oppression ? Let me say this, we have obese levels of communication channels, the reality lies elsewhere, and if and when people will need to speak for serious matters, they'll have the means.

It's nice to be absolutist but don't go blind.
>as long as we can counter them by rational argument

I don't know if y'all are new to the internet, but I've been here since around 1990 and we ration argument hasn't done any good. I feel like a lot of these ideas around speech are ones that came from people who were used to arguing with other intelligent people. When the unwashed masses are involved, rational argument doesn't work at all. Some people understand this, which is why people like Trump can get elected. It wasn't as if there was a failure of making rational arguments to counter him. The average person just does not care/understand what a rational argument is.

I offer no solutions here, sorry.
I wonder if this couldn't easily be fixed by using this license: https://opensource.org/licenses/NPOSL-3.0

It is open-source, but disallows commercial for-profit use.
They are private platforms, nobody owns anybody a soapbox.

Freedom of speech is about legality. Restrictions of freedom of speech: litigation, prison, penalties or worse. Not "my favourite subreddit was deleted"

And speech is not 100% free anywhere.
I don't think so.

If anything, Reddit is getting bigger. In my circle nobody knew what it was five years ago. Now it has effectively become mainstream, and is being (positively) quoted on TV, etc.

This is actually the second time it happens. Ten years ago people also claimed that "Reddit is dying". It wasn't, it was just changing its core audience of technical users to a broader one. And now it is doing it again.
It seems to me that the same thing that happened to Reddit is happening to Hacker News now.

I've seen an uptick of misleading titles, which make you question what is real.

Another trend I've noticed is an increase in pro-drug/pro-medication posts, which aim to frame life's challenges as something that need medication.
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> Why not LSD

At least this [1] suggests that LSD microdosing doesn’t do anything, while there have been a few studies that suggested psilocybin micrososing does. Dunno how strong the evidence is in either direction but that would make me more inclined to start with psilocybin if I were to experiment myself.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing#conclusion
Or you can do it this style, but yeah, good point. I can see now why a lot of apple config files are still XML.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/json-comment-example-how-t...
I'm running Linux Mint 19 on my XPS15 from 2019. Opening this page in Firefox gives me an instant crash and reboot.

I tried 2 times. Won't use again.