skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember being really annoyed at one of my bosses for obsessing about fonts in a game online store I was working on. It's like ... really? ... we're strapped for time and we have time for this? The thing is, unlike some other bosses, he asked nicely, and he was a great guy. So I felt like ... okay ... for you I'll do it.

There is something to the general strategy of insisting on excellence, and not being willing to let something go until it's just so. This can lead down idiosyncratic unproductive rabbit holes, but especially for design-based products and games it's important to maintain a culture of excellence.

Wrt to games and entertainment products, there's no metric like "reduced clicks to perform task by 1.5". So you're ideally trying to optimize for joy, or enjoyment. Since you can't really quantify it, you can at least try to substitute excellent craftsmanship as a proxy.

As a counter-example, when I was at Sago Mini, I was getting incredibly nitpicky and subjective feedback about the precise way in which to procedurally animate sheafs of wheat in a field in a game for toddlers. While the same culture of quality and branding concerns apply, this felt like a waste of time past the first few iterations.
I mean, if people are willing to pay money for Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina eggs or Twitch streamer's bath water, I can only imagine the small fortune people would pay for a bacteria transplant from a famous person, even if it had no effect whatsoever(you can always craft a cleverly worded ad that suggests there are benefits but never actually states so as a fact).
Modern people often portray the Middle Ages as a time of dullness, ignorance, and misery, such as depicted in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I think this makes us feel better about how superior we are today. The truth is that medieval life was much richer and more beautiful than the stereotype implies.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16432071/how-to-fix-home...

Dunno if it needs this now anymore -- i think they moved to /usr/local/Homebrew some time ago -- but this was a big deal for a few years
I don't know if it's a gambling binge, but I'll tell you the returns from capital seem to far outstrip the returns to labor in our modern society. Seems like you are either part of the investor class or the lower class in America and I think people have caught on, willing to take chances to get into said investor class.
I feel like computer science degrees rarely get into much of the hardware beyond some basic assembly. You might have benefitted from taking some computer engineering courses which cover the topics in this book in much greater detail.
Yes, Poe's law.

Elsewhere you say:

> explains some of the change in tone here on HN

2020 was the year of HN's eternal September, facilitated by the behavior changes brought by c19. If you can recommend a similar forum that still retains a culture of objectivity I would be very interested.
I like the IEX method of introducing a minimum latency and don't see why every exchange shouldn't do this. Selling retail trader order flows should be regulated out of existence, too.
Yes, I would poop into a container and deliver it to the lab. I work in Infection Control in the hospital where the lab is. I worked with Dr Louie all the time so I was an "insider", I didn't respond to any ads. For the longest time he always used family donors (husband would provide for wife or something) and I was one of the first non-related donors. I was a good candidate since I worked on site, was willing to undergo ongoing blood work and stool cultures, was young, healthy etc.

My go to story is there once was a patient come up from California for treatment. Around this time there was a big news article about a patient who gained a ton of weight after receiving a transplant from her overweight mom. The patient, due to her condition, was on a strict diet and therefore it was assumed the weight gain was due to the transplant from an overweight person. That began the speculation that transplants could be used for weight control etc. Anyways, I went down to the lab to drop off my sample and the lab tech said to the patient "Hey, your donor is here, want to meet him?" and she came running around the corner, looked me up and down and just said "he's good". I felt like a real life page from a sperm donor book! This patient had heard the news and was happy I was not overweight.
Has anyone seen a good explanation with graphics on how the money and dilution work for SPACs?
It was 1995... so the Comp Org was Tanenbaum's Structured Computer Organization. I also used his Operating Systems book in the OS class. I thought they were excellent but I also had great profs.

I'll try to find my theory of computation text so I can see who wrote that, but again that was a great prof that walked through it really well.

Alas my bias against lisp may solely be traced to the Programming Languages prof that loved Scheme but couldn't actually communicate with humans. He could recite pi to 100 decimal places and was esteemed as brilliant but literally couldn't form sentences when talking to students. I suspect the lambda calculus would have been a good insight as well, but oh well.
A Post-Mortem for Social Podcast Discovery
is the pace faster though ? I had the impression that small progress came more often in this decade.
Your whitepaper promises an all-in-one utopian decentralization panacea for the Internet. On top of that you are piggybacking off of unsubstantiated crypto hype, even though cryptocurrencies have many problems (including lack of trust/recourse between parties due to decentralization). That might contribute to the reason you are finding no traction for your idea.
Self-hosted ngrok alterntive: https://github.com/decentralabs/noteworthy

Host your shit at home without exposing ports to the world.
I am familiar, and Section 230 was not the answer. And yes, normally anyone can sue anyone, I'm not sure why tech companies deserve to be magically immune to this.
> Government (in the US) regulates commercial speech all the time. Try broadcasting without an FCC license.

Yes, I understand this.

> Government also regulated privately owned public places. Try banning people of a particular race from your shopping mall and see what happens. ...

So far, this is not an issue of speech.

> ... Shopping mall operators aren’t free to absolutely limit speech however they like, even though private.

Ok, I see where you were going with it... I'm not a legal expert, much less in this area, but after skimming over [1] and [2] this appears to be a complex area.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

[2]: https://www.ccim.com/cire-magazine/articles/states-speak-out...
I have responded to your misleading comment elsewhere, but in fact the commonly accepted definition of free will as known to the general English speaking population is that free will is not an illusion of choices but a direct ability to influence the world without prior cause, something that is IMPOSSIBLE according to the know laws of physics, both quantum mechanics and general relativity. Even the Copenhagen interpretation permits the universe is infinitely "splitting" to handle different "choices" or "events" happening.

As for your blatant attempt to misrepresent the cognitive science communities belief on the subject, again, put up or shut up by linking to anything that backs up your claim that current cognitive scientists support your point of view. I know for a FACT, that you can't because papers and talks on the subject are FREELY available to watch and/or read!
Shooting from the hip here, but my guess is that the “African-American section” started further upstream than the physical bookshelf, in attempts to remedy discrimination. Agree with the tag vs category challenge in discovering books.

For example, if OP wanted to understand prevailing social and political attitudes in 1960s Black America, instead of specifically Baldwin, then it’s easier to have an African-American section than search for needles in the haystack of anthropology sub-categories.

On a separate note, wondering how the OP experience might be different on Amazon.com instead of inside a physical Borders Books. You search for Baldwin and get your own echo chamber of the “African-American section” algorithmically produced through a combination of related titles and your own personal preferences.
By definition, if they pretended, it means they were not serious about getting to a solution that the average person would find reasonable

Note that it doesnt mean aws or gcp or cnn had to agree, it just means that it really resembled the process that we have for the us court system

In fact something well implemented would potentially threaten (and by definition, by attacked by) the twitters fb, aws , etc, because it would become a more reliable predictor of content moderation than what currently exists via ToS. It would effectively obsolte catchall ToS, and decidely be a vote against centralized control

We can likely agree that the words "well implemented" and "parler" do not belong in the same sentence
This changed in the last few years (I don't recall the exact date), but it absolutely was the way that brew operated for many years.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1393/are-my-permis...

https://superuser.com/questions/1264673/chown-usr-local-oper...
You're right a lot of things has benefited from rebranding.
For example instead of 'cow feet juice', it's now Jello.
The sad part is that Brazil joined the US in blocking this attempt.
True for desktop Firefox. Mobile FF not so much but likely the combination of adblock and mobile FF is not ideal if you want usual commercial sites to work.

Corporate IT is a whole other story. It has been IE only but chrome somehow managed to be compatible with most of the crap they came up with to secure the intranet. Firefox could never complete there... Just too much Microsoft specific 'extras'.
GFS is ancient obsolete technology that is no longer used (the whitepaper was published almost two decades ago, and it described a system already built and in use!). Also, I don't think you're interpreting it correctly either.
Out of curiosity, did you manage to implement auto crawler that can always find the correct html element for any site and remove rest? Or did you have to create per-site rules for it?
i migrated with brew bundle in a fresh install and it worked wonderfully.
Observing that people are turning to Y is not the same as saying Y is better than X, it’s just saying that X appears to be relatively worthless.
Honest question, is it the data-capacity-scale of LTO tape to be the driving factor instead of using a lot of micro SSD for example?

I haven't used LTO tapes in a long while so I am not current on modern backup strategies... but is tape still king in backups?
One person who does that tremendously well is Trevor Noah. The man is talented as heck. If you watch his stand-up (not his Daily Show), you'll see all the elements of good storytelling.

He's essentially acting out the story, with his voice impressions and physical movements. Pauses inserted in the right places, suspenseful narrative arcs, conversational bits with the audience, etc.
On the contrary, I expect the death of harmful ad companies like Google and Facebook would cause an explosion of growth in the Internet startup space.
Yes. That's the business model of Reddit.

They host the website and have the user base.

And moderators create subreddits which they control.

The web comic xkcd's subreddit had a holocaust denier as the top mod. In 2014.

Reddit didn't step in even though the comic's creator didn't like it. And other mods and the community asked for it.

They were only removed once they were inactive for two months.

Summary I found:
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/reddit-xkcd-moderator-socce...
Fascinating!

My curiosity is, could functioning transistors somehow be created on either a BaFe or SrFe substrate by a magnetic or other electromagnetic beam of some sort?

Perhaps one of those is the material for doing something like that...

Anyway, amazing storage capacity!
Review of the Mustang Mach E
Ironically, this law would give tech companies vastly more power to censor and police online speech. As soon as tech companies are made legally liable for any speech that occurs on their platform, they would be both legally and morally justified in using draconian measures to preemptively block activities that could expose them to liability. For example, banning all controversial hashtags, automatically banning anyone who promotes controversial hashtags, or deleting tweets/individuals that their algorithms have flagged as being problematic.

In all of these cases, Twitter and Facebook would argue that they don't have the manpower to quickly and thoroughly review every single interaction that occurs on their platform. And they don't have the luxury of being permissive in allowing free speech. And they would be right.

If you're afraid of online free speech being aggressively policed by tech companies, their customer-service reps, and their automated algorithms, then such proposals should absolutely scare you. You could very well see a 21st century where Mark Zuck becomes the next Rupert Murdoch.
Students Punished for ‘Vulgar’ Social Media Posts Are Fighting Back
I agree, very happy with it personally for my MVPs

P.S. Hey Colin, funny seeing you here :)
Google Kills the Great Tab Suspender
> He can start by not avoiding his taxes. That would be a good help.

I'm sorry, do you pay more taxes than you owe? Why would anyone do that.

I see a lot of armchair criticism of billionaires in general. It's usually not well thought out and comes across to me as plain old jealously and sour grapes.

Put forward a real criticism if you want, and you'd better remove the log from your own eye first.
The NRA used to be in favor of gun control.

It was the NRA in the 1920s that proposed that states require a permit to carry a concealed weapon, longer prison sentences if a gun is used in a crime, a waiting period on gun purchases, and the gun sale records be made available to the police. The NRA proposal was adopted by several states.

The NRA helped draft the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, which were the first federal gun control laws.

This sort of thing continue through the 1960s with the NRA supporting California's Mulford Act of 1967 which banned carrying loaded weapons in public.

They also supported the Gun Control Act of 1968, which added minimum age requirements, serial number requirements, banned guns for the mentally ill and for drug addicts, restricted shipping across state lines except to collectors and federally licensed dealers, and required showing ID to purchase some types of ammo. (It originally was going to also mandate a national registry of all guns and licensing for all guns, which the NRA objected to and were removed from the bill).

It wasn't until the early 1970s that the flipped from supporting quite a bit of gun control to opposing nearly all gun control.
I've optimized the codebase to scale.

Please use it on your small site with no traffic for free.

My biggest hope is for a large number of sites to use this.

I've been operating Remarkbox for the last 5 years.

Plan is to grow and try not to burn a bunch of money.

Fallback plan is open sourcing the codebase.
Contributing specifically to the desktop experience of Linux is another matter (unless maybe you're a GNOME developer.)
> Can the general public invest in SPACs

Yes. I'm pretty sure the ticker symbol of this one is VGAC.

The problem you get is this: https://vgacquisition.com/objective/

> VG Acquisition Corp (VGAC) aims to invest in a strong business with a proven track record that can deliver attractive returns to public market investors by capitalizing on Virgin’s brand and global resources.

I'm sure some target specific markets, but this one doesn't.
Agreed! Once we have the higher-level functionality for this in place it's something we'll really focus on as it's a killer feature.

For now though it's too technical for most users (outside HN of course) so it's not something we focus on.

Thanks for flagging the Safari issue, we'll look into it.
But said recycle bin is actually automatically emptied periodically.
all the better to frame WSB and the proles as the culprit, rather than information assymetry / under-regulation of short selling (why for example, is short interest data not available at higher frequency)
glad to see someone else other than me reacted to this obvious bullshit.
For Windows, presentation wasn't that important. For Apple, it would have been.

Windows was the default operating system for business already.

Apple's products at the time were an alternative, not the mainstream, and sold largely on the customer's desire to live a different life. Apple sells a lifestyle as much as they do a product; you've always been able to see that in their marketing. The customer visualization of themselves in that life is formed first during those keynotes - and it's easy to break with a problem like the one Jobs cared about.

Since Cook took over, Apple's really switched largely to productionizing what they already had; that makes sense, it's what he's good at. Hopefully, he's kind of a caretaker until someone visionary can take the helm again.
>Rust often leads to performant code, but it's hard to say if that's really a feature of the language or just a bias due to the kinds of people using it and the projects they work on.

It does make memory management much more explicit, which makes it at least easier to write performant code.

The question however is what your program is doing. If it's limited by network requests or something similar with high latency you won't be able to optimize much on the language side of performance.

If however you're processing a lot of strings, the safe borrowing mechanism can help you avoid most copying.

For example on my previous job we had a part of our CI build that would parse a huge text file and combine it with some information from an ELF's debug info in Perl. It took 45 mins for one execution. It was also impossible to read.

I rewrote it in F# which after some heavy optimization work worked through it in 2 mins.

I had just heard of Rust and rewrote it in Rust, basically transforming F# to Rust syntax and trying to eliminate as many copies as possible. Now the whole execution took 8s.

So at that point I was sold on Rust, however the library ecosystem was still lacking. Nowadays it's much better.
> Internal 16-bit registers.

What does this mean? Aren’t all registers (for any mainstream processor) internal?
You forgot UP, Karnataka, Kerala, and WB. So, it's pretty much most of India :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/farmers-protest-states...
Running a background check doesn’t mean you can’t accept certain negative content in that background.

A background check produces information not a decision.
I answered this question here:

https://www.remarkbox.com/#4b2e69b0-67db-11eb-8f71-040140774...
Dalvik is hurting Kotlin evolution too, soon loom, value types, the vector api and so much more improvements will not be available on Kotlin for Android but will on the desktop.
Several reasons immediately spring to mind:

- it's yet another dependency on the back end (for a static site you may not even have a back end or a server you can install it on),

- it requires Java, which is possibly yet another dependency and platform,

- both of these need patching and updates

- I do not love comment storage in JSON because it complicates backups

- needs email configuration which can be something of a deliverability minefield, but Disqus handles this out of the box

Fundamentally it's more work/complexity than some people will be willing to put in. Disqus is easy. Just drop it into your relevant page templates and it'll work.
Changing what you use as the boundary doesn't change the fact that if you're close enough to the actual boundary, you will jump a lot. So you have to go quite large with the boundary for it to limit the pinpointing. Having larger areas within your boundaries makes the feature much less 'useful' though.

Which granularity: Harlem/Hell's Kitchen etc? West Harlem/East Harlem etc? Manhattan/Long Island? New York/New Jersey etc.?

Feature wise you would probably want at least something like Harlem/Hell's kitchen granularity and there are unfortunately enough people living on the borders of all of these that you could pinpoint those just from GPS inaccuracies.
Two Rust features stand out to me: no GC, and Rust’s excellent wasm support. In the Unity games I’ve played GC doesn’t seem to be much of an issue but your code is always going to be faster in Rust.

I use C# (.NET) daily and I think it’s great for game development, but Rust certainly has its own advantages.
"Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice", which founded the study is motivated to magnify "bloat" in establishment institutions. The article preempts this criticism but does not refute it. A more honest study would try to break down what the administrative roles actually do.
I think there's a world of difference between kicking someone in your own party off of committees, and doing it to someone in the opposing party. I also think it's defeatist to assume the only way to be rid of extremists in the House is by procedural fiat.
Yeah, so we currently have micro-SD cards with a 1TB capacity, which is 100 times the storage capacity of a DVD. I see your holographic data cube and raise you a fingernail.
Where did I ever name call you? My position is if you have thoughts to carry out murder and actually show actions that indicate your thoughts might become reality, they can absolutely be used as evidence in the court to convict you of conspiracy to convict murder without ever having to have actually committed murder.

By your whole argument, this person shouldn't be held criminally responsible UNTIL murder has actually occurred.
Extreme Rituals Forge Intense Social Bonds
about:config → keyword.enabled → set to false

You'll have to prefix your searches with a key (in my case it's w for wikipedia, g for Google, and so on), but that's what I prefer personally anyway.

Also set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false to prevent Firefox from retrying whatever you have typed in with a .com suffix.
If it's intellectually interesting, it fits.
Wow that's amazing!
One reason that I suspect these therapies aren't more widely used is the lack of funding. Big pharmaceutical companies have millions to spend on R&D and also fund studies.
> But the platforms have perfect knowledge of the text content of these conversations.

"[P]erfect knowledge"? They have knowledge of the text. You can even say they have perfectly accurate knowledge of the text. Do they have perfect comprehension and understanding of the text?

They have some comprehension and understanding in order to direct ads. But it is not perfect comprehension and understanding. And unless you're content with your apparently violent talk that's actually about a guild raid in WoW getting blasted by an AI, they need humans to ultimately decide what to do about content.
Thank you!

Agreed. Let's continue building some cool stuff and make it accessible!
Or it's just an adverse selection issue: most people don't engage in things that they believe to be malicious or not worthwhile, especially for a founder who has looked at all other opportunities and decided this is the best option to risk it all.
> I'm disappointed by how many people cling to Chrome/Chromium under the justification that they don't like where Mozilla is going.

Totally agree. You'll see me criticize Mozilla harshly but I still use FF because

1. the alternative is worse

2. secondary: technically speaking Firefox has always had an edge one way or another