skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Echo chambers like these incubate hatefulness, provide positive feedback to individuals who embrace the hate at the core of these subreddits, and set up strawman representations of "enemy groups" to immunize members against rational discussion. I used to identify as an "anarcho capitalist" and it was largely because I discovered r/Anarcho_Capitalism. People praised me for arguing against left anarchism, socialism, communism, or anything besides poverty-is-a-moral-failing style capitalism. Eventually, the community embraced overt racism and I tried to find another community to replace r/Anarcho_Capitalism, but I could not find one. About 3 years after leaving that echo chamber, I went back and read through my comments in that sub and I was mortified by the twisted logic I used to justify starving the impoverished of government benefits and services.

My story is anecdotal, but I can't believe that it's a rare occurrence, because that's basically the mechanism that underpins all fringe organizations based on a shared false worldview. You need people to constantly validate and reinforce that false worldview, or reality will smash that worldview. Barring a subreddit may push a fraction of the active subredditors to another platform if one exists, but the marginally attached subredditors will just fail to follow and the hold that echo chamber had will fade as the echos grow fade to silence, and they won't catch anywhere near as many new people.
This comment breaks two of the site guidelines: the one against commenting about voting on comments, and the one against insinuations of astroturfing. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not taking threads in those directions in the future? They lead to uninteresting places.
Literally my best use of time this week.

Also, a great crash-course in how to start a company, to an extent.
It's clearly you the one who prefers to live in ignorance.

Literally every person that O know who works in climatology, environmental sciences or similar studies is shitting their pants over the current outlook in environmental degradation.

If the consensus of the people whose job day in and day out it to study this claim that we are seriously screwed over, it would be unwise not to pay attention to them.
The Mysterious History of the MIT License
I'm not convinced it's based on people having cars, simply because the bag taxes and bans seemed to emerge first in New York, SF and other cities where lots of people don't have cars and shop at corner stores.
Hey man, as a former STEMy grad student to a current one: Take care of yourself first.

Academia is a lot of things, but Feynman's era is long gone, the golden age of physics is in the past now. I don't know you, and I don't know your situation. But I have known a lot of people that may be like you, and I have know a lot of situations that may be like yours.

Generally, these days, grad school isn't about the work, it about the network. If you want to stay in the ivory tower, networking is your job. If you want to get out and do something else, go through the classes and just learn that stuff. Get the experience, but do not put your soul in this, you will not find the rewards you are looking for in a lab. Hell is other people, yes, but so is Heaven.

From this teeny-tiny bit of a comment that you left, almost nothing to reasonably go on really, it sounds like you need to get out of the lab. It sounds like you want a partner, a girl/boyfriend, and you should probably do that, and it is ok to do that. Save the python script, put down the polarizer, go to ask someone to a dinner. If your advisor freaks, so be it, they aren't a person that you should be trusting if they don't hold your well being above the work.

Do not put your advisor's career first, put yourself first. It's ok to do that.
Sure, but the same is true for whatever security Apple offers. Why is what Apple offers necessarily better?

And in my opinion, a big part of the reason why many people have no idea what those security permissions mean, is that iOS and Android are way too vague about them.
The problem is paper straws already suck on their own and disintegrate quickly in a regular cup. It's worse when you use a PLA (biodegradable/compostable) plastic cup with a paper straw. This is because PLA is usually much stiffer than PET or PS lids so you end up with the lid pinching off the straw in its death grip.

I asked a disabled person with cerebral palsy about what he thought of paper straws. His answer: "I don't see the point in having a paper straw if the cup is already plastic"
Very much appreciate you taking the time for this feedback - thank you for that.

We don't host data (currently). We host data model schemas and relationships around those models on our platform.
Care to share your number?
Maybe you don't know but people around the world like to point to SF as examples of places that prohibited plastic bottles, maybe for locals the real issues are the ones you mention but in the big picture to stop using one-time plastics and similar pollutants are the real issues.
You can care about two things (or even more)
In Russia polling stations staff are paid, though not much. Often they are picked from people working in public institutions like schools, hospitals, social aid centers. Theoretically they are appointed by political parties (so that each member represents different party) but this is mostly formal. For example, I saw a staff list where there were 3 people with same surname (probably relatives) at the same polling stations representing 3 different parties.
>The users that stayed had a dramatic drop in hate speech.

They could have a drop based on the belief that it is being punished. Is there a study on what impact this would have on their beliefs? Does it weaken them, or does it make them believe that others are scared of the truth and thus encourage their beliefs more?
I would imagine he is referring to attaching your self-worth to external objects. External objects can change and if you lose such an anchor that you have made a pillar of identity - one can become destabilized. Some personalities/mind can't "pull up" (out of it) and frequently suffer the Porkins fate (death, suicide, depression, etc).
Well this was skateboarding for 4 miles total per day. I was in mixed traffic and bike lanes, going down hills and due to the crazy way people drive in SF dangerous situations happened quite a lot.
I know what you're getting at, but this language upsets me. There are a ton of valid reasons to leave when everyone else is working:

1. doctor's appointment

2. picking up the kids from daycare

3. being an early bird and coming in way earlier than everyone else

4. working part-time

Just from the top of my head.
I was in Seoul last month. The McDonalds there had plastic coffee mugs and there was a bin for the mugs where the trays are returned and trash is disposed. Of course, normal disposable cup was available for to go orders.

The major issue is cost of course. Disposable cups are a cheap solution. As long as they remain cheap and there are not other compelling reasons, few companies are going to be making any changes.

I've heard this time and again here. It's worth reiterating, put the cost of the pollution on the manufacturer, then changes will occur.
LOL the way to convince people the story real is certainly not to say "OK maybe I lied about the details, but trust me that the main part is still true" (though the story still seems plausible enough I'd still give it a ~30% chance of being true)
This is my preference. My coffee cup keeps my drink hot way longer than any disposable one can and I would save a dime. Win, win, from my view.
And then there's people who the label could be applied to, but spent much of their lives trying to conform to more socially acceptable ideas about sexuality.
I want to learn nursing online.
I've been on the internet since the early 90's, back when domains were free. Even back then, .Net and .Com were never enforced for a particular purpose. If you could fill out a form, send an email, and wait, sometimes for up to a month, it was yours.
> The article itself talks about X25519

Seems like they made a mistake. They're referring to your private key (which is used for signing) as "X25519", but X25519 is meant for key exchanges.

Nothing but Ed25519 makes sense in this particular context, unless they've gone out of their way to do something very non-standard.

> Ed25519 is not in fact the de facto standard for signing on curves; that's clearly P-256 ECDSA.

Having never been confronted with anyone having chosen P-256 ECDSA, I question the validity of this statement.

It is important to remember that this also requires use. I have a few times stumbled upon things where only NIST curves where supported, but in those cases, RSA remained the choice of the users.

> Again, people don't use Ed25519 because they distrust NIST (although many people do distrust NIST).

None of these arguments make sense to those not implementing the cryptographic libraries on their own (which, while fun, is not recommended).

For the integrator and the user, it's simply a case of reading the docs and picking.
Nerd and Geek weren't reworked harmlessly overnight. There was a very gradual change in connotation over the years. It took 50 years for nerd to move from completely unsympathetic epithet to being "reclaimed". 40 years ago a sympathetic person would never have said "he's a bit of a nerd".

Nerd started to be "reclaimed" in the 80s and 90s, and there was a time period were it was still used pejoratively by non-nerds while being used positively by nerds.

"Yankee" by the way still has very strong negative connotations in the south particularly among older people. It's a very good example of a word that is still used by outsiders derogatorily, but insiders don't find it offensive at all.
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The link only demonstrates the absurdity of your previous statement. Unless that's what you are going for?
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Same, I bought a quite expensive pair of Chippewa brand engineering boots ($500 US) and they're going on 5 years strong. The only care I need is the occasional wax, scuff removal, and a re-sole.

The cost may seem a bit much at first, but compare it to buying a cheap pair once every couple of months.

Shoes really are one of the few things in life you shouldn't skimp on.

As an aside, price isn't the only import factor in buying quality shoes. Chippewa are handmade in the US, and it shows. I also bought a pair of relatively expensive Timberland boots for about $250. They were made in China, and the upper lining of the boot came off in less than 6 months. It seems all I paid for was the name.
Building a fully electric transportation network, supporting a greater population, advanced weapons like rail guns, etc. You know, progress. The future. Maintaining our technological supremacy.

China, Russia, etc., aren’t going to be reading E.F. Schumacher. Energy production equals economic, military, and political power. Whoever figures out how to break past the fossil fuel bottleneck is going to own the future.
One gets the sense that YouTube is downranking and filtering content according to a branding effort that projects a certain image. Thus, anything in conflict with the desired YouTube brand (especially if not feeding the financial flow), regardless of real trends, gets smothered.

HN actually operates the same way, albeit as an aggregator, and thus with greater subtlety.
So you're saying the replacement has to be good or people won't use it? That's preposterous!

/s
fwiw, I wouldn't put too much stock in the responses here; you're likely seeing the HN crowd's version some of the same phenomena you are experiencing in the workplace. A sincere statement is picked apart, minimized, and denied.

All of it sucks, and while I do not know your situation much, I'd say certainly keep on the lookout for better environments, and very specifically: find good/directional questions to ask in interviews that give you some leading indicators. I've worked for companies that seemed awesome at interview-time and then turned out to be toxic hell-holes. No company will say "we have a toxic culture"; you have to ask the right questions more subtly to get that info. (I wish I knew what those questions are; I haven't had to endure an interview process in many years; yes I realize how lucky I am; maybe others have suggestions?)

Not sure how many options you have, but keep them all open, the positive ones anyway, and I wish you the best.
Often I find myself using outline.com as a mirror: https://outline.com/TSWvsv (I realise, the same reason you do not use an ad-blocker might stop you from using mirrors).
This exactly, how does someone die of fatigue?
As do Akamai and CloudFront. It’s not a MITM when it’s a contracted service sites choose to use rather than an attack.
The competition isn’t oil and gas, it’s fission and fusion.
>I don't have and can't afford a Mac

Why wouldn't you just virtualize, same as any other OS? If you're not virtualizing on Mac hardware than there are a few minor extra hoops to jump through but it's still less work compared to a hackintosh. Performance can be janky if you don't dedicate a video card to it, but something perfectly adequate like a Radeon 560 seem readily available for $60-80 now. There are a few bits of Mac specific hardware these days like the T-series chips, but not even all supported Macs have that by a long shot.
The nice thing about the former is that that cost is shared across all consumers, whereas the latter would be incurred for every user. The latter approach may still cost less for now (or forever), but it's something to keep in mind.
It's a perfectly fine thing to do if your refrigerator or washing machine has software from a company that (1) has sufficient expertise to do software well, (2) prioritizes keeping it secure, and (3) commits to supporting it for the entire usable life of the appliance.

But usually 0 out of 3 of those are true.

The devices come from companies that specialize in hardware, so the software is usually an afterthought.

They don't prioritize keeping it secure because they know customers are more interested in features like whether the refrigerator's shelf configuration or the washing machine's capacity.

And they don't commit to supporting it for the lifetime of the product because once they have your money, they have little incentive.
"Causing harm" is subjective until you can demonstrably show that whatever activity is causally linked to increased harm towards some group of people.

Yeah an anti-vaxxer won't think they're "causing harm", but they are. They're the reason we've had a major resurgence in measles cases for the first time in 20 years.
Yes, if your son is interested in RF and RADAR/Remote Sensing, they have an excellent program.

No, looks like he was there before me. I did an MSEE in ‘96, under Moore and Gogineni.
Believe me, I know how compilers exploit undefined behavior and how this can lead to security issues. While you may disagree, there are certain useful optimizations that all but require the compiler assuming that undefined behavior cannot occur. Yes, occasionally compilers end up doing somewhat stupid and annoying things in the process or go "overboard" (Clang is notorious for this–I think some old version would just stop writing out code if it hit undefined behavior, so control would just run off the bottom of the procedure into the next one) but in general there are good reasons behind this choice being made.

> The original purpose of “undefined behaviour” was to deal with the myriad different platform behaviours of the era (remember at that point in history 1 byte was not necessary 8 bits).

FWIW, CHAR_BIT is implementation defined (not undefined) to be at least 8.

> Therefore the memcmp is undefined, and the compiler can assume undefined behavior cannot occur, therefore that branch can be removed.

I am fairly certain that this memcmp is "implementation-defined" (namely, reading the value of padding bytes is valid but not guaranteed to produce anything useful), which allows the compiler to pick whether it wants to emit that branch (but it must still return some value). If the memcmp was actually undefined the compiler would be "justified" in producing code that wiped your hard drive.
What's the chance of it getting to the ocean when I'm properly throwing it away?

Also they apparently all use photo-degradable plastic since 30 years ago.
Fantastic timing, tonight I am putting together a site for my son's project that requires file uploads and I will use this.
Recycling doesn't work. I recently read that only 10 % of plastic gets recycled. Recycling is just a way to pass responsibility onto the customer. Bans and regulations require the corporations to fix this problem.
Here's a list of payment processors that was on HN earlier today:

https://startupstash.com/paypal-alternatives/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19771573

Just dig into each that might fit your situation looking for people's props and gripes about them. Edited to add the HN link since commenters mentioned other services.
Thesis is here: https://github.com/adewes/phd-thesis-physics

Inkscape was very difficult to use at the time (IMHO) and had lots of bugs, maybe this improved in the meantime as almost 10 years have passed.
What's the best reusable travel mug you've used? Easy to wash, good looking, lightweight, durable. Those stainless steel double wall ones any good?
Our company cafeteria has metal straws for sale for 50 cents, and a thing to wash them out with.

Works pretty well other than getting the ocasional sideways question about what the metal straw I keep in my bag is for.
My cheap shoes never wear out because I wear out the ones I actually like wearing. So the cheap ones never go away because "who would throw away a perfectly good pair of shoes that still fits?" (the sunk costs problem)
> The hours suck, the risk is high and the pay is low. If there wasn't such a strong emotional bond we'd pay a lot more for our food just to get people to do it.

I'm not sure this is the case. It seems like we'd just move even further towards large agribusiness and automation and away from the mythos of the yeoman farmer. Agriculture is far from a free market, and this nostalgia is one of the reasons why (along with more concrete, rational reasons like national security). The idea that a reduction in labor supply would cause prices to rise isn't as much of a given in a market like this, especially after the market shifts to adjust. I find it very hard to believe that the type of family farmer-owner you describe is a necessary pillar of our food production system.
Solid tips. I am sure they are well earned. The funny thing is, this type of knowledge doesn't seem to transfer well with language alone.
Not sure if you are from Barcelona, but that is not right. Barcelona is, like Madrid, a city crowded by tourists which, obviously, look for the cheapest choice. That is legit, of course. The problem is when all owners want to make the most from their buildings, sharing them with Airbnb. This increases rent fares in most of the neighborhoods (as no houselord wants to earn less asking for a monthly quote instead of the amount earned with Airbnb) , and obligates people who live and work there to move outside. That is why the government of the city council took actions to attempt to reverse the situation.
I skimmed the articles from the link. Most of them made less than a $1000 a month.

One that made money was spreading malware and the author who seem to be making a decent return said.

It was really hard to write - took me 1.5 years, tons of research and re-writing. This isn't something I slapped together over a weekend. Far from passive income.
I think the phrase "defining deviancy downward" more closely captures the concept than "normalization of deviance." The slippery slope of redefining deviance to have lesser thresholds than the prior iteration, and it takes a series of those iterations to truly end up in a situation where the new normal would have been utterly out-of-bounds compared to the original.

Normalizing deviance is more akin to deciding that things that were obviously out of the norm are now accepted as a new normal without the gradual degradation, at least in my way of thinking.
I'm just waiting for them to clarify if they're ok with torrenting over their VPN.
I'm glad to see there may be some workable models, I hope the business is sustainable.
I honestly don't see why this is a problem. I use my straw, or my coffee cup, or whatever, and I throw it in a trash can. It's not going to hurt any marine mammals unless you, the city government, go and dump it into the sea.

So don't do that. If you can no longer put your trash on a barge to China, put it on a train instead and bury it somewhere in the enormous deserts that cover one third of the country.

I don't want to hear about how every single square inch of the desert is infinitely precious and irreplaceable, either. When the US needed to test nuclear weapons, they took a chunk of desert they didn't care about and nuked it. Just take another chunk, and put garbage in it! Maybe use the same chunk, it's been 70 years, it's probably fine now. Anyway, leave me alone.
So they cut down the rainforest for fun? Didn't know that.
I'm glad your life works for you. Truly.

But I'm extremely frustrated with the fact that no one seems to genuinely be interested in understanding anything I say on such topics. Even the best people here often come across as only asking so as to more effectively rebut my points, not to have their mind broadened or their understanding of the issues deepened.

For someone like me, that's basically life threatening. And the burden is always on me to prove something, to be diplomatic and respectful, etc.

I'm aware it's complicated by my story. I'm aware people find my story hard to believe.

But if you will excuse me, I think it's time for me to walk away from this thread.
sound bites.
I thought that part was obviously a joke.
> I do think that the reaction that they are impossible to drink from is more than a little silly, though.

Why is it silly? Untreated cellulose is extremely absorbent. Other paper utensils that will either hold liquid or be exposed to liquid are almost always treated with wax or plastic.
Heh I have about 4 pairs of worn out Chuck's sitting in a closet. Size 13, wonder if there's a market for those
> The bag ban presumes you can just stick your stuff in your shopping cart, take it out to the trunk of your car and drive it home.

Well it might be regional difference, but I don't remember seeing anyone just "sticking their stuff in their shopping cart, take it out to the trunk, and driving home." Who likes to have their watermelons roll over their basil? Everybody who drives to the local Trader Joe's either bring their own bags or buy paper bags.

There might be an argument against plastic bag ban, but I don't buy this one.

Also, even if you buy just three dozen eggs (which might be one of the cheapest things you can fit in a shopping bag), the cost of a paper bag (10 cents?) is already something like a few percent of the whole purchase. Sure it might be a burden, but it doesn't seem like an excessive burden, especially since you can reuse a paper bag for months.
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Yes, I know that. First link is the service, second is the award they won in 2008.
Google has cycle detection in PageRank specifically for this reason? They know which regions of the graph are good ones.
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