skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be boundaries to what is considered respectable opinions that exclude both the extreme right and the extreme left. If people do not express these off-limits opinions they should be considered respectable and treated as such in discussions. An example of off-limits extreme right opinion is anything promoting racial or ethnic inferiority of one group or another. An example of off-limits extreme left opinion would be attempts to stake all differences in society on discrimination. Anything less extreme than that should be considered fair game in the market of ideas. The extreme left and right ideologies have cost tens of millions of people their lives in the twentieth century and should not be considered respectable. Anything less extreme might, depending on the circumstances, actually be a solution to some problem that is right now occurring somewhere in the world and should at least be considered.
Polish and a better sense that their long term business model makes the most sense for the sort of infrastructural platform they want to be. Cryptography infrastructure seems like something that should be delegated to something much more like a 501(c)3 than a for-profit corporation.
Back in the old day, there was this saying. "Do not feed the trolls". Sadly, we've forgotten that.

It has never worked. Put yourself in the position of someone who is being maliciously harassed by trolls and getting no help from anyone else. It's like telling a weak kid that is being bullied to just ignore it; the reality is that bullies are determined and tend to escalate rather than abandon their aggressive behavior. At best they will move on to picking on some other weaker person.
> The biggest difference is that comment threads are the majority of how people create content on the internet now and they weren't before.

Were you not around for newsgroup flame-wars of the early 90s (and probably long before that, if you were among the lucky few that had access)...?
The US has only had legally binding term limits for the presidency since 1951, but traditionally the president was expected to stand down after two terms. The constitutional term limits were introduced after Roosevelt managed to hold on to the presidency well past two terms until he died.
> “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.

What's the original source for the "Wuhan seafood market" hypothesis?
The proposed law (according to the article) requires the committee coming up with the rules to consider user privacy (not that they have to actually do that), but that gives a platform some cover to argue that breaking end-to-end encryption is not reasonable and that the report button will have to suffice.
> And Reddit is where all the people are.

All the people in your echo chamber, that is.
GREAT POINT NERD.
In which case they just change the title normally.. rather than penalizing it heavier than any other penalized post Ive noticed recently.
I think the only winning move is not to play :/.
Thanks for the advice. I think you're right. I've been trying to "white-knuckle" it for the longest time, and it just hasn't been working. I find myself staring at the wall or the train, spiraling into a cycle of intense boredom. Well, I might as well check Instagram, is what I tell myself, but that isn't good for me, because I end up falling into a different sort of vicious spiral.
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These days, my voicemail greeter is quite literally a CAPTCHA:

"Hello! Due to the number of robocalls that have been spamming my phone, I will not answer any call I receive if I do not recognize the number. Please prove to me that you are a human by leaving a voicemail, and I will call you back!"

Surprisingly, I have missed very few important calls. Real people are more than happy to leave a message.
Yeah I have a hard time believing it has been definitively proven that the market was the source of the virus. Wouldn’t that mean they have the carcass of whatever animal transmitted the virus in their possession? And did the first person known to have contracted it actually say they went there?
Jai has no GC though, which is critical in game dev.
Wokeademia at UC Berkeley: How staff enforces political conformity
There are allegations that the coronavirus may have been stolen from a Canadian bioweapons facility, and that coronavirus, weaponized, is now more virulent.

https://greatgameindia.com/coronavirus-bioweapon/
My problem with this "intolerance-is-okay-against-the-intolerant" thing is I'm lumped in with some extremist politics because of my religion. I don't feel at all treated as an individual (or even treated fairly) by either the left or the right. Some people who identify as the same religion have been homophobic. Since I was of voting age, I have never been against legalizing gay marriage, or treating homosexuals differently in the law at all. But I get flak for my religion from the tolerant left. They stereotype me every bit as much as the right stereotypes Islam. But they sure think they're being tolerant, by supposedly shunning intolerance.
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Maybe you were sarcastic but...

Reasons to have other standards exist because they are better than USB-C. I’ve got a lightning port on my current phone, while my old phone was USB-C, as well as my current laptop and tablet both USB-C. I have to say, the lightning feels significantly more secure.

Also, we have a standard for wireless charging. Qi has been around for years. Old Nexus used to have it. New iPhones do have it. IKEA even sells cheap furniture with chargers built in.
>[ICE/CBP's] continued efforts to target and tear apart communities across the country.

Is this kind of partisan dog-whistling really necessary? The ACLU does good work at the end of the day, but this sentence makes their stance on border control loud and clear.

And I call it dog-whistling because it does nothing but detract from an otherwise reasonable stance on surveillance abuse, for the sake of a wink and a nod.
There are no post downvotes on HN for a reason (or at least normal users dont have them) - flag doesn't and shouldn't mean the same thing as a downvote.
The term "flamewar" predates all social networks except Usenet. It was not an isolated occurrence in the early days of the net.
> So can we sue advertising companies now?

Naw, we should ban advertising.
Why would they have a carcass of something someone ate at least a week before they got sick they caught the virus?
> People who are willing to argue in good faith, and people who are simply trying to put forth an agenda regardless of what anyone says.

I think that it would be wise to doubt one's own ability to differentiate between these two groups.

I also think that the purpose of public debate is not to persuade the person you are debating with: that's almost never possible. It's to persuade the audience. Bad faith arguments, if they really are bad faith arguments, are usually pretty easy to shoot down, so I don't think that we have anything to fear from bad-faith arguers.

In fact, deplatforming benefits bad-faith arguers because their bad-faith arguments look more reasonable when nobody confronts them.

At another level, deplatforming is a bad faith argument, by your own definition. Aren't you trying to put forth your agenda, regardless of what anyone says, by deplatforming people? Your agenda may be good, but that doesn't justify bad faith actions to support it.
Having written engines using both GA and matrices+quats, as well as writing articles on GA (one intro one in an old Games Gems book), I'd say GA is a terrible idea for 3D engines. GA is inherently slower to manipulate, as items require more storage and more memory touches. They add almost zero benefit.

If the idea is use a higher, more pure math structure, then one can go to even more abstract math formalisms, such as coord-free calculus and bigger algebras, but these, like GA, add more computational overhead to solve problems that don't exist.

Hestenes et. al., the main popularizes of GA in the math/programming intersection, have papers on writing raytracers in both, and they too clearly demonstrate loss of performance using GA.
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This is something I often think about when using those new hand dryers in public toilets that blast high-velocity air into a confined space where some of the water removed from people's hands collects.

It seems like a great way to aerosolise whatever was on the hands of all the people who previously used the hand dryer.
There is a 2017 article on Nature on that laboratory in Wuhan:

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...
If someone dies in that room, I'd say it was working exactly as the designer intended.
Difficult to properly peer review when things are moving so quickly.
s/biolab/World Trade Center/

s/biolab/Apollo/

‘Number of suspicious elements’

Even the VOA has came out to classify this as a hoax. Sometimes people just want to believe in conspiracies.
Another side to consider is that often said Senator has 40-years of experience being a senator (or similar), and ~0 years being and employee or business owner. I often feel (anecdotally) that many representatives have spent their entire lives in government such that they have never experienced what it's like to be in the private sector, and therefore can be tone deaf to issues that matter to me.
注意 literally means pour your mind
用心 can translate to use heart， like in Hebrew
In the old days you only ever saw that embarrassing uncle with the extreme views on Thanksgiving. Now he's on your Facebook/Twitter feed every day.
Twitter is just an example. If you read that book, the gist is basically Social Media makes it easy to brain dump and leave that brainfeces all over without having to look it back again (paraphrasing mine). Anyone in the world can post anything, without any accountability, without the need to carefully revalidate and be validated/invalidated.

I saw the post about inner monologue but didn't read it. But I believe it could be related.

I highly suggest reading the book because I'm doing a disservice trying to explain about it. It basically explained how oratory, printing press, telegraph/telephone and television really changed society a lot, but in subconscious ways that most of us don't think.
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This is how property taxes work pretty much everywhere else, dense and sparse, tight housing market and loose. It doesn't seem to be causing a crisis anywhere, unlike California's policy, which is implicated in an actual housing shortage.
On macOS you have the option of using a Cocoa client (same codebase as the iOS version) in addition to the Qt app. It’s great to have the choice.
Here's an article from last week about it:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-la...
Who decides who's lying and who's telling the truth? Who is the arbitrator of an obvious lie. Declaring something an "obvious lie" has historically been used to keep other people down as well.

This goes down a very dangerous road. Banning speech is not the right way to deal with this. When you do, you give the speaker more energy. When people in the civil rights movement in the US was slapped down, it gave speakers like MLKing a source to inspire his people; to stand tall in the face of adversity.

The line should be violence. Speech is speech. Speech is not violence (unless is specifically advocates violence and that's been defined in US court cases as not-protected speech). Diablo Valley College ethics professor Eric Clanton was basically let off the hook with a slap-on-the-wrist conviction for hitting someone in the head with a bike-lock .. basically because the person he hit was alt-right. That is fucked up and totally not acceptable. All violence, no matter who it is against, should be the hard line .. and it's not, and that's the real issue.
I'm making it a point to generally have independent compiler authors at Handmade Seattle. You two were class acts -- thanks for attending!
Well, that does argue for my previous stated idea of charging every property owner the same fee for the same service.

Trash pickup is actually a great example. Where I live it’s not part of your property taxes. It’s a separate bill and everyone pays the same amount.

The city council can set budgets for the different departments and set taxes based on the budget. Neighborhoods already do something similar via homeowner’s association fees and condo fees.
So on the one hand we have a group that wants to have one (1) subreddit for themselves. And on the other we have a group that wants all subreddits for themselves. Seems like two different things entirely.
Those are also things we should eliminate.
This is exactly analogous to DMCA in its structure--except that instead of the procedures being part of the law, the will be subject to constant change by the executive branch of government.
I notice sometimes when watching British television that stones are commonly used as a unit of weight, which is interesting because it's imperial, not metric, but I've seen never it used in American contexts.
The rubbing only increased serotonin levels and 4-3 hours later after that boost, they transform. So if you was to increase their serotonin levels via other means, you would still only turn grasshoppers into locusts. Yes locusts metabolism in faster, so they are more veracious.

As a form of terrorism, well you would still need to bread and or/find a huge swarm of grasshoppers and if you found such a size large enough, they would already naturally be swarming. Though the prospect of some terrorist group breaking grasshoppers has an edge of Chris Morris about it that bemuses me.
Some great command line power tips here for Unix shell users.
Build Your Own Block_on()
It's all the millenial kids that you didn't give a good start and who are getting those 63% of new jobs that pay below-average who are suffering.
I’ve seen nothing reported on what actually happened, including the allegation someone actually ate something. It could have been transmitted by just walking near something.
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What you're describing is "that heap of Nazis over there". It doesn't matter if the deplatformed people pop back up in marginal, poorly connected hate-tolerant sites. That actually helps. They have been successfully "sent to Coventry" in a place where their cultural impact is nil.
Imagine it being 2020 and not using the metric system.
Yeah, a good source of protein, with the huge numbers a challenge would be drying and storage
Right - no 'serious language' is hyperbole, and another counter example is Ruby.

But... if I was asked to implement a language tomorrow I wouldn't even consider using Bison and Flex. Why? Because they're context-free tools, and almost every industrial language is context-sensitive. Square pegs and round holes.

These tools are a great example of over-complicating and over-theorising programming languages. We invented a theory that doesn't even apply to the problem we have, and then created crazy tools to solve the wrong problem, and gloss over the fact that they don't apply with terrible hacks and side-effects. We made a mistake with that phase in programming language history...
Some great power tips here for Unix shell users.
If what you mean to say is that "the subset of spaces that does not include Voat and Gab is an echo chamber", you are probably saying something about your own views that you might not mean to say.
Because in the "physical world" rarely anybody speaks freely, they always restrain themselves being afraid of reprecussions.
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How is this religious?
> I don't know if I know the solution, but I know one thing that isn't the solution: silencing everyone who disagrees with you.

I'm not a fan of trying to SILENCE anyone, however as a private entity, no corporation is required to allow anyone to use their platform for (nearly) any reason. Twitter can ban me today because they don't like my shoes. Facebook can ban me because Mark Zuckerberg thinks I look funny. Google can ban me because I prefer my Alexa to Google Home. Youtube can ban Alex Jones because he spews hate. Cloudflare can ban whoever those white supremacists were for being racist. Taking away their right to choose their customers is just as much an affront to free speech as government censorship.

Several years ago Sprint kicked off a small number of customers because they were costing the company lot of resources due to their behavior with the company. I absolutely agreed with them, and that's their right. Same with social media, hosts, etc. Nothing stops these people from finding another way to get their message out, but my company nor anyone else has to help them.
I mean, I, personally, also have some aspects of my life that I do not care for optimizing, even if the opportunity cost is significant.

An example that should be relatable to a lot of people here is learning emacs. People who get over the steep learning curve argue that it is the best thing ever and how much more productive they can be with it. Considering how much time I spend writing code (both at work and at home), that would definitely net me a benefit. But I just don't care to put in all the work required to get over the learning curve, simply because the way I write my code now is good/productive enough to not care for putting that much effort into optimizing it much further (if the cost of doing so is as high as getting over the learning curve of emacs).

tl;dr: to answer your question in one sentence, people don't care for optimizing something if it takes some sort of a significant investment, as long as what they have now is "good enough".
Even among "great minds", narrow domain-specific knowledge can matter. The nuances of how to squeeze performance out of the JVM, the exact assembly generated by some C code, etc. There's a difference between being able to use a language and being able to take full advantage of it.

There's also something to be said for language idioms as a means of communication and shared documentation within a team. Someone who speaks French and Italian may have no trouble picking up Spanish, but might say things that lose meaning when translated literally until she's gotten more immersed in the culture surrounding the language. One of your "great minds" may pick up C# and try to use it like Clojure, or vice-versa, and create enormous friction within the codebase.

Not that this is necessarily the dominant factor in these decisions, but it is a factor, no matter how intelligent and experienced your hires are.
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Who is "Adrian Bond", I wonder? Can't find anything about the author.
Well, Wuhan does have a BSL4 lab, so....
Did you read the article before you dismissed this? The links are a little more substantial than 9/11 conspiracies.

And the mechanism is far less far-fetched, considering that on at least one instance SARS was confirmed as having escaped a research lab much like the one in question.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20040423/china-sars-death
Parts of 2019-nCoV are similar to Human Immunodeficiency Virus .

[HIV] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_genome_of_HIV

[gp120] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp120
Yet another extremely vague Hacker News article building controversy due to its failure to communicate anything tangible. Is this article talking about monolith deployment architectures or monolith code bases?

If it's about monolith deployment architectures, the use case is really important.

If it's about monolith code bases, you need to define what a monolith code base even means, because that could mean anything. Are we talking storage size, custom written code lines, framework architecture, or just the number of people and/or teams building the underlying technology?
I don’t flag things often, as one might downvote a comment they disagree with. The flag mechanism is for off-topic or spam content, and I consider this way off-topic for this site. There have already been hundreds of published articles about this virus, and if I was interested in seeing them, I would use a site like PubMed to see them.
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Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf...

Voat is discussed elsewhere here, too. In short, the point was precisely to get the speech off Reddit because it was poisoning Reddit. People said it wasn’t worth them trying because it would move to other subreddits. It didn’t, it moved offsite entirely.

De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one.
stfu nerd
Short answer: I don't.

Luckily, it becomes habit. Perhaps doing it unwillingly is part of the rush.
C#:
int x

Java:
int x

Cpp:
int x

C:
int x

Some fucking retards at MS derp corp...
TypeScrap:

x: int
(2018)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222827
This is laughable.

Table 1 shows four alignments. The first two are only six contiguous residues, so can easily happen by chance. Three has multiple mistmatches as well as the gap (red). Four has an even larger gap to get the alignment.

Take any two viruses and there's a decent likelihood of finding similar alignments.
Nice. Looks like frequencies from 10 to 20 khz may have a locust size wavelength. You might want to use half that frequency, and a very high power. Wonder if that would do anything to them
I agree that it's important to be conscious of the rhetorical currents we create, and vigilant about what follows from carrying them to their logical conclusions. This is, for example, why we don't call people vermin or cockroaches. It's rhetoric that has obvious logical conclusions.

But inter-generational strife isn't quite the same thing. It's conflict largely between parents and their children, shaped by that intimacy. And it's a conflict that cuts both ways...

Think about the rhetoric being used whenever someone refers to "millennials" today.

First, identify a sub-group. Begin referring to the group as "they", as "other" than "us". Make sure they are not seen as heterogenous individuals - "they" are a single, entitled entity.

Next, give them trophies, unearned.

Then, ascribe to them the rise of avocado toast, end of homeownership, and lack of ambition. All overeducated and self-defeating.

Now describe them as "increasingly falling for socialism's trick", as "unpatriotic", implying that something must be done - about them - to them.

Begin to use the language of violence, attributing it to "them". Killing the date, and romance, and marriage, and golf, and the motorcycle.

What do you think the outcome of this kind of rhetoric will be?
When you ignore them you tacitly endorse their position. Their propaganda is being broadcast uncontested, there will be people who believe it. Those people will spread it to other people. Pretty soon whooping cough is back and people are dying.

The truth can't advocate for itself.
Given the old joke about wanting the job being a disqualification for having it, maybe it's time we started electing people who don't want the job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
> It identifies the unit and quantity fair enough, and it's right when it says "Risotto rice" is the product. But then it says "Arborio or Carnaroli" is a preparation method. I can totally see WHY it says that. But I'm not sure that's correct.

Simple solution: for your 'Preparation' just say 'Preparation or additional options' and the additional preparation can contain swap out products that later you can identify by brand name or common marketing name.

So when it says '"Risotto rice" is the product and the "Arborio or Carnaroli" is a preparation method. Changing that to 'Preparation method and additional options' then later parsing potential products helps it a bit.
Thank you for inviting us! It was a brilliant event, and thank you for all your hard work.