skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of free speech as a philosophy, but I also am practical enough to understand a bit about how hateful culture festers, spreads, and grows when allowed to thrive online, and honestly I'm at a loss for how I'd reconcile these two concepts.

What's the current state of the art for curbing the growth of hate groups while still providing a platform for honest and free discussion? We all probably have some ideas on how we'd give it a shot, but I wonder if there are one, or a few common themes.
Even the problems money can’t solve, it can often help (eg, money can’t vuy happiness but a year long trip might be the change you needed to find happiness) or at least remove other worries.

But of course as others have said, it brings another set of worries.

Still, money is an enabler that creates options.
Is it me, or does the Rust compiler produce terribly unoptimized code? Just compare it to the equivalent C++ code: https://godbolt.org/g/Jdfkm6. Both Clang and GCC produce really lean binary output.
Don't forget Cakewalk
Not putting enough ports on devices is a crucial problem. Apple with their stupid single port is just idiotic. The best port selection with usb-c is on the 2015 chrome pixel laptop. 2 usb-c, 2 usb-a. Just having a single usb-c has caused endless pain, all so apple could sell stupid dongles. The new google pixelbook 2018 is a great form factor, except they only have 2 usb-c, they dropped usb-a. The reason was probably to make it a little thinner. But like on a macbook pro laptop, having two usb-a's mean you can plug a mouse and keyboard into it. The new pixelbook needs an adapter for that.

edit: mixed up usb-a and -b. D'oh!
My guess would be that many USB-C products are charging cables, dongles, and other items that the average user would not associate with having the capability to store data making them inherently "safe" in their eyes. USB-A, on the other hand, is commonly associated with storing data, and the majority of user awareness and education about the danger of unknown devices is focused on flash drives. For these reasons I can see how someone without technical experience may believe that flash drives specifically are potentially dangerous, while believing that other USB-A/USB-C cables/adapters/chargers are safe. In my experience most users don't even know what USB-B is
Or ask a computer security expert to examine it. If the USB fans have spyware, that would be a big news story!
It's like a beautiful lake gone bad where the dead fish swim on top. Sad but true, it's hard to find anything worthwhile even though there is no real barrier of contributing. It doesn't have to be this way but now it is.
> My thesis stands - as a for-profit entity intent..

No, you've changed your original position, which was "RedHat is the ONLY company managing a reasonable revenue stream while being fully open source." You capitalized "ONLY" to emphasize it. I challenged that statement, and you've conceded with this carve out: "At best, it allows a company to stay afloat, but it doesn't in any way guarantee maximizing net worth and profit of a company." which is a statement I agree with.

So while you say your original thesis stands, we've somehow arrived at a point where we both agree. Open source for a profit-seeking company hasn't delivered. But you can still make a company with open source -- it's just not going to be able to maximize revenue like a closed-source competitor could. But I think that goes to show people write code for more reasons than profit.
This sounds really interesting if true but also sounds somewhat dubious, would you be able to provide any links to find out more about what you're talking about or any images of the jaw growth?
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In my experience the connector from Apple is far more reliable than USB C. USB C is a rounded flat rectangle with a piece of plastic in the center and pins between, which is small and can easily be damaged. Lightning on the other hand is a solid metal connector with the pins/contacts on the outside, which is much more sturdier. Lighting also does a nice "click" when connected.
The article notes at the end other realities than fuel economy.

You often cannot see because of frost on the inside of the windshield. Save a few drops of gas and have to replace a whole car (due to a crash) is a weak strategy.
What sort of education would an aspiring jr high schooler want to get into if they wanted to be part of this field of autonomous driving? AI? mechanical engineering?
I'm not a vegetarian, but recently I've actually started eating these vegetarian burger patties that my local supermarket sells. They're made from beetroot, beans, and other vegetables. They don't really pretend to be meat, you definitely know you're eating a vege patty.

I've actually discovered I prefer them to normal burger patties, they're cheaper too. I've never been big on mince/ground meat though, I've never really seen the point.

I'm definitely not a fan of those fake meat products like quorn. They fall into some kind of uncanny valley [1] for food. They are like an inferior, more expensive version of meat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
>And even if big services like Netflix can afford to pay to play and make it all transparent to the customer, there will be hidden costs to play. Expect that that services like Netflix will have to raise their rates more and more frequently to cover the expenses, all inaccessible to consumer-choice in a direct way.

But right now the ISPs are paying for Netflix's bandwidth and that's being passed to customers in their ISP's bill. I'd rather only Netflix customers have to fund Netflix's service.
No it’s not. America was not at war with Mexico during 1812-1836. Tens of thousands of gringos came and illegally squatted on land as well as raped and killed numerous Tejano families for their land. You should brush up on your history.
The cost of providing an internet connection is primarily about:

1. Peak bandwidth usage

2. The cost of building (and maintaining, see above) the cables

Killing net neutrality helps with neither of those, so any significant cost reductions (if there are any) will come from bribes from content providers. And guess who'll end up paying for those...
It's all about the bits. You need 33 bits to identify 8 billion people. All that is required is for these bits to be independently uniformly distributed.

Say everybody uses one of four resolutions equally. That's two bits: 00, 01, 10 and 11. Now let's say that people's gender is also binary, distributed 50/50 and independent from what resolution someone uses. You can just tack that bit onto the two you already got and now you have three (the ability to distinguish between 2^3 = 8 individuals).

I won't go into the details, but if you have an estimate for the probability distribution of browser resolutions, it's fairly easy to extract the proper amount of bits of entropy. Being independent is a bit harder to make sure of, but as long as you pick things which aren't too obviously correlated, you can just take a safety margin and use, say, 40 bits to identify people, and it's probably fine (and for tracking purposes, a false positive isn't the end of the world, either).

That said, while I support the concept and idea behind panopticlick, I've always felt it overestimated the unicity of my browser. Or maybe I just really underestimate it myself. I don't know.
Generally, how much vulnerabilities is too much? I think Node is past this point.
What are forum and image boards :S

It hasnt changed, just instead of a specific domain/website, its just a subreddit. Since reddit basically killed big forums for things (building PCs, certain games like WoW, etc)
Network connections are much like everything else in life. There are lots of ways to do it. Which way is best depends on your needs. So to match up the most cost effective solution requires a knowledge of your requirements and a knowledge of the options.

When you have a corporate IT rep who is clueless about the options, they are not in a great position to build the optimal solution.

When you have an ISP rep who is clueless about the requirements, they are not in a great position to build the optimal solution.

When you have an ISP rep who is not willing to explain the options, you have a problem. When you have a corporate IT rep who doesn't know the requirements, is unwilling to explain the requirements, or is unwilling to learn about the options, you are unlikely to achieve the optimal solution.

When you have a helpful and capable ISP rep and a cooperative and capable IT rep, the world is a brighter place. But some levels of trust require either naivety or time and shared experiences. That's difficult when every contact between the customer and the ISP involve different people each time.

So, again, just like everything else, try to work with as small and local of an entity as possible to get the job done. This is true for government, auto dealers, ISPs, or anything else. Only scale up when there is an advantage to doing so.
I've never once seen "objective numbers on language popularity".
Why the downvotes? Steemit is a viable alternative to reddit.
> produced by females of various mammalian species only.

Like coconuts
This is so interesting! Since my braces I was always frustrated that my teeth were more aesthetically 'correct', but less functional.
Never realized their "request rate" is very cyclical with night and day. Does that mean mostly US (or north american time zone) users mostly?
If Microsoft said they'd begin to enable 8K on the Xbox One and released a feature that let you view 8K images (with the assumption that more features will come in the future), that'd be completely reasonable.

If Tesla said they'd begin to enable self-driving functionality and released a feature that you complete some part of that like parking for you, or bringing your car up front (with the assumption that more features will come in the future), that'd also be completely reasonable.

I don't understand the jump between "beginning to enable full self-driving features" and turning on full autonomy in any near future. Obviously, Tesla has been releasing functionality piecemeal when they can; see: "features".
This will come as a shocker, and It's not commonly known, but there's quite a bit of research accumulating, showing that extreme electrolyte imbalances such as magnesium deficiencies can exacerbate or even cause anxiety and depression. It's closely linked to our Calcium intake (which is often waaayyy too high for people who really like dairy - it's higher than you think because the US recommendation is twice what it should be: 1000mg vs the WHOs recommendation of 500mg - this means if the label says you got 30% of DRI of calcium, you actually got 60% or more!). Too much Calcium inhibits the absorbtion of magnesium, thus compounding the issue even more. Some studies even show, that with calcium intake increased, their depression levels. And with increased magnesium intake, depression levels decrease: "Case histories are presented showing rapid recovery (less than 7 days) from major depression using 125-300 mg of magnesium (as glycinate and taurinate) with each meal and at bedtime"

Here's one of the studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786

But, there's several more.

Back to the question: With all their money, they could probably afford to eat the very best foods and could higher a nutritionist to help them plan high magnesium foods. For everyone else without all that money, there's always my nutrient based food/recipe finder: https://kale.world/c

Use it to find the most Magnesium dense foods or any other nutrient for that matter.
Next step: automation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17263446
We don't really need the unfunny joke comments.
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The FDA regulates the labeling of food and for obvious public health reasons (allergies) people are interested in having a commonly understood definition of food products. I wouldn't be surprised if the FDA doesn't send a strongly worded letter to these companies regarding their labeling to ensure that they are not misleading consumers. When it comes to plant based products it is likely they will win, when it comes to lab grown meat it's a bit of a gray area.

As an example here is the FDA definition of peanut butter:
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
By virtue of this state being regulated, smaller businesses have to spend a non-trivial percentage of their money ensuring compliance with regulation.
I had the same experience. It throws a welcome splash on every page load. Very annoying, basic stuff. Add a cookie, job done.
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You misread my message.

Even if some group of people is objectively dumber, we shouldn't treat them horribly. But it still means that they will likely perform certain tasks worse (and certain other tasks better).
> whatever hairdo Richard Spencer is wearing right now

Ah yes, wearing a popular European football player haircut means Im alt right!
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Apropos doesn’t do it’s job because it isn’t named — or integrated with — help.
There have been vegan couples keeping their children on a vegan diet. But I also think banning milk in the labeling of plant-milks is ridiculous.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/08/child.starved/
"In my view, programming language choice is cultural yet is always framed as something objective."

I think that's an objectively false statement.

There are many objective metrics by which a programming language may be evaluated. Conciseness, clarity, suitability for realtime applications, and efficiency come to mind.

"It is even possible to "use the best language for the problem"?"

It's certainly possible to use a suitable language for the problem. Some problems are more forgiving than others, of course...

I will say that the idea of a "general purpose" programming language, suitable for most tasks, is a good one. The current multitude of languages, while fun and good for exploring new ideas, is taking a lot of brainpower away from actually producing working systems. Also, I'll claim that there's no reason that most programs shouldn't be written in an efficient language, and in fact there may be a push for that in the name of datacenter efficiency.

It's sad that the most written programming language today is Javascript.
There are absolutely not more users of Bcash than Ethereum.
Yes, let's all shed a tear for /r/fatpeoplehate.
Not disagreeing at all, but "being a billionaire" is a poor articulation of the culprit.

The havoc capitalism plays on social relationships has been documented, researched for centuries. This is the very core of Marxist thought, and to my knowledge has never been contested.

Since you're probably an American and I just referenced Karl Marx, let's please remember Karl Marx was in fact insistent on the importance of democracy (far more than most Americans) and that anyone familiar with his work would have no question of the vast differences between and his well-known disapproval of the Soviet Union defending their project with his work.
It's still imperfect, but sentiment analysis and flagging known slurs might be a good start.

You can roll-your-own, or use a third-party API (whatever the implications might be).
they're called usb condoms
Somewhat tangentially, never the less: I've never tried DMT or Ayahuasca (although curious) - however having spent 3/4 hours reading about the experiences people have had, I wonder if collectively we should discuss that as a direction for transformation we should be exploring. I've read Gene Roddenberry used a lot of substances, and imo -ST is pretty damn beautiful.
Given that Musk and his companies have accomplished some amazing things. Did you see the simultaneous rocket landings?

So 'self aggrandizing bluster' may not be the phrase the you're looking for. How about 'low cost, highly effective guerilla marketing' based on past performance?
It would be better to ask 'You illegally cross the border into another country - should your children be taken away from you?'. There is no equivalence among misdemeanors. Illegal entry can lead to deportation - fishing without a license cannot.
Do we really care that much about privacy? We really should, but every Facebook scandal that goes seemingly unnoticed by the majority of the general public makes me think otherwise...
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Delicious, char-grilled corpse parts.
It's really the natural outcome of any "X Alternative" site. Anyone that gets banned from X goes to the alternative, and anyone else has no reason to go, because X still works for them. So X Alternative fills up with horrible users, and even more nobody wants to go there.
And there's a good reason sexism is called out and vilified.
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Sorry, it's just that...well this is the fact of life, isn't it?

Technologists ALL want standardization...but can't agree with themselves...and us consumers have to suffer.

It was true then, when this comic was released (I still have a USB mini cable somewhere), and it's true now.

Instead of trying for ONE universal standard... why not try for a "few" tiers of standards? That way instead of a zillion variations of USB-C, we have at most... five or six, perhaps.
I gave up on car2go for similar reasons. On the rare occasion that I could actually find the car I'd reserved, it was parked in private parking. There were allegedly punishments for doing this, but they never seemed to make the practice any less common.
You're right. Some of those are pretty awful, and I hadn't seen them before.

That said, I'd still say those are cases that are much better handled by lodging a false advertising complaint with the FTC. Dealing with that one company using the existing legal and regulatory channels is fine, and they're well-known enough that it would probably put anyone else who's thinking of doing similar on notice.

Dealing with that by using them as an excuse to engage in crony capitalism in order to pass an over-expansive law that is clearly designed to distort the market is not OK. Crony capitalism in general is not OK.
What a thirsty site...

asks to send notifications,

content-covering social media bar with bright colours that follows you around,

subscription box that follows you around,

and of course the good old WAIT BEFORE YOU GO thing when you scroll away,

it's like a demo of all annoying dev practices
We assume that bridges won't collapse, planes won't fall out of the sky. Engineers are supposed to build things that are safe to use. That's a reasonable expectation.
Nah fam, those noble savages grew from the soil and never battled for territory, ever. /s
Thank you.

That's what I'm assuming. Just arbitrarily executing an unknown seems bad at face value.
> USB Type-C’s complexity is undoubtedly its undoing. Although the idea of one cable to support everything sounds very useful, the reality has quickly become a convoluted combination of proprietary versus on-spec products, differing cable qualities and capabilities, and opaque feature support. The result is a standard that looks simple to use but quickly leads to consumer frustration as there is no clear indication why certain cables and features don’t work across devices.

Spot on.

And, in the decades it'll take to sort out, Apple will be able to bolt on and extra $250 per laptop in dongle fees. Genius.

* Steve Jobs Foretold the Downfall of Apple! - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBma82g3Uag&t=0m40s
And the only thing I'll add is that "infinity fabric" is a singular clock-domain across all dies. So in Ryzen, its not a big deal cause there's only one die.

But in Threadripper (2-dies) or EPYC (4-dies), the "infinity fabric" bus is what connects the CPUs and Memory-controllers together.
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Yes! Precisely correct, and as it should be. If I’m calling to discuss an electric pole, no computer system is going to react properly, no matter how many phone tree options it has. Better to risk a false positive of an aesthetic complaint now and then, than to have someone give up and hang up and then their house burns down later.
And yet Canada has one of the highest costs for Internet bandwith (~80 CAD for 75 Mbps, data capped at 500gb), no phone costs covered (another ~80 cad month)
It's not about Shahid's well-being, but giving him the choice of taking an easier scooter for the same payout and leaving the hooligan's track-obstructing scooters alone.
> There are safe places to have a business located, and on the corner of a neighborhood street where bad drivers are cutting corners, texting, and going too fast is NOT one of those places.

As a parent, this is something that I care deeply about. If this is a consistent issue in your neighborhood, I strongly encourage you to contact your local police department. This type of driving in a residential area is significantly more dangerous to the community than a lemonade stand could ever possibly be.
I understand Lightning is a worse connector because it places the “moving parts” (the bendable pins) in the recipient “female” socket in the host device which is subject to more wear-and-tear than the insertable plug which is on the cable which is more disposable.

USB-C corrects this by placing more of the mechanical complexity in the plug again - though I’m wary of the thin plastic “tongue” in the socket.
Dang it even works on mobile safari (but 2 FPS)
http://www.codersnotes.com, if you really want to go see it. Coding and tech stuff.

I've generally found that there's definitely a difference in tone between blog comments and comments on HN/Reddit. People tend to be more direct (in a bad way) on a blog.
This is called optimization. And yes there were electric cars before, just maybe not as consumer products because nobody optimized it enough to be profitable. Innovation means doing something new. I'd argue that the drone ships the rockets land on might be more innovative than the rockets themselves.
Probably Wordpress MU with some plugins.

Alternatively, you might be able to build something out in Drupal.
Yeah, I guess alphabet is out too. It's abecedary in the West!
Search for meaning (Victor Frankl)
A billionaire has options though. They can often come back, or they can start a new company on a whim, but, as others have said, they often don’t “quit” but rather take extended time out that leaves them with the option of returning, when they choose to do so.
There was an excellent article on this in the Atlantic on the "Secret Fears of the Super Rich"[1]. The Atlantic article matches my (secondary) experience: while I am (emphatically!) not in this camp (I definitely need to work to pay my mortgage!), I have several close friends who are outrageously wealthy, and I have observed that their lives are not made less stressful by their wealth -- but the specifics change. For example, there is great anxiety about how to raise their kids, especially for those who were not themselves raised in wealth: they are torn between providing their kids those things that they did not themselves have while still having their kids seek those things that they themselves sought. This is much harder to square than it might sound, and I don't think that there's a pat answer -- though I would observe that the ones I know with the fewest problems are those that are the least ostentatious with their wealth.

None of this serves to answer the question of how they deal with it, but rather to confirm what we probably all know: while money makes certain things in life easier, it is not a cure for all ills.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-...
Your "wrong" is wrong. You still need large storage devices if you want to trustlessly verify transaction history.
You still wouldn't have the right to roam across sovereign nations borders.