skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You genuinely think the type of people who subscribe to subreddits like coontown and fatpeoplehate are going to have their mind changed by people on the internet?

I've had no success changing the minds of people who think that being trans is a mental illness despite citing numerous peer reviewed articles. Maybe I'm going about it wrong, but I'm not sure it gets more clear than pointing to a bunch of scientists that directly contradict their understanding.
I haven't looked at the idea for the single digital market, but I can share some context about how the EU has traditionally worked regarding trade regulations.

In simplified terms, all member countries agree on a set a set of shared requirements for a type of product, and any product meeting those requirements is allowed to be sold in all EU countries.

So where you earlier had to meet certifications in each EU country, you now have only one standard to meet with your product. That's a big reduction in red tape, saving a lot of time and money for everyone! (contrary to popular opinion, the EU has reduced bureaucracy more than it increased it)

Individual countries can deviate by have more lax requirements (which is why you can still buy cazu marzu in Sardinia, despite it not meeting EU regulations), but not stronger.

Remember, all EU countries have to agree to sign up, and this is also why it can take many years and tweaks to come to such an agreement.

And the rabbit hole is deeper than you think. It isn't just fire safety regulations for flags, making idiots look like idiots[0], it goes all the way down to agreeing what kind of cardboard is acceptable for sending your mail (IIRC, there were different standards in what chemicals were considered toxic or not).

The thing is, I can't really imagine how one would apply the same kind of principles to the Internet. What is there to unify? The internet doesn't really have borders, does it? I mean I guess the underlying infrastructure could be unified, but that's not really the "market" part, is it?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px_M6weS8gY
…that's less than four years.
Saw this after I posted.
Well, we are all related to each other, the only question is how _closely_ related we are. And as for that, any non-Khoisan/non-Pygmy human subgroup is more closely related to any other non-Khoisan/non-Pygmy subgroup than they are to Khoisan or Pygmy people. In other words, Khoisan and Pygmyies are the most distant cousins to all other homo sapiens (diverged from us 175-200 thousand years ago).
one big closing act of every pharoah is resurrection followed by deification.

Boyle wasn't speaking about Jesus' ressurection.
Not every device has an unlocked bootloader or support in the Lineage OS device tree.
You're sure as hell not going to memorize it.
>Also, for many human traits (i.e height), the intra-population variation is much greater than the inter-population variance, especially when controlling for the effect of environment.

All this means is that >0 members of population B have more of the trait than >0 members of population A. It doesn't at all discredit the notion that members of population A tend to have more of the trait.
If you have a story of what's worked for you please share it.
Why don't we have people doing this dispatch professionally? What are FEMA and the Red Cross doing if not helping coordinate emergency response when the normal channels are overwhelmed?
Don't get me wrong, this person, and all those who aid the rescue efforts, is a hero. Don't the people who do this deserve to get paid and have resources for dealing with PTSD? And don't the victims deserve organized, professional response?
There are a lot of great photos and PCB closeups that obviously won't translate into narration.
The danger of censorship lies in the idea that while the initial generation of censors may have benevolent intentions, a future actor who inherits those powers to stifle communication or censor ideas may use them to subtly shift discourse or the overton window, push an agenda, or control people.

Why do free speech proponents fear the precedent being set by Reddit or Twitter to ban those they consider hate speech? They fear it because of the idea that over the course of years or decades that same power of censorship (or even just cultural idea that censorship is OK) may slowly move away from being used on obvious bad actors and hate speech and into the censorship of groups that don't deserve it. Today's well-intentioned stifling of hate speech is the same set of tools and culture that could enable totalitarianism tomorrow.

Edit:

I was asked who I'm referring to as a free speech proponent.

I would cite Zeynep Tufekci as being a really interesting author in this space as her works specifically examines how technology and social media is changing the politics of dissent and revolution. Here's an interesting article discussing her book:

https://latest.13d.com/will-direct-democracy-give-way-to-aut...

"With the rise of social media in 2005, the networked public square shifted from blogs and websites to “massive, centralized platforms where visibility [is] often determined by an algorithm controlled by a corporation, often with the business model seeking to increase pageviews.” Traditional mass media, once the gatekeepers of social movements, were replaced by a few, very powerful “chokepoints” that monopolize ad dollars and users while encouraging surveillance. Facebook’s “real name” policy, for instance, can snuff out a movement before it even begins.

...

To be effective, censorship in the digital era requires a reframing of the goals of censorship not as a total denial of access...but as a denial of attention, focus, credibility...Censorship by disinformation focuses on attention as the key resource to be destroyed...Rand Corporation researchers refer to this method of propaganda as the “firehose of falsehood.” The primary goal is simple: to confuse and overwhelm the “audience”...The result is a frayed, incoherent, and polarized public sphere that can be hostile to dissent...”
This goal can unfurl in a number of ways, but platforms always play a central role. We have witnessed it with Russia’s army of trolls. With the stream of fake news that clouded Trump’s election. And with the governments of Turkey and Russia, which have maintained their grip on power by demonizing “alternative sources” of media—the kinds of sources where movements are likely to flourish—while ramping up control of traditional media. In other instances, platforms have made behind-the-scenes-deals with repressive regimes in order to allow access to their users. In places where Facebook is the internet, social movements have little recourse but to submit to the terms of the deal.

...

Because “these platforms own the most valuable troves of user data and control the user experience, they wield power to decide winners and losers for people’s attention."
Sure, but it was primarily addressing the other one, which does not admit of “maybe there was no clinical death” alternative explanations.
There's a ton of inspiring stories here. Thanks for posting this.
I think the main problem with patents is their duration. 20 years is absurdly long for the software space. It may be justified for physical objects since making a hardware patent into a marketable product usually requires more investment and time to get to market (e.g. to design and build a factory producing the product), but in software, a 20-year-old product is usually already on display in some museum.

If I had to make a change to software patents right now, I would shorten them to five years. Maybe less.
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At 17 I had a psychotic breakdown and was diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder. I broke down and told the school counselor about the "bad thoughts" I was having (suicidal and homicidal) and was suspended. I had to miss a month or so of my senior year because I was doing an outpatient program. I lost most of my friends and ended up losing the chance to go to the college I was accepted at in one a relatively exclusive part of the college (James Madison College at Michigan State). But that was just the beginning. Because of the medicine I was put on and the lack of gym class after graduating I gained about 150 lbs in the span of a couple months. I had always been underweight (6' 3" and ~145 lbs) despite eating a lot because I was very active. That all changed.

I ended up going to a community college and attempted suicide, twice. The first time was serious attempt trying to OD on Klonipin. I spent about a week inpatient at that time at the local psychiatric ward. The second time I tried to overdose on Tylenol. I don't recall letting anybody know about that so I didn't have to go to the hospital.

Fast forward to today. I'm a software developer (which is a far cry from the International Relations degree I originally wanted) and married. I still have homicidal thoughts and visions but overall the medicine I'm on helps greatly. I'm married to an amazing woman and really enjoy my life.
… including in the twentieth century, e.g. Zion, IL and (to some extent) Ave Maria, FL
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I read comments like yours - "I'm not really a bad person, it was just a prank, Bro!" from time to time and I think it betrays a real lack of understanding on how human interaction works.

It is one thing to make a joke about fat people in some private setting among friends who know you and will take your words ironically. But to make the same joke in a public sub that was explicitly set up to ridicule fat people conveys a very different meaning. It means that you condone the sentiment behind the sub and agree with those users (perhaps a minority perhaps everyone else on there except you, who knows?) that do harbor malice towards others. By joining in you give such people strength and encouragement.

Reddit was right to ban those subs. You were wrong to participate.

(This doesn't make you a bad person in general, we all make mistakes.)
I remember reading similar articles about D, but honestly, it's almost never mentioned on HN. There seems to be little-to-no buzz about it at all. I don't see it on resumes, nor does it seem to have made much of an impact in the business world. Tiobe has it ranked below Dart[1].

1. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Just had my call and these guys are really cool. I hope they do great things.
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> We have intellects, a sense of morality, and a will. Those allow us to drastically curtail what might otherwise be instinctive behaviors.

An excerpt from Julian Jaynes's 'Origin of Consciousness' comes to mind here:

> Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.

There exist a great deal of subconscious processes that effect behavior in ways that an 'individual' cannot necessarily perceive. Often, a person does something, then post-hoc uses narratization to fit those actions within their preexisting belief system and story of themselves. The important thing to note is that your perception of yourself is not you, and the world you perceive around you is not the world itself. Both act as very helpful mental models that help you navigate your world effectively. As with all models, however, they have holes, and the really damaging ones are the ones you're not aware you're not aware of (as you cannot even adjust for those weaknesses).
I would like a way to generate a syntax highlighted pdf from either a git repo or a PR, for printing purposes. This seems like it could be adapted in that direction.
Thanks for replying with details.

Do you have any sources? Genieunely curious to learn about what makes them special.
Snark aside, I meant as it relates to developers new to a project, it certainly increases ramp-up time and overall cognitive load, to use the author's words.
This website seems to completely ignore the existence of non-windows platforms, to the point they don't even list supported OSs. Wow, I thought these went extinct years ago.
No sequel to Air Bud?
>Now those people are gone and are off to internet spaces where nobody disagrees with them. This will reinforce their opinions, not change them for the better.

I agree that 'curing' them should be a goal but stopping the spread via quarantine is useful on its own. Forcing them off into their own corner is disrupting their recruitment channels which means there's less to cure tomorrow.
I think the "fun" comes from the sport of seeing how far they can go in provoking other people by taking extreme behaviors and speaking about them in a casual, normalizing tone.

Which, needless to say, is childish, wasteful of everyone's time on account of its disingenuousness, and doesn't reflect well on one's personal character or maturity.
Fat person here.

I _LOVED_ r/fatpeoplehate. Was one of my all-time favorite subreddits and the last reason I still went to the site long after I deleted my account.

Occasionally it was a pretty motivating place to be.

Obesity should not be encouraged, nor normalized.
Congrats on quitting that job after 3 weeks. I am always disgusted when people do terrible things while employed and write it off as "I was just doing my job." "Just doing my job" is EXACTLY IDENTICAL to "I just did it for money." For some reason we see the two differently, but there is no difference. Quitting or turning down a job on moral grounds gives you an ability to look yourself in the mirror and say 'I am not making the world a worse place' and an unfortunate few people can do that.
The weirder part of this statement is that they count "political ads [being] placed by foreign customers" as "anonymous usage". If it's anonymous, how do they know they were foreign?
I know quite a few folks who are no longer Christian because someone did just that.
> Thinking black people are inferior is a political view.

No, that's not a political view. That's plain old racism. Politics has to do with money and power. Thinking black people are inferior is white supremacy. Don't conflate that reasonable positions taken in politics.
> You've clearly never, ever been in a position where money was an issue for you.

I have.
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Ironically, for years and years criminologists made exactly the argument you did: preventing crime in one place just moves it somewhere else. So, police largely didn't bother, throughout the largest crime wave in history (1970-1995 or so).

Then in the mid-90s, some new research suggested that making crime more difficult to commit in one place actually prevents crime everywhere; criminals, like most people, are fundamentally lazy, and putting up inconveniences makes them more likely to just not commit any crime at all. In the 20 years or so since, crime rates have fallen by more than half.

Some redditors probably did go off somewhere else where they could spew invective. Most just went back to looking at gifs of dogs falling down stairs or whatever.
Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls (2016)
No one invents a story of how man is utterly depraved and incapable of making himself right before God.
This is, in general, Tesla's real advantage: top class systems engineering. EV's will be a commodity item in the near future, but the underlying systems will not be. I expect Tesla to dominate the software side of things, including battery management, autonomous, etc.
I think an interesting extension of this study would be looking at how other sites were affected by these bans as well. There could well be a mass exodus to a different site, like 4chan or Twitter, where the community reforms.
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And who is to define bad science? People who, by their own words, were not able to read scientific papers because they are "difficult to understand"? I am not saying that the specific language used in scientific literature is an advantage, but also doesn't constitute a problem in itself. Unless you are able to read those papers and point out where the "bad science" is, this is just a vacuous statement.

Also, pointing at failure points in the peer review process is ridiculous. This is not religion where you need to uphold every word. Science is made with lots of ideas that, looked from far ahead, are incorrect. "How did that ever cleared the review process"? Well those reviews only cover the minimum necessary for something to be published, it is not a guarantee that the contents are correct. It is the social process of science that takes care of that.
Congrats on 3 years! If I don't pick up a drink by Jan I'll have two years myself.

At the end of my twenties the floor literally dropped out from under me. I had a good job as a software dev at fairly large media company, had nice apartment, ambitions etc. But I had deep dark secrets that I kept hidden and throughout my twenties I drank and used drugs (coke/pills) over. I considered my upbringing to be pretty normal in a middle-class neighborhood on the West Cost, and I started drinking and partying in high school like everyone else. However I found myself drinking progressively more towards the end of my twenties and no longer a party it was more to cope with stress, anxiety, and life in general.

I ended up losing multiple high-paying jobs, flying around the country trying to restart, going to about 6 rehabs in ~2 years, losing my mind, losing all hope, wanting to die. I almost died a few separate times from acute alcohol withdrawal. I was fired from one job with an internationally recognized media company the morning after I had seizures from coming off alcohol in a rehab. It got to the point where every time I drank alcohol, I ended up detoxing in a hospital. Finally somewhere in that dark period I was able to get honest with a therapist for the first time in my life about some sexual abuse that had happened when I was younger, and about the other addictions like pornography that plagued my life in my twenties. I got sober for 1.5 years and relapsed one more time, this time it was the final wake up call I needed.

Fast forward and I'm the ceo of a startup company prepping to launch an amazing product, I've been a successful consultant helping build another product that is currently in operational use processing millions of dollars in financial transactions, I feel completely resurrected in mind, body and soul. I have a mens meeting I go to weekly, I go to AA, I workout 4-5 days a week, I eat healthier than ever in my life, and I get regular sleep.

The urge to drink or use drugs has completely left my body and mind. I have traveled all over, spent some of the best time with my friends and family, started my life in a new city, made amends, and found tools to help deal with life on lifes terms.

I hated 12 steps and tried everything possible including drinking to work around it but in the end I'm thankful it's there and I go to meetings regularly.

The most shocking thing to me now is both when I think about how far I've come, and how lucky I am to be alive.

No one ever tells you when you're young that you can live a perfectly normal, fulfilling, and happy life without using drugs or alcohol!

Congrats again and thanks for your share.
>"Fat hatred" as an epidemic has largely disappeared since 2015, for example.

It doesn't really matter, though. The great thing about the "fat hatred" epidemic is that voicing an opinion about it doesn't change hard truths.

Fat people will still face the consequences---good and bad---of their lifestyle choices. They will die earlier than the rest; They will burden the health care system more than the rest. But they may live happier lives.

The more interesting thing to examine is areas of society which have more significant negative externalities. Things like politics and ethics. Censoring one political agenda and promoting another can cause widespread changes which affect even those who do not agree. Reverting those changes is either impossible, or will take decades.

For example, I can choose not to be fat. The marginal benefit of promoting a healthy lifestyle is distant and probably negligible: perhaps insurance premiums will drop slightly in the future because everyone is healthier on average.

But do I really care about that? No. The marginal benefit of actually living a healthy lifestyle is far greater for me than vocally promoting it.

On the other hand, passing laws which greatly increase immigration will absolutely affect me. The averaged values of a society will change dramatically. Once it has happened, I have no way to combat it, other than to move to a more homogeneous society which shares my values.

We can see this even in the "most multi-cultural" place in the US. The Bay Area essentially self-segregates into primarily Indian towns, primarily Asian towns, etc. We also see hoardes of people moving out, because they do not appreciate the culture promoted by the wave of others moving in.

I personally know multiple people who chose lower compensation at Salesforce over higher compensation elsewhere specifically because there are more Indians at Salesforce. I also know people who refuse to work there because there are so many Indians.

I believe that censoring "hatred" is more akin to ignoring your problems than to solving them.
This seems like an opportunity for the amateur radio community to remind the world of its existence and to do some outreach that could eventually save lives. I have an emergency radio (1 way) that I've never used but if all other lines of communication were to go down I would pull it out and crank it up (literally, its a crank radio).

It seems uncertain whether these kinds of weather events are going to become more common but in general it does seem that climate change is likely to cause more extreme weather conditions worldwide (some of the wildfires we've seen could have a similar isolating need-rescue situations), disaster preparedness might become much more of a way of life than it has been for us in a while.
This gets to a Harvard study I now can't find that suggested that anonymity online is a red herring. Anonymous and whatever the opposite is (named? nonymous?) people are equally likely to follow community norms -- anonymous people are actually slightly more likely to. The problem is not the anonymity, the problem is the community norms, which in the banned subs were horrible.