skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why this is so controversial.
You cannot reveal personal details of someone on Twitter (email, phone number etc.) The article contained unreacted personal info so should be blocked.
You also cannot link directly to hacked/obtained without consent material on twitter. The article contained screenshot of the material so should be blocked.
You CAN link to material that discusses hacked/obtained without consent material on Twitter as long as it does not contain the material. eg. Trump Tax Return story by NYT.
Yes. And unlike the Government, I an individual have no say in how Twitter operates. I have have no say in how Facebook operates. I have no say in how Google operates. Those three combine account for the overwhelming majority of the public square that is the internet.

I cannot vote out the CEO of Twitter, Facebook, or Google because I think they are doing the wrong thing. This is worse, because individuals are powerless.

And before you argue that people can go to their own websites, how is meaningfully different from Chinese citizens who use VPN's. After all they can still access information.

In both cases it is near impossible for a message, movement, or anything else to grow without the use of the core popular platforms. And any message which could grow in other spaces would have the counter narrative pushed on the core platforms.
Fake reviews are an actual hard problem to solve

No, free reviews are a hard problem to solve. But it's been done before.

The reason there are famous restaurant and movie reviewers is because they are professionals paid enough by their publications to keep them honest.

The problem is that SV wants content, but doesn't want to pay for it. Spending money doesn't "scale." So the bubble solicits reviews from random people with no vetting. Garbage in, garbage out. "Crowdsourced" is just another word for "amateur."
>> Seamless collaboration

> Doesn't Git solve this problem?

The author mentions that:

"The collaboration approach that I personally like the most (and the one I feel could be embedded in “local-first applications”) is the one used by git."
I finally started subscribing to consumer reports. Every time something breaks now in my house I replace it with the top rated product from Consumer Reports. So far it’s going great.
This is a big one for me. But I think there is a missing level here. Local as in area, not just local to the machine.

Municipal and Neighborhood level networks would solve a lot of problems inherent in the broader internet, as well as making solving problems as discussed by the OP easier.

For example, it's a lot easier to trust your neighbor than someone on the internet (and better too). For one you can look them in the eyes and shake their hand, for another you are both governed by the same court (though this does make privacy more locally relevant). On the flip-side this means local people don't necessarily have to be great at the internet themselves to use these complex hosted programs. It's just another website rather than setting up a google docs server or using a git repo.

Continuing, another problem it solves is local discoverability. There are a thousand products out there that do local services, from craigslist, on down to "local wikis". But these services don't often care about your community, and it can be hard to know what other people are using (separating local efforts across a global network). Putting them all on a local network, with a local index (and search engines) allows better discoverability nearby (especially if portals into neighboring communities can be connected, eventually perhaps into a federation of sorts), but also services that are oriented to local needs (and issues and regulation).

I'm not saying this would replace the internet. Obviously not. But it would provide a better, safer, and more useful "local layer" of the internet to go to first (to say nothing of the social media security and child safety aspects). That also happened to be faster and more resilient (doesn't go down when the internet does). The problem of course is shit ISPs, though this is why the MeshNet people do what they do. And having applications and a community ready for it. The technology (and culture) would also be useful for communities that can't participate in the global network, from isolated communities (either due to poverty, authoritarinism, or remoteness) to future ones (spaceships, remote colonies).

Just a thought.
Do you mean the increased productivity will be the competitive advantage, or they'll have a recruitment advantage to be able to attract candidates with a comfortable work space so they're not stuck at home? As a hypothetical candidate in my next job search whenever that is, I'll definitely be wanting the latter.
The simplest solution would be for them to implement a search for prime day deals only but I didn't see an option for that.
Is the 50TB bandwidth saving actually discussed at all in the article? I certainly can't see it
The evidence that there was some kind of attempted coordination between the Trump campaign and various Russian individuals is actually stronger than you give credit for. I feel like you didn't actually read the Special Counsel report.
" You couldn’t remember how to balance a binary tree, so you thought you’d define the transformational invariants and have Prolog solve them for you."

Well, yes, that's one good reason to know Prolog.
For an organization who one would think care deeply about science, I'd say statements like this is problematic.

"With the nation’s death toll now exceeding 215,000, the coronavirus has killed more people in the United States than anywhere else."

It's problematic because it's not very clear how this number has been calculated. CDC themselves say this about their own number:

"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death."

Also, from the same page:

"When COVID-19 is reported as a cause of death – or when it is listed as a “probable” or “presumed” cause — the death is coded as U07.1. This can include cases with or without laboratory confirmation."

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

So, 94% had other additional conditions (including heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis). And even then, not all cases had been confirmed/

It seems to me like 215,000 (probably/presumably) died _with_ COVID-19, but not necessarily from it.

In some countries in Europe, including the UK and some Scandinavian countries (I haven't been able to find the method for US), the number of deaths are counted in the following way:

"Deaths = the statistics on fatalities include deaths recorded within 30 days of the detection of COVID-19 infection in the individual. However, COVID-19 is not necessarily the cause of death."

https://www.sst.dk/en/English/Corona-eng/Status-of-the-epide...

I believe this number was previously 90 days, but in my opinion, it's not a very scientific way to calculate the severity of COVID-19.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying nobody dies from COVID-19. Even numbers from Europe shows this clearly:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

But when Nature is using the number 215,000 in the way they did, it does not look very credible. Take a look at the whole statement:

"With the nation’s death toll now exceeding 215,000, the coronavirus has killed more people in the United States than anywhere else. Even adjusting for population size, the country has fared spectacularly badly. Despite having vast scientific and monetary resources at his disposal, Trump failed catastrophically when it mattered most."

To me that looks more like it's driven by Orange Man Bad, than by science.
Oh, looks like you know better than the investigators attempting to prove something illegal happened! You better go let Nancy know you have evidence to finally impeach Trump! Quick! I bet Rachel Maddow can get you on air.
I mean, yeah. The world stood by and let the Rwandan genocide happen, and you could argue that we let North Korea continue on with its forced labor and re-education camps today, pushing back with nothing more than strongly worded letters and trade sanctions.
Interesting. Tried to sign up. Signup mail going to Gmail spam box and the login not working.
France and Netherlands call for tough EU powers to curb Big Tech
How do switches simulate coroutines? I'm reading thru the article they linked https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

But don't follow how they achieve independent stacks so a caller can continue where it left off in the callee.
> I'm claiming that within the US, and specifically within largely white wealthy communities, it is rarely used with good intent.

And your basis for this claim is your personal anecdotal experience, plus "a bunch of reading" you have done. IMO that's a pretty flimsy basis for such a sweeping claim.
because honesty is a better policy in the long run

SV doesn't optimize for the long run. It only cares about the next quarter, or until the buyout comes. Everyone knows the phrase "exit strategy," but nobody knows the phrase "quality and service."

In my experience, 1%† of the people in the SV bubble are doing it to make a quality product. They're just there to make a quick buck.

(† Less than 1% in the Seattle bubble)
I'm curious, doesn't commercial planes have any equivalent for dash cams? I get that the jetpack man might not have been in direct flight path, but I do know that there are inflight cameras for entertainment purposes in some passenger flights for viewing outside the plane and cameras in the landing gears of newer Airbus planes.
Your Show HN doesn't seem to have gotten much traction, but I am ecstatic about programming the ESP8266/ESP32 in something other than C. I don't care if it's Nim or Rust or whatever, I'm just tired of programming like it's the 80s.

I'll be watching your project with great interest.
This might be one of the most obnoxious articles I have read. Randomly making every other sentence bold, underlined or italicized does not serve readability in any way.
That's why I am so exited about gioui.org because it'll allow native applications for OSX, Windows, Linux (both X11 and Wayland), iOS, android and (sortof) webASM.

It is a simple wrapper around the input devices like mouse, keyboard and touch screen and outputs the graphics using GPU shaders (DirectX, OpenGL, Metal). It feels like a mix between a 2D game engine and a UI library.

The immediate mode architecture is a mindfuck how easy it is compared to (functional) reactive programming. You basically get all the benefits of having observers of values with just values.
> You can use exec to open up a shell in your app

Ok, maybe we don't exactly speak the same language, but shouldn't that be "a shell in your server running your app".
Exactly. There's one other business model that might let the organization stay honest: Accept advertising, but only from unconflicted sources, such as online schools or resume polishers. But this feels like a shoestring business.
Tab pinning at last!
Scrollable tabs seems a little bit off. You can easily loose your current tab and it would be nice to pin to this context rather than left/top.
> Like, what is bad about hitting a statue?

I suspect vandalism.
> We are performing those comparisons from the EU, over fiber Internet and a good WiFi access point.

That seems like a really stupid marketing move.

According to their charts, Zendesk is over 6x the size, but only takes 0.36s longer to load with more network requests and equal CDN latency. If their size difference only matters over a weak connection, they should have done their comparisons with a weak connection. They either threw away an opportunity with their charts or maybe their optimization didn't make a big enough difference to matter in the end.

If I were them, I'd redo these tests quickly from somewhere else and update the charts to make it look like what they did matters.

Also the "Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth" in the title isn't discussed anywhere in the post. (And why would a customer care?)
You can't trust ratings that you aren't paying to read.

The business model for these review sites are all the same: be useful for long enough to corner the market, then institute a pay-to-clean policy. Sprinkle in a few fake negative reviews for those tough to close leads. The revenue they can extract for the businesses listed on their sites is much higher than what they could achieve through ad revenue alone.
> digital public square

I don't know if you know this or not, but the technology exists for anyone to participate in a "digital public square" without use of the incumbent services (Facebook, Twitter, et cetera).

These services are not the digital public square. They are private spaces (like a shopping mall.) it would be wholly incorrect to make that assumption.
Lots of things couldn't survive on their own, but aren't failures at all.

For example, we're currently subsidizing multiple vaccines for COVID-19 because it's important that we collectively take on the risk that a single one might fail. Those billions in spending to pay for something that might be worth $0 is worth it because it's likely at least some of the vaccines will be safe and effective.

Sometimes things start out as unprofitable and then only later, because of those dollars invested, become profitable. Space, for example. Government investments in solar power have also been super important.

Or, more relevant to Hacker News, how about ARPANET being funded by the military, and then later that funding going to the National Science Foundation? Eventually, of course, it got privatized.
FDM 3D printing like you can do at home, is a toy/hobby. It's great if you want to spend the time fine-tuning your printer and dealing with all kinds of brokenness, and get a mediocre result at the end.

To get good results, upload the files to a service like Shapeways and use their hugely-expensive SLS printers. You'll get your printed stuff in several days and the quality will be great.
Sorry, I think my original comment is easy to misinterpret. I'm not saying I'm very worried that will happen, but I am mostly suggesting Hashicorp needs to be very careful post-launch to make sure people know this thing will be more of a Vagrant and less of an Otto :)

(And note that Vagrant was _extremely_ popular/'hot' for a time. It's still incredibly useful and widely used, even if it's not a slick new JS-based tool that everyone fawns over these days.)

Nobody wants another Google in terms of product support over time!
As more anecdata, I had a pretty satisfactory experience with my Vive on an old R9 290x from ~2013. Some more demanding games would occasionally stutter, but everything was generally smooth (based on the performance graph not dropping below the HMD's refresh rate).

The Index is higher resolution/refresh rate and will require more hardware, but if you just want to get into some VR and dick around, the Vive is more than enough to get started, can be found for <$200 used, and a ton of the popular games (e.g., Beat Saber, SuperHot VR, etc) just really aren't that graphically demanding.

The Vive is also compatible with the knuckles controllers and those can be purchased separately, so you're not totally locked out from some of the more game changing stuff either.
A free flow of information is a net good - by default.

From this point, publicly visible information that consistently shows to be counterproductive could be reasonably restricted from the highest volume platforms.

1 zillion loopholes ought to be enough for anyone.
Conversely, I spent some time at a physical therapy gym that used compressed air for resistance instead of metal plates. It was a lot quieter than any other gym I've ever been to, just a gentle whoosh instead of clang-clang-clang.
It's a joke, because the strategy is to undercut or buyout the competition to survive long enough to be the last one standing.
Well, the Last Jedi was a special kind of awful, made by a guy who apparently hated Star Wars and had a strong political agenda. AKA: "One of these things is not like the others."

It's so far removed, that even Jar Jar Abrams (destroyer of franchises) tried to fix it. I don't consider TLJ "canon," to use the lingo.
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having watched the media landscape over the past two decades, the market for real journalism is apparently small and shrinking. there's not enough such money available to support it at its desired size.

"real news" loses to social media because it can't compete on the novelty dopamine feedback loop (otherwise known as popularity): being the first to bring up new info or make a novel comment about it, getting a dopamine hit (esteem), then going back to the trough for more. old journalism is comparatively too slow and sparse at this.

so traditional news, seeing the writing on the wall, decided to join the fray instead of being crowded out. this won't change until good journalism can compete for (enough) attention without being subsumed by the social novelty feedback loop.

it's not so much about value or even actualizing journalists' activist stances (as others seem to be arguing), but the competitive dynamics of the market they're in.
Not OP, but how many times have I seen, under Management Feedback, "keep doing what you're doing!"? No, I don't mean paraphrased, I mean word-for-word. That's was a few years back, back when I thought Glassdoor was worth paying attention to. I'm sure whatever HR conference they all communally go to has new guidance for gaming reviews, and the phrase has changed since.
It is using static variables for coroutine state.
Concerning O365, is it only me who thinks they have invested exactly zero to make Word Online actually display a document that has even the slightest complicated formatting correctly? Documents that are displayed horribly in Word Online actually work quite well in Nextcloud/Collabora online.
And with this singular move she went on to restore Yahoo's past glory and made yahoo one of most relevant company in tech world today.

Ok, I missed Yahoo's logo redesign by her. It was the most important thing. Canceling WFH was second.
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That seems a little heartless towards the elderly. And NY always goes blue anyway so it wouldn't even effect anything.

Not that I support punishing the young with over the top lockdowns either. It's a tough call all around.
It's not so much that it's hard, but rather so far just hasn't been worth it. The average small business owner / consumer spends what, $100-200 for a printer and maybe $100/year on consumables if they print a moderate amount? The pain point just isn't there compared to the 3D printing world in the pre-RepRap days of a little over a decade ago when a printer cost thousands of dollars and $100 in consumables in a week or less.

For something as inexpensive as 2D printers to really get some interest in the 'open' world, they'd probably need to start being as obnoxious as the mobile phone market. Think changing printer languages (i.e. PostScript and PCL) in backwards incompatible ways every year or two and requiring changes to 'new and improved' incompatible consumables (i.e. ink and paper) every so often while cutting off supply to existing customers of the old consumables well before the useful life of the printer has been reached.
So basically it has become a 'protection' scam.
A human had to program it, so there is no such thing as "without human interference".
Product Leader from GitLab here - In support of what Mitchell said. One lesson we learned from Auto DevOps is that composability and transparency were key. Just like you mentioned tinco - users struggled when things eventually broke - or they wanted to customize beyond the out of the box customizations that were available. That's why we evolved to have composable Auto DevOps[1] and Helm installs via CI/CD pipelines.[2]

[1]https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/customize.html#...
[2]https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/applications.html#i...
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I have a similar reaction to your posts in this thread, and while you are indeed careful with your phrasing, the end result seems very biased to me. This is partly because I have substantial bias of my own. =)

The statement that tipped me towards thinking you were defensive about Apple was here:

> One of the problems is that most of what people call ‘bugs’ or relevant ‘information’ about Apple is actually false.

No one challenged this, and you just dropped it there like it's a fact. I don't know that to be true at all, and even if it were, I don't think it justifies Apple's behavior towards a developer trying to inform their users about their efforts to work around a bug on the platform. Users knowing about a flaw in their device's OS is highly relevant to them, and indeed may inform whether they want to purchase such devices again. I believe Apple is wrong to try and prevent developers from communicating this through the app store, but I read your comments as defending it. I won't try and argue that Apple doesn't have a right to do so, however. I think they do, and this is precisely why I don't buy their products.
It's not like the commercial leases all ended overnight. By the time many of those leases are done, the world will be on track towards normalcy instead of away from it, and people will be dying to get out of the house and interact with other people regularly again. Permanent WFH will eventually become an artifact of covid time like mask usage.
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A trend in modern English, I'd say - though not necessarily an improvement, e.g. "he gave me a book -> he gifted me a book" and here, like you pointed out, they could easily have said "the fastest way to solve it" instead.
This brings back a lot of mostly horrible memories. "Debugging by cable wiggling" was quite common.
This is absolute must for any kind of computing activity that's not on Earth or in Earth orbit.
Ask HN: How does Hacker News work?
I'm new here. I did read the welcome page, but it didn't explain how stuff works here. After looking at the front page, I saw that you can add tags, such as Ask HN.
Publishers can be as arbitrary as they want, but they are held liable for what they publish. Section 230 gives civil immunity to "information service providers". If someone libels you on Twitter, you can't sue Twitter. But if Twitter starts making editorial decisions as to what is fit to publish and what isn't, then they could lose their section 230 protections and open themselves to tons of lawsuits.
The point is more that data could be closer to where it is going to be used instead of needing the cpu to move it around at precise times. If audio is on the GPU before it is mixed, then only the mixing/filter values would need to be sent to the GPU. Maybe this would take some sort of programmable scheduling on the GPU though.
>The connection strengthened when, at some point, probably in the late 1700s, European and American ships started taking the West Africans aboard to serve as pilots, interpreters or scouts.

The fact that the author nonchalantly omits the part about those services being performed originally aboard slaver ships and then fast-forwards a century makes the article seem like an exercise in framing. Which is a shame, the history of Sierra Leone is fascinating stuff.
- Will you ever have an API for this?

- Will this work with abstract elements like symbols rendered on a screen?
I love them if they're sequestered behind a support link so that they don't get in my fucking face and if the person on the other end is empowered. I'd much rather load up a quick chat than spend 20 minutes on a phone call that requires me to either navigate or punch through an automated menu. But I don't want to see them until I need them.