skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fan is an abbreviation for fanatic which is a much more appropriate label for this sort of behaviour. Having said that, I’d like to step back for a moment and look at our broader culture.

Few people talk about it but it’s actually extremely weird to have celebrities at all. It’s a cultural and economic phenomenon that works to hijack our tendency to form relationships and identify with people we find attractive. It takes a mechanism that’s supposed to help us bond with our family members and leverages it for profit. The fact that some people can’t handle this gets overlooked. All blame is placed on the individual, allowing the rest of us to absolve ourselves of guilt and responsibility.
You don't have to forgo any rights. I'm not saying a mob should get between you and a customer, but that customers should be more picky about who they deal with.

A lot of people in this thread are calling for a boycott of Blizzard, I'm pointing out that this isn't a productive way to solve the problem at large while those people continue to subject themselves to the whims of other companies.
Could the increased unaccessiblity of the scientific literature be partly responsible for the distrust of the general public for scientists and scientific theories?
Situations like convince me the universe is a lazy writer.
I know that the swelling and itching from a mosquito bite is actually an allergic reaction to the mosquito's saliva. It's possible he was getting bitten, but was one of the few that doesn't have that allergic reaction.
>in most civilised countries is illegal.

I feel like we’re moving goalposts here and “civilised countries” will sooner than later become “English-speaking countries”, in which case I’m totally willing to concede that you’re probably right.

Very few countries have found it necessary to prohibit CID spoofing.
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That came after China was addmitted in the WTO. I think the West made that precise bet when they admitted China, market forces did the rest.
His middle initial is B as well.

Johnny B. Goodenough
Every time there is a libertarian socialist experiment, they are almost immediately surrounded by millions of armed fascists. Happened in Catalonia, happens every time.

I just hope that there are not mass rapes, ethnic cleansing, and so forth as has happened in the past.

War is always terrible but this one we are directly responsible for which is very painful.
> To be a free speech absolutist is to say that the New York Times must publish every nonsense article every 8 year old sends them, because editorial curation is a kind of censorship.

This is a straw man argument and not what it means at all. I feel like we've found where we diverge though. I'm using the American definition of freedom of speech, it's true that other countries may have similar rights that are defined differently and with restrictions. In my view though, the definition includes the words "all" or "any" and precludes restrictions. You either have the right and are able to express 'any' ideas or you don't have it.

Thanks for the discussion
Conflating audience with participant? There are a miniscule number of sports participants compared to the sports audience.
The problem is that its not the first time we're having issues with Linode. And yes, thinks happen, but the question is how often and on what extent. In my opinion, Linode is not a reliable company with exceptional service, and we will be migrating all our servers away from them.
Not really. Presumably it was already big news in Asia.
> China has embraced the technical aspects of Western society but it looks dangerously like it will carry them with an authoritarian philosophy.

How about tweak the thinking a bit: What's in there for China to totally embraced democracy? Will it become an advantage for the country (Or the leading elites at least), guaranteed? What if the change has failed and lead to something worse?

There are risk factors, and people don't like to take risks. Which is why societal changes are more likely to occur during crisis and disasters, because people simply have nothing to lose anymore.

For CCP, the "Take half the cake" approach is less risky for them, so they did that, and now everybody see what's happened after.
Have noticed Morey guy, Matt, Trey & whatnot. China remains faceless. China this and China that.
Dog ownership (I should say, pet ownership) is disproportionately something for poor(er) people. 25% of all household here (.nl) have pets, but out of poor households, 60% do.
My bank starts with "SECURITY ALERT: NEVER REVEAL THIS CODE TO ANYONE" and ends with "Contact us if you didn't request it".
> But that's affected mostly by factors other than money supply?

That's a good point. I think the "mostly" is highly dependent on the rate of "money printing" and where exactly this money goes. But the Libra/Fiat rate might not be necessary anymore as an indicator once it becomes a useful indicator because of rising consumer good prices.

> BTC does not provide price stability.

If bitcoin gets adopted more widely and has a bigger market cap the volatility should go down. The supply shocks every ~4y due to the block reward halving are getting smaller too. But sure, a free market money will never be as stable as a currency with central bank interference. For me that's not a bug but a feature, it doesn't shield market participants from economic realities, so they can actually adapt.
Hedge funds and Private Equity are entirely different beasts
Only for dev work, because of dtrace. Wouldn't dare to use it in a business, though it would be fine technically.
My AmEx does that too. I really like that feature.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53RX2ESIqsM
> then rather than promote you the org will simply hire people above you. And you will find that what you learned was not a solid foundation to move onwards.

Anecdata: junior engineer going through this process right now. Hard to move to a new company due to the specificity of the skills I developed and can't move up as they just bring in new people.
That's the lesson: The most obvious advice isn't obvious. If one goes through https://startupschool.org/library one realises how much of the advise ought to be common knowledge and common sense, but that's the thing, folks ignore it all the time.

Another mistake, it was pointed out by Kevin Hale, iirc, this year at startupschool, that founders make is they think their pricing model (or their UX) is a key differentiator, when in most cases it isn't.
I agree with everything you said but this part:

> the individual human being as a self-contained phenomenon

He was absolutely an existentialist, but I think his rebuke of the Cartesian _cogito_ undermines that self-contained concept.
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But crucially, it didn't ship any compiler chain capable of building itself; I know compilers were smaller then, but apples-apples...
I'm convinced that the problem is the economic model. F2P is just such an overwhelmingly positive and casual friendly model that any other failures may be attributed to that. It may be that the other points have some merit, but there is no way to know if they do until the paywall is removed.
Always the skeptic! Most of us know instantly when we get bit by a mosquito.
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How many people do you think where brought to hospitals. What do you think the machines that build the hospitals were used for? How do you think we build damns, roads, buildings, how do you think power generators work and I could go on. Expand that to fossil fuels in general (medicine, concrete, asphalt, pesticides and thousands of other products)

Blaming diesel for a public health crisis is like blaming the sun for melanomas or the wind for wrecked ships.

Yes using diesel has consequences just as fossil fuels does but the upside of them far outweighs the downside and not using it would be far worse.
No worries, Trump will 'ToTaLlY dEsTrOy' their economy! That will show them! /s

With the US loosing it's power and allies all the authoritarians are looking to strengthen their grip. This, The Uygurs, Hong Kong... Is this how we slowly meander into a WWIII?
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I think so too, i was trying to be careful and make the less drastic bet that it's at the very least not slower :)
Nietzsche's work is all about fighting with pessimism?
Instead of dropping Nietzsche, go and actually try to read him / or about him from genuine source, `Nietzsche and Anarchy: Psychology for Free Spirits, Ontology for Social War` is a great, positive and down to text reading for start
It’s much better now since SQL Server 2017 added a new string split function. But I actually had to do basically the same thing in an earlier version of SQL Server (in my case, it was because I was interacting with a legacy application that spits out pipe-delimited strings) and the string parsing increased the execution time by several orders of magnitude.
Not really the same as the sun and the wind. We can certainly use other fuels; its simply a choice.
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Yup. Basically misappropriation of company resources, and any company would (and should) fire someone for that.
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I have always wondered why they put so much trust in that biometric scanner. Job interview? No need to ask the candidate about his qualifications just an "ok" from the scanner and you are good to go, who needs critical thinking anyway. No one asks, "does this scanner even work?". What if the brain-wave tracker is just snake oil?
The tweet "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong" is the exact slogan violent protestors in HK uses every day. It's not "freedom of speech" but an implication of HK independence. You cannot take the words literally. I will give you another analogy -- no people in China understands why "All lives matter" offends the black community in the US, because why on earth would anyone object to all lives matter, right? Do Chinese NBA fans have legit rights to be offended by his tweet, I personally think so. Does this legitimize Chinese government's NBA ban, absolutely not.
This submission being popular in HN caused an interesting traffic spike in Programming Idioms. Here is a detailed recital of the technical and financial consequences: https://medium.com/google-cloud/surviving-traffic-spike-from...
I'm not sure about this at this point. The way I see it, wealth and prosperity allows liberal values to grow, but does not force them. It's possible there will be a change from within, but it's also possible that Chinese citizens will make a society that's free and liberal for them but not for everyone else. I think it's a matter of what cultural values are allowed to develop, and their government has ample tools to influence that.
There's obviously a really hard signal processing and filtering problem here but in terms of getting any inputs into a computer

Can sensitive microphones be used to non-invasively listen for firing neurons?
It might not be genuine. But what one should do to resolve the problem described in the letter is to go to the regular amex website, log in, and update your debit information.
that'll just make it cheaper for Chinese capital to gobble up
No opinions of any kind... sounds like a super interesting stream!
I was trying to avoid delving into his whole idea of the will and explicit anti-‘selfhood’ as it seemed a bit too much for a HN comment. But yeah, I was trying to say that N. isn’t really a political thinker. He is better described as interested in fundamental forces that are far deeper than (what he perceives as) the petty mob values of democratic politics or a simple concept of individualism.
At least if you're at the bank, the typical separation of powers would at least ensure they're caught promptly, should something go wrong.
Not sure if still the case, but this used to be done specifically to weed out people who weren't quite gullible enough.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9346371/Nig...
Reading this thread reminds me of when I was subject to a social engineering attack by people who claimed to be the FBI. The voice messages they left sounded unconvincing so I ignored them on the basis the real FBI would have better ways to contact me.

Couple days later two FBI agents show up in my driveway asking why I didn't respond to their voicemail..
We are comparing here a full graphical OS with kernel & drivers versus a bunch of command line tools.

And no, Win95 did include real audio files (if small).
> Scholars still debate what Nietzsche had in mind. A physically stronger being? [..] A kind of cyborg?

Nevermind scholar, what person who actually read Nietzsche seriously considers either of those? I would really like to see a source for this other than pop culture. Even "spiritual aristocrat" is weird, "spiritual athlete" would make more sense to me (even though it still wouldn't really say anything).

Consider the opposite of the Übermensch, the "last man": http://thelastmanonearth.blogspot.com/2009/03/nietzsche-and-...

Or this:

> Anyone who doesn't want to belong to the masses need only cease to go easy on themselves; let them follow their conscience, which cries out to them "Be yourself! You are none of those things that you now do, think, and desire." Every young soul hears this call night and day and trembles, for when it thinks of its true liberation, it has an inkling of the measure of happiness for which it is destined from eternity. As long as it is shackled by the chains of opinion and fear, nothing can help it attain this happiness. And how bleak and senseless this life can become without this liberation!

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't know what the Übermensch is, I always read Nietzsche like a poetry collection anyway, rather than a coherent model, and I haven't read Nietzsche in ages -- but I am pretty sure being one's own person (which of course is different for everybody) is part of it.
I haven't heard of this working since the 80's, with rotary pulse dial phones.
I really, really, don't care anymore what happens in that part of the world. It's callous, I suppose, but if they all want to start killing each other pointlessly, fine, go ahead.

Persian Gulf oil doesn't matter as much as it used to.
> Ironically, there's little the US government can do here without dragging things back towards the McCarthy era.

Concentration camps are evil, and so is using prisoners as living organ banks. Furthermore, China is run by competent people and has a large economy growing faster than the West. They are a bigger threat than Nazi Germany or the USSR were. China has a serious chance of dominating the world over a 20-30 year timescale.

I don't want that to happen. If McCarthyism is what it takes to stop it, so be it; I would prefer that over having my organs removed while I am still conscious.
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WinRT is an evolution of COM.

Basically there is a new base interface, IInspectable instead of IUnknown, and many more datatypes are allowed to cross the wire between processes, making it easier to also use generics, lists and arrays across COM libraries.

Additonally, .NET metadata libraries are using instead of the old COM type libraries.

If you prefer, it is the original design of .NET before the CLR came into play, and related to the Longhorn architecture, just using COM instead of .NET. A path started in Vista.

Now for this Rust approach to win the hearts of Windows devs, it needs to be as productive as C++/CX or C++/WinRT VS tooling, in all COM/UWP usage scenarios.
How to make a cheap WiFi Temperature/humidity sensor
The bad LBOs are featured much more prominently than the good ones.

LBOs create long-term value for society by disciplining managers (see Nabisco) and allocating capital more efficiently. Debtors are not forced to lend, shareholders are not forced to sell (unless the offer is so objectively great the company has a fiduciary duty to sell), so everyone is a consenting adult.

People who get fired go work for a different company eventually, and the pool of companies workers can work for only improves in a competitive society.
What, your C compiler includes high-definition image and audio files? What times to be alive...
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These tests seem less than useful if you're not comparing them to the null hypothesis: people keep driving by themselves. As the article points out, pedestrian deaths are up, and that's not because of this technology.

It's hard to compare because people and machines fail in different ways. Machines don't really know what people look like or how they behave, and are easily misled. People get drunk, get tired, get angry, look at their phones, and generally get confused. Humans have remarkable talents for putting together a 3D scene with only two eyes, but those eyes are extremely restricted in the range of wavelengths they perceive.

If we get aggressive in shutting down the cause of accidents, we're going to ban cars entirely. The machines are far from perfect; they may even be far from good. But the machines are getting better, and humans are getting worse.
> immediately surrounded by millions of armed fascists.

I wonder if we can even avoid it. Every time the Fascists are beaten they just go into 'Ich habe es nicht gewuscht' hiding and we fail to eradicate the sentiments. Then they slowly crawl back to power with populist propaganda while the socialists are to nice to call them what they are: nazis
"And let's be frank; there's not that much anyone can do about it. People can claim they're uninstalling Blizzard games. And I'm sure some do. But the next time they release an objectively good game everyone's back in."

That is such a depressing thing to read. Is this attitude normal?
It seems to me that it's very simple to "do something about it" -- just don't give them any more money by buying their games. What price do you put on staying true to your own morals? A video game?!?
Really looking forward to this set of phone conversations getting declassified.
Weird how everyone focuses on Trumps -admittedly- idiotic retreat and his tweets, while one thing is very rarely mentioned:
How the bloody hell can it be that one NATO-Member needs troops on the ground to prevent another NATO-Member from comitting a genocide?
Welcome to the future: Erdoğan ‏publicly announced this attack via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/RTErdogan/status/1181921311846735872
One of my (maybe unwarranted) concern with automatic dark mode, is the potential ability of the browser and apps to determine my (very) coarse location based on when the dark mode is enabled or not, as it because another potentially identifying info among others.

Does that kind of CSS allows a script to determine if the browser is displaying dark mode or not, or send back that information to ads servers?
It looks like there was a really nice one around seven years ago, called Bookle. All of the reviews from the time seemed to love it. Unfortunately, it's no longer available for sale.

I searched high and low for a copy, and even emailed the developer. Their response made me quite sad: "I'm afraid that I don't know that I even have a build at this point."

Who knows if it would even work on modern macOS, but I bet it would, as long as it was 64 bit. macOS's backwards compatibility is better than some seem to imagine.
Hello,

What would make you to reconsider? I don't really hide my identity on the Internet, and see no reason to do so for as long as I want to have a life.

Can you be one of those men who trolled me and my coworkers on email in July? If so, you need to work harder "to break my life." We were having good laugh reading that silly correspondence on lunch brakes. Very glad that I work in China now, and that people here don't give a f* about such drama, unlike in US.
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Ad hominem attacks don't really improve the level of discussions on HN.
Article without a paywall. https://cnn.com/2019/10/09/politics/syria-turkey-invasion-in...
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Imagining the future of energy and transportation naturally leads to a collision of those worlds. I've discussed some of the impacts that I think this might have on everyday life and business. What are your thoughts?
This is now the 3rd place I've seen this. As a dev I immediately just assume it's a bug, but maaaaaaan it doesn't look that way if you're not.

I've settled for cancelling my Wow Classic sub in place of deleting the account completely. It's not heroic and means nothing to Blizzard, but this is a line I find hard to cross.
Zebras only existed for centuries?
It's either a lawful request from any country or none. Should corporations get to decide what a lawful request is? That's a horrible idea either.

FWIW, I am appalled by this constant call to weaken encryption. This is not worthy of any country who deems themselves under the "rule of law". It's even more appalling that they do the dirty work for the countries you listed...
She wrote a lot of valuable stuff about American visual culture at a time when television was dominant and just before the rise of the internet. Someone else cited On Photography, and Regarding the Pain of Others is another good one.
This is where the downfall of all dictators takes root: within their egos. Dictators seize power by presenting a façade of strength. Having a sense of humour is anathema to the strongman, whose ego can’t withstand even a minor slight.

They are walking contradictions.
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Everybody slightly off-center must be losing their minds trying to reconcile the facts.
Trump vs China Trade War, everybody feels so bad for China.
China has 3 Million person internment gulag, suddenly China is wrong. So, you gonna turn on China like you turned on Kanye?
Well, being a professional e-athlete means being an entertainer first and foremost. Everything you do and say is supposed to maximize the amount of money made for you, people who manage you, and the sport. Just like in physical sports.

In this case, the player violated this on their own accord. As right as this was, no surprise it made the business people unhappy. 'stronglikedan is correct in saying it's pretty much like misappropriation of company resources.

(In other news: entertainment is fake to the core. It's not about the game, it's about making money.)

But I also think it's 100% fair for the audience to be angry about this. It's a free market, and if people don't express their morality and/or politics through ways that impact the profits of the offenders, the market will not take those morals and politics into account. Bad press is a market signal too.
I was honestly had no problems reading about Tieneman Square on Wikipedia while walking around Tieneman Sqaure last year during National Week. The thing is most of the people who know about this stuff already do and the regular Joe on the street isn't going to put work into it. The people on the ground are a lot of the time patriotic to a fault. It reminded me a lot of the non-questuoning patriotism that permeates midwest America. And honestly I got the idea they desperately want to be America (*with Chinese characteristics;) ).That being said using a VPN only is not the best solution. A suite of software solutions working in concert is a much better route. Certain VPN providers are better than others given their size or implementation but even still the large ones see huge reductions in reliability during patriotic times (i.e. National Week etc). Best to RYO or use a concert of software implementations.
They're also both 10-15 years old!
> If you had 10 instances of yourself then they would diverge as each of them specializes on different things.

Yes but only slightly. I can read code I wrote 10 years ago, that I have totally forgotten about since the way-of-thinking behind the code comes easily to my mind.