skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
heterodox views like racism? fascism? violence?

I'm not saying that every time I hear about someone being banned its for these reasons but its often enough that I become suspicious it may be someone trying to argue for "The Bell Curve" or that slaves were happy or some other ridiculous racist idea.

Tons of people with >1Million views are trolls and extremely bad faith actors. That's often how they became so popular. Look at Tucker Carlson. If you don't ban them you may be encouraging others to act in bad faith to gain popularity.

If you don't ban Alex Jones you are letting him spread his conspiratorial racist views and harassment campaigns on your platform.
One time he played at San Jose State University while I was living in the brick dorms next door and I distinctly remember feeling the bass even from outside that show.
From what I've read, Amazon deletes reviews that indicate the product is made in China. Your implication that it's some kind of racist basis for the review itself may explain why, but I doubt this is the primary reason. It's probably more that people are unhappy with the item first, then the identification as Chinese-made as about the only way to screen out these companies swamping Amazon with thousands of short-lived low-quality brands. Since the law requires them to at least indicate this much.

I do see lots of 1-star reviews complaining that the package came damaged or something. I tended to consider them worthless. But recently I have gotten a couple items that looked like the box spent months in a dumpster or something, so maybe they had a point too.
If it is sold as unlimited, then using the service at the maximum bandwidth all month is not abuse - that is normal use.

I think you should be grumpy with you service provider who seems to have no idea how to properly manage traffic ;)
Santa Cruz, CA, has only one billboard iirc, coming over hwy 17 from the Bay Area. I never appreciated how this muted the pace of advertising exposure until I spent time in other parts of the US where such things are less regulated.
I love how thoughtful you are about everything you wrote!! I'm about 6 years into my career but have jumped across 5-6 companies already counting internships..

My experience is a lot like yours. I've performed _incredibly well_ at one company. In 1 year, got 2 big promos, a small team under me and respect of the CTO. I straight up burned out, showed up late to work and got dumpstered in 3 months at the worst. Did varying levels of good/bad at others. Each time it all felt very personal until i get some distance and see that yes, it was personal but it was also environment and i can only change so much so quickly.

Honestly my belief is now that environment is 80% of performance. The tech skills they need, the way you gel with teammates, the little chances you make or break at the beginning and how that snowballs into trust or distrust among a team, how aligned you feel with the mission, maybe even the noise level at the office or the quality of the dev laptop and environment... every little thing counts so much. Its hard to even know what will count.

All i can say is yeah i agree, it a deep question i think about too and keep up the work to really reflect on what environments suit you and how to suss them out from interviews.
Absolutely yes. Roussseau was the classic naive and had man limitations,mbut also blissfully unaware of them. Most importantly, he simply loved painting. Picasso had a lot of respect for him and was one of the few to have attended his funeral.
> Just tested this on my 15-year-old account and it's really well executed. Great work!

Thanks!

> The main link here should be to reveddit, not the video at cantsayanything as it is now.

I intended to share the video because it's an overview of what I've learned while building the site, which I thought might engender more interesting discussion than the tool itself.

TL;DW I think secret removals creates the toxicity it seeks to remove. See also this ongoing discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/ymeqaz/hate...
True, but before about 10 years ago, the reaction to that was mostly "well, those people are wrong in everything, but they right in this - this is free speech, and we value it, even if we hate those people". Now the reaction is "well, everybody knows "free speech" is a code word for "Nazi" so no wonder...".
Then it’s an alternative for technical users.
https://skybrush.io/
Sure you can find unused cloud environments to spin down and try to switch away from expensive vendor agreements, but any significant costs savings is going to require a lot of optimization and talented employees and I get the impression that the talented employees that wanted to work at Twitter already do.
I don't have time for a long discussion so I will just address a few glaring points and then leave it at that:

> Chernobyl

Withholding information is not the same with lying. Many Americans still don't know about Three Mile Island, leave aside having any idea that the regulatory agency keeps reducing the safety standards for US reactors to keep 40+ year old reactors operating.

> Korean Air Lines Flight 007

Where's the lie in that. Multiple times the USSR warned about violations of their airspace, and shot them down when they have not complied.

> The Katyn massacre

Reported by Nazis, whose memoirs worry about someone investigating the bullets found on the location and getting the event linked to the Germans. Even if you trust the Nazis, Soviets did not lie about the incident, they did not release any information.

> * Soviet government always claimed that people’s living conditions in the Western countries were worse than in the Soviet Union

Kennedy administration's internal memos say the same. Soviets were raising their life standards too fast. Which was 'worrying' because other countries could copy them and try 'independent development' (socialism), leaving US axis. Leading to what is today called 'the domino theory', and to Vietnam war and all the atrocities that followed it. Along with the arms and space race that the Kennedy administration started to starve them of GDP as economic warfare.

There was no lie in it. They were correct.

The reality is to the opposite and its so much worse - USSR told Soviets that there was much poverty in the US and there were a lot of homeless even in places like NY. Soviets did not believe them. ~40 years later, there are still Russians who believe that there are no homeless in the US.

> Soviet-Finnish production that came out in 1986.

By 1986, the Soviet administration was co-opted with many Yeltsinites doing whatever the US asked of them. There is no 'Soviet' at that point. They even went to the extent of doing EVERY single thing that the 'chicago boys' wanted. They did things that were not even imaginable as policies during Reagan era in the US.

And sorry, but if a movie is your basis for opinion, your opinion stands on shaky grounds.

Here is what the former citizens of the Eastern Bloc think.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-...

I recommend you do your own independent reading. Starting from the cold war relic Angloamerican and satellite press and publications, you won't get anywhere near the truth.
not really on topic but i don't think russia is a nation state
That's quite subjective.

To someone with no money to spend, Mathematica isnt really an alternative to Mathics.
> 1TB isn't what it used to be...

Maybe on Fiber but if I was using a satellite service idk, I might understand the difference.

Having lived in a rural home with WiMAX the idea of having 1TB caps with high speed sounds like something you don't get to complain about.
Considering they did lay off 50% of their staff, your analysis was spot-on.
Gladly

This book is a bit broad, but I think it's the best place to start I know of:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-23932-3

"The physics of the human body"
It is amazing and an indicator if something went viral. I remember Kendrick Lamar dropped his first LPs and Twitter just couldn’t recover for hours. There were no “trends” list before.
> The same case is for C++, there is a vector class in STL but no linked list class.

No, there is std::list.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/list

> Same for Java.

Also no, LinkedList exists.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/LinkedLi...
Geniuses Used to Be Raised
No they are building in the US because the US told them they have to. TSMC is the biggest chip Taiwan has to convince the US to defend it from Chinese invasion. The most advanced fabs and the most capacity will definitely remain in Taiwan.
For #1 I can highly recommend this interactive article by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/sound/. It might lack the depth you want in intermediate or advanced topics, but in my opinion it is the most efficient and effective beginner education material out there.
Shenzhen is way ahead in drone shows.[1][2] It helps when they're made locally.

Fireworks are so last-cen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qmUTllPbE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apokvH4F9Ws
Is systemd bad?
> I'm purely talking about the ability of someone to sign their own emails without being dependent on a monopoly like Gmail to do it for them.

What is blockchain adding for this usecase that's beyond what PGP [1] offers?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
My personal project is a working case study proving the practicality of the idea. It’s not ideological and enables things you would dare do with prior existing server/client models.
I'm at one of these for the following reasons: 1) It's effectively free when you make sure to meet their conditions like minimum balance, have a direct deposit, enable overdraft protection 2) it's a short walk to the local branch, where I can talk to a human, 3) their web site and mobile app are both great.
There is protection for minority shareholders.

I'm not sure the extent but majority owners/majority voters can't loot the company.
AFAIK it's geographically limited... I think that only US users have input to Birdwatch. It's certainly not in the UK.
I’ve always wondered about whether you could have your cake and eat it too with linked lists where nodes are allocated in contiguous blocks of N nodes. So, the normal case of traversing the next pointer is not a discontinuous memory access.
What you're trying to do is pointless and wrongheaded; putting this license on your software will cause distributions to treat it as radioactive.

The conditions of the two-clause BSD license already prohibits the uses that you're trying to ban, because those uses do not "retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer".

Suppose that your software were mangled by AI, in a way that conforms to the two-clause BSD license: the copyright notice and all are there. What would be wrong with it?

Until you explain what the actual problem is, it's impossible to advise you on licensing.

For instance, are you concerned that even if some AI preserves your copyright notices, your name is then being associated with gibberish?

People could cause that problem, too; some human could take your two-clause-BSD-licensed program, and make garbage modifications to it which make it look like unprofessional crap, without indicating that the program has been modified. The result carries only your copyright notice, making it look like you wrote it that way.

If that possibility makes you uncomfortable, finds some existing license which requires modified works to be clearly indicated as modified.
If you’re a working mathematician, it’s the only way you think.
For Show HN, it's customary to link directly to the product.

I agree about secret removals.
Elon Musk is 100% Gavin Belson.
> conservatives' current messaging that "big tech" is censoring them, coupled with their belief that the tech mores used to calibrate that censorship are coastal, and therefore more liberal.

It's not a "messaging", it's an observable fact. Look at political leanings and donations for Twitter or Facebook workers. Over 80% goes to the left. And that's before we consider that the power is not distributed equally there and if you look at the people in power it's more like 100% to the left.

> Ergo, free speech is conservatives' right to say conservative things.

That's a completely wrong conclusion. Free speech is everybody's right to say their things, but conservative's rights are infringed much more frequently, so they complain more.
> Git's problem is shit like "checkout -b".

That's why the added `git-switch` lately.

For the rest, I would agree. Git is at its core technically "simple". But the CLI UX is quite, let's call it, involved.

I think there are two primary reasons for that: Git is a very interactive tool. That just doesn't go well with a UI which is fundamentally a line printer.

OTOH Git is very powerful. Most GUIs (or TUIs) can't "handle" this well, imho.

Git is "feature overkill". On the command line this doesn't matter much as you never see all features and options at once—besides of course that nobody can remember all those switches. ;-)

But when creating GUIs, which are better in the interactivity dimension, this becomes a real hurdle. Basically you have only the options to hide things and dumb-down your tool or end up with a overloaded and therefore quite complex GUI. Really hard to strike a balance.

The best I've seen so far regarding Git GUIs was Sublime Merge. It also hides much things at first sight but manages to not lock away Git's power by doing so. A lot of features are contextual. Also you have an "intelligent" command palette at your disposal. This matches nicely with the interactivity of Git! Also the GUI is strongly inspired by the look & feel of Git's command line output.

Sublime Merge feels for those reasons in large parts like if the command line tool would be "projected" into a GUI (which is convenient as the CLI output is already quite optimized to see everything relevant quickly), but given the GUI one does not need to remember the awkward command line flags.

Git on the command line should be more like that I guess. At least a kind of build-in REPL would be good as Git is interactive not "batchy".

I know there is a "git-repl", but it's not really what I imagine. It's not really context sensitive or interactive.

"Magit" looks good from far away, or at least heading in the right direction, but it only runs under EMACS.

If there would be something like Sublime Merge for the command line (and maybe even available OOTB) this could solve quite some of Git's usability problems I think.
> part of the GitHub terms of service

There are tons of code in Github by authors who do not use Github, and are not bound by its terms of service. Microsoft and Github have no permission to that code beyond to what is granted in its licensing.

> You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content

Many Github uploaders do not have the right to be making any such grants to anyone, since they are uploading someone else's code.

If you've had someone else upload your code to Github, even if the code is entirely open source, you have the right to demand, for instance, that Github not serve any portion of it without showing your copyright notice. For instance, some kind of search function which shows only several lines of your code that contain a match for some search terms, could be deemed infringing. A license like two-clause BSD doesn't allow an excerpt of your code to be transmitted over a network, stripped of the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer.
Quo erat demonstrandum. Speaking to someone ignorant and choosing to remain so is always more trouble than it's worth. Find a source that you're satisfied with yourself. It's not my business and this is public information
Yes. I'm sorry but how is this not obvious? Do you enjoy hand-writing code on paper?

The natural medium for math is on whiteboards and paper. A computer algebra system like Mathematica is useful, but it augments what is traditionally a paper-and-pencil activity. It makes sense that the standard notation for math is something that is amenable to physical tools.

And it makes sense that the computer tools to assist mathematicians should more closely match this standard notation.
>We need a personal cloud computer.

You know, I actually had this back in ~2011 with the now defunct AlwaysOnPC—it was a really weird service which you could pay like $30 once for an then get access to a remote desktop on a random Debian install on some server they had. It was kind of a security nightmare in retrospect (only the kernel was used for isolation, i.e. everyone was on the same machines!) and I'm suprised it didn't die sooner from abuse (bad actors doing illegal shit from their servers) but it was amazing for the few years it was a thing. You could just sign in from your phone, tablet, or even a random computer at the library using a little java applet and get access to all your stuff just as you left it. I eventually moved on and just started remoting into a server back home but it was very cool at the time to have a fully end to end solution for personal cloud computing.
Nobody tried to "bring American democracy to a close", that's a lie.
I recently moved to a Head of Engineering role and bought myself this book - https://www.amazon.com.au/First-Days-Updated-Expanded-Strate... - "First 90 days". It... helped. Nothing was really a surprise, but it did put some structure and strategy into what I needed to do to make sure that I transition well and... well.. to a certain extent "play the game".
> So now when you buy a game you have to wait until your overnight download window opens to play it?

That's a very disingenuous interpretation of parent's suggestion.

My reading of their comment was that a) there's 1/3 of every day that's not covered by this quota / throttling allowance, and so b) it's easy to configure your game store download manager to pull game _patches_ during that window.

I guess AAA games are around the 50GB these days? If you're buying dozens of these each months, you may have some larger self-control issues to contend with.

Keep in mind we're talking about people using a nominally beta internet service that's got a minimum average ~50ms latency, at any point in talking to one of a thousand satellites.

People that are using Starlink tend to be here because there's no options, or really really really poor options (eg. geostationary satellite - which is what I was on previously, with its 150GB / month limit, 600ms latency, etc). Some appreciation for the fact these pipes are finite and shared is expected and assumed, much more so than urban internet users with nice fat terrestrial connections.
I think by “middle” they mean “at the current position” not at an arbitrary position in the middle when starting from HEAD
Semantics, but RTK is GPS too.
Carvana Managed to Lose Half a Billion Dollars in the Third Quarter
Your recollection is distorted. Most of the people who don't like what he does now didn't like him a year ago either.
https://devdocs.io/offline

works great!
Mosquitos are food for many other organisms.
Canada is going to be hit hard. If you go on the Canadian financial subreddits, you'll see plenty of "Can my bank increase my mortgage by $1,500 per month?".

The decades of continuing dropping interest rates mean a good chunk of the population don't even understand the mortgages they took on.

Now imagine buying a home for $1.5M in GTA, then having your mortgages payment increase by 50-75% and the value of your home drop by 30%+.

Winter is coming.
I'm not sure you'd want to write maths that way. Every WYSIWYG equation editor I've used are very annoying to work with.

Displaying equations is a different thing and it's supported by many tools. Maxima for example has wxMaxima: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/

I've also been working on a different UI for Maxima: https://peertube.functional.cafe/w/qnx1onPEx9LCtDP3wFqjWz
Even IF - even IF this service is effective for people with ADHD - how does this service deal with the problem of people believing they have ADHD when they actually have another problem which presents similarly?

Literally read their post, it's for if:

>If you have ADHD (or think you do)

Wow that's great and not exploitative at all. A service to treat a medical condition that people merely THINK they have. Don't suppose anybody is going to get a refund if they don't actually have ADHD.
My experience with at least ex McKinsey consultants was that they did not come across as particularly open or ethical and just did what looked good on paper.
That is correct, maybe I mistyped something on the way to writing that wall of text.
This is what I would've thought not even a year ago.

Having tried pretty much all the stimulants (oh DNMs how I love you) and currently taking one, I almost can't believe I have to say medication alone is not enough.
I think so. Mercurial had a lot of people using it, lots of features .. yet something made git blossom way higher very rapidly. Maybe python perf made a difference ..
Are you using Starlink for these all-day every-day video conferences?
2/3 of the ethereum staking validators are domiciled in the United States, because they are hosted on centralized ethereum wallet services in that jurisdiction which offer staking. Or at least it was at one point after merge activation; I haven't checked in a while. It is quite easy to see where the stakers are located through traditional blockchain analysis tools.
There absolutely is. This is a skill i take pride in - being able to run into a random failure and dig through logs, exceptions, code etc. to figure out what is missing.

Being able to quickly understand and debug a large vertical slice of a system across many layers like that without docs or handholding is really valuable in a broad SRE/production engineering type role or a do everything early engineer type role when docs/handholding are in short supply.

Not to say you have to have it. Many engineers are bad at this but way better at consistently putting out solid bug-free code quickly than me and thats a huge chunk of engineering as well.

But it is a learnable skill. 90% is honestly just reading errors carefully, googling them and following the trail but many people have sort of a panic/ignore response when a weird looking error messsage comes up somewhere and interrupts the flow.
Something tells me your comment is totally baseless. I could make the same claim about you, one internet stranger to another, and it would be worth just as much, that is, zilch.

Fwiw, I've volunteered at homeless shelters, sleeping overnight and make it a point to give at least a buck and say an encouraging word to any homeless people that I pass by, not that a buck will make a drastic difference, but to let them know I'm not totally ignoring them.