skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or that these stories are boring, repetitive, and insignificant. I'm sure a Honda Civic on cruise control killed a motorcyclist today - where's the outrage and headlines articles on that? People are equally responsible for the car on FSD as they are for a car on cruise control.
They volunteer to vote just fine. Could a moderation system be built on that?

I mean, you vote. And the people you vote also vote. And those you vote highly can maybe be trusted to vote accurately and so on. A lot could be done with that voting data.

And maybe you could even get them to vote twice or something.

What we're shooting for is totally user driven (because moderation can't be trusted) and low effort (because users are lazy)
"Non-attachment", for anyone following, is the core principle of Buddhism.

My experience is the people who say "rude" most frequently have been the most that. I speculate that they imagine so much rudeness around them that they consider their own forgiveable.
Even if such a device never made an observation or discovery the experience of building it and making it operational would be worthwhile.
Intel's high-level software teams are okay, and their hardware teams are great, but their firmware teams are a bit of a garbage fire. I assume that nobody really wants to work on firmware, and the organization does not encourage it.
> Please, for the love of all that is holy, consider what white nationalists explicitly want to do.

You've missed the point. Removing the speech of white nationalists begets more white nationalism.
i'd change the keyword 'celebrities' to 'top of the social pyramid'. You want to start the social group at the top of the social pyramid of the respective social circle. Create a social clique, which everyone would be jumping off the ground to join. Facebook was started at Ivy League, which allowed it to spread like wildfire in colleges. Similarly Clubhouse was started in Silicon Valley with top VCs and Founders.

Of course, each social app goes through various inflection points and arguably celebrities is towards the peak end of it. Celebrities usually catch on once it's already going mainstream or has a mainstream appeal. For example, Twitter had already created strong base of engaged users before celebrities caught on.
Do you have a link to your thesis? I'd really like to read it!

GPU/FPGA Mech has been my dream since like... forever. I started taking a crack at it here: https://gitlab.com/mech-lang/core/-/blob/gpu/src/bin/gpu.rs, but mostly I was just figuring out wgpu's capabilities in Rust. But that was months ago and I've since decided to push it off until after I launch what I have done already.

I have a private slack that I've been using to work with my students, I'd love to send you an invite. Send me an email at corey@mech-lang.org and I'll send it to you. I've been putting off doing a discord channel because I wanted to code up a chat app in Mech instead :P I think I'm almost there but I've been thinking that for years >_<. If I don't have one by the time I launch in October I'll probably bite the bullet and do discord then.
A concise, curated web directory would be nice. Sometimes I use Wikipedia lists of software; just something more general and standard.
Ads in general are probably something society doesn't want, because you have to pay people (in the form of ad-supported content) to look at them. You might say that most people in society think cigarette or gun ads (or DNC political spots) are particularly objectionable. But, I don't believe that that's a reason to ban them.

I'm completely in agreement that the law doesn't compel speech, or publication, especially of ads. Hulu is completely legally in the right to not carry DNC ads, Google and Facebook are completely legally in the right not to carry Colt or Remington ads. They'd also be in the right not to carry Altria ads. But the question is what speech do we want to ban by law... and I think the only answer to that for a healthy, free society is "none."

I even go further and say that respecting free speech exists outside the first amendment as a societal value that we should all hold, like "politeness" and "honesty," and that it should be kept even when not legally required... So Hulu _should_ run the ads, even though they are not _required_ to.
It’s in the article:

“…an early employee and Head of Community”
here in chicago most of them aren't even farmers. They are just middlemen.
From the article: “…as an early employee and Head of Community…”
This seems like the kind of thing where two would actually be useful. Is there any benefit to making both observations at the same time? Or are the scales so great that it doesn't really matter?
"Why build one when you could build two for twice the cost?"
> On occasion, there's an interesting comment or post that's killed and then you're completely prevented from commenting on it. I'm not a fan of this system where just 1 overly emotional hothead can kill a great discussion. There's even a point to being able to comment on spam: like giving people information to protect themselves or report the spam to a particular web host/law-enforcement agency.

> Creating another account is trivial, but I suppose some form of anonymous posting might be useful in certain discussions. The admins would obviously know who your account belongs to, weeding out much of the potential for spam or abuse.

> I do enjoy text-based discussions, but there's occasions where posting a diagram could simplify many discussions. Without making HN into a full-fledged image board, I wouldn't mind some kind of limited use image uploading functionality built-in.
Basically a social capital Ponzi scheme.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. I know how incredibly frustrating and upsetting it is to be representing a minority point of view amid a majority who say a lot of ignorant things, as majorities everywhere do. But you still have to follow the rules, even from that position. They are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and if you'd please review them and stick to them in the future, we'd appreciate it.

It's also very much in your interest to do so, because when you lash out, as you did here and in other places in this thread, you only reinforce the position you're arguing against and discredit the truth you're trying to represent.

I've tried to explain this same point to other users in similar situations in the past. Perhaps some of those explanations would be helpful, if you or anyone want to take a look: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

One consequence of this dynamic is that the burden is much higher on the person arguing for a minority or contrarian view. You can make the point that this is not fair, and indeed the unfairness gets intensely worse, the stronger everyone's emotions are. Nonetheless, it's just the way it is. Fair or not, it's in your interest to develop the capacity to resist these temptations, and fair or not, we end up having to ban the accounts that won't—not because they're wrong, or because we disagree, but because the forum won't survive if we allow people to keep breaking these rules.
Maybe it's more acceptable if the public is told they're likely to get it back at some undefined time in the future. (Or is that too soon after they severed EU relations only to immediately try and get those relations back in order?)
It was definitely neat for awhile. I heard some great panels and conversations and learned some things that you'll never be able to find on Google - like did you know Tony Hawk learned to program on a TI-99/4A? Only way you'd know is if you were there when he said it in a forum with no record!

But I never found any groups I could participate in. There were vast deserts of interests - either because search was bad, or people simply weren't discussing those topics. I'd try to create my own rooms, but no one would ever join.
Agreed. Had to think about that one too a moment, but something felt wrong. XOR is bitwise, so if your statement was true, it would mean that two 1 bits or two 0 bits would both end up producing a 0 bit result. Clearly that would make the whole thing pretty useless :)
Correct. The availability of cheap credit + higher than normal resale values for vehicles of late has led to a situation where people are overextending themselves and buying vehicles that cost 80% or more of their yearly income in order to "keep up with the Joneses". I know some people in this situation, and their ability to afford $600/mo payments (plus insurance, plus gas, plus maintenance) is leading them to actually do less: fewer outings, fewer trips, less expenditure elsewhere, perhaps no summer camp for the kids, etc.

America badly needs a return to the much lighter S-10 and Ranger of the past, with a 4-banger and a small back seat. These behemoths with V8s are not necessary for most people, and neither is the level of temporary luxury they convey. Let's face it: after a couple years your shiny new truck is just as noteworthy as every other truck on the road, which is to say, most people don't care about it / aren't impressed by it anyway.
And rural areas subsidize cities calorically.

You can't eat money.

And all the money is useless if you can't buy anything. Cities are great at churning through money in services but they don't actually produce most of the things that they use.

So yeah if you look just at dollars, cities produce more. But they would fail utterly without the rural areas, I don't think cities give enough credit to that.

Strong towns is very myopic in what they focus on. They are not considering the second order of effects of things like reducing the scale of the interstate system.
If you just open Airbnb to nyc and check whole apartment there are like 800 listings right off the bat.
> Does free speech include false speech?

This is actually the primary issue in the article.
TextExpander raises $41.4M in its first-ever funding
It's weird that you think that I'm advocating for "asking the government to allocate resources for building" anything. Bans and regulations have nothing to do with that, as the multitude of bans and regulations in the US have illustrated.
Maybe they did profile it and this fix is the result. Or maybe Vulkan raytracing on Linux for an unreleased GPU is lower priority and they just recently got around to noticing it.
Ya this sounds like bad design.

> current non-smear time

This is the server that keeps that time! ;)

But IMO, the time keeping device should be a separate hardware module with battery backup that is never is restarted.

The computer should not be keeping time to begin with.
> Most "totalitarian" countries don't function by literally throwing people in prison or beating them for saying Bad Things

This is demonstrably false.

More recent examples: In Russia, they jailed a lawmaker for being anti-war. They jailed many thousands of protesters for the same thing. In China, almost any criticism of the government comes with the threat of being jailed. (More recently, they've jailed many pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.) In Myanmar they recently executed pro-democracy activists.

I'm sure you can easily find similar examples throughout every totalitarian regime -- assuming that people are not too afraid to make them public. Violence/jail, it turns out, is an effective deterrence.
I find it fascinating that the author apparently knew about planets and gravitational attraction (which are fairly advanced concepts) while at the same time being completely unaware that animals can migrate long distances.

You'd think migration is a very easily-explainable phenomenon. But for thousands of years it completely flummoxed Western thinkers. The big breakthrough came in 1822, when a stork arrived in Germany... carrying an African-made arrow impaled through its neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch
Sounds like a race to the bottom. If a poor community upheld its dignity and required additional costs to keep the environment from harm, it would get outbid by a more exploitative seller.
I read that as meaning "Pale blue dot" in the sense that Carl Sagan wasn't a professional astronomer or a NASA employee, he just said "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if you tried taking a photo of Earth from the Pioneer probe" and they did it.
Anyway, O&M is the problem for the guy trying to get
the next decade's budget approved

This is why democracy, while far better than the alternatives, still absolutely sucks.

It's a system explicitly designed to be short-sighted. There is massive disincentive to produce systems and infrastructure that will actually work some distance into the future. The only incentive for politicians is either (a) merely look like they're doing something (b) produce the fastest, cheapest possible thing that they can take credit for when they're up for re-election.

Democracy would only really thrive if the public valued the future, and had some reliable way of judging how our politicians' solutions actually benefit the future. (ex: I value the future, but if we build a bridge today I have no way of judging if it's built to last for 5 years or 500 years)
I agree, it hasn't grown and there are problems to consider. But ngl, from my point of view the discussions (inside the realm of "academia," i.e. purely in the papers) have gotten far less stupid.
The part that is challenging to fabricate at home is the primer.
These days asians don't count towards diversity for some reason
That may be true. I can believe that. But the car industry is monstrously big, each car having 10s-100s of chips. There isn’t really a comparable volume of product that would make it not worth servicing them.

I agree you might try and use this opportunity to shift the OEMs onto chips that match other more modern clients… but it’s tail wagging the dog territory.
This entire comment should be attributed to Banksy, as well as Sean Tejaratchi from Crap Hound.
Ha I just made a similar comment. A fellow Contact fan I see!
Also important to note that their hypergrowth was a direct result of the pandemic.
Wouldn't they suffer from Zoom fatigue as well?
I still remember how everyone was.

"hey zoom cool! We can do online meetings...and it works."

But then quickly it became a drag.

I recall being in a Clubhouse session with Paris Hilton and another with Anthony Scaramucci and thought "wow, there are some interesting people on this platform"
Yet, being on a call regularly would likely reduce this initial novelty factor real quick.
The song was written in April 1792 in the context of the declaration of war from France to Austria.

The then very recent constitutional monarchy fell in August.

The king trial began in November and even then, although death was requested by some, it was not an evidence yet.

Death was voted with a small majority in January.
Woodcocks travel a fairly immense distance (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/3c74c7b19cb733d0f68b3c4f...).

I would suspect, had one guessed in 1685 that the birds arriving that Halloween in London had been relaxing in Spring around the Caspian Sea, you would have been laughed at. Persia in the 1600s might as well have been the moon. I suppose one can forgive them for their lack of belief in the power of our fellow animals - that is more or less the major mistake of their time period: hubris.

> Now, if this be true (as I have no reason to doubt it), it either shows the creature to come from above, or at least thus much, if it come from any remote part of the earth, it first mounts above the attraction of the earthly globe before it begins its journey toward us. Which, if it be gained, it fairly helps our supposal, as is before noted; for if there be such an attraction (which is called gravity) and it have bounds in a certain height, then it may as well serve their going to the moon as to some other parts of the earth.

I do love this though. Perhaps birds travel to the moon! One cannot fault him for lack of imagination.
> and realise that the plans you may not agree with your government only add up to 1%

I wish, I could afford your optimism. :) IMHO Germany is getting deconstructed rapidly, and if one of the leading European countries suffers the breakdown I expect, I see nothing but dark clouds on the European sky. Europe and especially Germany as part of the free, western world need to be leaders trying to solve the ecological and economical challenges ahead of us. But when you want to solve such a huge number of problems, it's not wise to burn down your whole country beforehand.
There is, it just requires that the field be clear of others employing any of those tactics, otherwise they'll naturally dominate with their much louder megaphone.
they also drive like fucking assholes, wear down the roads more, and make driving significantly less safe for everyone, especially the pedestrians who are unfortunate enough to be around them.

> That’s a strange way of saying large vehicles are intended to do more work. I haven’t seen a Toyota Prius yet that can practically trailer a load of crops to market or carry construction equipment.

More work you say? Great! It's odd that all the big lifted trucks I see are never hauling anything. It's almost like most of the people who drive them just like having a big truck and don't have any actual need for it.
>So it's really no surprise why they are getting lots of investigations by regulators over their contraption.

There's only one investigation, not lots. And they're only investigating whether FSD is "exacerbating human factors or behavioral safety risks by undermining the effectiveness of the driver’s supervision". They aren't even saying FSD is bad, or should be recalled. They're only saying that it needs to not alleviate the driver from their responsibility to watch the road, and they haven't even determined if that's the case.
I use an 8 foot, iron digging bar ahead of the post hole digger.
In general it is a bad idea to let sales/marketing types control the direction of a company with complex internal operations. They are only outwardly focused and act like they're running a magic widget factory that makes whatever they want regardless of how the business is managed.
>> solved

Oof classic 3rd rail for when you're arguing with CS grads
Yeah. Tell that to Microsoft
Especially in the NFT era of rug pulls. Globalization cannot run on fly by night grifters.

Anarcho-syndicalists that argue for workers councils run by experts basically got that but it comes coupled to outdated story of ownership.

In real terms the logistics and infrastructure are determined by experts but with the extra steps
of getting validation from financiers who have no experience with the engineering methods, but their name is on some paperwork somewhere saying “they own that”.

I am cool with centralization effort to minimize duplication of effort. Not the kowtowing to some financier who lucked into money in the past in unrelated business, picking and choosing what I work on today as an engineer with nearly 30 years experience ranging from hardware design to kernel hacking, onto web app stacks with everyone else.

The ownership story is political double speak and corrupt expropriation of agency; replacing pols has improved economic gains for public and flushed corruption: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766
I nominate the ending scene of 'Uncut Gems'
So much of this, the chemical imbalance narrative has been incredibly harmful. SSRIs can be helpful for people but should never be given in a vacuum. People are usually are depressed because of something
Time. Time fixes everything. In the mean time don't despair so much. Just trust that things will work out in the long run.
Sure you can. Just make your transport protocol only support taking in a stored procedure name and parameters for DMLs, and some typed representation for DDLs.

But while that prevents people from concatenating strings to form DML queries as a whole, it obviously doesn't prevent the kind of concatenation wereHamster mentioned.
She was a Head of Community at Clubhouse. Twitter @anuatluru
And you would like these people to work in complete isolation?

Or is it okay if there are people in rural areas living near them?

And you're completely ignoring that just because someone works in agriculture they still need services like car mechanics barbers etc etc The actual number of people who work in agriculture if you include all those is considerably higher.
comparing percent of federal spending is an odd way of doing things since the scope of government has noticably broadened.
It does seem like the redshift would need to be fixed on a star-by-star basis depending on how far away is the star.
Absolutely. In yesterday's thread, for example, the other party had a specific agenda, and wouldn't budge, so I let them have it. I did give them a couple of chances, nevertheless.

It is annoying, though, when folks cast a willingness to recognize all sides of an argument as being "biased," because it does not agree with their side.

I also don't like being called a liar, which is what they did, I assume, because they were unable to comprehend being able to recognize all sides of an issue (I was raised amongst diplomats, so I got that kind of thinking since I was a wee sprog).
Ok then I'll have to ask how those other colleagues or those other IRC people originally heard about those products, ad infinitum.

Things like git and Linux were marketed, they just weren't marketed by professional specialists in return for money. Torvalds was out on mailing lists intentionally promoting his creations. For-profit startups will do this kind of informal marketing too, even technical founders will initially try to talk up their business amongst their circle of friends and associates.

Without someone making a deliberate effort to tell people about new stuff, it's unlikely people will just magically know about it.
Depends on how they would do it. If Apple were to replace brew with an official package manager which just works, most people wouldn't bat an eye.

The way Apple could do it is by introducing the said package manager for iPadOS. iPadOS could soon grow to do everything what MacOS does but only with certain restrictions. If it's faster but cheaper, most people would then just buy it over a general purpose laptops.
That's the sort of bold statement that would require extraordinary familiarity with HN over a long duration, and probably internal data access.

/me checks poster's handle.

Oh, hi @dang, yep, that has merits.

I'll add for those reading this: if you do see suspicious activity, EMAIL THE MODS. hn@ycombinator.com

I'll report one-note-flutes (consistently posting/commenting on a single topic or site), egregious misbehaviour (I mostly just flag, and yes, consistent flags will kill accounts), highly obvious spam that passes the filters (this ... happens quite rarely, I don't recall any instances in the past year or two), and a lot of suggestions for improved links or titles. Occasional disgreements on moderator calls, though that seems to be running about 1-2x per year.

Reading dang's comments is a good way to get a sense of what is / isn't permitted, and what does or doesn't get caught. Mods are human and can't read everything (posts, let alone comments), so the flagging and emails help.

I've been told to add the post ID to emails and typically do along with the title, e.g, "32228983" for this particular post. That apparently helps with the mod tools.

I also try to keep mod emails short and to the point:

subject: <issue>: <post title> <post id>
body:

post url
submission url

brief description of issue --- rarely more than a line or so.
suggested remedy or question (e.g., is this acceptable behaviour)

Providing a suggested fix (e.g., better title or disintermediated URL) helps make mods' work easier so far as I can tell. The suggestions aren't always taken, but the decision made is informed by them. My batting average is pretty good.
Opposite the marketing person in the black suit is a marketing person in a white suit telling you that all you've got to do to be good enough, safe enough, and happy enough is to drink the Koolaid[0] and kiss Hank's ass[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

[1]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kissing_Hank%27s_Ass