jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/fascism-1

* strident, often exclusionary nationalism - ("America First") check.

* fixation with national decline (real or perceived) and threats to the existence of the national community - ("MAGA") check.

* embrace of paramilitarism - ("stand back and stand by") check.

* led by an authoritarian leader who claims to embody the national will. - check.

* protecting or elevating the rights of the national community above the rights of those seen as alien - ("build a wall", "I don't care, do u?") check.

* removing obstacles to national unity and suppressing those seen as challenging it - (myth of "stolen" votes, "Deep State" narrative) check.

* expanding the size and influence of the national state - (To be fair, this has been the military industrial complex for quite a long time. Nothing unique here) normalized/not unique here

* often, also seeking to expand territory through armed conflict - (Also, already a characteristic of the U.S. forever war to protect its interests globally) normalized/not unique here

Merriam-Webster:
Definition of fascism

1. often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
early instances of army fascism and brutality
— J. W. Aldridge

Don't know where you're getting your definition from.
At the beginning of this pandemic, I watched a 2-3 min video of a Turin hospital (back when Italy was the epicenter in the west) of people silently choking to death in their ventilators. It was absolutely fucking eerie and insane and every time I think of doing something risky, I think about the sound in that video.

Unfortunately in this context, it is illegal to film people in a hospital. I think that's a fair rule but I really would like to have a few videos floating around with no voiceover and no commentary just to scare the shit out of people. I think it would work.
> the government should just let this run its course

Isn't it just an opinion? I personally think that way. Why wouldn't I be allowed to think that?
> Yassss, let’s send them to Gitmo to get water boarded!

People that think Camp X-Ray is a crime against humanity don’t think that it is because no one there is an actual terrorist, but because being an actual terrorist doesn’t justify what is and has been done at Camp X-Ray.

So, yeah, these people shouldn’t be “sent to Gitmo”. Not because they aren’t terrorists (they are) but because that’s not what we should do to terrorists.
>I see the republican party as having a very anti-science, anti-evidence, anti-facts disposition as evidenced by their attitudes toward evolution, gun-violence, COVID, etc.

One of my hobbies puts me among people who pretty homogeneously lean right. They say more or less the exact same thing about the left and on the same list of topics no less. I can paraphrase talking points if you would like. There is a fundamental and irreconcilable difference in beliefs between the left and the right when it comes to the what is right and what is wrong.

I think if you expanded your list of issues slightly you would be very hard pressed to find someone who is not a hardcore partisan from either party that does not believe that the "other party" has it right on at least one or two issues.
Yes, tons. Here in Thailand I've never seen air purifiers in public bathrooms and they smell just fine
I thought view source tells the story quite well... The document looks very clean.
I dont even care anymore, maybe this is a fringe opinion but HL2 on its own is an okay game but its such a departure from the feel of the first that it might as well not even matter if its 3 or not. Its got nothing much to do immediately with black messa anyway. Unless this game connects it since its before HL2
For freedom of speech to be important for any reason, it must have the power to effect change.

If speech can effect change, how can you be sure it is incapable of being dangerous?
At this point it shouldn't be controversial to call Trump a liar. I don't believe saying so creates the consequences you describe (as opposed to deeper issues about tribalism, education, and opportunity in America).
Yeah, like amazon sales are all 100% factual. They indeed slash the price by 50%, two days after raising it by 100%.
IMO, a better pattern is to use lexical closures in continuation-passing style to share state:

function sleep(time, continuation) {
setTimeout(continuation, time);
}

function start_process(x) {
var y = foo(x);
sleep(1000, function() {
var z = bar(x, y);
sleep(2000, function() {
baz(x, y, z);
});});
}

start_process(42);
Oscillating? It's multiple people!
I really like Lex Fridman podcast because his guests don't feel under threat. In the end they open up more than if he had asked loaded questions "a la journalist". Probably this is the main reason why so many illustrious guests accept his invitation.
Curious, why doesn't she use Shopify?
I wonder whether the intended endpoint of this tactics is widespread deplatforming - e.g. support for vaporizing anyone who can be guilted-by-association in the same way that Scott Alexander is in this article. If Scott's reputation is groomed to be cancelable, anyone's is.
His argument about knowledge retention also completely misses the mark. My high school chemistry teacher said it best when asked why we needed to learn stuff we'd just forget about after the exam:

"I don't expect you to remember anything you learned in my classes after you leave high school, but when a time comes later in life that you need this knowledge you'll know how to learn it again."

It's not about being able to recite all the answers to the exam questions at any given time. It's about having gone through the learning process.
I think that's quite reasonable.

I was disappointed that having looked at evidence of early spread in France and Italy through wastewater samples and patient blood samples that the Chinese response instead of doing similar research was to say all wastewater samples have been chucked and looking at blood samples is illegal.

The cynic in me perhaps asks why they would do that.
Some volontary transactions are nonetheless illegal, because to allow them would negatively affect society as a whole. The usual example is that it is not legal (as it once was) to sell yourself into slavery. Also, overly onerous contracts can (in many jurisdictions) not be enforced.

Simply put, “It's a voluntary transaction” can never be a sufficient argument for why something ought to be legal.
They weed out hard-to-teach students, the author says, which means it will drive down the cost of teaching in private schools (less "hand holding" of bad students means fewer teachers required) while raising the cost in municipal schools at the same time, because the municipal schools basically get all the "bad students" which require additional hand holding.

Furthermore, if you outright reject "bad students" - where "bad" may mean intellectually bad, socially bad, bad economic background, disabled ("with diagnosis"), etc - then you can later claim in your marketing materials that students in your private school are performing above average.

It probably will also lower administrative burden, as the "easy" students are less likely to get in major trouble, are less likely to need involvement of the school and child protected services in their lives, the teachers go to court as a witness in child abuse cases less, etc.

And of course, you can always simply pay teachers less than in municipal schools - which is one of the claims of the author as well.

And the last claim the author made is that a lot of these companies just hire some under-qualifiied teachers whenever they can get away with it.

I have to admit, the author makes a lot of sense to me.
Look at what happened with QAnon and anti-maskers.

It's not about 1.4G people: it's about 7G people... The whole of humanity is suffering because a small vocal minority has been deceived and is causing problems for others.

Before the pandemic, I thought just like you that control of the mass media... Some kind of censorship was incontrovertibly a bad thing

Now I think otherwise: if it allows us to save 2.4M lives (and counting!) I'm ok with censorship, as long as you can still use VPNs, TOR or other ways to circumvent it... And the fines for violating censorship are just little bit more than a slap on the wrists
The most effective way to put an end to all war is nuclear apocalypse or viral pandemic. Maybe both at once.

As long as people want stuff and stuff is finite there will always be war.
Whether or not it's true, it is certainly believable. And that means Yahoo has already lost the battle.
I didn't realize someone had already put up the delicious post, and the blog was down so I figured since tc had quoted their entire post and added their 2 cents on it then it was HN worthy. I was going to delete when I realized the dup but there were already comments and I didn't want to throw those away. Sorry about the confusion.
Good point; I agree.
I'm horribly tempted to just start flagging every Techcrunch story I see.
At this point I despair, surely "FarmVille for Dummies" is a tautology. Does no one care about the language any more?
They sacrificed the desktop ui on the mobile first altar to get the blessing of the app store margin gods.
It did predate it by over 5 years. If you're talking about tech features the 30-pin supported (at various points) Firewire, USB, play controls, line-level analog audio and video--for example there was a 30-pin to VGA. AFAIK USB isn't capable of almost any of these things. I believe things like USB audio came later and the 30-pin cable supported that, too.

Even though the connector is much wider I found it way more reliable and easier to plug in without looking at the bottom of the device. It also seems way sturdier when jamming your player into a speaker dock. You mention "well-made" cables. Micro USB is now 14 years old and I don't know of a reliable brand (maybe Anker?). I still constantly throw out cables not knowing if they're broken, not rated for use, or what.

I love standards. I don't know why it took decades to come up with a reversible connector. I've been waiting for USB-C to take off for awhile. Sadly, cable compatibility seems to be a mess (between power, speed, thunderbolt compatibility, etc).
Is this with the PCR tests with a false positive rate of between 0.8 and 4%?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
It's not a short circuit if you consider asset liquidity.
> and "minimum wage increases" sounds great on the surface. but the underlying purpose of a minimum wage is to paper over gross systemic equities that have only grown over time and keep us from even discussing policies for creating more fair and dynamic markets that would naturally distribute wealth more widely and efficiently, and neatly obviate such a distortion-producing bandaid of a policy.

This is a made up problem that came from economists high on their own models. Empirical evidence shows that minimum wage increases in the US have almost none of the distorting effects they would supposedly have. The response from economists has been to make up new models that show it's okay actually, up to ~60% of median wage.

Some countries like the Nordics have high incomes despite no minimum wage (they have sectoral bargaining unions instead) but they should probably get one since it increases productivity a little. And Australia's federal minimum wage is still higher than any locality in the US and yet causes no problems.
Shady practices you say?

Maybe you should have written more about that..
What DAPPs have you made since ?
I think the idea is that you're cleaning not just Covid-19, but also any other kind of contaminant
The data is already public, to be honest.
How does it compare to existing solutions like Gitea or gerrit?
Compatible is the word you're looking for.
Gems only works because it's not only a package manager but also a monkey-patch for the Ruby interpreter which decides on the fly which files it should actually load. Nobody's going to be able to do that for every language runtime which has ever existed, so when someone screws up and releases an incompatible change, you have to give the new version's filesystem contents a different name, so dependencies have some way to specify which one they need. At that point it's clearer to rename the package as well.

I wouldn't expect any system to be able to make correct dependency checks (is this upgrade or uninstall safe?) for discovered files without being told what the dependencies are. If you have actual sysadmins (not devs who had root by mistake and misused it) who are smuggling files on a production box that aren't owned by a package (even one they created themselves), I hope they'll still be around to suffer the hell they're creating.
From that perspective I simply see Wikileaks as just another diverse agenda and perspective. We still have to approximate the truth.
"... Yes, our finance system lacks sophistication, uhuh... ..."

By lacking sophistication, I mean a system of alternative capital (VC) that fully recognises Startups as a serious way to generate wealth instead of say lending money for property development, mining or agriculture.

"... So call [us] primitive if you like, but look at what your sophistication has brought you ..."

I'm Australian ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157601280899273...
Goodreads is dead to me but for different reasons. I don't care about social networks or affiliate links. I just want a working website. I've moved to LibraryThing. Much better. It's even got a better recommendation engine that isn't trying to push an agenda. Although I prefer to pick up books semi randomly instead of based on recommendations. But maybe that's a self defence mechanism from years of biased recommendations.
I suspect you are using the word “socialism” wherever it would be more honest and clearer to use “communism”. Firstly, your definition of socialism makes it a strawman or tautology - socialism is that which has failed.

Many other people in the world use the word socialism to also have positive meanings where society shares its wealth with everyone in that society.

Most every wealthy first world country has a significant taxation system that is inherently “socialist” IMHO. The individual is taxed, and the tax income is spent for the weal of all: on infrastructure, defence, social benefits, health benefits, etcetera. What word do you use for that concept?

I am from New Zealand, which is definitely not a failed state, where: “Total core Crown revenue for the 2018/19 financial year was $119.3 billion. Tax revenue [] totalled $86.5 billion in the 2018/19 financial year.” and “The three largest areas of total Crown expenditure for the 2018/19 financial year were: Social security and welfare: $34 billion, Health: $18.7 billion, Education: $15.3 billion”.

That is, in NZ, 3/4 of tax income was spent on “socialist” welfare state expenditures of education, health, and social services for the majority.

I know that is off-topic, but I just find how you frame your arguments to be severely biased.
>And to respond to your specific point - I'm not clear on how a new blank drive would be a security concern. There might be a technical reason why it has to be this way - or it could just be poor design. At this stage I'm curious to know the thinking behind this.

The Apple security guide spells it out but I can hopefully summarize: the firmware for the T2 is stored on the the SSD, and it gets signed with hardware keys present in the T2 itself so the system can know if it's code is intact or has been modified.

If you remove the existing SSD and install a new one, there is no longer any T2 firmware present. Without it, the T2 can't start and since the T2 is the starting point for the entire boot process - well, hopefully it's obvious as to why this is an issue.

Why not embed the firmware on the motherboard? Well, being able to update it is a nice thing. Not having to worry about running out of storage in firmware memory embedded on a motherboard years before is also a good thing too; especially when the trade off is a pretty darn minor hassle - IF you ever upgrade your drive (which the vast majority of people never do).

If you think this is outrageous, then you must be pretty ignorant of more than a few really gross problems with Intel's TPM (analog to Apple's T2) - many of which can't be fixed without new hardware. At least with this approach issues can be addressed and aren't burned into silicon. Intel could have made parts of their firmware updatable but they punted since it's pretty hard to maintain a secure chain; especially if you are relying just on resources in the computer you are also mucking around with at a pretty low level to update pretty sensitive things.

I'd much rather be able to keep my machine secure even if it requires occasional simultaneous access to a 2nd Mac vs. being stuck forevermore with issues in hardware. And even if you use Linux, those TPM bits are still exposed :p

Ultimately, claiming access to a second Mac for a Mac Pro (!) owner is any kind of hardship is utterly ridiculous. Every single Mac Pro owner I know (and I have and still use a cheesegrater Mac Pro) also has a Mac laptop since, you know, Mac Pro's are far from portable. And even if I didn't, as a Mac user I have many Mac friends I could bum a laptop off of for the 10 minutes it would take to swap an SSD and install.
“Don’t talk to the police” - from a law school lecture:
https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
This seems interesting in that area. He can sue individual FBI agents for monetary damages: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/10/supreme-court-says-muslims-p...
"My advice has long been to remove phone numbers from your online accounts wherever you can, and avoid selecting SMS or phone calls for second factor or one-time codes. Phone numbers were never designed to be identity documents, but that's effectively what they've become. It's time we stopped letting everyone treat them that way."

The "solution" to any online privacy problem is never to submit more personal information. The operating procedure of HIBP, and all the sites like it, is wrong. Because it encourages the wrong behaviour. Yes, I know that in many cases the intent is to "help". However the lesson we are trying to teach is: "Stop submitting more and more personal information to websites." We know websites will keep asking for it. Just say no.

Generally, so-called "multi-factor authentication" requires submitting more personal information. As the number of factors increases, where does that lead. For one, it leads to more inconvenience. It does not lead to greater privacy.

IMO, people should reconsider using email addresses and mobile numbers (which are now known by the folks who have your email addresses) for important matters. The more important the transactions a person performs using these forms of "ID" the more potential risk she creates when they are compromised. History has shown they will be compromised, eventually. She will likely have zero recourse. Despite Cory Doctorow's calls for a "private right of action" for privacy violations in his post to the EFF website, there is little she can do, legally, to hold "tech" companies to their word. She cannot prevent the compromises. She best she can do is respond ex-post-facto, after the damage has already been done.

I hope some of the 553 million Facebook users are calling Zuckerberg's phone to provide "feedback".
The messaging itself actually runs on the ethereum network.
"Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent restrictions to new housing supply, effectively limiting the number of workers who have access to such high productivity. Using a spatial equilibrium model and data from 220 metropolitan areas we find that these constraints lowered aggregate US growth by 36 percent from 1964 to 2009."
Meditation is great if it suits you. Also know no one owns the source code, which is to say you’re entirely free to pause, calm yourself, get grounded however you prefer. No one is in charge but you.

I find nominal meditation practices exhausting. I find meditative practices that don’t claim to be universal much more accessible.

Navigating the actual difficulties: I’m benefitting from a diagnosis and medicine. Before that it was basically chance and very specific life tools/adaptations.
Even funnier is how this roughly works for -1!
Because words are violence now.
Is it just me or does it seem like there something like there were a lot of celebrity-level STEM heroes to come out of the early 20th century. These folks all seemed to work together closely.

Maybe these things take time, but it just doesn't seem like there is anything remotely like this going on today, despite far greater access to education and increases in global population.

Is it perhaps that the limelight is less on mathematicians than it was during the early 20th century?
To me, the strongest motivation for Bazel arrives with a complex (slow) build spanning multiple technology ecosystems. Bazel does a great job building all of them, without privileging one over all the others. It has all the key features you'd expect, dependency graph control, caching, distributed computation, etc. You can add support for whatever local complexities invariably arise with custom rules.

The Java ecosystem has much of that available also though - even a large Java-only project is somewhat tough to justify moving away from the tools almost every developer will arrive already knowing.
All models are wrong but some are useful.
A safer way: just download the dump for yourself and Ctrl-F your number.

An even safer way: Look at your phone log. If you haven’t received 25 spam calls in the past week, your number probably isn’t in the list.
Something I really enjoyed recently:

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat. --Stuart Chase
I think you've lost perspective. You have chosen the product that best suit your needs from a variety of different products. You have your opinions about what "reasonably priced" means, but don't mistake that as meaning that a "reasonable price" actually exists. There are different levels of quality for all products. You don't see people calling for legislation to regulate Google search because its competition isn't as good.

Most people don't mind slower/cheaper DSL service, so long as they can access email and Facebook. As far as I can tell, the free market has worked really well up to this point. Here in Saint Paul, MN, I have a wide variety of options to choose from: Comcast, Qwest DSL, dial-up service, AT&T 3G wireless, Verizon/Clear/Sprint 4G wireless, satellite internet, etc. I do business with Comcast because they offer the fastest connection I can get and at a price that I consider "reasonable."
OK, sounds good. There's no reason for JS to internally take strict JSON when it's already JSON. I say that not because I'm accusing you of it, but because I've seen the moral equivalent, only done with XML and communicating between two functions in the same process space with no RPC exposure.... :)
Ah, you're right. I was scanning the comments and came across "SHA1 + salt" and overreacted. Sorry.
Black holes evaporate back into particles via Hawking radiation.
The way I look at is is that the chance of a PGP key compromise over someone's lifetime is so close to zero as to not matter. Rebuilding your reputation is at the most just inconvenient. Redemption certificates actually work with PGP so you wouldn't have to worry about old identities hanging around.
Did you know anyone who developed cancer from your town? Maybe you should get screened regularly as well?