skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you, we need content moderation and some political beliefs are just toxic.

But Reddit just takes it to the absurd:

- Automods which remove posts which simply contain certain words (e.g. "coronavirus", apparently because too many covid deniers). I get trying to restrict covid misinformation, but I'm not even exaggerating, they remove anything discussing covid even if it's supporting.

- Mods removing some posts seemingly at random (seem using sites like reveddit.com). These posts really don't involve anything controversial at all and I can't understand why they were removed.

- Automods which ban you simply for posting in certain subreddits. And not radical ones, ones like r/PoliticalCompassMemes or r/watchredditdie. Btw, check out r/watchredditdie yourself to see more issues

Another issue is that Redditors in top subreddits tend to add politics to pretty much anything. Like, there is a highly upvoted post in r/nextfuckinglevel (a subreddit designed for e.g. people running ultra-marathons or doing crazy gymnastics or magic tricks) that is literally just a guy in his 40s ranting about how the U.S. government is fucked. And yeah, I agree the US government is pretty bad, but I don't need to hear about it in every single subreddit or r/AskReddit thread.
No, it's a matter of expense. It's possible to embed a redriver in the cable every 0.5m, and thus get longer cables at full speed. They're just very, very expensive.

There are three alternatives: one cable type that does everything and is easy to use (but gets expensive quickly as it gets longer), multiple cable types that each do somewhat different things but use identical connectors, or multiple cable types that each do somewhat different things and use different connectors. The USB-IF went with the "multiple cable types, identical connectors" option, which is cheap but extremely confusing. The "multiple cable types, multiple connectors" is what USB was created to avoid. So the only remaining option to remove confusion is to have expensive cables.
OpenAI doesn’t have much goodwill in the community, I would venture to say. Many people here have been disappointed by the delta between the open vision first described and the closed reality now, and also by the fact that applying for API access just leads to silence.
Does this put "telemetry" in Git itself? If you're just using git to access Github, is it snooping on you?
0xide Computer Company deserves to do well.

This is a solid private-cloud play aimed at those corporations (probably mainly financials, but other sectors too I'm sure...) who don't want to outsource to the likes of AWS / GCP.
This lead me to believe that search must really hard to implement, but then a few days of getting into Sphinx convinced me otherwise. It's kind of like the big sites where you have to load the whole video before it'll start playing (no HTTP partials). They could do better, they just don't.
Advertising is a thing in netflix productions too, you know. Really takes you out of Stranger Things when you see them set down a coke can with the label perfectly aligned to the camera.
Its about as useful as: "Europeans won't sit down at restaurant with people with guns. No matter how trained they are."

You know what would be actually useful? Learning about the topic. The parent here isn't doing that, just spewing thoughts that have been fed to him/her by the media.
The problem is previously we didn't listen to victims, and allowed them to be silenced. Now the pendulum has swung the other way, and we are listening unconditionally, but (occasionally) bad actors are taking advantage of our good intentions. How do we find balance?
That's problematic. Allowing the constant pools in executable memory is a bad idea.

Data segments should go in read only memory with no write or execute permission.
The issue is, as OP demonstrated, that this has nothing to do with your interaction with social media.

Social media was the connective tissue that gave rise to the internet mob, but neither the OPs behavior on social media, nor his response on social media, had any impact on the outcomes. Nor were the outcomes limited to affecting his social media presence. As per the original article, OP got nailed for comments from a twitter account he didn't run, and whose true owner publicly confessed to owning it.

That is, just because you walk away from social media doesn't mean that social media has walked away from you.
Arguing that a phenomenon is less than 80 years old doesn't mean that it's not a part of American culture.

And there is more than just public transportation keeping 11 year olds from navigating the city by public transit. We also have crime rates far higher than western Europe or Asia.
It isn't credible to assume that anyone who identifies themselves as an engineer is fraudulently asserting to be a National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying Professional Engineer. It's a huge linguistic power grab to call that confusing. "Here's a common noun for a profession, and now you can't use it without paying us" is a nice business plan for collecting rents indefinitely.
The Cibola Burn book did a much better job of explaining things on Illus, particularly the alien stuff. And the Investigator POV chapters were wild. You don't get as much of that on the show.
r/WikiLeaks is "Alt right"? Who does the tagging?
That makes no sense. I typically go for years without logging into my Google Analytics account. There's gotta be some missing context here.
If/when any of my friends get attacked by the mob, I hope I'll have the courage to stand by them publicly. A good recent test was the doxing of Scott Alexander. I signed the open letter against it with my real name and was happily surprised to see the names of many people I know. We should have more of these small but visible acts of resistance that let like-minded people find you.
Well if Oxide's software stack is going to be open source, I guess we'll get a good look into their secret sauce.
The lab-leak hypothesis for Covid-19 is becoming a conspiracy theory
That's like deferring to people who work in the tobacco industry about what's dangerous or not with cigarettes.

Also, many of them are still under the impression they're making the world a better place at Facebook and Twitter. So no, let's not pretend technologists know what's best. And they don't understand language and society better than, say, George Carlin. They only think they do.
Ugh, so bad. I pay for Prime in the US and UK, but the app gives me no way to switch countries like I can with the store. When I’m in the UK, I expect it to show me the local UK library that I get with my Amazon UK prime account. Instead, the app assumes I’m “traveling” and forces me into a reduced version of the US library. Worse, it renders all the thumbnails in the catalog view, while only telling me content is unavailable after I’ve decided to watch it and click play.

For this reason I only watch Amazon originals on Prime, since I know they’ll be available.
Open firefox tickets:

[meta] Proper colorspace support and color rendering for video playback
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494381

Properly support ICC v4 profiles and enable it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500737

And many more
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=color+m...
The board’s concern is pretty well precedented. Holding one’s self out as a professional engineer when unlicensed is bog standard violation for licensed AEC professions.

Neither is there anything unusual about the circumstances of the board’s concern.
Investigations are almost always complaint driven...boards don’t have the resources to conduct dragnet operations.

Finally, inattention to details is a piss poor defense in the context of professional engineering. The whole idea is that professional engineers are aware of and beholden to compliance with all things legal and regulatory.

This is just StrongTowns making drama. At worst there is a small fine, some administrative costs, and maybe some educational requirements.

Or to put it another way, the response to the issue is unprofessional.
Three comments so far that highlight the exact point the parent was making, a true lack of empathy. VPN alone is enough complexity for most... it's hard to find one that doesn't have comments calling it potentially insecure, questioning the owner, nevermind keeping tabs on if it sells to another owner.
I think you are correct. I think this is why certain Vim "demigods" have arisen (aka tpope). Only a few take the time to learn VimScript. In my humble opinion, when I took the time to try and learn it a while back, I ascertained that it was not worth my time.

Having never written a line of Lua in my life, on the other hand, I was able to pick it up in exponentially less time than the small bit of VimScript that I "know". Lua is not a fantastic language, but it is infinitely better than VimScript.
Cosby was (rightfully) cancelled with no presence whatsoever. Burying your head in the sand won't help you.
He's right and he's a controversial figure. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Read something other than The Guardian or the BBC.
If it's easy to misunderstand then it's bad UX. Discord's chat could learn a lot from Slack and Mattermost (but then again, so could Signal, Skype and Teams). Their videoconf however is top notch.
https://www.pagemarker.io/ has a newsletter feature, you subscribe via email to rediscover your own bookmarks.

I like the idea at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27292097 where browser tabs get converted into lists. Supports all major browsers. Maybe a reminder feature can be added.
Wow, I love the graphics on this website. Seems like it'd could be functional for actual interfaces - is that the plan?

Congrats Bryan et al.
TBH I'd rather die happy around the age of 75 than miserable at 90+ like my grandparents.

Not everyone has the luck of being cared of as British Queen and Prince were, yet they seem to die anyway.
This feeds into a bigger issue that Freakonomics rails against often: Restrictive licensing.

In a lot of states you need special qualifications or licenses to do all sorts of jobs. You can't cut hair without spending thousands on a hair cutting course and passing an exam and paying a registration fee.

Sure, that makes sense for (say) doctors. Maybe engineers too? But barbers? Why bar-people? Interior decorators?
Semantic is used less and less I would say, there is not enough people involved in keeping it and it's grammars updated, it also suffers lack of asychronicity. Tree-sitter and LSP has the advantage of re-using code for multiple editors
I am a fan of Open AI, but is this not an admission that they raised more capital than they know how to deploy on research?

Similarly, Peter Thiel once made a case that if Google ever paid a dividend it would be an admission that they are no longer a technology company and are instead a bet again innovation in search. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/2Q26XIKtwXQ
This is essentially why civilization has legal systems and courts. Unfortunately, legal systems and courts don't scale to internet (global) scale. You'll be "dead," metaphorically speaking, of an internet mob attack before your lawyer even calls you back.
Can you elaborate? I googled variations of "run files through strings" and this link is the only thing I could find but still unclear

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/stri...
I took a look at that blog, but it doesn't seem historical at all to me (for example, I can't think of any historian that dates the synoptics to before 70 AD). I also can't say I'm a fan of the way he treats other denominations of Christianity as non-Christian religions.

For a good historical look at Christianity, I'd recommend people look into the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast, the NT Pod podcast, or, for the old testament, the writings of Mark S. Smith (you can also find lectures of his on Youtube).
Aesthetically, absolutely love it.

In reality I would never want this type of hardware... It reminds me of the old boat anchor bladecenter rigs we used to use. They were great, up until you had to replace one of the blades after the support was up. It's not always practical to replace hardware every 3 years like we're supposed to, so this type of stuff sticks around and gets some barnacles.

What would be fantastic would be if the entire industry committed to an open spec for large chassis like this with a standardized networking and storage overlay... But that would never happen because vendor lock-in is the big money maker in 'enterprise'.

But wow, absolutely gorgeous machines.
Tried it for a few hours. Unfortunately, it randomly stops working all the time. Debugger says "key buffer context lost".
For future reference, write the dot as %2e in the URL and it will not be molested by the validator. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr%2e.
My apologies. I searched for Math/pow, saw that the sentence there started with "Clojure doesn't", and missed that we were looking at two different parts of the document :)
>I wonder what role if any his COVID coverage played in his firing.

The Times was pushing hard for McNeil to get a Pulitzer for his COVID19 coverage until his firing.
> ... some of these people seems like absolute sociopaths.

Maybe shy sociopaths? They wouldn't be a sociopath face-to-face, but give them the disconnect of being behind a screen, and the sociopathy comes out.
> they wonder, before clicking the reply button on a popular piece of YC tech
In addition, Buddhism monasticism in at least the first millennium and a half of its life was simultaneously cloistered off from the laypeople, but also very much of it - individual monks owned and invested property and so did the monasteries themselves. Buddhism did not glorify poverty for laypeople - instead the idea was to be wealthy and support the monastics. That's why Buddhism was so popular among merchants, who spread it from India into Afghanistan, and through the Silk Road on to China. (A sea route south-east was also taken at the same time.)

In first millennium China, Buddhist monasteries owned up to 20% of the country's land. Enormous tracts of forest were cut down to supply the wood to build monasteries, temples, towers, and more. Buddhist monasteries even owned slaves to work their lands.

For much of this period, certificates of Buddhist monk-hood were sold by the state or sub-state actors like dukes and princesses to quickly raise money. These certificates got one out of forced labor, which was often used to build Buddhist structures. (Forced labor was a common state inducement for all sorts of reasons in this time.) The explosion of "monks" led to crackdowns, stripping those who couldn't recite sutras or hadn't shaved their head of their privilege. Those with certificates were often exempt from certain taxes, though this privilege was only certain for those at imperial monasteries.

Sources:

"Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History From the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries"
By Jacques Gernet

"The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia"
By Johan Elverskog
> I think your "best solution" aligns well with what the OP appeared to be doing, and he still burned.

OP has a huge Twitter presence (600k+ followers), and I guess my point is when you have that kind of presence you open yourself up to being a "pseudo-public" person. Sometimes, you need to do this (if you're a politician, for example). But usually you don't.

People will get more riled up when the person they're crucifying is famous - clout-chasing is a real thing. Although you (sadly) sometimes have exceptions to this rule, so you're right that it's not a complete solution.
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The Scott Alexander controversy isn't analogous at all. That was entirely due to his public writing, not alleged private interactions between him and others.
Reasserting and making active commitments to 'justice for /all/'.
It's interesting that the RAM/CPU ratio is about double the default shapes from AWS/GCP. In practice I have generally seen those shapes run on the low side of CPU utilization for most workloads, so I think the choice makes sense.

I'm curious if ARC will be running with primarycache=metadata to rely on low latency storage and in-VM cache, otherwise I could see ARC using a fair bit of that RAM overhead in the hosts.
Would you consider the characters of The Three Body Problem to be all that interesting? Yet it's widely considered to be a great novel. Not sure whether The Dark Forest or the third book do a better job with characters, but the plot and the ideas make the story.
> Administrators always had this power. Sometimes, this power was used out of necessity. But given how much this power was used in FreeNode in the past week, a lot of the community has lost faith in the administrators.

To be slightly more exact, the admins suing those powers properly for the past couple decades have been pushed out by the new guy, and said new guy has already abused those powers so much in a single week that nobody will ever have any faith in him
Four: a 1-3 month pause in new construction, and construction materials.

Five: record low interest rates are here to stay so borrowers can pay more up front for the same payment.
I've always wanted to write Vim plugins, and as soon as 0.5 hits stable, I'm looking forward to trying! I won't touch VimScript with a 10-foot pole, and I write code for a living. It's not worth my time, and it does not commute to other things that I'd rather be spending my time coding.
Ok, but responding to a bad comment with a worse one is driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

If you know more than others, the thing to do is share some of what you know—in a substantive, respectful way—so that not only they but all of us can learn something. If you can't do that or don't want to, that's fine, but please don't react by posting low-quality ventings (e.g. name-calling or putdowns). That only makes the thread even worse. Two wrongs don't make a right, as most people's mothers have indicated.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Hi! So, at every step -- from conception to funding to building the team and now building the product -- we have done so to build a big, successful public company. Not only do we (the founders) share that conviction, but it is shared by our investors and employees as well. For better or for ill, we are -- as we memorably declared to one investor -- ride or die.

Also, if it's of any solace, I really don't think any of the existing players would be terribly interested in buying a company that has so thoroughly and unequivocally rejected so many of their accrued decisions! ;) I'm pretty sure their due diligence would reveal that we have taken a first principles approach here that is anathema to the iterative one they have taken for decades -- and indeed, these companies have shown time and time again that they don't want to risk their existing product lines to a fresh approach, no matter how badly customers want it.
I don't know if that's a super relevant comparison, given that he was a celebrity with a decades-long career in the public eye.

What other random born-in-1937 person without a social media account would receive that level of interest or attention?
I see this trending on TikTok with the 'Karen' thing but often you have no idea what was actually said or done, just a mob. I honestly think the Social Media Gods need to move beyond these memes because it's more witch-hunt than anything at this point.
A lot of very confused weird comments here.

This article is about a fairly large sized tech company adopting a fairly recent but increasingly mainstream & popular tool that helps them understand their operations. It'll give them a standard way to see what their computers are doing, across their various systems.

OpenTelemetry is one of the key emerging cloud standards, and I expect many many many many more articles like this going forwards, from all kinds of companies.

As for concerns about user tracking & privacy, that's not generally what these operational tools are used for. I haven't heard of a single case of them being used for user tracking or behavioral analytics. Thusfar these are purely operational tools, to understand the health of systems, to debug & typically to understand what happens to an incoming request as it works through dozens of systems & services to get processed. That said, I tend to think over time the importance of this distributed after-the-fact log we are building is going to become inverted. That we will start to see the potential to harvest these records for analytics, and more generally, to forward-feed them into other processes to automatically build & advance Event Sourcing systems. Right now these systems are relatively pure & good, but what's really at stake here is that we've been doing computing blind, with no record of what's happened, and OpenTelemetry is a key first step in lifting that veil of ignorance as to what computing has happened. We are beginning to capture the data of what compute occurred. Many things will emerge as we open this box.
Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research
> So what are we supposed to do in a world that’s gone mad? Our symbiotic relationship with the internet has imprinted its glitches into our minds. The internet is a collective consciousness, and its mental health remains unchecked as it accelerates beyond our control. Somewhere along the way, it feels like we left compassion behind.

I can understand why someone feeling the judgement of a mob would think this but it's clearly just a simplification of what's really going on. Each person in that mob is an individual with their own beliefs, thought process, context and so on. What can feel like an avalanche of hate may simply be many individual instances of misunderstanding or confusion. To believe the people who are against you are not individuals but a single angry entity is going to make it harder deal with psychologically and harder to come up with any possible remedy.

I don't really know what the remedy would be but I would guess that it would involve a process of divide-and-conquer while addressing each individual's specific concerns.
Happymeal toys probably cost McDonalds nothing. I'm sure Nintendo was covering the cost of those Pokemon. It's advertisement.
>No end-of-episode cliffhangers

There are a handful of those in TNG. But only a handful.
Something about this website takes my machine to 500% CPU load (Firefox/Linux). Good thing we will get 2048 cores soon...
It can depend on the subreddit, but you are mostly right. The moderation makes a big difference and it's all volunteer, at least for niche subs. I have a small handful I subscribe to and check regularly. Mostly I Google for reddit threads when I'm interested in a topic since you'll generally end up with a quality thread on almost any imaginable topic.
> vast majority of mainstream social media users (a) don't tend to have good-faith debates

This. Thank you. I have unconsciously wondered into such debates on social media cesspools, and approaching it like I do with HN, which is atleast more logical
Happened to a friend of mine during college, before FB and Twitter. He was accused of stalking, was arrested and kicked out of school. He sued to clear his name and was reinstated at school. The lawsuit did cause the accuser and the school to issue formal apologies - but that didn't undo the damage to his reputation.
How would that be implemented in practice, for the case of telemetry? The data is held by a third party? Couldn't they always "buy" that third party? Is there a standard Ulysses mechanism for data compartmentalization?
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It's a shame to see the low sales numbers but I can't say I'm surprised. I read about a book per week but most people I know read maybe a few books per year, if that.