skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite long-term shared-post-and-comments site - far and away the most friendly and community-like - does not have downvotes. You can only 'favorite' a user comment. If your comment is not 'favorited' it is also not slapped with a downvote. (I find downvotes to be counterproductive and often arbitrary if not malicious. And one sows another.)

Moderators decide only what posts are productive. A dozen or so a day result. No topic is too 'far out' or rarified. The posts themselves may also be heavily-favorited, but almost always are at least lightly-favorited by a few readers.

There is very rarely any criticism or argument. The are not nested, they only appear in time-order. This keeps directed replies (and extended snark-fests) to a minimum.

The resulting 'civilized adultness' of the site is fairly unique on the Internet. Oh, and there's a small fee to join.
Lots of us 'little guys' have been pointing at the Constitution re: the drug war since it first began.
Or my floppy drive had the same CPU and roughly the same clock as the computer...
It's a nice distinction. I wonder whether we can go further though, and not even need that distinction. Here's my take on it.

Any human endeavour is worth its salt if it succeeds at discovering and expressing beauty. It can be a mathematical proof, a theory in physics, an elegant algorithm, a painting, a dance, a novel, a relationship - the list is as endless as the number of ways humans can come up with, and can be as deep and complex and subtle as they wish to make it, but it always comes back to finding and expressing beauty.
Why wasn't Apple looking out for users' privacy before they released a similar feature in iOS?
> Medication do not solve the root of the pain.

Contradictory anecdata: Therapy never helped me until after I started taking venlafaxine (generic Effexor) which took away my anhedonia and made it possible to process my trauma productively, rather than continuing to wallow in misery and dysfunction.
I did not say EU. I said Europe. The behaviour from Romainian politicians is grossly unacceptable and inconceivable in most European nations. National politicians throughout Europe will talk about a EU without "bad apples" as they have in many other cases.
In Australia it's a registration requirement for a psychologist to have another psychologist who supervises then in respect to the personal impact of caring for their patients.
Why do you think it’s different there. Also, how do you go about getting an account over there?
It's more of an imminent threat thing than "I want to die sometimes"; the latter is very common for therapists to encounter and help their patients work through. (Ideally — not all suicidal feelings can be worked through.)
The comment is dead because all comments posted by the account are posted as dead. It isn't flagged at the moment.

Try to leave the whinging about your comment getting flagged or whatever out.
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I'm not having much success trying to find anything in this rather incoherent rant that could, even charitably, be described as a good faith effort to accurately describe whatever it's subject is supposed to be...

I suspect you're a big fan of the US constitution? In that case I fear you won't like to hear how that document was really quite like what you are complaining about: upsetting the (god-given) status quo to grant newfangled "rights" to the masses that cannot handle them. Replacing what had worked so well for so long with risky, top-down experiments in government-engineered "elite" ideas of equality, etc.

The foundational philosophy of the US happens to be the so-called "Enlightenment", if only because that was what was hip in 1759. If you need proof, just find the reason the French send the US such a generous gift as Lady Liberty.

As to empirical evidence of progress, it would seem that you can have your pick among any number of geographic areas and you will find a astonishingly strong correlation between general welfare and the sort of "undefined futuristic government-sanctioned destruction" you bemoan. Even within the outlier, namely the US, the less God-fearing parts on the coast seem to be doing quite well.

Of course I'm defining "general welfare" to include the right of women to vote and the rights of gay people to not be stoned, and I'm getting the vibe that you would disagree with that. Tough luck, I guess: That's the government-sanctioned metric now.

(although I suspect even most born-again white men would prefer today's godless dentists and scandalous, dangerous ideas of "all men are created equal")
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I can't see the comment and I desire to. OP is not whining, imo, just using emotion to convey a point.
Which itself is a perfect showcase for why most sites look the same. That redesign is virtually unusable, and goes so far into being 'art' that it just doesn't work as a discussion forum.

Still, maybe it's more the article writer's concepts of a unique website that don't work more than all sites being the same being a bad thing. Their redesign for Medium.com is nearly as unusable too:

https://retro-medium.netlify.com/borism

I get the creativity in letting people adjust the length of words/negativity of words/number of most common words in an article, but like the Hacker News redesign, it just creates an unreadable mess.

You can make something different without making it unusable, and most of these redesigns fail miserably at that.
Preventing screenshots and showing up in the active apps list is an option within the Signal preferences. So Signal provides a precautious default, but allows you to turn it off.
terrible terminology or not? a part of me understands that data = pollution. But then I watched a SW engineering talk and they seemed to take offense in how the engineering community depicts their valuable user data. those concerns too resonated with me. did they not understand the meaning behind it, or did they maybe have a point. Suddenly I'm no longer sure who is right. unfortunately I no longer know which talk it was but iirc it was Harari or something from @zeneyp (so it wasn't a non-tech talk but also not something that would deep-dive into ML)

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> A mental trait becomes a disorder when this trait no more compatible with social norms (it breaks the order of things, hence disorder).

Your definition is close, but not quite in keeping with the medical world.

Broadly, something would become a disorder if it results in a) distress, or b) dysfunction.

Distress is usually self-reported, dysfunction can also be observed (e.g. unable to eat, sleep, care for self).

I'm a student doctor, currently on rotation in psychiatry.
How are they useful? I watch their commercials on TV and frankly I don't understand why I should use one even if all processing would happen inside the device.
This seems pretty clear. They’re giving you a heads up that in a future iOS version you won’t be able to get awake/pickup information whilst using the background location api.
Go into your profile and set showdead to true.

You're not missing much. Troll account.
>The issue is, as long as electric are priced above or similar to conventional cars, is and will continue to be, superior demand.

Tesla's sales prove you wrong: people are already replacing their current ICEs with higher-priced EV, although on a /km basis, the Model 3 is already cheaper than an equivalent ICE (e.g the BMW Series 3). We just need Tesla to ramp up its production and introduce economy models, and the other manufacturers to try to compete.

I am not saying that you can buy a low-cost EV for your needs/budget, but that your first 3 assertions are plainly false.
Along with a knife ban, the UK is turning into a tidy little nerfed dystopia. You'll be safe enough to obey.

.....aaaaand this is why I wont give up my guns, ever, ever.
> Muslim examples

As you've almost spotted, the problem is one of radicalisation rather than either gun ownership per se or mental health. Other countries have guns. Other countries have people with depression or PTSD. Mass shootings in other countries are generally correctly labelled as terrorism. But people are unwilling to realise that the American mass shooting problem is one of terrorism.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. "Menthol cigarettes [...] are particularly popular among black smokers — about four out of five report smoking them, according to federal surveys." [1]

In fact, when Obama's FDA banned fruit- and candy-flavored cigarettes there was a group of black doctors who called on him to also ban menthol cigarettes. [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/health/menthol-cigarettes...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-doctors-call-obam...
Wouldn't they have to target you personally, though? (I may be wrong about that.) If so, doesn't factor into most people's realistic threat models.
Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finnland, Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands. Not sure about the other countries in Europe.

But honestly, every time I hear anything about the American healthcare system, I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry.
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Looks like none in the past four years: https://github.com/zerovm/zerovm
>How did André do this, with no tool but a pencil?

And paper, paper is the most important thing here. It is the extended human memory. The short term memory of human beings is extremely sort.

I use paper with color marker pens all the time for programming. Nothing beats paper right now. For doing the same thing on computers you need expensive gear like Ipads pro or surfaces and the useful surface is minimal.

I could use several A4s(normal paper size in Europe), A3s(double that), A2s(4 times that) A1 and A0. I increase the resolution using fineliners. It cost nothing compared with expensive gear.

When you are done you take a high res picture for archival. You can replot it if necessary or wacht it on TVs.
Great talk.
The drugs do actually work. We have long acting forms (e.g. four injections per year) of some medications which help when people truely are dangerous to themselves or others.
This sounds like fun :-). I'll look into this.
Currently there are no [major?] cryptocurrency that uses only PoS. Some use a mix of PoS and PoW. Some use a centralized authority. Perhaps it is impossible to create a 100% PoS cryptocurrency that can survive attacks in the wild.
> Though the government did give everyone who fucked up a fall from grace rather than what they deserved

I understand this feeling and also wish that there was some sort of moral reckoning.

But I feel like the better end state for society is "everyone has access to the same fall from grace that the rich and powerful have" rather than "_everyone_ gets to experience the crushing, arbitrary justice system that those at the bottom rungs of society experience".
Recently I did an experiment with myself where I didn't use FB for 30 days. After about 5 days I didn't miss it, but I was not happier. After the experiment, my usage rebounded, but significantly below prior levels (I post a lot less, so there's less feedback to get me to engage).
Menthol cigarettes are also favored overwhelmingly by African Americans...as pointed out in the SF debate on menthol cigarettes, this is another bit of astounding racism masquerading as benevolence
The country that banned banks from buying crypto is about to go bust. Cause or effect?
Yes, I guess my problem is seeking short term rewards. Long term tough projects are indeed more rewarding.
> This hasn't happened unless you count QE as printing money to pay debt, which would be a pretty serious twist of logic.

Credit ratings are forward-looking though. The US's financial position is the worst it has ever been - public debt to GDP is on wartime footing in a long period of peace between major powers.

And from my admittedly highly unreliable sources, a number of states aren't in great financial health and there is a pension crisis afoot.

The fact that the US is going to hand out the nominal value of its debt is not comforting in light of this.

> ... there is a ton of money to be made on the open markets by securing your position with capital

That isn't a fair challenge and you know it, there are a lot of ways to lose everything being clever with derivatives even if the macroeconomic assessment is right. Profiting off something isn't the only way to be right about an opinion.

> This is a legitimate criticism but separate from your other claims.

No it isn't. If the US isn't honoring the capitalist system inside their markets, it is legitimately risky to assume that they will treat foreigners with more respect.

There is an argument that they will, but it isn't a sure thing by any stretch. If something does change, by the time everyone admits that it will be far too late for investors.

The US is chronically unable to balance its budget. The first thing to give could easily be foreign-owed debt, because foreigners don't vote.
The opportunity cost of spending a lot of money on an intervention not likely to work. (I have no object-level opinion on the efficacy of the Milwaukee protocol.)
Maybe the jesuit order did very little or nothing to spread catholicism, as their mission was described to combat poverty and health issues. We can see this kind of faith divorced service in catholic missions and hospitals. They don't require anything in return, not even the time to sit through a sermon.
I think that viewing any argument that some government regulation can lead to the greater betterment of society as being a "government knows best" view is very close to being a strawman.

I definitely see quite a few folks from both sides of the libertarian/authoritarian spectrum. I originally wrote a much longer comment talking about how free markets need at least government regulation in order to function (so people have faith in them) while too much regulation leads to high barrier of entry, but I'm sure you get the gist.
All it says is "Nobody wants one is what's holding them back." I fail to see how this adds to the discussion in a meaningful way. Just a quick look at EV sales is enough to prove the idea that "nobody wants them" wrong. People do want them. There are plenty of reasons why other people don't want them and why market penetration is lagging and these need to be addressed, but it's not a lost cause by any means.
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It went downhill since OKC sold out to eHarmony
>Yes, I agree but for me personally I don't care

That is contradictory.
Yes, CDSs, sorry
Religion is one of the many topics Jesuits teach. To be ordained a Jesuit father one must hold two university diplomas: one in theology, and one in another discipline.

I went to a Jesuit high school, and some of the teachers were priests. My religion teacher (who also gave math classes, but not to me) was an electrical engineer whose master thesis pertained to ring token networks. He also ended up doing jail time after sexually assaulting his nephew, but that's another story...
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I'm almost surprised that school administrators are still pulling the same shit they did 19 years ago. I have basically the same story. I dropped out and got a GED after I was framed by a malicious network admin and expelled, the record of which followed me to each subsequent school. I still managed to work my way into having a career, luckily. But the effects on my family and my development as a kid were significant.

Not only is it unfair, it's hypocritical. First the school keeps the lamest possible security practices (or none at all), and then they punish the kids that stumble onto unprotected systems. It's like keeping unlocked storage closets where kids could get into harsh chemicals, and then recommending the state pursue criminal charges when the kids find them and spill them everywhere. The bigger question is, Why did the school leave the closet unlocked, and why is the school not held accountable??

To answer the article's question, they should partner with other school districts to offer advanced cybersecurity programs to gifted students. At the very least, get the kids to participate in something like picoCTF so they have an outlet for their talents. After-school programs in addition to more advanced online classes will really help.

But also, schools should stop being run by moronic fear-mongering administrators with no conscience.
> CPUs without microcode exist. While microcode isn't exactly a new innovation, early mass-market CPUs were not implemented that way.

> Microcode free CPUs was mostly a RISC thing, and basic CPUs like Z80 and 6502

Those quotes aren't incompatible - the 6502 and Z80 are core to the early mass-market computer movement.

So whilst microcode-free may be rare now, there was a time when it was the norm.
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> with the majority of people thinking that their opinion is worth something has led to some interesting results

What do you mean?
The phrase, "cleanest shirt in the laundry basket" comes to mind. Relatively speaking, the US is in a much better place than others, even if it isn't perfect.
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Nearly all founding fathers were ... were also deeply religious

I'm no expert but I had the impression the founders weren't big on religion. One wouldn't admit to being an atheist back then, so being into Freemasonry or Deism was as close as you'd expect a public figure to get.
In most cases, reddit should be avoided at all costs anyway so you now have another excuse not to go there.
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> people are already replacing their current ICEs with higher-priced EV

Some people are, but only the non-cost-sensitive or people with specific use patterns - e.g. Priuses became incredibly popular as taxis.
Using dashes in symbol names is problematic. It becomes impossible to differentiate

my-var & my - var

As variable declaration or assignment looks very similar to the subtract expression... But if you enforce whitespace, then it's clearer I suppose...
Watch out for that slippery slope, the first step is a doozy!
To repeat myself, reddit, in most cases, should be avoided anyway so you will gain by doing so.
> Also, stream communication is explicitly two-sided; if you want to pull in a value on an istream, there needs to be a corresponding process on the other side inserting something into an ostream.

That's not always the case is it, though? stdin on a standard computer for one, and in embedded world you might have an ostream to speak UART and give yourself a nice printing function, but you probably won't have a corresponding istream.

So why can't this be similarly exceptional?
The UK defaulted in the thirties although I think there were unusual circumstances and it was a debt to the US government.
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I had a similar level of access to my school's network when I was 12. It was really easy, just watch the teacher slowly peck-type her password. It was "teach". That gave me access to everything for her class.

Later on she had to log in to the admin account, and that password was "burger". It turned out to be the password for every admin account in every school in my district. I'm guessing they were all set up by the same guy, with a note saying, "make sure to change the password!"

I had access to EVERYTHING. But, I was a pretty good kid, so I just poked around enough to really verify that I could do anything and then I logged out and never logged back in. I was terrified that I was going to get in huge trouble just for accessing things I shouldn't have.
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I don't think this is correct. There is strong demand for a single, still moderately expensive, moderately exotic car. It's basically the only choice if you have the money and life situation to get an electric car. But as it turns out, it's not even necessarily replacing conventional fuel cars. Wealthy buyers are getting them as third cars!

How is the assertion that a $15k gas car that can go 400 miles followed by a 5 minute 100% full up is superior to a $35+ electric car that might make it 300 and then need a 30+ charge incorrect?

Yes, long-term the pricing, range and maybe even fill up times should become equitable, and along the way the article's main point about chargers covering the planet will have to be dealt with.
> google sells your medical search history to your insurance company.

Wait, what!? Where is this coming from?

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, and while I can't speak for the company this is very much not something I think we do.)
Was that always true? I had a call from Yelp at work where one of the selling points was controlling your profile, in which they mentioned "removing spam" and "offensive reviews" (they might have said "fake"). I took that euphemistically when combined with rumours I'd heard. But that was some years ago (maybe 5+, in UK); and could have been overselling or phishing by a third party I suppose.

How do you handle offensive reviews (like swearing, libel, personal details), do Yelp really manually intervene?

Don't they remove fake reviews, in which case a business can say the review is fake.
I look forward to no longer having to deal with the absurd complexity of the internal combustion engine: pistons, cylinders, crankshafts, distributors, oil pumps, water pumps, radiators, valves, belts, mufflers... The fact that this finally works semi-reliably is a testament to the genius of the engineers and managers of the automobile industry.

Remember that wherever there is a gasoline pump, there is electricity, and the possibility of a charging station.

One day the internal combustion vehicle will be seen as quaint as a horse defecating in the street.
While it's possible to avoid the shitty parts of C++, libraries and community isnt there as there's a pretty huge divide between Java style C++, C style C++ and "modern idiomatic C++".

Also a better C would have to be as simple as C, C++ is the definition of complexity.
Might look simple on the surface but heck even Meyers can't make heads or tails of the spec ;)

As for the need, there are plenty of contenders like Zig, Odin, Jai, etc. For the most part tho they seem to be about fixing the tooling pipeline, module system and standard library. Syntax might differ ever so slightly but feature set is more or less the same.
Not "some people". Enough people for the Model 3 to be the #1 best selling cars in the US in $, and the #4 most popular car across all categories (from subcompact to luxury) and types (ICE, plugins & EV). BMW & Mercedes car sales are now plummeting in the US.