skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is HN, where it is presumed that people who absolutely have the willpower to exert personal responsibility instead convince themselves that they don't, so that they can play the victim.

If you don't like Facebook, don't use Facebook, try not to run their code, try not to connect to their hosts, and don't send data to their partners. Most importantly, live the life that makes the people around you not want to use Facebook either.
ahah nice trick, I added it to my .vimrc ...
and why not? also this

inoremap uu <esc>
So, it "worked" in the sense that the users likely moved to more toxic echo chambers where they can be further radicalized in their toxic viewpoints? Yay?
Well, but the point here is that the reddit staff doesn't have to worry about those users anymore, no? It's not like someone is going to stop being a right-winger just because you ban him from reddit. That's not what they expected to happen. But they want to keep their ad dollars.
I wasn't seriously suggesting they should. Just noting it is possible to survive an "initial encounter". I wouldn't have guessed so had I not seen that prior.
For what it's worth, I made sure to star the repo and will keep an eye on the project as it grows. Please do repost in the future, perhaps with some blog post update, as I'm interested in a viable NPM alternative.

I've also been looking into verdaccio [0], for a private registry. I thought it might be relevant to list such self-hosted options in the Open Registry site as well (although, the use case is different).

[0] https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio
I would argue that's still a win. Discord and Telegram are more difficult to track because they are less public and visible.

The move has therefore managed to reduce the exposure that non-active participants have to toxic behaviour, and the normalization of said behaviour as something acceptable/tolerated.
Maybe it's not inherently curved. Maybe it's just curved by a mass that is further from us than tens of billions of light-years.

We can't know if whole universe looks as smooth as observable universe.
> They are only moving to other platforms that are harder to track, like Discord or Telegram.

Harder to track also means harder to find. Sounds great to me. Let's make sure anyone who worms their way into those dark places knows without doubt that they're detestable, that civil society stands united against them. Maybe with some time, the boredom of the next generation can be directed to less evil ends.
You might find my Mac setup shellscript interesting: https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/mac-setup.sh

It sets a bunch of preferences using `defaults write` that I find quite handy.
Yay for Reddit prepping for an IPO, probably.
I agree. Voat basically instantly became a cesspool after the major banwave. In theory it would work but in practice places that are all about "free speech" tend to just attract complete and utter assholes.
They are always going to exist, this isn't some charity case to help them heal, honestly people are just happy the scum has fucked off more than it had before.
Only if you deliberately unwrap the optional, which means you either don’t know what you are doing (in which case no programming language feature will be able to save you), or that you’ve considered your options and decided you want to enter the block knowing some variable can be undefined.

IMO, that’s not the same as not having optionals at all, and writing unconditional blocks left and right that may or may not operate on undefined values. It super easy to just dereference any pointer you got back from some function call in C++, without paying attention. Optionals force you to either skip the blocks, or think about how to write them to handle undefineds. Also, it’s ‘code as documentation’ in some sense, which I’m a big proponent of.
anecdotal recent experience.

my father recently bought and returned an Epson WorkForce ET-3750 which he had purchased to replace his older WF. It required two updates out of the box just to get it to work remotely on par with the older WF printer. It was still much slower afterward. Scanning was also a step back in that it cannot scan both sides on its own. However the biggest problem was that it was much noisier.

So do a lot of research before jumping into the pool. The printer manufactures are not giving away their premium on cartridges at similar price points.

Me, I got a WF2650 for less than thirty bucks from Epson over the holidays on clearance with free shipping. For me they are disposable at that price and I have done that more than once. Fortunately the local waste site has a separate section for small electronics like these
> Migration was common, both to similar subreddits (i.e. overtly racist ones) and tangentially related ones (r/The_Donald).

Tangentially-related? I'm pretty sure this crosses the line of being tangentially-related to racism. https://i.redd.it/ua1ukmoi8ls21.jpg
What comments are you talking about?
I Just skimmed it. (The author is a parapsychologist crank and racist, the publisher is predatory and the journal is low quality I'm not going to spend time reading it.)

People frequently misunderstand how genetics interacts with IQ and educational attainment.

The IQ differences between regions exist mostly because the IQ distributions are skewed. East Africa is the prime example.

#1 The IQ distribution in East Africa is very skewed. The average IQ is so low because there is so many people with cognitive deficits due to sickness or pre- and postnatal malnutrition. If you remove the skew, you get average IQ with that aligns with the rest of the world. Nutrition and parasite load together explain practically all of the IQ differences between regions.

#2 These polygenic scores include genes that are related to immune system and nutritional intake (nutrient absorption, utilization and tolerance). Genes that control the immune system and nutritional intake correlate very highly with IQ in developing countries. Their effect is smaller but not nonexistent in developed countries.

Making gene/environment distinction is hard. It's easier to make between individuals in the same ethnic groups in the same environment. Everywhere else they mix. For example nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics are related to IQ trough the environment.
That's an interesting perspective.

I mean, it's kind of like kicking the KKK out of your local YMCA. Sure they go have Klan rallies elsewhere but at least my kids aren't bumping shoulders with them anymore when they're using the water fountain between basketball games.
> I believe you will find plenty which negate what you are saying.

No, there are no serious counterexamples to the claim "allowing women the vote improved society and made it fairer", nor to "ending official, normalized white supremacy improved society and made it fairer." These outcomes were mainstreamed only after appearing as left radical ideas, a plain fact that weak, doltish centrists don't wish to admit, believing as they do in "incrementalism" and "nuance", which in the context of historic change served only as codewords for "abetting and protecting the status quo, no matter how unjust".
Exactly. I don't support voat or gab. I was just describing what happened.

The problem with reddit is that it's wildly inconsistent about banning subreddits. Subreddits like these can exist for years, but only will get banned once they start to become popular enough that they start to get noticed.
The population of these cesspools isn't a constant, it's a function of (among other things) how easy they are to access. Making them harder to get to is a net-win. Platforms have an ethical responsibility to de-platform this garbage.
It's not Reddit's mission to reform these individuals. Sometimes you have to remove the worst elements of your community before their toxicity radicalizes everyone.
I use an inkjet for printing shipping labels. It’s not common I need to print a full sheet and when printed on a laser printer the heat applied to the unprinted labels warps the sheet rendering them nearly useless. And Epson inkjets make really good looking black-print documents as well... I haven’t had the laser hooked up in a couple years and I’m not missing it.
they get a fraction of the exposure and Reddit’s network effects
I've had a brother laser printer for more than 10 years. It's absolutely amazing for what it does - sit in the corner untouched for a few months and then prints tickets or boarding passes reliably. If you're a casual home user I'd definitely recommend getting one.
Have you seen the IDA pro license fee? It is obscenely expensive. At least it was when I was last interested in reverse engineering which is admittedly over a decade ago.
Did anything happen with Voat, though? I hear frequently (just yesterday, in fact!) about terrorists radicalized on 8chan. I see screenshots of Gab quite often. I only hear about Voat in the context of "A few years ago, some people left Reddit."

If the net effect is that certain people left Reddit for a platform inviting the worst of Reddit, and then didn't stay there either, that seems like a win.
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Which rewards? If it is salary, at least for us (I work with the author of the referenced article), we strive to keep those levels the same on the technical and managerial track.
>> it's just aging of light

>You mean red-shifting or something else here?

I think they are probably talking about tired light[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_light

[edit] spacing
Ironically in this case, a dot matrix printer would be more cost efficient and faster (as shipping labels are a couple lines of text, which would only require about 10 or so passes of the print head).
Substantial enough that voat turned to shit right after. I was looking into it at the time, but it got way worse after the banwaves.
Yikes, let's please not engage in personal attacks like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The size and conviction of 'toxic' groups is growing, not diminishing. Marginalising them and pushing them to less-visible communication channels is only harmful from every angle except staving off short-term moral outrage of social justice types.

When various less-desirable groups existed on reddit, it was easy to monitor and gauge their size and their beliefs. It was possible to engage with them on some levels. Now they are scattered across various difficult to observe channels and are fully enclosed in an echo chamber that amplifies their beliefs that much more.

The early days of large social platforms like Reddit was the only time in the last several hundred years when it was possible to get a reasonable estimate of what segment of the population held what beliefs, including the less popular ones. Being able to get an objective view of that distribution was the first step in qualifying and addressing the underlying issues.

Instead we are sweeping those demographics under the rug again, and destroying the ability to study and interact with them.
No, “we” are not. Would-be totalitarians like you may have a desperate desire to re-frame discussion around speech into an argument over its perceived utility, but those who actually understand and care about liberty aren’t fooled.

Your post is gross ethical deficiency masquerading as self-aggrandizing condescension.
An emergent ethical concern keeps bugging me in these situations. Of course, private companies reserve the right to refuse business and services to whomever they want. In a healthy society this is no problem.

But if we slide towards a dystopian future where Big Tech is basically an oligarchy governing important chunks of society without due process and the democratic checks and balances we would expect from a governing body, things look pretty grim.

I have no solution to offer, unfortunately.

EDIT: Despite all the cynicism, I do think we are still on the healthy side of things :)
For a long time, I underestimated the power of the mods. Then, I saw how a few of them could turn the sentiment of a technical forum about a seemingly technical question upside down, simply by banning the right users and removing the right posts. Censorship works, regardless of whether it is used for good or for bad.
It was a disingenuous excuse for people to use a racial slur anytime someone mentioned the word “water” to the point where it appeared almost any time someone used the word in any context for any reason. It’s ridiculous how many people can’t control themselves when they think they have a thin excuse to cover their terrible behavior.
Yeah, because kids are not attracted to things that are forbidden.
No. You need your traffic to look like TCP, for your particular network filtering. But you do not need to achieve that by using the naive and inefficient approach of, "stick the packets into a TCP stream prefixed by a length field." Rather, there are more clever tricks for making your traffic look like TCP, which generally fall into the same realm as other obfuscation mechanisms.
It "worked" only if the definition is "it removed it from Reddit".

As the article mentions, these people did not just disappear or change their mind. They just moved to more obscure places, where they can continue and be evem more motivated, because now they have been censored.

And you might still consider this to be a satisfiable definition for "it worked". Out of sight, out of mind.

Except that, these people are now relegated to an echo chamber far from public discourse where they will only reinforce their views without challenge. An echo chamber that is now suddenly more appealing, because it's forbidden.

Recently, in an episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast with Tim Pool, Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde, Jack admitted that a woman that was part of the Westboro Baptist Church changed her mind only becasue she was allowed to be on Twitter and be exposed to other points of view.

So, from the point of society, I don't think it ever works to pushi extremists to the underground. Sure, Reddit does not have any obligation to give them a place to gather. But still, maybe it should anyway?

EDIT: Reading other comments here, I also got reminded of the fact that, before Hitler got to power, Germany had hate speech laws that explecitly forbid nazi propaganda. Many were sent to jail for that, which only contributed to their determination and their spreading.

So, if you are concerned that being allowed in the public allows them to spread their views, do not be so sure that pushing them away is going to stop them. You might just do them a favor.
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You don't work for facebook, you are facebook's product. Just don't use it, it's that simple. Why is this so difficult for people to understand.
I've found indoor exercise to be ineffective. The only thing that works for me personally is getting outside. Cycling is the best so far, but walking is great too.
I love Facebook and would kill myself if it disappears.
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The alleged "socialist" success stories tend to have strong labor laws, but also much less business regulation and be much more free market than the typical American has been led to believe.

Sweden for example has no minimum wage and fully voucher-ized education which are anathema to the US left.

So I'd disagree there aren't things holding students in the US back, they just hold the entire DNC captive.

Sweden also has a flat tax. They depend on high income tax across the board unlike the US, but also have higher institutional trust/social cohesion (easier with a low pop) and frankly better governance overall.

Culture matters. It's why southern Europe is not like northern.

There's no quick fix that can be cherry picked to make the US like Nordic nations.
Voat just became a cesspool because it was all about the "free speech". So you had an influx of the worst of reddit + the sort of people who are attracted to free speech areas online.

It just died off since then, since 1. nobody really quits reddit, and 2. the aforementioned events made voat culture, well, not great.
Do you have any recommended links?
I cannot relate to this article at all. It's the polar opposite of my experience.

I've been desperately trying to get into a management position for years. I started programming at age 14 and am now approaching 30. I created projects using basically every major programming language, created and maintained a complex open source project which now has over 5K GitHub stars and several tens of thousands of weekly downloads.

I have experience managing the community around the source project and doing peer reviews. Feedback from the community is overwhelmingly positive. I can't even make a consulting business around the project because it works too well, the documentation is good and the community is very helpful.

I got passed up for promotion many times - In spite of consistently delivering beyond all expectations and despite my background as a long time open source developer. I've had people younger and less experienced than me get promoted above me twice! First time this happened, I quit the company about 1 month later (they were very upset/regretful when I handed my resignation).

Then it happened to me again at my current company - In spite of the fact that they are using my open source software as the core of their product (since before I joined). Even the biggest competitors of my current company started using my OSS project. Still no promotion. WTF do I have to do to get promoted? I've told the CTO multiple times that I want a promotion so it's not like they don't know.
It’s the same reason many iPhone apps implement their own dialogues to ask about allowing notifications. If the user chooses ‘Deny’ in the system-provided one, the app can never ask again and the only way to turn notifications on later is to have the user go digging around in the Settings app, which few people will bother to do.

I take great pleasure in choosing ‘Allow’ in those custom dialogues and then ‘Deny’ when the native one pops up immediately afterwards.
Someone would.
Congratulations, you found a few idiots amongst 700.000+ people.
I'd be much more forgiving of archeology and archeologists if they admitted what they didn't know, rather than presenting theories as facts.

"Ritual Purposes" is the poster child for this. Site reports I've read from early medieval digs on artifacts rarely say "purpose unknown" or even "probably art", but instead say "ritual purposes".

I understand that creating a theory for, say, early American migration, is useful and a good thing, as long as everyone understands that it's not "what happened". It's the current theory, and can be disproven at any time by better evidence.
Yes from a hardware point of view, custom look-up tables are much cheaper than multipliers. On the other hand, the point seems to be to utilize the LUTs of FPGAs which are not very power-efficient because they also need to be fully programmable. In theory you could hard-code the weights of a network into an ASIC, or even just a new generic building block that is cheaper than multiplication. This would then be near impossible to beat, if anybody can be bothered to optimize for this architecture.
Maybe it's just me but in work I often encounter these sorts of things. People "plan an effort" or ... and then "work" for 6 months/1/2 years, usually with little communication or confrontation (e.g. MVP it, or actually put some real work into 10% of the program, none of that), and then they'll "declare success". Have some sort of dashboard or so. And then it disappears.

But they'll have everything else. Great testing infrastructure. 100% coverage. Daily standups. KPIs. Extensive meetings detailing progress. Clear team structure. Team leader. Tech lead. Someone responsible for the build. Release schedule. And so on and so forth.

And then you'll find a little detail: a permission on the system that their program doesn't actually have access to the database it supposedly uses, and therefore CAN'T work. Utterly, factually impossible. You check the permission history and you find it hasn't been changed for at least a year, and importantly, those people themselves ALSO don't have access.

So not only does their program not work but they cannot EVER have tried to do this, or they would have noticed and changed it. Not once. Impossible. And yet everybody acquiesces to their claims, because it's a team and a manager.

I have made the huge mistake of calling people out on this. I have made that mistake once. Never again, because immediately you get a huge negative, threatening reaction. People have called my manager in panic, and reported me to HR for this. I don't understand. I mean, there's the cynical: everybody's invested in their lies and would have to admit their own mistakes to expose them, but ...

So not only did they not do anything, they are FULLY aware they were and are lying about it, and find taking personal actions to damage others' careers just perfectly acceptable to protect their lies. And the more you go up the ladder the more people are either complicit or "don't know don't wanna know".

And nobody ever does anything. I mean, there's the odd manager that softly tries to get rid of them. But no more.

This is the norm for projects where I work, despite this company having a very good reputation, and when I was a consultant it wasn't just the norm, that was the 99% case. And yet people really react negatively to me doing this and coming back "sorry, can't be reasonably done for X reason" after a week or two. That seems to sap people's trust in me.

My approach is often the opposite. I'll run a project by having a 10/20% version running with zero test coverage, no design beyond a dataflow doc (which does not follow any template), ad-hoc releasing, ... proving to myself it works/can work before starting with all the "quality" stuff.
I'm not so worried about the free speech aspects of that...there's always somewhere to spew whatever opinion you have.

I do agree, though, that Google and others wield a lot of power by being able to permaban a whole account/person for an alleged incident on just one of their platforms. Where "banned on YouTube" means, for example, that your Android phone no longer works.
What evidence has shown that engaging with them is more effective? It seems to be like it’s nearly impossible to convince someone that their worldview is wrong; however people do feel the need and desire to be part of communities and knowing they might be excluded for having hateful views might be more of a motivator for them to rethink those views on their own terms, which is possibly a more effective method of changing someone’s views.