skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>Even mentioning that men could have a problem that society could help solve will be met with great resistance.

It's not mentioning the problem that's the issue, it's your framing: you discuss the progress of men and women as though it is a zero-sum game: as though the increasing standards of respect, pay, and social options for women must imply a decrease of these things for men. This is (to put it mildly) mistaken. Obviously men in our society have many problems that are unique to men. But these problems are not being exacerbated by the progression of women's rights.

>As we know, there's a never ending effort to get women into stem, to empower girls, to elevate women in society.

Yes, and this benefits more than just women. Moving society away from rigid gender roles helps ensure that both men and women will not find themselves desperate and trapped because of their inability to satisfy the demands of their gender role.

There's a reason feminists complain about "patriarchy" instead of "men". Patriarchy is a social system, not specific people. The people aren't the problem, the system is. And as evidenced by the increasing suicide rate, patriarchy hurts men too. So maybe you prefer to emphasize concern about a different aspect of patriarchy than someone else, but it's absurd to think that they are therefore working against you.
Ask HN: HN for global politics?
As in title: Do you know about worldwide news aggregator sites that you trust?
Quaternions and Reflections (1946) [pdf]
Can you please give an example of the things you mean?

Edit: wording.
British ‘eye in the sky' to tackle oil spills,illegal shipping and deforestation
You have a lot of claims, but I want to say the germans did not have vastly inferior equipment but better tactics. they had pretty excellent equipment but no ability to mass produce it like others (us mostly). You seem to have a lot of indepth knowledge but that claim is so counter to my own knowledge of history.
If you have a lot of HN tabs open, it's surprisingly easy to accidentally do this.
They most certainly do. In fact, they're worse than Facebook in many areas - particularly in their blatant disregard for privacy.
The length of the line corresponds to the number of people.
Well... if "dissidents" use VPN that you ("Chinese government") can't monitor, what's one easy way to continue monitoring them?

Yes, offer them free VPN, what good is encryption if you're connected to a server they own/have influence over?
If most of the world's population starved to death then our climate change challenge would be behind us.
China's social credit score is monstrous. Imagine living in a country where one tiny slip up in etiquette or ideology could cost you your entire career. That would really suck.
How to Create a Requirement Document for a Mobile App with Steps,Tips
Tried Cafepress?
Key sentence: "a majority of Americans across the political spectrum now believe that social media hurts democracy and that the government isn’t doing enough to regulate it."

"social media hurts democracy"

The arab spring (supported and brought to a tipping point by messages spread on social media) was not only possible in northern africa or in some arab countries (Libya, Egypt, Syria,...) Social media has introduced a new dimension into our western societies. Political will was for decades built by discussion in small groups but more importantly by a small group of media (newspapers, magazines, tv channels). These news channels had some commonly shared values, operated within those values.

Now we have "news" spreading publicly on Twitter, on Facebook or in closed groups of Facebook or other social media. And these "news" are not fact-checked by any authority anymore.

If I was a rogue actor I would weep for joy because of the possibilities that social media created to manipulate the masses.

So yes, I strongly believe that social media is hurting our democracies massively. And Facebook has a major role in this.
Unrelated but I'd like take this opportunity to write that the "switch to our app" popup on the LinkedIn mobile site is super annoying. It shows up every time I open the site on mobile browser. On several occasions in attempts of closing the popup I've accidentally clicked on advertisements (Promoted posts) or 'liked' someone's post. And then you see more such promoted posts as they think you like them. If anyone from LinkedIn team is reading this - I do not want to install your app. Please store that flag in the cookie.
> Can you explain the moral relevance of that distinction - the reason one kind of theft of intellectual property is morally less bad than the other.

Two different crimes don't have to be strictly better or worse to get different reactions. But scale and profit are big factors here.

Anyway, I don't think it's active vs. passive at all. Your original point (i) was much better. The person asking for money didn't make the science, and isn't using that money to fund more science.

The Chinese "IP theft" is copying from someone that made it, is using it, and isn't interested in selling it. It's a violation of privacy, not just "IP".

> "it's not theft to steal something from those aren't entitled to it"

What's 'it' here, exactly? It can't be payment, because there's no price in the first place. But it's hard to argue that someone that developed a tech isn't entitled to the tech... If 'it' is exclusivity, that's a valid worldview, but it doesn't quite address the issue of using fraudulent means to get access.

They're such very different actions that I don't see any point in bundling them together.

But if you do insist on bundling, then you need to address how a pirate is making a personal copy, and a company copying tech is on a completely different level.

> note that the two acts of theft I stated in my original post

I have noted them. They are bad. I'm with the other responder in ignoring any attempts at whataboutism, so this note is irrelevant to anything else in the post. (Also china's performing extremely similar crimes, so it's a weird tack to use those as some kind of hypothetical comparison.)
Sounds like a crackpot theory by someone not understanding literature. Because the Illiad does not contain the word "mind" and describes events and actions but not thoughts and mental states, it follows that people at the time did not have consciousness. I guess Hemmingway did not have consciousness either?
If the nsfw images were from google search (or are images that could easily be indexed by google), it's not surprising that google is performing well on them. Presumably any low confidence images would've been manually tagged and re-added to their training set already.
> it's always struck me as odd that people will spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to make it so everyday tasks require minimal physical effort, and then spend even more money on home fitness equipment and gym memberships in order to artificially replace all the physical activity they were ostensibly trying to avoid in the first place.

There must be a name for this strange human condition. I marvel at people who spend ridiculius sums of money to get the latest, lightest carbon fiber paddle for their stand up paddle board.

a) you're trying to get exercise,a heavier paddle will give you more

b) if your goal is to go faster then almost anything will do it - try a kayak
Let's make Monday atheist day, then we'll be set.
Can't say I mind too much about subsidies for solar panels and electric vehicles regardless of the motivation.
Great idea! This is going on tomorrow’s to do list. I’ll come back with comments soon.

I’ve got a couple of friends who are gonna love this too. Thanks for showing this.
> Why bother having a policy at all?

Because it's legally required.
Another option worth considering is the Modberry: https://modberry.techbase.eu/
Li is aware. “Install our app” nag is by design, and is now part of the pantheon of user hostile web de-facto standards.
> Are they ganging up on you?

I'm getting the whiff of paranoia.

When I was annoyed by open office noise I just heard disgusting stupid humans blabbing about disgusting human stupidities, why won't they just shut up and let ne think.

I guess my misanthropy was acting up.

Maybe open office disturbance just causes unique cracks each person has in their psyche to show up.
Coal is particularly problematic. Oil may peak soon... Australia alone has like 400 years worth of coal in known reserves alone. We won't run out of it anytime soon - we absolutely should not dig it all up and burn it though.
There’s a scene in a cockpit that was filmed with rear-projected computer screens and black windshields. That film was stored and later re-exposed filming a miniature moon landscape filmed through the windshield of a miniature black cockpit viewing a miniature moon base with black windows. That film was stored again then re-exposed to film people walking around through the windows of a full-sized black moon base.
Doesn't it say it's the first time they've been collected and printed in a book? Library of Congress has had them online for 15+ years at least.
Newton's method requires calculating the second derivative, which is quite a bit more expensive than SGD, especially with many parameters.
I just wish Most of America would stop calling them biscuits.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/scones-and-jizz
Yeah I know ;) but the reference to a music app said to be "better for artists" irrespective of the specifics made me think that the poster in question was referring in thought to Spotify, which has been well-described as paying a pittance per stream given the audible similarity in their naming. I can see that I might have been off-base in my thinking, but just felt like a clarification would help the viewers.
The Astonishing History Locked in Whale Earwax
È sempre bello vedere dei conterranei su HN! ;)
Same with discord, excluding the almost.
Would be interesting to combine it with approaches like these 'Predicting Future Correlations with Contextually Controlled Datasets' https://medium.com/@492727ZED/datasets-with-context-control-...
Maybe because I urgently need to go to the hospital with my serious condition?
I'm sure it's a cliche at this point, but I don't think enough writers emulate K&R's style on The C Programming Language. The prose is short, dense, and yet not tedious.

Another great "tutorial" to emulate is the TeXbook by Knuth. This one is verbose, but it shows the reader all the little details and pitfalls about the software without becoming boring.
Maybe there should be a way to place the environmental cost of "lawn care professionals" activities on them so they can decide better if they want to use rakes or pay the neighbourhood to use leaf blowers for the suffering ans pollution they cause.
Middle: porn
Beggars may have smart phones but they still don't have a sanitary place to defecate or stable access to food.

When the beggars have indoor plumbing, refrigerators, and food we can discuss whether having a smartphone means inequality is not a problem.
Oh that’s complete nonsense, irrelevant.
I've got an even lower rating despite being a super well behaved guy. I'm convinced it's because of the people I split Ubers with.
Okay, but the Brits have systematically forgotten to pronounce the letter "H" in front of words except when it comes in front of "herbs", of all things. I dunno if we can trust you guys on matters of language!
IP addresses are more promiscuous than email addresses--i.e. your family and neighbors are relatively likely to share an address and/or subnet.

That means that your family can see ads targeted at your bad habits that they might not otherwise be aware of.
Regardless of the historical evidence (or lack thereof) for his theory, I found his book very enlightening. It really helped me understand religion, schizophrenia and the split brain, showing why it would be so important to early human society and how it could came about, biologically and culturally.
or just learn Haskell and realise that this whole concept is just monadic bind, written simply as >>=
"View Example" doesn't work

edit: oh chrome works? Is this chrome only? Huh
Jaynes was a professor at Princeton University, so he must've built up enough credibility to get this appointment.

I was a student at Princeton and actually sat in on his class for a few sessions.
You can use https://old.reddit.com .
Yes, but the state isn't leeching off of the people. My point is wrt landlords in the sense of people who do nothing, provide no value, and make money solely by virtue of "I/my ancestor was here first I/they bought this when there was less people so gimme money".

I don't see where you get your conclusion from. For many (most?) people, they really don't have a chance to fight their landlord. Legal expenses, time, energy, etc. are pretty huge deterrents. Not sure why you can't fight a "state-landlord", also.
Alright, the article itself is not so interesting (for me) as the fact that CNN apparently keeps the entire design for an article from '98.
Indian Sci-Fi TV Series from 1998
Came here to say that. It's doubly indirect blog spam.

That NYT article is quite substantive. I wonder if there's been an HN thread about it?
Thank you for sharing :)

I am currently working more and more with the ACT Matrix [1] and while I am not a psychologist I find it a great and easy to use tool to explore and understand emotions and behavior which is imo the first step towards building psychological flexibility to deal with stressful triggers/emotions, etc. I can only advocate for having a look and giving it a chance. In scientific/clinical circles it’s pretty high regarded as well :)

1: https://contextualscience.org/act_matrix
Ive worked in industrial manufacturing before, and I presently work as an engine mechanic in a small chain of midwestern diesel repair stores. I use regular raspberry pi's to pull data from ECU/OBD systems, and I even store that data on a PI server as part of a customers work ticket data.

the problem with anything thats 'industrialized' is that so many companies use this as a chance to gin up the price and double down on rent-seeking behavior. This thing takes a $45 pi and jacks the price up to $250USD. Some of the goofier features include:

- on-board buzzer. You know, because over the constant din of lathe, shave, and heat treat assembly line systems you're surely going to pay attention to the buzzer from something the size of a pack of smokes. anything essential should be shown on the light tower or picked up by QA.

- standard RS-232 and RS-485 interfaces to the Raspberry Pi serial line, with opto-isolator and electrostatic discharge protection: Motoman, Fanuc, Mitsubishi, and almost every other automation hardware have used cat5 for a decade. doesnt the pi have grounded cat5?

CAN network support - god no. This jumps into the realm of medical systems, elevator controls, and passenger vehicles. all of these are made of intrinsically isolated circuits and go through some of the most rigorous testing imaginable. For example, RF leakage common in a PI could cause aberrant failures or signaling problems in robotics that arent expecting it. CAN type controllers can withstand shock/heat/humidity many times that of what a normal computer can handle. Introducing the PI as a CAN device is asking for grievous bodily harm as a service.
Southern whites who weren't slaveholders tended to be economically dependent on slaveholders for their livelihoods, in a much more direct way than northern whites were dependent upon capitalists. The Southern economy was pre-capitalist in nature, dominated by a de facto hereditary, landed aristocracy, many of whom were descended from actual aristocracy who migrated to colonial America.

Also, there's a natural human reaction to seeing invading armies occupying your home town, regardless of the rationale behind that action or one's previous or preexisting attitude towards their present ruling class. I mean, there's a spectrum of reactions, but a large chunk of that spectrum includes hostility.
I think to some extent we've made it impossible to live truly cheaply because those making laws can't fathom someone going wxthout modern services. I'd prefer NOT to have a paved road to my door, but because of the assumption I need that the costs of road building are a reason not to permit building. I'm ok with off grid power, composting toilet, and rainwater collection too, but it's assumed I want a sterile wasteland (a lawn) in front of my home and will need to water it.
> And if Photos on iOS had a public sharing feature, I'd probably just use that, and then fall off Instagram too.

It kinda does. You can make an album public and it generates a link that you can share.
The only time most Brits drop our Hs now is when doing an impression of an American doing an impression of John Lennon.
> That's cool! Although I'll take linear code with bunch of matrix-vector products over bunch of branches any day :-)

Any day? Even on those days when you need to use say, 80486 or 68000? Or some low-end microcontroller?
People are talking about how they have a LinkedIn account and how creepy it is when LinkedIn suggests Facebook friends who don’t have LinkedIn accounts, but obscure that information in some way. You think you’re sending a friend (who you mistakenly believe already has a LinkedIn account) a connection request, but really LinkedIn has tricked you into spamming your own friends on LinkedIn’s behalf. This is obviously bad, but I’ve seen much worse.

I first made a LinkedIn account a few years ago because I got an email that my sister wanted to connect on LinkedIn. I’m not into social networks at all, but in the interest of family bonds I clicked the link to make an account and “connect” with her.

So I made the account, and the link in the email must’ve been set up to automatically connect our accounts. But a few days later she emails me that she got my LinkedIn request via email, but she hadn’t yet made an account, and as soon as she made one she’d add me. So this was a tricky spamming strategy in which no one started out with an account, but neither party was aware of that.

TL;DR LinkedIn knew my sister’s email address, my email address, and our connection, and basically tricked both of us into thinking that the other person was already on LinkedIn and wanted to connect. That’s a step beyond what people are talking about here, and is IMO seriously sketchy, unprofessional, and messed up. I don’t think they kept up this practice for very long, but it’s so over the top and beyond the pale that I’m surprised it didn’t result in lawsuits and the entire company being tarnished for decades. Obviously they’ve tarnished their name in plenty of other ways, but the fact that no one talks about this particular practice makes me wonder what other awful stuff they do that most people don’t know about.
I have two maybe contradictory things to say about this. On the one hand, thinking all cgi looks fake is confirmation bias. There is so much cgi you don’t notice (cars for example, look incredibly real). But when you do, it’s because it’s bad.

On the other hand, I agree that 100% cgi characters look bad. I recently watched the latest Avengers and was amazed that with all the budget and years of experience they have, the Hulk looks terrible.

It’s a useful tool, but when it becomes the only tool it gets old. There’s a lot of charm to practical effects. Yeah I can tell that Yoda is just a puppet, but it works.
I guess we'd never found out without GDPR. This is why big corporations require regulation because a single user will never win this fight.
Perfect, they fit right in at Microsoft.
It seemed interesting, but narration is very slow. :(
I wonder whether the constant is a constant. Still believe in a fixed object so that for some reason. Well, the G is postulated it may account for dark matters or c is not a constant etc.
Probably far too late to comment on this, but it struck me that the relationship between loneliness and privacy is not well explored. Does anyone know where there is any research about this ?
It is not all that transparent. At a certain point you will end up on one or more blacklists, and there is no clear way to get off it again, or even arbitrage this act.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-c...

Then the rules system is very complex, and probably will be ever changing, being fine-tuned. There are rules in preparation (or already implemented) where your network of friends and relatives affect your credit score, etc. Very dystopic social engineering.

It will be harder and harder to check whether all rules are applied equally across all people, I imagine.
The total collapse of society based on climate change could arguably kill billions. The costs of inaction are mounting.
Probably ironically you're arguing for a very authoritarian, nationalist view of the world where we can't allow any foreign information to hurt the fragile minds of our brittle citizens.
In my opinion the tool called Facebook has shown us the real state of our society, the poor state of critical thinking in people and possibly the lack of morality in general.
To call for simpler times back when only our own country was able to manipulate us, is a splash of romanticism.
You can sniff the network traffic.
I want to upvote this a trillion times
Are you in New Zealand?
Just hashes of IP addresses
Can you elaborate
The worst part of it: this is chemical film. Copying degrades image quality. So you want to do every step on a the same strip of film. But make one single mistake and you'll have to redo everything from scratch. Digital compositing is a godsend compared to that process.
you mean every Sunday, which is most peoples one and only opportunity for peace and quiet in the week
There is a finite amount of code on the system. That code would also include any functions related to stenography or remote activation and could be easily called out. However, do not exist in iOS. Anything can happen in the future, and those future versions can also be examined to find out if any such functionality was added.
> If "the" popular platform is X, and you're not using it, you're missing out.

Missing out on what? What good opportunity comes through LinkedIn? By my account, nobody actually likes LinkedIn and nobody takes it serious. Nobody will hold not using it against you.

> Plenty of companies appear to use third-party recruitment services, which entails you giving your personal, identifiable information to a third-party instead of going directly to said company. LinkedIn being one of such third-parties, indirectly or otherwise. The observation that trends like LinkedIn are a imposed reality is in no way a mistake.

That's not what I replied to. You said "It's utterly horrifying that a professional has to sell themselves on glorified social media". You don't have to do that. Believing that is a mistake and only helps LinkedIn achieve more dominance.