skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If people who didn't like Alex Jones, simply ignored him, he'd sink back into the shadows and have a tiny fraction of his audience.

He wouldn't necessarily, because the people who don't like him aren't the ones making him popular. And his message has real-world consequences which sometimes can't be simply ignored. Harassing the victims of mass shootings is going to become a thing now because he's convinced people that all of them are staged and the victims are crisis actors.

>But he's a handy foil for the outrage culture to get their outrage on.

We may simply be disagreeing on what constitutes outrage culture. To me, it's outrage for its own sake, outrage as identity politics and virtue signaling ... and there is certainly a lot of that on social media.

But people also have legitimate and understandable reasons to be outraged at Alex Jones and people like him, which to me makes it no longer outrage culture, but just outrage.
It's also about taste.

Fruits and vegetables in the US taste terrible.

How do you want a kid to chose this sad dry dirt stick they call carrots when they got a deliciously engineered Maillard molecules stacked burger next to it ?

Every time I go to the US, I have to spend crazy money at Whole food to get something only near the quality of what I get to regular supermarkets in France. And in my country, I try to avoid regular supermarkets because there is no joy in eating their fresh good.

Of course you will eat a kit kat if you have to pay 3 times the price to get something healthy, and 5 times to get something satisfying.

Plus remember, this tops the effort that is already required in choosing what to buy and cook it.

It's an impossible game to win for many American.

And it's a vicious circle.

Being fed with crap lead to less energy, more disease, and worse mood, and so you have even less chance to catch on life opportunities. And less chance to ever eat healthy again.
I argue that the distinction is effectively pointless, because human imagination can already simulate our reality. Have you ever had a particularly vivid dream? Ever daydreamed about punching that smug customer in the face, or launching a rocket at that ass in front of you in traffic?

What would happen if you had a dream about having a particularly vivid dream? If you dream in that dream that you're having another dream, does your real brain cook itself from using too much processing power? If you dream that someone else is having a dream, does that matter at all to your simulation? It's entirely possible that you never have to simulate that at all, because the dreamer forgets all about their dream when they wake up, and that branch just gets pruned.

By that standard, the (1) simulation would halt the instant some random animal ancestor fell asleep. The (3) simulation could not model anyone that made a decision based on a portentious dream--such as the dream about seven fat kine and seven lean kine found in a millennia-old book with some cultural significance. Only a (2) simulation has any chance of producing meaningful results.

And given the predictability of events, you would need to run that Lincoln simulation hundreds of times to learn anything from it, and many times more if you want any reasonable degree of precision. Nobody wants to wait 1000 years just to find out with 95% confidence what Lincoln might have eaten for breakfast a month after not being assassinated. You could prune more extensively if you had a specific question you wanted answered. Even if you just want to wander around in a simulated Lincoln-unassassinated Earth, the sim could still prune based on what you decide to look at. The sim would probably have to simulate Lincoln's impact on journalism regardless of whether you read a newspaper or not, but if you never stop to smell the flowers, it could probably prune Lincoln's impact on gardening.

An ancestor simulation has a great advantage over an alien simulation, because it can play back recordings of real observations rather than simulating or randomizing results from scratch.
IMO whiteboard interviews are disadvantageous to shy people. However, that aside, generally in meetings whiteboard could have some benefits if not abused
Maybe this is true, but it seems like this claim needs some evidence.

Shaming people sometimes makes them rebel, and sometimes makes them reform.

Maybe you drive more people into radicalization than self-reflection when you shut them down. I'm not sure I've ever seen evidence of that either way, have you?

However, it seems almost axiomatic that if a person cannot be heard (as easily) then that person cannot recruit (as easily). I would guess that this is at least part of the purpose behind de-platforming tactics. Maybe. Maybe de-platformers just want to stop hearing from their opponents.

I'm wary of de-platforming as a universal tactic though I might be convinced that it is sometimes the right approach. At any rate, if it's effective, then people will keep doing it. And it seems to be pretty effective.
According to the laws of New York State, bicycles are vehicles. They are required to follow the laws and traffic patterns, not make their own.
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I appreciate the skepticism, but "for the same money" is off base in my experience. Maintaining IaaS services costs much less when taking personnel expenses into account.
> This is why the US enshrined free speech as the first amendment of the constitution.

You're right, it wasn't very charitable, I took it quite literally, and that means the 1st amendment has absolutely no bearing on preserving the right of one person when that is trampling on the publishers rights.

> Technical means of defying censorship, like this one, help to preserve that right.

I did miss the nuance there because I get angry that there appears to me an impression in the general populace that the 1st amendment applies everywhere and gives people carte blanche to say whatever they please without consequence.
I get a terabyte free with onedrive, because of the office subscription. I wish I had a good way to utilize it on Linux.
Yes, he was wonderful.
I mean, we have lots of traffic laws, some not so well thought out, others enforced capriciously, others not at all, and so on. I suppose we might as well just unofficially adopt the Idaho stop outside Idaho and to hell with other States' laws...

More seriously, I think the Idaho stop is a good idea. Cyclists won't stop unless they really have to for reasons fairly obvious to anyone who has ever biked on streets. No need to make that behavior illegal. But it will require a bit of an education campaign. And we already have a ton of things that require mass education: zipper merges, yield the left lane to passers, and so much else.

Should NYS allow bikes to make right turns on red too while we're at it?
Don't Fear the TSA Cutting Airport Security. Be Glad They're Talking about It
French here, not in a startup but in an international company. Meetings are in english as soon a non french speaker is there, but during lunch, discussions are often in french even when non french speaker are present. I know it is not very polite. I really think you must learn french if you come to work in France. Even if your french is totally broken, the effort to speak french will be really appreciated. I have some coworkers who can speak french quite well but asked me to not tell it at work so that they can continue to prented they can't. This is also a reasonnable choice. I think you need to have a good understanding of oral french. People won't care if you make mistakes or if you write mails in english.

I have noticed that OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) is far less popular here than in US. I think that IOS and linux are also slightly less popular than in US.
Meats don’t exactly provide energy, they provide calories which is converted into energy through the Krebs Cycle. Protein/carbs/sugar all ultimately will be converted and used by cells as glucose/glucagon.

Generally you are correct and protein shouldn’t spike insulin like sugar, but certainly some protein will spike insulin. For example I’ve been experimenting with various proteins in ketosis and even whey isolate spikes my insulin and knocks me out of ketosis.

Maybe they weren’t doing paleo diets so much as high fat diets and entering ketosis where the body stops using glucose/glucogon as primary source of energy and begins using ketones for cellular energy.
Grab-Uber deal wins Philippines approval but virtual monopolist concern remains
Do you have Java installed? It works for me.

There's another app from a Japanese lab but can't remember the name.
It is a corollary but it is an application to people in large numbers.

Since, in the long term, there is always less people in on the joke than new followers, you are guaranteed that the community is going to be taken over in the end.
I don't think it does. The picture here: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/UPj... is CVD-Jet, not their new scale. The blue-and-yellow rightmost picture is described as "as a person with red-green color blindness sees the rainbow image [in the center]". This scale does put the brightest colors in the center.

Their proposed scale, cividis, does not have a brightness in the middle of the scale. It's the second image in the article: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/jou...
You say low cost, but if I'm reading that article right, one of the lowest settings (2 availability units) is 12 cents per hour, so if it's being minimally used 100% of the time, it's still a good $86 per month. You can get a cheap DB instance or hosting outside of Amazon for a fraction of that. And it goes up if the DB gets some actual load.
Well, then, that makes a metric ton of drivers assholes. There used to be this common claim in SF that stop sign rolling is a cyclist thing. Then Stanley Roberts sat at a stop sign and found nearly every car rolling it. Got it all on video too.
I really think it shouldn't be a hard line. Large reactors should need higher insurance, small reactors should need lower. One of the things making small reactors more practical is the insurance cost. And since it is a hard line companies figure they might as well build the biggest they can. Seems to hurt everyone involved.
If I'm understanding the intent correctly, there would be no authority capable of keeping any of those people off the service.
Well, you can click on it and be redirected to a full article that explains their position: https://www.thefamily.co/toxicity
You know what they say: Every problem can be solved by introducing another layer of indirection. Etc. ;-)

But seriously, that sounds like a very good idea if one has to target multiple platforms work with a change-prone API.
Malloc will still fail for overly large allocation sizes. If you try to malloc(-1), for example.
I just want to reinforce - whom ever your taking money from, should be willing to write off everything they give you. In fact they should do it the moment the money touches your hand.

That isn't to say that your going to fail but you dont want YOUR venture to get caught up in their personal circumstances if they change. People with enough money tend NOT to care about your payout (today, tomorrow or ten years on, if ever).
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Don’t anthropomorphize machines.

They hate that.

(Quote credit: unknown)
As someone from Amsterdam who owns a car, commutes by bike, and rides a road bike for sports, my opinion is that it's mostly the road cyclists who create unsafe situations. Sure, car drivers are not free of any blame, but they tend to stick better to the rules than cyclists.

If you're an avid road cyclist like me, there's a big changes you've done all these things more than once:
- Crossed a red light.
- Ride on the road while there's a cycling lane next to it.
- Cut corners.
- Ride a bit to fast in busy area's (maybe to keep your Strava average high)
- Pass an normal cyclist a bit to close.
Of course, but they don't need to plan what crops are grown, or what's on your plate.

There could be a sugar tax for example.

Or even better a 'health tax' pegged to a 'health index' of some kind, quite possibly with both government and private involvement.

Lots of possibilities

But one thing seems clear, that capitalism is ultimately only interested in profit. It should be tailored to align better with society's needs.
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I remember reading about a bomb disposal robot demo that was halted because of something like this. The robot had detonated an explosive and was still somewhat operational. The operator was driving it back showing how tough it was. The military folks observing made them stop, the site of the robot dragging itself and struggling back to the safety of the operators was too much for them
It’s important to note that most holocaust deniers don’t actually think the holocaust didn’t happen. They just feel like Jews “get a free pass because of it” and want to cause problems for Jews as a response to that.
> that makes a metric ton of drivers assholes

Yes, this is true.
Exactly! Weird how people aren't asshats when you show them you're trying.
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>Plus you can buy actual tomatoes and not red plastic balls.

That's an important perk.
If they can use their boost from Ryzen sales to bolster their graphics division, they'll be in a great position.

Yesterday I was talking with some coworkers about a new computer build and one of them had recently purchased Ryzen and the other was thinking about it.

So at least anecdotally, AMD does indeed appear to be on fire.
They think they want, but they don't.

For every human being on the planet needs their own privacy. Its a common theme in the EU, but it isn't only important within the EU.

Therefore, there are two viable options:

1) You store your data locally (encrypted if you want to protect against burglars).

2) You store your data remotely, but encrypt it before you send it and decrypt it after you receive it (public key cryptography).

There is no other, viable, long-term option. Dropbox's solution is a short term solution.

Now, the question is whether you really need to sync to your LAN right away. You most likely don't. You can just sync in the evening and at night while your device(s) recharge. If you really need to sync ad hoc you have the option to punch holes in your firewall, or use a VPN. One opportunity for innovation here is to allow a user to define what must be synced right away over WAN and what shouldn't. Another opportunity is to make cloud backups easier. But these require the above requirement #2, and as you might know, public key cryptography just doesn't seem to be user-friendly.
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So every restaurant that serves breakfast at 7a should be closed down? Or should we prosecute the owners and managers of these restaurants too?

Obviously we should also prohibit security guards from being forced to work before ... 9a? or after ... 6p?

I think you're missing that the relevant people would already be working at these times regardless of any extra large orange juice orders needing to be filled.
Right.

I always think that let ... in ... can also use where. My mistake.
"Gun" is just a way of describing someone who's good at something. Australian slang.
French working for an American company. Yes.
Apparently git-annex won't let you store a git repo in it? http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Storing_git_repos_in_g...

(Sure, "don't do that then", but I'd rather not have to remember to not do that)
I think you mixed up worse is better. The idea behind the phrase is that quality does not increase with functionality. Functionality often means features along with bells and whistles. Sure that application looks pretty and offers tons of features but with that complexity and glut comes a steeper learning curve as well as possible security and stability issues in the code (more bugs).

A good comparison would be comparing using make files and a simple text editor like vim to visual studio. Is visual studio truly better because it offers more features when a make file and vim can do much the same? A programmer used to VS might call the make file method worse, but the reality is that it is the simpler path which makes it better. Realize that simple doesn't mean "simple to use" but simple in terms of complexity (philosophical simplicity is at play here).

Worse is better is better translated as "A simple design is better, but not from the users perspective."
*53. It's the DNS port number, but yes, not a great name.
You are correct. "man 5 attr" says:
In the current ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystem implementations, the
total bytes used by the names and values of all of a file's extended
attributes must fit in a single filesystem block (1024, 2048 or 4096
bytes, depending on the block size specified when the filesystem was created).
I do not think that the author of the article has a hidden agenda but mentioning that healthy food can cost more is either misleading or useless.

Quote (of a lie): "Instead, there is a range of economic and social factors that make eating enough fruits and vegetables really hard."

Of course it "can" cost more if you insist on buying only the most expensive vegan food available.

Try to become obese on a cheap healthy whole food plant based diet and rice and potatoes and bread without much added sugar (= normal bread in Europe).

The article offers no useful information to the reader and shifts all responsibility to the evil industry and claims that healthy food is too expensive and socially unacceptable and thus out of reach and not a solution.

Can you find one benefit of the article that made you smarter or a better person ?
I take it this allows applications to (safely) render simple html inside of their apps without having to include the whole webkit/chromium engines? Or is there something else more that I'm missing?
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There's no moving target. You can write your layout with tables like it's 2005 and it'll render just fine in the latest version of firefox/chrome/safari/edge.
You don't think humans can't or won't misread votes, especially as a mistake? You have to have two people (one D, one R) both looking at each one at that point.
Tesla board is reportedly in the dark about buyout–that’s not normal
I have registered over 100 domains in the past and this has never happened. I expected to have the same experience.
Can a computer write a sonnet as well as Shakespeare?
>If a car rolls through a stop sign they're being an asshole

Meh, it really depends on the type of stop and conditions.

Regardless of the number of wheels one's preferred mode of transportation has I'm not gonna complain about people doing rolling stops at 4-way stops where there's good visibility and the traffic conditions are such that there's no possibility of misinterpreting who's turn it is or at a right turn that would be a yield instead of a stop were there not a left turn option.
That's too bad. Whenever I unfollowed someone, I'd add their account to a Friend List so I could occasionally take a look at accounts I'd unfollowed. Sometimes people would get annoying over something but eventually calm down and start posting good stuff again. It's going to be a lot harder to recognize when that happens now.
This is such an important distinction to actually effect change. The vast majority of folks who go from 0 to Gym Rat will quickly peter out, reverting to sedentariness. Small lifestyle changes are far more effective.

Likewise for diets. Those who spend their New Years resolution momentum eating baked chicken and broccoli for a week or completely cutting out carbs will shortly find themselves failing completely and binging ice cream or whatever. Rarely do you see sensible advice like "keep your same diet habits, but cut out soft drinks", or "if you engage in late night boredom-eating, try binging vegetables instead."

Unfortunately, humble and incremental changes in habit seem antithetical to our society's affection for (unrealistic) sweeping, dramatic transformations.
Absolutely. The free healthcare alone makes up for the lower salaries in France.

My friend is diabetic and in poor health, he would go broke if he lived in America and not Europe.
If looking for static site (single page or not), Hugo (https://gohugo.io) + Netlify.com work great!

I was able to easily churn out a single-page "for rent" site using the Hugo Creative theme[0].

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They're hiring like mad in Markham, Canada..
1- surely we're allowed to waste our own time if we like!

2- nope, and actually my entire research agenda has been around helping people find a treatment that is most likely to work for them specifically! (we also founded a company to bring the research to market- springhealth.com)

3- that is beyond the scope of the paper, and we didnt use the word hospitalized once

4- yep, and thats a good example of one of the pitfalls of self-reported surveys. in general, i am a bit less cynical and in our experience, most people aren't filling out surveys to intentionally lie or sabotage.

hope this helps!
I'd argue that even that's insufficient. Educational campaigns are hugely important as no one ever retakes a driver's test. There are frequent confrontations over entirely legal traffic movements because some people just don't know. And I'm not talking about recent bike safety laws either.

A compounding factor is that while rules for cars are more or less standard throughout the 50 states, rules for bikes are a complete mess. For example, in Massachusetts, a bike can ride in the left lane (I mean, you should probably have a good reason but it's 100% legal) where as in some other states, bikes have a mandated max distance from the right hand curb. How can anyone know what is actually allowed?

And a solution to the disjoint sets of laws is that states are very different. Super urban areas necessarily need different laws than very rural areas. Even regional snow fall amounts is a factor as bike lanes basically disappear in the winter.