skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, FWIW I did not downvote you and don't agree whoever did.

> I looked at those studies. They do not at all address issues like PTSD, personality disorders, trauma and other mental health issues which, for example, would certainly characterize huge numbers of people in the interwar and post-war period. Yet, where as these numbers?

Exactly, we don't have them. But I don't see any measures of any kind of mental health improving, with the exception of teen suicide rates in the early 90s. I do see quite a bit of data going back that shows depression, for instance, getting worse, and specifically comparing post WW2 generations to millenials:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2648043

So I repeat my question, how are you so sure things are getting better when there is very little or no data saying that, and a fair amount saying the opposite? Wouldn't you expect depression to also be a symptom of experiencing intense trauma and thus a fairly good proxy for PTSD?

> For several decades economic securiyt has been decreasing in the west causing people to feel less "happy" (ie., to be more often worrying). This has an impact on their mental health, but I'm sceptical it comes close to the impact of the vietnam war. The 20th C. was horrific and a horror for everyone. Any "psychologist" nostalgic for the 20th C. either knows nothing of psychology, nothing of history or both.

So this is exactly why it's important to consider this with data instead of logical models. By all means the events of the early 20th century were so horrific that there should be some fairly obvious measurement of mental health that upticks by the end of the 20th century. But we don't see that anywhere, afaict. So that's what I'm hoping you can provide.
Some people just really like the sound of their own voice.
Are there communities beside reddit/HN/SO?
Yeah, that's why I included the qualification
They have already implemented randomly generated names:
https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/pull/11/files
Note that while there are other factors contributing to Trump's win than the four you mention, those are all big contributors, and large parts of #1, much of the historical reason for #3, and a significant part of the reason for #4 are all #2.

> Just like in 2000, the Democrats cannot just say the system is broken, for the risk of further demotivating voters.

It wouldn't further demotivate voters if the Democratic Party actually had a platform aimed at fixing the way the system is broken; the only reason the Democrats can't say the system is broken is because the Democrats in government and in party leadership don't have consensus on actually trying to fix it (and I don't mean o how to fix it, they don't have consensus that it should be fixed as a goal.)

And until that changes, the Democrats are going to be active collaborators in their own structural disadvantage.
Have you tried Firefox Quantum? While not featherweight, it's less of a resource hog than it used to be, while being commendably fast.
Besides the factual mistakes in your comment (for example, the majority of Google's numerous services do not require any kind of account), you seem to be talking about software distribution and licensing, while this article is about attention. There's a pretty strong case to be made that Facebook sucks up all of your attention and gives you nothing in return. You can't make that case against Apple and Google. One of them sells telephones, and the other provides access to all of the information in the world. The reason these can't be lumped together with Facebook is because Facebook lacks any kind of redeeming product. They give you nothing.
And the source of an older version of NT leaked a while back.
I never understand why people don't go bare metal. It is just as easy to automate, just as cheap (or cheaper) if you plan well, and more secure.

A decade ago everyone knew that shared hosting was for hobby sites and stuff that didn't really matter.

Maybe some more people will learn that lesson.
Three Blue One Brown is great for fun math concepts
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Meetings really should not be the place to "hash out things" as you say. Meetings should be where groups of people make decisions (this is advocated by DeMarco in Peopleware)
2018’s challenge: Too many jobs, not enough workers
Isn't black coffee good for you? Were they talking about coffee with cream and sugar?
I think it was just their paravirtual instances that have a scheduled reboot. I haven't heard that any of the newer HVM ones are affected.
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I disagree, if anything they didn't go far enough. Unifying Chinese and Japanese characters making them locale dependent was, IMO, a mistake. The kind of problem I have with this can be seen with the so called "Turkish I" problem. The Turkish language has 4 'i's: i, I, ı and İ. Unicode decided to encode the first two using the points for latin lower case i and upper case I. In Turkish, the capitalization rules say that i and ı are lower case, and their upper case counterparts are İ and I. You can see that if you have a byte stream for which you don't know the locale, you cannot correctly apply capitalization to it. That way all 'I's would be unambiguous in all contexts. This is not as trivial a problem as it sounds[1]. This could have been avoided if Unicode had a Turkish i and I. You can extrapolate this issue to entire languages.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-tw...
Four Tet didn’t invent the extended teasing breakdowns that don’t resolve. I can think of several with similar structures. Moonshine by Planisphere comes to mind — https://youtu.be/RvrYOhpByVs

That was in 2001. Trance DJ’s have been closing out sunrise sets with songs like that for going on 20 years now. I appreciate that he’s a good DJ, but let’s not get crazy here :). Lots of DJ’s played that track to close their sets. It was a top seller on beatport and an obvious thing to do.
You are so thick my head started hurting.
The story of the Gömböc
Theoretically, there is draw towards big companies offering a package of solution rather than individual pieces. Small companies offering superior piece doesn't get rewarded because of the package-offering-draw effect which rewards suboptimality and pulls towards monopoly. We want competition for getting the best and no monopoly for retaining power balance between customers and companies.
Those toyotas were likely assembled in the usa, and from probably as many american parts as the ford. 'Domestic' and 'import' dont mean anything these days. They are all made by large trans-national corporations for whome citizenship is fluid.
Saturated fats are bad in other ways. Sugar and saturated fats are bad. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
No problem with Chrome here, but I've heard Samsung's browser runs a lot smoother.
Knowledge of statistics is severely lacking, and airports are just a prominent example of this (people freaking out over what is an incredibly unlikely threat). Another example would be, leaning way too heavily into what a handful of people say in comments, when there’s no way you could ever read enough comments to form a statistically significant sample of what “people think” of you.

The incredible rarity of these events should have shut down most spending from the beginning, and a new government department should never have been allowed to form around it (any more than we should have allowed a “Department of Lightning Safety” to be created). Then they compound the problem by allowing rare events within rare events (such as “shoes may kill us!!!”) to drive entire policies and waste even more time and money.

Heck, if we understood statistics we’d be marching in the streets demanding a far larger number of representatives, since having approximately one million people “represented” by a member of the house means they could never possibly know what their constituents want even if they spent every free hour trying to find out.

What I want is for people to be educated enough about statistics to not be fooled, and not to overreact to things based on what a few poor samples tell them.
Since you mentioned STG and Schmee I'd like to extend with:

Misha Charoudin - Daily VLOGs about him living and working at the Nurburgring

xthilox - super fast Nurburgring laps in his Cupra

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Can I ask what are your thoughts about this a bit in between flavor: https://beautiful.demo.ed.community/latest — it shows the first parts of each post, + some images. So by just scrolling, one gets a fairly good understanding about what each post is about. But to read everything & discuss, one needs to click.

(I'm developing this, and tweaking it a bit, maybe adding a config option so it becomes even more like the Facebook feed, is maybe something I should consider, hmm)

If you look at it on a smaller screen, like a mobile, it'll look a little bit even more like Facebook, ... but maybe more text from the posts should be included.
>Which ones have that been, and when?

Just in the past year alone for me: TPE, BKK, NRT, HND, FRA, CTS. All have much better layouts, more clever controls of in-terminal foot traffic, and better amenities than most US airports.

The international airports that were closest to US airports in terms of quality were DUB, WAW and ITM.
> I don't know why the alt right likes him, but my guess is that he's a great speaker who presents something like a very moderate version of alt right opinion.

I think it's predominantly because his position on free speech, personal freedom and the academy intersect with some alt-right (itself no longer a useful term, IMO) perspectives on the culture war(s). That deepens a bit further with his work and comments on religion and philosophy. There's a kind of 'the enemy of my enemy' about it. But I think both aspects are easily misunderstood and/or mischaracterised by his superficial support as much as it is by his detractors on the extreme left etc. Meanwhile, I would be surprised if those on the most extreme fringes of the alt-right - ethno-nationalists, white supremacists, neo-reactionaries etc. - ever took to Peterson, based on his espoused views and/or his work on the psychology of tyrannies (notably the Third Reich) and the caution he urges as a consequence of that.

To me, he's fairly precise in talking about what he thinks (which may be right or wrong) and I think that's where it's easy to misunderstand what he's saying, which may have a specific, implicit point (and eventually ends up misinterpreted and misrepresented as something wholly different). Despite that, I've picked up on a tendency to offer views in the realm of civil rights and academia that are more off-the-cuff since gaining public attention. Sometimes these can come across as unusual or even pandering, and I think he's at his best when he's not being wheeled out as some sort of 'conservative' oracle (he's neither). The increasingly combative tone also doesn't seem fitting for someone who rose to prominence on the basis of presenting himself and his views relatively thoughtfully and reasonably.
It's about the local Linux account name (which frankly Steam has no business touching or inspecting the contents of past pasting it into a path IMO), not the in chosen steam name (which can be anything) nor the unique steam name in profile link (which I think comes from the login, I'm not sure now).

In any case - both are all over the place and in online games there are often crazy names that look like the came from /dev/random. It'll also be easily circumvented now that it has been discovered and it was dumb in the first place.

Valve really dropped a ball, it's not like they don't know how crazy, meme fulled or troll-y usernames get on their platform.

Outright VAC ban (that's a big deal) for something like that is absolutely idiotic (extra inspection that doesn't affect anything for legitimate users - sure).
If it's a game, then why not post a link to steam store? your shitty article has zero information about the game, no gameplay, no nothing. kys
I think Red could find some momentum with blockchain, but I'm not sure how many people will go for yet another ICO, although I'm very ignorant in that area. As long as they keep chugging along I'm happy though. One day I'd love to be able to use Red for nearly all my computing needs.
Operational decisions, sure. The appropriate manager or executive should make those. But some decisions have to be made (or at least approved) by a board in many organizations.
This is beyond the scope of Unicode. Unicode should be how text is displayed. If there is meaning that is not in the display of the character, then it is outside the scope of Unicode.

After all, we have many uses for the letter 'a', such as a) a*b=c and b) a as in apple. Should those 'a's have different Unicode code points?

Semantic meaning comes from context, and there is no context for a Unicode code point. Trying to insert semantic meaning is both a mistake and a patently impossible task. The article points out some of the wreckage attempting to do this causes.
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The Rando is the founder of a $1.2B VC fund.
On one side I agree, it's easier to just keep on scrolling. On the other hand: having 'unread posts sice last visit' titles only acts as a filter from which it's easy to discard uninteresting things. And I'm not afraid to miss out since after years of 'training' on the internet we're probably all very quick at seperating the interesting from the less interesting by a couple of cue words. Moreover, often I have days or even weeks between visits and if that would all be available inline it would be a wall of text without oversight. But yes if you want it the Facebook way and regularily visit and don't mind having to scroll through uninteresting stuff instead of being able to skip it at a glance, it could be pretty interesting to have this added as an option next to the standard way.
That's a really cool idea. Thanks!
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That's not how rowhammer works.

It's a hardware level thing. Essentially, when you start rapidly flipping a single bit, that starts to 'leak' some current to the adjacent physical bits. This then allows you to flip a single bit. Especially if you can control bits on both sides of your target.

It's like you are using the bits you can control to 'simulate' an actual stray cosmic ray.
Have you actually tried Firefox? They've had a pretty big update recently, which also broke many extensions and ways of making advanced extensions, so some people do take that as reason to say that it's now "long way from its former glory", but if you've been a Chrome user up until now, it'd strike me as odd for you to think that, since it's still much more extensible than Chrome.

Well, unless you haven't seen the new update yet and are talking of the performance problems that it had prior to this update. In that case, you should try the new version.
Aren't there now hardware fixes for this in current generation ram?
> Shoes need to come off in standard screening

That's just a website of things they recommend you do. It doesn't look like any kind of official policy document or protocol. I mean it also says 'give yourself enough time to arrive at the airport early' but that's an official protocol is it?
I suspect that the people assigned to write this manual decided to have some fun, and inserted a satire that probably applied to their own work environment.
and when script kiddies get wind that there is something potentially disastrous in the open, it can be exploited 10 times harder, that's all I'm saying.

I understand (and agree) that the system admins/owners should also be able to mitigate through knowledge, but it's a dilemma that I think is better resolved by the other solution

(in this case it's apparently a complex issue, but history has shown that there are surprisingly easy to exploit bugs/issues (see heartbleed, shellshock (which was apparently very quickly exploited.))
Isn't that mentioned in The Cardinal of the Kremlin?
HUI.js – JavaScript Front End UI Library in 657 Bytes
Generally speaking, a piece of JavaScript in some 0x0 pixel iframe in a tab you're not even looking at can't summon cosmic particles to manipulate your computer's main memory. Rowhammer can.
OTOH, a rowhammer attack on ECC memory will likely flip 1 bit before it flips 2, making attacks theoretically detectable. Without ECC, there's no clear way to detect an attack.
> I've never heard of someone who wrote a big computer program with no mistakes in it in one go, and had full confidence that it would be bugless.

I've actually done this a number of times before, but only in the ACM ICPC programming contest, so maybe a difference here is the environment in which people write programs vs proofs. In the contest, you have a team of three people and only one computer, and if you submit an incorrect solution, the only response you get back is "Wrong answer" with no detail about what test case was wrong. The typical way that teams approach this is to write code out completely on paper, then transcribe it from paper to the computer, run the provided test cases, and submit. Computer time is valuable, so if you run into a mistake that you can't figure out, it's common to print your code and look through the code on paper rather than trying to debug it on the computer.

When you train enough in an environment like that, you learn to be very careful about all of the details of the program you're writing. A single mistake can dramatically increase the time it takes to solve a problem, and there's pretty much no opportunity to "try it and see" like there is in normal programming. Also, the simple act of writing code down on paper and then copying it into the computer (double-checking as you go) gives you much more time to notice mistakes.

Mistakes are still common, of course, but I've had a number of times where I write out a program on paper, type it into the computer, compile it with no errors, run the sample test cases and have them all pass, and then submit it and and see that it's correct. I've never experienced something like that in any other programming environment, including other programming contests, which typically let you write your code on the computer.

Proofs tend to be the same type of environment: you write it out, with no compiler to help you, and you have plenty of time to read through it over and over before you have someone else check it for correctness. Maybe that sort of environment forces a level of care that you don't see as much in programming.
The internal caches have ECC but rowhammer targets the DIMMs. ECC DIMMs would solve the issue but Intel, for market segmentation reasons, fuses off the ability to handle ECC memory in consumer chips.
Jobs and apartment leases are transactions. People don't like to think of their relationships as transactions.
Granted. I was a bit sensationalist, but from the politically charged landscape in which I exist, it seems as though the rich get to arbitrarily dictate transfers which directly benefit them without much in the way of taking on the empirical burden for justifying those transfer. Put another way, what if in the U.S. the recent tax bill would have been put forward as a trial in which some randomly selected number of large businesses were selected to have their tax rate reduced? We could then examine if those businesses were more inclined to increase hiring, extend additional benefits to their employees, or become in any way better "engines of growth". Why must it be the poor who must wait for their lottery ticket from the heavens?
Please don't buy into the idea that embargoes and coordinated disclosure are sacred. They tend to just reinforce existing power structures, sometimes in an unethical (or at least unfair) way.

They're an attempt to minimize harm, by getting things patched while minimizing information leaked to blackhats.

Just because giving preference to groups with a better reputation and more market share isn't "fair", doesn't mean it's automatically wrong. Now, if you can show that it actually doesn't help . . .
Price inflation is caused by
- increased money supply
- decreased demand for money
- increased demand for the good
- decreased good supply

The 11 million percent price inflation rate in Zimbabwe was not caused by a 11 million percent reduction in goods supply.
I believe you are misremembering: what Valve said within their statement on /r/games is that the DNS entries were being used after the detection of the cheats.

Here's a quotation from Gabe's post:

>VAC checked for the presence of these cheats. If they were detected VAC then checked to see which cheat DRM server was being contacted. This second check was done by looking for a partial match to those (non-web) cheat DRM servers in the DNS cache. If found, then hashes of the matching DNS entries were sent to the VAC servers. The match was double checked on our servers and then that client was marked for a future ban. Less than a tenth of one percent of clients triggered the second check. 570 cheaters are being banned as a result. [1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...
One cost would be that this would make a special case out of investigation journalism, where the journalists often cannot reveal their sources. Especially in cases where retribution against the source could end in death.

Since that is probably the most important and consequential type of journalism, I'd expect facile attacks claiming investigative journalism "isn't transparent" if this takes off.

The obvious and easy protection against such an attack is to critically read multiple sources and be familiar with journalists' track records over time. So I'm afraid we don't have workable protections against this attack atm. :)
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