skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having started to occasionally edit stuff on Wikipedia over the pandemic, I have a newfound understanding of the reasons for deleting stuff.

As a casual user, you will, by definition, tend to see the most-trafficked, well-maintained pages. Deleted pages, as a general rule, are not those. Your impression of the level of quality that can be achieved is completely off. This is also true if you read a lot in some specialized subject that has a small, but active and productive community (some pop culture fandoms, for example).

Leave the beaten paths at your own risk, especially if it concerns anything that has small communities with differences of opinion. Like foreign wars.

Example: this page about some soldier in the Balkan wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milan_Tepić&oldid...

This isn't the worst I've seen, but something I remembered because I tried to clean it up recently. It includes a long discussion that has little to do with the subject, is obviously the product of a tug-of-war between opposing POVs and fails to present the subject in a way that would allow the reader to come to any conclusion. Or, at least, I still have no idea if this guy is a war criminal, hero, or both.

And this is the stuff that doesn't get deleted.

The other standard is obviously self-serving content, i. e. articles written by the subject or the subject's employees/PR people etc. There is simply no way to deal with the fundamental problem that an article's subject always has far more interest in an article than any random editor without limiting the scope to subjects that attract at least a few interested editors without a conflict of interest.
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Yep, exactly. For the curious, and without casting aspersions on the individual (be nice!), here is an example of a non-notable page created for self-promotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Damith_Madhusanka...

It's currently up for speedy deletion, and will probably be removed soon.
I wrote an app to track all my read books in a table: https://videlibri.de/

The main feature is to import the books from a library account. At that time I was getting all my books from a library, so I never had to add any book manually, they just appear in my table.

But it is in German, because I only have Germany library cards. I cannot get any more library cards because the libraries refuse to talk to me
This is circular. If the individual is constantly checking the dysfunctional apparatus of the public, then the public won't change because the individual won't. Gandhi pretty much tackled this in whole. Individuals have to independently strive towards this, of their own volition, to dismantle the heteronomous shitshow that the West has constructed with their virulent socioeconomic modal.

Nobody in their right mind agrees with the state of civilization, probably at all; this is the consequence of heteronomy. So even if you're affine to laissez-faire idealities, their realities with the concentration of wealth and the fundamental aspect necessitates someone ultimately is sacrificed to turn the wheel, typically the "third world". Or any of a huge battery (probably infinite) of other similar moral concerns.

We're all culpable for the continuity of this, myself included. We need exceptional individuals to live exceptional lives more than ever, though. We need to take it upon ourselves to begin dismantling these systems and their fundamental concepts.
No. I try to add wikipedia for Open Source Software that are used in many places but that aren't giant and not well known outside of tech circles, and they get deleted, typically for lack of noteriety or not enough external references, sometimes 5 or 6 years later.

It is very discouraging.
I’ve been thinking about going phoneless, but had a realization that I have used this number for far too many accounts to even remember.

I basically need to port this number to a cheaper carrier and cover the cost…forever
I wonder if people know that electric razors last like … ten years. I’ve owned, I think, two electric razors in my life, and I’m in my late thirties. I never have to replace any part of it.
“I made a ton of money by selling out ten years ago and, after really thinking about it, I realized that I became part of the very thing I was fighting against.”

Stop me if you’ve seen this before.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31294316
> However, people should be able to choose the form factor that lets them live their best life.

Especially when one particular form factor leads to surveillance of your location.
Factually accurate, but not any better for the public.
Agreed, very sad
The only times I've felt frustration looking up things and finding them deleted was like some minor god from mythology of which there likely wasn't much written as there isn't much known anywhere TBH
How bad is Diesel? [video]
You had the best and you still hated it. Maybe there is more to life than selling your time for a paycheck? How is your life outside of work? Do you have a partner, kids? Carpe diem.
Might want to look at syslog() vs calls to error_log().
Nobody is posting their “thoughts” on Wikipedia, it's for encyclopedic articles. By controlling the content of those, you control what many people consider the truth.
Look at the reddit groups with everyone having some favorite brush or soap lather.

Better yet, don’t look. Just because dweebs want to spend their time fluffing their feathers in front of other shaving dweebs doesn’t mean that any of that is required. (And if shaving accessories is your schtick, go with my blessing as I tend to my own dweebery.)

And the first few times I shaved with a DE safety razor, it went fine. It’s a safety razor, not a straight razor, what are people expecting to happen?
Maybe you just aren't used to cooking on the pan or it needs to be seasoned further? I can cook amazing eggs on my Griswold, so I doubt the issue is the pan itself.
The other environment that is still popular today is the “statistical environment” that Rick Becker, Allan Wilks, and John Chambers created. It eventually became “S” and John would essentially recreate it as “R.” It’s a very nice environment for performing statistics and graphics together.
What happens if my phone breaks/dies/runs out of battery/gets lost/...? What if it's my grandma's phone N thousand miles away?
It sounds like you're confusing novelty with usability. Instead of worrying about competitors, focus on your first customers. What do they want? What do they need? What value can you provide that your competition does not? Is a unique - yet perhaps confusing - UI really the best way to differentiate? To add value??
Suppose you're born on a planet that has some amount of natural resources and some characteristic that makes it liveable. Now if you consume part of the resources to produce stuff, and pollute the environment as a side effect, you're richer of the amount of stuff that you produced, but you're also poorer of the non-renewable resources that you consume, and you'll have to pay for the environment at some point too.

For instance, in the case of global warming, there will be migration of populations, raise of ocean level, extreme weather events, all of this will have a cost that we'll have to pay eventually.

All of this has to be taken into account if you want to assess the merit and sustainability of our production system and demographic growth.

Putting it another way, we're rich because we were given a huge loan in the form of natural resources and a hospitable environment, but this is ending. Unfortunately, there's no perpetual growth in a finite world. This is a mathematical truth.
"Drones" "artificial intelligence" "start-up"

Sounds like a scheme to scam money out of government grants, bloated charities/aid agencies and/or VCs. I’m surprised blockchain isn’t (yet?) involved.

Is there any evidence that throwing seeds at the ground is the bottleneck in fighting deforestation as opposed to for example the lack of suitable land to plant these in where the trees would actually be viable?

As another commenter points out, if seed distribution is the only bottleneck in fighting deforestation then a potato cannon will work just as well and will probably come out cheaper (and more fun!), but then you wouldn't become CEO of a "tech for good", AI-drone startup.
The double dash was indeed from the GNU project and specifically RMS (though I think it was at the recommendation of someone else whose name I am blanking on). This followed an earlier GNU approach, also from RMS, of using + to signal long options.

The idea, though not the syntax, came from the installation of a TOPS-20 machine and some VMS machines on a lower floor. Our own homegrown OS (ITS) used control characters as commands and had DDT as a shell.

> In the beginning, in the first year or so of Unix, an ideal was formed for what a Unix program would be like…

Note that the approach you’re talking about came straight from the Multics of that era, though Multics already supported some short options at that time.

> None of this explains dd.

Because just as Unix in many ways copied Multics, the dd command copied IBM.
I cook with cast iron constantly, and I don’t recall sitting around and waiting for the pan to heat. I do other related cooking tasks while the pans heat. There’s really never a point where I’m doing nothing waiting on the pan.

Mise en place helps immensely!
But it's always possible to get a new passport, even if you've lost every other type of identification. What happens if I loose my Yubikey and all of my backup codes?
A general tool for that workflow is vipe: https://github.com/juliangruber/vipe
Ah yes, sorry. Thank you for the correction.
Inkdrop and Obsidian both have the same issue for me - electron.
I will not tire of recommending people FSnotes [1]. Native (mac/ios only), opensource, one time payment (if you want it), sync with iCloud, git and TextBundle support.

Not affiliated, just a big fan.

[1]: https://fsnot.es/
mkcd Make and Change Directory
> Question for any curious or innovative HN readers - what would you suggest to do with iPadOS' restrictions?

Sell it and get a proper computer.

If ipad os is restrictive for you then the ipad is not for you.
This has existed since 2013[0]. If you haven't noticed it in nine years, how much did the world really need this?

[0]: https://deletionpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&offset...
Google Knol pretty much let anyone write their own article on anything. It was not a success.
Democratic communalism can sustain itself perfectly fine at the scale of a small village, or a neighborhood in a small town, or a single condo/HOA in a big city or suburban area. The whole question is what to do beyond that scale.
It is very discouraging.

Exactly. What the Deletionists seem to miss is the extent to which their entire position is based on negativity, and how that negativity poisons the well for everybody. Imagine spending hours, or days, or weeks writing a detailed, well-documented, heavily-interlinked, high-quality page only to have it shot in the head in a Deletionist Driveby. Would you ever edit another Wikipedia page again after an experience like that?
It's super annoying to have a command that was called with "-h" output "please type --help for help". And there are lots of it.
I very much doubt many of these seeds will be successful.

They say that it's more efficient to use a drone than to manually plant a tree or seed. Yes, blasting seeds out of a potato cannon would also be much more efficient if the goal is to spread unsuccessful seeds. If the goal is to get to a mature tree or forest, then I doubt it's more efficient at all.

Forrests are self-sustaining. But recreating a clear-cut forrest usually requires a bit more care than just chucking seeds around.
More egaletarian societies usual win wars against more tyrannical societies, provided similar size/ conditions

Two reasons:

1 - More egalitarian societies are more efficiient - they produce more because exploited peasants are not peoductive
2 - Who wans to die to protect their tyrant?
Especially when they have their new app to shill which they will aim to sell for more FU money when it comes along and moral compass no more
One of the ways the elites are generating carbon credits for pennies on the credit.
An Estimated 85k Occupied Housing Units in Baltimore Have Dangerous Lead Hazards
>listened to the binaural recording gasped or exclaimed about how realistic it sounded.

About how it sounded like they were sitting there in front of the piano. Some even had goosebumps.<

^^So very True!

Binaural Recording : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording

Dummy Head recording : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_head_recording

search: >category+Binaural+recordings< @Wikipedia : <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&...>
If only they had known Zuckerberg was a giant tool before the acquisition in 2014… wait.
Any prove?
There is a typo on the landing page. The screenshot on the right says “two-clumn” instead of “two-column”.
The N64 controller was a weird but essential introduction to joysticks (2021)
Do you think an admin, with some programming knowledge, could write a program to scrape all of the deleted pages on Wikipedia and store them in some public archive for people to view?

I'm sure it goes against their terms of service, but it would be really great for getting rid of censorship.
Although I've used a few electric razors over the years (and much prefer using them to buying and keeping track of disposables), it's probably worth referring to a more detailed analysis of the options out there, so here's Wirecutter's writeup of recommended brands and models as of Dec 2021:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-electric-raz...
Makes sense, thanks! So I guess that means keeping track of stars in our own galaxy is probably harder than stars farther away?
> I think having 8/16 is a bit of an overkill for an OS this restricted.

Restricted? It's capable of running:

* android apps directly from google play

* multiple linux containers (lxc)

* gpu accelerated linux gui apps (wyaland/lxc)

* docker containers inside lxc

* kvm virtual machines capable of linux, windows and even macOS guests
At these specs I expect the price to be pretty hefty, what was your reason to go for a Chromebook instead of another laptop + Linux?
Can you suggest another language that effectively allows inline templating like PHP does, and has a huge set of libraries available?

PHP runs more of the "web" than you probably realise - some of the highest trafficked websites in the world, in fact. It's fine done properly. The bad press from 20 years ago is pretty much unwarranted these days. Also, if wordpress had been written in RoR or Perl/something else, plenty of the PHP bad press would have been avoided.
So maybe the Ninja Gaiden NES game should have been called Ninja Gaijin outside Japan?
The double edged safety razor is amazing for thicker facial hair. Even if I’m shaving every day, cartridge razors all get clogged on me. No amount of hot water gets it out, and the stuck hair roughs up my face like sandpaper.

The double edge safety razor is so much easier to clean out.
I assume you mean phones?

This is not a form factor result, it's a result of a function.

If you want to have internet access without being near internet AP, you have to accept surveillance. This applies equally to phone, or tablet with SIM card, or laptop with external 3G modem.

If you are OK with only accessing internet in specific location, you can turn off cell subsystem in your phone -- this functionality is present in every phone I have seen.

(Same applies to bluetooth, wifi and other ways to track device remotely)
A strange view. Did management have no say in this?
WhatsApp was hugely responsible for the spread of violent propaganda in India that led to hundreds of deaths (possibly thousands). And Pakistan. And Thailand. And Myanmar.

And WhatsApp didn't do anything while Neeraj and the original team were in charge. It wasn't until after FB acquired them that changes were made.

So basically, not only is this guy crying about spilled milk...but it seems he's more concerned about people's data being exploited after he got his FU money than his deliberate failure to make changes that would have saved hundreds of lives in multiple countries.
The prevailance of gang violence has it's root in social and economic imbalance, too.
I do not disagree, police violence is different and not as "brutal" (can't find a better word) where I live, but of course I look onto the US as an outsider.
I also do not think that letting society splinter into rackets would be preferable to the status quo, but I do think the status quo leaves a lot do be desired for the majority of people.
EDIT: This shows itself e.g. in the organisation of precarised people in gangs.
That police brutality and the state upholding it's monopoly for violence have nothing to do with each other seems far-fetched though. The police is the instution that guarantees this monopoly within the borders of every Nation state, it's quite literally their raison d'etre.
Btw. I was asking this in case deletionpedia hadn't managed to copy all of the articles.
The most popular today outside of the shell environment is the statistical environment “S.” John Chambers would recreate it as “R” and I understand that it’s very popular and does a nice job of performing statistics and graphics together.
That was not my experience when clicking on "random page" a couple dozen times for fun.

Store chains that went out of business. Airliner crashes with substantial property loss and injury but no fatalities. Abandoned software that was moderately influential in the past. Hardware that's no longer manufactured and someone wants to memory hole it. Schools that nobody "cool enough" graduated from, but obviously a lot of regular people graduated from. I hit exactly one individual out of perhaps 25 articles and he was a minor league professional soccer athlete, actually kind of surprised he got deleted, you would think superfans of the team would rally to keep that kind of info.

It was all the kind of stuff where someone with a reason to research would be painfully inconvenienced by its removal or someone with a personal connection would feel bad if it were deleted. The work of the usual people on the internet whom get off on making people feel bad. None of it was literally useless in the sense of lists of serial numbers of dollar bills by year number or similar. Actually if an article like that, if it existed, would be a gold mine for someone trying to research anti-counterfeiting technologies or someone being paid to write anti-counterfeiting software or a coin collector trying to verify authenticity of a collectible, so I'm sure people whom get off on causing others pain would push HARD to delete an article like that and would enjoy the resulting feeling of having caused pain.
If GP is correct, then that signal would be, "Treat everyone who works here more-fairly and address their concerns in a timely manner. It is in everyone's best interest."
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that everything he said on major policy issues was correct... seems like that'd a lot of room to be wrong there, but he was sure as hell right that global warming was real and needed to be addressed.

The attacks on him for his house were just to distract from his message. He also paid extra cash to his utility company to get blocks of "green power" produced using renewable sources to help offset the extra power his home consumed each year.
Difflinks or it didn't happen.
> More egalitarian societies are more efficiient

This is true of some key areas, such as farming. But industry and at least some service sectors tend to benefit a lot from scaling up. Walmart is incredibly efficient, and Amazon only more so.
I agree. Speaking as one that is far from perfect, I'm almost positive that I would have been flushed down the toilet, rather than be born.
So please stop bothering the people who did the right thing by setting up a password manager!

There's an easy way to make passwords usable only by people with password managers: instead of letting the user set a password, generate it for them.
I stand corrected on some of my phrasing, thank you for the correction. However...

>Services do not need a copy to validate your password, and should never store one.

"Do not need" and "should" are the key words here. Users don't know how a site stores passwords, we have to trust them to use strong encryption when it comes to hashing, and to not store it in plaintext.
You can’t teach rage
Some people prefer to pay their services directly. I would rather pay someone to host my notes, and to build/maintain the infrastructure to host my notes, than hope Google keeps finding it profitable to give me costless storage.
You have persuaded me.
The only requirement is that they're both perfect (or at least sufficiently good) logicians and arithmeticians.
Is this local communication? I could swear when I was in the market for an HVAC I checked Daikin units and they could only be controlled through their cloud. It is the only reason I got a Gree unit that, with some tinkering and proper firewalling, is local only.
Their economic system relies on perpetual growth. They need more working bodies or their economy will continue to decline and profit margins will fall unless they make some major changes.
> Using left click to select as well as move feels really unnatural to somebody coming from other RTS games.

Is there a documented standard for RTS controls, at least for baseline features?
That doesn't sound like a good ORM. They should be lazy until you access the relevant data.

That said.

This is where the knowing what's going on behind the scenes matters.
It 'solves' getting government grants and possibly VC money on the trope of saving the environment.
This is also exactly what I'm pointing out. You enjoy cooking, you have other "cooking related tasks", you gather your ingredients before cooking. You have skill and a plan.

I just want to eat and I want to get that out of the way as quickly as possible. For a nice meal, I'll go to a restaurant. I'm not interested in learning how to prepare my own food better, and all of these comments and the OP seems to forget that.

In any high-dimensional space, most samples are far from the median on at least one axis. You have cooking, I have coffee, programming, and looking at birds.
Lost to the sands of time. It had a feature where you could export as HTML and I did used to put it online (with all the thousands of small thumbnails and covers). It’s loss is what’s making me better at preserving history.
> I find it strange you can’t show me actual support for that then, after my repeated requests — are you sure it’s not a widely held dogmatic belief?

Modern extinction rates average around 100 E/MSY. This means birds, mammals and amphibians have been going extinct 100 to 1000 times faster than we would expect. - https://ourworldindata.org/extinctions#are-we-heading-for-a-...

Just under 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact [..] The study paints a gloomier picture than previous analyses of wilderness areas, focused on human impact on habitat, which estimated that 20 to 40% of the earth's terrestrial surface has been little affected by humans. - https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/world/intact-ecosystems-repor...

I.e. the overly optimistic studies showed that ~70% of Earth's land has been significantly affected by humans.

> Surveys of young people point to financial distress as why they don’t have children.

Clearly young people in Somalia are financially better off then, and we should emulate their policies.
> gtar --create --file etc.tar --verbose /etc

That’s considerably more cumbersome than tar -cvf.
> And Pakistan

Sorry to nitpick here but i can't remember any event involving hundreds of deaths in Pakistan that Whatsapp was used for. What are you referring to?