skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That claim would appear to be a lie. I decided to go get the other side of the story and watch the actual video in question, which can be found embedded in this article on Jones' website:

https://www.infowars.com/new-york-times-media-matters-lie-cl...

This is the first time I ever watched or listened to Alex Jones so I have no dog in this fight. However, I do not trust outlets like the New York Times to tell the truth about conservatives who are being shut down online. Apparently my lack of trust was correct.

There are two aspects of what Jones said that make me say the NYT is lying:

He starts by outlining the people he's talking (really, ranting) about, namely commies/the reds/antifa etc. Then he says people should move against them "politically, economically, judiciously, legally, criminally" which is pretty garbled, but I don't think he meant criminally as in literally "break the law" because he prefixed it with "legally" and "judiciously". I suspect he meant "via the criminal justice system".

The reference to battle rifles comes much later in the video and it's in the exact opposite sense of what the NYT is implying. He says:

And they're coming. And they're coming. They think they can really take down America. And ... this is it. So, people need to have their battle rifles and everything ready by their bedsides, and you've gotta be ready, because the media are so sophisticated in their deception [snip]

Having them "ready by your bedside" shows very clearly this is meant in the sense of defence not unprovoked attacks and moreover defence against the people who read the media not the media itself. Jones doesn't seem to be arguing that journalists will literally be coming for people in their sleep.

It's rather unfortunately ironic that the NYT's coverage of a video in which Jones claims the media is "coming for us" and "they're so sophisticated in their deception" seems to prove him right - they are using sophisticated deception to whip up a mob that is trying to "get" him.
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Because on iOS Safari any touch on the lower area reveals the autohidden bottom toolbar, so now the button has moved up, and now you have to click on it again for it to work.
Here's an interview with a very self-aware addict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZFzEW7_Q4
For most higher animals mental effort and physical effort are coincident. Same for our ancestors. I think it would be wise for us living a modern lifestyle to try and emulate at least an average daily balance.
The first reasonable thing I read on this subject.
Cybersecurity is something that I feel is best self-taught.

Set up a small network at home. Go crazy with nmap. Set up a few VMs. Go crazy with gdb or windbg. The best way to learn is to break things.

If you have an old application or game with serial #. Try to crack it.

Set up an webserver + sql backend, try injections or other exploits. Profile/audit it to see what is happening.

There are websites that document OS, Database, Webserver, etc vulnerabilities. Install older versions and try these vulnerabilities.

Then you can look into worms, trojans, etc. See their code and how they work. And see if you can come up with ways to stop it. Then see how you would bypass your fix.

You can also look at security ( white hate/black hat ) software that audit, pentest, etc. If it is open source, read the source.

The only reason to shell out the $10K is if you are looking for a job.
It's always strange watching programmers defend go's obvious deficiencies. I mean, this sort of "appeal to simplicity" could be used to defend anything.

The reality is most go programs are (1) very difficult to understand because error handling swamps their logic and (2) end up reinventing exceptions anyways, albiet poorly and (3) inevitably end up leaking resources because go's "error handling strategy" doesn't ensure resource cleanup.

We can observe this and measure this quite clearly in non-trivial go codebases.

Eventually the go dictatorship will relent and provide exceptions. At that point all the people who praise the existing broken model will happily praise the new approach and denounce the existing brokenness.
> It's really frustrating: all articles on accessibility mention the alt attribute, and that you should use them. But few give guidelines on how to write a good alt attribute that is actually well thought out.

You're not alone in feeling this frustration. In fact, this very article includes what I presume to be a screenshot of some code from the React docs. I have to presume that's what it is, because I'm a screen reader user and they haven't provided an alternative, screen reader-accessible version. Go figure.
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As long as the users rate how much they like something, my method could easily work with songs or books or anything.
The sad thing is that this was all already implemented and done in Microsoft's second POSIX subsystem for Windows NT. It provided signals and process groups support for job control shells. It had a full control sequence interpreter for output and control sequence generator for extended keys. There were termcap/terminfo database records that people had added to other operating systems. It had a line discipline with "canonical" and "raw" modes. It had pseudo-terminals, with both BSD and System 5 access semantics.

* https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb497016.aspx

* https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb463219.aspx

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12866843

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/interix-terminal-type.html

And Microsoft owns it.
Actually there are genetic factors that predispose you to addictive behaviors and substances.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2715956/
How does this compare to the PoS in the Tezos network?
It's not just an insurance problem. I assume accidents are already covered as part of your construction work.

When you are in your 20's. You fall from a ladder, break some bones, you heal and get back on your feet one year later. When you are in your 50's, you are more fragile and less resilient, same thing happens, you might never be able to work again. It's brutal.
I would like to see a set library as part of standard library if they are going to do something more on this front.
The source on the EWG website (linked from the article) seems to have all values listed as parts per billion... https://www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/glyphosateincereal
Event loops, building smooth UIs and handling high server load
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OpenBSD's history of leaking embargoed information might be a reason here. If you don't play by the rules, the adults don't let you play anymore.
If you want to get a feel for what you can make, you can browse published patterns here: https://electromage.com/patterns/

I was interviewed by embedded.fm about Pixelblaze and some other projects
https://www.embedded.fm/episodes/220
Might be interesting to other folks wanting to do something similar, we cover some of the meta around making and selling a DIY thing and learning things along the way. Highly recommend the podcast as well.
Actually, amphetamines and cocaine do not cause physical dependence, while opioids and GABA agonists (alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepenes) do cause physical dependence.

‘Depressant’ addiction occurs because they’re physically and psychologically addictive.

You may want to do 5 minutes of quick research before writing posts about subjects you are unfamiliar with in such an authoritative tone.

Conversely, as a former heroin addict and alcoholic who also used cocaine and amphetamines without developing addictions to either, I wonder how people develop addictions to substances with no physically addictive qualities.
Another disgusting example of patent abuse.
The Windows console subsystem itself has supported multiple output buffers from the start.

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/console/console-scr...
I don't remember Google's plans in the EU being shrouded in secrecy like these ones.
It was a slashcode forum that was started by the people that made suck.com another site I loved very much that is long dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic.com

http://www.suck.com/
If you want an interesting side project: spin a string of these addressable LEDs to make a circular display, or sweep a plane of them for a display volume.
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This was possible because cities weren't as developed as they are now. Property was cheap back then.

These days, the major expense of building a mass transit system is just buying property. And in cities, these properties are going to be already developed.

Right now, there are individual buildings in US cities that cost over $1billion, so grade-separated ground rail is not going to happen for cheap. That only leaves tunneling, which also isn't cheap.
For back pain, the first step I'd recommend is to see a physiotherapist and get their opinion on your situation.
The prior question is: what is causing overdoses?

My understanding is the opioids are already regulated, controlled, and dosed appropriately, since most are acquired through medical prescription. Why so many overdoses, then?

My hypothesis is the drugs are addictive, and it takes more to get the same high each time, which eventually leads to accidental overdose.

Additionally, drug use can lead to feeling trapped and hopeless, and that might cause people to either carelessly or intentionally overdose.
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I get this. My default, most comfortable position is to sleep on my back, but if I do get terrible nightmares, headaches, and general shittiness.
This is funny... Only because I can relate but in the completely opposite sense. I am often told to sleep on my side to reduce snoring noises, but I find sleeping on my back much more comfortable and will always roll on to my back after a few hours on my side.

One old snoring trick to avoid back sleeping is to put a tennis ball in a sock and attach it to your shirt. Maybe you can build something similar to avoid side sleeping... Though mechanically might be a bit harder to attach to your body.
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The levels the EPA considers safe is for use on crops.

These are the levels deemed safe for levels in food[1]. The median seems to be about 0.2ppm for glyphosate levels in food meant for human consumption.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=0f2a0a6738...
Facebook WhatsApp and GoogleDrive partnering to store (analyze?) WhatsApp logs
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The idea here is, quite obviously, that blocking these services, plus everything that runs on their cloud infrastructure, is too high a price to pay.

That mechanism is well established, if only by these governments previously being unable to just ban internet access outright, even though it was universally perceived as a threat to their control on the flow of information.
EDIT: never mind, I see the clones are references that can appear in multiple places.

Wouldn't narrowed views in org-mode accomplish the same?
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We've already asked you to please use the site as intended and post substantively, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start following the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's the Guardian. It's the British equivalent of Fox but from the other side of the political spectrum. I don't understand why so much Guardian drivel is upvoted here every day.
Curious what your feedback is on that surgery? Are you happy you got it done? Many people lose weight after getting it too...
Mozilla recommended privacy extension had “phone-home” feature
Ah, another in the ranks of non-working WebGL. So many things I can't see :(

(I browse via VNC - long story - and I need to claw back as much RAM as possible so Chrome is usable, so I tend to kill the GPU accelerator process since it makes every renderer process use about 75% RAM! But byebye WebGL...)
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If you are completely dependent on exposure through Google, Facebook, and Twitter, you're doing it wrong. I read about plenty of bloggers who lost half thier traffic the day Google Reader shut down for instance. Wasn't their a clickbait company that went out of business due to an algorithm change on Google?

Even if you aren't controversial, you are just one of millions of people trying to get your ideas out. You're going to languish in obscurity unless you have an alternate means of promoting yourself.

No one "stifled" Alex Jones' speech. His podcast is still being published on his own site like it always was and you can still add it to your podcast app of choice.
In the US, "public transportation" means "transportation system owned by the public". This is opposed to "private transportation", which is owned by private entities.

All tranport systems are available for use by the general public.

Also, the MTR infrastructure is government subsidized.
If you insist that all drivers must be a part of the kernel, then it is perfectly fair to count all driver code as part of the kernel code.
I'm not the person you were asking, but this should interest you.

I've been working on a terminal emulator ( Extraterm http://extraterm.org/ ) with some novel features which would dovetail nicely with how PowerShell works. The first is the ability to send files to the terminal where they can be displayed as text, images, sound, etc or as an opaque download. Extraterm also adds a command `from` which lets you use previous terminal output or files, as input in a command pipeline. See http://extraterm.org/features.html "Reusing Command Output" for a demo. This opens up other, more interactive and iterative workflows. For example, you could show some initial data and then in later commands filter and refine it while visually checking the intermediate results.

What I would like to do sometime is integrate this idea with PowerShell and its approach of processing objects instead of "streams of bytes". It should then be possible to display a PowerShell list of objects directly in the terminal, and then reuse that list in a different command while preserving the "objectness" of the data. For example, you could show a list of user objects in one tab and then in another tab (possibly a different machine) grab that list and filter it the same way as any normal list of objects in PowerShell. You could also directly show tabular data in the terminal, let the user edit it "in place" in the terminal, and then use that editted data in a new command. It allows for more hybrid and interactive workflows in the terminal while still remaining centered around the command line.

Extraterm does these features using extra (custom) vt escape codes. ConPty should allow me to extend these features to Windows too.
Firefox add-on snoops on 200,000 users' browsing activities
I'm not sure that point revolves around the manufacturing of the car and bikes, even though that should be included.

There was a study, that sadly eludes me, that suggested that if you need to travel more than 2km to do you grocery shopping, then it would produce less CO2 to get in your car and drive, compared to walking.

The reasoning is that you need to consume some amount of food to generate the energy required to walk to the store and back. The amount of CO2 used to generate that food, and the additional CO2 you exhale, would be larger than what a modern car would produce, traveling the same distance.

I believe that the same argument that would make multiple people in an EV carpool more environmentally friendly than bikes. But that's also the case with regular cars.
Probably because it's not toxic or cancerogenic in the quantities that it is used.

It's less toxic (LD50) than table salt. There's no evidence that the glyphosate residues in food could cause cancer. It's even much safer for farmers than many other pesticides, despite the fact that farmers get in contact with much greater quantities. It's not linked to cancer in farmers, except in case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but even this link is weak, and debatable at least: https://plantoutofplace.com/2018/08/glyphosate-and-cancer-re...
I don't see anything wrong with what you're saying, but I still don't get how it explains the original comment I replied to [1]:

> I'm not at all convinced that 2^21 codepoints will be enough, so someday it'd be nice to be able to get past UTF-16 and move to UTF-8

UTF-16 currently uses up to 2 16-bit code units per code point, whereas UTF-8 uses up to 4 8-bit code units per code point, and the latter wastes more bits for continuation than the former. How is "getting past UTF-16 and moving to UTF-8" supposed to increase the number of code points we can represent, as claimed above? If anything, UTF-16 wastes fewer bits in the current maximum number of code units, so it should have more room for expansion without increasing the number of code units.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771351
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Tried googling for one but couldn't find any. Is it hard to implement a multi-user shopping platform with a little similar experience as shopping physically with friends?
As someone who also flies from NZ to London every now and then, I would love a non-stop flight from, say, London to Sydney, and then a short hop from there to NZ (the city I'm actually flying to couldn't handle a plane big enough to fly from London, sadly, so it's a minimum of one stop).

That would be quicker, I'd be able to optimise my sleep better, and at least in business class it would be reasonably relaxing. Also, some stops can be quite stressful - LAX, in particular, is awful (Sorry, Air New Zealand, but I'll probably never fly you again while you go through LAX!).

Also, several parents I've talked to would definitely prefer a single long flight to several shorter ones, given e.g., the stress of getting all your stuff + kids off and on the plane without losing them, the distress of ear pressure during takeoff and landing, etc.
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I think she wants to force the republicans to publicly state a position that the democrats can use as a criticism in the mid term elections.

I doubt she expects it to pass. I suspect she does hope it will help the dems win a few seats in the next election.
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They do investigative journalism with primary sources and documented references which puts them ahead of most news outlets these days. Yes they have a bias but it’s predictable.
The parent is correct. Returns also unwind the stack.

> One important benefit of Go's error handling pattern is readability

I beg to differ, Go's approach is similar to checked exceptions, Java's original sin. And just like checked exceptions, forcing the invoker of a function to handle the error directly is the wrong approach in the vast majority of cases. It just produces code noise and catch/wrap/throw style code, commonly found in old Java enterprise projects. This obsfucates the default path and makes middleware very hard to write.

> With exceptions, it's not easy to see who handles it and where.

Making errors part of the function signature encourages developers to handle them directly at the call site. Which is where most buggy and unreliable error handling is found. The default approach of safely unwinding the stack until you reach the http handler (or equivalent), returning 500 applies to error codes as well. It should be simple to do, automatic even, so novice programmers write robust code out of the box. Hence exceptions.
And in the case of Apple - the first company that took action against Jones - they didn't block access to his website or podcast. They just decided not to index it.

Edit:

To clarify that Apple doesn’t host the RSS feed. It just indexes it like Google indexes web pages. The RSS feed is self hosted on another server.
> If Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure allow domain fronting with TLS 1.3, censorship countries like China are faced with a binary choice.

This sounds inaccurate to me. If encrypted SNI is applied, the middleman should not be able to figure out which domain you are connecting to, without interrupting the connection. Domain fronting is a technique for prior TLS which you had to disguise the hostname.
I'm saying the numbers are so astronomically off that there is no viable path to profit without public subsidy, for any theoretical future system, big or small.
Interesting! How do you keep transaction records?
persistence of vision?
That's a fallacy. If you have both of you sneakers untied, I bet you don't refuse to tie the first one (whatever it is) because the second would still be untied.
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While you won't have to worry about glysophate on organic food, just as much, if not more, pesticides are used on organic crops.
That's my impression when I read the headline and article too. Analytic methods have become so highly sensitive that the tiniest trace is detectable, but that doesn't mean it's significant.

Combine that with a "think of the children" perspective and it makes great sensational-but-vacuous news.

As they say, the dose makes the poison...
The reason it looks sensationalistic is that it is. This is the result of an anti-science advocacy group called EWG that put out a press release that's being republished by various lazy news outlets. This is the same group that has made claims that vaccines cause autism and cell phones cause brain cancer. Unfortunately, this type of article is irresistible to the media and it's getting a ridiculous amount of traction. The science on glyphosate has not changed, and these "findings" by the EWG are junk.

Here's something a little more reputable. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-behind-the-roun...