skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually an old problem. The value of free speech as a utilitarian goal, as opposed to being an absolute right which even the American system doesn't quite believe, is in having an unfettered marketplace of ideas. But if all ideas are equally valuable then there is no apparent value to truth and no consensus. You certainly wouldn't design a network protocol like that where nothing is allowed to converge. This sort of thing is glossed over in the regime of approximate consensus which holds most of the time in most communities, but when things get really divisive and intractable, or when there are deliberate adversarial attacks, I don't think there is a consistent philosophical resolution.
The problem with China is that government isn’t magically going to remove sensorship and Google had zero impact on their policy by staying out. It seems right move to me that Google will provide slightly more open search and other apps and may be able to instigate bit more openness. So going in seems like right strategy then staying out even if there was no money involved.
Stuff like this is a huge indicator that whatever everyone's intent going into censorship, it will invariably end with powerful, entrenched stakeholders using the censorship tools to dig in and start purging outsiders and members of opposing factions. In politics, business, culture, you name it, this will be the end result.
It's interesting that this document calls Arab Spring "the high point in positivity" of the internet. From what I understand, most countries are even worse off now. Libya in particular is still stuck in civil war to this day.
How were Tom and Jerry cartoons "wild"? Genuinely curious.
It's
odd to me to assume that people should trust US-based supply chains. We
know that the NSA has done supply chain attacks in the past[1], while in
this case we only have allegations of China doing the same (don't get
me wrong, I wouldn't be surprised if China did this, I'm just saying we
have more evidence for the NSA doing it).

Personally, as someone outside the US, I would gladly trust alleged
Chinese malware over known NSA malware. Or even better, literally any
other country outside the 5-eyes.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...
> The best thing a bright young person can do to help rid civilisation of fossil fuels is get an education in engineering.

The Economist, 2009. https://www.economist.com/news/2009/11/13/wanted-green-engin...

I'm guessing the most relevant fields would be chemE and materials science.
Maybe trying to win over republicans would be better? The culture wars don’t help this issue.
Deplatforming Alex Jones has helped enormously.

One of the Sandy Hook parents wrote how she is able to check her mail now without getting multiple threats in the mail every single day.
> A notch is necessary for the faceid sensor array. If you don’t need a foreword facing sensor array you should get rid of the notch.

Pretty much every smartphone for years has had a forward facing, top-mounted sensor array (and a similarly positioned output device), either in a bezel or, if avoiding a full-width bezel, a notch.

(The “sensor array” may just be a camera and light-level sensor, but it's there, for sure.)
Is this 12 year timeline correct. What degree of catastrophe are we looking at?
Forcing applications to use a separately defined and maintained file dialog is impractical in my opinion. There are lots of ways in which file access can be presented in a user interface.

The problem is rather caused by filesystem layout conventions. I think that a better solution would be to split user home directories into two classes of files: data (that is, files that the user typically wants to see and work with as part of the normal workflow) and "user profile" kind of stuff (.bashrc, configuration files, etc...) that should be "privileged" and require special access rights. These might require interactive confirmation before write access is granted (similar to the split user accounts in Windows with UAC). However, I wonder if these sets of files can be separated cleanly. Marking files as "privileged" should be doable using extended attributes, though.
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I'm not a programmer. I already said that.

If there are many more women who actually blog about programming per se, rather than blogging about the problem of being a woman in tech, then I am even more mystified as to why her writing seems to be so popular here.
Even in the US, the dmca is irrelevant to individuals for the most part. You can outright throw the notices in the garbage without consequence. I've been doing that since it was passed. Some were legitimate violations, some were not. Either way the company wasted printing and postage.

Hell you can ignore DHS letters in some cases.
"Think of the children" as a justification for censorship is still "think of the children" as a justification for censorship, regardless of the context. Dressing it up in an attempt to make it more palatable and reasonable-sounding doesn't change what is at its core. And that's a nice touch, painting me as an outsider by pointing at the sign with the rules.
I can understand why Google, as an engine, should err towards neutrality of information, without arbitrating even hideous content.

But I've never really understand why social networks can't, or shouldn't, say "This is the type of community we are, and what content we find acceptable."
If we can get renewables cheaper than fossil fuels and get reasonable energy storage politics won’t be a problem.
On a platform that caters to everyone and does not have age restrictions, you would have to sell alcohol to everyone and a subset of everyone is indeed children
You're taking a very utilitarian view of these things. Nothing wrong with that. But many people enjoy knowing that there are still those who stick by their old ways without there being any tangible benefit to themselves or the rest of society.
- I detest sports and don't follow sports people

- Very not interested in celebrities

- When I see movies, I enjoy the movie, but don't ever bother to learn the names of the actors/actresses

- Not that into music, especially rap

- Not into TV, never owned one

Got a very low score :D

It would be interesting to see this kind of test with, shall we say, less superficial topics. Maybe more politics, current events, history, geography, technology, law, business, etc. So about general knowledge instead of about what is being called culture here.
> NOTE 2: Depending on the shape of your head the head band of the earmuffs can make the crown of your head hurt – though this is not limited to earmuffs as may headphones have this undesirable feature.

I tied a piece of memory foam that I salvaged from an old mattress to the head band, using two strips of velcro tape. Looks ridiculous, works really well.
It's mostly on twitter or reddit. As a side-note another thing that bugs the shit out of me is when someone looks at my history to find a reason to disregard my comment. (Not accusing you of this by the way)

"Oh I thought I was going to have to respond to you until I discovered you've posted somewhere I don't like."

followed up by a flood of down-votes accusations of being a bot and sometimes a ban when I was posting legit content and previously with a very positive score.

Happened to me twice last month. Once for bringing up the Code of Conduct on /r/linux.

edit: here's a perfect example that made it into print and halfway around the world while the flawed reasoning and debunking has yet to gain traction.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17927696/star-wars-the-la...

followed up by:

https://www.cnet.com/news/actually-half-of-the-last-jedi-hat...

http://monsterhunternation.com/2018/10/02/my-russian-bot-rev...
Is "against freedom of speech" a freedom of speech?
What would win over republicans? I mean, if the survival of human civilisation isn't enough, what can you propose?
In all of the three examples you gave, I don't see slightest problem of being targeted with those ads. Getting those ads don't mean I act on it in any way. With or without leaked personal information, I get tons of ads whatsoever, and almost 100% of them goes straight to trash.

If the ad is interesting and relevant enough (which is very rare), the next action would be researching the product online, and very occasionally I'd be super happy to know about it. It sounds absurd if anybody would make important decisions like deciding what treatment to get for health problems based on what people say in ads without doing proper research and consulting doctors.
> They also said the world would be overpopulated and we wouldn't be able to feed everybody by the end of the sixties so who knows.

Thanks to the green revolution, we figured out how to massively increase crop yield, otherwise we would have seen problems supplying enough food. In fact that's kind of the root of many of todays problems. The population of earth has doubled since 1980, when GHG levels were safe. If we couldn't feed another 3.5 billion people they wouldn't have been born and we wouldn't be in this mess. We'd be in a much different mess, where rationing and population control are common, but at least we wouldn't also be cooking ourselves
You will miss the openess of Android. I tried a couple of times going back to an iPhone, but always ended up selling it after 6 months.

For example, iOS doesn't let you change default apps (e.g. browser). Also their third party keyboard integration is not so great.
I see it as a fear for sure. “I can’t do this thing”, “if I do this thing it won’t be any good anyway”, that sort of thing.
> There could be an entire "shadow ecosystem" of invite-only source repos being shared among friends who are responsible for those they invite, including possibly having whole "trees" pruned if they turn out to be troublesome.

That could certainly be evidence that FLOSS projects need to do a better job of mentoring newcomers, and of combating abusive and anti-social behavior on their lists and issue trackers. That people are squirreled away on "shadow ecosystems" in sizable numbers would be a sign that FLOSS projects are failing at those tasks.

But it is not evidence that the artifacts these shadow ecosystems are producing have much value. If there are indeed a sizable number of participants there would be an example of a fork that releases binaries/tarballs of significantly higher quality than the original project.

Does anyone have such an example?

* tarball/binary available for fork

* fork is significantly improved over the original project

* FLOSS dev community for fork is invite only
If you are interested in trying something similiar, this is what Qubes OS [1] does, albeit with a different implementation (separate VMs for separate tasks).

It is more cumbersome to use than the current mainstream paradigm, but not that much!

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
To me the scary part about climate change is the sheer scale of the problem. We burn something like 4.4 billion tons of oil each year. Eventually we have to basically un-burn all of that oil. That's a staggeringly huge amount of work and we have barely begun to stop digging ourselves deeper into the hole.
But they Obviously have segregated it I mean the product is "YouTube Kids". So they don't have to. So there is no issue.
This is a fair point. Tons of people said that flatpaks wont get security updates because you would end up with 7 versions of libfoo getting updated, or not, on different schedules.

Lo and Behold this is true.

The security gains even in the future are also probably mostly imaginary. You can't trust average users to understand the implications of granting permissions. By default if they are installing an app they trust the dev.

Further its not like malicious actors can't test against the sandbox and do the extra work to discover ways through the fence. Getting your target to run your malware tends to be game over outside of very heavily restricted environments.

If the browser had a build in fashion to ask the user to give them full control of the machine in a way that didn't look like malware 20% of users would end up with compromised devices.
I don't know, you might want to talk with the woman who was arrested for laughing at Jeff Sessions a short while ago.
ABBYY hasn't been all that amazing in my experience. I compared it with Neat Scanner software a few months ago and the latter seemed to do a noticeably better job.
I have been running Open Source projects for about 15 years, which implies moderating the communities around those projects (in my case, very small communities). I'm familiar with toxic environments. I once sent a very stupid question to the qmail mailing list - it did not go well for me. But I learned a lesson from that beat-down.

I make serious efforts to create an inclusive environment for my projects because that is what Open Source software is all about IMO. Any contribution deserves respect, it's a gift to the project. Maybe the PR needs some work, maybe it's total crap - but it's a gift either way and that should be respected.

It makes me sad to think people feel the need to maintain private repos just to avoid potential conflict with project maintainers because of toxic environments - but I understand that is a reality. I would like to counter that with the fact that not all projects are run that way, and some are very willing to accept contributions.
Ask HN: Why don't we seriously seek an alternative if we're unhappy with Google?
I've been seeing at least 2-3 negative posts make it to the HN front page for the past few weeks.
There are very obvious problems that have started to really grow, and it seems Google isn't able to or doesn't want to address any.

My broad question is, why don't we still have a very competitive search engine that can actually rival Google unlike Bing, duckduckgo or qwant.
Drawdown is great, but at the end of the day it's just a list of ideas. OP is more concerned about action
Your assuming that developing countries don't develop in that time which would be quite the prediction.

Also I don't think 1-2 cars will be the issue, more along the lines of:

- Can you own a car? Or must you bike to work?
- Can you access goods outside of your state? Since no trucks/planes for long distance shipping
- How much Heating/Cooling in the Winter/Summer will you be allowed? If any?

That or we could look into geo-engineering maybe?
That's what I did too. If I had heard of the person, even if I've heard of them a lot (example: Niki Minaj... all I knew was a hunch that she's in the entertainment industry) but had no idea who they are or what they look like, I left it blank.
I suspect that "spirit of Google" probably means different things to different people. To declare Google "dead" just because he doesn't like some of its recent decisions seems awfully self-centered.

"Google is changing" would be more accurate. And of course it is - as every living entity does in 20 years. Have you changed at all in the past 20 years? Would you describe yourself as "dead" because of it?
The image caption on the bloomberg story reads "Microchips found on altered motherboards in some cases looked like signal conditioning couplers". They didn't claim "that's the chip"
That is absolute nonsense. It excludes intermittency and integration costs. Just from skimming it almost every variable chosen is favorable to renewables and the worst possible case for fossil fuels.

The notion that solar is cheaper than coal as a peak power source in a developing nation like india with significantly higher costs of capital is laughable.
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That is the case for parents monitoring the internet usage of their young children, not the case for censoring the internet.
These are really really good!

I can add a few, which helped me a lot through my depression and getting things done in general:

- Plan your breaks: "I'll do one hours of this and then have a quick break and go for a walk"

- Set yourself rewards. It doesn't matter how tiny they are, but - atleast for me - they are effective: "When I finish this today I'll get a nice meal at my favorite restaurant".

- Set yourself a time limit. This goes more or less with the one above. Set yourself some time limit that you'll only work til something like 5pm and then enjoy your free time. It doesn't matter if you have finished your work today or not. Maybe it wasn't even possible to finish it in one day at the first place. Plus what helps me a lot is, if you don't finish your current task in time make a quick bullet list for your task for next day. Be realistic and start with super simple goals.
I'm starting a tiny personal wp site that I'm self hosting and would love the collected wisdom in those scripts if they're still around.
Humans express their right to free speech through bots. It's no different from expressing your right to free speech through paid advertisements.
I'm from the US and you are higher than me. But there are reasons I was low (see my other post).
I think this is really exciting. I've just started using TypeScript on my professional front end projects and have really benefited from static typing, and I also love the concurrency model of Erlang and the BEAM. I'm going to give this a try when I finish up with all the .NET work I have to do at the moment.

Great project!
Walk more.

Eat less meat.

And pee on a tree.

Do that every day. Track it if you need to. Spread the word if you like, though leading by example is more powerful than trying to lecture people.

We are all just dust in the wind anyway. But you can choose what your little speck gets up to, at least to some degree.
I think what you're referencing is probably that somebody was recently put on administrative leave pending investigation for tweeting "whose gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6255241/Special-edu...
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This was fun. You should do it for other topics like HN buzzwords and acronyms.
Right. Toppling elected governments coupled with an age-based genocide would be a wonderful solution.

It's the "young and progressive" who know best! People with life experience are truly lost. /s
Can't agree more on the positive comments about mlab. We migrated to them from compose ~2years ago (after horrible support experiences) and have been happy since. At the time, we looked at atlas and their support offerings for affordable plans was just bad. Also, mlab offered a lot of help in the migration while atlas only sent us some sales guys.

Let's see where this takes us.
We don't have a definitive diagram of the mind to point to, but I feel we all really can feel what is and what isn't multitasking.

Once internalized through experience, hand movements on piano (or computer) keyboard are subconscious. They don't tax your brain. Thinking about what you're playing/writing and why are you doing it is still within one "context of execution". They are closely related mental activities sharing most of the same data. Starting to simultaneously think about or engage in an unrelated, cognitively demanding activity - this is multitasking, or the so-called "context switch".
Yep. That was exactly my argument a month ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17926316
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I find this to be the case too. I prefer listening to rain ambient, like A Soft Murmur [1] or lofi hip hop beats.

Apparently, there's even some research that shows that ambient music which isn't at a high volume level can boost creativity [2], and that it can also improve performance in performing repetitive tasks.

Edit: Also found a reference to a 2005 study which is said to show that music can increase performance in software developers. [3]

[1] https://asoftmurmur.com/

[2] Mehta, Ravi, et al. “Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Ambient Noise On Creative Cognition.” Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 39, no. 4, 2012, pp. 784–799. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048.

Edit: [3] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305735605050650
Not really, it's just that the nature of democracy leads power to concentrate within two power centres. Just look at Australia over the last decade and you can see how even politicians who are in favour of carbon taxes will campaign against them one year and fight for them another based on the current political solution.

Hell for another issue, gay marriage. It was quite the sight to see the Deputy leader of the labor party who is openly gay vote against gay marriage legislation because the party had decided that wasn't the way they wanted to do it.

In any case, that doesn't account for the media which we don't vote for in any way.

Also just because we have centuries of experience with politics, it's about as developed as many of the other social sciences, which is to say very underdeveloped and at times heading backwards in it's understanding of the subject's truth.
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Non-canvas fingerprinting summary: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10...

I found the data points coarse (x = 5 years) but useful to see similar trends of popularity between C, Javascript, and Python. Note: these metrics are defined by global search engine popularity.
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Even more entertaining: "Hi! I’m JonLuca DeCaro. I’m currently a Software Engineering Intern at Google. Before this I was a Security Engineer at Apple."

"Oh shit, I might lose my job over this post."
This seems like a psychological defence against anxiety/depression rather than an actual foundation for real action.

You're looking at big, broad patterns and assuming they will work out on the huge scales necessary for civilisation to continue. Other people are looking at the big broad patterns and assuming that cascading failures will make problems accelerate.
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Republicans (and the equivalent rich conservatives in other countries) believe that climate change is happening anyway, and that anyone who doesn't try to make money off it is an idiot. They don't buy the survival of the human civilization bit - they think it'll affect only poor people, and that the rich will be safe. And honestly, they're right, at least for what we'll see in their lifetimes. Poor people are going to die in their millions in the coming decades, and rather than seeing themselves as the cause of this they see themselves as protecting themselves and their friends and families against it by insulating themselves with money.

That's my theory anyway.
> On the one hand it looks like relying on behaviour that is correct now but may not be so in the future.

> Use a decent IDE that looks out for it if you need reminding about this class of bug.

And when your next environment/plugin/employer's setup changes or doesn't offer this warning? Or the day that getting your critical system back up ASAP leaves you no choice but to SSH in from your phone and edit your source in Nano?

Learning and practicing defensive programming as a professional programmer is like defensive driving for a taxi driver, or survival skills for a long-distance hiker. It's a part of what someone who considers themselves a serious professional should maintain.

Relying on a 'decent IDE' to manage your code quality for you is an excellent way to blunt your skills. I'm not saying we should all throw IDEs away or turn off their warnings, but to rely on them is an awful substitute for maintaining good practice. Granted, crossing every t and dotting every i is much, much harder in C than most other languages, but every compiler warning you have to hunt down and fix is another little slice of your day shaved off and gone.
Why is that people with brains write l33t like kids and have such dirty names and ascii drawings?
Because Facebook, unlike say a subreddit, is not a a community formed around a certain topic. There is no 'we' in particular.
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