skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was inspired by looking at dang's links to other Wodehouse threads to read Orwell's defense of him: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/plum/english/e_plum

One thing that stood out to me was this passage:

> Nowhere, so far as I know, does he so much as use the word “Fascism” or “Nazism.” In left-wing circles, indeed in “enlightened” circles of any kind, to broadcast on the Nazi radio, to have any truck with the Nazis whatever, would have seemed just as shocking an action before the war as during it. But that is a habit of mind that had been developed during nearly a decade of ideological struggle against Fascism. The bulk of the British people, one ought to remember, remained an¦sthetic to that struggle until late into 1940. Abyssinia, Spain, China, Austria, Czechoslovakia — the long series of crimes and aggressions had simply slid past their consciousness or were dimly noted as quarrels occurring among foreigners and “not our business.” One can gauge the general ignorance from the fact that the ordinary Englishman thought of “Fascism” as an exclusively Italian thing and was bewildered when the same word was applied to Germany. And there is nothing in Wodehouse's writings to suggest that he was better informed, or more interested in politics, than the general run of his readers.

But of course, Roderick Spode in e.g. Code of the Woosters (1938) is a parody of the British fascist Oswald Mosley:

> Don't you ever read the papers? Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the Saviours of Britain, a Fascist organization better known as the Black Shorts. His general idea, if he doesn't get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which he and his followers indulge, is to make himself a Dictator.

Orwell's point stands, but it's just interesting to me in two ways:

1) In 1946, you couldn't just use Google to search the corpus of Wodehouse books for the string "fascis" to see what turned up.

2) I think Code of the Woosters is the most popular Wodehouse novel today, but it must have not been very familiar to Orwell, because Spode is such a key part of the plot, you could hardly miss him.
I pay for Youtube premium and that's not a comparison I had even considered.

The ad supported web has led to so many people feeling entitled to consume content for free. People have gone so far to feel that the ads themselves are the problem, without realizing that without them, you would have to begin to pay the real cost of the service.

Funny how so many people find watching a single movie (lets say you watch cheap, $8) for two hours acceptable, but unlimited access to billions of hours of content for $10 is unacceptable.
Johnson and Johnson finally unveils its new robot-assisted surgery system
Mailing lists are still around, and they still work. Even better, you don't have to log into 50 different sites to see the discussion. They're also not necessarily beholden to a single central organization. Before doing anything fancy, consider the good old mailing list. That may be all you need.
How to increase the conversion rate in a Shopify store
Is there a good mnemonic for awk, sed, and grep? I sometimes get sent a command to run when I'm searching for text or file names but I've never gotten a hang of how all three cover their domain.
There's a Getting Started page linked in the README that shows what the software does. Not sure it makes much of a case for it being useful.

https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.m...
> More recently, it seems, some news organizations have begun assembling reports using modeling and expert analysis.

This is hardly new and when it comes to news media it's hardly a good thing. It is incredibly easy to find biased experts and it's even easier to craft a false narrative using "modeling". Moving away from reporting directly observable events and interviewing people who observed them is a sign that modern media is exiting the business they are supposed to be engaged in. They're now (more than ever) firmly in the realm of opinion-shaping.
Facebook Builds Automatic Differentiation System for Kotlin Programming Language
This paper is especially useful as it's the first official external Google publication describing Sibyl, a powerful but shut-down machine learning system used widely at Google until Tensorflow became popular.

Sibyl was an interesting system for a number of reasons; it was linear and logistic regression implemented using MapReduce. It could train quickly over large data. It had many utilities for creating complicated pipelines. It also used every quirk of the google environment to obtain high performance. I worked on it for a while, and was really glad to see it retired, as the underlying design had some serious problems at scale. But it's still useful that its existence and some of the techniques it used, which have been migrated to TFX, are documented officially.
I’ve always found the news from my trusted sources to be reasonable and accurate until it covers something I know about. Then it seems like a complete mess.

Humans tend to trust the first thing they hear and we tend to be less skeptical about news media especially if they seem very confident or persuasive.
The general public likes to do things on the web other than reading minimalist hypertext. They like real-time chat and video and images and playing games in the browser. They would rather be able to do the things they like faster and more efficiently than abandon the last 20 years of technological progress.
1MB? no no, tres commas club please!
Whole heartedly agree. Nailed it and sailed it.
Thanks. I'm actually more interested in the CS courses. Will take a look.
The difference being that while everyday plebs like you and me without a quarter million to sling around couldn't have touched those at IPO, there would have been nothing at all stopping me from plowing my entire net worth into their stocks once the IPO period was over.

Or companies like Enron. Pick a random crypto from coinmarketcap and their creators likely had better financials...
The SEC doesn’t create rules to help people make good investment decisions. They create rules to help people (1) get timely & accurate information to make an investment decision and (2) not get taken advantage of and/or scammed.

The SEC doesn’t care whether accredited investors are more or less likely to go all-in or to make terribly risky and concentrated investment decisions. They only care about whether or not accredited investors are in a position to get (and to a lesser extent, understand) the information they need to make the investment.
Wait. This isn't just a throwaway project "just to get SEO"

This is a project I was genuinely proud of and I honestly thought it could overtake VLC one day. Like when I wrapped it up for release, I seriously thought I might have just changed the world with this.

As for social proof:
"Wow, that is really really impressive" ~https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasmweekly/issues/54
You seriously don't think "we should decrease the number of people born with Down Syndrome" is a morally defensible position either?

I don't think "we should decrease the number of people born homosexual" is a morally defensible position, but decreasing incidence of Down Syndrome, or autism, or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, are absolutely morally defensible positions, and in fact, are regularly done -- people everywhere socially discourage pregnant mothers from drinking alcohol, for example, and I don't think the discouraging third-parties are the ones who are in the wrong in that situation.

I think having a child AT ALL, regardless of any other concerns, is an individual decision that should be made by mature, capable adults. I don't think it's necessarily a "morally defensible position" to have a third kid when you're struggling to take care of the previous two just because you belong to a religion that thinks prophylactics are immoral, and I would never, for example, judge a potential parent who decided to terminate a pregnancy because they were told it is unlikely their child will be born alive, and even if it is, would be unlikely to live for long.
This constant pushing of stories about Fake News and Misinformation makes it really feel like there's a concerted effort to alter public opinion on censorship and free speech.
Yeah; and the spectre of page weight might be a good motivating factor.

"Each useless tracker we add lowers our search rank. Are we sure we need to add this one?"
One respect in which it seems prima facie that the story is farfetched nonsense but isn’t is provenance. Lianhe Zaobao is owned by the Singaporean government and is reasonably reputable, and the translation is accurate. It is however a report mostly based on a previous report that Jin Canrong, Deputy Dean of IR at Renmin University, claimed that such microwave weapons were used, so evidentially this is not enormously helpful.

There are obviously questions about why they would use such weapons and escalate matters, whether such a weapon could even be constructed to be used at such a distance, etc.
Tiny liquid droplets are driving a cell biology rethink
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GeForce Now Games Available on iOS Devices Through Safari, Fortnite Coming Soon
JonPaulUritis.com

I come from a pretty non-traditional background for a Software guy- I was a rock journalist and then a salesman.

My blog tackles topics that can be useful but I put a lot of effort into working on insights that might be "hiding in plain sight."
There's nothing particular about template instantiations that makes them any different from any other object. The only problem with using them at ABI (or rather, linker) boundary is that instantiations have to be explicit - but that's what "extern template" is for.
Like I was test-firing each file at the end of the project, then when it came to the SWF file, that actually test-fired successfully and ran. It blew my mind, I didn't expect that to happen.
I want to blacklist sites over a certain threshold. Is there an easy way to do that?
the new internet sucks

priorities all over the place and major regression in the most crucial things
China built a bigger one called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope) at a cost of 1.2 billion USD.

The political leaders of the CCP are all trained engineers and it helps not having to explain your actions to fickle voters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding

Some things are made to experiment with, simply to play with. They may lead to different projects. I actually tried to get this going but I'm stuck after cloning the repo, there are some folders missing and the node server crashes. If anyone is able to get this running I'd appreciate if they told me how. I'm missing the /sounds folder
> What they do mind is when they themselves are being spied upon

That's what SIGINT is.

> Like Merkel's phone being tapped.

Which is an example of SIGINT. And it was leaked which is why it became an issue. World leader's are always surveilled.

There's a certain level of aggression you use against acknowledged enemies that would be awkward if exposed against allies, that is not to say it doesn't still happen.
The explanation I've heard from many of the Youtube "creators" I'm subscribed to is that Youtube have taken a larger and larger slice of the revenue cake on views over the years that creators have been forced to look to other income streams like Patreon, because they're just barely making any money on the platform anymore.
Your page looks very nice, I almost want to duplicate my own website into a format that's just a list of links and titles.
they weren't secret and were available for public perusal and judgement until the designated time

secret courts have cases that are secret from the beginning
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Another one gone, CoffeeGeek:

"Google Adsense and Facebook were born and grew, many of our old advertisers migrated to those platforms"

"This past summer ... Our main database server failed ... We pay the host for a full backup system, which they knew, so they disposed of the failed hard drive and instituted the backup recovery. This is when we found out that the backup system was never functional. For a decade."

"I had to make the hard decision to retire our forums."

http://coffeegeek.com/opinions/markprince/10-29-2020
Net Revenue vs. Gross Revenue
Net Revenue vs. Gross Revenue Why It Matters

Understanding the difference between net revenue and gross revenue can potentially have enormous consequences for you when it comes to your finances.
America Taxed Your Favorite Bordeaux? Try One with More Alcohol
Guess I have to pick up the novel....

Anyone else have recurring dreamscapes of enclosed architectures with seeming infinite rooms, passageways, stairs, etc? Sometime in dreams it is a mall-like place, in other dreams it might look and feel more like an old university building with rich, wide, wooden hand rails, stone steps.... Often crowded, always seeming infinite.

I have had a fascination with the Kowloon Walled City once I learned about it — it seemed to echo my dreams.

In these dreams I am both fascinated and frightened. Fascinated I suppose by the possibilities, about exploring. Frightened perhaps by the confusion of it, lacking a reference point, a sense of an inability to return, backtrack and take a different passage.

Freud, are you listening? As I type this it becomes clearer to me what it probably symbolizes.
That’s a feature, not a problem. The whole point is that every new post gets the same airtime. Of course actual spam/offtopic posting should get moderated away (yes, I know HN seemingly hates moderation and would prefer some algorithm to do it - I disagree), but any form of upvoting/nesting results in “winner takes all”/hivemind behaviour where barely anybody reads past the ‘good’ comments. A forum is like an in-person discussion; upvote-driven places are like an in-person discussion where a couple of people are grandstanding and nobody else gets a word in. That includes HN! There have to be mod posts saying there’s more than one page of comments!

Of course as increasing numbers of passive users joined the internet, upvote-driven sites became more popular. That doesn’t mean they’re better for actually posting on, though.
Why aren't developers paid more
An effort which is as old as history itself.
Depends on what board you are reading. 4chan has many great boards outside of /pol/ and /b/ that have real discussion
While I have issues with the whole accredited investor bar to creating wealth, does it also protect companies from a higher likelihood of their equity ending up in the hands of a failed investors creditors?

Someone making less than $200k/y could still be considered precarious, and suddenly having one of their litigious creditors on your cap table could expose other investors to risk. I'm really against the accredited investor limitation, as it creates the conditions for shady loans, reduces small entrepreneurs access to capital, and causes bubbles in things like real estate and garbage stocks, but the altruistic rationale of the regulation for "protecting small investors," seems insincere and it seems more plausible that it protects an establishment of investors instead.
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Well, no. Are there names of minors in this database? I thought the US had a mechanism to prevent that, or at least to petition to have records of minors removed or anonymized.
February through July, an average of 9.3 years of life lost.

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/advance-article/doi/10.1...

"Deaths among adults 65 and older accounted for 80% of excess YLL in April but only 36% of excess YLL in June. Since April, working age adults 20-64 have accounted for 47% of excess YLL, and males 20 to 64 have contributed 34%."

https://healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/the-impact-of-...
Vimeo serves the paid, ad-free video hosting niche. They're probably celebrating this latest announcement from YouTube.

YouTube has the advantage of organic traffic and discovery, though.

Nothing stopping you from uploading the video to both services for the best of both worlds.
I listen to music on my phone a fair amount, so I can't just stream locally :/ But I'm looking to fix that in the coming year.
Question: Is Linode Bucket a viable option for video file hosting?
And it looks much nicer zoomed in (as in your link) ;)
Microwave weapons are not far fetched, only there are no details given about how someone concluded that they were used in this instance. Did someone detect the microwaves and find the direction of the source?
>Most of the outside-the-overton-window discussion on 4chan is discussion of national socialism, with an occasional call for genocide.

If your impression of 4chan as a whole is just /pol/. 4chan as a whole is much more ideologically diverse than reddit due largely to the site's format and lack of censorship, but if you're an outsider to 4chan's (often outlandish and intentionally offensive) cultural norms you're just going to think it's a nazi site. Mainstream media has tried and failed to understand it for decades now.
Giant steel objects are much harder to keep intact, to the point where non iconic objects are easier to replace once than maintain for 100+ years.

What about the Eiffel Tower? Or Blackpool Tower. That proves it can be done.
That's great. Thanks for following up and filling me in. I'll be in need of a car in a few years, so I'll have to give this a try.
Max Roser: the past was worse and the future can be better than we think
I sit at my patio table and move twice during the day if I am out long enough. I face the sun, to tan, and my screen is away from it (behind it). When the sun is directly above I move under the shade.

It helps increase my mood, and productivity.
This looks like a Discourse instance. It's quite nice.

https://www.discourse.org/
It seems like we should be able to build these things in space.
>So in that respect, it's kind of a shitty move by Google.

12 years of free video hosting with no ads and a platform for people to discover your videos is quite the deal.

They always had to add ads at some point, hosting video, and the bandwidth and transcoding that goes with it, is incredibly expensive, not to mention the dev time going into creating such a massive platform.

If you thought you could eat a free lunch forever... Well, I guess this is your rude awakening. But you honestly should have expected it.

The discovery feature of Youtube shouldn't be understated either. A large number of creators have most of their audiences because of Youtube. And honestly your example of Jim Sterling sounds like a smaller company would have gone out of their way to ban them. He's reaping all the benefits of the platform while giving nothing back.
What features/instructions of x86 ISA are dead?
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143926
That's been true since journalism began as a profession.
Tim Sweeney criticized for invoking the civil rights movement in Epic's lawsuit
Section 230 – “A” Decision That Could Change “The” Social Media World
And it has an ad on it. (Boy do I miss the days of Google's text only ads)
Cool. Thanks for clarity.
Most information, also in scientific publications, is full with logical fallacies and other inconsistencies. This again causes people to jump to conclusions on the basis of limited information/evidence.

I tried to give a guideline on how to do critical thinking and how to investigate the truth about something.

The first steps are: 1) logical fallacies 2) the scientific method .. And I think that these should be part of basic education.

Then we have 4) possible fraud/crime 5) bias 6) Unknowns. Which help to understand the limits or problems with different conclusions.

And 7) solutions. is how to work towards a common acceptable solution

Here is the full guideline:
https://saidit.net/s/Solutions/comments/50i5/how_to_investig...
Feel free to comment / add to it.
the modernized rules do remove the asset test for lots of people and also provides additional paths for getting more types of tests

the additional special purpose tests just dont exist yet

Your opinion is invalid and mine is valid
UTC is defined to be within 1s of mean solar time at 0deg longitude (= UT1).

If leap seconds are a problem for the intended application then UTC is the wrong thing to use. There are other scales that are defined differently that can be used in it's place (such as TAI).

However if exact frequency is not critical one could also directly use UT1 instead of UTC (people that use leap second smearing for instance should have no issue with that..).
Maybe the authors think that misinformation is currently a bigger issue than censorship?
> meaning neither carriers nor Google will be able to read the content of those messages.

I wonder how true that really is. A few years ago Google launched a Google Assistant feature where the Assistant would basically be reading everything in your chat apps. At the time the feature was developer opt-in. I imagine Google itself would want to opt into that, too, if it hasn't already for its Messages app.

Great if it actually gets end-to-end encryption - it's actually one of my main criticisms for Google's focus switch from Allo to Messages/RCS.

However, it would still be disappointing if Google itself was still able to read those messages. Same with Apple automatically backing up iMessages in the iCloud with no way to disable that feature alone except for completely disabling iCloud sync.
Using TAI is simpler because:

* Many apps can get away with only using TAI, so they don't necessarily have to track the difference between UTC and TAI

* If your system uses TAI in its distributed coordination mechanisms, you don't need to worry about leap seconds and an error in the UTC-TAI difference won't cause your system to fail
It's not tho. Families won't be wearing masks or social distancing because of familiarity and alcohol (and probably some weed). Also they'll be eating and talking loudly without a mask which also spraying just tons and tons of germs into the air, often in a relatively small dining room or living room with most likely very limited ventilation. It's a perfect recipe for spreading the disease.
Maybe it's people who know kind of what they want, but not exactly. Let's say you want a vacuum cleaner you go to a few different websites and check about 20 models on each site. One one site every time you check a model you have to wait 10 seconds. You might give up early on that site.
I've been trying to get a lobste.rs invite for years! It's a tough community to get into. I hadn't heard of Tildes before, but it looks cool, too.

Reddit reached Eternal September a while ago, so the key is to find small (yet active) communities whose content doesn't make it to r/all. I moderate a cycling community there, but we're really strict about what type of content gets posted. It sucks that we as a mod team have to do that, but if we don't our community gets overrun with memes, image macros, and rage comics.
To be frank, that's probably because you're not listening.

YouTube redesign, Twitter redesign, and one other huge site I can't remember at the moment all had plenty of complaints about how much slower --- and less featured --- they were. The average user doesn't know a static page has been replaced with a bloated SPA, but can sure feel the difference.

The web has declined for sure, and it's precisely because of ignorant developers with attitudes like yours.
One of the best things about the ads on youtube was that if they sucked or weren't relevant you could skip them, sending a signal that the ads should not be shown.

I suspect that the platforms have started to realize that personalized ads aren't better than content relevant ads, because I have several times seen ads on Facebook that were just targeted to people who live in my country and are over the age of 18, ie not targeted at all. Yet Facebook presumably showed me those ads because that is what they thought would make them the most money.