skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something this article really brought home for me was just how f*^king privileged I am. Not because I can trivially afford a $5 coffee each day. But because of all the linked terms in that article like "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment", "Fixed Costs", "Finite Willpower", "Delayed Gratification" and so forth that I implicitly understand and gloss over.

The fact that I can _read this very article_ is why I can trivially afford a $5 coffee. Maybe if we focussed on education instead of $5 coffees, we could get to the point where we could justifiably ignore the coffees.
I don't have a villa or anything but I have a pretty decent apartment on the beach in Mexico. I work for a startup so I'm not wealthy at all but still am doing better than 80% of men in this country. I'm also have an oddly asymmetrical face and look like I'm sick all the time due to some chronic health problems. Girls are not beating down my door. Actually I gave up on Tinder here awhile ago and I don't try to meet women who are the least bit attractive because its obvious they are not interested.

Prostitution is not really what this article is about, but even as far as that goes, really good looking prostitutes kind of try to avoid the ugly guys (although they won't actually say no, they just generally aren't enthusiastic). I have kind of proven that on a few occasions.

Anyway this is kind of a long way of saying that there is a limit to how far being American or "a shift in attitude" will take you as far as sex if you're unattractive. Its not a substantive part of my life and that's something I've just had to accept. I have more or less substituted that with masturbation on the internet to be honest.
Set your location to Germany when you use Twitter.

You'll almost never see far-right content any more.

I'm sorry you've internalized their bullshit, but that's what it is: bullshit. They can do it when it sells ads or stops someone senior going to jail.
A Dev's Guide to Meditation
I have 50K regexs on a black-list to filter feeds on my reader. AI would help with some, but this brute force method goes a long way too.
Windows Defender oughta do it /s
>Attendance absolutely proves something when it comes to social media.

Yes, it proves that network effects can force people into bad equilibra. If you think high university costs are harmful for society in the long run, but if you personally don't attend you will incur significant cost in the short run, with nobody cooperating, how do you behave?
Bitcoin has very little anonymity as well BTW. Probably less than credit cards.
Sure, a lot of it may be parallel construction. We do know that the NSA shares with the FBI and other TLAs.

If your threat model includes the NSA or the like, VPN services are at best a minor hindrance. Possible options include Tor and "anonymously" using WiFi hotspots.

I only know of one fundamental fail for Tor: the relay-early bug that CMU exploited. The others have involved Firefox and Windows bugs. People using Whonix in Linux hosts, and hitting Tor through nested VPN chains, would have been safe from any attack that I've heard of. But then, maybe I just haven't heard of the juicy ones.

I've tried the "anonymously using WiFi hotspots" approach. It's a pain in the ass. And in today's high-surveillance environment, I believe that it's a dumb idea.

It's true that VPN leakage is a serious risk. But you can use firewall rules to prevent DNS and traffic leaks. Or you can use VPN services whose client apps do that for you.

Also, I'm talking about desktop use. Doing any of this on mobile devices is a lot harder, I think. I'm not sure that I'd even bother.
In a way, this mirrors how technological advances have created winner-take-all markets in other areas. Thanks to CDs (and then the internet), we can now all listen to the very best musicians in the world — where previously we just had to settle for whoever was the best in our town.

Similarly, technology may be shifting the dating/intimacy market toward a winners-take-most equilibrium, which favors the most attractive young men.
You seem to be misunderstanding this thread. The OP was referring to sex imbalance as a matter of chromosomal sex, as in more men than women in countries like India / China.

Granted, as has been pointed out by the parent comment to yours, this study is referring to the US specifically, where there are more women than men in 40 states (https://www.statista.com/statistics/301946/us-population-mal...)
Understanding the Rise of China (2010)
I didn't get any money when my cell provider was caught multiple times selling my location history to anyone with a buck, including dangerous vigilantes.
May be hyenas also adapter over million year period to bust open bones. But i wonder why they did not develop a brain like ours!
> I'll second other comments on the complexity side.

Ditto for Chrome DevTools. If I recall correctly, it’s feasible but would be a huge undertaking. Demand for the feature would have to be very large to justify the work involved.
> My .vimrc is constantly improving. To the point where I ask myself how healthy the obsession/addiction is.

I have to concede that this _was_ my experience until about a year ago. I can recall spending many evenings and even some lunches reading and experimenting with vim configuration improvements. I too wondered if the time would pay off.

Vim has been my main editor for 8 years. About a year ago I started to notice that I was no longer spending much time at all changing my configuration; however, I was aggressively deleting plugins and complex (most-unused) key-bindings.

These were replaced with intrinsic key-bindings that I didn't previously know about they were replaced with more modern and simpler plugins. I suspect this will get even better once adopt Ale and plug.

The smaller config is oddly satisfying. I'm happy that I've stuck with Vim as it continues to provide me with a full-service experience, while getting faster, not slower, yet my config continues to get more minimalist.

I don't think there is anything out there that compares, but it's an investment and YMMV.
You're not exactly boosting my confidence here.

The easy sniff-test for whether or not existing laws are enough to dissuade an ISP from building user profiles is to check to see if it was enough in the past to stop them from doing so.

Do we have any cases of where an ISP broke wiretapping laws and was punished severely enough in a settlement or trial that it either killed the ISP or forced them to restructure or rebrand?

If ISPs can pull off highly profitable abuses and get away with it by just settling when they're called out, that's no guarantee that they aren't going to do the same thing in the future. Verizon bragged that they broke wiretapping laws in 2012. How are they doing now? Still struggling to recover from that, I would expect?

Certainly not selling real-time location data to bounty hunters.
> I think before we jump into writing OS in rust we should first understand what wrong with current dominant Linux.

Lack of an async API. Bad IPC primitives (how many are there? They are all terrible). The whole "everything is a file" idea. Real time audio. Bash. File systems. The process vs thread distinction. Package management. Permissions. Security model. Scheduler. General cruft. X Server. Battery life. OOM killer.

I would much rather hack on a Rust kernel than C.
Also interested in this! Also why VPN vs just setting up one yourself on digitalocean or something like that?

(The reason why I'm not with a VPN yet is because it would compromise my speed. Am I overestimating the impact?)
The FBI is part of the DOJ. :)
How else is it supposed to exist if it doesn't have ads? That's a huge part of it's business model. Companies that want to make a huge profit but offer a 'free' product all rely on the back-end manipulation advertising model. Either the product can't be free or they must turn into a non-profit. What other service offers something for free besides a charity? Except Facebook is the opposite of a charity.
Sure, if you are doing illegal stuff very little of what you can find online will protect you. But if you are hiding from non-law enforcement it is easy to get pretty anonymous.
This comment is confusing/wrong.

> time for you slows down to almost zero relative to that thing

This is at least confusing. You would not fell anything special. If all the windows are covered, you will not note that you are moving fast or slow.

> Another particle coming at you at [almost] the speed of light towards you will appear almost still.

If you are moving at a speed of 99% of c in the "laboratory" reference frame, and the other particle is still in the in the "laboratory" reference frame, then (if the front windshield is not covered) you will see that the other particle comes to you at a speed of 99% of c.

If you are moving at a speed of 99% of c in the "laboratory" reference frame, and the other particle is moving in the oposite direction in the in the "laboratory" reference frame, then (if the front windshield is not covered) you will see that the other particle comes to you at a speed of 99.995% of c. (See the calculation details in the article.)
You have a second vision that had nothing to do with what we were talking about before, which was changing the current system to one where entrenched private interests would be censors — the envisioned change I was responding to.

Your non-sequitur other wishes have nothing to do with that being a hellish vision.
All I know is that since I got a VPN my ISP no longer sends me letters warning me that I have 7 more warnings until I'll be admonished for archiving movies.
In the US they can share all the site IPs they want.

If you make them put it in the contract, sure: "We'll share it with all these ad agencies for the purposes of targeting." That doesn't help me at all!
He made this point explicit:

> Networks like these make it easy for attackers to get a copy of your network data, and if you send something unencrypted, the results can be quite harmful.

The web should be ideally end-to-end encrypted with HTTPS. But in case this assumption breaks down, VPN gives an additional headroom for security. Not much (as explained in the article, and thus should not be advertised so), but still useful.
Seems like a nation well on its way to becoming a "bad" historical example in a 100 years or less.
Of course 1 + 1 != 2. 1 + 1 = 10. Somebody forgot to carry the 1
>Why couldn't you have a flagging system in real-time that shuts down accounts but doesn't save the data to disk?

That's what I described with the deep packet inspection. You could hook up an IDS and block users based on the IDS output, but like I said, the sort of people who like no log VPNs will not like that. At one point I set that up at my VPS company a long time ago, (of course, I was very up front about it and told my customers, and I was surprised that customers were really, really angry about it, so I took it down within a day or two. Sorry guys, I mean, I should have stuck with the traditional route of only examining packet headers.)

If you act in the usual way for an ISP and only examine packet headers, then you will need to react to complaints about your users. Those complaints can roll in up to a week after the abuse happened.

I could believe a VPN service that said it kept logs for a week. That seems possible. (of course, there's still the legal issues, but I personally haven't seen those, while I have been almost disconnected by my upstream for customer abuse before)

It gets worse, too, if I use shared IP addresses. So, the way my VPS company was setup, everyone had a static IP. And that was really pretty easy; an abuse report comes in saying that a certain IP did something at a certain time. As all my customers had their own IPs, all I had to do was make sure the IP hadn't been moved to a different customer recently, and I knew who to go after. Aside from that ill considered day-long experiment with the IDS, I didn't do any network logging at all outside of total packet/byte counts (outside of troubleshooting) because I didn't really have to in order to go after abuse. I knew what IP was owned by who.

But, in a shared-IP system? this is way worse. All your users are behind a NAT, right? so you get that same abuse complaint a few days after a thing happened saying that IP X did this thing at time Y to target IP Z. Well, all your customers are coming out of IP X, so that doesn't help you. In a NAT system, to manage abuse complaints without deep packet inspection, you need to log the headers from every connection. User X connected to IP Y on port Z, etc... It's the only way to trace back the abuse to the customer.

(Things get dramatically easier if every customer has it's own IP; then you just need to record who had what IP when. I don't know how many "no log" VPNs use NAT vs giving each active user their own IP. Of course, things get even easier with IPv6)
> Active Directory.

Running Windows Server for the purposes of just AD is ridiculous IMO.

> I wanted to hang myself with just about every option except AD.

I've worked with (then) Novell eDir, OpenLDAP and a little with AD. I found OpenLDAP to be by far the nicest to use.

The moral of this story is: anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

> Fortunately, I think we are in or near a post-LDAP world.

That's not a good thing.
Reliable whole genome sequencing runs about $1000 these days. Reducing it to $50 would shave $950 off the cost of identifying genomic disorders.

It wouldn't affect much the cost of producing therapies that are tailored to individual genomes.
But all you've done is kick the can down the road, so now your VPN service can build a profile on you instead.
> Zuckerberg said incidents like the live streaming of the

> Christchurch mosque attacks were the result of “bad

> actors”; not bad technology and a time delay would disrupt

> the enjoyment of users who broadcast events like birthday

> parties or group hangouts.

In this case, he is 100% correct. Facebook, or social media in general, is a tool. A powerful tool, but a tool nevertheless. Knives for example aren't evil and are important for cooking/cutting, yet there are many knife attacks in London all of the time.

A time delay doesn't solve the problem, the Christchurch terrorist could have pretended to act in some acceptable manner for the checks and then performed the atrocities after passing them (and checked from another account). He could have filmed his drive to the Mosque and discussed the weather, for example, to bypass initial checks.

> “It is a technology which is capable of causing great

> harm,” Edwards told RNZ.

I hope he also advocates for the banning of vehicles, banning of knives - or any other mundane object that causes many deaths a year. Perhaps he also calls for GPS trackers to be put into every knife sold [0]?

> “They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable

> genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of

> democratic institutions.

Except they are actively banning people (against their own guidelines on acceptable Facebook use) that could possibly upset left-wing establishments [1]. I don't think Facebook could possibly bend any further to the NZ governments will. I don't think silicon valley could have possibly done any more to try to remove the shooting content [2].

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/14/mp-mocked-sugges...

[1] https://goldfiremedia.net/2019/02/27/censor-sweep-tommy-robi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/video-of-chris...
Those other businesses aren't running 40% profit margins.

It's a fair question to ask, "If a company is that profitable and having toxic effects, then why shouldn't it pay some of the cost of addressing its toxic effects?"

The tendency on HN is to say exploitive governments want to tax technology startups.

But we're not talking about technology startups. We're talking about the new old-old ATT.
Currently? at least Vancouver, and possibly Toronto. I don't know about other markets. It's roughly 4.3% of Vancouver's housing stock[1]

Toronto has roughly 23% [2] of its for sale stock vacant, unfortunately there have been no openly published numbers on total vacancies.

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/empty-homes-...
[2]https://www.narcity.com/ca/on/toronto/news/a-shocking-number...
"By the end of 2018, in response to criticism of the prevalence of violent and exploitative content on the social network, Facebook had more than 30,000 employees working on safety and security — about half of whom were content moderators." [0]

That number has only increased in recent months and will likely continue to increase in the near future. Not all of them are designated content moderators, it's true, so technically they likely only employ one or two "10s of thousands", but I'm mainly addressing the misconception in the thread that Facebook is "doing nothing." That's a significant amount of moderators. Is it enough? No, but to claim or pretend that they aren't actively doing anything is facetious and something I've been seeing more and more of on HN lately.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
That is the FSB (or (ФСБ). FSM isn't the acronym or a transliteration of any known national intelligence service.

FSB - Federal Security Service, Russia

MSS - Ministry of State Security, China

DGSE - General Directorate for External Security, France

FSM - Federated States of Micronesia National Police would be my best guess. They do dignitary protection and counter-narcotics, so I would assume they have at least some intelligence function.
Less scary than pervasive surveillance, Orwellian "social credit," millions in concentration camps and on-demand executions for organ harvesting.
VPNs can certainly be useful to hide your identity from a specific host and probably to hide your browsing habits from your ISP but does probably nothing against the Government (ie: if the NSA logs all packets worldwide, it should be trivial to connect the dots). But I prefer to use tor in my case.
OOps sorry a bit tired and jetlagged.

For FSM the best I can do is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, nothing else here makes sense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSM
Hey! We were cool. In a sort of introverted, strange, and... OK, we weren't cool.
> Possible options include Tor

I thought most folks believe that the NSA/CIA/some other TLA has control of more than 50% of the exit nodes, which should be enough to reconstruct the sources of most traffic.
I'm not sure about histamines, but animals accumulate heavy metals in their bones and teeth (including humans). Some lipid-soluble forms of metals will accumulate in fat too, like mercury in tuna or marlin.

Unfortunately there's evidence that metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium are increasingly present in animal feeds. This is especially true in fish feed. Since farmed animals don't typically eat other farmed animals this won't have a biomagnification effect, but it's definitely happening in the wild (hence fish feed made from wild fish being especially contaminated).

The bottom line is that if you eat the bones, it'll dramatically increase the possibility of you metabolizing and storing the contaminants in your own body.

You'll be fine if you have a bit here and there. I personally believe (with no solid evidence) that this is where pasture-raised animals in most areas will be superior to feedlot livestock from who-knows-where. Heavy metals can be everywhere, but we know that they're increasingly present in feedlots. If the farmer near you has pastures, organic certification, and the cows aren't downstream from a pulp mill or landfill, chances are pretty good that it's worth the extra few dollars per pound.
It is possible to see irony in real world statements, actions and situations; "irony" is not strictly the name of several literary or dramatic devices.
The internet and dating apps surely play a part. It's also become more acceptable to be non-monogamous. I lived in the bay area for a while and hung out among queer circles in San Francisco. It seemed like nearly everyone was polyamorous and uninterested in being in a monogamous relationship. So much that I felt kind of obligated to try the poly thing myself for a while if I was going to date.

I am a little worried about the medium/long-term impact on society. Not because I find non-monogamy morally objectionable or something, but because having a stable long-term partner seems like it can be beneficial in helping people through hard times. It also seems to me that if a sizeable chunk of young men end up feeling undesirable, unwanted, and frustrated, the consequences won't be pretty, we all lose.
Identifying based on traffic analysis is easily feasible if they collude with advertisers, since they can then correlate traffic by timing. ("Which ISP can sell us subscriber data with TLS traffic to our our ad at the same times that the ad was served with this visitor-id?")
You may have misinterpreted what I meant by that, or maybe I didn't phrase it clearly.

I don't mean that Tor will work better if everyone uses it. Quite the opposite, it will slow down considerably.

I mean that anyone who isn't using Tor needs a different solution. We have two solutions being proposed to the problem of leaking IP addresses: VPNs and Tor. Unless our plan is to move literally everyone onto Tor, we need a non-Tor solution for the people we don't move over.
I never mind writing out the awaits. But that might be because I remember what writing asynchronous code was like 10 year ago and damn await is nicer.
> It has to be clearly stated in the signed contract that your data will be shared with third parties

The most valuable companies in the world trade in identity. They spend billions trying to figure out who you are. ISPs have it served on a silver platter, and there is generally little ISP choice. If ISPs haven't written it in contracts already, there must be a political reason for it, otherwise they doubtlessly would. Anyone know what the societal contract with ISPs is?
How can anyone think this is ethical for lifesaving medical care?
People advertise these because of the nice kickbacks. They make good money and spend all day on social media downvote the truth and promoting VPN's with the other paid affiliates pointing to random articles that cause fear.
Thanks for sharing.

I always find such stories interesting.
I guess since I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear! Thanks friend! We are definitely not living in a surveillance state and we have nothing to worry about as long as we do our jobs cheerfully, obey authority, and conform. I love my life, my job, and my government. There is nothing to see here, everything is normative and fine.

Those engaging in crimes though, such as watching region locked content outside the region in violation of copyright law, rightly should fear. But that is OK since they are criminals subverting the establishment of course. Along with those such as gays in regions where being gay is illegal. Or apostates where apostasy and heresy are death penalty crimes. And numerous other examples of despicable criminal behavior in violation of local laws.
The national debate was mostly pro-life groups trying to spin the situation for political gain.

And even among those groups, I don't remember it being a common argument that she should live because God would miraculously heal her.

The argument was that (they believed) she was still conscious and that her life was still worth living.
Molecular Visualizations of DNA (2003)
Ask HN: Anyone using alternative Android launchers?
Ha! Same. I am definitely atheist or agnostic if we're being particularly pedantic, but I still go to church with my friends, engage in the rituals, etc. Just because it isn't of spiritual meaning to me doesn't mean it's meaningless. The increasingly polarizing & tribal nature of our world seems to suggest that this kind of thing is happening less and less.
There's no technical panacea to this undesirable behavior. Sanctions against party elites would be a start by preventing them from banking or traveling freely.