skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of comment suggests that you are completely devoid of conservative perspective. When people respond to complaints of biased moderation by saying that social media is full of conservatives, they haven't heard the complaint. The fact that you call PragerU "insane" seems to further support that.

Even though I find that it's rare for folks on the left to understand what's happening on the right, I'm surprised that even you are so misinformed about what gets people booted. Appeals to violence and "KKK-grade bigotry" are not what these complaints are about, and don't even approach the correct universe in describing the types of folks getting moderated (although hate speech should be allowed IMO). Not only that, but twitter is chock full of appeals to violence, which, as long as it's directed at conservatives, has remarkable staying power compared to anything directed elsewhere.

It's worth watching some of the opposing folks that you've been taught to hate once in a while, even if just to keep abreast of the concerns being discussed. Otherwise, all you get are the distorted caricatures of the fringes.
Once upon a time, it was not only easy to find the option to disable image loading, but you could easily load them a la carte, by right clicking on any placeholder.

With the browser I use now, it seems to only let you reenable images per-site and then you have to dig in settings to delete the exception.

There IS a Load Image menu item when I right click...but it does nothing! Neither does "Open image in new tab".

I think it's unfortunate if there is a "long tail" of features in a typical application these days that are not expected to work.
Why do you imply that Alfie Kohn's ideology is the only useful one?
Once There Were Billions
Text Case 2021.1 Beta
Someone doesn't keep up with xkcd. https://xkcd.com/2030/
Slimbook’s New Linux Gaming Laptop Is a Ryzen Beast
It's a subtle psychological manipulation of the mind of the users of computers - stick to the simple use case, and don't do complicated things, don't try to be an advanced user, don't think for yourself and just consume what we tell you to.

I hate it.
> You think that downloading an image is stealing?

Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them?

These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar.

We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies.

This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story.
For what it's worth, I'm mildly experienced in Rust and your comment looks pretty much correct.

I'm recovering from a headache (and a little ketted out) so I might be missing something too, but in the spirit of trying to explain confusing downvotes, here's the only two potential nitpicks I can see:

1. newtypes are not really 'in addition' to structs, enums, etc. they are a particular type of struct with a fancy name.
2. Calling composition less powerful than inheritance could be seen as subjective and debatable. I mostly like composition over inheritance, but Rust for example has problems with up-casting of trait objects (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2765) that inheritance/vtable based languages (e.g. C++) do not have.

So it's not a bad comment, and I suspect you mostly just got piled on due to human error/bias. Or maybe some poor soul got confused and thought you were trying to explain Rust to the poster above you (who may not need much explaining).

Don't take it personally, you seem to have a good grasp of the language. Please keep on learning :)
Completely out of context but TIL from his blog:

>Today is day 10,000 of The September That Never Ended.
If widely adopted, most TMTP clients would have concurrent logins to many servers at different sites. Your traffic isn't routed via a middleman like Facebook which everyone needs to join, and which scans your content for advertising purposes.

I've implemented both client and server, so there's the basis for a "reference implementation".

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379

(I'm the author.)
On the other hand, I try to run `brew update` and see nothing for 30+ seconds. I wonder if its hung up? Nope. There is absolutely no indication to the user what's happenning behind the scenes. I tried filing an issue and the brew maintainers closed it in record time without explanation. Verbosity helps when it's done right.
It's kind of contrary for you to prove that google's design is optimal according to the scientific method with the bald assertion that it is scientific with zero evidence by virtue of it being proprietary.

My feeling about its utility isn't a scientific statement its purely anecdotal but at least it represents a singular actual and honest viewpoint.

You are free if you liked to express the alternative perspective that the changes are for the better for users or for google and this would be an equally honest anecdote even if we disagree.

The only intellectually dishonest viewpoint is to assert without detail or analysis that its good along some dimension because it is AB tested.

Google image search is mediocre for the following reasons

- They removed the button to actually go TO the image in response to a lawsuit with Getty on the theory that somehow making people go through an extra step would stop people from using their built in browser tools to download images.

- When you go to the page where the image is supposed to be you may actually find yourself on a page only vaguely related to the exact image. Maybe it WAS found on the front page of some infinite scroll through crap but the desired image is nowhere to be found when you click through and get whatever new crap replaced it on the front page.

- Alternatively you get served a smaller sized version of the image.

- Not only are the filters not shown by default in google image search vs bing in mobile firefox google opted to disable that functionality meaning you had to load the slower desktop version of google for the tools to filter by date or other details to show up. This wasn't a bug it was a deliberate design decision to attack a competitor that they ultimately reversed later.

- Google image search seems to deliver subjectively worse image search results. I realize this is hard to quantify.

- On the broader google search issues you actually need an extension to be able to right click on a link and copy the url to share it because otherwise you get something like this

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_a_test

It's pretty amazing to break sharing a damn link. The addon to fix this requires worrisome permissions to the data for google.com

Also the search "this is a test" without adblock doesn't show any of the textual results on the entire screen on a 24" 1080p monitor. Screen 1 and 2 are a video, exhortations to buy the song, people also search for videos and finally some actual results on screen 3.

Google is basically 90s Lycos with lots of extra money and reach. Everything google does other than ads and chrome ranges from acceptable to just canceled. They do lots of things OK but nothing excellent.
If support for both is going to be part of the plan, I do not suggest planning to drop support for email. Commit to supporting both or dont
Some of the cities we listed definitely have questionable human rights records. It's up to the individuals to decide if they want spend their time there. An example is Istanbul. Turkey has extremely questionable human rights records, and yet it's one of the most visited countries in the world.
You managed 10 reps in one sitting? Do that 9 more times today and you'll have achieved your (if dubious) goal.
Right? Surprised to see such a comment on HN. There is always room for improvement/innovation in any space. Even more so in a rapidly emerging new domain like remote work/living logistics.
The protocol draft: https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md

And yes, TMTP will see a lot more revision, and real-world use, before it's proposed to any standards body.

(I'm the author.)
Just looked it up, seems awesome. I'm almost done with what I'm currently reading, so I will pick this up next. Do you have any other recommendations? I've been looking for more stuff like this (futurist, adventure, sci-fi, not cheesy), but just haven't been able to find the right one.
Like it. I just started working on something similar. Shoot me an email if you'd like to collaborate.
The first machine of any type that I myself booted in real life was a PDP-8 in 1976. Front panel switches to get it up, paper tape punched from an ASR-33 to load a program and get it rolling. Maybe a 5MB drive on the thing. It is amazing to see what a influence the whole PDP family had on the technical/engineering computing world back in the days of mainframes being the only "real" information technology systems. Thanks DEC.
Spacesuits are aid
Maybe considered harmful, or stories about error information loss
I’d say either I was completely oblivious, or it’s within the past 3 decades. Both are possible.
http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2...
Defense secretary orders NSA to install former GOP operative as top lawyer
From what I understand, this affects only Android devices, thus the Android 5.2.1 rollout. None for iOS.
> “You will have killed us,” Gram said, “destroyed the culture that we have built for thousands of years, and you won’t even give it any thought. Your species doesn’t think about what it does any more. It just acts, like a single-celled animal, engulfing everything it can reach. You say that you are a conscious species, but that isn’t true. Your every action is... instinct. Or reflex.

Good story. I can imagine what the specialized humans did to the generalist humans eons ago.
I assume the thinking goes something like this...

"We know that x% of free accounts convert to premium. That means that if we can get more free accounts, we'll get more premium."
Don't count your chickens just yet, the jury is still out on this one.

If history has any say on this, communication solution based on proprietary technology will meet their death sooner rather than later. How many network protocols have been invented before and after TCP/IP? I know we are talking about messaging now, but messaging is just another overlay network over TCP/IP.

I'd envision in the future that the open messaging systems will be more pervasive. It will be based on local-first software and probably based on the automerge capabilities. The automerge community is focusing on collaborative editing at the moment but could someone please work on automerge solution for messaging system? This can be an excellent new paradigm for open world of messaging. I am seriously tired of people asking me to install the proprietary software of WhatsApp, Line, Wechat, etc.
mnm = mnm is not mail

Also addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379
This is really lovely. I wasn't aware you could even theoretically strip SIMH down to run on such a constrained target.

What I love about this is it isn't overengineered, nor is it trivial or easy. It's a pleasant amount of work with a tangible, fun demo at the end.
> It makes sense to patent an idea based on what he's hoping will eventually become a fleshed out scientific theory with proofs and whatnot, it doesn't mean any of it will turn out to be correct. It just means if it does find proof, he could get rich.

It would just make him yet another patent troll. The US patent system is beyond absurd.

Unless he can physically demonstrate a fully working 'gravitational wave generator', the patent shouldn't be granted.
"The pigment--which is the first new blue discovered in 200 years--was finally approved by the EPA for use in artists' materials last May."

The EPA under the Trump administration.[1][2][3][4]

I'd take a wait-and-see approach on this one.

Not to mention that there are so many great colors that have seen hundreds of years of human use.. as opposed to this one, which has seen zero.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/climate/epa-trump-biden.h...

[2] - https://apnews.com/article/politics-science-environment-e0c8...

[3] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-trump-administratio...

[4] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-administ...
Thailand Sold Itself as a Paradise Covid Retreat. No One Came
We just added a long-term visa section (link at the top). Remote worker focused visas are becoming more common and we expect to see more countries offering them in the next few years.
Maybe, but the patent is also owned by the US Navy.

Why?

And what does this have to do - if anything - with the same shape UFO reported by the US Navy in 2004?
Tesla is a car company, TSLA is a casino. A stock is not a company.
Plugging 'Jollo' into Wikipedia gets me a page about a defunct machine translation engine. This reads exactly like a simple license that went through several rounds of machine translation. Making some allowances for usage and spelling errors, as well as some outright guesses at meaning, here's a somewhat fractured full-English translation:

See, far wanderer, confronted with raw, programmatic instruction in the most pure form. A hesitation, troubled to the terms that this license affirms. By a voyage to explore the mechanism and ponder the making. Ta da! The remedy: an egress without risk.

Leave No Trace via seven principles:

0. Modify language in advance. Attach the Jollo LNT license with copies to distribute.

1. Not responsible for negligent coding of the program.

2. Not sympathetic for negligent coding of the program.

3. No permission to modify it under any circumstance.

4. No permission to distribute under any circumstance.

5. Respect the programmatic instructions.

6. (Do) not interfere with the harmony of a friendship.

Edit: jollo.org is kind of trippy.
For that to happen, you’d first have to detect that the wheel bumps into the edge. Checking for collisions takes CPU time.
I mean this question sincerely, as I'm a US Government employee currently and former Intelligence Officer:

What is it going to take to restore, or maybe even just establish, trust in US Government institutions by people in the US?
It depends on what the struct contains. I have developed many Go API's professionally at several companies since Go 1.1, and all my servers and up looking like a server struct with only a few fields - a database, AWS client object, and some prometheus metrics. The logic is typically split among many files, all implementing receivers on that struct.

If you have independent, different elements in that API, you break them out into separate "servers" but still register the endpoints on the same HTTP handler.

I know that people don't like external libraries too much, but I'd like to plug my own here. You declare your API in OpenAPI 3.0 (aka, Swagger) and it generates your server and models for you, so all you need to do is write the business logic. (https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen)
I think what you're missing is that many people are not paying market price for housing, because they bought their houses a long time ago. If they have mortgages, they were set by the home price when they bought.

CPI is an average. The people who have owned their own homes for years are dragging down the average for the cost of living. You can't get the cost of living that they have if you buy today.

Averages can mislead. It's like the old joke about average income in a room when Bill Gates is in the room.

By changing who is included in the average, it might be possible to construct a CPI that's more relevant to you?
But "modern" software is perfectly usable without documentation! /s

I miss the days when software actually came with very detailed documentation for the user. They had their hidden features too, but at least there was documentation for them.
I don't believe the backend would be as scalable (with the same amount of ease) on JVM (Akka) or straight C/C++. Erlang, Beam bring a lot of value to the table for this specific application:

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2...

Also, I got interested in Elixir/Phoenix after I learned about what WhatsApp accomplished.

I'm a bit surprised people are downvoting a technical point on HN but whatever.
right, doing it would be harder because our tools are all visually oriented. But you could still describe the process in great detail to someone who could type it for you, and your expertise is still there. When I play the piano, my hands naturally move to the notes I want to hear, before I hear physically hear them play the notes.

My point is, you don't type code and then look to see if it is right, you type what you know you want. Likewise, he didn't play a note to check if it was the right one, he knew.

(and of course, what do I actually know about beethoven's workflow, but if I can do it to an extent, I'm sure he could)
https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/the-whole-enchila...

This covers most Classical theory in a pretty clear way, it’s cheesy but does a good job. We used this more than the textbook in a music theory class. Jazz and contemporary theory gets a little more fun, but this is a really good place to start.
I have never seen people seriously claiming that the Poles ran the concentration camps.

That's different from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_in_German-occupi... which may be a controversial topic but one based on real history

Misspeaking and labeling the camps Polish due to geographical location is almost certainly an innocent mistake.
This is an area that I know absolutely nothing about, so the notion that new pigments are being created is fascinating to me. I’ve never really considered pigments and the chemicals used to make all of these colors.
Nice concept, but I'm not seeing any information about visa options? This is quite critical for anybody planning to live in a country.

Update: found it, but it's hidden on a separate page behind a tiny "Visa" link up top. The overall nav here is a bit awkward, I though the nav was just providing quick links to sections of the home page but turns out they're pointing to separate pages, some of which duplicate content (eg the news & updates stream).

Also, COVID restrictions are quite important now, although these are a nightmare to track because they change so rapidly.
Yes, and the exact reason I use aegis (plus open source!)
A free Snowden would be a good start
Interesting idea! I think we could use Mailscript to bridge Mnm with email. Would you be interested?
For Groovy the simple answer is they claimed that every piece of Java code would also work in Groovy. This wasn't ever true (well, maybe before someone decided that the equals() method is confusing), but it didn't matter, because of the "80% is plenty" mindset that groovy appears to be built on.
I am calling for a refactor, not anarchy. I will go on record as saying that we would be better off as a society with drastically reduced intellectual property protections, especially along the temporal axis. You shouldn't be able to hold onto IP of any sort for more than a decade or so under any circumstances.
Does performing a reset impact messages already in the conversation? I don't want to lose chat history but I do have one convo that has missing messages between my phone and my desktop app.
At queue depth 1 the 980 pro delivers 20k reads per second / 45k writes per second. That still sounds like a huge amount. Optane is faster, but is it enough to matter outside some extremely demanding niches?
There would be "marketplace" sites to connect with people.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379

(I'm the author.)
I thought they did some fine tuning to the BEAM VM to get an extreme amount of scale. I didn't know people had Ejabberd deployments at such high scale (2 million+ concurrent connections per server) in that time period. I never got into details of scaling XMPP so you might be right.
100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard libraries
Can somebody explain their financial model? How are they paying for the servers and stuff.
The claim "No ads. No trackers." and that they are "free for everyone".
the Official name is Humans of Flat.

https://onepagelove.com/tag/flat-design-humans
its seen zero years of use, no kidding?
I didn't read the article (yet) but this seems like a great summary of it, thanks.
In general the fee on a loan is based on two things: risk of default, and the time-value of money. It’s possible for the former to be zero, but lenders are losing money if they set the latter to zero.

Basically if you put $1000 of capital into the pot for making flash loans, then you are foregoing the X% / year that you could earn on interest, i.e. you are losing money.

It’s entirely possible that platforms are running these flash loans as a loss leader to drive adoption, but in a mature market and at scale, you’d expect there to be a small fee.

(Or just that the success-case fee covers the loss in the failure case, but that would break if the % of failed txns increased, so might not be a stable equilibrium. )
Snowden, the Russian agent who under a self proclaimed psychotic breakdown after breaking into systems he didn't have authorization to, traded American and private company secrets for safe harbor to the country who has the least morals in terms of cyber security and hybrid warfare capabilities, because he thought he was about to be assassinated?
My instinct would be to say to verify what they are saying, but it seems like we should just take advice from the people who we would verify with it in the first place
Preface: My experience is primarily on Windows (required for, among others, crappy enterprise CAD software). Linux is probably different.

Most developer workstations have had SSDs for many years. This applies to the Windows 10 developers, too. So they haven't paid any real attention to performance regressions on HDDs, since it still works. It's just slow. But it's a HDD so who cares?

That means there's now a lot of I/O going on before and after login, more than would have ever been tolerated in the "old days". Yes, initial boot is just streaming reads, that's easy. But once the OS gets going, it starts logging things... writing. Or finishing up the dregs of the last system update. And NAND SSDs do not handle that mix well at all. They do extremely well with all-reads and very well with all-writes, but a mix will bog them down (block granularity? I don't know why).

Optane doesn't do that. It doesn't care about reads versus writes, or small writes between larger reads. It just goes, and it responds fast no matter what the mix.

It's not really the sort of thing where you notice "wow, this is so fast". It's the sort of thing where you notice randomly sometime that "hey, I've never actually had to wait for this disk". It's harder to notice the absence of pain compared to the pain itself. With Optane, something else is always the bottleneck.

It's not a huge effect, but it was pretty easy to justify the smaller price premium for Optane a few years ago when it was introduced. I fully expected it would carve out a bigger niche for itself at the top of the performance market -- because it really is the top, ahead of anything NAND -- but that hasn't happened. More Intel failings, I guess.
The tech stack is far down on your list of concerns before you have established that there is a real product and a market for it. Use whatever you already know/are best at.