skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rise of energy drinks, then low sugar / sugar free energy drinks killed soda for me. 160 calories of Sprite is just empty calories vs a 60 calorie Kickstart that has caffeine.
Yeah, that bugs me a bit about this story. The (known) targets seem unimpressive for an attack tool this sophisticated. (Unless the targeted individuals were not just "individuals", but individuals who were prominent in certain organizations...)
There's a big difference between an indiscriminate worm and a targeted attack. Those 100 computers are high-value targets and would have been carefully guarded. Hiding in an environment like that is pretty impressive.
I think it's extremely patronizing and disingenuous to lump posts calling for the extermination of members of a religious group, or calling for the execution of refuges in with "things I disagree with".
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Funny how they felt it was necessary to define the acronym NSA, but not APT.
Those are also specific posts, but most of the posters who share the sentiment of the commenter typically advocate for the removal of entire subreddits.

Also, to be frank, I think that posts of that nature are exactly the kind of thing that someone can and should disagree with. Suppression of those beliefs by silencing them just means they are moved away from platforms through which their views can be better contextualized for them. The prevailing attitude that some people are just not worth debating says more about the person who holds that belief than it does about those they're accusing of never budging. I have had my mind changed many times, as well as changed the minds of others.
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I don't think graph theory is in any danger of being lost. That seems overly dramatic.

Since people can learn from each other, it's hard to say what people really need to know the day they join the team.
Coon town is obviously offensive, but easily avoided (ie, not a problem).

I casually followed the Leslie Jones incident and don’t see the problem. The brigading seemed easily avoided by Jones and was actually amplified by media covering how bad it was.

My twitter feed doesn’t show mentions by randos, so Jones should have been able to easily filter out at the client. She may have for all I know.

So both your examples seem easily solved by client filters to not force speech in faces.
agreed. but consider how the people being banned will see things.

i don't suggest we cater to them, just that we realize their way of thinking and reacting.
> Reality is that it would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know

Is this true? I've seen various studies saying that the opposite is actually true, but I can't currently find any of those studies. Does anyone have any sources?

EDIT: some sources, though I don't know the strength of their validity:

- https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-that-real-name-policies-fail-to-improve-comments/

- http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/17/google_plus_finally_ditches_its_ineffective_dangerous_real_name_policy.html
I heard an ad for Coke Zero Sugar and grew confused over why they would add sugar to Coke Zero.
Yes and recent.

>An inward-swinging door - three times cited as a code violation by West Warwick inspectors and three times replaced by club managers - was blocking the exit closest to the stage.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/15/series-errors-s...
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Haven't seen this one before. No, I don't want you tracking me, and no, I'm not going to view your article because of it.
This article is from 2015.

Since then, Philly was able to pass a "soda tax" which went into effect Jan 2017. In it's first year, it raised $78.8M.

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2018/01/26/phi...
I do agree again. It’s easier and it compensates for other things, e.g. a stressful day at work. I do admit, though, that I am trying to restrain myself. Eg I don't buy any sweet, if you don’t have them at home you can’t be tempted. I am trying to do intermittent fasting from time to time. Alas, I’m not perfect and indulge more often than restrain.
> big walkable urban areas also happen to be less safe from crime, rather than safer as the author asserts.

citation?
You’ve described something that isn’t happening and won’t happen.
Sadly it was replaced by "bottled flavored sweetened water".
Another example: Occupy Wall Street was forced out of Zuccotti Park repeatedly for trespassing. That's because it's not really a public space.
Yes. In today's age of near-universal literacy, "uneducated" is just a euphemism for views disliked by the the side in control of the education apparatus.

While thought-policing media, schools, churches, and any other possible venue of "indoctrination" may "work" to a superficial extent, it mostly just completely destroys the credibility of your authority and leads to stunning implosion and destabilization. See: the Soviet Union.

Like it or not, you can't just beat "undesirable" views out of people, either with schools or social media moderation.
https://imgur.com/a/dsLhk

Note how the grid is completely gone, the Sharpie strokes are fuller and the ghosting around the red ink is gone. (The word "Red" seems to have been written faintly, like with a non-working ball point pen, and then written over properly.)

The thing is, I took a completely different approach here. I won't give a complete step-by-step recipe, but the gist of it is this:

1. Create a copy layer of the image.

2. Optionally level the intensity with the divide trick; I didn't bother.

3. Convert this copy to grayscale.

4. Threshold it to black and white, such that the grid is eliminated, but the writing remains solid.

5. Blur the writing (radius 3-4).

6. Threshold again.

7. Now you have a black and white version that is a bit thicker than the original. TURN THIS INTO A LAYER MASK. An inverted one which passes through the writing, and renders everything else transparent.

8. Apply this mask to the original image. This requires transfering a layer mask between layers.

9. Slide a white background under the masked layer. Now you have the lettering clean on white.

10. Play with simple Color->Brightness-Contrast. I ended up with something like brightness -66, contrast +88.

In the final step, because of the layer mask that is in effect, these controls affect only the writing: the white coming from the unaffected layer below stays white no matter what you do with the contrast and brightness controls.

Why the different approach: I first tried the original approach and the result was good. But I thought you wouldn't like it either. It was similar to Matt's. I did a better job of eliminating the grid, but the writing was less vivid. (Likewise I also preserved the yellow tint of the paper.) I wanted the grid completely gone, with vivid writing. Playing with the intensity transfer curves was not quite doing it; there was poor separation between vanshing the grid while preserving the ink.

This attempt can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/ldrBN
The green writing is particularly unsatisfactory.
I am TOTALLY ok with TSA reading my last text messages before I go on a flight.

Those last few texts someone sends before committing a terrorist action, could send an extremely strong signal to authorities and possibly prevent a disaster.

If the extra security results in a strange TSA agent getting to enjoy some surprise dick pics, well that's the price of freedom Jerry.
"shared-nothing = copy-everything != blazingly fast)?"

Not OP, but, if that does not give you more speed I'm not sure your problem should be multithreaded in the first place. Threads themselves are not free, there is a non-trivial cost in switching thread context. Trying to use multiple threads to wiggle the same memory area is insanity in most cases however you look it.
When you say "slightly more expensive grocery bill", what are you comparing it to? I find that it's generally cheaper if you buy fresh meat and produce and make meals yourself, whether you compare it to eating at restaurants (a lot more expensive) or prepared/boxed meals in supermarkets (slightly more expensive than the same amount of food in fresh grocery).

I suppose if you compare it to junk food, like eating chips and cookies for subsistence, I can see how fresh meat and produce can be slightly more expensive. (Or you may be considering time it takes to prepare meals from fresh ingredients as an expense?)

In fact, one of my first realizations when I began to cook meals myself, after college, was that eating healthy was surprisingly cheap. You can consistently eat healthy and get all your nutritions for under $5 a meal.
actually they can and do every day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

"In May 2010 a couple was driving from New York to Florida and they were stopped by police because of a cracked windshield. During questioning, the officer decided that $32,000 cash in the van was "probably involved in criminal or drug-related activity", seized it, shared it with federal authorities under equitable sharing. The victim hired a lawyer to get back the seized money who urged settling for half of the seized amount, and after the lawyer's fees, the victim got back only $7,000."
Reddit is not actually strong moderation.

Forum communities with actual strong moderation, eg. Something Awful, ResetEra have near zero issues with hate speech, Nazis and other things that reddit has let fester.
Alzheimers and stroke are the ailments that you might hope to be curable soon if that were the case.
> Presumably, air travel is a privilege, not a right, just like driving a car is.

Freedom of movement is a privilege, not a right? What can you possibly be talking about?

Did I miss a memo? The United States (and other common law societies) have a long history of enshrining freedom of movement as a fundamental right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit...

Also, be reminded that the USA voted in favor of the UDHR, which reads in part:

* a citizen of a state in which that citizen is present has the liberty to travel, reside in, and/or work in any part of the state where one pleases within the limits of respect for the liberty and rights of others

and

* and that a citizen also has the right to leave any country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country at any time.
> It occurs to me that America has, in every state, a state-run "highway patrol" that searches for terrorists and drug trafficking and the like.

The state-run highway patrol is still subject to the 4th amendment (search and seizure.)

If you get pulled over by a LEO - they need consent, probable cause, or a warrant in order to rifle through your belongings.
At some point are we going to think signing each IP packet is a good idea? I struggle to see how we can ever clean the internet without something on the order of "I expect packets from this list of servers certificate" (ok I know some
malware would alter that list but that's a much smaller target area to defend)

I am just wondering if this level of unstoppable infection is just going to be it, or are we at the pre-cellular structure of life point in the internet?
> Yeah this is bullshit. Trolls have always existed, but shrugging them off was never a solution.

> In message boards I used to frequent trolls were suspended without question and banned for repeat offenses.

That must be selective memory, or at least not generalizable: on some pretty major message boards (e.g. Slashdot), trolling became a prominent subculture.

In fact, one of the my major memories of numerous early message boards was that trolling was an integral component of the forum culture. Trollish things would frequently be said and you spotted the newbies and outsiders based on how they responded. As you learned the culture, you'd learn not to get trolled and maybe occasionally troll yourself.
We're very spread out, general lower income, more black/latinx than white, so it's not a case of us just grabbing the rich kids.
Rust in general isn't really a beginner's language. You have to understand computers at a very low level to appreciate the design choices. Given some dedication, it'll help you at that but it's not easy, especially if you already know some higher level languages. It's probably easier to teach it as a first language than a second after Python or Java.
Like many external observers I'm astonished at how many Americans take their position for granted.

This is a list of things that can go away in a heartbeat. Someone living in Victorian England couldn't possibly imagine a world where Britain wasn't at the absolute centre and on in charge of everything, yet within two generations that power had all but faded.
What's wrong with racism? I spent two years homeless on Skid Row. I will never, ever, move to a black majority neighborhood. That's not "toxic", that's me making an intelligent rule.

It doesn't mean I denigrate my black friends. The ones I know are "salt of the Earth". As in I'd die for them. It doesn't mean I won't hire a black applicant. It might seem impossible but one can adopt general rules and still hold exceptions for corner cases.

Or even (gasp) withhold judgement of individuals until you get a better idea what type of person they are.
Thank you - was not aware. That is stunningly bad any good sources on this ?
And I detest this smug mentality that this subject is concerning things that are mere differences of opinion, like we're discussing tax policy. That's not the case in the least.
Most "energy drinks" are both functionally "soda" (though more expensive) and owned by "Big Soda". Kickstart is a Mountain Dew brand, which is a PepsiCo property. I'm not criticizing, mind--I really like the zero-calorie Monsters and I drink a lot of Diet Pepsi, though I seem to be the only person who likes the sucralose Diet Pepsi formulation whenever the topic comes up.

The only time sugared soda ends up in my house is at parties for mixed drinks, 'cause I still can't countenance Diet Coke in a drink. (Diet ginger ale is pretty okay with Jameson's, though.)
China's killing it.
As a followup to this (and response to preceding comment), a quick Google search shows that all airports aside from one in the US are owned by the government, which I believe must meet certain standards that we don't require of private entities in terms of rights of access.
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The only fluff I’m seeing here is your nonsense about about “taboo” or “uncomfortable truths”, which are usually a hallmark or someone with nudge-nudge-wink-wink dogwhistle objectionable opinion.

Let’s make it simple - having a diverse and welcoming community makes a project more attractive to contributors, and means that it’s more likely to succeed in the long term.
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I know it would decrease adherence, but I suggest that people do this for 3-6 months. Set a calorie limit based roughly on daily energy expenditure and track what you eat with an app.

I do not think this is necessary long-term (and it can be harmful if you take it to the extreme), but it is really helpful to calibrate your perception of portion sizes and calories relative to what you can eat in a day. You start to look at things like chipotle burritos and pop-tarts in a much different manner.
How come that thing that is a thing isn't a thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Air_Marshal_Service

4,000 law enforcement officers.

But that is separate from what powers we as a society should allow them.
Almost instant appeal to emotion to justify the correction wave.

Notice the tightening of the 'public safety' aspect of it. Notice it's about finding the most extreme danger and then saying we're unable to control it innately, so it must be moderated. Tada justification.

Impressive.
Where are you seeing four string types? As far as I know, there's only `String` and `str`. Heap allocated vs. stack/statically allocated. There's also things like `CString` and `OsString` but I don't think I've had to deal with those. If so, it was so similar to working with any other string that I didn't even notice.

I'm still relatively new to Rust but this is my understanding. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Domestic flights? Wow.

Since this is a different agency than typically conducts (similarly intrusive and seemingly illegal) searches in the case of international flights, I wonder if they are following a common protocol? If so, who creates that?

I'm about to fly internationally for the first time in a while; anybody have any advice on how to handle my devices?
freedom of movement \neq freedom to fly though
What it does mean is that that unless 1/3 or more of your code is buggy, it will report more false positives than bugs.
I am the author of the _Opal-Ferro library_ and the _website_ this thread links to. Thanks for all your comments.

Please note that the website is a technical demo of the ferro library and gives some background information about how it works. The intended target audience of the website are web- and software developers. I didn't invest a lot of time in browser compatibility since web developers tend to use newer browsers. Edge 15 is excluded because it doesn't fully support CSS grid. I'm not a very good web designer nor a CSS expert, so the website is a little bit rough around the edges. Please don't shoot the messenger/website.

Ruby's is all about programmer happiness. My intention with ferro is to increase web-developer happiness. What makes me as a web developer unhappy is front-end frameworks (regardless of the language they are written in). Using a front-end framework usually involves a mix of some server-side rendered html, a bunch of code and a templating language. The templating language looks like html but with extra syntax added to connect with the js code. In other words to be able to move application logic from the server to the web browser an even more complex version of html is used. And I need to write in 3 different languages. Very unhappy.

Ferro tries to solve this problem in a different way. By getting rid of html (and thus any links between html and code) and replacing this with code to create a memory structure that fits the application you want to build. The ferro library handles the creation of the necessary DOM elements. The web developer only needs to write in 1 language (apart from CSS). I think that this makes front-end web development much simpler. And me a lot happier.

Some folks mentioned that html is used for tasks it wasn't intended for. I agree, html was originally created as a markup language with some meta data added. Kind of what we use markdown for these days. All sorts of things were bolted on later: styling cues, document structure, semantical elements, js code. It works but it makes separation of responsibilities (structure/content/styling/logic) harder.
Internally a web browser doesn't even use html, but only keeps a memory structure we all know as the DOM. Html is one way of telling the web browser what the DOM should look like. For simple web pages that is absolutely fine. For (progressive) web apps html is not ideal.
My handwriting in school would have been better if I could have used this.
as someone who was once part of various eco-activism movements, you really start to notice all the privately owned public places. Usually, all political rallies or demonstrations are not allowed there. I think this is really unhealthy for the society, as activism and rallies etc. are an important part of the political discourse. Public places need to stay public to allow them to reflect all the facets of society. Homeless people don't disappear because you ban them, pollution doesn't disappear because you ban public stunts trying to get the focus of the society, rallies raisinw awareness about the limitation of personal freedoms, surveillance etc.

Living in a bubble of happiness is not the reality for most people and it's getting easier and easier to either don't notice or purposely ignore it.

I understand you view, but a place only governed by law and not by private motives is something very valuable.
I wasn't trying to be snarky, was just objecting to the conclusion of the piece. It argues that inequality in society projects from the structure of family relations, but nothing was spoken about those relationships in the small being any different for their historical examples of egalitarian societies. I'm probably not well enough educated to read this article properly, but the conclusion seems to be weakly supported to me.
I just started reading a book that got me thinking about this - Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue [0]

If you can remove just a couple of the worst actors from the internet, does it have an outsized benefit? Are those people defining "acceptable behavior" and by example giving more reasonable people permission to behave that way? Interesting questions regardless of the specifics of the Thiel/Gawker case.

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There are a LOT of differences enabled by the "method of energy transport".

If I own a coal power station that powers 500 000 electric cars, one government inspector shows up and he says "No, no, no, you must install this scrubber, or we will close you down". So now I need a scrubber.

If I own one of the 500 000 diesel cars, the government cannot afford to send an inspector to examine my car, maybe they will ask the mechanic who services it to do their work, but I can trivially bribe him to turn a blind eye. So I can keep polluting.

If I own the coal plant, the government will make me build a tall chimney to pump the waste gases into the upper atmosphere and spread them out more, and of course I shan't build the plant on expensive city centre land, but further away.

But if I own just a car I can spew the waste gases out onto the street, and collectively they will be densest in city centres where the most people are because that's where they use their cars.

We'll know we've turned the corner when the hot spot on local pollution maps is always some big old power station not a city.
First one: an interesting study - but it only applies to mice. Currently we just don't know if this applies to humans.

Second one: I haven't read the whole study but they categorize fruit juice which is chock full of sugar along side artificially sweetened drinks - which is a red flag to me. Also, I don't think people who swap sugary drinks for diet drinks and changes no other aspect of their diet will have a better outcome in regards to type 2 diabetes. It doesn't mean that diet sodas contribute or cause type 2 diabetes.
My maybe-wrong sense was more than the MIR could change from one compiler release to the next, but that the editions couldn't introduce language changes that would require any given release of the compiler to have to produce MIR of a different kind for code of one edition vs. another. You'll be able to compile a single binary relying on different libraries pinned to different editions, and I think the idea is that from the MIR stage of the build onward, whatever differences may exist (e.g., a reserved word in one edition might be a function name in another) have to be papered over so that whole-program optimization/compilation can occur.
Why are Le Corbusier's giant buildings worse than Barcelona's superblocks?
But don't particles and anti-particles form everywhere constantly? Won't they add a temporary weight, before cancel out?
They really figured out something good with Coke Zero. It somehow tastes better than Diet Pepsi without being nearly as sweet.
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