skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn’t a lot of it seem like a good idea at the time? When you look at early Facebook, I think people got a lot out of it. Even Facebook today can be a way for older people (say those who weren’t students when it was new) to reconnect with old acquaintances or lost friends.

If you try to imagine early Twitter it seemed like something people liked. Surely microblogging was easier to get into than microblogging. And the centralisation made it easier for friends to follow each other. I don’t think it was particularly obvious how it might go wrong. For example there wasn’t much of an algorithm for a while (feeds were chronological) except for a ‘trending’ section. But HN has a trending-like section – the front page – and it seems to work out ok.

Basically, I claim that ‘we’ thought they were a good idea and that they fitted in with the optimistic world-connecting zeitgeist of the early internet. I don’t really know what else people were thinking (well obviously there was some level of ‘we think these numbers correspond to a good service for our users and investors so we want to make them go up’ and ‘we sell ads to make money’)

This isn’t to say that the results were good but I think the efforts were generally serious and well-intentioned. If you look at something which is ‘anti-Facebook’, the GDPR, I think a similar thing can be said: the law was carefully written with deliberate goals and it’s authors seemed to seriously believe it would achieve them. I think we’ll find it didn’t work as well as intended but I hope I won’t browse HN in 2032 and see someone saying ‘what were lawmakers thinking when they drafted these terrible data-protection laws?’
I'd really like to know how much Microsoft's behavior with recent Windows versions pays off. Specifically bundling lots of unwanted apps, forcing Edge and Defender down people's throats, removing basic UI customization features, etc.

The fact that they are still doing this today suggests that they get something out of these decisions. Or at least they think so.

I can only imagine that the part of customers being alienated this way is/appears insignificant to them. I still believe Microsoft has the necessary resources to put out a truly great OS, but it looks like they don't want to.
Why does he need to give his money away before building something "ethical"? He did build Square, which was inspired by a neighbor in his hometown who had difficulty selling artwork. At least in my neck of the woods Square is everywhere and helps small business owners make a living.
Consider looking at autoimmune if you have weird issues. Took me 20 years of vague symptoms to get diagnosed.
Nah.

They want the life their parents had and deprived them of, and many were dumb enough to move from their homes which they purchased cheaply decades ago to buy new homes which are usually more expensive and carry a much higher property tax bill. Their folks are the ones who all worked and earned pensions and then revoked them for their kids because they were "too expensive" to maintain. The "Greatest Generation" lived high on the hog and many of the Boomers who were not fortunate enough to retire on a pension are the ones who ended up paying for it.

If you want to know why Boomers are so heartless when it comes to the plight of the generations that came after them, this is a big reason why. They just assume that life is going to suck regardless of what you do and would rather remain cogs fixed in the wheel than do anything to actually improve something for everyone else.
Great comment. You get what I'm saying.

> What's wrong with women being more submissive and less independent?

The real problem with this, as the social engineers running this country see it, is that less independent women = higher birthrates. They are trying to reduce birthrates and break up the atomic family as part of their plan to make us into a highly atomized workforce, unable to form bonds with eachother. They're trying to engineer a society where there can be no retaliation against the corporate oligarchy that has overthrown the republic.
Health authorities pretty much everywhere have been quite clear about data and conclusions constantly evolving, but people just don't read or process that far. Or only read the "CDC recommends XYZ" headline and then complain that nobody told them that this isn't 100% valid-forever fundamental laws. It's been staggering to see how many people will claim "but they never said this might change" while you can just go back and look at what actually was written at the time and see that it was of course said that things can and will be adjusted as the situation changes.
Yes, You Can Charge More
New alert. Research causes cancer. In mice.
If you do a new install of Mac OS there is a one time notification which encourages you to try Safari if you set Chrome as default or Firefox. I know, I just installed it on an old iMac. It's not as obnoxious as the Windows dialog.
Abandoned Railways: Saluda Grade – North America's Steepest Mainline [1:00:48]
Hi all,

I'm the Didier Lopes from the e-mail.

Sorry for this. This was not intentional The goal was to let all you know about the rebrand of the project, ONLY.

We would have removed every single one of you from the newsletter.

See this thread: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues/1625
I hope you mean give it to charity and not back to twitter?
last I checked I would need to login to my local machine with a Microsoft account to do a clean install. deal breaker.
Cocaine was once a popular and legal drug, why not also pardon crack addicts?
Both have engines, and both have crankshafts. So, yeah, at least partially, they are built the same. Now, translating that to our comparison of 2-story house vs. skyscraper, both have floors. Do you see on skyscrapers, when doing said floors, using concrete pouring or cinder blocks? Because if cinder blocks are cheaper, they would've been used for decking/ceiling a floor, but they always use concrete pouring.

So yeah, concrete pouring is way cheaper.
How do you know the Chinese ones provide you with UV protection? Eyewear is one of the things I won't buy online because I don't trust the online stores to check that their stock meets regulations.
> Prior to social media there was usenet, specialized forums, imageboards such as 4chan, and mass use of IRC. The average social media user would recoil in horror at the 'divisive' content that was common to that time period.

This was stuff you had to look for. I certainly looked for it and found it, but it was also trivially avoidable.

> REAL neonazis spread their message with impunity

Still plenty of "real" neonazis on the internet, and a lot more friendly venues for them if they stick to those ideas of theirs that have become more popular since they were once ghettoized on Stormfront, and keep the master race talk to coded memes and oblique references.
Deliveries in
Q1 2022: 310,048

Q4 2021: 308,600

As for last year,
Q1 2021: 184,800
Awkward name
Restaurant industry version:

I was so afraid to cook in a dirty kitchen, I ended up not cooking at all.

This thread made me realize that's better to sell food prepared on dirty surfaces with unrefrigerated ingredientes half-eaten by rodents and roaches that makes people sick, than fresh food prepared on clean surfaces with clean utensils.

I'm glad I read this.

This is a restaurant worker story.

Construction industry version:

I was so afraid of not using the right construction materials and not building code-compliant structures, I ended up not building at all.

This thread made me realize that's better to sell houses with structural problems and low quality materials that will be unsafe to live in, than houses built according to code.

I'm glad I read this.

This is a builder story.

In any other industry, a person would go to jail for saying that. You won't, because luckily for you, software development is not a regulated activity, and people with your mindset can make a happy living outside of jail. But hopefully one day some types of neglect in software development become illegal.

"Better is the enemy of the worse" is no excuse to have spaghetti code, or 50,000 lines of code files. It means that good is sometimes more convenient than perfect. Spaghetti code is not good to begin with.
Feels like Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot with Win11 as far as consumers are concerned, and instead sees the future of Windows in enterprise.
At least you didn't get a "Windows needs to restart and update" in the middle of a presentation ...
What's wrong with delegating to multiple (unknown-to-each-other) people you trust? They wouldn't all have to be reliable, as you could require N-of-M shares to unlock the full key.
> I think this logic should be reserved for the cases where it really matters

I disagree, because by then you've lost the ability to fight back. If you let the little bad behaviors go, you set a precedent that's hard to fight against.

One could argue we're seeing that in realtime with your argument that everything is still fine...
“The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.”

That's sums it up pretty well.
> But Newsweek probably is controlled by an actual, according-to-Hoyle cult.

Lot of that going around, unfortunately.
usenet is awful unless you're just trading binaries or something. IRC still has some good niches, nobody uses PGP with email these days, except maybe in the most extreme cases.
Spinning up services for local dev is still in spirit. As long as it's something you can do is isolation from other devs/users it serves the function.
I have been an UNRAID user for years now and I have been very satisfied with he product.
While I'd love to see some of the quite spectacular internal tooling + data to be released under an open license, put to use for enhancing MusicBrainz' existing data etc., I doubt it's going to happen.

All team members have started new opportunities since quite a while and untangling all this, filtering out potentially copyrighted/licensed material etc. would take quite some effort.
Energy and environment are very distinct. Yes, BTC uses a lot of energy - but it's also helping the environment.

For example, here they do heating of historical buildings (old castles etc - necessary for preservation of wall paintings and other artefacts) with BTC mining. That's good for environment because without the additional funds they would have to burn coal.

There are renewable energy projects that are economical only thanks to Bitcoin, for example a nearby solar park. Not every place has year round sunshine, so you must overbuild significantly - but that costs a lot of money and also destabilizes the electrical grid when there's too much sunshine in the summer. Solution is simple - use the excess energy for mining, fund half the park with revenue from it. The same is done with wind energy.
Absolutely agree, I am lucky enough to own an apartment, have plenty of disposable income, and I was working from home already, so COVID was meh for me. But, I am not indifferent to my peers and

>life has been ruined by covid restrictions

this is completely true for a large swath of people, and it wasn't fair for them.
This is a good point, but there's also a key difference.

There's a big difference between "code being in one file" and "code being in one function." It sounds like the OP had something reasonably close to "one function," whereas the HN code has a lot of (what appear to be) small well designed methods.
Was this true for the systems that related to revenue and ad sales as well? While I can believe that a lot of code at Facebook goes into production without first going through a staging environment, I would be extremely surprised if the same were true for their ads systems or anything that dealt with payment flows.
Our entire family was sick and it crushed us for 2-3 weeks. This description sounds like it applies to us too. I take anxiety medicine and it’s like it completely stopped working. Yet none of us tested positive for COVID.

I don’t know what that means. It could mean we had COVID but the tests were wrong. It could mean we didn’t have COVID but the flu had similar impact.

Just have no idea what to think about anything anymore.

Edit: downvote away. This is my literal life as it occurred. I’m not making a political statement I have absolutely no idea what to make of it.
Ok, will do.

If you are enforcing the guidelines (no idea if you're a mod or someone else), can you remove the main post since it clearly violates guidelines for being a political topic that is not a new phenomenon, and also counsel the other individuals for violating the guidelines by misinterpreting my comments and calling my opinions/discussion and curiosity "shit"?

I try to abide by the guidelines. Would a better way to be curious be "why disagree without comments?". I would like to facilitate discussion in accordance with the hacking principle and HN guideline of being curious (it would really suck if I'm not allowed to be curious here). I'm not sure how we can facilitate this discussion without asking for additional clarification or reasoning. This should lead to discussion of the content, and maybe provide one or more parties with additional knowledge or clarify a misunderstanding. Certainly it provides more value than downvoting a comment just because one disagrees with it, as votes don't contribute to discussion nor curiosity.
Or putting "suggested links" on my new tab page, and adding news. I really don't care what kim kardashian had for dinner.

Sure, it can be turned off but it seems like every few weeks I have to go hunting around to turn some new spammy shit off. And even though I sync my settings through firefox sync, these adware 'features' don't seem to sync their settings when I turn them off.
I never used my real name on anything in the early days of the web, IRC, Usenet, or anything else. I've always worked to keep my online identity fine-grained and siloed wherever I could reasonably do so.
> Until they start getting kicked off platforms for a certain number of spam complaints

This is even far from a solution. The spam I get is always from a newsletter or "startup" I had never heard of before. This leads me to believe MyMachineLearningNewsletterForum will just rebrand under a new name if they were ever given some death penalty from the Internet (putting aside how infeasible that is).
Thanks for the article! I think I'm convinced—will probably change up some stuff on font sizes and container widths.
Yes, any public healthcare system will obviously make these calculations. Private insurers also do this in the US however they are more limited in what they can do to control costs.

I suspect that because there is one universal system, people accept that they're all more or less bound by the same rules (I'm aware there is private care in the UK too), whereas in the US it can be pretty arbitrary as to who gets healthcare; obviously money helps but there are multiple single payer systems (lol) that some belong to also.
I imagine the 50 files have meaningful names. Just kidding, no-one knows how to name anything.
They are also using stock data from Yahoo Finance and IEX Cloud as their data sources. It is misleading to use IEX because you are only getting 2-3% of volume being that IEX is a very small stock exchange. Using Yahoo Finance may be more accurate but the exchanges will not take kindly to using scraped data like that. There are very strict compliance and audit requirements for dealing with any of the exchanges, and the data costs a ton. I have seen a lot of projects pull together a bunch of random "free" data sources without regard for their licensing or terms. I can't understand how this is even comparable to Bloomberg when there is no live data feed and the data source is questionable at best. I hope their investors aren't blindly believing their marketing.

Being a free and open project I'm not sure how they would ever use a paid data feed though, the market data industry is just not compatible with that model unfortunately.
If their government gave them arms and force them to fight against the invaders, are they still civilians?
There were a half dozen or so tables in Union Square a week ago. Bryant unfortunately wasn't happening, though I noticed the chairs on that side of the park were chained up, so maybe they haven't opened it yet.
> Well, any migration has to be backward-compatible with the old code because old code is still running when a migration is taking place.

This doesn't have to be true. You can create an entirely separate table with the new data. New code knows how to join on this table, old code doesn't and thus ignores the new data. It doesn't work for every kind of migration, but in my experience, it's preferred by some DBAs if you have billions and billions of rows.

Example: `select user_id, coalesce(new_col2, old_col2) as maybe_new_data, new_col3 as new_data from old_table left join new_table using user_id limit 1`
I found the forced full screen start menu in Windows 8 incredibly user-abusive to be honest.

Windows 10 started out pretty nice but all the tie-ins with their services and telemetry have become way too heavy.
>> However, the answer has seemingly been to not even try, and to "stop covid" at all costs, laying waste to any holistic arguments that perhaps prioritizing societal wellbeing was a better route than declaring war against a virus.

Stop Covid at all costs is what they said, but not what they did. HCQ was shot down without investigation even as doctors were reporting success. Most things were simply shot down as "not an FDA approved treatment for covid19" even though there were no such treatments for the first year. I had covid so my immunity is better than the vaccinated, but I was still supposed to get vaxed because it helps a bit more and we needed to do everything possible. OK vitamins D was thought to help and has since been proven to help, so why are there not ads pushing that? It's never been about doing (certainly not trying) everything possible. Its always been "do as I say" from the government.
> Teach it to others

If there's no one around, try explaining it to yourself. An easy method to determine whether you superficially understood a topic or not. After reading some material, it's remarkable how little of it you've truly understood sometimes.
Many classical works have more than one 'track'. Musicians, critics, etc. usually refer to them by the tempo marking text. A lot of music software just doesn't get this. These tempo markings (by the composer; often in italian) are the track names. So Moonlight has 3 movements:

I. Adagio sostenuto

II. Allegretto

III. Presto agitato
That's the spike protein
It's not like the same things couldn't happen on a de-centralized platform, not sure what he's getting at honestly. If you give people a public platform viewable by the whole internet it was going to happen. People are people.
* Spying on users

* Advertising

* Massive inequality
Gotta have some bad versions of windows so when we get an ok version we think it is good!

It isn't like you're going to use Linux ;)
The way you use the word Boomer here is with such derision. What happened to you man, is this just you or is it a generational thing or what
> what makes teachers so damn special?

Ridiculous. None of those jobs can be performed remotely.

> Adults sacrifice for children [...] If teachers were scared, they should have quit and let somebody else teach the kids.

So you recognise the need for teachers, but not their right to live? Laughable. Also, there is a teacher shortage in the US. It's not like there are people queuing up to become teachers, so your point is moot.

> The median age of death was higher than the average life expectancy of a human.

Disregarding the fact that comparing medians and averages makes no sense, what does this matter? Lung cancer disproportionally kills more old than young people, does that mean that youngsters should be allowed to work in an asbestos infested environment?

Regardless, the average age of teachers in the US is 42 years, and ~20% of them are 55 years or older [1]. COVID-19 deaths are 4% in the 40-49 age range, and 19% in the 50-64 age range [2]. On top of that, 60% of Americans have one or more comorbidities that increase COVID-19 risk [3], and long term COVID-19 is definitely a thing [4]. In comparison, if we were to accept that not going to school made children suicidal, which is quite a leap, still puts suicide rates hundreds of times below COVID-19 mortality rate.

So what exactly is your standing here? That we need healthier teachers? More reckless ones? That teachers should be trained to disregard their own safety in order to satisfy your demands? What exactly are the risks in children development that would justify all this, by the way?

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/tables/ntps1718_fltable02_t...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

[3] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/60-percent-of-america...

[4] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
We should, that's a great idea! Thanks for putting it forward.
Korea is currently rationing hospital care in the middle of an Omicron wave. Covid-related patient care (previously unlimited, with a small fraction of patients hospitalized for four to six weeks) is now provided on NHS for only seven days, after which point the patient must pay out-of-pocket and/or find their own hospital bed. When this policy was introduced (the limit used to be two weeks), there was a minor uproar, with doctors accusing the government of killing patients.
I've used shoelace components, overall I've been happy with them.

The only parts I don't like are the event based APIs.

It's 2022, I feel like we've settled on promises as the best way to handle async.

The author wasn't particularly receptive to the issue I raised around it, even offering to create a PR.

I think event based APIs are really holding what would otherwise be a very nice component set back.
> Maybe things have changed drastically in the intervening years, but in my day community college was seen as the place to go for those around the middle of the pack.

I think things have indeed changed. The role you describe is filled by state schools now. These days the biggest admissions barrier to community college is the residency requirement. Fulfill that and you’re pretty much guaranteed a spot. (Source: attended community college for some time)
globalization doing it's thing, equalizing to the mean.
They shut down vine for business reasons not because of any soul searching. Business is business. 99.9% of companies will NEVER shut down over ethical reasons.
A huge number of consumers who can't upgrade to Windows 11 due to unsupported hardware will instead opt for an iPad or Chromebook. Everything is either web- or app-based, and people don't want the complexity of Windows. Microsoft will lose a big chunk of the Windows user base this way.
There's one important difference: not everybody who's exposed to SARS-CoV2 will become infected and replicate a large amount of viral proteins. But everybody injected with mRNA will become a spike protein factory.
I hate the current title on this submission. The title is currently ‘Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter’ and many comments are about how terrible Twitter is, but if you read the linked tweet I think a better summary is ‘Jack Dorsey thinks centralising discovery and identity is bad’ which does relate to Twitter but mostly feels like a reasonably expected statement from someone who is into bitcoin/crypto and likes the idea of decentralisation. So it doesn’t seem so interesting to me.

Also he said pgp was good so maybe the whole post should be discounted as bogus...
If the interoperability requirements of the EU's Digital Markets Act go far enough, Twitter might end up having to federate with Mastodon at least for users in the EU:

https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-digital-markets-act-adop...
You might want to try Norco. It got written up in the New Yorker a couple months ago.