skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm "part of" Workspaces.

I have no idea whether I get ads or not, because I have both uBlock origin installed, and a massive /etc/hosts file that blocks just about anything ad-related.

But I've seen clear evidence when I visit sites that manage to do self-hosted targetted "presentations" that they are getting data from Google, and given that I have no cell phone, I'm fairly sure one important source for that is my gmail account.
Lots of bugs in production code never get triggered or never get fixed and lots of production code eventually gets deleted. There is a real problem with confirmation bias here, as the bugs that cost weeks to fix in production are extremely memorable, and the bugs you might have thought would be a big deal but never actually had to deal with are nearly invisible.
Yes, I think the joke is that Hipchat is gone.

Atlassian replaced it with Slack which was just bought by Salesforce, so who knows maybe they will revive Hipchat now.
Spoilers for Snow Crash follow.

Snow Crash posits that there is a natural language for human brains, akin to assembly code, and that the line between pre-historic and historic humanity comes from a singular event. That natural language is/was (pre)Sumerian, and well-formed sentences in that language are indistinguishable from internal thoughts: to speak is to command belief, to hear is to believe. The singular event is the nam-shub of Enki (http://namshub.com/enki.html) which established a virally propagating firewall that cut off the ability to understand pre-Sumerian and allowed/forced the development of other languages, none of which had the interiority of pre-Sumerian.

This is all codswallop, but it's entertaining.
If you're not paying, you're the product.

If you are paying, you're the rube who's dumb enough to actually pay for stuff. :-P
If it's an Android phone, then Gmail came with the phone, that I paid for. I have no idea what the manufacturer paid Google, but I paid.
On behalf all the non-millionaires out there, Fuck You. Money took away your ethics and morals and broke your brain. A right to privacy should be something we strive for, not maximizing profit by spying on people.

We do not have a free market in the US either.
It's pretty simple - if its not profitable to run a service without spying on your users then it should simply not be run.

That's it!
Pretty sure they’re implying that in this day and age wealthy people can more easily move/acquire resources to survive than those with fewer.
Wow, never thought I'd see Wikimedia at more than 4x the budget of Mozilla!
As someone who once had a reasonably large (>5k) twitter following and has essentially given it up there are a few factors I believe contribute it being far more unhealthy than HN or Reddit:

- It's tied to your real identity (and your real ego).

We all know that pure anonymity creates 4chan, but being associated with your personal identity means that every "engagement" on twitter feels a bit too personal. On both reddit and HN being pseudonymous means you still have some sort of reputation, but up and down votes are always about how a community interacts with your ideas, not you personally. Even worse than facebook, you're primarily being judged by people who don't even know you. This sets up every tweet to being a basis for being personally attacked by strangers.

- Short message length abolishes nuance. On both Reddit and HN the most successful posts are often long, nuanced and typically make several points to draw a conclusion. This is impossible on Twitter. You can't discuss the nuances and values of both R and Python for data science work, you can only make flippant, reactionary remarks.

- Might makes right. The follower system is horrendous for any kind of reasoned discussion. There a plenty of well known, adored people out there that make factually incorrect assertions but it doesn't matter if they have 100k followers, they win the war for engagement. Forget about cases where it's not see easy to establish factual correctness.

All of these combine to make an environment where to feel good about your self you are naturally driven to write flippant content that will attract more followers (so nothing too controversial for your audience, no having complex opinions, you should fit into an easy to market 'identity'). You can resist this, but this is what the platform has been designed to encourage. It's sad how many thoughtful people I've met on Twitter that inevitably get sucked into this trap and start shouting out engaging garbage so that they can continue feeding that cycle.

Despite my complaints about trends in the HN community, several small things help a lot:

- largely keeping pseudonymity

- Hiding up/down vote counts! It's quite possible for one opinion to have an order of magnitude more support than it's opposition but both idea can be near the top and no one knows.

- Giving all comments a temporary boost in the page position to give them eyeballs and a chance to be heard.

Making votes invisible is probably the single most brilliant thing HN has ever done to keep this community sane. You can see "people agree with/like my comment" without comparing yourself to everyone else.
The simulation argument is definitely true, in the sense that one of the outcomes Bostrom describes must be true. I don't think he takes a position on which outcome is true, so I'm not sure what there is to disagree with there.

As for aging and life extension, I honestly don't understand how anyone could reasonably think we shouldn't stop or reverse aging.
DDG doing the good ol' corporate 'let me, a third party, access your communications wholesale... for privacy'

How about advising people to turn off remote content in emails first?
This is an ad hominem. He's making a fair point, attacking him personally doesn't improve the conversation.
I recall reading that Starlink orbits below the usual level that other satellites are at, so they shouldn't be too much of a threat for Kessler syndrome.
I am sure large companies have that lever: I know of a large multinational company (around 150,000 employees along all contintents) that moved from SuccessFactors to Workday. Those are huge contracts.
Apple removed v1 endpoint version
Spotify partners with GIPHY to connect users with artists’ music via GIFs
I’m not sure I get your point.
Astronomers make first clear detection of moon-forming disc around an exoplanet
Amazing that he anticipated "So much for the tolerant left" about 70 years before it became a widespread complaint
Completion of the TCC Acquisition. Engie EPS Becomes NHOA
Did static electricity – not Gus Grissom – blow the hatch?
Glad you agree that a "government monopoly on force" doesn't have much to with tyranny.
"The first step in avoiding a trap is knowing of its existence" -- Thufir Hawat
If the idea isn't based on fact, you can't use it in an argument if you want the other side to believe you. Making up facts doesn't make them true. That's the whole point. You can give anecdotes, sure, and enough anecdotes makes for a likely story, but unless you or someone else puts in the work to test that story, it's still just a story.
I enjoyed the book _Leprechauns of Software Engineering_ which did track down all the chains of citations to find where the original work was misunderstood or even nonexistent. I would bet that it covers most or even all of these citations, but I’m not taking the time to pull it out and cross reference. https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
IBM PC Jr. => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr

- 128K of RAM

- single, 360K floppy drive

- 16 color CGA

- a mouse

- only 4 arrow keys on a full size keyboard

- loads DOS from a cartridge!
> undercuts falseclaims from Trump and prominent Republican lawmakers that the rioters weren't armed

I don't recall anyone claiming that; many of those people were carrying openly. I do recall claims that they didn't use their firearms, which is a different thing altogether.
That's a PEP for Python 3.10, which isn't even released yet. And Mypy only supports it since May: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/5206#issuecomment-8441...
It's a great funding strategy: sell the MVP to get the funds to develop the full product (either directly or by showing the product is worth dedicating resources to). It also enables the most important element from agile development: early and frequent feedback from all stakeholders.

Imagine an alternative world SpaceX had launched a fleet of rockets to bring the constellation up in a couple days while shipping receivers to customers; only to then find out that the satellites reflect too much light and the receivers are too temperate sensitive. The slow beta program is just the better development approach
Why on earth would you continue this test when the app already tells you about one third of the dishs FoV is obstructed?

It's impossible to tell what part of this is a meaningful result and what is just a broken setup.
In Germany we had the same. That didn't stop most newspapers to use some form of weird gendering of language. I think it will fade out since people don't use it.

It also underscores why some people think the media is a partisan mess. It is to some degree at least. They even asked people and most didn't like it. Didn't stop them.
I would expect that won't stay a problem for long, they're still pouring those things up there.
I'm really curious about this. I understand you disagree, but I really can't see how.It really was the case that the catholic church at all levels was aiding and abetting pedophilia. How can you still see the clergy as good? What, in your eyes, would they have to do to stop being good? Is there anything?
Even the volume on a more trusted, US exchange like Kraken is pretty high. The fact remains that you could exchange tens of millions of USDT for USD per day with no issues.
Lesson: typing passwords isn't such an inconvenience after all.
> They are (correctly) unable to subsidize the cost of development by selling data, which in some cases means they cannot use certain preexisting libraries.

This is not what raises the cost of development. It’s not having any in-house knowledge of software development or even how to manage software development contracts effectively. Most companies that require a lot of software end up building development organizations, because they recognize that paying someone else to do it is more expensive long-term. That’s not an option available to most governments.

It’s possible that this is just an inherent effect of outsourcing but even if it is, it ends up being too inefficient to justify.
Orthogonal or Parallel Problems
The ingredients of a good space pharmacy (2020)
Real-time visualization of the Starlink constellation:

https://satellitemap.space/
The point you made seems to be remarkably overlapping with that it is ok to shoot children that are members of some political party, which I hope was not what you intended.

You're 'obviously not defending the guy' with words that are pretty close to if not already across that border. When you step into the breach for some monster weigh your words a bit more carefully please.
> On behalf all the non-millionaires out there, Fuck You. Money took away your ethics and morals and broke your brain.

Less of this, please.
That's interesting because I think his Ninth (most famous for his use of the poem Ode to Joy) is just incredible, well, so does everyone else in the world too I guess. But he was already at his peak deafness in 1812, six years before the Ninth. I always thought of it as a big ol' F-U to his deafness. On the other hand, perhaps the Moonlight Sonata, in 1802, was sad because that's when he started to lose his hearing, and by 1818 he had accepted it.
That is honestly a lot better than I expected. I think it is a game-changer for remote areas. You could build a house anywhere and still have energy (solar panels) and internet (Starlink).
Even though it is not as general as some of those, I think https://fineract.apache.org/ should be in the list: An Open Source Loan Servicing System.
Voters approve of lockdowns, especially when they get WFH as part of the deal. It's the young people and poor who really get screwed. Governments don't have any other solutions even though we don't really know how effective they are long term or what the exit strategy is.
Since I am feeling charitable and get the impression you’re merely a jerk rather than a troll:

I obviously didn’t mean that any unedited writing is worthless, or that an unedited argument is inherently wrong. Clearly I meant that writing an essay without real editing poses a serious risk of making a bad argument - such as found in the newsletter whose argument I criticized. Indeed the lack of an editor on my HN comments has led me to make dumb arguments, just like everyone else here (including you, about 10 minutes ago).

So the only thing I “set myself up for” is a jerk on the internet with bad reading comprehension. This is a mistake I make every time I go on HN.
It's been a very long time since I worked with directional radios, but it feels very weird to learn that a tree counts as a sky obstruction significant enough to kill the signal. It's just a tree, not a giant steel building or a mountain. Leaves are barely there, relatively speaking.
Most interesting. Thank you.
Microsoft's LinkedIn is also atrocious at stuff like that.
If that part of your life was being a Nazi, then it should be erased.
Using Computer Vision to Create a More Accurate Digital Archive
I've had Starlink for about 6 months and it is a massive improvement on upload speed at 10-25 Mb. Download speed is a mixed bag wildly oscillating from 5 to 100 Mb and back. It's okay for downloading things but it's terrible for any sort of video conferencing. There are brief dropouts on average every 6 minutes or so and my obstruction map is better than the author's. My neighbor up the street got slightly better service by mounting his dishy on a 20-ft antenna pole above his house.

Local ground service is 20 Mb download and 2 Mb upload. And that's just barely sufficient for watching streaming video and video conferencing. Gigabit service is but a mile and a half away but no one is going to pay to lay the fiber into our neighborhood. So the last mile and a half is copper from 20 years ago. I think that's going to require political will to fix and I don't think that political will exists right now nor will it in the near future. We could have paid $5,000 per house to lay it ourself but our own neighborhood couldn't come to consensus on that. Now imagine that at a national level.

So if they just deliver 100/100 within a year or two, this is an epic win IMO and I will cancel ground service. And if they don't someone else will so I'm not worried. But it took Teslas to spark the electric vehicle industry. Now there's a lot of choice. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens here.
> Was the Godhra train arson[1] where 100+ Hindu pilgrims including women and children were deliberately set afire by a Muslim mob every covered by the Western press?

That's a pretty easy answer: the very first item in the bibliography of that Wiki article is from BBC News, and the Indian government says it wasn't arson. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4180885.stm

"We killed 1k people because you killed 50" isn't a great defense, even if it was arson.
Maybe it would help the company truly understand the problems they create if they used real Twitter content in their mockups rather than "Looking for some cute lunch reccs".
It's not about timescales, it's about technology. We're sophisticated enough to maintain populations in pretty much every environment at this point, albeit at greater cost depending on which environment.

As for quality of life, those unwilling to adjust their expectations will filter themselves out. There are plenty of anti-natalists on Reddit proudly proclaiming they'll never have kids because the world already sucks too much. Well fine, but don't think everyone's going to go that route. Humanity got by for most of its existence with essentially no economic growth or quality of life improvements. Would suck to go back to that, but the species would continue.
Historians spend a lot of time pouring over minutia from non-notable people. There is plenty about the world that doesn't seem worth writing down, but can be intuited from tangential texts.

The costs seems low enough to just keep it.
Entitlement, or reasonable payback for the employee economic surplus that has driven the technology boom for owners?
> There's an old adage that goes "if you're not paying for it, you are the product"

What does it say about our society that this is now an *old* adage?

Someone yesterday commented here that this is the most repeated quote on HN:

> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Everything we as a society today see as categorically wrong and repugnant was at one time in the not far past actively and passively accepted by the mainstream, with nearly everyone looking the other way and going with the flow. Yet even back then our societal conscience knew the very inconvenient truth. Those who repeatedly tried to wake society's conscience, to unbury the truth were invariably branded as radicals or crazies, doomed to be modern day Cassandras.
Point in case: cars. You pay quite a lot of your hard earned money for a car, and they are much worse privacy invaders than any nominally free product.

https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/tracking-technolo...
A Grizzly Bear Terrorized a Man for Days in Alaska. The Coast Guard Saw His SOS
The fascist that inspired Breivik is still in parliament in NL, and has since then been joined by many (worse) examples.

"Breivik's subtitle is lifted from a 2007 essay by fellow Norwegian blogger "Fjordman". Extensive citations - often plagiarised - also refer to other anti-Muslim ideologues and groups, from the Dutch politician Geert Wilders and Steven Yaxley-Lennon's English Defence League to the likes of Jihadwatch and Stop the Islamisation of Nations (SION). "

From: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19366000
That is not true in any way.

First, the main way PDF readers make strokes thicker is via hinting, so it depends on how Computer Modern was embedded into the PDF for starters.

Second, hinting distorts letterforms so many top-quality renderers (like on macOS) don't use it, preferring more accurate letterforms instead. And Preview on macOS is certainly "decent".

Third, "updating" isn't going to do a thing. Whether fonts are rendered as hinted or not is a design decision taken when the PDF rendered was built from the ground up. No "update" is going to change that.
state_less sounds like a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.
I think we could make a distinction between 'ethnocentrism' as identification with culture and being 'historically normative' at least somewhat, and 'ethnonationalism' which is the addition of the nation state, where it can possibly get more extremist under an operationally effective entity and codified/organized ideology aka Nazism. That's just my view.
OK but it works on my iPad, my iPhone, Thunderbird or Outlook on a PC, etc., and what you’re saying does not apply to any of those.
Recent history, 19th and 20th century, yes. Older than that, no. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't French a minority language in France until the government decided to pursue a policy of francisation?
yeah, and that license should be revoked if you decide to use a memory unsafe language for code exposed to untrusted input
I hope that the problem really is due to lack of infill because that means it'll be temporary.
Technology is pretty solid (no comparison to FSD), order of magnitude better than previous iterations of satellite internet. The solution is still getting our collective heads out of our asses and running fiber everywhere though
I don’t mean to be blunt, so please don’t take offense when I say this in response:

>And as a high margin buyer it doesn't sit well with me knowing Tesla is subsidizing free HW upgrades out of my purchase price so it just feels like moving the problem around not actually solving it.

You shouldn’t buy high margin products if you care what the company does with the high margin. The same goes for Apple products. Apple’s high margin goes to pay devs and for decades long R+D products, many of them will fail. It also goes to pay settlements when they fuck up. Them’s the breaks.
Hindutva emerged because Hindus saw that no one else was going to defend their interests. Even if you go back in time, you see that the dearly departed father of the nation MK Gandhi did so much to fight for Muslims and Muslim interests, like supporting the restoration of the Caliphate[1], but didn't lift a finger when it was Hindu interests at stake.

Do people who whine about Hindus and Hindu nationalism know what kind of stuff happened to Hindus during and before the partition of the country? And what the so-called leaders of the people did in response?[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khilafat_Movement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Action_Day
Not sure what value this is bringing to the conversation, everyone says/writes stupid things sometimes.
I disagree because I’d like to keep using the service.
It’s not just about a game of chess being moderated.

It’s about silencing legitimate speech that you disagree with, whether it’s on a factual level or other motivations.

Perfect example, coronavirus being manufactured in a lab rather than originating in the wild. Anyone that suggested it was from a lab has been moderated heavily until a report came out that in fact it did.

Was this not damaging to society?

And to your point of hate speech, can you give me a definition of the term? You can’t because there isn’t one that a) covers all scenarios and, more importantly, b) doesn’t cover legitimate speech.

It is up to me to think for myself, not up to someone else to do it for me.
It’s unclear to me whether you’re defending the massacre or what your argument is. It was set off by an arson. Ok. Are you implying that the reaction was justified?
It's not just a problem for investors. It's also a problem for cities, as boom-bust cycles can drastically misallocate resources.
Breivik likely saw himself as a very ethical and virtuous individuals. His reasoning there doesn't surprise me.

He and some other mass killers may even feel as though they have a stronger personal code of ethics than most people. Their ethical philosophies and stances are just unfathomably twisted and corrupted, not unlike how cancer cells behave as if they're functioning rightfully.
100W 24x7? That's quite a lot, right?

This adds some color perhaps to the argument that this is for underserviced regions -- they don't mean third-world or impoverished even though it sounds like that, at least when I heard people defending Starlink.
Ted Hughes. Plath was a great admirer of his work.
Energy storage is not all that cheap.

There's a reason I mentioned "cloudy winter days." The cheapest way to address those is probably to overbuild PV. That overcapacity probably won't be used on bright summer days, raising the capital cost of PV across the board.

I don't think you're going to find many factories that can be economically shut down for entire seasons. None of this is an issue right now because we use natural gas for backup, but we need to stop doing that.
And what is that thought based on? Because that sounds like a pretty wild claim.
similarly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history
The quote was from the Lynch version where Sting shouts "I will KILLLL YOUU!"
Peter the Great’s Beard Tax