skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you not believe all of these are various inputs linked to the outcome?

There are millions of far right activists and likely a non zero percentage of them have the same views as the shooter. Yet the shooter was the one to break out while the rest of them stood still. Radicalization requires people in poor situations to do its biddings; regular people may fall into the propaganda trap but most people would never sacrifice the comfort of their lives for an abstract political cause.

I believe it is more of an education problem than a mental health. These movements based on the absence of facts and extremely reaching claims could only survive if the people participating do not have the tools to catch the logical snafus and realize they are being tricked. That people do not realize this and continue to fall for these movements tell me that we failed to equip my generation with the skepticism that results in critical thinking skills.
there's significant movement in the platforms, fwiw. 6d is one example. https://www.6d.ai/
I just wish people who are anti-scooter would interrogate their own opposition and understand its true genesis. It's not road safety. Road injuries are almost exclusively due, in various ways, to cars. So what is it, really, that's bothering them?
Fears of 'Chernobyl on ice' as Russia prepares floating nuclear plant
yeah thanx, theres a dangling turd on the end of the link, and now it cant be removed by me.

the ] #comment-6169705 [ part has to go...
You've got it understandably wrong as it's actually made up of grown adults but acting as if they were 13 year olds. It's an important difference if you think about it.
For me the exact opposite. When did I last even go on facebook? Probably over 10 months ago.
References to third party websites that can break. HTML is a living spec, so browsers can decide to break things that work today (as happened with Marquee for eg).

Even if you disallow JS entirely, and stick with just HTML/CSS, it has enough warts to not look and behave consistently over time.
Yes, I think this guy Myhrvold (who got rich managing some smart scientists at MS) owns a patent trolling business and slapped a patent on it, so nobody else can make and sell a mosquito laser cannon. The devil incarnate, apparently.
This was exactly my reaction: I love my island, and I think the kids would eat there every meal if I didn't like to make a sit-down meal now and then. I've never found that the island acted as a stage, or that it interfered with my convenient triangle of sink-counter-stove.

I don't know what kind of poppycock this is trying to be, but there is no excuse for it.
fd: A simple, fast, user-friendly alternative to 'find'
How is it removing consumer choice to ask for their consent?
StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
I'd be curious to know why your company specifically targets large-market crawlers like that, instead of just making things crawlable. It feels like leaving money on the table when you overfit your stack to one market.

It's a shame you find it "tiresome" when people insist on retaining their own opinions, but your exhaustion is not particularly relevant.
I think they do discount the future in comparison to today. Yes not actively but it's all an intuitive response to whatever they view as important.
Why are you okay with taxpayer-supported boondoggles that create jobs? Just cut out the middleman and redistribute the money directly.
So many myths. In order:

"Overall rates of psychiatric disorder are almost identical for men and women" - https://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/genderwomen/en/

"Women are just as likely as men to develop a substance use disorder". - Anthony JC, Warner LA, Kessler RC. Comparative epidemiology of dependence on tobacco, alcohol, controlled substances, and inhalants

"But when subsequent surveys asked who struck first, it turned out that women were as likely as men to initiate violence—a finding confirmed by more than 200 studies of intimate violence" - https://web.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

The only wholy true points is that men tend to be more likely veterans, for which accounts for 10% of the homeless, and more likely criminals, but the majority of offenses for which they are arrested are for public intoxication, followed by theft/shoplifting, violation of city ordinances, and burglary.

"The findings challenge the depiction of homeless men as serious predatory criminals, and suggest a number of theoretical and policy implications." - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3096817?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
Somewhat unrelated to this particular bit, but I'm kind of growing tired of RISC-V news at this point. You can only promise the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to people for so long before they lose interest. I've been reading these news for what 3-4 years now? And yet, there's still no practical way to use any of this with my platform of choice (Linux). There's a $1K prototype board and that's it. There's also an Arduino-like board that costs more than the latest Raspberry Pi 4.

In the meanwhile I can buy a $100 quad core ARM board with a CUDA capable GPU onboard and 4GB of RAM. Proprietary? Sure. But it's 1/10th the price, several times faster, and it's available in any quantity right now.

Real artists ship, not just go to conferences and discuss how glorious their ISA is going to be in 10 years when they get around to actually getting something out the door.
Facebook pages are a dead channel. Basically, facebook chokes and monetizee every channel that brings traffic. Next up is groups.
I learnt regex when I started with PHP in the 2000s and subsequently when I learned Perl. When I started studying copmuter science at the university, I was supper baffled that there is a full theory of regular expressions: The one of a regular (formal) language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language).

I recommend everybody who's interested in "looking behind the curtains" of regexp, their powers and limitations, to dive in a crash course of formal languages (Chomsky hierarchy). It can be useful to gain a feeling what a regexp can do and what it cannot.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01673.pdf

> The photon-drag effect, the rectified current in a medium induced by conservation of momentum of absorbed or redirected light, is a unique probe of the detailed mechanisms underlying radiation pressure. We revisit this effect in gold, a canonical Drude metal. We discover that the signal for p- polarized illumination in ambient air is affected in both sign and magnitude by adsorbed molecules, opening previous measurements for reinterpretation. Further, we show that the intrinsic sign of the photon-drag effect is contrary to the prevailing intuitive model of direct momentum transfer to free electrons.
> The site that embeds the like icon is sending absolutely nothing to Facebook. The user's browser is the one sending information.

Sites run both on the server and on the browser. Are you saying JavaScript is not part of the site?
Sure, will enhance it as you suggest. I also believe it has something to do with the component that I am using to render the images. I will investigate both possibilities. Thanks for the advice.
>The Server package contains the Register function. Main package implements the QueryUser function that does the work of querying the DB. When Main calls Server.Register to register the function with Server, it sends the function name (QueryUser) and..something else? Is that the memory address of QueryUser on my computer? And when Server actually runs the function, it's just pointing to QueryUser at the memory address given to it by Main?

This is correct, let me unpack this a little more.

The 'Register' function tells the server object that when a client tries to call the function "QueryUser" call the function passed as the second parameter and send back the result.

the client object's "CallRPC" functions tells the client object that i know that there is a function called "QueryUser" that the server know about and it has the same structure as the second parameter, when i call the second parameter, call the server with the arguments passed. The client object then creates a stub implementation which when called, creates a connection to the server, tell the server to call the function "QueryUser" with the given parameters, reads the results and returns the result.

The "Remote" part of RPC is done over the transport package which the main function is mostly unaware of.
> Bing and DuckDuckGo are the same thing. DDG uses Bing's API (for non bang searches).

This is not, and has never been, true. Why do people like you keep saying it?
I've always been dubious of using mock for tests which involve external API calls; at best they require you to reimplement the API according to the documentation (which there may be none, or that the API doesn't follow exactly for edge cases (i.e. the things you're meant to be testing)). At worst you're implementing a very small subset of the behaviour of the API and not testing how your code responds to the other behaviour. But I haven't come across other solutions (not that I have that a heap of experience here, just contributions to a couple of oss projects).
For those curious, the spike in National Security takedown requests in 2016-2017 seems to have been largely driven by requests from the Russian government (which have since petered out), not the United States.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by...

Somewhat interestingly, the biggest takedown requests in the U.S. seems to be due defamation lawsuits, and they come from the judicial (not executive) branch.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by...

Not sure what to make of this; but it's interesting. :)
You know, if a resume came my way that was in comic sans I’d definitely read it, thinking “here’s a wiseass who’s confident in their abilities. I’d probably like working with them.”
Many sites who just don't want to deal with the regulation will simply not offer anything from a 3rd party on their site. That is least risky approach and most businesses paying attention will do that.
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We have not yet eradicated polio globally. This year has actually been a setback in number of cases:

http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/
It's against Facebook's terms:

> 8. You must not use or make derivative use of Facebook icons, or use terms for Facebook features and functionality, if such use could confuse users into thinking that the reference is to Facebook features or functionality.

We know that Facebook uses that paragraph against alternative like buttons.
Many years ago German computer magazine publisher Heise created a version of the like button that works like this: The button is initially greyed out and has to be activated by a slide button to be used. Communication with Facebook's servers starts only when the button is activated.

After threats from Facebook Heise had to change the look of the initial button so that is has none of the Facebook branding. Only the dynamically loaded original Facebook button looks like Facebook like button. [1]

Link to the original alternative like button project in German is [2]. An fork with English documentation is [3].

EDIT: Their current branding guidelines for the "thumb icon" [4] say:

> Do link the Thumb Icon directly to your Page on Facebook when using the Thumb Icon online.

So a thumb icon linking to your page should be OK.

EDIT 2: The branding guideline also says:

> Don't use an outlined thumb with the cuff detached.

So you can use the "Thumb Icon" but not in a way that replicates the current original Facebook like button because that one is outlined and has the cuff detached.

BTW this is exactly what Privacy Badger does: It replaces the original Facebook Like Button (cuff detached) with the thumb icon from the official assets (cuff connected).

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-website-creates-two-cli...

[2] https://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/

[3] https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

[4] https://en.facebookbrand.com/assets/thumb-icon/?audience=lan...
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And they will be suing for what? For attempting to send more people to facebook? What's the damage?

Facebook has no right to have their arbitrary code on other people's websites. So they can't force any specific way to show their button. From the end user's perspective it's all the same.
The problem I have with learning regex is similar to the above. It's easy enough to (re)learn when you need it and it doesn't come up often enough for me to consider actually learning it as being useful.
> Are you genuinely asking me to explain the difference between SMTP and Facebook.com?

Of course not. I'm asking you what the legal difference is between the GitHub we have today and your desktop running a hypothetical distributed federated GitHub.

If your computer takes part in the hosting of some illegal content, wouldn't you be held liable like GitHub is here?
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a side effect of the ruling is that now facebook is NOT liable for that consent, and google is not liable for analytics / adsense. Will the EU start going after the little guys now?
The execution of the Javascript does not occur on the company's resources. It occurs on the visitors computer, over their own Internet connection. Both which are in their full control.
It does look like a miniature version of the platonic ideal laptop form, which is appealing, but the Psion 5 design was more practical since it didn't tip over backwards when you poked it with the stylus. :)
For my CV I am right now using Merriweather that comes stock with Tetex on Debian.
> Or are you saying that people want these restrictions to be rolled back?

This.

As far as I am aware, the NRA is now believes people should be able to own fully automatic weapons although that wasn't always their position.

(And they obviously are against restrictions on semiautomatic weapons since their California division had sued the government about them.)
How does disabling ALSR help performance?
I've never memorized any regex. It's so syntax dense without many intuitive characters. Not sure this is a problem. They're basically write only. Please always comment beside regexes what they intend on doing.
Libgen is not just "academic" books. Every single commercial textbook and programming book, for example, is on there. Many of those authors do in fact engage in those multiple-year-long writing projects in the expectation of remuneration. Do you think no O'Reilly author wants royalties? Some of these people are literally professional writers. I don't think they'd appreciate you informing the world that you don't have to "feel guilt for pirating them".

Scihub is completely different from Libgen in terms of ethics. No academic has ever written a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal because they were going to get paid for it. There is nothing whatsoever ethically problematic in accessing Elsevier's content on Scihub. Those journal articles should be free to the world, not least because the reasearch is often paid for by public funds.

Do not confuse what I'm saying. I am not saying that I think Libgen is a bad thing. I am saying it is a difficult area from a moral/ethical/economic point of view. Scihub and Libgen are the most fantastic libraries the world has ever known. Literally. It seems pretty clear that making them available to someone in rural Angola is a good thing to do. I work in a highly developed country and it's slightly less clear that the anarchy should extend to benefit me, but honestly I'm happy that it does.
No no, a Byzantine punishment would be to get her daughter an early Linux smartphone running a stripped down distribution of X-Windows and a primordial version of Netscape Navigator, without emacs or vi, so she has to look up her phone numbers using grep in xterm.
if you use windows (or linux with wine) you can write self-contained apps using Autohotkey. It's free from autohotkey.com. It's usually advertised as a macro-recorder which it also does.
Human-powered flight has been a thing since the 1930s! The earliest craft were only barely capable of unassisted takeoffs, but they made some surprising sustained flights after an assisted start. By the 60s, they were making real flights after unassisted takeoffs, and the 70s saw them with low-enough power consuption to complete turns and cross-country flights. Now we even have human-powered helicopters!
If you're trying to project the future of the Middle East based solely off of knowledge of the last 20 years, you are very well out of your depth. The Middle East is a region of immense history--we can count back over 5000 years of recorded history--and people can nurse grievances accumulated over that span of time, especially as they are emphasized and deemphasized in mythmaking.

Ever since the rise of nationalism in the Long 19th Century, and the collapse of the multiethnic empires that ended it, the ability to forge a common national identity has been the key to state survival. There is no hard and fast guideline to how to do so, and so it can be perplexing as to why Languedocs and Bretons can feel affinity in a French state whereas Serbs and Croats cannot feel affinity in a Yugoslav state--especially since, I will note, the first two groups do not speak the same language (at least, pre-French Revolution) but the latter two do!
It’s not just the commercials. Too many hotel TVs are horrible calibrated. Especially the LGs. They all have the soap opera effect and no way to turn it off without Googling trying to find the right Konami code.

Luckily I have unlimited data on both my phone and iPad.
Benchmarking is hard -- I've spent far more time investigating it then I ever wanted to. Much of the advice in this article matches the advice I give when people are foolish enough to ask me (though CPU pinning can have very odd results for systems which expect to use all of a CPU's cores). However, there are two related points where I respectfully disagree with the author: disabling ASLR is probably not a good idea for most people; and using minimum values is almost never a good idea. Ultimately, the traditional idea that programs have a single performance number doesn't generally hold true on modern systems: one needs to accept that programs have a set of performance numbers. The Stabilizer paper [1] does a very good job of articulating this, IMHO, and does so particularly in the context of ASLR. As soon as you accept the idea that programs don't have a single performance point, it then becomes fairly clear that the best way to get a good idea of a program's performance is to run it as many times as possible and compute some basic statistics over that. ASLR is one aspect where simply running a program enough times gives you some idea of the overall performance of the program. Some modern benchmarking tools make calculating reasonable statistics fairly painless (e.g. things like Criterion for Rust). But, overall, this is still a painful area and there's a lot of work we could do to make life easier for people measuring software IMHO.

[1] http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/stabilizer-asplos13.pdf
This article is about a TV soap opera, and it might have been more obvious (and saved me a click) had the submitter not pointlessly altered the capitalization of the headline.
> We don't need an authoritarian government to make these decisions for us.

Yeah man, just like people self-regulated to only drive at safe speeds, always wear seat belts, not hand over money to scammers.

Pray tell, how is the EU authoritarian? You do know that every EU government members is elected, either directly or indirectly, by the EU citizens, right?
I find the naming of this library confusing and almost clickbait. I don't see any kind of Functor (object?) in the API, furthermore what the heck is "flowing"? Seems like a copycat to "TensorFlow".

A better suited name which encodes the core feature, "installationless helper routines", could really help this library to become actually recognized for what it can provide.

Here's another comment about the API: I would prefer a syntax like

f.name_of_function(args)

instead of

f("name-of-function", args)

The syntactic sugar variant is easy to obtain with Python and has the advantage of much better readability.
The whole bloody point of the bureaucracy and institutions is to not care about the day to day politics and get the job done. That is why they have their protection and civil service exams.

The fact it is being treated as relevant is deeply wrong and corrupt.
TV shows and movies love kitchen islands because because you can have people moving around while interacting and the camera moving around them.

The article is not about interior design per se though, it is about characters in the HBO TV series "Big Little Lies", characterized through their homes. If you haven't seen the show the article probably makes little sense.
I honestly wouldn't mind a minimal feature super lightweight long battery life cell phone most of the time. Basically phone calls and SMS.
People don’t complain about specific twink characters, they complain about the rules that allow that.
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I know people will often point to revenue being relatively stable so it shouldn't worry the OEM but that's actually misleading.

It's like when you raised the price by 100% but selling only 50% of the supply. Yes the revenue is the same but you're losing mind shares and services that comes along with the volume. The brand loyalty goes down as well.
Another area this would be interesting to do more research would be agoraphobes, and/or people who stay in their bedrooms playing video games all day long. Wonder what the reward terrain would be like from their perspective.
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the Chomsky hierarchy isn't the actual relevant hierarchy for formal languages - it's the polynomial complexity hierarchy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_hierarchy
There have always been ads targeted at children - in the 70s and 80s they were shows like Super friends, Transformers, and GI Joe. The entire point of the Transformers movie in the 80s was to kill off all of the Autobots to introduce a new line of toys.
I think GDPR requires website owner to inform users what exactly is being processed and by who. The problem for website owners is that Facebook won't really tell what data they process and who will they share it with or they do not seem to allow to revoke consent.
Agreed - open body-hacking projects are amazing feats of community and perseverance, but the systemic cost and access issues that plague high-end medicine will persist until they’re addressed systemically.
I support that too, but that seems less politically feasible, and it has largely the same effect.
@oblio I self regulate on all those things. I don't need some bureaucrat in an ivory tower to do it for me at the threat of punishment (fines and/or cages) for not doing it. You're just a common bootlicker.
OK but parent was tslking about the kind of books i m talking about - Not O’Reilly books but springer books that are usually unpaid collections of reviews. They are usually very expensive and bundled with journals in library subscriptions
Right, yes, That’s what I meant: it’s advantageous for fascist agitators to encourage traditional repressive masculinity for the reasons you outline. Being susceptible to it makes you useful to fascists.
Less dead people is better then more dead people regardless of how you would look at this.
Mocking inputs from APIs is actually great if someone besides the original developer picks up the codebase, whether from a system or even down to isolated function stubs. This is because it gives insight into the expected inputs the original developer(s) had been expecting and can elucidate the source under test.

Integration tests fill the hole you're pointing out. You can even have integration tests designed to validate the mock inputs in many cases.
Nobody? What about 1B Chinese?
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