skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the note should be added that the subreddit moderators can be just as 'soviet' and disconnected from the actual sub users....

I was a part of a few subs where sub moderators chose to participate in some reddit protest and go private.

The response to closing the sub temporarily, by the users you see in the sub was nearly 100% negative and a series of moderators who nobody ever sees came out to defend their choice simply demonstrated how disconnected from the sub they were (some didn't even seem to know the sub rules...).

There's a weird multi level stratification on reddit with admins, mods and users and I'm not convinced any of the 3 see eye to eye / understand each other.
Corporations do provide funds for some larger projects, that is however not anywhere near "most".
Why contract when I can work as if I'm full-time & salaried (with benefits) for 5+ years? Just seems like added risk and a lower effective wage to me.

Also - it's springtime which means it's review season - the results are in and the entity paying me for my output is very happy with my output!
I had a similar experience these last 3 months, I bought an RV thought I would toot around the country in, use a cell modem.

But I also want to work on my AI projects , which require bunches of nasdaq data. Or I want to work on a side project, but conda wants to download every dependency for every new environment I make.

I thought downloading TBs worth of media would be enough to make it work but I'm hitting my monthly cap about 10 days in every month.

Starlink might solve my problems, fingers crossed for that. But I almost need a local pip server that caches requests or something :S. And I guess an npm server also.
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You have to give them a permanent address, but what you do with it is another story. People on boats are successfully using it: https://provscons.com/starlink-is-the-best-internet-for-boat...

However, it cannot be used extremely far off the coast, like on cruise ships. Starlink still requires base stations on land for use. They hope to solve this issue in 2-5 years, supposedly.
You're looking at it backwards. Some of those who are already radicalized have the background and mental capacity that they could learn the knowledge needed to pull this off. Al Qaeda didn't radicalize pilots; they sent radicals to flight school.
You can certainly make an argument that there is not enough information and/or it is not of reliable enough provenance to accept the consequences X of action over the consequences Y of inaction. But you've simply stated that it is so by inhospitably rewording the parent post.
I mostly nomad'ed around SE Asia, where free wifi in cafes is a given, and mobile caps are ridiculously huge/cheap (US$1 per week for 250Gb of download cap in Cambodia!)

Video calls from cafes suck, obviously, but also pretty common. You get used to it.

We got used to having "good wifi" as one of our primary considerations for Booking.com or Airbnb searches.

I'm using a Purism 14 laptop running PureOS, with an additional travel monitor when there's room. Linux wifi UI could use some work, but otherwise it works fine.
I hope you don't get downvoted for this. If you care about childrens welfare, you should be 100% in support of pedophiles coming forward and seeking help.
> holding all else equal

I don't hold all else equal, because nothing is equal. I contend that pedestrians are more distracted than ever, as are drivers.

The control for the 'bigger cars more death' would be evaluating the death rate of smaller cars.

The headline doesn't say 'accidents' are getting deadlier, it's saying 'roads' are getting deadlier.
I just ran the iOS app. It does not use any client side encryption (i.e. at application level at rest) only in transit. From what I can see it is also using the default iOS data protection class. So while this app might provide good security for data in transit it provides little or no security for a local attack on a device locked but AFU.
so much freedom!
Well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557175 was also flagged when the post was getting popular. HN has really been going on a censorship spree lately as well. What's even worse with HN is that sometimes your comments appears to have been posted, but if you log out or go in private browsing, your comment cannot be found at all!
I'd guess its about satellite load. On large assemblies (think burning man), it would probably break down their link all together and it's hard to quickly provision a satellite.
I have a small project that has around 2k lines now, and it takes over 5 seconds to re-compile. Fast compilers can do 2k lines in less than a second. waiting over 5 seconds for unit tests to run can actually be a problem as it slows down your cycle.
The obvious answer is they probably didn't, this is probably a pseudo QAnon/Pizzagate conspiracy theory where people were "censored" for the harassment of a random person.
The accused internet accounts are all linked via Keybase. The usernames and content go back as far as 2004. Lots of this information is already common knowledge in the UK because of previous scandals.

At what point do you acknowledge that her partner has been doxxed as a self-confessed paedophile? The alternative would involve an incredibly elaborate plot targetting a random US citizen years before he happened to meet the person involved.
I would be shocked if they saw anything but incredible user growth in the last quarter.
The Beauty of 78.5M Followers
That tweet is exactly what I mean by hearsay. A few clips cherrypicked from thousands of hours of footage, showing a police officer speaking a few words in the second most popular language in the area is not evidence that they're undercover Chinese officers.
Discussion is almost useless in most reddits unless you know most people are using the old.reddit.com url. All of the reddits I used to follow have essentially died since the change a few years ago. It is very sad.
ESG in general is a fraud!
That's a specific court order involving a specific parent and a specific child. There are all sorts of idiosyncratic orders like that, not just in Canada but in the US.
I've worked at many remote companies by now. None have asked how many hours they're getting out of me. And they all got more or less the amount of time mentioned. And they were all plenty happy with my output!

Why would they care if the output was the result of fewer hours? If they wanted to pay me by the hour, they could have negotiated that.

At-will salaried employment cuts both ways :) and in this case, everyone is happy. Anyone wanting more hours out of me is just trying to exploit my labor. I'm already getting paid fair value for what I'm producing.
Reddit comments were doomed in the long run, anyway. The fact that most Reddit commenters are on mobile phones, and not proper keyboards, has led to ultra-short comments light on information or nuance, like Twitter. This is true even on special-interest subreddits for various hobbies, where rich discussion is wilting and image posts and memes have taken over.

Sure, you yourself can still write a couple of solid paragraphs about a topic (the norm on Reddit until just a few years ago), but you will very look out of place among the one-line comments. With time, you feel pushed out of what used to be your own community.
I just tested: Firefox is able to play reasonably well a Youtube video at 720p 25fps.
I recently was asked what I liked about common lisp, and one thing I struggled to put into words was how good the #2 experience is.

SBCL is an implementation that is AOT compiled to machine code, yet the incremental build time is shorter than even python because you can recompile a single (file|function|system) without restarting your program. Python fights you if you even want to re-load a single imported module (IIRC there are ways to do it, but it doesn't seem to be a typical way of developing in python).
They have maintained i.reddit.com (an actually useful mobile site) for years at this point.
Your phrasing could be a lot better but I think your main point holds some truth. Just like the conspiracy equation that models the difficulty of keeping a secret in terms of the number of people involved the same principal applies to online communities that have a significant number of hateful members but try to fly under the radar. It gets harder and harder for the community to moderate their members that /unjerk and then it snowballs once the seal is broken.
Passion refers to a level of intensity, desire, or obsession. It frequently is used to talk about romantic love but can refer to other things. You were probably right to use the word 'interested' over 'passionate', but if there is a some one who is staying up late working on and thinking about continuous integration then they could say they were passionate about it. There has probably been at least a couple dry technical topics that made you feel passionate in the same way some one could be passionate about CI. I wouldn't call being passionate about something to be typical though so its a pretty weird question to ask a circle of people.
“Working In Bets”, iterating through doubt and uncertainty on your startup
Thanks! But also, what about the other side -- is there maybe a way to raise awareness about the existence of these community liaisons so the people in the article at least know they're an option? Like, if they were doing everything wrong, it seems they may be just completely ignorant of them.
Which is fine for the point being made here. There's no issue with n^3 for small matrices.
I’m not a programmer. I’m a statistician. I think your observation about orthogonality is correct from your industry’s perspective, though I’ve used it correctly from the context of mine (meaning statistically independent, or uncorrelated, variables). And I disagree that awareness is correlated to personal impact when it comes to sociocultural concepts like racism, or sexism, or the dynamics and behavior of an online community.

I appreciate the attempted correction despite it being wrong.

Edit: Sigh, HN being HN. I’m rate limited and can’t respond to persistent, sustained miscorrection over a single word choice in a much broader point, because I spent all my thought tokens defending the word choice, which matters approximately zero, instead of the point.
And both methods are bad.

Whiteboard tests aren't inherently bad, but the sorts of algorithm questions that are asked at some interviews are absurd and do practically nothing to determine whether the candidate would be a good employee. 95% of being a programmer is plumbing data together, and it's pretty rare that there is a need to develop more complex algorithms for things - as long as someone knows the concepts of time and space complexity and isn't going to make huge O(n!) operations, it's much more important IMO to be interviewing for communication skills, system architecture, network, and security knowledge.

There's obviously exceptions to this if you're hiring for a role that specifically is writing very algorithmic code to solve a hard science or graphics problem but that's very much the edge case and even if it is the case, domain knowledge will be more important.
Which is bizarre, because if you do want to have a breaking new version, what exactly do you do?
> and hints at backwards compatibility.

To me it communicates no commitment to backwards compatibility, i.e. no semantic versioning. This might be enforceable if one is Apple, but doesn't sound good for an open-source platform.
I’m pretty sure the oxygen comes from CO2.

Plant carbohydrates are made directly from CO2 in the Calvin Cycle.

The Calvin Cycle is the source of all of the carbohydrate building blocks in the plant, and I’m pretty sure that oxygen from H2O does not enter the equation, just CO2 and some enzymes and cofactors.

If so, the vast majority of the mass is from the air.

(H might originate from water but its mass is pretty trivial compared to C and O)
Stop defending pedophile apologists before you know the full facts of the case.

Her father raped and tortured (a car battery was involved) a ten year old. This happened over multiple days whilst the child was tied to the rafters in the attic of the family home. This is the same house Aimee Chancellor was living in at the time. But she claims she didn't know and she was not on trial. Regardless, during the trial photos of Aimee with the victim were discovered on Amiee's phone.

After her father was arrested and charged with 22 counts of sexual violence, she forged documents in order to hire him as her election agent. This is a position where he would have had contact with children. She was kicked out the Green party when this came to light.

She then joined another political party, and was kicked out of that after her fiance was found to have tweeted:

"I fantasise about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations."

They were both contacted by the media about this, she claimed he had been hacked, he claimed that these were only fantasies, and would never act on these urges... She later married him.

Amiee Chancellor is a despicable human being who can only be viewed positively if she is compared to the people she chooses to surround herself with.
I agree, but a minor nitpick: Aimee was forced out not just for being connected to pedophiles, but also for lying about and/or endorsing them (among other issues). A massive failure of safeguarding from the Greens and Lib Dems, and now from Reddit.

It's astonishing to me that a person like this can become an admin on a website used by millions of teenagers. We already know that admins can access private messages and other personal information.
Users tend to flag stories. The system also has a kind of automated flame detection system. The moderators can override both.
I hate references to the Streisand effect, because in the age of digital censorship, you have absolutely no idea which stories are _failing_ to invoke the Streisand effect.

I'm absolutely sure a lot of news is completely successfully censored, and calling out the effect on the ???5%??? of stories which break through does nothing except hide that fact from us.
Show HN: Twitter accounts from your product waitlist
Hi HN!

I’m Nikita. For the past few days I've been working on a TweetHub enrich (https://enrich.tweethub.io) which is a tool that connects email accounts with Twitter profiles. The idea is to target high-followed accounts on your waitlist so that you can target them accordingly.

The way it works is by taking each email on your list and scraping the web for and links between that email and a Twitter account. Since everyone doesn't have a Twitter account this can be really unpredictable, but we've been able to see hit rates of over 50%!

The App is still in its early stages but I would love to hear any feedback that you have! Your first 50 searches are free!

Give it a try: https://enrich.tweethub.io
That's weird, I was in Puerto Viejo when I found an original hard copy of "Where Wizards stay up late", something I couldn't find for sell in the US right before I left.
CMU, Oxford and Facebook Cross-Lingual Vision-Language Model Achieves New SOTA
TSMC builds only 25K/month 5nm megafab in Arizona. I suspect that it's mainly for serving the US defense needs.

TSMC's GIGAFABs (> 100K/month) are used for mass manufacturing bleeding edge consumer electronics. They are still build only in Taiwan.
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Should have "(satire)" added to the title, otherwise it's a little bit clickbait-y.
The technology exists for communicating anyone over the internet - its called email and we've done 20 years of work to prevent spam.
People are downvoting you because it looks like you think China is a communist society and western countries are capitalist societies.

There is not much difference between China and western countries. Sure, China is a bit more oppressive (understatement of the year), but they both have element of capitalism and a huge set of coercitive and authoritarian laws which err on socialism.
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I'm trying to fight my own bias here, but.. I really don't know what to think.

On one hand I'm totally against cancel culture for things like:

- How you voted(e.g. Trump/Biden)

- Your political views on any subject

On the other hand, Stallman has called for the killing of babies with Down Syndrome.

So, could I associate with someone like that?

Could I comfortably work with someone that(for example) calls for the killing of babies if they where jewish, black etc.
Here in the Netherlands I can use the website of my bank even if I don't have a smartphone. I get some QR-camera reader which I can point at the computer screen and it generates a TAN code, which I can enter at login and at transactions.. I do believe the government and banks in my country somewhat think in line with the user needs. Not in every country will this mentality exist.

Sure, if you want an app for an open source platform like Linux, that may take a lot longer. I think there is already a common platform for this, but not many banks offer it.
This article doesn't align with my experience of what I've observed.

> I don't think that it's in our interest to be passionate, but it is in employers' interest

Meh, I'm into some technologies just cause they fascinate me. Benefits employers, but benefits me too cause I get paid to pursue my passion.

> Not only are passionate people expected to work for free, they're also easier to manipulate

Passionate ppl in the Spark world make tons of money and strike me as geniuses that'd be hard to manipulate.

> Some open-source maintainers have created crucial software that runs everywhere

Yes

> Companies make millions off that free software, while maintainers are often left with an increasing support burden and no money

Maybe some. Spark creators went on to build a successful company (Databricks) that'll be going public soon. Companies seem to be throwing money at top open source devs in the data world.
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Sergey Brin building the biggest aircraft
They are currently doing a contract with the military to run Starlink on their airplanes flying around [1], so I assume it is not a fundamental technical limitation.

In the early days, before the constellation is fully fleshed out, it may have something to do with capacity management. I could imagine that there is a relatively low density limitation right now, so if everyone drove their Starlink connected vans to e.g. Yosemite National Park on a holiday, that would be too much density to handle.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-airforce/...
> Police are there to enforce the law.

When I see statements like this I wonder if we experienced the same 2020.
Also one of the only ways to get sequences in joins in Redshift. Unfortunately, only Redshift master nodes support 'generate_series'. If your query contains join that are spread across multiple worker nodes, Redshift will report an error saying 'generate_series' no supported.

Gotta select row number on some big enough table!
you're just lying yourself that you are middle class I see, nothing to be ashamed of to be lower class. I am also lower class. politicians made us this way.
Are the facts wrong?
The difference is, it's legal for a farm to smell like manure. They do say in the article that the car club is breaking several laws. So it's more a case of, for a long time the cops haven't enforced the laws here, but now the new residents want the laws to be enforced.
Isn't this obvious?

As a child I was always shocked to see ordinary citizens duelling in westerns and just shooting each other. I chalked it up to artistic license. The thought never crossed my mind that it was a depiction of reality in an alien world.
I.e. you are building a tool for spamming and mass-scraping of personal data. Don't.
How to run a project that involves a multi-agency team
Of course they did. That's the reddit business model.

A handful of people who mostly delegate work to slave labor (volunteer moderators) and only take action themselves to monitor and maintain the slaves.

Reddit employees have no purpose other than to crack the whip at moderators.
"And the same devs can also use the same skills to build a frontend".

This is such an overstatement. Knowing the syntax is just 10% of the story.

There is literally 0 common things in for example React + Styling + SEO + browser + knowing good standards for the web vs. backend expressjs api talking to some DB and knowing good practices for having scalable backend based on for example 12 factor practices.
Great keynote and clearly it's a massive improvement to have a former silicon veteran at the helm again at Intel. For all the major announcements made, I think looking at them in context of the industry and other competitors reveals some interesting nuances:

1. This is Intel's proverbial hailmary rather than "unleashed". The industry is moving on from x86 and with its other bets (e.g. radio modem, mobileeye) not paid/paying off, the revenue will quickly nosedive within the next few years.

2. IDM 2.0 is an involuntary move due to Intel's loss of both performance leadership (to AMD/ARM) and fabrication node leadership (to TSMC). Clearly their factories are becoming liabilities and opening up to outside business cushions the freefall.

3. 2023 is a long time away in the silicon industry. As pointed out in Stratechery, 7nm is actually further delayed than what Bob Swan previously announced. Apple is rumored to be on TSMC 3nm this year and AMD will likely move down to 5nm by next year. Unless Meteor Lake is a massive performance uplift, then it may not change the overall trajectory. Intel's saving grace at this point is the capacity constraints at both TSMC and Samsung.
> Yet I know of at least one company putting their eggs in the D basket (Weka).

Symmetry Investments pay for at least 2 varying-hours staff for the D Language Foundation - including me. This is a recent development. They are seemingly constantly hiring, too.

D is basically designed not to be risky. The whole language is a big collection of simple compromises for the most part, i.e. if you want to write correct code the obvious thing to do is encourage testing and contracts, surprise surprise D has first class unit tests and Ada style function contracts.
Love this way of framing things - I've spent a lot of time thinking about product development in terms of "Bets" (thanks to Ryan Singer and Basecamp) but thought this was a really smart way of looking at business in that way as well.
> The new design collapses all responses below the second level (and then every two levels)

this wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that you often have to follow a link to expand the tree, that you then have to back out of to get back to the main thread. I have 16GB of RAM and a 27" screen. I can handle expanding a tree of text inline.
Is facebook and twitter in the same market as reddit?

Digg was pretty big for the time. The competitor I used the most back then was slashdot and I'd say digg was considerably bigger.
My wife works for a manufacturing industry association and is regularly in meetings where owners and executives rant and rave about single use plastic bans like it is the worst thing to happen to them since the 5 day work week. It's incredibly demoralizing. We're not going to solve enough of these problems for it to matter.
It is not nice, but aside from hobbyists everyone who seriously develops software caches all dependencies in a own repository like nexus etc.

It's similar to backups, if you don't have one your data must be worthless.
Reddit claims this was a mistake, but note how this moderator was later suspended for asking questions: https://www.reddit.com/user/dramasutra2020
The account wasn't hacked. Aimee lied about that, along with many other things, in order to protect a pedophile (again).
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There's a difference between going 'weapons free' with the ship's AA CIWS vs sending some MPs up with small arms (some of these things were close)