skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was vulgar, but there were no threats made, and this was to a public figure who enjoys controversy.

I'm very surprised this is called "hateful conduct". It's merely vulgar.
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4.5 to 5.5 hours sounds ridiculously low. I thought humans need at least 8 hours of sleep to function well? Have you tried sleeping for longer and if you did, what difference did it make to your wellbeing?
That would depend on your perspective and your own experiences, I expect.

I found the moderated sci.* and comp.* groups more pleasant for asking questions and giving answers. The alt.* hierarchy had its moments, but mostly it was an exercise in tolerance. Some groups were largely self-moderating, others had such a poor SNR that there was no point putting the time in.

The RIAA/MPAA/BSA raids were only really relevant if you were into pirating copyrighted material.
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This is the most beautiful and tragic thing I have read all day. Is there a reputable place to donate?
Money down 3 months later:

1) the gateway or more likely something behind it starts crashing for memory errors when someone is serializing some stupidly large array into it

2) using ordered vs non-ordered keys on input changes the behavior and fixes it

3) enabling this checkbox to prevent it fixes the issue and guards against it happening again

4) everyone has forgotten about this web weenies inquiry into the issue

5) due to #4, it takes like 3 weeks of system crashes and hairy debugging to find the cause

6) this guy is long gone, having ridden off into the sunset of smugness

Also:

1) fixing the serialization-dependent memory allocation 4 layers deep on the back-end to allow things to operate safely without this checkbox requires a complex change to several other components and associated system-wide validation testing which would take: drumroll "9 people 6 months to complete"

2) What is the point of this javadoc reference and how exactly does it relate to the issue at hand? Here's a random code doc reference too!: https://pymotw.com/3/collections/ordereddict.html and here also a discussion about impacts: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/...
You're missing the obvious solution ... not being authoritarian vile people that censor what others legally say and do in public.

It has been disconcerting to me for a long time now, even back when I was told that I do not know how the internet works when I foresaw the very outcome we are currently in, back about 20 years ago now. What has really happened here, is a kind of fascism (the alignment of state and industry) not by the grass roots so much as it was approached in the past, but through a top down consolidation, concentration, and now ever increasing and tightening control over all aspects and manners of freedom and liberty, under the guise of doing things for others' best interests, which of course always align more closely with the interests of the power seeking than the blissfully unaware recipients of this benevolent good intention of the power hungry.

I do not foresee a positive future at this point, because the very mindset of the trend curve has solidly crossed with the power broker curve, and there is ever weaning realization that the only way to resolve these matters in anything but a violent manner is that everyone be allowed the God given rights that the US Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) prohibits the government from violating.

Those include free speech and assembly (of any kind, regardless of whether you agree with it), freedom to arms to protect yourself from the very government mob that demands to take the right to protect yourself from it (it's a self-fulfilling and self-validating argument that is rather genius), and other inalienable rights that are innate to actual Americans (and anyone who were to adopt the same) and God given (which you presumably should not and do not prescribe to if you do not believe in God from which they are unavoidably and declaratively derived) that are not necessary to be listed here for reasons of brevity and their only tangential relation to the topic.

It has always surprised me, and it is one of the most interesting questions for me, how that a presumably extremely logical and systematic cohort of humans as the ones assembled in this forum, would seemingly lack any semblance of a capacity to understand the consequences of making fundamental changes to a system, in what appears to be some bizarre and inverted assumption that no change to a system will in any way result in negative outcomes. Unless of course the very prime assumption is a desire to sabotage the system, whether you are a knowing and willing participant, or just a placed saboteur ... a rube, not in any way understanding that he was placed to spread his negative impact on the system from within.
Back in the day, I created an AOL password with CTRL-BACKSPACE in it. It worked when using the AOL software but when I tried to log into the website, it deleted the password.
it certainly seems like a farfetched bandaid for a very inefficient food source (no matter how you view it)
>there are some ideas that don't deserve a seat at the table

Is it possible to enumerate the set of all ideas that cannot be expressed, and if so, how do you enumerate this set, and who has the power to determine the members of this set?

Advocating that someone should have their child drink bleach to cure their autism is a despicable act, and is likely criminal after the fact, but that's the difference here - it's criminal after someone takes action on it.

Quoting Justice Brandeis from Whitney v. California:

>Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. To justify suppression of free speech, there must be reasonable ground to fear that serious evil will result if free speech is practiced. There must be reasonable ground to believe that the danger apprehended is imminent. There must be reasonable ground to believe that the evil to be prevented is a serious one. [...] If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
The linked page hardly says anything.

The actual change log: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.1
On the other hand, the reason Corellium is making a profit here is exactly because Apple's ToS exclude legitimate uses.
Hong Kong and the greater area around it has its own identify as well. That is, they are mainly Cantonese Chinese, a sub-culture, complete with their own dialect and variation of the writing system, plus their own takes on Chinese culture. Especially in Hong Kong where it's been better preserved because they skipped the Cultural Revolution and other influences from the CCP, taking the good parts from the British instead. The cultural differences are quite visible.

Perhaps it's luck that the British carved out Hong Kong, because if they didn't, the Cantonese would have probably been assimilated in to Mandarin by now.
So who do you propose gets to spoonfeed the masses with their okayed content?

That is a terrifying argument.
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It's probably a testament to the scope of the build + test that makes it four hours. If it were faster, would the scope tend to increase in order to hit more tiers/more tests?

I'd rather my commit sit in a test queue for several hours than push and cross my fingers like LLVM does it.
A React application gets applied to a certain DOM element. Inside of that application are multiple layers of containing elements that handle things like routing or processing different events on existing DOM elements or triggered remote calls.

If you add redux and something like redux-form you end up with sending each keyup event to the redux store and re-rendering your input fields from that store.

So yes the JSX at the very bottom of your software tree is pretty much like HTML, but it takes a whole lot of engineering to get there and variables get pushed through many layers before they reach the final JSX in which they are rendered.

Some of this has to do with how you implement your application, but in general getting from input to output takes more steps than it does with a server side rendering framework.

This is fine when building something like a mobile application or an off-line-ready application like devdocs.io, but if you use a React application in front of some back-end you are just getting HTML in return for all your engineering efforts. If HTML with a few interactions is all you are after there is too much code and too many layers between the page that has your `<div id='myapp' />` and what you get after React is done rendering.
Yeah, I tried @askpaypal, will try again.
One also needs to consider that the HK people are traditionally apolitical. So the 2m figure really sent a huge shockwave across the board.

And only then, the government started to realise that they have screwed up badly.
Regarding 1, many western countries developed their democratic system when their populations were largely agrarian. In those cases however many of the people with money or political power (who were the first to be given a vote) were also spread throughout the countryside and that is probably not the case in China.
Have you heard of the Federalist papers?

Sybil attacks are a consequence of anonymity combined with low cost of identity creation, and inability to distinguish between different identities.

The fix for Sybil attacks generally involves making identity creation more expensive, or providing a means for distinguishing more valuable identities. On HN, for instance, the karma score is one such mechanism.

These systems can work without removing anonymity.

And I never said anonymity was easy or without trade-offs.
One of the things I like to do when half in the bag in a bar and blagging to a new friend is to say,

"Look - pick a direction - any direction - and tell me what you see."

And what they see is plastic and metal and bar bottles with paint on them and more plastic and all the detritus of human society.

And every piece of it, as far as the eye can see!, will be garbage in 6 months to 20 years and sit on the ground and leech poisons into the Earth and nothing will grow from it.

Every.

Single.

Piece.

We, as human beans, have broken the cycle of life and death where something grows, flowers, dies, rots and something else grows and flowers. This idea that we can make a new shiny thing that will become more garbage to fix all our problems so we can keep eating more isn't going to change that.

The solution is that we simply have to do with less. And people will kill each other before they admit that.

It's already starting to happen now.
you don't seem to know that there is a non-financial use of the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_labor_arbitrage
I’m confused. What technology did twitter replace? Oh it didn’t? This is completely new, the ability to communicate to this many people at once? Okay so what ancient rights are being trampled exactly? If anything we probably need to be censoring people on Twitter right now as it doesn’t seem to convince anyone of anything other than that the people on the other-side of their argument are sub-human.

Edit:

Also, it always riles me up when someone refers to social media as a “main communication” provider. What fraction of the population gets its political discourse off of Twitter?
Time to pull a Radiohead and delete all your tweets overnight.
> altruism

Some of the worst human beings I've ever encountered were also extremely talented and intelligent engineers. There is zero reason to assume a hyperintelligent AI would automatically be altruistic.
Excessively large effect sizes are a warning sign in and of themselves. A good article on this is here: [0] -- simply if the effect is too huge, it becomes incumbent on the researcher to explain why no-one has noticed this before. Methane is a gas with a distinct and noticeable smell. Seaweed is plentiful in many places cows are kept. If the effect was really as dramatic as claimed you'd expect that it'd be well known that letting cows eat seaweed made them less smelly, and the authors of the original study make no attempt to explain why this might be the case.

0: http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-j...
Depends on where you live. In West Virginia? No, it's almost all coal based.

In Vermont? Yes, their grid is 100% renewable.

Source: https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html
I’ll put in a vote for Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla. I knew very little other than “Tesla == weird genius”, and the book gave me a much deeper view of his work, from trying to run power through the ground to building drone boats.
I am about 50 years old. Planting trees scales for at least 50 years. Something on the order of 1000 trees will offset the entire footprint of a upper-middle class non-jetsetter (eats meat, travels 2-4 times per year, car, modest house).

There are a lot of technology promises on the horizon that will hopefully solve the next inflection point, but that's not my climate crisis, it will be the next generation. Hopefully by then the human race will have developed fusion or other energy technologies.
Or be killed by the nearest organized group which tired of them.
"Smooth, monochromatic walls do exist and it's imperative a car be able to avoid them."

Aren't those the types of walls, barriers, truck behinds that tesla's keep ramming into? :S
> I've seen reports from journalists who have tried following those diets saying they were constantly hungry.

This is the inherent problem of journalism - they need sensational results, otherwise the majority of folks wouldn't be bothered to read their journalism.

My 2 cents on this topic: I'm 10+ years vegan and everything is good, it's just no clickbait-worthy story...
I make U$7.5K/year as a Vue developer in Brazil. There will be always someone in worse situation than yours, if you go down that road.
> My point is this: if all these frameworks were so great, why do we keep running to the latest new one?

If last years processors were so great...

If steam engines were so great...

If the wheel was so great...

Honestly I don't even know why we bothered inventing fire
It's all about the security of the OS.

Apple is depending on privacy and security to be a key differentiator with other phones, tablets and computers. Especially as the markets for all three are slowing as new features are harder to invent.

This company undermines this by allowing anyone to find bugs whilst encouraging them to profit off it instead of working with Apple.
The UN report [1] says that if the world population switches to a fully plant-based diet by 2050, accounting for the expected growth in population, we would actually use less land and less water as we do now. So we could in terms of land and water use. Or do you mean some other reason why this would be impossible?

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/4.-SPM_Appro...
Sure, I get that. What I'm saying is -- if you prefer to keep things simple and use server rendering, using server rendering alone with React (no routing, Redux, etc) is pretty much identical to using templates.

You can treat React itself as a single-pass server template engine with component support. You don't have to bring all of this single-page app stuff into it. Hope that explains my point. You don't even have to run React on the client at all.

I'm specifically talking about ReactDOMServer.renderToString() on the server and serving that HTML. Not "mounting into a <div>" client use case.
Is the point of this article supposed to be "Humans grow, so leave the vile stuff I said when I hadn't grown as much around for more and more people can see that I said it?"

IMHO the fact that the biggest font in this article is used to reprint the reprehensible statement is a clue that this author is actually resisting growth by implying what he said isn't actually that bad, and twitter should keep showing it to more strangers. Real growth would look like deleting the tweet yourself and looking for traces of it in your current language!
I don't think it really addresses the complaints in the article, though. The main complaint wasn't that the proceeds go to Google, it's that the premise of an auction naturally favors profit-focused search engines. I think it's a valid problem, and the only ways to counter it have to use a ranking that doesn't involve money.
The Ministry of Truth has coercive power. They can arrest you, jail you, torture you, or kill you -- legally -- for the content of your thought and speech.

Private sector actors cannot do that.
I don’t understand your point? I need to have a bunch of extra commercial relationships with companies that I previously didn’t for the same services I previously had. Just to watch maybe 5 more games that I care about.
well, looks like they caught him. /s

What a one-sided hit piece.
One thing I always wonder about is that people claim that solving climate change requires us to go back to the middle ages. This isn't correct at all. Electric cars exist. Cheap renewables exist. As we invest more into reducing CO2 emissions we gain more headroom for further inventions that make us independent from fossil fuels. The problem is that we don't make enough of these investments. Trump decided to support coal instead and Germany slowed down it's expansion of renewables.
I see this attitude a lot in discussions about online harassment. Somehow we're supposed to believe that offensive behavior is a faceless, unaccountable force of nature, but the reactions of its targets are a matter of personal responsibility and character. I don't see how that adds up.
> In recent years I’ve been using an open source, federated alternative to Twitter that uses a protocol called ActivityPub. I run my own server for myself and my friends. People on my server can communicate with other servers that support ActivityPub, similar to e-mail. If people on my server don’t like the way I manage it, they can always export their content and start their own, or transfer to someone else’s server.

Twitter is a for-profit company offering a product (its customers) to advertisers. As such, they get to delete any content whatsoever, regardless of the reason. They happen to be using a policy that will cause some accounts to be locked. This is going to get a lot worse because advertisers loath anything that doesn't conform.

Twitter and Facebook aren't the problem - they're symptoms of the terrible, low-hanging monetization fruit on today's web.

There are solutions. One is to stop criticizing Twitter for being beholden to its advertisers and instead build/participate in censorship-resistant platforms.

That's going to result in loss of reach, at least for a time. Then again, so does getting blocked.
>>Visual cameras are crap at night.

Mitigated somewhat with headlights
What would you say is the difference? Isn't guilt just a form of shame that is consciously acknowledged?
Blender would give Maya a real run for its money if it had an API.
I agree that technology isn't progressing "faster and faster," but GDP doesn't measure technological progress. That is absurd. It doesn't even measure economic growth very well, and even if it did that wouldn't mean technological progress would track it. Technological progress can happen even during a recession, and often has.

GDP measures the value of monetized final goods in an economy. Linux and Wikipedia have thus reduced the GDP, because they displaced a huge chunk of existing markets that used to be monetized.

GDP is useful for monetary policy conducted at central banks, primarily.
I always felt like this meant that google dodged a bullet. Not being entitled is perhaps the most important thing I want when hiring. I really don't see why developing homebrew should guarantee a job at google.
My account has been locked because I ... used Twitter.
I was rarely Tweeting, almost only RT/liking other Tweet. But one day, I started to have a discussion with another user regarding a subject that I was a bit knowledgeable about, and after something like 10 tweets in maybe 20+ minutes my account just got locked for "suspicious activity".

Twitter was asking for a phone number to unlock the account. And since I never gave them my phone number, any number could have work. Which mean that if somebody really hijacked my account to spam, they could have just definitely take it for themselves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
I saw this as what it was: just a attempt at taking even more personal data from me.

I never unlocked the account and I don't use Twitter anymore. And honestly, it has been great. Twitter is just full of people talking about thinks they don't have any knowledge about, overly emotional reaction and everybody trying to be more extreme than the other. Even when being very careful about who you follow, you are not protected since Twitter started to display Tweet from the people followed by the people you followed randomly.
Honestly I don't get the slant from the article. "Loyal customers" of an insurance company and "insurance fraud" don't mix.

Maybe I should read the article instead of just comments here...
Norway just happens to have a ton of oil money and a tiny population, whenever they get mentioned as an example for the rest of the world I can't help but laugh.
Perhaps a better title should be phrased like that the studio producing Rebuild of Evangelion is moving to blender.
I don't agree. Wartime cartoons are vile yet we rarely censor them because of the historical value.

I do think that going back a decade with an algorithm and getting people to clean up tweets that likely match a regex filter is whitewashing and it does make twitter a less valuable historical resource. It's a totally different argument from the normal you should be able to say what you want - because I would support censorship of such tweets in the present.
PCI regulations are weak and do little to cover the majority of threats.
Well, the fact that this has so many upvotes, sort of contradicts you. Some portion of people (maybe 15 or 20)% had brand-trust in amazon that their "choice" products were a service to the purchaser.

With that disproven, those same people (presumably the ones who were most trusting of Amazon) now have been bitten and are forced to reevaluate Amazon's honesty and Amazon's reputability. I imagine those upvoting this topic are the very 10-15% who find this behavior shocking and potentially self-destructive of amazon.