skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've noticed that the majority of my own comments here on HN have a negative spin on them

Most of the people on HN are Marxists, which is a lie. So it doesn't make sense to be agreeable with most of HN. But is the real problem you or them?

For example, I'm an expert in several areas, including aviation, military history, databases, anti-Marxism, and I'm almost never in agreement with other HN posters because they're factually wrong.

> and a lot of my blog posts unfortunately are very ranty. I guess to others this can make me look obnoxious.

But it's a giant red flag to publish negative blog posts in public unless that is the theme for your blog, and you have an appreciative audience. For example, there have been successful negative film review blogs, etc. Otherwise, you're just alienating even people that you know who stumble on your blog.

An example of a vlogger who has a policy of never being negative is Rick Beato. He's a gold-record music producer with 2.6 million subscribers on Youtube who could easily slam every aspect of the music industry, but he looks for the artistry in every topic he talks about.

To give you an idea of how hard it must be for him to hold his tongue, note that music producers often re-record the instrumental tracks of the albums they produce - meaning they know their staff in the control booth are better players than the band they're recording. All that gear you see in his videos is to "fix" his clients' crappy gear and playing. :)

So that's a lesson in taking the high road.

> At the same time, I struggle to suppress my own negativity and feel like I need to get it out.

You need to explore what is causing that, either by understanding your psychology, or studying the psychology of others. As I mentioned above, Marxism group-think has overtaken media today, so it might be them and not you. But you need to confirm that if you have identified a problem.

We live in a post-modern (post-factual) era, so a lot of what you read simply doesn't make any sense, or is outright gaslighting, which is making you think you're wrong when you're not.
What I really enjoy about this thread is all of the completely different perspectives. Lots of people doing anti-abuse research bemoaning that this stuff exists, and lots of people working against what are from their perspective ham-handed anti-abuse tech blocking legitimate useful automation trading tips on how to do it better. I guess the other sides of those we don't see much. People doing actual black-hat work probably don't post about it on public forums, and most of the over-broad anti-abuse is probably a side effect of taking some anti-abuse tech and blindly applying it to the whole site just because that's simpler, often no tech people may be really involved at all.
> If the law says that a company that is lowering prices and losing market share is a monopoly

Gates was convicted of giving away Explorer for free. Nobody managed to show that harmed consumers.

Like Rockefeller, Bill Gates was convicted of being rich.
But... why? Why is important that people use the technically correct name rather than the more convenient one that's in common use already?
Bad timing too, I bet holiday events like Halloween are a big deal in the roblox culture
"Almost 3 in 4 U.S. adults is overweight or obese."

Curious, Why is that ?
For V language there is Vinix[1], for Zig there's a kernel[2] only.

[1] http://vinix-os.org/

[2] https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig
At the very least, I hope that all the top conferences (e.g., the ones in http://csrankings.org/) become open access by default at no additional cost to authors. There are a lot of strange discrepancies even between sister conferences. For example, VLDB is open access, but SIGMOD isn't. It's all the same people in both conferences.
It is probably the case that both rich and poor people possess the required discipline for endurance sports but poor people have much less opportunity to participate. Training, equipment, travel, etc are luxuries that the rich can afford to pay for. The same is not true of everyone else. If you think that rich people and poor people have similar access to time and resources for these sorts of activities I suspect it is because you've spent more time being in the former group than the latter.
So at what point are we as a society going to acknowledge that affordable housing is basic human right and push for legislation to ban this kind of behavior?

We are well on our way to another massive housing crisis and I am not confident at all that we will recover from it.

It’s been clear for a while that the US government does not serve the people, maybe this will be the straw that breaks the peoples back.
Can anyone cache this page and link that? Or paste the text here in a comment? This link shows a redirect loop for me.
> Why not simply... create as much value?

> Equal skills, equal pay.

Muahahahaha, good one!
almost all sites uses "host" command to see if the IP belongs to the googlebot (this is recommended way by Google). And you can easily find many IPs which return googlebot when you "host" them. So you can use any of these IP addresses to spoof GoogleBot.

To find more IPs, make your own website, and wait until GoogleBot eventually shows up :)
I have not encountered a system yet where Python isn’t installed out of the box.
Lol, you just can't leave this alone. Choosing a JVM is about 99% less confusing than the last 20 years of .NET Framework/Core/Mono mess and all its sub-projects (ASP.NET, Silverlight, WinFX, etc). At least in Java if you target v.11 you know to install JDK 11 (or higher). Meanwhile if you write C# v8 you need .NET Framework 4.8 to run it. Or maybe .NET Core 3 - which is now called .NET 5. Then over in Python land you've got IronPython, Jython, Pypy, plus the need to keep v2 as "python" on most Linux'es and "python3" for running/building new stuff. Don't forget virtual environments so you can pip install one version of a certain package while keeping it separate from a different installed version of that same package elsewhere. Java is super simple by comparison.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38506668

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/dotnet-five
I think for me to believe the thesis, I'd want them to demonstrate that people who aren't rich and also enjoy endurance sports do it for different reasons than rich people. Otherwise, the question is "why do people love endurance sports", and the focus on white collar workers is just a headline-grabber.
The USA is already one of the world leaders in percent of population incarcerated; it doesn't seem we are suffering from an inability to imprison. If we as a society decide to revoke someones freedom and choice, then we should be willing to shoulder the cost. Making imprisoning low cost, or even worse profitable, creates massively perverse incentives. If it costs the system little to nothing, why bother to make sure people are really guilty? Why bother to spend the money to rehabilitate? Your goal should be to align incentives, which makes a high-cost and humane prison system have lots of favorable characteristics.
That or DNS. ;-)
Immigrants is Australia are not the same as in Canada. Also most all Aussies (and evident with your tone) are rabidly anti-immigrant blaming everything and anything on immigrants.

>its not uncommon to have a 3-bedroom house with 20 migrant men

These are probably workers, not immigrants.

Also, if immigrants were the problem, house prices would be going up when immigration was at all time high not when immigration is nearly zero during the pandemic.

House prices are going up because interest rates are low. They will stagnate when interest rates go up regardless of what the immigration is.

I really despise reading thinly(?) veiled xenophobic comments on HN.
What I love most then is that its the largest and it doesn't matter! In this market they will become an even larger company because competency has no correlation to how much money subscribers/advertisers will pay, and none of that has any correlation to what investors will pay!

Anybody optimizing for competence is exchanging time for food and shelter and just gets to be reminded of the much harder game they are playing that produces much less optimal results of money.
Isn't that just politics? You wouldn't find many with that opinion if they moved to for example France or Italy.
I personally know someone who did this up to a $30m home in ft. Lauderdale that they cashed out recently and paid effectively no taxes on.

The system is completely broken.
Here’s how I got over my negativity:

Like many others here on HN, I lean more towards the “intellectual” and “analytical” side of thinking. I was not very mindful of my emotions and how they influenced my thinking.

The thing about thinking is that our analytical minds rationalise our thoughts and hence our conclusions _feel_ rational. But what we don’t see easily is that our emotions define the axioms on which our rationalisations are based. That’s why negative thinking feels so “rational” and hard to get out of. If you don’t see this, you won’t see a point of coming out of it.

I went for a 10 day vipassana retreat and I have been practicising the meditation every day since February 2021. Through the meditation, I was able to finally perceive how much anxiety my mind was filled with in every moment. The anxiety produced all manner of irrational negative thoughts, which I used to believe in. With the meditation practice, I finally could “experience” the anxiety by “intercepting” it. Instead of letting it loose and producing all manner of thoughts, I “uncover” the anxiety and spend time with it. It rises up and tries to cause a mess while I let my breathing take its natural course, and slowly it fades away into oblivion. What is left behind is clear skies in my mind, and an insight that anxiety is just something that comes and goes. If not observed, it subtly creates a mess. If observed, it speaks its truth and goes away.

My negative thinking has not gone away completely, but this was a game changing insight for me. The fact that my thoughts are the equivalent of a madman’s rambling, and don’t need to be taken seriously, is very freeing.
Looks like everyone got the cause of this outage wrong on previous speculative posts.
When there is something in my life that is rotting me from within I talk to people I am close to e.g. my parents and let it out because I know they can take it.

In terms of general negativity... I try to avoid social media (Hacker News is no exception) and instead I make a conscious effort to face-to-face talk to people and try new things. Trying new things especially. I find that I basically get a shot of euphoria whenever I do. Day to day life is like grinding in a video game, and trying something new is proving that I am the master of my life, not some architect.

Just my 2c.
I challenge them to link my accounts where I'm not using any real details for the Oculus one (aside from IP address). They're gonna accept the challenge though and I'd be safest not using any FB products at all aside from Oculus. I check FB on average every 2-3 weeks so they could probably make the connection. Loose one, but still.
As most of the Roblox community is aware, we recently experienced an extended outage across our platform. We are sorry for the length of time it took us to restore service. A key value at Roblox is “Respect the Community,” and in this case, we apologize for the inconvenience to our community.

On Thursday afternoon, October 28th, users began having trouble connecting with our platform. This immediately became our highest priority. Teams began working around the clock to identify the source of the problem and get things back to normal.

This was an especially difficult outage in that it involved a combination of several factors. A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load. This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenters. The result was that most services at Roblox were unable to effectively communicate and deploy.

Due to the difficulty in diagnosing the actual bug, recovery took longer than any of us would have liked. Upon successfully identifying this root cause, we were able to resolve the issue through performance tuning, re-configuration, and scaling back of some load. We were able to fully restore service as of this afternoon.

We will publish a post-mortem with more details once we’ve completed our analysis, along with the actions we’ll be taking to avoid such issues in the future. In addition, we will implement a policy to make our creator community economically whole as a result of this outage. There are more details on this to come. As part of our “Respect the Community” value, we will continue to be transparent in our post-mortem.

To the best of our knowledge, there has been no loss of player persistence data, and your Roblox experience should now be fully back to normal. You can always contact our support team if you experience any hiccups using Roblox now or in the future.

We are grateful for the patience and support of our players, developers, and partners during this time.

Verbatim Text post for anyone having redirect issues.

TLDR; We have no clue what happened.
Charging a Porsche Taycan 4S Using Pikes Peak Mountain
Yeah I was baffled as well. I at least expected some logic in between, but nope... anyway, a quick glance at the socket diagram in the post made me go "I guess", and here are some entirely unfounded, speculative maybe-answers to your questions (I didn't check the data sheets either):

> Voltage levels from the chipset?

Wasn't it just 3.3V at the time (or maybe even 5V)?

> Bios recognition?

Not necessarily? Software-wise, a Pentium is still compatible with a 486, and 486s did not even have CPUID yet (only some later steppings did). The BIOS might have not set some bits in some of the control registers as it would otherwise do, but that does not prevent the CPU from working...

> IO timing diagrams?

That's the hardest one, but remember that this was not a "true Pentium" but an "Overdrive", which is basically a Pentium with a 486 bus interface. And the board does accept 486s.
People's debts have been going up, interest rates have been lowering, credit card debt is at all time high, gdp to household debt is at all time high, number of investment houses to person is at all time high, immigration has crashed for last two years.

But sure, the problem is immigration.
The gendarmes have grenades, as I've mentioned in another comment, do the municipal police?

Why would police need grenades, of all things?

Does the US police use grenades?

> i can't think of a single high-profile police violence incident where the Gendermerie were involved.

Have the US police ever killed an unarmed protestor with their hands in the air using a grenade? From[1]:

> Statements from several eye witnesses show that Rémi, 21, had his hands in the air and was calling on gendarmes to stop firing when he was struck and killed by an offensive grenade. Their accounts also cast some doubts over the version of events given by the authorities about the student's death.

Perhaps you were just unaware.

[1] https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/270316/eco-protes...
I picked that up, I'm wondering what's special about "no" orientated questions and why he recommends them.

Or are you talking about my comment? In that case I'm quite confused.

E: ok this is amusing. I found this article: https://blog.blackswanltd.com/the-edge/how-to-get-buy-in-sta....

- Ask a "no-orietated" question

- Go silent (Effective pause so they can answer)

- Follow-up with a calibrated "what" or "how" question

- Repeat as necessary

This feels very similar to my default communication style, so it's funny to see it documented like this.
The human verifier in the process will trivially determine that the compiler output does not match the source code. Your reasoning only applies to a process lax enough to just assume the compiler can be trusted. This also ignores the testing requirements that require the tests to exercise the source code and its corresponding output. It would be quite amazing to have a rewrite that not only causes malicious code to be generated, but also cause the malicious code to pass the independently written tests while ensuring the tests fully exercise all branches and conditions in the malicious code.
So, can we say that it is kind of centralized?
They're all quite amazing pieces of writing, and very funny. Are there some people who understand the technical content?
Adjacent teams? It makes sense not to discuss it with totally unrelated teams, but a large Internet company wants to have its cake and eat it too - scrape all of the worlds websites, while simultaneously denying others from scraping its results. Limiting communication between adjacent teams (ie the scraper team and the bot blocker team) really seems like it would be a hinder rather than help.
The housing statistics program shows that established immigrants on average own more expensive housing than Canadians (Toronto being the one exception). The newly immigrated on average own less expensive housing than Canadians.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210318/dq210...
Facebook: Creating the Metaverse (Zuckerberg's Master Plan)
That's funny. When I saw him being salty and obnoxious I checked the author on the piece, but since it was a Substack and didn't say "Jeff Vogel" I decided it was just a coincidence and I should keep reading since it was a new perspective. Guess not.
You can also stay realistic, while being neither too negative nor too positive.

You can step back and identify the negatives and the positives of a circumstance or plan, weigh them (quite literally in a table for anything complex, it really helps), and set a course of action based on that. Then you price in the risks of negative consequences, while aiming for potential positive outcomes in the future.

Otherwise, being super negative and not trying to change one's situation sounds like distress, and seeing only the positives to a potential course of action sounds like folly and risky planning.

I also think that this can be trained. There were times when I was really negative about everything, but I developed a habit to notice when I was experiencing this negativity, and try to identify positives too, to balance things out. It did give me a lot more agency.
That sort of ruling reinforces the dominance of large megacorporations on the internet. A big company like Google or Amazon might be able afford to keep track of laws like that in every country, or at least countries with enough international influence, but a donation backed site like Gutenberg probably doesn't, much less a website run by a single individual.
Very helpful website for this moment. Thanks for arrange this site.
Does poor people in China moving up the socioeconomic ladder compared to the “middle class” factory workers
in the US who moved down the socioeconomic ladder not count as if happening in the previous century?

> There's also no plausible mechanism, short of a dramatic reduction in labor supply, that could drive a macroeconomic trend like this.

Is proportion of working age population and fertility rates not going down? Of course they can be offset with immigration and automation, but will it be for the types of labor requested by the increasing proportion of old people?

I do not know the future for sure, but one big variable that has changed is slowing population growth. The government can print all the fiat it wants, but it will not make the necessary labor appear out of thin air if people are not having kids at the same rate as before. Immigration and automation might blunt the impact of slowing population growth, but it may not be able to absorb all of it.
probably due to the mandates
Organized suffering for people who have never suffered. Lack of suffering is associated with shame and illegitimacy. Showing people that you have suffered is a way to shed guilt.
I think the solution is to require that the agencies have to take proper care of the money, and invest it wisely in something that is guaranteed to make an APY that will keep up with inflation. They also can’t spend it or put it into their coffers until after they have filed charges or the statute of limitations runs out on the crime that the person was suspected of. And if the statute runs out, then they have to return the money —with interest.

And even if they do file charges, they still have to be proper custodians of the money, until such time as all appeals have been exhausted.

Make ‘Em wait long enough to get the goods, and make ‘‘em work hard enough to keep them, and then they won’t want to be doing any civil forfeiture unless it’s a really large sum in a slam-dunk case.

It’s all a matter of making sure that their interests are aligned with the citizens that they are supposed to be serving.
fyi you've misspelled "HIPAA" on that page
Firefox addon link is broken
You mean it wasn't an arbitrary edge case in a database the company doesn't even use?
Are you serious or joking?
That's like saying rich people diet so they know what it's like to be hungry.
"Wising up" is just the stock price going down. Happens all the time. Dividends are also paid regularly, which is real money in the investors pocket.
OpenWonderland
This is not quite up there with "won't someone think about the children!!!!", but still, it's sad.

Fortunately, almost all of the websites I visit with my anonymized browser aren't places that I wish to attempt to post a message. Unfortunately, I can easily run into defenses of an entire site when the problem is spam sending.
SCII is a great example. The way the Ur-Quan are characterized, their motivations revealed, their factions delineated, is a lot more than you know about most villains. The way some little side mysteries become plot threads while others reveal the depths of the side character races is really good storytelling.
Ya know, I had thought about submitting that link yesterday or so, but got distracted and never did. Submitted just now, since you brought it up!
Yes, and ‘Machine Learning’ is still being published, as is virtually every other journal of note that’s seen a mass editorial resignation. Maybe this strategy will work in the long run—if all the high-prestige journals are open access the publishers may wither and die—but so far Springer and Elsevier and the others make their money either way.
Wonderfully useful insight, thanks, now I know exactly what I must do. I'll study the most recently launched programming language, operating system and shell. I'm sure they're better and far more useful than C, linux or bash, just look how old those things are!
Thank you for posting the text of the blog post. However, I don't understand your TLDR. They clearly were able to identify the root cause, and that is what allowed them to restore service.
Could quantum entanglement do this? If you collapse the wave function on one end, the other collapses instantaneously. It may not be any good in itself for transferring information, but it could be used as the signal to synchronize on?
Before the Final Frame: When Police Missteps Create Danger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29062912