skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious why you’re being censored. Are you a fiscal conservative, or a social conservative?

Because I have a bunch of fiscal conservatives on my Facebook and the only thing they post about is monetary policy. Nothing about abortions, marriage, immigration, or policing - the things social conservatives tend to drive themselves red in the face with.

It might be worth examining your own discourse to understand why you were being censored (or felt you were being censored). I’m not saying you’re doing anything wrong, I’m just wondering if you’ve ever reflected on what you post and how people react to it.
This assumes the --option=value syntax which while a de-facto standard on Unix-like systems is unfortunately not supported by all programs.

I agree that system() (in C and other langues that simply copied it) is a bad API. For shell escaping a command to start a process with a list of arguments would be enough, and even POSIX C has you covered there with vararg and array variants. [1]

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html (or fork() + exec())
I love the list of vowel-heavy words. You can also construct some similar words in Dutch. Or at least you used to before 1996, when a spelling change introduced hyphens into many of these:

zeeëend - sea duck, or Velvet scoter (nowadays "zee-eend")
koeieuier - cow udder (nowadays "koeienuier")
zaaiuien - seed onions (still legal I think)
kraaieëieren - crow eggs (nowadays kraaieneieren, I think)

We also have the opposite:

angstschreeuw - cry of fear
slechtstschrijvend - worst writing

These are fairly normal words. With a bit of creativity, you can make some that are much worse:

borsjtsjschrokkende - borscht gorging
haaiaaioorkonde - shark petting certificate
weggooiooien - throw-away ewes
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058107
Influencing people is vastly underestimated.
"It would be best if cold, hard facts were enough" : I think that's the major problem with climate change. We don't observe anything out of the ordinary yet, climate change institutions are trying to warn people based on very complex simulations. You can call simulations cold hard facts, but i think that would be a stretch.

The general audience prefer to focus on problems we're having right at the moment.
well i guess that's it then. no problem solving to be done here, let's just continue on with a system that produces mountains of unnecessary waste, and keep our best minds working on the next big Graze Box App But For Dogs
I'm sorry, thanks for reminding me - done
No, nuclear is a poor complement to solar/wind. To complement solar/wind you want a source that has low capital cost and that can be ramped up and down quickly, to fill in gaps. This is pretty much the opposite of what nuclear is.
So spoiling the environment for everyone should be free?
I think the point is to not put one's hopes on the natural tendencies of any system, but to apply "judicious foresight," to borrow the phrase from J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy.

" Mechanical inventions... have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish. Only when, in addition to just institutions, the increase of mankind shall be under the deliberate guidance of judicious foresight, can the conquests made from the powers of nature by the intellect and energy of scientific discoverers become the common property of the species, and the means of improving and elevating the universal lot..."
She's a puppet mouthpiece for the climate catastrophist crowd. This is no different than wailing "think of the children!" So, yes, I have only negative things to say about her.
currently Malcolm Gladwell is doing sponsorship for Revisionist History by splicing episodes with mini 30-60sec advertorials in which he interviews AT&T Chief Marketing Officer about the awesomeness of AT&T's 5G. It's genius, because it comes across as

- informative

- non-spammy

and with the typical easy to digest Gladwellian narration.

What's egregious about it to my taste is that much like Gladwell's podcasts, it suggests to the audience that is simply the facts and totally fair, while all the questions are very much, "Is AT&T's 5G offering fantastic or awesome? And how long before I can use it?"

For someone literate in the topic it goes beyond the normal "don't let facts get in the way of a good story" that most podcasting falls into and you can hear the AT&T ad guys writing the script. But for the average listener it is just smooth, easy listening that draws you in without you realizing it is paid advertising attempting to win you over for a financial goal.
What was?
Isn't technology supposed to make our lives better and solve problems? If skipping the ad manually is fine and defensible, then so is telling a machine to do it for you.

Frankly, I don't care whether people think it's defensible or not. If something's only purpose is to waste my time and sell me shit I don't need I will use every possible solution (whether technical, legal - GDPR complaints, etc - or else) to get rid of it and make my life better.

Maybe instead of thinking whether blocking/skipping ads is defensible, we should ask ourselves why as a society we are accepting having an industry whose only mission is to waste as much of humanity's time as possible while manipulating them to do things against their best interest?
or just dumped in a river
You're right, we should legalize murder and rape.

It's not like people are going to be less horny if we make raping illegal!
Today's Guardian has a piece [1] on Firefox's DNS over HTTP and how Mozilla has no plans yet to make it the default in the UK. Most of the article is about how it breaks centralised web filtering, and has concerned-sounding quotes from child protection organisations. Probably a predictable slant for a general readership publication to take, but it is concerning that use of DoH might be being framed solely as enabling criminality. As someone who lives in the UK and who enabled it several months ago for privacy (anti-tracking) reasons, I'm going to have to keep an eye on this.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/24/firefox-n...
As far as I can tell, the reasoning is,

- The left-wing hates prosperity (and freedom).

- Prosperity comes from coal, oil, and cutting down forests to make cattle ranches. Freedom comes from buying weapons with the profits.

- Climate scientists/advocates say we have to scale back the coal, oil and forest bits, or we're flirting with extinction-level risks.

- Ergo, climate scientists/advocates are left-wing.
Clear your memory? No way. There’s hundreds of hours of work in those programs.

Anyway, I think my school figured that if you were smart enough to write those programs you would be smart enough to figure out the solution.
>Why is caring about climate left-wing?

It isn't. Why is it percieved as left-wing? Because President Reagan and business lobbyists pushed hard to associate climate science with a "big government, pro-regulation, anti-business" (in other words, "left-wing" according to their propaganda) agenda[0].

Also likely IMO because of associations between environmentalism, feminism and the left-wing hippie movement of the 1960s.

[0]https://www.vox.com/2017/4/22/15377964/republicans-environme...
Good old feudalism, we need to bring it back.
Not Clinton, he's the only pres under which the deficit fell since carter, although Obama had it somewhat under control in much of his last term.

https://zfacts.com/national-debt/

Deflation is falling prices inside your economy, as valued in your own currency. It's got nothing much to do with external exchange rates in other currencies.

Yes it makes stuff bought from abroad cheaper, but maybe your domestic economy doesn't compete in those goods? In which case who cares, you just get more stuff for less. It also means inputs into your own manufacturing from abroad are cheaper, so you can capture more value add.

Deflation is a problem only when it affects the economy as a whole, because it means wages get depressed and investment dries up, but it's usually an effect of those things as much as a cause. Individual goods getting cheaper happens all the time, and it's great. The entire computer industry is an example of a whole economic sector built on deflation.
I've had my Pi-Hole for a month now.

It's great, but many blocklists are bad. People often use https://firebog.net/ to get their blocklists, and use only those with a checkmark which are, quote, "least likely to interfere with browsing".

Bollocks, I've had to disable a few of the recommended ones, and adding manual whitelisted hosts because they were blocking legitimate sites (ocsp.apple.com), blocking Windows updates, blocking Instagram altogether!
hahahaha

the dilbert guy?
I have Pi Hole running on my LAN and it's amazing. Also helped me identify that my Amcrest PoE security cameras aggressively phone home, even when no cloud functionality is configured on them. All the reason to keep them on their own VLAN and off the Internet.
Use ctrl+b once to send commands to local Tmux server, twice to send commands to Tmux running on remote machine you SSH'ed in to. I think this can go on, in theory, but I did not test.
I've driven in almost all states of India. It's not anarchy. It's anarchy mixed with total contempt towards your own life and life of others.

You can see many times per day how they overpass other cars (sometimes even in 2-3 rows simultaneously: one car starts overpassing, then another starts overpassing first, then third..) just before a blind corner. You can witness several times per day how in the middle of the highway where average speed is about 100 km/h somebody may just make a U-turn without using indicators and passing the double solid line.

You can ride 100 kmph on a highway and then suddenly there's a truck or a bus or a motorcycle on your lane coming into you because the driver decided that waiting 2km for the next place where he can make a u-turn is too long.

If you drive even for one day in India you'll witness all these cases and more.

Statistics of deaths on the roads incidentally confirms this.
Thnx. No need to apologize. I am not a moderater.
I haven't logged into Twitter for years now. And at this point the only Twitter posts I read are Ms. Thunberg's. Much healthier this way.
But noone is forcing you to make software libre, with or without asking money for it.
I see her the same way I see parents who brings kids to various protests. I can see wanting to have your kids involved, but do they understand what you're standing for, or are you using them for your point?

Obviously she's older/a teenager, but this is still at it's core, an emotional draw. Has she authored papers and done the models? She's a spokeswoman. Even if the intent is different, it's still similar in means and effect to the Nayirah testimony.
> It's my understanding that some people are particularly sensitive to cursing and aggressive language

It depends on the country and culture too. Here in Scotland, swearing is basically part of the vernacular, especially if you're in informal terms with each other. For example, if I help out a friend, he might say "ta, you're a good cunt!", and it's a way of saying "thanks".
The problem is people are willing to pay for certain products with their attention, via ads, but not with money.

Given the choice of paying $1 for a podcast or pirating said podcast, sufficient number of people would not choose the first option to make it a viable business.
On the contrary I would say it's more defensible than other ad blockers. When blocking ads/analytics the potential advertiser sees that the ads reach just part of the audience. With audio blocking, advertiser has no feedback and only thing he an do is to guess how many people listen to the station. This blocking would have to become incredibly widespread to start matter.
What, will you refuse to help me if I call you in deep distress and said that "xcode command line tools is failing to update because of the nginx 503 errors clearly visible in Safari"
China has not been persuaded yet because they have not yet met Greta!
It would make sense to send her lecture the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, like she just did with so much success in front of the United Nations. I'm sure Xi Jinping would love to meet her one on one and hear her wisdom.
It doesn't matter if your opinion is right or wrong. You shouldn't use children as human shields for political agendas. The Hitler youth vibes coming from this are deeply unsettling. She looks exactly like the old propaganda photos.
Please don't.

Salem G. made a mistake in desiring to address a problem that is worth discussing, but did so with a hasty ill-conceived reaction constructed through gossip and hearsay. It shouldn't happen, but it does.

The various publications should have checked their facts and performed due diligence, but something, anything MIT related is money in the bank right now. They sold out.

Breaking down Salem for her mistake isn't going to help Free Software, rms, or the FSF, but reason and facts, and holding the publications accountable for their disinformation by correcting it, will.
Rationality Is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems
I would like to do the same. Maybe have a DNS server (pi-hole) on AWS and do a simple web ui where ui can log in and it whitelists your IP in the security group.
This is always their answer - whether it's about .NET vs .NET Core, Winforms vs WPF, ADO.NET vs EF, Webforms vs MVC, or even language features like "var" (remember that originally they would tell you to avoid 'var' unless you're dealing with Linq).

"The new thing isn't immediately going to replace the old thing going forward" and then it does.

(And it should. I just don't get why they're always tiptoeing around that same point.)
Yes exactly but you're reading too much into the intentions.

Lets say there's a tariff to encourage those little bags of screws that home depot sells to possibly come from the USA instead of China, or at least tax the Chinese because they do govt funded product dumping to make the market unfair. Really it doesn't matter why. The point is we want to discourage retail sales of Chinese screws for whatever reason, possibly even valid reasons.

Given the above... if I'm importing screws to build cars, and our govt likes domestic auto production, the govt doesn't want to screw me over with high screw taxes such that people buy Japanese cars instead. What they want is people at home depot not buying little bags of chinese screws, what they don't want is instead of "making" 1 cent of taxes on screws they'd lose 1 dollar of taxes on my electric cars because my cars would be too expensive compared to untaxed japanese cars or whatever.

So I apply for an exemption, but seeing as you don't employ me, so I'm gonna spec "M3-0.5 16 mm long SSHS grade 6 anti-corrosion finish screw". There's no point in me paying my lawyers to get an exemption for "screws" in general, just so that you don't have to pay for an exemption to import screws for your internet connected toaster. I mean, good luck with your internet connected toaster product... but pay for your own lawyers.

It is admittedly kinda silly to try to centrally control large scale industrial operations by taxing material components, why not do social control of operations directly by tax codes for electric car factories and internet connected toaster makers, but here we are doing tax code stuff on the parts that make those toasters or whatever.
All politics is emotion driven.
looking at the world today, the disintegration of liberal capitalism, the prevalence of the newer Chinese authoritarian model, populist leaders being elected across the globe, I see no tendency towards leaders of judicious foresight coming together to make much happen here.

i can think of no current leader who has judicious foresight about anything other than their own election prospects
How to create a progress bar with Python
Pretty good odds that the content you care about is in that 99.9%, so people would certainly notice except for those with such broad/pop tastes that they are easily satisfied with anything, which seems to be the only people you're talking about.
HN is looking rather bleak with people like you constantly trying to turn it into /r/politics, complete with the sub-IQ 80 leftist hot takes.
While Nim is a much better python, you cannot use python modules with Nim (pushing strings to a python interpreter does not count as such), so you need some man-years to build a reasonable software collection.

Haxe had another approach. Create a library and transpile it to be used with Lua/Python/ Java and other options.
Her speech didn't seem genuine to me at all. It looked rehearse and the content was banal. We need to work on climate change and we need to be more mindful about the environment. But this is like someone said down below, "emotional politics".
Yeah, I'm not sure if this is true, but I have the impression the error rates have increased in the last decades, despite spell-check becoming more effective at finding them at low cost.
Surely the implication is that what's inside is garbage. :P

Not at all. Even people that love them refer to them as trashcans. It's just a cute nickname, since Apple doesn't give their machines any other distinguishable names.
What's even worse is that customers that are actually paying for the service are the best target for ads.

They pay premium for access to those.
> most importantly, if we all got in the same room, would I want to hang out with the people excited about this language?

Interesting, I wouldn't even thought someone could consider it a criterium for a language choice. Now I wonder if most people care about it like you do.
I have seen such arguments where the individual is criticized instead of the words simply because the words are beyond argument.

Meaning she spoke strongly and powerfully and is difficult to argue against so they attack everything else.
I stopped going habitually a few months back and it's been good. I still check every now and then and it seems to be getting something like 10% worse every month - not enough to notice if you check it every day but if only every couple of weeks the downward trajectory of the discourse and the overall sentiment is really noticeable.
Computers and Humands See Differently, Does It Matter?
TV and radio ads are probably embedding inaudible signals meant to be overheard & catalogued by your smartphone, smart home devices, etc.

Don't defend advertisers. They are vampires. Don't mournfully look upon them and proclaim, "Even these wretches must eat." Plenty of jobs need doing. Advertising is not, never has been, and never will be one of them.
While I'm happy to be informed after being clearly misinformed, I promise you that I'm a full-time developer working with reasonably bleeding edge stuff and I've never heard of it before last night.

I'm lucky to have folks here to set me straight. :)
People are already making content without monetizing it, and have been for decades. As alien a way of thinking as it may seem to some, many human beings do not need a bizarre system of 'market-based incentives' to get anything done at all. They just do it, out of passion, boredom, to learn, or to share with friends. Are you seriously implying the 'young kid starting out' has Youtube monetization all setup in order, or has sponsors knocking on their door?
I'm not on Twitter but I know exactly what you mean. These days I check hackernews and a forum for a hobby I'm into and that's it. I'll read google news in the morning but I don't go too far (I stay away from opinion pieces).

it's just too toxic and I don't need that in my head.
As an Estonian speaker, I feel the exact same way about Finnish. I guess it's universal :)
Not the parent, but this really doesn't sound right at all.

If you ever participated in a town hall meeting you'll see that half of it is very bureaucratic formalities and slow convergence on a very technical level. At least here in Germany.

I don't think that changes a lot "higher up".
I would be very surprised if Stripe didn't surpass $100B.
Thank you! It was absurdly much pain, esp. considering it started at age 9. It is not a place where I wish anybody, and I can't imagine I will ever suffer anything comparable. But good news: I decided to live (religion played and plays a role, with interesting implications on "Good God vs Suffering"), at 18, I felt like I have a fresh start, at 23 I got therapy, now at my mid-twenties I am able to deal with my episodes well, stopping most of them before they begin (comes down to stress management).

It was hell. But I enjoy my life now, and I learned many lessons in that time. My past is part of me and I can use even my past for good. I try to be a role model for the people that deal with depression around me (and maybe later academia). There is very good news for people with depression: Once one decides to get help, there is a lot of well-researched therapy (& medications if needed) around. Chances of recovery and depression management are high. And it is a field where great progress is made.

Thank you for you wishes! I can only encourage anyone with depression and similar problems to seek help - it does not bother the therapists and can improve life in ways not imaginable!
Sounds like you haven't had your morning coffee yet...
Ads themselves are not defensible. Trying to manipulate others for gain is a disgusting practice. It can lead to depression in individuals and encourages extreme materialism in culture. There's no such thing as an acceptable ad.
Intel’s next-gen CPU architecture will be “significantly bigger” than Sunny Cove
Spotify bought Gimlet? Wow. I haven't listened to podcasts for a while. Sounds like a lot has changed.
By that standard, the penalty for illegal entry isn’t deportation, either.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325

“shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.”

> It has real effects and has been a major problem in the US for many decades.

Like many other misdemeanors.
> I guess I'm just not sure what her work is that isn't already being done by others.

Making politicians uncomfortable about their careers. Lots of other people have tried and failed. She's succeeding.
>This makes me further question whether there was much gatekeeping at all even before this fake news, post truth era.

It was much harder to comment on things and have an international audience for your outrage. Basically to criticize a piece of work was reserved to a few professional critics writing in newspapers. Now everyone who spots a mistake can write about it on Twitter, Amazon review or plenty of other channels.
Podcast ads are extremely annoying though. They tend to repeat the same message 2 or 3 times, then spell out the name of the products as if people were dumb, and this like 5 times in an hour.
This was inevitable and is the culmination of two things:

- Too much hypothesis-driven science that results in statistically significant, but untrustworthy results. It's easy to find statistically significant data to backup whatever crazy thing your brain comes up with.

- Too much pseudo-scientifically backed popular press. Popular science is useful for disemminating science that has been solidified through decades of falsiability tests, not last month's papers.
Good luck to you!! If you are willing to risk the peoject, you could go after revenue more aggressively.

If it works, great! If it doesn't work, the consequence will be based on how deeply you care about this project and if you can just transfer your skills to something new or not.

Wishing you the best :)
That has not been established. In fact, the whole music, video and computer game industries are evidence of the opposite - even before DRM and convenient streaming/store platforms on-line, piracy was still just a drop in a bucket and businesses asking for money up front were perfectly viable.