skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a small forum and occasionally somebody will post a new question on an old thread that's about the same topic. My two theories are that either they searched, ended up on that thread, then just replied because it was in front of them, or that they hope the original participants are going to be notified of their reply so it'll get more attention than a new thread. Unfortunately, on some forums that's actually true and encourages this mess-making behavior.

I don't see the problem with "omg me too!" on an old thread as long as "omg me too!" is acceptable on a new one.
As the forums i regularly visited died off i found a good replacement at the most unlikely place: At the growing community of telnet BBS systems. It may be odd to switch to something from the 80s in the year 2020, but perhaps this will be the part of the net which never will die... perhaps some sort of reservation for nerds ;-)
I wouldn't be surprised if he planned this. Lisa Sue said she plans 10 years out in advance regularly, because building up hardware takes that long.
Getting all of an explosive charge to detonate (rather than simply oxidize or be distributed by an existing blast) is already a challenge in designed explosives. This was a bomb, yes, but a happenstance one spread nonuniformly over a large region of warehouse. It's not unlikely that a considerable portion of the ammonium nitrate was blown away by the first-to-detonate material.

Speculation, very much not my area. Informed by earlier reading however.
Don't you think this public worrying is deserved, given the rise of Facebook and algorithms, troll farms and everything else?
Where to draw the line between misinformation and the government approved version of the truth. The facts of any matter are not always so simple and lies by omission can be as misleading as any falsehood.

Our justice system tries to resolve this through an adversarial system. It’s not perfect but I can’t imagine allowing any single entity to determine what the truth is.
Mr. T Ate My Balls
Not sure why I am getting downvoted :/. Just wanted to complement the product and encourage others not to be down on themselves.

I'm going to go commit suicide now. Sorry for bothering any of you.
So, you are rejecting the premise that a lot of misinformation is spread and it has much wider reach than in the past?

I would say it has, and I consider only reasonable that there is a desire to understand the mechanisms behind it. I would consider the effects net negative. No need to a concerted effort.
Members still see ads? That's incredible. I just naturally assumed channels would be ad-free for paying members, since that's how it works on Twitch.
Yeah I was surprised they included pictures in the limit at all -- I mean, sometimes, you need those pictures, and for them to load slower is less important so long as you don't need them to navigate the page.
I mostly don't read subreddits day-to-day, but rather when I'm looking up information on a subject, try to find an applicable subreddit and search for what I need in that subreddit. So I've found it useful for things like: "which flashlight should I buy?"

As another example, I had to repair my Fisher & Paykel double-oven last year and was able to find help from an F&P technician on reddit.

So, I guess I mostly use it as a reference where the information density isn't important to me.
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Who gives a shit what the CDC says. They've simultaneously said (rather opaquely) that the fatality rates for infected people is 0.04%. Mind you... not for the general public. This is the fatality rate IF you're infected already.

COVID-19 is bullshit political theater. That's all it is. Go outside. Take your vitamins. Boost you immune system with vitamin C.

Nobody with a shred of intelligence believes in COVID-19 anymore
I know it sucks waiting for a website to load, but it's not like your life depends on it. You can still be an overall happy person while doing so, time is not "lost".

Performance metrics are better when put into perspective.
Kind of ridiculous that any tin-pot hobby forum can keep decades of threads available but the biggest services can't. Where's economies of scale? It's not supposed to work like that.
Gell Mann amnesia
I have a cousin that used to work there years ago when social media was still in its infancy. He was part of the initial wave of layoffs when they weren't able to get traction against Facebook.

He's doing well for himself now, Director of Engineering at a FAANGM company, but it did cause him to abandon the startup game.
VCs would just retain their higher minimum investments and it doesn't need the state’s involvement.

VCs compete for dealflow because dealflow is limited due to many currently unnecessary and expensive regulations.

Trillion dollar companies got their “growth capital” in an IPO one year after their $8mm Series A.

This doesn't happen anymore and generations of people have extremely limited exposure to “deal flow” and liquidity. Thats changing and if VCs want to keeping playing hot potato with Stanford dropout shares they are completely free to keep doing that.
Or we could zip it up and then use javascript to unzip it and display on the client side.
one of the earliest memes of old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_my_balls
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I don't mind highlighting and curating small sites for fun, that's neat.

But calling larger sites a "cancerous growth on the web" just feels immature to me. Everything is just cost/benefit. There's no need to bring a black-and-white fanatical exaggerated mindset to it.

You can celebrate something you like without having to make the alternative a disease, sheesh.
This sounds good superficially but I don't think it actually makes sense. People can and should have higher expectations for investments than lottery tickets. And primary-residence mortgages are relatively safe and liquid compared with private investments. I.e., these things are of a different kind entirely than private investment.

The real question to me is, what is a "private" investment if everyone can invest in it? Why isn't it subject to the same reporting requirements as a "public" investment?
RTFA. There's a direct link to the media, and also a link to their github where there's an xlsx with links the original sources.
I assume Blender gets used a lot for VR assets?
This is really cool. I had not heard of Foreign Data Wrappers for Postgres before! Are these used in production commonly or more of a toy thing?
Those are iconic. The difference between being possible and being cost effective.
The families who are ignoring covid are quite likely to be the ones who think covid is a government conspiracy to take away their right to not wear a mask. It would be pointless. The best thing to do is just take a stand and say you're doing this to protect yourself and that's the end of the discussion. The evidence is overwhelming that covid is deadly and to be avoided whenever humanly possible. What good is an in-person Thanksgiving if you wipe out half the old folks in your family and know it wouldn't have happened if you had skipped it this year. A lot of people won't be seeing loved ones next year because they willy-nilly killed them this year because "muh rights" or because they let their emotions overrule their logic. I can't believe people want blood on their hands like that.
Does it? France and the UK started the Libya conflict but had to call in the US via NATO for help.
>I look forward to seeing your past or future statements regarding the same issue but for women, e.g. Women's Day, Mother's Day, Equal Pay Day, and myriad others.

You're making an implication without saying it for some reason, so excuse me if I'm misinterpreting, but it wouldn't be hypocritical to think a "day" is more appropriate for one group and less appropriate for another, regardless of the metric used for definition. Men and women are different. Everybody is different.

That said, I have no problem with the concept of a men's day.
If I may paraphrase you, "it feels (without evidence) like there's a giant conspiracy across many organizations involving hundreds or thousands of people acting in coordination, this implies an unknown secret powerful central propaganda ministry that hatches plans to further upcoming moves".
Facebook, willingly or not, is part of the same entities' sourcing and influencing activities. We know this as established fact. Both your side's and various multipolar others.
> I never understood the wave of Social Media; it appeared to be a dumbed-down and watered-down...junkfood...

I'm confused. Before the semicolon you're claiming you don't understand the wave of Social Media. After the semicolon you demonstrate perfect understanding of it.
yup, just like in society where you're not allowed to talk about or question things that haven't been approved for conversation, but you can dive infinitely deep in areas that are approved.
The platform itself looks bigger than the instruments, so maybe it’s mostly platform?
>Without content creators

Without content creators who refuse to allow ads in exchange for free hosting, is it nothing? Probably not, most creators do enjoy making money, and most of the ones putting out content for free, but without ads, will struggle to find a competitor who will indefinitely provide free hosting.

>4-5 billion dollars per quarter

In revenue, not profit. Very, very important distinction.
I believe this is placing emphasis on entirely the wrong thing.

Page size does not matter. Render time/time 'til functional does.

Stripe.com is 1.2MB fully loaded but is pretty much all non blocking so it feels as fast as a very small site. By the time you've scrolled to the bottom of the homepage it's loaded >2MB. The convert pretty well, and my experience is that Stripe knows what they are doing better than most. So what should we be optimising for? Total page size? or a lightning fast experience with non-blocking content which can be as big as we require?

IMO developers need to optimise for building fast sites, not light ones for the sake of being light.
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Urbit is pretty fast these days. There's also plenty of anonymous people on the network. And a trans developer works at Tlon.
Usually gen 2 hardware is the ideal time to buy. It might be a few years before we get a gen 2 MBP, so imo no worries.
Chrome already visually de-emphasizes the URL path, clearly they don't think it's enough.

If you care at all about the health of the web, you should support browsers in protecting users from their own incompetence. Users don't blame themselves for phishing & fraud, when it runs rampant on a platform they simply switch and the end result is that native walled gardens that do protect users win over the web. This is exactly what happened with news on the mobile web; mobile news websites got so slow that Apple & Facebook started gaining a lot of ground with completely closed & proprietary news platforms (Apple News, Facebook Instant), until Google released AMP which both helped & pressured news orgs to get their shit together on the web.
Just tested it, yes, transparency works. The transparent pixels on the lock screen show the screen as it was before locking.
> Most math is about symbol manipulation and numbers are really only at the end.

During the first semester at uni, the math prof was going through some non-trivial (at that stage) "real-world" example involving definite integrals.

After what felt like 10 minutes of manipulating integrals and such we got to the final "x = ..." equation, upon which he turned away from the blackboard and said "and then you can just plug in the numbers and calculate the result, but that's not really interesting". And so the lecture continued...
I live in the US. I had probably 800 albums or so in 1986 when I started re-buying most of them as CDs. In the late 90s I spent weeks ripping them to 192kbps MP3s via lame. Since then I've bought many hundreds more CDs, though recently it is usually just buying mp3s directly from bandcamp or from amazon. On occasion I will buy the physical CD because it is cheaper than a digital-only mp3 option. I just checked and I have a bit over 20,000 songs.

My family has a spotify account. In the past we used pandora. I have tried them both but I always immediately come back to playing albums from my own collection.

I'm in my mid 50s, and I grew up listening to album-oriented rock (AOR), and not just a stream of pop hits. I still prefer to listen to albums start to end. When an album ends, I judge my mood and think what album fits it and put that one on. That is something spotify doesn't do for me.
On Firefox you can open up the console (right click -> Inspect Element), head to the "Network" tab and check the very bottom of that panel. It should give you details on how much time it took and the size of your request. You can refresh your page and it refreshes the data at the bottom as well.

I believe it should be similar on Chrome and Safari as well, just locate the Network tab in the browser console.
>whether that fits your narrative or not.

Why are you immediately lowering the bar of the conversation to petty insults?
rubocop config in this scenario is objectively wrong in my opinion -- a better config would be to flag "foo if bar?" as linter violation and just never use it. (I would also forbid "unless" statements -- why the hell does anyone need unless??)

The only reasoning I need to support my opinion -- Ruby debuggers are not good enough to support mid line breakpoints -- so if you want to break only when the condition is true -- which is a very common thing if you are maintaining or debugging code you didn't write yourself -- you literally can't without changing the code or using a conditional breakpoint and duplicating the conditional inside the breakpoint definition -- this is very annoying when tracing unfamiliar code and trying to figure out what invariants are relevant to a given scenario (or missing).

In my opinion - linters need an actual concept of a user that they are trying to help -- and ideally that concept should lead to objective opinions. Linters like rubocop that are just piles of functionality tend to be breeding grounds for time wasting arguments between insufficiently experienced developers over opinions that aren't supportable from any usefully pragmatic basis.
What changed in the recent years is the amount of media time nutjobs on the internet get that everyone ignored back then. Nothing else. If you checked qanon groups before and after media attention, you will notice a steep increase in member count.

There is a dilemma. Should we report and amplify their voice or should we shut up about an "increasing" problem?

Some problems do disappear when you ignore them.
Would love to see a 1MB club for websites where there was a requirement they would have to make use of both FA, CSS & JS all at once.
Or perhaps a 1MB SPA club.

This is interesting though. Wonder what the average newly founded website sits at these days.
I’m giving a talk [1] at SRECon about a tool [2] I’ve written that presents an alternate take one of the major problems that Service Mesh solves - Encrypting internal traffic. My solution is very simple, to enable your applications to use mutual TLS to authenticate with each other - By making Kubernetes put the certificates in a standard place and making the drop-in middleware so your application can be modified to use them with minimal effort. My point is the same - Service Mesh is great, your middleware already does most of it - The problem is policy and automation, so we’ve solved those for you.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon20americas/presentat...
[2] https://gitlab.com/gauntletwizard_net/kubetls
Illegal copying? Call it what you will, if you had paid for the Dark Knight, WB would get $5. Instead they get $0.

It's illegal and if everyone did it, movies would not exist.
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Now that most of my friends and colleagues are working from home as am I, I am looking for a small setup for my home office such as a phone box office. It looks small, compact and functional.

An example http://www.prodecpod.com/

Most importantly, it provides a sound barrier between family and me during the busy times, my kids come home from school at 3pm.

So looking for recommendations from those who are already using one of these. Thanks in advance for your advice and suggestions!
I like the use of CSS variables for the gray bars:

width: calc(var(--data-size)/1000 * 100%);
Can we stop referring to portions of Usonia populated primarily by POC as "backward", please and thank you? Let's not further marginalize those who have already been opressed for so long, mkay?
> I won't mention names because I'll only be downvoted

Unfortunately, I don't know you or trust you, so this post seems like more noise.
The worst thing is: healthcare in my country is so focused on some bogus COVID "pandemic" that it starts to neglect other branches of medicine. Yes, there will be more deaths this year than average, but those people won't die from coronavirus, they will die from untreated cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.
Your first paragraph describes the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Oh, apparently because of the round zeros in "00:00:00.00"?

I was first expecting that this would be something weird like Netscape's HTML color parser accepting arbitrary text with an idiosyncratic and surprising interpretation of some of the bits in it. But in this case, this is actually the keyword that the developers chose for this.
I imagine creators like Jim Sterling would be even more outraged if YouTube asked for a percentage of their Patreon revenue or whatever they make from external sponsors.
I joined SA in '03. A few years later when Reddit launched, I rejected the "hierarchical" nature of Reddit posts, multiple posters having their own conversations in different parts of the same post just seemed harder to keep track of, similar to an email chain with new people joining and replying to different parts of the chain. SA's threads were, and still are, non-hierarchical.

At some point something interesting started happening, at least in the sub-forums I participate in. So called "megathreads" started gobbling up what would have been new threads, e.g. the "Python questions that don't deserve their own thread" thread. It was (and still is) enough to simply bookmark individual megathreads of interest, rather than the sub-forum itself. It was as if the megathread itself had become hyper-specific forums in their own right.

I see megathreads now as slow-moving asynchronous chat rooms, with a good membership mixture of regulars and newcomers. The pace agrees with me.
Thing that makes me somewhat sad is there isn't much reason why you couldn't fix some of C's syntax and other issues. I feel like any breaking changes wouldn't be that big of deal as long as you have a backwards compatible ABI.

Say you add fn and var as keywords. Exactly how hard would that be to fix? You could probably write a tool to do that.
>the general lack of Mac support in games combined with the removal of 32-bit support in Catalina mean, you're not exactly spoiled for choice.

There are people already running 32-bit windows apps through Wine on the M1. When there is a will there is a way.
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Ah, OK. We’re focused purely on English works in the first place (see conversation elsewhere in the thread), but we don’t accept modern works dedicated to the public domain anyway. Congratulations on getting your novel finished though! I’m always impressed by people who can complete a book.
Hey! I'm one of the founders at Comet.ml. We believe that Git should continue to be the approach for managing code (similar to dvc) but we adapted it to the ML workflow. Our approach is to compute a git patch on every run so later you can 'git apply' if you'd like (https://www.comet.ml/docs/user-interface/#the-reproduce-butt...).
That same sentence starts (paraphrasing) "[Copying or giving out of any stuff gotten on this domain ... is banned]" so merely quoting the legal terms is also "illegal".
Sometimes even a wrong decision is better than no decision, and that is so antithetical to how I want things to be it took a lot of pain events to beat that through my skull. But it is true nonetheless.
Denmark is also at the entrance of the Baltic, which would be fairly important for the Russian navy.
If you switch to old.reddit, you can see the entire thread without signup prompts. For now, at least.
My problem is not with whether Biden won for a little or a lot, he won and that´s all that matters.

My problem is that 70+ million Americans (almost 1 in 4) voted for him... somehow thought that despite everything the person has done and said, 1 in 4 people actually think it was not reprehensible enough to not vote for him.

I really would have thought that the vote would have been 70% vs 30% or so for Biden but 70 million people! (plus all the ones that cannot/didn't vote but still support him)
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1.2mb will only be fast on fast hardware and a fast network. You’re not accounting for p90 load times. Targeting small page size is a better indicator of audience wide performance
Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame wrote about this experience calling it "Gell-Mann Amnesia."

>“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton

I've noticed I have this sort of meta Gell-Mann effect where every time I think of that annecdote the news seems much more dubious. Then a short while later I go back to not thinking about it and reading the news as I otherwise would.
You're spinning a false dichotomy and frankly I don't need to respond to that. There's a spectrum between "code is not touched unless there's a new feature/bugfix ticket" and "code needs to be perfect". It's annoying and time consuming to keep tripping over code that does five similar things in five different ways, and has dependency graphs looking like a giant hairball. Don't try to make me say what I didn't say.