skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you are suggesting any discussion about the merits of vaccination should be forcefully stifled. That's a pretty low bar and opens up the shaping of public discourse on countless topics because they are "dangerous".
Perhaps a solution would be to allow the browser to share a "fingerprint" with specific websites. To make a trusted connection. The website would know if a trusted connection exists for the user and deny all login attempts coming from unauthorized fingerprints.
uriparser 0.9.3 released
> Before you try and change the world just have a look at the foundation from which you are starting it from.

So true. People who think they're doing the right thing can cause so much damage.
IMO the article is excellently written and very compelling. I suggest people read it for enjoyment, despite the dry title.
Nobody is actually saying we are going to eradicate these ideas completely.

Seems like a lot of comments here don’t want to do anything because it won’t completely eliminate the idea.

I don’t expect these ideas will ever be eradicated but my issue has always been that these platforms, especially Twitter and Reddit and especially YouTube, present these “underground” ideas alongside “mainstream” ideas and amplify it and suggest it to people that otherwise would have never stumbled upon it. And they present to the user as content of equal quality to ideas that are actually based in science and real research, not manipulation and cherry picked data.

The internet has plenty of space for everyone, but we don’t need to raise bad ideas to the same table as good ones. Just as we shouldn’t be covering “intelligent design” alongside evolution to our kids as an equal alternative.
New study establishes timeline for famous thallium poisoning cold case (2018)
It's an open question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe#Curvatur...
Thankfully, you can find code to get the bios master password and disable secure boot for most PCs. Not true, though, for some more niche platforms.

Microsoft, though, can change their mind anytime and force manufacturers to require secure boot, and to get rid off the ability to disable it.

Current policy: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/windo...

More info: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/201722-linuxs-worst-case...
America's mysterious concrete arrows (2018)
The fr mirror worked for me as the original server is overloaded... https://fr.dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/04/26/mastering-motion/
Some probably did. But I wager many didn’t bother and only partook in the bigotry as long as it was easy. In other words, they were ”casual” bigots. Enablers, not instigators. The social dynamics of bullying and related antisocial behavior are fairly well understood.
I thought of something like that, but then the user could kill it as a precaution since an auto-update utility or any other secondary application can be temporarily disabled. Killing "Safari", on the other hand, would terminate everything the user's currently doing in it.

I guess I could have named it Disk Memory Manager or some other important-sounding thing.
I wish I could, but my elderly parents live on Facebook. They’ll never send me a text, never call my phone, never send me an email. It’s always a Facebook message or call, and they’re upset and confused if I don’t answer.
The same way you associate any data point with any other.

For example, set up your IMSI catcher next to a numberplate reader. If you repeatedly see a particular IMSI at the same time as a particular numberplate, then there's a fair chance that that phone travels with that car, and therefore that it likely belongs to the driver of the car.

This is easily automated on a large scale, and if anything gets easier as the scale gets larger as you get more data points.
> it's good to let people experiment, find their voices, build the right audience.

That's not how subreddits work, though, since they require a a name and almost always have mods that shape the content. /r/waterniggas at 300 people is basically the same at 20,000 people. So if the rule is subreddits should not have "nigga" in the title, then all subreddits with that name should be quarantined (or not allow the names to contain that word).

Subreddits don't tend to change topics or "voices" but they can and do worsen in quality. Instead of posts with original concept C being upvoted, posts with content similar to C but not really get upvoted by the more general audience that comes with larger subscribers. I think /r/bonehurtingjuice is a pretty good example. At first it was excellent but now basically any anti-joke (which is different than bone hurting juice jokes) gets upvoted there.
It's contextual. Many slurs have been reclaimed by the communities that they have been applied to.

E.g., as a mild example, terms like "nerd" and "geek" were pejoratives that were adopted and reworked. E.g., Geek Pride: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_Day

As with most of these slurs, positive in-group use is ok, but negative out-group use is still generally seen as abusive. I might talk about my geeky ways or refer to my fellow geeks. But I'd still bristle at non-geeks using the term in its original pejorative sense.

The N word is of course much more extreme given America's ugly, unresolved history around race, but it's the same rough deal.
Wontfix-Endorsements Can't Fix the Open Source Definition
I recommend the Brother HL2030 (LED, b/w) (or the slightly faster, but more rare HL-2035). Costs you ~20€ off of eBay classifieds, parts are cheap, works like a charm. Cartridges cost the same as the printer. One toner cartridge lasts forever.

Hook it to a 5€ network print server off of ebay, and you get the cheapset possible office printing solution for your startup.
Change Detection on F-Droid is pretty great, not sure if you wanted it on a PC or not.
NIH Blocks Two Doctors from Speaking Out to Investigators
It's such a pity that LatexDraw is not developed more. It would be the ideal solution if it had a few more features. I currently use Dia for the same purpose as the author uses, but I have to admit that the graphics in this article look pretty good. I'll give Inkscape a try.
Even if there are a few, it’s weird to describe that as the cost of living in the borough if only 1% of the housing stock qualifies. You’re definitely not guaranteed to be able to find an apartment at that price.
It's not the idea that is dangerous. I can hold multiple incongruent ideas in mind to compare them. It's the experience that get's me at an emotional level, that may change my opinion. Well, ideas may inform the intdrpretation of an experience, and holding an incongruent set of ideas, the reaction may be arbitrary. Arguably if one idea can take hold, then because the tendency was already there, latently.

An extremist is, by definition, someone going to extreme ends to reach a goal. I don't think that holding an extremist's opinion is directly extreme. Having extremist ideals just makes for a latent extremist. That's radical, not extremist. That's still tendentially bad, anyhow. But so is ignorance, and so someone knowing only one side of an argument is merely ignorant, not necessarily latently radical. Ignorance doesn't need a medium to spread. Quite the opposite, it needs barriers. YMMV though, as bias is such an important topic in learning. It might count as barrier as well, if figuratively speaking.
But aliases are not supposed to be available in subprocesses/scripts, unless you use shopt -s expand_aliases. Even if they were, you cannot ask all your users to rewrite their scripts to use \ls instead of ls.
Boxy SVG (https://boxy-svg.com) and macSVG (http://macsvg.org) use SVG as a native format as well.

Since Inkscape is a general purpose design app rather than just an SVG editor, it is adding a lot of metadata to the SVG code it generates in order to preserve editing capabilities.
I would like to see evidence that “deplatforming” actually reduces hate globally instead of simply moving it elsewhere, because I haven’t seen any, and until then this is simply an unfounded belief (i.e., “bullshit”)
Principles of the Software Engineer
Why aegis over andOTP?
Secret Foreign Surveillance Court Denies More Applications
Until machines can distinguish arguing against hate speech from hate speech itself (which requires understanding context), automated deplatforming is anti-democratic
The "extreme portability" he's talking about is portability of projects to compilers and libc implementations that behave badly, possibly in standards-violating ways like this.
Well, FPH-style posts were banned across-the-board because they were held to be leaks of privacy-sensitive material, and harrassment. But somehow, /r/fatpeoplestories suddenly got a lot more popular. Also somehow, /r/peopleofwalmart is still up...

(inb4: "found the Walmart shopper"!)
It's really nice to have a term to pin to a vague concept that had been floating around in my head for at least a decade. I've come across instances of this repeatedly but never knew quite how to describe it properly to others. It's a treacherous slope where the first step is usually completely un-noticed and by the time people do notice it is way too late. We've always done it like this is the oft heard excuse but on closer examination that usually isn't true. Typically at some point in the past there was a much tighter regime and the present day situation would have definitely not passed muster. But by inching towards it with very small steps critical thresholds can be exceeded without notice.

Thanks for posting this. It will help me professionally to formulate my opinions on such situations more clearly and will serve as a reference point for future discussion.
Fear the Man in the Middle? This company wants to sell quantum key distribution
Also, I was a broke college student. How can I even afford to invest! Still having hard time grasping the concept of stock market and related topics :P

I think there are better ways to bring food to the table than this, such as getting a job as SWE, or donations.

I never earned any money from this hobby and have no plans to change it
Power to the People: Disintermediating Industries with Data Content Loops
A Favorite User Research Trick
Should I use crayons and coloring books? That was actually a half serious question. For what developers are paid basic literacy is a safe assumption.
Other unanswered questions:

Why was Mueller so uncurious about the activities of the FBI in using uncorroborated opposition research paid for by Clinton campaign to get FISA warrants?

How was it legal to use unverified claims by FBI informants to investigate a presidential campaign?

How about James Comey leaking 4 classified memos to the press in order to force an investigation?
I don't own any , but I think it's harsh low frequency stuff. Sound pressure, even if you don't hear it.

When I tried them it felt the same as low frequencies on expensive speakers. Expensive speakers are prone to cause listening fatigue, while the cause is not certain, any audio-guy can tell you about it.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listener_fatigue :

"Listener fatigue (also known as listening fatigue or ear fatigue) is a phenomenon that occurs after prolonged exposure to an auditory stimulus. Symptoms include tiredness, discomfort, pain, and loss of sensitivity. Listener fatigue is not a clinically recognized state, but is a term used by many professionals. The cause for listener fatigue is still not yet fully understood. It is thought to be an extension of the quantifiable psychological perception of sound. Common groups at risk of becoming victim to this phenomenon include avid listeners of music and others who listen or work with loud noise on a constant basis, such as musicians, construction workers and military personnel." (and open-office workers....)
Work Like the Client Is You in Two Years
New Hampshire, 94% White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State? (2018)
So instead of creating a bias with counter arguments at the same level, you make an abstract argument biasing the bias at a lower (or higher?) level, for lack of a better word. That's kind of the irony I was looking for in my previous comments, though not quite as I had put it. Very well.
A good opportunity to point out that "toxic" means exactly "people I disagree with" and absolutely nothing more.
Climate change is another example of this probably. Except the whole planet instead of a plane.
Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned
You saying this made me realize that buying an inkjet printer is akin to buying a phone with a contract - crazy.
Not really. Page 9 has a graph of the activity before/after the ban, and the drop in activity (in post/day) matches the number of accounts that became inactive.

If those users found other outlet for hating, they didn't do so by reducing their reddit activity.
That's patronizing. I am one of those people and I love my life.
This is why we need decentralized, hard to take down platform, but still relatively easy to be discover platform.
I would argue they were never good. He called people who gave FB data "... dumb f#@$s" back when he was 19. It was just that in the beginning they weren't pushing the monetization yet. Now that is all it is about and people are starting to understand how they are being exploited. The only thing that has changed is that you are aware. I still don't think any of the people in my family give a crap. They are more than happy in their echo chamber and free service.
It's a link to people I know from real life, by their real names. Family and friends. People I have some level of emotional connection to such that I have some level of interest in seeing pictures of what they do in their leisure time, how their kids are growing up and so on. Staying in touch with them by the many other forms of communication available would be such a pain, just because there are so many.

I've spent a lot of time on pseudonymous online communities - slashdot, reddit, hacker news and others - and although there is always interesting discussion, I don't feel anything like the same interest in other posters as I do in say my housemate from 2003-2005.

Don't get me wrong, Facebook-the-company and Facebook-the-algorithmically-generated-feed are fairly vile, but the USP, the network effect is something that has emotional worth to a lot of people.
Mass Shootings Have Become a Sickening Meme
Yeah, agree that's off.
Indeed. Simply removing the medium does not fix the cause. Many of the problems in human society stem from people not being able to talk about those problems.

Most of the popular subreddits have become sterile echo chambers with homogenization of opinion. HN is just as vulnerable to that.
I don't think it's an end-of-history thing. I think it's cyclical.

In the US, most people have always had an understanding that speech should be used responsibly. The early Internet was overstocked with utopian idealists, me included, who thought this new age of instant communication meant that good ideas would quickly triumph over bad. That led to a lot of naive policies.

In practice, that didn't work. We hoped for a great age of dialog and understanding. Instead, we got an era of "don't read the comments", because it turns out the small number awful people are perfectly willing to spew awful talk all day long driving out the reasonable people who have better things to do. Now anybody running a significant platform knows they need to deal with abusers and monsters or they'll end up a cesspool.

The same utopian thinking has often gone with new technologies. Standage's "The Victorian Internet" makes clear that the telegraph was seen with the same rose-colored glasses. It was going to end war! To knit humanity together into a great brotherhood! Spoiler alert: it didn't.
Try some JSON benchmarks with Codables in Swift vs serde in Rust. Rust smokes Swift, something like 20x.

Incidentally I've spent considerable effort on this problem, including writing a prototype faster JSON parser in Swift (still about 3x slower than Rust, but a huge speedup over what's there). I couldn't get anyone in the Swift community to care enough to motivate me to finish the work, which is indicative of a deeper problem: Swift just doesn't have "performance culture," the benchmark game results notwithstanding.
Colorado hopes to fine gas car drivers who park at EV stations
Agreed. Back when FB started, it was a convenient way to keep in touch with school friends. You could go over to their pages and see what they were up to lately. Then they added a chronological news feed, and while some people objected, I didn't mind. By the time I left last year, it was an inscrutable Skinner box full of ads.

The thing that really pisses me off, though, is the way Google has gone downhill. I remember when they launched, in a world of Lycos and Alta Vista, how refreshing it was to have a simple text box for search, that took you to a list of blue links. After awhile, there were clearly-labeled text ads along the right side, which was much better than the flashing banners on other sites. Now, the ads are mixed in with the search results and designed to confuse, and Google boosts its own properties into the carousel on top. I still sometimes use Google, but always vaguely dreading what new clutter or dark pattern they have added to the SERP since my last visit.

In both cases, a once-useful product was A/B-tested to within an inch of its life, maximizing engagement/surveillance while keeping it just bearable enough for not too many users to leave.
> Or simply interact with reality.

I have and I've noticed that by far the easiest and most obvious demographic correlation with terrorism is men.

In my interactions with reality I've noticed that there's an inordinate/biased fear of Islam over and above a fear of men, in demographic terms, particularly among the men who tend to proclaim Islam is some immanent threat to Europe.

Maybe there's a useful word we can use, in reality, to describe an inordinate fear of Islam?
Can I get a quick summary?

By the way, does anyone know and use automatic summary plug-ins?
Only if you search for results with blinkers on.

they shoved these toxic groups elsewhere. they didn't go away.
Higher/highest quality child care is not putting your kid in child care at all. I don't know why rich parents would want to risk the long term welfare of their kids so they can work more. Kids that spend lots of time in child care are objectively worse off.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/measuring-the-long-term-effects-o...

> Within 10 years, comprehensive analyses of the universal, “$5 per day childcare” program, including its impact on child care use, employment patterns, and children’s and parent outcomes, suggested cause for concern. Social development among children, as indicated by both emotional and behavioral measures, had significantly deteriorated in Quebec, relative to the rest of Canada (10% of a standard deviation lower). Comparisons between children ages 2 to 4 who had been exposed to the program, with older children (and siblings) who had not, revealed significant increases in anxiety, hyperactivity, and aggression in those exposed to the program. And the analyses found more hostile, inconsistent parenting, and lower-quality parental relationships among parents of children exposed to the program. But it was hard to predict whether the negative outcomes identified for 2- to 4-year-olds would persist across their development, or simply dissipate.

> Their research confirmed that the negative effects did continue, and in some cases became stronger across development. Among 5 to 9-year-olds, negative social-emotional outcomes not only persisted, but in some cases increased, as indicated by 24% of a standard deviation increase in anxiety, a 19% increase in aggression, and a 13% in hyperactivity. The impact on boys and children with the most elevated behavioral problems was stronger, especially in measures of hyperactivity and aggression.
>Yes, but "there's always somewhere" may stop being true if we enter that dystopia.

We're already there and we didn't need to enter a dystopia. All big platforms (Google's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, you name it) follow the same exact lines on politics and speech.

(btw, funny that the English UK dictionary from Chrome doesn't include the word dystopia ;P)
> because developers mostly would build high-end units

This is such a frustrating perspective.
You're being generous by saying they "refuse to plan ahead". I think they are actively planning to "cheat" and cut in line, thus screwing over all traffic behind them.

I deal with a merge every day where 3 interstates come together. The first two (I64E, I195N) run together for 1/2 mile and finally merge from 2 lanes to one just before they merge into a dedicated lane on the destination interstate (I95N). They recently (last year or so) added the dedicated merge lane on I95N to try to speed things up, but it has not helped. The real problem is people waiting until the last second to merge 2:1 for the merge on to the destination highway.

I think things would be more effective if traffic from both interstates were forced to merge to a single lane as early as possible. Then traffic would be moving at close to the speed of the destination highway, rather than at 5mph due to all the lane jockeying resulting from the 2:1 merge just before the final merge onto I95N.
The thing is, Reddit isn't responsible for, and couldn't possibly begin be responsible for, hate in the whole world. They banned it on their site, and it cleaned up their corner of the world, and they're happy that the place they have control over has less hate. That's not bullshit.

Bullshit is saying "well, we can't possibly get rid of it, so may as well let it stay where ever it shows up."
Oh for sure there's been an increase in extremist activity in Europe, as Anders Breivik and many others provide evidence for.
Anybody who physically controls all entry and exit points (as well as the rest of infrastructure including DNS) can be good at that.

A problem with that is the CCP are conspiring with other totalitarian hellholes to force that kind of Internet onto the rest of the world.
You might also enjoy this: https://twitter.com/EPICEMRparody
i dont think the US government has any meaningful “conflict” with US companies (netflix??) beyond the flashy one about unlocking apple phones. the state dept and DoD have been deeply involved in SV since the beginning
So you are saying, basically, if there was Unix why do we have Windows since no one asked for it.

On the positive side, running your own website or a forum is now easier than ever. I think more people should do it.
The statement that New York City's 92 billion budget is greater than most countries surprised me, had to look it up. According to a CUNY page [0], the city's revenue has been around $80 billion the last few years and $70 billion in expenditures. Comparing that to a wikipedia page [1] on government revenues/expenditures does indeed place New York City as collecting and spending more than all but 38 and 35 countries in the world.

[0] https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/fiscal_data/gfund-rev_ex...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
...which is what people that use a lot of ink have been often doing anyway with other models: buying the ink in bottles, injecting it into old cartridges and resetting the gauge chip.
I made an open source plugin to let you make Fb 3D Photos out of Unity projects
The law actually requires the hosts to include the permit id in the offer...
'Ghost of Steve Jobs' then.
If spending time on Facebook is work, why is my employer not happy?
The majority of online hate speech (of any variety) is driven by groupthink. If you make it harder to find the hate groups, you de facto reduce the groupthink.
>and they’re upset and confused if I don’t answer.

Then just let them be upset. Try to explain it to them, but if they don't accept it, then let them be upset. If you back down they will never ever learn it. Never. Not a chance.