skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except he is doing what I'm claiming; but claiming that racism manifests itself differently (which, if it is his only position, I agree with him) isn't only what he's doing, he's also implying that the racism of today is less pernicious, and leaving no scope for it to be equally as pernicious. If racism has changed form, shouldn't the responses to it also change form? The author also brings up racist viewpoints as merely "challenging the orthodoxy of race".

The issue here is very simple; the author sees the tactics as self defeating because he doesn't agree with them, or because they don't want to accomplish his own aims - because they challenge the liberal orthodoxy, which he defends by mentioning several policies. To him, only policies can be challenged, and anything other than a policy doesn't count for institutional racism at all. The only exceptions he's willing to make are when racism is so bad that liberal approaches don't work so well - in Dr. King's instance. But I would contend that racism (and indeed sexism and classism) manifests itself in a much more overt and discreet way, but this only makes them categorically worse, just as the workplace example I used.

I'm not entirely convinced he does understand what they want to do, having opted to go for a standard "they just want to control what we think" line rather than addressing their issues with the process as it actually stands. It's a bizarre article which hasn't looked into the history of the movement as it exists, and what its strengths and shortcomings are.
Which is odd, in my opinion. Linear algebra is easier than Calculus and would likely be more useful to the average person.
Client-side certificates are widely used among the Estonian population btw. It's basically the rest of the world that has caused the need for U2F/TOTP because they can't deploy smartcards with certs to users.
It was also fun diving into React Native for the first time, I learned a lot. I used a starter kit (https://market.nativebase.io/view/react-native-fiber-firebas...) I would definitely recommend as it provided a lot more structure than just learning from tutorials.
No, but I let mine go fallow and installed a lot of anti-tracking software, including a pi-hole, all to prevent them and others from following me.
The offended child is really complaining about the subtle and escalating transgression of the humming child.

> Then the first might start to quietly hum, which we might decide is okay. Then first might hum more loudly and triumphantly

The humming child scores low on the scale of interpersonal justice.

Framing the offended child’s suffering as bad faith is, in a Wittgensteinian sense, to misunderstand their use of language. They aren’t playing the language game of the observer passing judgement.

The observer is failing to steel-man the position of the aggrieved and instead chooses to focus on an apparent and ostensible fault.
true, 2FA prevents against people pretending to be you trying to log into the site, but not against sites pretending to be the site you want to access.
I haven't used facebook since... about 2013 Q1. I stopped using it more or less organically, just by looking for social life in other places (and by having less social life, actually). I thought that there wasn't much harm in having it open, but a few days ago I finally got fed up and deleted the account. I didn't bother downloading my data or anything.

Unfortunately I don't see myself getting rid of Whatsapp any time soon. For the vast majority of people around me, it's the only means of communication they will use (aside from face to face, of course). I'm sad that people would not use email for personal communication any more, but I guess that my preferences have become obsolete.
Women can only be "in short supply" as long as the Earth is using Luna as a prison colony and mostly shipping up males; as soon as native Lunarians dominate, it will be 50/50 or so as per usual.
Wait these two questions are so divergent for me.

Context: Got acquired by fb. So I learned Hack (PHP).

It was surprisingly not bad. It's really nice when someone who's an expert builds all the tooling for you. :)

My favorite tech is still React. I really enjoy typed Python, typed JS, and other formerly all dynamic languages that are gradually adopting type safety.
I did the same as you of curiosity and was wondering what this site is even supposed to do.

I guess my disabling of javascript by default to avoid annoyances, improve performance and save battery rendered the annoying part useless.

Sometimes I wish mozilla had chosen to make firefox more like opera (the real opera, not the chrome based one) and not like chrome with the quick disable/enable script setting instead of removing the possibility to disable javascript altogether. Actually I wish opera was still around to not have to deal with mozilla nonsense by resorting to using a different build (waterfox) to mitigate most of it.
That's pretty interesting, thanks for mentioning it.
Compare “only those who join the Party can vote”.
> much more difficult to mock and inject

Isn't it just the opposite?

The whole reason of Mokito ( https://site.mockito.org/ ) is to make Java mocks easier by adding dynamic typing.
Yeah I hate that they burried the option to disable JS and even worse to disable JS moving and resizing a window around the screen. At least make those things the end-user is asked for permission to allow.
Yes. I sort of miss having connections to groups that I was a part of, but it's been well worth it. Google and their products are next (with the exception of Chromecast via a burner gmail).
I learnt that age is more than a number. Take care of health and not be afraid to learn new things as I continue working beyond 40.
2018.52 Three Years Later – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
It’s a law that takes $1.2bn from everything else.

On top of that government is involved in spending it. Recipe for inefficiency and waste.

How anyone can assume that the $1.2bn could be more beneficial than it was not spent by the government is truly beyond me.
I have friends with hunting ranches where I could go shoot anything I want, like Axis deer, Ostriches, etc. I don't hunt. When I played UO I killed thousands of rabbits to get pelts to raise my tailoring skill. I don't see how these correlate whatsoever. I've also mowed down people in Grand Theft Auto but am very cautious around pedestrians in real life.
Or will have no effect if you disable javascript by default as any sane person should do.
And how do you manage to identify which ideas shouldn't be part of society? I can't imagine having the level of self assurance necessary to consider myself the arbiter of acceptable ideas for all of society, let alone to actually intentionally agitate people over my chosen results.

It's fascinating.
Looks like opencl answered our question. I guess I don't mind them being merged / separate. The one thing I do mind about Firefox is the stupid gaps they ad next to the address bar. I always have to remove those, they make no sense, and even this fork ditched them.
Looks like this offended some people.
what ad blocker do you use ?

It seems to be overreaching here as this is definitely not an ad.
as mentioned elsewhere, 2FA protects against identity theft in that someone can call your bank, pretend to be you and get access, whereas it is actually less effective against phishing sites that will ask you for your 2FA code and if you didn't notice you are on the wrong site you'll likely just give it to them.

while you can protect yourself against fishing, and there 2FA is indeed less useful, you can't control how diligent the bank is in verifying your identity.
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A social media assistant for recruiters.

Going well so far with 60+ paying clients in just under 5 months. A long, exciting journey ahead :-).
How much of your IP do you consider expendable?
Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?
Over the last year or so, pinboard.in's paid archiving service has become increasingly sporadic. The process used to be nearly instant, but bookmarks are crawled maybe once a month now and frequently fail to archive correctly or are skipped completely.

From Pinboard's Twitter mentions, I can see I'm not the only one who has been trying to contact Maciej for several months without success. A lot of former delicious users are also desperate to get an export of their data, which is still unavailable over a year and a half after Pinboard purchased and shut down the site.

Overall, it's left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I decided in September to leave the service, but emailing is the only way to request a full download of archived bookmarks. I'd also like to get a refund on the next four years of my archival subscription - I paid for five years in advance because I was so happy with the site before now.

I know Maciej reads HN, and there seem to be a number of Pinboard users here (it's still mentioned just about anytime somebody posts about bookmarking). Has anybody else had any luck getting a refund and a copy of their data? What are the best Pinboard replacements, self-hosted or otherwise?
I was actually part of the player population at the time. My friends and I would wait for mountain goats to spawn so that we could kill them and take their hides -- goat hide was the easiest way to acquire leather to make armor and sell for an outsize amount of cash for the effort and skill. I think it also improved a couple important stats. We were not the only players employing this strategy.

So from what I recollect as a player the killing was economically motivated rather than motivated by ultraviolence. Not sure if that's any better...
I see where you're coming from but neither tor-browser, tails or a portal is going to protect users that don't rtfm. If you use the tor-browser you still want to avoid checking email or starting services over that same channel that will leak your identity. this are basic tor guidelines and the documentation even warns users of this.

the typical users for a portal are people with prior training of opsec (yes you need to train opsec all the time because it's not just the tools but your whole workflow that's gonna trip you up) and a real use-case.

I assume if you use this you won't make such rookie mistakes like having services running that will leak identity. It's perfect for journalists, activists or anyone else that already uses hardware based compartmentalization. This is an additional layer - not a silver bullet. I really assume a portal user already knows what things to isolate, which processes may run, what part of their work (during an operation) needs to be airgap'ed and hence shouldn't go through a portal ...
>now youre calling it terrorism? slow down there. i think you should learn to take a joke like the rest of the world. if everyone else can figure it out then maybe its you that has an extreme problem with it?

I'm pretty sure most people, including the FBI Director and Jeff Sessions, believe the Charlottesville attack was terrorism.

>In one example — a video Kjellberg publicly liked, leaving a comment underneath — E;R uses aerial footage of the moment when a car drove through a crowd of people during the white supremacist-led “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville last year. The incident left multiple people injured and one protester, Heather Heyer, dead. E;R turns a scene from Netflix’s live-action Death Note movie, describing how a death is carried out when a name is written inside the titular notebook, into a joke about Heyer’s death using actual footage from Charlottesville. [0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134748/pewdiepie-er-pe...
Scripts are usually flat. Just bunch of steps. No architecture. No advanced logic. No complex loops. Etc.
meat is carcinogenic. as for fruits and vegetables, i'm hoping that someday the local food production revolution will start picking up steam and help make these more cost effective, perhaps with some automation or vertical farming. for now, focus on things you can get for less than 1$/lb like bananas, apples, bell peppers, onions, cauliflower/broccoli (when it's on sale). Cabbage 50c/lb even here in CA.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I'm greatly disturbed that no one seems to have tried to replicate the experiment of huge significance since 2013. Or worse people use it as a fact, without it having been replicated.

Science has some real fundamental issues atm.

Wiki points out some issues, but it seems simple to me, it needs to be replicated.

"Several criticisms were reported, including the study's low statistical power as evidence of some irregularity such as bias in reporting results.[91] Due to limits of sample size, there is a probability that an effect will not be demonstrated to within statistical significance even if it exists. The criticism suggested that the probability that all the experiments reported would show positive results if an identical protocol was followed, assuming the claimed effects exist, is merely 0.4%. The authors also did not indicate which mice were siblings, and treated all of the mice as statistically independent.[92] The original researchers pointed out negative results in the paper's appendix that the criticism omitted in its calculations, and undertook to track which mice were siblings in the future.["
The author isn’t illogical. They are just not aware or interested in the broader context of the global issues they are attempting to engage with.

The author would benefit from some time spent investigating from a humanistic perspective.
I had to learn some computer vision, specifically how to make nice visualizations with 3D point clouds. I need to make a mesh from a 3D point cloud then drape an image over the mesh I created.

I wasn't able to find a great algorithm so I'd appreciate any tips people have! Open source code that I can bust open and investigate is preferred.

I ended up just banging out an algorithm from a paper that looked easy to implement within my limited time frame. The result checked the box, but was ugly.
> Efficient cooking through technology is a hallmark of human civilization or else we'd all cook over open flames.

Efficiency has never been mentioned in the review, and does not appear to be a criteria.

I'd question whether a toaster-oven for toast bread would be as efficient as a normal 2-slice bread toaster. I'd suggest a toaster oven would be hugely inefficient in comparison.
Deleted in 2017! Life’s been great since. I’ve taken a bunch of classes, read a bunch of books, and I’m no longer plagued by the political and social ideas of the uneducated on a regular basis.
Or at least magic-resistant, human-transmittable chronic wasting disease. Or deer ticks.
In Kansas you must have a license to produce porn legally (to do so otherwise is a felony that district attorneys vigorously prosecute), and the state government doesn't operate an office to issue those licenses.
I think I want to start using Facebook more in 2019 for these reasons. I have barely used it at all in the past ten years, mostly posting 3-4 pictures per year, and I never look at my feed. I'm actually afraid of looking at my feed today due to social anxiety, similar to entering a bar full of strangers talking.
I also learned a ton of LaTeX this year --- not nearly as much as you though! I still feel quite disorganized about it. The syntax and cross-referencing come fairly easy (maybe because I did some TeX long ago), but thinking and writing in that environment is a real challenge to me.

Besides that, ArcGIS Pro was my new tech toy for the year.
I'm not the only one then. "failures" instead of "fails" would've been clearer.
I'm sure you're fine with non-pedophile priests and non-corrupt polticians, and perhaps you never misinterpret ideas or behaviors

But I do suggest this as a really interesting read:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...

> I try to offend the anti-vaxers, the pedophile priests, the corrupt politicians, I try to offend anyone who hold ideas or behaviors that clearly shouldn't be part of society,
I was expecting an IR camera ...
Just a thought,IC and Law Enforcement control a large number of Tor nodes.

Even if Tor has no deanonymization risks,the fact that you use Tor makes you a bright red target -- by Feds and Local cops! (In US). Unless you use bridges(and even then) your ISP and Law enforcement will have you (or the subscriber of the ISP connection) listed as a Tor user. Think of it as driving on the road,you can drive a "pimped up" cadillac bouncing it all over the street -- and you have the right to do so -- but you will get pulled over and searched a lot,and hopefully all your encounters with LE will be harmless but it might not be so.

Just because they leave you alone,don't assume it's because they are not monitoring you.
Yes. Too much BS from FB piled up... So I've started the process on Nov. 25th and in two days it will be a point of no return (yay!). FYI: After deletion, there's one-month period when you can change your mind and undelete the account.

I was a very active user since 2007. and I've made the decision literally overnight and made it into action one week later, after announcing it to friends and downloading my data. I've also sent a canned message to almost all people I have communicated with. It said something like: I'm deleting FB account, here's my email, phone nr and name, as FB will replace my name in that conversation with "Facebook user" when I'm gone.

I've also deleted my Yahoo account 10+ yrs ago, for inserting ads in email signatures and became obsoleted by Google, Linkedin after they sold my data and trust to MS and Twitter when they announced censoring posts.

Google and Amazon accounts could be next.

P.S. I've just signed up here to post this comment (:
Apropos of nothing, I've always found the behavior of the players of MMOs and online games one of the clearest telltales that sociopathy is a lot more prevalent that most people think it is.
A little late to the party but I’m the developer of Simple Analytics. Servers in Iceland, not selling YOUR data and have it in a simple and clean interface.
That, plus the fiverr stuff, plus the E;R shoutout, plus the n-word? It's a pattern of behavior of either being racist or being incredibly irresponsible and ignorant.

Not that it absolves him of even saying it, which is pretty bad on its own, especially in a pejorative sense.

For the record, I know from being on the receiving end that racist young people use it in America too so he's not getting a pass on that from me (nor should he).
Comparing the entire Visual Studio Code with a little sample IDE application is kind of barely a test at all?
There's also the cost of building the automation to bear in mind https://xkcd.com/1319/
Don't you mean stop paying attention?
So it's okay for someone to offend so long as the offender thinks the offended should not belong in society? By that logic plenty of people are justified in offending gays, transgender, immigrants, etc.
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I did this every Christmas I lived on Long Island.
That's one of the issues with it; history has seen several instances of high-proportion male societies, and "women in charge" has never been the stable result.
Takes a long time to parse because it the text has a lot of typos.
Ask HN: Is anyone familiar with the Asimov estate?
I run a small press focused on science fiction, and I'd like to start publishing some popular science texts as well. I really loved reading "The World of Carbon" by Isaac Asimov when I was younger -- it's a fantastic book on organic chemistry. It's been out of print for many decades, but it will be a while until it's in the public domain (published around 1960). I'd like to reprint the book with annotations, but the firm managing the literary portion of the Asimov estate (William Morris Endeavor) won't even acknowledge my queries about publishing rights. Does anyone here have any advice for me? If you don't have advice but are interested in this project I'd appreciate it if you could increase visibility of this post. Thanks!
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RE " ....ended up developing our own system...." The Internet Archive should more clearly credit where this design originated from. Whose work it is based on. It is only reluctantly that you gave them any credit.
Sandboxing in general is thought of as a policy thing that should be implemented in userspace. Kernel provides basic tools (namespaces, seccomp, whatever...), and userspace decides how to combine them to make a sandbox, whatever the developer wants that to be.
I have no idea either way, but it seems that a toaster oven would be much more efficient because it's insulated and enclosed. A normal toaster is basically a very small room heater that happens to operate near bread.

Someone please do the web search and provide the answer.
The sample size and (likely) lack of diversity in the group is already pretty weak. Even so I found the brief part about IQ being associated with openness to experience interesting. The article is surface deep for sure but I don’t think it insinuates that understanding and managing emotions doesn’t require work/education. I think their mention of introspection being potentially linked to IQ could be related to the point you’re making here
I deleted my Facebook account in 2013. I've been screaming into the void about it ever since.
>Real ecologies aren't really closed systems.

Neither was theirs — things spawned! It was just overexploited, much like our own ecosystem.

>Humans, at a simple level, build wealth by preserving the products of this energy.

A rose-colored summary.

We also frequently engage in futile activities that seem profitable, but in fact destroy wealth by failing to appropriately manage the biogeophysical life-support system of Spaceship Earth. See our current ecological collapse - climate change, soil erosion, wilderness destruction, higher rates of species extinction, aquifer pollution/depletion, overfishing, ocean acidification, ocean plastics, etc.

What is ecologically optimal should also be what's economically optimal, because ultimately they're part of the same overall system. The imaginary economy/ecology divide (like the imaginary human/environment divide) is itself a source of inefficiency, because it incentivizes ignoring problems by pretending to push them "outside the system."

If we can't make economy and ecology align our species is SOL & JWF — shit out of luck and jolly well fucked.

In my opinion, this is the biggest and most intractable of the possible Fermi Great Filters. Not destroying ourselves with nuclear weapons or nano-goo, but restraining our own species from self-annihilating global ecocide via perverse economic incentives (aka "Capitalism, the Bad Parts™").

The free market is an incredibly powerful decentralized decision-making tool, but it should be used to enhance humanity's long-term survival rather than undermine it.