skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does take constant tuning. Some twitter accounts get manic and tweet storm. I unfollow and save a bookmark to come back when they calm down. Some FB groups turn toxic or get a new dictatorial moderator. I'm constantly pruning and adding, but I enjoy the curation. I realize I'm the exception. My point is only that those sites can be really good with effort and awareness.
That shouldn't be surprising.

The Military Industrial Complex is a huge beast. Almost all the big tech companies started before 1970 or so were funded by DoD research money. The only reason silicon valley is where it is lies in DoD radar research constraints. Computer tech started as stuff like solid state transistors to improve radio efficiency and size.

Since the MIC is a good ol' boys club with the tax dollars to pick winners and losers, of course they'll help their friends first "for the good of the country".

I'd also like to note my displeasure that my tax dollars pay must of the research bill, but the various companies walk away with the patents, copyrights, and profits. There's no reason for someone else to get rich off my investment.

Want to solve the national debt? Require royalties for government investment.
All of this could have been avoided with more robust filtering capabilities in the hands of users, which Twitter has consistently refused to provide.

The big social media platforms should be treated as common carriers, and as such only be responsible for preventing malware and flat-out illegal content.

Expecting Big Tech to moderate content (for what?) while allowing them to force feed unwanted/unrequested content to users is the perfect shit-storm we have today.
My 2010 27” iMac got bricked a few upgrades ago.

I’d like to wait until the second ARM cycle before upgrading my 2013 MBP.

I miss being able to pull a CD off the shelf and doing a fresh install.
Codeweavers: “We Have 13 Developers Working on Proton Full Time”
Agree, but I think it excels at it's intended purpose, as a "gradually typed" system where types can be added at the various places, and inferred types that "meet in the middle" will structurally type as intended. If you want to simulate nominal typing in places, you can always use tagged unions, as TS now offers several different ways to do this. (However, this info will typically not get erased at run-time, so you get reflection whether you like it or not :))
Here's a video on the email workflow by Sourcehut's author, https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/1619c000-7c44-4330-9177-...
Nice to see they aren't bothering with social distancing. I mean, sure, they might be spreading a deadly virus, but how else are they gonna talk about how bad-ass that wingsuit flight was? Totally worth killing immunocompromised people.
There's plenty of this stuff that's entirely local and has no "privacy issues".
It always boggles my mind that people who supposedly "grew up on the internet" thought it was a good idea to massively scale blog comments (effectively) to 7 billion people.
He already has without having his own news network. Having his own network seals the deal on the indoctrination via the false information bubble he's been working on for over 4 years.
Having worked with AWS serverless for a couple of years, I think the architecture is not well suited for replacing a monolithic application. If horizontal scaling is an issue, I think containers are better suited. Serverless seems to be a better fit for ETL/Data Transformation workflows.
Hi, sorry, I've really tried to track it down, but I don't recognise neither the melody nor the lyrics. I see that it is called "Draken flyger" by Henrik Wallgren in the end. He is Swedish I think, but the lyrics are probably written closer to Norse
Likely the same reason why developers, who purport to offer software on GitHub, don't always offer licensing/support contracts. This could be a proof of concept that someone has drawn up for their firm to gain mind share.

If you look at their main website it seems they mainly work with commercial developers: https://www.oriliving.com/

In the same way that I may have useful software on GH/GL but I only work for my employer. It's a "if you like what you see you and you're worth the time feel free to get in touch" kind of thing.
I’ve been using SourceHut for many months and it feels like it’s now time to completely switch away from GitHub.
I forgot comments can't be deleted from HN.

I'll be responding to you early to mid 2021 with a link to an article about Bidens executive order for a mask mandate.
Fast-forward through history of human artifacts, from arrowheads to plastic toys
I do however love dogs owned by responsible dog owners (since I don't live with them) and think dogs / pets in many cases are amazingly loving companions!

Much like human children, dogs who have responsible and mindful owners are amazing. I'm honestly kind of sad I'm allergic because it seems like it would be incredibly fulfilling to have a well trained and obedient furry companion.
Sounds like the marketers might smell money in the water with covid accelerating the amount of entertainment that people consume at home and online.

Without any functioning oversight bodies to look out for consumers' interests, why not unleash the sharks?
It does all come down to personal preference in the end. I can only describe why I prefer Vim. I specifically do not recommend it to anybody else - it's hard enough to learn that you have to decide on your own that you want to make the effort.

In my opinion, the real drag of conventional text editing is constantly having to move between the keyboard and mouse. That's a much more physically and mentally expensive mode switch than any editor mode switch. It always tends to hurt my focus on whatever I'm working on. Vim feels like I have all of the movement types in muscle memory, and it just seems to happen automatically.

I know all editors have keyboard shortcuts. I think they're all much more awkward and inefficient than Vim though. Too many steps and too much thought for "how do I move the cursor over there without using the mouse". When it gets beyond the basics, the keyboard shortcuts either don't exist at all, or vary widely between editors. How do I split a view into 2 sections and switch between them with only the keyboard in VS Code? Beats me. Oh it may be possible, but if so, it's probably different in IDEA, Eclipse, full VS, Sublime Text, etc. Vim is always Vim.

I also find most of the IDE features for live error checking and auto-complete to be more distracting than helpful, at least for dynamic languages. It's subtly annoying and harmful to my focus for my editor to be constantly trying to tell me about the "syntax errors" in code I'm not finished writing yet, or to constantly pop up completely wrong autocomplete suggestions. I prefer to run these checks or unit tests explicitly on command, when I'm ready for it.
> It’s worth noting that the first thing Parler did was start censoring anyone unsupportive of their form of conservatism.

Thanks for the link but nothing in that article supports this comment. The only mention of content not allowed is:

1. Matze's post about spam, NSFW content, and death threats not being allowed (https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs/public...)

and

2. Matze's post about banning the accounts of a group of ANTIFA supporters (https://imgur.com/WaAMEyn). This image was linked without any context (perhaps because Matze posted this without any context) so we don't know why these accounts were banned.
> I can choose to drop Google any second

> failed to produce any viable alternative to Google

These two statements seem to be in conflict
Elixir (with Phoenix) really is the sweet-spot for a productive framework that's fast, scalable and easy to pick up for a Rails developer:

https://medium.com/coryodaniel/from-erverless-to-elixir-4875...
Thanks! Will watch. :-)
“All this could have been avoided” implies that Big Social Media wanted to avoid this. I don’t think they did. A ton of content that they’ve been wrestling with is just fleeing by itself. I imagine they’re thrilled.
What would be "be good news for left-leaning people" would be if this siphons off the crazy "conservatives" so the actual conservatives could do their thing.
Well, I guess it's fine.
I might be wrong on this, but I always thought that the goal of this site wasn't to make you an expert on a subject, but to provide you a high-level, intuitive understanding of a subject, which then makes understanding the hard parts/the details waaay easier.
(Whereas in college, we'd go straight up to the hard parts after a small introduction.)
Talk about hyperbolic comparisons and nonsense excuses

In which country of the world can you "choose to drop your government any second"?

Though feel free to drop Google, if you can
If i click through i can't order it though ? The web shop only has the manjaro version. Am I missing something?
Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses
I still vote Democrat, but it is the growth of exactly this attitude that you've identified that is causing me to move increasingly away from considering myself a "Democrat".

I can't see how people fail to notice the snobbish elitism underlying "we need to manage the discourse so that people's behavior is under control."

It's amazing how cyclical this sort of stuff is. Plato's Republic was enmeshed with a similar logic: that there is a natural way for society to progress, that human society is interfering with this natural way and that is a problem, and that we ought to have philosopher-kings (read: techies & politicians) to shape beliefs and discourse into a more natural (and thus "good") direction.

G.A. Cohen's writings on the history of philosophy have a scathing critique of this sort of thinking that I recommend.
Well presumably the parent to my comment is implying that echo chambers are only problematic if they are "imposed" upon you by "the algorithm", which I would disagree with.

The problem is that people have become hyper-partisan en masse and whether they arrived there because of "the algorithm" or because they intentionally filter out sources they disagree with ... it doesn't really matter.

https://www.allsides.com/filter-bubbles

The real problem (in my humble opinion) is that there is too much news and it's almost all intentionally biased to some extent. It's therefore not practical for people to keep up with the news without entering an echo chamber. You would have to, for each instance of "news", read at least 3 versions of it to ensure you are considering all perspectives. No one is going to do that.

Do people want to consume net unbiased news? Everyone says they do but consumption patterns says otherwise. Is it commercially viable to produce unbiased news? It used to be favorable but now distribution is cheap and there is more competition so the incentives are to be more biased and find a niche.

I don't think this is a solvable problem, the genie is out of the bottle. This is just a price we pay societally for having the Internet.
From a cursory look, this is more a 10k than 1k piece of furniture. The hinged cabinets alone would cost significantly more than 1000$ (the materials aren't stellar, however, especially the laminate wood, ugh).
"I'd say that has more to do with the HN platform and its rules"

Isn't that what we are discussing - platforms, their rules, and how that influences discussions? I'm just saying that there are plenty of people, in my experience on here, that would rather downvote an opposing opinion rather than start a discussion about it or answer a question about their own position.

I routinely even get downvoted when asking why the previous comment was downvoted. To me, these behaviors are akin to mob-driven censorship of minority opinions - downvote it so it moves down and greys out.
How do you decide how much wealth someone can have? If you say let's do it democratically who's involved in that democratic decision? The people who's wealth is going to be ... eh, uncontrolled? And is it undemocratic if they decide they don't want that? Isn't it possible that we're actually doing what you want - stopping people from having undemocratic control over wealth but we just put the line over how much in a different place then you seemingly want to?
If you earned it then defending it or bragging about it may not make everyone feel great but that is fine in my opinion. When I see a rich person enjoying what they worked for I don't feel any type of way. What someone else does with their property should not affect you, if it does then look into your own personality and ask yourself why. It's rude to count someone else's money unless they ask you for that service.
I guess we can agree to disagree on the validity of implicit multiplication.

My larger point though is if we as an "advanced society" cannot agree on what this very basic notation means then how many times have we implemented something wrong.

Check the link above for images of two Cassio calculators producing different answers for a dead simple grade 5 math problem.

Just to also be clear, are you saying that

E = MC^2

is actually

E = (M x C)^2

since implied multiplication suggests that:

MC === (M x C)

rather than

MC === M x C

and by your argument above, if you thought otherwise you would simply rearrange the formula to be:

E = C^2 x M
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There's a "favorite" (sic) link that appears only when viewing the comment-tree rooted at that particular comment. You can get to that view by clicking the timestamp of the comment (obviously). (Or, in this particular case, clicking the "parent" link when viewing the comment-tree rooted at your comment, which is where you might be reading this, from your "threads" link).

These favourites are public and are linked from your user page
(https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BRedSox), here (https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=BRedSox)

A surprising number of HNers don't use this feature.
I roll my own version on a NUC with some ESP8266 based sensors, but frankly I don't think many people care if multi-national tech companies know when their lights are on. I don't really, I roll my own more as a hobby.

I've found it to be pretty useful. My partner and I tend to go to bed at different times. I put pressure sensors under the mattress, and whenever one of us goes to bed the subwoofer in the living room turns off. Little things like that are pretty nifty.
I was initially shocked by this as well so I did some more reading on OCSP and it seems this is being addressed through OCSP stapling.

According to Wikipedia "[OCSP stapling] allows the presenter of a certificate to bear the resource cost involved in providing Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responses by appending ("stapling") a time-stamped OCSP response signed by the CA to the initial TLS handshake, eliminating the need for clients to contact the CA, with the aim of improving both security and performance."

I'm not aware how widely deployed OCSP stapling is in reality. I looked at my Firefox settings which seemed to be the default for OCSP and it looked like this:

security.OCSP.enabled 1
security.OCSP.require false
security.OCSP.timeoutMilliseconds.hard 10000
security.OCSP.timeoutMilliseconds.soft 2000
security.ssl.enable_ocsp_must_staple true
security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling true

So I assume OCSP stapling is enabled but direct OCSP is disabled in Firefox by default but a positive OCSP response is not required in general. I tried to check what was really happening with Wireshark but regardless of the configuration and sites I visited, I couldn't get Firefox to emit an OCSP query.

I also don't know what other TLS implementations (like OpenSSL) do and how users of such libraries usually configure them.

Addendum: Oh and of course, OCSP stapling is useless when you weren't about to open a TLS connection (like in this case when checking software signing certificates). I'm also curious if and how this works for other applications of X.509 certificates such as mutual TLS authentication.
I tried Parler, and everyone is missing the point. Parler doesn't censor content because replies aren't linked to "Parleys" by default. All replies must be "approved" by the author. You can troll, but nobody will ever see it except OP. It absolutely solves the abuse problem that Twitter has, but it also limits discussion. The appeal of Twitter is that you get to see what everyone thinks. Parler is for sycophants only.
Am I the only one that agrees with the author?

I think this is a very salient way of dealing with users efficiently on a small project that becomes popular. Perhaps they could implement a "refund user back" their cash if the ticket actually turns out to be a bug.
> They're a husband and wife pair that fund hyper partisan causes, it's not exactly jumping to conclusions.

Well then, I am grateful you cited sources. GP proffered the claim with nothing to back it up. I'm definitely the kind to believe these claims, as I've seen them verified in other realms before (Murdoch, Ailes, Kochs, Sinclair, etc), but that's precisely why I have to question that instinct. I can't just go believing things without evidence.
There is a very rational and not emotion-driven incentive to spread your subjective preferences.

For vim: plug-in development effort. Nowadays we have to recycle VSCode ones because Vim is seen as too niche to develop for it directly.

For vegan: meal availability in shop and restaurants.

For Android vs iOS: app availability.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28820444-the-elephant-in...

(edit: I'm basically paraphrasing eindiran's argument)
As someone who has dealt with depression their entire life it's really something to start to see people who have never, ever dealt with it begin to try to compartmentalize their lives from their depression and look for every other option before declaring it depression. Like it's some horrible disease you'd never want to catch, like any of us have the option.

I really hate that it took this but I've had my feelings/depression talked down so much by people who don't understand depression, don't believe it's a real thing, etc.

I've had so many conversations with friends this year that go like this; "I've lost my entire personality, I can't motivate myself to get out of bed.. whats wrong with me, is this depression?"

Yes, yes it is. Maybe it's temporary, maybe it's acute or chronic, but that is depression. You never know how long it will last, what it will take from you or how quickly you can overcome it.

Be kind to people.

edit: Reading this again I can't shake that some of you are just so far removed from actually understanding your own feelings and emotions that you can't even recognize that you're depressed. It's absolutely fascinating. "What are depressive symptoms?"

I'll say that one positive of this struggle throughout my life is that I've learned which emotions and feelings I can trust or let guide me. I often don't get it right and focus on the negative but I'm very glad I'm cognizant and it's a bright burning fire of "Yeah I'm depressed this week oh boy let's work on this, I need to make some changes."
I am curious if any vim user has ever been able to see the benefits of other environments. I know I have never been able to see the benefits of vim. Part of me wants to give a try for 3-6 months just to prove to myself that it's all bullshit and that vim is just another editor.

In any case. For a long time I was a fan of my editor of choice, slickedit. It definitely has a few features I use for which I don't know the analogs in most other editors. Features like versions backups. Undo of multi-file search and replace.

Also once had someone show me IntelliJ for C++ and was fairly impressed with its refactoring features. Enough that I thought I should look more into it.

I have yet to see a feature for vim that makes it clear win over any other major editor. I have read articles that make me understand why others might like it but seriously. I think you're all deluding yourselves.

Just as an example, lately I mostly do JavaScript and a little typescript. I'm 100% sure that the VSCode experience there out of the box is superior to vim for the same purpose. VSCode is node aware, browser aware, npm aware, eslint aware, typescript aware out of the box. I have no idea how much configuration I'd have to do in vim to get it to match and I find all of that invaluable. I'm not saying vim can't do it but I am saying if I tried to start using vim today on the projects I'm working on the experience would be seriously inferior. I don't know what language I'd have to be using to change that.
> ...weak founders with all the luck in the world won't achieve much, whereas great founders with only a little bit of luck can be hugely successful.

To clarify a bit here, it’s very hard to know in advance that a founder will be “great”, so I suspect that there are some rough proxies that investors use, and what you or I think of as “great” may not be what the marketplace of investors values when “shopping” for “great” founders to back.

For example, academic achievement. Is that something that makes a founder great? What about social connections? What about dogged determination? Each investor will have a theory, and one or two might even be right.

Probably the only thing that really matters is “the founder actually got the company to a point where it can generate revenue”, and the rest is wait and see.

Which leads back to your excellent summation:

> So the question is not whether they chose good founders and rejected bad ones, but whether they backed a big enough and broad enough pool of companies to get a significant number of huge winners...
You think AIs are worst and more biased than some typical america judges ? Ill give you a big fat LOL.

Any atrocity and injustice has been done at all scales by humankind. Ai will not amplify that and actually i think that well used, it could help fight them

You are just choosing to see the wrong side of it because you think it makes you look woke.
Aside from Zhyl's comment (Thank you by the way), is there a list of Betterexplained-like ressources ?
Finding Betterexplained made several things just "click" in my head, and I hope to find something similar with computer science.
First? No. Most prolific? I think so. He's also one of the first to make heavy use of direct social media, which is different than mass media of old.

Notice also I didn't say Trump, but POTUS in general. What do we want to do here going forward? Should the POTUS be treated differently than a private citizen?

What this current period reminds me of historically is McCarthyism, except we have the POTUS lobbing baseless claims instead of a senator. I don't think McCarthyism impacted the general public as much as claims undermining the election does though.
> When I didn't get out of bed for the day, it wasn't because I literally can't.

If that was what depression looked like, it wouldn't be called "depression". It would be called "disability".
You think AIs are worst and more biased than some typical america judges ?

Did I once say that they were?