skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're spoiled beyond belief if you view "toxic" comments online as a serious problem. If it is truly "a problem", then the larger problem is tying your emotions to what anonymous people say. You live vicariously through an image of how offended someone else might be. Instead of tending to the garden you can actually protect and uphold.

Do you think the poor bastards in Skid Row feel better because some (literal) white typed in defense against toxicity?

Do you think someone...Let's say Tim Wise! Do you think Mr.Wise has actually interacted with black communities while he lives in a 98% white neighborhood? Do you think Mr.Wise would help some homeless junkie who's trying to figure out how to work his phone so he can message an estranged daughter on Facebook? That's part of what I did in Skid Row. There are issues of knowledge, skills, and plain diet that would offer much better benefits than speaking out against some notion of "toxicity", created by people who have no skin in bleating their stupid moralism.
Dunno, NYC is safer than many, many non-walkable cities.
Can you build it for all the 4 architectures supported by Windows (x86/x64/arm/arm64)? As it's not open source, recompilation cannot be done.
I should clarify: If them looking through my data is not optional and I can't refuse, and I'm not at a border crossing (which is still bullshit imo, but well trodden precedent), they'd better have goddamn signed warrant.
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Well, sometimes illegal ones make an appearance until the next crackdown occurs, at least in Beijing. Had a laowai friend who was dumb enough to by one, once.
The city has been renovation my neighborhood for the last few years to make it more walkable, they redid the sidewalks on the "main" side street a while back and now they're doing the smaller streets. The "main" street is where they do a monthly art walk kind of thing that draws quite a few people and there's been a surge of massive block-sized apartment buildings going up so now there's also a bunch of restaurants there too. There's a whole lot more foot traffic in the area than when I moved here 6-something years ago.

Have mixed feelings about the giant apartment buildings since they're pricey which means the restaurants are also pricey, well out of my meager price range. On a side note, I was talking to a kid who's girlfriend lives in one of the new apartment buildings and he was saying she has to rent it out on Airbnb half the month (and stay at her moms) to afford the rent.
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I gave up soda, it was tough, I've tried it a few times but finally did it this year.

I did it with a combo of green tea and the soda water + lemon/lime flavoring drinks. I'll also drink water and add lemon or lime juice.

I feel a lot better not drinking soda. If I need a pick me up I'll drink green tea. If I need something carbonated I drink a soda water/citrus drink.

Now if I take a taste of soda, it tastes awful, I don't think I'll ever go back to drinking it.
Snake oil salesmen are documented as far back as history goes, and in preliterate societies. I wouldn't look to "American culture" or "modern marvels" for explanations.
His work is based on the Cairo library. It has a big potential for vector drawing but still it's very easy to use and has a very permissive license.
If regular people wanted freedom, they would just fly private!
The SimuLife Diaries: I was kidnapped by anti-technology anarchists in Austin
> You also have to step back and ask your self why so many people who avoid sugar but use artificial sweeteners are having problems with diabetes.

That is a very weak argument as the products with artificial sweeteners are made for people with diabetes... Nevertheless, a source for the first part of your argument would be very helpful.
Agreed. I drink diet soda during the afternoon, but during the evening I switch to La Croix, because no caffeine. While there are some sodas that are caffeine free, they've always tasted off to me.
>>They take the devices away for some period, but if they’re securely locked, TSA won’t be able to get anything from them.

You have no way of knowing that, or if they are doing anything to the hardware, cloning the SIM, adding tracking, or simply cloning the flash for possible evaluation later

Further it should be considered unconstitutional for them to even take it for 1 second.

> If it’s some fancy explosives sniffing (like they already do to my contact lens solution) then it’s nothing interesting.

I would find it interesting and "bad", they should not need to remove the device from your view to do explosive sniffing.

It is very troubling to me how much invasion of and infringement on a persons liberties the average person is willing to accept in the name of Security Theater
> can go away in a heartbeat

> within two generations
isn't that what those scanners do lol?
The problem with Reddit is that, while it's not endorsing the content, it is facilitating it. You can let the white supremacists in your neighbourhood use your garage for their weekly meetings and plausibly claim that you're just being neighborly while disagreeing with their purpose. But I'm still going to judge you for helping them out, for making their organizing easier and cheaper, and for smoothing the road for them.

When Reddit banned r/fatpeoplehate and r/coontown in 2015, among others, it actually succeeded in reducing the amount of hate speech on Reddit:

Working from over 100M Reddit posts and comments, we generate hate speech lexicons to examine variations in hate speech usage via causal inference methods. We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage—by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown “migrants,” those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage [0]

By making it easy for participants of r/coontown to participate, Reddit actually contributed to the output of r/coontown.

[0] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
> They take the devices away for some period, but if they’re securely locked, TSA won’t be able to get anything from them.

It is well documented that there is no cell phone that cannot be unlocked.

And once it's unlocked, who knows what the real goal is. On the surface, one suspects that it's to examine its contents. But other possibilities include sideloading spyware, or even targeted viruses. Some random NGO secretary may not be the actual target, but could be the vector that allows a program to spread to one or more other targets within or without the organization.

I liked it better when this was the sort of thing that people on shortwave radio with tinfoil hats would rant about. Now it's almost weekly headlines in the NY Times, Guardian, WSJ, etc...
ACLU sues TSA over searches of electronic devices
It only took the US about 10 years to beat air pollution, and the technology had to be developed. Now, all the needed technology is known; it just has to be deployed.

The article writes of the US that "market-based regulations having proved the most cost-effective." No, that's not how the Clean Air Act did the first 90% of cleanup. It was done by mandating controls and fining polluters.
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What makes you so sure of that? I’ve had them swab electronics for explosives before and they never even try to turn the things on. I’m pretty sure I’ve had them ask me once or twice to prove that a laptop was real by turning it on, and they never asked for it to be unlocked.

That’s my whole point: this article appears to be written to make you assume that a lot more is going on than they actually describe.
I live in Germany, Coke Zero Sugar is what they called it. They changed the packaging a bid and ran some campaigns but by the amount I see it available everywhere it must have taken off.
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Not just Americans...
Pell Grants are grants to colleges, not to students. No students get taxpayer money via a Pell grant.

Pell Grants are for earning degrees, not for attending lectures.
With regards to 3), considering that TenCent owns both SuperCell (developer of the most popular mobile game) and Riot Games (developer of the most popular PC game), that may not be true for much longer, or at least you could say that there is serious competition in that area.
"correct worldview".

People like you scare me.
Mastering Bitcoin by A. Antonopoulous is a great resource for getting into the nitty-gritty bowels of the blockchain and most cryptos implement a variation of BTC protocol of some kind.

For Ethereum in particular, the same author was writing a book with Gavin Wood. THere is also a good explanations of various ETH and Solidity pitfalls on https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.21/solidity-in-depth.... Cryptozombies.io is a funny place to start ;)
you can never 100% eliminate the risk of data theft.

all you can do is implement controls that manage that risk based on how valuable the data is.

certain controls like mandatory 2FA give a very good bang-for-buck, highly recommend it for an organization of any size
These look like great resources! Thank you!
How is it giving up soda, if you replace it with soda water/citrus drink? I am a little confused. I guess your reduced your soda intake mostly by replacing it with green tea though.
I feel like HN is such an echo chamber it doesn't require strong moderation.
The number of actual prosecutions or even visits from the police is tiny, and when you look at the actual cases they tend to be racist death or rape threats.
Cultural exports. Thanks to Hollywood, most the world confuses American for International.
It's still creepy. There's a different between showing an ID to gain access to a resource, and being
electronically stalked.
FERPA is the HIPAA for educational records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_and_...
Nice one! Here is one more anecdote.

I was a kid when I started drinking Coca Cola a lot and was in my late teens when I more or less stopped it.

There were a couple of reasons, but my teeth completely decaying and being in a really really orange to almost red zone in terms of enamel made me think seriously about stopping the drink -- to be fair Red Bull was doing a lot more.

Here is how I stopped it (in order of effectiveness):

1 Replacement. I happened to love tea and found out that green tea does amazing things to your teeth: nothing! And that's a hard feat to accomplish for any drink. I fell in love with green tea because I quite liked the taste and it was healthy.

2 Negative Associations. I demonized cola. When I'd drink it I'd picture myself getting a barrel of acid which would go down my troath and would completely burn my esophagus (the thing that pulls stuff to your stomach when you swallow). I would then be unable to eat and die of hunger. It wasn't a pleasant fantasy, but that form of demonization made me feel I wasn't drinking Coca Cola but pure acid.

3 Being lenient. Sometimes I can't shake the craving, I think I have it once per month. Very rarely I drink it, but in most cases I get myself to drink something like orange juice through a straw. One time this happened so much that I'd drink a glass of orange juice through a straw per day. When this happens, I tend to focus more on drinking green tea and the fact that orange juice is also acid, that works quite well.

I feel that I have it under control, especially with Coca Cola since the taste completely changed for me after fighting it so hard, and it tastes less good.
Sorry, are you equating needless bureaucratic red tape in a non-profit's application for tax-exempt status to the seizure of a private citizen's phone and laptop?
No special knowledge, but willing to bet they are doing this on the basis of a specific threat. Much theatre, hoping it gets press, and intended as a deterrent based on information they've got they are concerned about. Otherwise its a lot of work for nothing.
Some certainly has, but not all flavoured waters are sweetened. Particularly, La Croix seems to have picked up a national following in the last few years, alongside Perrier/San Pellegrino waters, cold brew coffee, and kombucha. And even those waters have way less sugar than soda.
Yup that's where I blatantly stole the joke from, it's a great one too as it fit my situation perfectly at the time.
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1. Easy is good. Example: The entire purpose of Noise is to simplify and make things easier for people.

2. I am not "slapping some kind of encryption" on tun/tap devices. Though it would be easy to do so, I have not required "bulk encryption" for this software to be useful. IMO, the flexibility to add this, easily, is indeed a feature worth mentioning (some users might need it), but not one I need right now.

3. Small, fast, flexible and portable are software virtues most useful and therefore most important to me. What I see here in this cheap, senseless comment is the act of trying to superimpose someone other user's virtues, e.g. encryption protocols. It is trying to impose one persons goals onto another persons goals without even knowing what are the other persons goals. The usual nerd web forum nonsense.

Not all users need, or value, the same things.

The authors of Curve25519 and the peer-to-peer software I use, both academics whose software is used by security consultants, do not spend time reading and interacting with the HN peanut gallery. In fact this is true of the authors of most software I use. I think there is a reason for that. Why do I waste my time reading this garbage? (Every time I respond to it I feel like I have been suckered/duped into playing a time-wasting game.)

Because despite the garbage comments there are some interesting, unconventional end users who read HN. Not sure where else one would find this audience all checking the same website.

How "easy" it was for any of these authors I mentioned to write the software I value is mildly intriguing but truthfully not something I really care about. The fact is that they were the only ones to write it and publish it. That is what is important to me.

All of this is tangential to the question: Is Wireguard portable to BSD, Minix, Plan9, etc.?

But I guess the fact that whatever I am using, for almost 10 years before WireGuard appeared, is smaller than WireGuard has irked someone into trying to dismiss that prior software. The reason apparently is that it might have been "easy" to avoid writing a large amount of code.

It might have been easy to do for the original author, but for those 10 years, no one else did it. The alternatives chose significantly different (IMO, inferior) designs and were all much larger, stacked with "features" and complexity I did not need.

The temptation to make things complicated and larger than they need to be is irresistable for most people writing software. It takes serious effort to find authors who can resist this temptation, effort most users will not make. I make that effort and reap the rewards.

The author of the parent comment exploits that temptation and the larger number of undetected mistakes it produces as a business.

It is easy to see the competing interests and inherent biases between a user that values relatively small, simple software and a security consultant who needs relatively large, complex software (the norm) to continue to exist in order to stay in business.
Version Control by Example, Eric Sink [pdf]
that quick google search brings up a site that cites no sources for that claim...

Digging around found a source but I highly doubt its the one that site used.
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_compliance/privatizatio...
> Unless the targeted individuals were not just "individuals", but individuals who were prominent in certain organizations...

I have to assume that's absolutely the case here. I didn't read this as "100 random individuals" being infected.
Stupid question: what medical ailment do you reliably get from drinking 60 oz of Diet Coke every day? Frequent urination? Caffeine crashes?
> There's just enough excellent articles to keep the advertisers amused, but the fact has to be faced that 99% of the traffic is young men looking at scantily dressed young women.

Then again, these young men probably aren't paying attention to the ads (unless maybe they're porn ads!), so those subreddits aren't a target audience.
Freelance web dev.

Extremely lax schedule, except for the occasional hard deadline. Lots of freedom, pays the bills (barely).

On the other hand, it doesn't pay enough. I'm not saving as much as I need to to take the next steps toward my goals.
Do you have a source on this? Preferably one that will be updated if the policy and practices change?

The only safe assumption is the worst case.
I don't think they can stop you from moving in a car. They can stop you from driving one, though...
OS X gained market share because of the insane popularity of the iPod, and subsequently the iPhone. Gained nearly 4% post iPhone launch.
> Stop flying so much and tell them when the time comes fuckoff and come back with a warrant

In other words, stop flying completely. Because with that reaction, you're not getting in the plane.
Every government is a democracy. Monarchies, fascist dictators, republicans, all of them are democracies. They function by the consent of the people. The people may be sheep, brainwashed, terrorized or whatever, but in every case there are more of them then there are government enforcers. If you push them too hard or ask them to do the impossible, it will not work. Dictatorship is not as easy as you seem to think - it still takes effective management to get anywhere.
I installed it and tried running it on your site, but it just showed the "summarizing" spinner forever.
My life is filled with pro salt anecdata, so I'm not convinced it's on the same level as sugar.

I'd be interested in seeing your anti salt sources.
ASH - > ASK?
I trust the crypto used by my devices.

Searching electronics for explosives isn’t security theater. That’s a real threat vector and an effective counter to that threat.
Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt works great for the justice system, not so much for your one shot at life.
OP probably chose the vague and general "[very sensitive to EM] people" exactly to avoid labeling.
Here's a much better link:
https://securelist.com/apt-slingshot/84312/
and PDF: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/khub-media/wp-content/upl...
Did Tencent move those studios (based in Finland, LA) to China already?
Yes they have! [1] Dual- class listing now miss out in huge daily price-insensitive purchases from ETFs driving their stock up.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/993e4c11-8729-3168-a280-69e1d400b...
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The sugar replacements might change your gut bacteria in the long term. You probably will not notice this for a long time until there are seemingly unrelated symptoms showing up.
I’m not aware of anything better than brute force attacks for any vaguely recent iPhone.
idea: scrub all data and accounts from your electronics before flying.

leave your phone unlocked, but primed with a goatse booby trap so that the agents get an unpleasant surprise that's totally legal and comes with total deniability -- hey, you just loved goatse so that's why it's on your phone and laptop.

if the agent is offended, perhaps they should have minded their own fucking business.
That's legitimately hilarious. Thanks for sharing this tidbit.
I understand and agree with some points of your criticism, but I disagree with the part that we can't beat undesirable views out of people. Well, we can't do it completely, but it's not a binary thing, and I believe we really can do a lot to educate people. And not a political education, but teaching them about their own biases. Teaching them to be critical, to not just ignore evidence when it goes against their views, to be fair to others, etc.

I don't know, I don't think we have actively tried yet.
I cant stand it either. Switched over to diet dr pep and got the benefit of having more caffeine too.
Did you also check whether obesity and Christianity have a common cause, such as poverty, low intelligence, or low education?

That graph looks quite suspicious -- 26% is rounded down to 0, and 31% is rounded up to 1.
You can get feedback before the compiler kicks in by asking IntelliJ to explicitly define the type.

It’s a trick I used quite a bit when playing about with rust, and Kotlin actually.

Alt + Enter should invoke intentions pop up, you can do it from there. (I think)
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I'm not sure—I think it's more, in this case, that Rust assumes the developers learning about it have specific goals: namely, to evaluate Rust vs. C/C++. So every resource that teaches Rust couches the discussion in terms of justifying why the particular design being presented is better (from the Rust maintainers' perspective) when compared to designs in existing languages, even if it makes other sacrifices to be such.

I would contrast this to e.g. the Erlang documentation. Erlang/OTP is a great system, and it's well-documented... but the documentation doesn't actually go into the "why" of various choices (e.g. why the BEAM has a module table with exactly two slots per key; why binaries are shared at ≥64 bytes; why clusters are fully connected; etc.)

But I think this makes sense, given the differing approach: unlike Rust, the Erlang/OTP platform is trying to facilitate an abstraction where you just write high-level declarative-ish code, and then improvements to the platform will make that code perform better over time.

Rust documents its decisions because it expects you to be someone who wants to know those things in order to make precisely those decisions (except you're choosing a systems language, rather than designing one.) Erlang leaves most of its internal implementation as a black box, because it expects you to treat it as a black box and derive advantages (in e.g. maintainability) from doing so.
Follow up studies have not born that out [0]

0: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29166970
I think you might mean parents, but for most of the measurable general psychological traits then yes. As a parent it is in somewhat depressing, but on the other hand liberating. Provided you provide a basic level of love and support then your contribution to the basic personality of your children ends at conception.
It's not "classic" since the example used happened less than 10 years ago as well as also being applied to left-wing groups as well. [0]

What is classic about it is right wing media (especially in the talk radio era) hyperventilating and manufacturing a scandal where "conservatives" are the victims.

Furthermore individuals/groups claiming tax exempt status where none exists is one of the things that the IRS should be looking for as an agency.

[0]https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/audit-irs-scrutiny...
> if you share the "correct" viewpoint, but unpopular views have to be exceptionally polite to avoid biased moderation

Where HN has been falling short (lately, in my observation) is where discussions about the ethics of certain business models get lost via the "buried" option or killed off completely.

You cannot come to HN to discuss the potentially-negative ecological or economical impact of a YC company. The voting rings will literally send your comment or post to the void: buried or killed off completely. HN does still post lots of interesting links, but for truly interesting discussion that isn't (for lack of a better word), tainted by bias, I prefer Reddit these days.
Also tried it on https://www.humblebundle.com/terms (happened to have a bundle page open) - the output wasn't great. Coincidentally the bundle I was looking at is a bunch of ML books.