skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but the author has displayed a poverty of knowledge on the topic they're writing about, in particular the theory which drives the movements the author is arguing against. For instance,

>Contrast this approach with that of people lionized today who worked within a racism none could disagree was more implacably overt and hostile than today.

This is exactly the issue being raised by the people the author decries. The fact that these issues have become less overt and hostile is part of the problem - we compare current racisms to the more "overt" ones and therefore conclude they have disappeared rather than change form, just as Zizek notes the new forms of dominance in the workplace are no longer to command you to work, but for your boss to befriend you such that you feel bad for not working. I think the superego is at work in racism and in the workplace.

>fostering social justice requires fashioning oneself as vulnerable, injured, and/or broken by things

Does this apply to the large body of academics in the social and philosophical sciences who have usually maintained a large degree of professionalism, or is the author only criticising young people who are, like any other generation, interested in drawing attention to themselves, in addition to whatever legitimate grievances they might have?

>She believed that the speech rights blacks had fought for so hard must be extended to people she found noxious, including on issues as personal to her as race.

This is one example where the author cites a black person to maintain the notion that if a civil rights leader has done something correctly, then it must have been right. Could it not, on the contrary, be argued that modern times have called for a change in tactics and a renewed set of problems, even if the author had previously suggested that they are less overt, could it not also be that they are different in kind not merely degree? Is the author aware of the work of Herbert Marcuse in his criticism of J.S. Mill's idea of speech and tolerance, or indeed the left criticism of human rights? I'd actually suppose that if the people he decries are putting forward strong anti-racist arguments then he should also be willing to consider the critique of ideology which drives them.

He is thus either not willing to look deeply into what he criticises (i.e he will focus on the appearance of "woke" college students rather than the essence of why they do what they do psyhcoanalytically or philosophically) or he is unable to look that deep for one reason or another.
Why have Apple's Home/HomeKit been slow to gain traction?
Could be various things, depending on the country in question and the type of alien residency. Off the top of my head:

* Right to work, accumulate social security/pension rights, work for government entities, security clearance

* Right to own land / property

* No duty to carry an alien registration card at all times / freedom of movement within the country

* Right to marry or (if married to a citizen) keep their children with them if they ever divorce and move back home

* Right to political speech / lobbying

* Right to leave the country and return unconditionally
I laughed so hard reading your comment then sources. A bit unfortunate (or not), on mobile it doesn’t seem to do anything interesting other than pollute my history with a bunch of entries.
It worries me to find this in the repo:

-- No logs - No crime --

See https://github.com/grugq/portal/blob/master/openwrt-35017-to...
I deleted it last year. No negative effects more than a couple of comments from family members and 1/2 events that were only organised via Facebook events.

The impact on my life is not large. It’s muted but palpable, I don’t consider myself “better” than anyone else, which is usually the implication that Facebook-account holders seem to have.
OCaml, Elm, functional domain modeling
Can Intelligence Buy You Happiness?
> Because “Judeo-Christian values” aren't actually a thing.

Also considering that Christianity is a rejection of many of the values and norms of Judaism.
If she can afford it talk therapy is what she would really benefit from. Unfortunately talk therapy is expensive.

You can NOT change her. She will reach out eventually, or she won't. Believing "I'll never be cured" is itself a defense mechanism. That can mean she's just too young to be able to start healing. Particularly if she's still stuck in this environment, and living with those dependencies. Only when she's able to fly out of the nest, and distance herself sufficiently from both her parents, she can begin opening up.

The next best thing to help her cope till someday she find the strength to reach out, is a yoga class. That is not so expensive, even just once a week will do wonders and more effective and soothing than taking antidepressants. I talk from experience from a time when I had insane levels of anxiety. Just once a week made a significant difference.

Bless you both not much else I can say. I wanted to type more but it's too complex of a topic.
Yes, but if that calculus were true, tube sites (which display viewing figures) would be dominated by amateur content and they're not. The market demonstrates a clear preference for professionally produced material.
Implementations from Benjamin Pierce's “Types and Programming Languages” Book
And the Python project now sees that it wants to transition away from that model. Guido represented Python, was the ideal dictator, but probably there was no good candidate to replace him, hence the complications.
> This makes decentralized personal data control, homomorphic encryption, and similar technologies incredibly important.

Call me a cynic, but we can't even get companies to do the bare minimum to protect data that is centralized, and you expect them to do all that?

I'm not kidding when I say that your last sentence is a bigger, harder and more important task than the machine learning it is supposed to facilitate.
Yes, if someone stores today's traffic for decoding in the future. This is not a threat model which applies to most communication. And we will easily move to quantum resilient encryption, so the future SSL traffic will not be decodable.
Is there anyway to know, if you delete your Facebook account, if they will process that in accordance with GDPR or not? I believe they are supposed to do something different if you are under the GDPR jurisdiction but I don’t know how they would determine that.
Its a test given pre-interview to do in their time. 90 minutes, 3 questions.

It is a gateway; candidates we want to interview a) can easily solve the problem and b) realise that its a 90 minute gateway test and therefore probably doesnt need to be gold plated.

In baseline and control testing it has proven entirely effective in screening out the two extremes;those that cannot code and those that over engineer.

(btw I agree with your overall sentiment; I put a lot of effort into making sure our interviews are friendlier, more effective and clear)
I started the process to delete my Facebook. I'm hardly on the platform, and the only reason I used it was to lurk posts from my high school friends.

After a while, and with all the data scandals, I deleted all my posts and requested Facebook to cancel my account.

I was hesitant at first but realized I never use it, and I'd be better off without it.
Every year for Christmas my wife continues a small family tradition: every year we go there and buy stocking stuffers for our small family.

It's definitely a different experience than going to a grocery store for sure. It's almost like you have a department store or modern pharmacies like CVS with the food capabilities of a gas station or 7-Eleven.

I can see why it would appeal to lower-income families. If you assume they are short on time you can probably get all your shopping done in one place. It's definitely smaller than a grocery store and there are fewer options. I think this helps because if you're short on time and trying to get in and out of there you have to spend less time in the store and there's less cognitive overload trying to figure out what to get.

Most grocery stores I've been to have unit prices somewhere on the shelf. They're noticeably absent and I have to do the math sometimes.

I can understand residents being upset about these stores being subsidized by local government. It makes me wonder what the alternate solutions are. I assume they're getting subsidized since stores are fleeing or they don't want to open up shop. If that's true I don't think those stores are coming back unless they're even more heavily subsidized.

Is the solution more Aldi's or Lidl's? I've found that there's a "feel bad" for me going in those stores compared to a normal grocery store.
I know what you mean. JP's biblical lectures were the first thing that made the concept of "God" as a framework for conduct and interacting with the world into something that was accessible to someone that doesn't believe in fairy tales.

I wouldn't call myself a Christian – I'm athiest, or at least uninterested in prioritizing any diety concept above any other – but being able to finally "get" what (some) religious people see in their texts was awesome.

The biggest help was basically learning to steelman the texts. Rather than viewing them as default stupid and looking for chinks in the armor, viewing them as containing something abstract but useful that I didn't understand and attempting to meditate on what that might be and why it might work has been valuable.
I agree with the terms, I just don't see how the author has determined that progressives have universally decided to stop there, and not follow through in a meaningful manner. Deplatforming, for example, is meaningful praxis for a lot of lefties. I happen to think it's counter-productive, but just because I disagree with them, that doesn't now mean that the actions don't count and they are simply just champaigne socialist.
Ask HN: What will be the tech trends in 2019?
AI? AR/VR? Autonomous cars? Crypto? What is your prediction?
Concerns about crime, undesirables, or culture are real, and taxes. They are neither inherently racial nor dog whistles, but are only so because of how American history shook out along racial lines. You are inverting cause and effect here.
I don’t know about other countries, but in the US, it’s basically impossible to involuntarily lose citizenship, and citizens have an absolute right to enter the country. Permanent residents can lose their status and get kicked out of the country for various offenses, and can potentially be denied entry for arbitrary reasons.
Yes, but I haven't noticed much of a different in my life as I wasn't using it obsessively anyway. The only thing I used Facebook for was to follow and sign up for events/parties. I do feel like I'm missing out on some of those ever since I deleted my account.
I know free porn on the web was debilitating to the industry; however, to my knowledge no US state is close to CA's production, even now; which was my point, it's not like there's a whole lot of (professional) porn coming out of OH, MS or IL
Yes, didn't miss it. I also deleted twitter, which was far more useful, but still I think it was good idea.
This... doesn't seem like much of an improvement?

"Not yet verified" would, I think, imply to many people that they will in the natural course of things be verified, and perhaps even that they've asked to be verified.

It would be better to say "Bla is not a user and will not get the money you donate now, and quite possibly not ever", or similar wording. Or just (and this is, er, the obvious approach) not allow this at all for people who haven't asked for it.
I didn’t delete FB but I cut my usage by >80% using a chrome extension I built to block the newsfeed. That way, I could still use messenger and view tagged posts without getting sucked into the blackhole that is the newsfeed.

Here’s the extension if anyone is interested https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marathon/nkhecjgkf....
I deleted my meatspace account a couple years ago.

Mirimir still has one,[0] but I no longer have the email account, or know the password. But I did a nice job on the photo, no?

0) https://www.facebook.com/vladimira.arseniev
Quantum computers will (obviously) be great at efficiently simulating quantum mechanics (which is practically impossible today). Which will lead to amazing new chemistry, which leads to drugs/cures/new materials.
To offer an alternative viewpoint, have you watched Sam Harris talk about religion on YouTube? He even debated Jordan Peterson about topics such as morality. I like Peterson a lot, but similar to Ben Shapiro, when they talk about religion...all logic, rationality, and objective truth seeking goes out the window.

The so called spirits you talk about are merely emotions.

Religious beliefs are prevelant in Western culture for historical reasons, such that it has become a tradition. Can you imagine the anger, sadness, existential dread, and perhaps violence that would occur if all religious folks found out that their beliefs are perhaps false?

I heavily disagree with you saying that it reveals “deep truths”.
It's literally just misogyny. It has absolutely nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with putting women in their place.

I mean, the fourth most upvoted post on there celebrates the indiscriminate death of thousands of women. Absolutely disgusting. It's just a group of men celebrating the fact that they hate all women simply for existing.
Modern streaming have changed the pirating landscape, no doubt. This is especially true of music, where there is a plethora of good selection.

However this isn't as much the case with movies/TV. Streaming in that realm is fractured, expensive, and most of the offerings are poor. With music you subscribe to service X and get access to 90% or more of what you'd want. With movies or TV, you have to subscribe to a handful of services all at once just to get access to maybe half of the content you'd want to watch. $10/mo for music, okay. Netflix+Hulu+HBO+Amazon+etc; adds up fast.

Outside of Netflix, every other provider has some combination of terrible app/UI, streaming problems, or ads.

Even if you look past all that, how do you play all these subscriptions? The device landscape fragments everything further. And god help you if you want global search on all your subscriptions, or want access to an Apple library.

Contrasted with pirating + Plex? Yeah...

And the problem is only getting worse as all the big players in market continue to wage war. See, for example, Disney pulling out and forming their own subscription.

Don't get me wrong. I think the world is better today than it was when all we had was cable. All of these content companies getting direct access to subscription money is incentivizing productions that could never have existed under the older ad-driven models. But in terms of overcoming piracy? They are leagues away.
I haven't and don't plan to. I don't really post - maybe once in six months. It's great for what it is - keeping up with what's going on in your family and friend base.

What bothers me more than Facebook though are all these self-righteous people, that obviously know more than everyone else, calling on everybody to quit FB. It's almost a religion to them. MYOFB.
Still the same question. Does 81% strike you as picky? It seems that women marry all kinds of men. They marry men who drink alcohol, men who've been to prison, men who use drugs, men who are poor, men who are ugly, men who are known to engage in domestic violence. They marry all kinds of men. 81% doesn't really justify the above comment, to which I was responding, does it?
Meanwhile, I had a hard time finding (or getting) a Perl programming job (though I resisted coming to the Bay Area for a long time, so that was likely a significant factor). I've had to settle with other languages (mostly Ruby, Elixir, and now Python professionally, though I did sneak a bit of Perl into the Ruby one ;) ).

Where are y'all based? I'm reasonably happy with my current job, but I'm definitely curious about what else is out there (especially if it's not in the Bay Area).
I don't have that data, though I could ask around.
Thats a pretty big spread :) Id say focus on the web side of things and build a few apps - perhaps something you would find useful or rebuild an app you use.
I see more value in keeping FB than LinkedIn. LinkedIn is just a sad recruitment agent party these days.
Rust has been the most surprisingly fun thing I learned this year. I was shocked at how quickly I was productive (even while still having no idea what I was doing). It really is astonishingly like using a very high level language, with a few weird quirks.

I'm really looking forward to building something bigger with it in 2019. I don't know what it'll be yet, but it was such a satisfying experience working with a low-level language (which I haven't done in 15 years, or so), and having it be really pleasant. I think it's impossible to overstate how important having a good way to easily install libraries/modules/whatever is, and Cargo gets it right in ways that few systems languages ever have (that I'm aware of, anyway).
Money's actually on error, I bet you someone just closed the data down without realizing it.
That was awesome, although it sounds like it would have been more annoying if I wasn't using Firefox (which didn't make it too difficult to close the site).

Hats off to the guy, though - that was well trolled. :) And well worth it for these 2 gems alone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb1B3KI1u-I
Self-healing electroluminescent devices
People realizing that marketing is all smokes and mirrors BS and starting to not give a crap, and instead buying things from local producers and manufacturers based on how it contributes to and benefits their own community.

It’s the holiday season, please let me dream :-)
I'm loving this UO talk, I just found this Postmortem by GDC published in Sep 2018 (so I think it's new? I've never seen it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnsDi7Sxq0

This is a much watch if MMOs fascinate you. They're very transparent. Absolutely great video.

edit: Oh my god they bring up FlyGuys prostitution ring..
And as you get to Heinlein's more modern works from (70s on), his fascination with (if not encouragement of) incest becomes readily apparent too.
How do you reconcile "the biological clock for women who want children hasn’t" with "All women are going after the same top x% of men"?

It seems that women marry all kinds of men. They marry men who drink alcohol, men who've been to prison, men who use drugs, men who are poor, men who are ugly, men who are known to engage in domestic violence. They marry all kinds of men.

There is nothing in the data that justifies ""All women are going after the same top x% of men".
This is, incidentally, also the default way the Web seems to work.

Someone publishes something. Fast forward a year or three, the domain expires, or site redesign is done, and all previous links are broken. Only the information that was not forgotten gets put back again.
I'm not sure what the numbers are, but I'd bet most Reddit users do run an ad blocker.
I opened an account long ago - I think around the same year Facebook started. I never really understood the appeal in the first place, but I keep the account around for the odd chance someone from the past might want to get in touch. I'm not exactly Facebook's dream user. Other than confirm friend requests from people I know once every few months, I have no use for it.
I was arguing that both are equally correct.
Or one year with 247 scanners. :-D
You mean typically “available” in pre-compiled form, right? Because Rust doesn’t have a binary distribution system per se, it is at the mercy of package managers to build and distribute binaries, or maintainers need to upload build artifacts to, say, GitHub releases (and installation process would be nonstandard as a result).

I get most of my Rust binaries through cargo when on Ubuntu, except in a few cases when I really want rg (still not available in Ubuntu 18.04) but don’t want to waste 25% storage on the Rust tool chain.
But can it left pad a string?
The author does in fact use the term Social Justice Warrior, which I agree, is an unproductive disparaging term used to dismiss people, which is why I used the term cuck. Perhaps it's an escalation of rhetorical force, but I don't think it's unfair given the tone of the article, specifically where the author characterizes progressive ideology as "cry. Then cry louder"
Still under-performs the fictional predicted rate of robotics in the 80s. https://tenor.com/view/johnny-johnny5-johnnyfive-reading-sca...
First off, this post isn't intended to encourage any illegal activity.

It might have something to do with the fact that despite being free to operate above the table and having large revenue flows, user experience is often better on the dark side. Which is just baffling.

With a decent ad/popup blocker and browser setup, some shady server in Vietnam called "watchallseriesonline.interbutt" or whatever is simply more pleasant than hunting down which streaming service has your content, having to buy all of them anyway, dealing with strange and futile DRM plugins, deal with industry drama, deal with hostile "engagement-driving" user interfaces, etc etc. The IP owners are nearly always a convoluted web of big telecom corporations who are battling with each other to ensure that all users are losers by wantonly Balkanizing all our culture's media.

Add to that the fact that almost all legit streamers immediately triple-dip on their customers. They charge subscriptions, they shovel ads at their users despite the fact it's a paid service, and they suck up and gargle all their user's personal data and sell it to the highest bidder or fumble it to some hacker. Some torrent site will also try and do all that, but in a way that's a lot easier to sidestep.

I mean I guess it sucks for the content owners (often not the actual creators as stated above, but that's another story) but there needs to be at least some good faith from them before they expect an unorganized mass of millions of independent users to return good faith to them. Masses of people respond to incentives and are basically deterministic. Telling them "you should really do this, it's the right thing to do" and expecting a demand-side miracle is just irrational.
I though Zuckerburg was already subpoenaed?
I don't think that's the norm. You get your salary and free time; that's it. Everything else is negociated and bonus only.
A big year for me: Python+MyPy and Mongo on the backend, and Redux, RxJs, TypeScript on the front-end. Plus a huge assortment of new (to me) tools like Jira, Zeplin and VSCode.
A deepening use of AWS, Docker, and Jenkins plus a little Kubernetes.

(You didn't ask but I think Mongo is particularly terrible, and Redux is particularly good. RxJs is probably the weirdest thing on the list, and the hardest to debug. Frankly I think I'd prefer async/await or generators.)
Yep, there is a great picture of how it looks like: https://imgur.com/sj92dyW

I faced it myself. It took me a year to being able to write a simple snippet (e.g. reverse UTF8 string) without getting compile-time errors. Now I'm a bit less productive then in C# with writing the code, but I'm much more confident about it.
You've piqued my interest. It's now in my queue.
The parent is suggesting that Facebook refused to sell them an Occulus because they were not active enough on the social media website.
Yes, but then you just trade time for gold again. The whole point was to get something without paying the "time" cost.