skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I totally agree that Instagram is “bad”, I’m not sure why the author ever thought it was less toxic than the other social media properties when the article even says:

”A 2017 study showed that Instagram was the worst social media site for the mental health of young people, who said it made them feel loneliness, insecurity, and a negative body image.”
You'd just add it to the account creation.
That's going to be bad news for identical twins.
Even just reading the original article, it was painfully obvious that there had to be some sort of emotional entanglement between the offending party and someone in HR, either romantic or (less likely) blackmail.
I've also applied PUA and redpill is toxic, mysoginistic trash. It's nearly impossible to find PUA stuff that's not toxic and mysoginistic.

The only reason I call it PUA is that I don't know what else to call approaching strangers I find attractive in a respectful and honest way, especially because it seems that where I live or the people I go out with never meet new people.

6cd6beb encapsulated it wonderfully, if PUA is taken as only this and not the manipulative alpha male b/s that is taught, I believe it can teach men a lot of perspective and respect towards the opposite sex:

[...] the general formula of "know your value, be confident and unapologetic about what you want, be ready to accept 'no' quickly and gracefully" is the buried gold. Maybe it's just me but grinding through failure after failure after failure taught me those things.
While I do think it is true that you can only find "hints" of group bias when examining individual stackoverflow users, stackoverflow in general is known to have:

1. overwhelmingly dominant gender of population (92.9% of SO population)

2. overwhelmingly dominant race and ethnicity categorization (74.2% of SO population)

3. overwhelmingly dominant sexual orientation (93.2% of SO population).

(I left this ambiguous on purpose to ensure that my point is about the homogeneity of the population and not the specifically dominant demographic group. If you want more information, you can look for yourself for specifics about which way the numbers fall here - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/).

My point is that the stackoverflow population in general is very homogeneous by certain categories.

Instead of looking for evidence of victimization, imagine how easy it would be for someone belonging to a StackOverflow minority category to get discouraged by StackOverflows fierce gatekeeping, especially with the knowledge that stack overflow is so demographically unlike this person. From the point of view of the marginalized, evidence of group categorization isn't needed beyond that fact that "StackOverflow is very very X, and I know that I'm Y." Any sort of gatekeeping from this point on can feel very discouraging, even if this isn't the intention of those who are gatekeeping.

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Well, if you have extremely specific desires for light temp.
But I don't think I can disable your "state of the art" features if I really wanted to. I don't want your extra features if they require trapping on file modification syscalls in the kernel. I'm fine with the behavior that other apps provide without your "truly amazing" project Infinite kernel extension.

> Dropbox Infinite is kind of like the source control systems Google and Microsoft created to handle their huge repos. Microsoft's GVFS uses a file system filter driver (kernel extension) called GvFlt (or ProjFS)[3]. From what I understand, Google's Piper uses FUSE[4], which would be a third-party kernel extension on macOS.

I find that your examples really show a lack of understanding of why I'm frustrated by Dropbox's behavior. The products you linked are source control systems used by software engineers. Dropbox is aimed at nontechnical users. One of those groups understands what a kernel extension is, and the other one can't point their finger at Dropbox when their computer crashes. How is this not betrayal of trust? When a user installs an app they don't expect it to literally put its fingers all over the operating system. Not only does Dropbox look like any other application on the surface, it actively works to perpetuate this myth by spoofing operating system dialogs and prompts. If a doctor did a procedure on a patient that they didn't fully explain or even mention that they were doing they'd be sued for malpractice.

Also, I don't really like doing this, but you seem to be overly positive about Dropbox's work in this field. Do you work there, or have you ever worked there? Did you have a vested interest in this project?
Clojure the Devil…is in the detail [Or ‘Why I’m too dumb for Clojure’]
A velocity is the total of acceleration over time (as was referred to). A mass (the spacecraft) moving at a velocity has a given amount of energy, and in this context may be used interchangeably.
I thought the basic problem with the A380 is that it's simply too big for how airlines want to run the majority of routes these days?
Things like this:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit
This is a test
Hi everyone this is a teest for developing a Web like this
The main question at that point becomes: how can you carry that much fuel?
One thing you learn from KSP is it requires less energy to fly into to alpha centauri than fly into the sun.
The The Atlantic article is sensationalized and oversimplified. The scientists are mainstream, and they found that most of the variation between people in complex traits such as height are due to variation in genes outside core pathways. In other words, there is relatively little variation in genes responsible for growth hormone; instead the cumulative effects of millions of variations in seemingly unrelated genes is what explains differences in height.

This is not relevant in the context of gene therapy, where we only change one gene or a small number of genes. From that paper, we would expect that a single change would have a tiny, negligible effect on unrelated genes.

Moreover, the initial targets for CRISPR therapies aim to correct mutations. For example, cystic fibrosis is caused by a point mutation in the gene for a mucus protein. CRISPR would be used to restore the genotype that all healthy people have. Since healthy people have this gene, side effects are unlikely. (However, we do expect side effects from other mechanisms such as immune rejection.)
Yes, I was speaking to the actual situation in Seattle with all the caveats that implies. Most important among those is that HALA is an actual policy that describes what will be rezoned, how, and when. It notably will not permit 10x growth in Wallingford.
Spot on. Often being unconventional is more effective than being likable.
Why didn't your names match?
This story is a sign of the times. I was in second grade and some kid was picking my lock and stealing my lunch every single day. My Mother made a lunch laced with laxatives. Truth be told she overdid it.

As a result I found out who was stealing my lunch. The kid spent the entire afternoon in the bathroom. We never exchanged words but he told his friends that I wasn't someone to be messed with at all.

Today his parents probably would have sued and tried to get me kicked out of school but this was a much more innocent time.
Uniform Resource Locators (URL) (1995)
Would you be happy that your $70K car was "half baked" so that Tesla could improve more rapidly?
What makes you think so?

Do you think they would sooner cut off their nose to spite their face?
Also see Yegor Bugayenko's essay, "What's Wrong With Object-Oriented Programming?"`

http://www.yegor256.com/2016/08/15/what-is-wrong-object-orie...

and also the essay "Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end" had an interesting conversation here on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420060
I think we're talking past each other. Mind if I email you to continue the discussion?
I think we can develop robots to kill the bugs on the crops. With like lasers. It doesn't seem like complex problem.

Seems it's much better than spraying insecticides that end up everywhere.
that was my thought too. i go see Star Wars on Monday you go see it on Friday and we share the subscription price.
I'm... not sure of this. A sharp spike in interest rates could make mortgages less attractive and dampen demand. Or, more positively, the Northgate or Othello areas could come up and start to look more like Ballard and increase the attractiveness or property away from the urban core. Either would dampen the hottest markets.
Poetry is a non-standard posture of the poet towards his world that is expressed (shaped) by decoupling the language from his daily communication purposes, that hopefully revealing the inner base of human relations. Maths is about the same for nature relations. I am not that good but attempted that for hacker news by making a short poem of my first year comments here and targeting the inner gist of this community imho http://www.bonkers.it/2017/06/29/poem-h-news/
Do the reshippers actually pay the duties to the countries or do they just pretend like you don't need to?
I would not, which is why I do not have a model 3. People who have Teslas right now are early adopters.

A question back: would you be happy if Tesla did not kick-start electric car ramp up?
how often does that actually work?
If your adversary decides the easiest way to get your data is to kidnap & torture you, you're probably doing a really good job.

This sort of thing is called "security through obscurity" and the consensus is that it doesn't work. It can be a deterrent to adversaries lacking in skill or motivation, but it isn't a very strong layer. Attackers quickly discover that one company looks much like the next, and they develop an intuition for what sort of data a company needs to collect to accomplish their tasks. Additionally, there's tons of sensitive data that companies in certain industries are required to collect & retain, and those laws are a matter of public record. You aren't going to outfox them into thinking you don't have blueprints of your widgets and evaluations of your employees on file somewhere; focus on keeping them away from them.
Uncompressability doesn't imply information content, for example the output of a stream cipher. I believe the digits of pi can be calculated algorithmically, no? That program is a bound on the information content of pi.

You can make a similar argument about digitizing film via sampling, rather than digitally recording the state of every atom - you're throwing away a huge amount of information. Not infinite of course, but dwarfing what it takes to accurately represent the movie. That's a philosophical curiosity, but not really relevant to the qualitative situation.

My point with 3.14 was that everybody recognizes it as a reference to pi, and it works well enough to calculate the circumference of a circle in an engineering context.

(FWIW I personally hate "Pi Day" as March 14th, as it reeks of numerology. It should probably be the day/time when the Earth has traveled around the sun its distance from the sun)
Britain Looks to Ancient Mines for Electric Future
"I could totally do that if I tried"
The U.S. Once Dropped Two Nuclear Bombs on North Carolina by Accident
The most famous quote about Facebook isn’t actually about Facebook—it’s about television.

Worth rereading David Foster Wallace's "E Unibas Pluram" (1993), which is largely about our codependent relationship with TV and how it will inevitably metamorphose into a similar relationship with other forms of media: https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
> ironically using the tool progressives despise the most: Regulation

I've always pessimistically thought progressives rely exclusively on regulation to succeed at their goals. What situations make you say otherwise?
I'm happy to agree that none of this should be held up by a dispute over mere semantics. And I agree that languages evolve, and is used different but consistently by different communities at different times. But let me just note that since most scientific journals and some newspapers use "retract" to mean disavowal without textual removal, clearly describing whatever NPR and the NYTimes are doing requires an additional word (or at least a modifier). The term I've heard used sometimes, and which I think is clear, is "unpublish" (but this is not standardized).
Why would there be a distinction between two different search services just because one is using a historical database?
They normally don't shoulder the financial burden of fraud.
Its a good summary!

I didn't make the connection "these arguments are not persuasive" => "its an excuse" and rather read the part as "not persuaded by the argument" and so I tried to clarify.

(Didn't look so good did it:) Thanks for taking the time to clarify ergothus.
The further you get from the planet, the lower escape velocity becomes. At some point you will be going faster than escape velocity.
I'm happy to see more "social media platform X sucks" articles.

More of these articles means public perception changes regarding social media platforms in general.
Don't just speculate!

http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature21709

It had a measurable impact when planting "wild"flowers on 2% of the land alongside English fields, with a little more searching there's probably a study on gardens.

(From the paper: "Here we show that the survival of family lineages from the summer worker to the spring queen stage in the following year increases significantly with the proportion of high-value foraging habitat, including spring floral resources, within 250–1,000 m of the natal colony.")

However, the jury's out on "insect hotels": http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Obscurity is a valid layer, it’s just not valid as a sole means of security.
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This is so, but RMS undercuts himself by declaiming with authority on matters of opinion as if they were matters of fact.

"c...rap" is the most obvious example of this cited upthread. de gustibus non est disputandum, man; spend more time talking about more objective things with objective tone.
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Ha!

Neither buyer nor seller is protected with Crypto Currencies.
quick poll: raise your hand if you've been either homeless or on public assistance AND are an American/live in America. I'm just curious about the demographics of this conversation.
The Genetic Landscape of Cancer
No one is forcing you to think critically about anything in the world or read critical comments from others. Stop using this website?

(You can just copy and paste your comment for every complaint about any business ever other than true monopolies for truly essential things; you'll never have to discuss and consider any concerns ever again.)
Indeed -- this is illustrated in my example below where one moves an object at 1mph (fixed speed) for about 283 million years until it's 4 * 10^12 km away from the Earth, where the escape velocity is right around 1mph.
Which comes with the obligatory reminder that it fails when a == b.
When I was younger, sometimes I would hesitate to fire people even though they had crossed a bright line into fireable territory. With experience, it became very clear that it was never a good idea, so I stopped hesitating.

That sort of thing gets old, though, so I don't manage anyone now. Life is much less stressful that way.
Why couldn't a collective fork the old version, similar to MariaDB's reaction to Oracle's lawyer romps.
Yes, I agree. One way to do this, which works equally well for stories with minor corrections as those that are fully retracted, is to just make the entire edit history publicly accessible. Then the "up-to-date version" of a full-blown retractions would be the retraction notice and explanation, while leaving the original version(s) of the article available.
Huh, that reminds me a lot of Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon (roughly the same building height and streetcape, although the Barcelona buildings are prettier).
Yep I've spent a lot of money at NewEgg and the tricks I have to employ to get a legitimate order through are constantly changing. It let me use a PayPal account for a while (then said it was fraudulent), then a CC with a US address (then that was fraudulent because it was a Canadian card), then Bitcoin only. I'm guess the last one should work for a while.
IANAL but why would HIPPA not apply to these medical records?
This is a great description, thanks for sharing
Magstrip cards can be cloned very easily. You might still have your card, but maybe someone copied the data off it last week. The chip is a different story.
You don't consider that an odd circumstance? I do, but maybe it's more common than I expect.
So if I gave you a flawless solution to a sudoku problem, would you tell me that it was harder for you to verify it than it was for the solution to be produced?
At least they didn't say Tesla was a rocket company.
I am just thinking in your case, if someone looks up a device, you really shouldn't suggest you don't know who owns it: If they've ever subscribed, you do know.

But perhaps you should have a system where there's a recovery fee for a lapsed account. If your service costs 24 a year or so, perhaps it's 150 or 200 for you to connect up a recovery on a lapsed account. So the risk of not paying is having to pay a lot more if you lose your drone and aren't subbed.
> What SO needs is a forum - not an ephemeral chat but a forum whose topics can be linked to the questions that people want to discuss.

That's kind of what Meta is.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com
> What I'm trying to say is you have a very one-sided view of history.

What do you mean by "one-sided"? What are the "sides" involved here?

> You've already decided that the purpose of militias was to "kill Indians". You didn't back that up at all.

Why would I have to back it up? It's a very basic fact which nobody is disputing, not even you. You feel that the killing of natives by militias was justified at least in part in self-defense, you have inferred from my choice of words that I disagree with you, and you're unhappy about that.

But you haven't proposed an alternative explanation to whom the militias were meant to kill (if not native americans, who? Other settlers? Bears?) or why (if not because the settlers were squatting on indigenous land, then why? Family feud? Religion? The color of their hats?) If you do have an alternative explanation for the existence of militias, now would be a good time to make your case.
For anyone who'd be interested in trying a Lisp (with Clojure probably being the most mainstream one at the moment) and who's been put off by the parens, paredit and/or Emacs:

- Parinfer [https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/] - makes the parens follow indentation and vice versa and effectively makes them a non-issue at worst and a great advantage at best (you can combine it with paredit later on to perform all kinds of ninja magic when editing code)

- Cursive [https://cursive-ide.com/] - a Clojure plugin for IntelliJ IDEA for a more 'just works' experience. Integrates parinfer, among other things, and is generally pretty great (I'm a happy customer).

And last but not least - rainbow parens to keep nested expressions readable. Pretty much every Lisp editor has them more or less out of the box.
I have as much evidence for the teapot as the MSG sensitivity, so I couldn't really guess which is more likely. I'd be happy to change my mind on either if presented with plausible research!

I mean, you also have a whole ton of negative results regarding the plausibility of MSG sensitivity.

Do you have any results showing that someone has looked into the possibility of a teapot floating around Mars and not found one?

There's no clear mechanism for either to be true, but so far I think my money's on teapot.
Imagine hanging a weight on every cell and fluid in your body. I don't think people would live very long. We already know there's damage (eyes) after months in space due to a reduction in gravitational effects.
Sure, but who wouldn't like to make a buck from it? Well, I guess they kind of do with every chargeback, so they have conflicting incentives.
Re update link: "As much as I hate to go based on office talk, it seemed that the HR woman and the food thief may have been romantically involved."

That explains why it sounded like HR had an ulterior motive by appearing to side with the thief without seeming interested in the spice-fan's side of the story.
>Then IBM opensourced it as "Eclipse". This name was perhaps a pun on "Sun".

Yes, I had read that rumour too - that it implied the Eclipse of the Sun ...

Of course the Eclipse logo (last I checked) also implied that.
While I haven't experienced this personally, Meta exists to facilitate discussions like what you're describing.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com

It's also worth noting that those who can lock discussions can also edit questions without approval (and others can with approval), so it's worth pushing back on editing the question into being "answerable", admittedly a non-binary state.
I realize that most US colleges were created for religious reasons, that's why I asked that. In fact the public school system in the U.S. was also created for religious reasons, to prevent kids from being tempted by satan.
It's not like these 30 random guys have organized themselves to make their approaches as harassing as possible. These 30 don't and can't know if you've been approached before or how often.

Intent matters a whole lot and their intent is not to harass you but rather to reach out and probe for your potential interest.

Accusing people of harassment, for simply trying to approach you, is imho a seriously crappy thing to do and very unreasonable.
Well he's just too far gone.
I think toxic has generally come to refer to when people treat other people poorly (ie. insults, name-calling, political extremism, uncivilized debate).

You're right that Instagram presents its own set of problems though... mostly related to self-image. But there's rarely any malicious intent on the part of users (compared to Twitter and Facebook).
His account is named jaydles (last I knew, anyways).
For daytime hours I would like something approximating the suns spectral output. Something like a black body at around 5800K. Lots of blue but pretty flat in the visual spectrum.

For the evening I would prefer more of a wood fire or candle light spectrum. That seems to help with people's sleep cycle. Something with a black body temp of about 1500 K. Or cool incandescent if you are reading; around 2400K. Majority red spectrum.
There's basically three ways to pay for this kind of service, and I'm not sure you picked the best one.

Upfront: Pay to cover a given device once, and it's covered for the life of the device. (Upside: No subscriptions to worry about and you get more cash right at the start. Downside: You need a steady source of new registrations (or you need to save a good chunk of that upfront fee towards ongoing operations).

On recovery: Pay a much higher amount only when someone tries to return your drone to you through the service. (Upside: People can join for free since there's no reason not to! Downside: If people don't lose their drones, you may go out of business.)

Subscription: What you've got. (Upside: Revenue is extremely consistent. Downside: You end up in situations where you could help someone recover a five grand drone but aren't because they didn't pay you two euros this month.)
What happened to JBuilder? I had used for a while earlier. Seemed good then. (ex-Borland fan here.) Did it get messed up in the general mess up that Borland (aka a few other corp names over the years) did to their once-good products, or was it some other reason?
But is that also the case when you consume food with lots of naturally occurring MSG? (e.g. chicken stock)
A “Questionable” App Release