skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Or is this more of a social problem that code can't solve?

Absolutely, because it's wrong to regard the web as a thing that's separate from the real world and it's effects. We're talking about people's identities in the sense of how they see themselves, and that's shaped by their environment (what they see, hear and do), online and offline.

What happened is that people are able to find a tribe, whereas before the web was a thing, finding a tribe was more difficult and often exclusive to cities.

People living in rural areas were likely to adapt to existing "big village tribes", branching off wasn't viable or a matter of circumstances because of a lack of different subcultures within those rural areas.

The web changed that, everybody can socialize and find a tribe online, it's like a big city full of subcultures, and subcultures provide identity.

Early people on the web were often already part of urban tribes I think, and took position of views within those, so if they encountered a rival group online (think about poppers and rockers stereotypes from the 80's) toxicity was almost ensured. So what happ[ens if a mainstream culture that's fed with stereotypes through hollywood etc. is let loose on the web?

The before tribeless population which was forced into a tribe by circumstance is basically discovering the world and is going through their teenage years.

That's my explanation of what's happening.
> Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem

This article argues against the freedom of speech and other property rights.

AI ought to do what we ask and that is why it's not a problem - the creator/owner should be held responsible for damage it causes.

> YouTube’s engineers probably didn’t intend to radicalize humanity.

It doesn't matter what they intend, it matters what you intend. Do you intend to radicalize yourself? If not, why do you watch that crap?
Godfather - Goodfellas - Casino, those are the three must see imo. That and every episode of the Sopranos, but it’ll take you at least a week to binge watch those.
You have to understand how something works to be able to depict it properly in an illustration. Understanding is the key to explain anything to other people. An illustrated cross section can teach the complexity of natural or engineered objects in a way that photography just can't.
So, are these guys going to be at DefCon, with a presentation about their experience, and lessons to share with the wider security community? Because I would be interested in watching said presentation.
I think it is a result of the network effect. The same window also marks the rise of social networks. So the toxicity is more in your face and you almost have no way of escaping it. Even if you're not on facebook, your friends are talking about it / hackernews has articles on political issues and so on. It permeates all your 'safe spaces'.

I also think we have non-cs folk entering the internets en masse and are there by changing the rules and norms, which generates mania over things which were just ignored before.

How do we stop it? I don't think we stop it. We build resistance to it. Every generation has its detractor and for us it is the bad effects of this network. Over time, we will start ignoring the noise and use these for what they are actually useful for (or the next detractor takes over).
I told my daughter about the brief respite we had after 9/11. It gave me the impression that if shit really hits the fans we got each other’s back. Now of course history is littered with extreme counterexamples but those don’t help my cynicism go away sooo.
In Europe it is rather easy :)
How does anyone know you have a degree and no criminal records?
Rich people are more likely to literally take candy from a baby: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/study-r...

Being rich is directly correlated with a loss of empathy, so this study is no surprise.
One way to “deal with them” is harsh penalties for their bad behavior.
> UN is not demanding freedom for Assange, they want

This is just a UN employee.

> I see some people debating if Assange is guilty of X or Y

That is not what we are debating on. Rather I am talking about the claims that the Swedish prosecution and investigation are malicious.

> he did not had and will not have a fair trial.

Why do you think his trial could not be fair?
no, it is not. you are mixing up the two cases, one were there was no condom indeed with S.W., and the other case with the other woman A.A. where the condom was allegedly damaged.
The show was set in Korea but wad made during the Vietnam war. The Korean setting was a facade for a show that was making commentary on the contemporary situation.
Reading some comments here...

* GA provides some nice savings when it comes to rotor/3D calculations, provided that the underlying data structures and architecture supports them. Check out the publications by Dietmar Hildenbrand and his team for several examples:

- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dietmar_Hildenbrand

* Quaternions start to exhibit several limitations when dealing with complex objects, even in 3D. It provides just the necessary structure to store quadrature information to avoid the "gimball lock" issue, for example. However the fact that it collapses the scalar with the pseudoscalar presents several problems again in calculations with dual quaternions and higher dimensions (projections, for once), and it's not much different from the hurdle of having to discriminate axial and polar vectors in Vector Calculus. The main issue is that its handedness doesn't scale well and has problems capturing the geometric nature and physics of the world in several dimensions (ie symplectic geometry).

* IMHO the real usefulness of GA is that, as it name implies, it's an algebra. That is what Clifford, Ball, Lie and Klein realized while extending the work of Grassmann on exterior algebras, screw theory, vector spaces and differential forms. Matrices, quaternions and some forms have awkward behaviors when they are treated symbolically as algebraic objects, being "leaky" on information or having singularities just because they are not the best representation. GA fixes that allowing you to formulate problems symbolically, and then you can almost blindly solve the equations with high confidence that the result will be sound. You can then convert the objects back to your favorite representation. For good examples, check out Terje Vold papers on:

- Rigid body dynamics: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241273951_An_Introd..., and

- Electrodynamics: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245345681_An_introd...)

[Note: Watch out for some typos]. For comparison, take a look at Featherstone's 6D Spatial Vector representation, which is similar to screws and I think shows the best you could do with Vector Calculus objects:

- http://bleyer.org/files/A%20Beginner's%20Guide%20to%206-D%20....
How could they prove you were break checking? It seems like it would be easy to lie and say you thought you saw something running across the road and hit the brakes just in case it was a kid or something. Plus tailgating is also illegal, which their dashcam footage would prove
yes because anyone who can’t afford a car shouldn’t be on the road
This kind of 'Journalism' exemplifies my feelings about vice news. Sensentional, missing the point of the core premise, and sporting a profoundly misleading headline.
This is just the intro. The full document is available at https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader/ .
Sure, but the underlying codebase hasn't had a public audit for boringtun or wireguard, so they're both in the same boat.
I imagine wage disparity b/t men and women is part of it: I'd bet more men drive luxury cars than women b/c more men than women are paid enough to afford them.
It’s under wraps right now (mostly because I can’t look people who believed in me in the eye if I fail) but it’s a tiny CRM for software engineers. Feel free to subscribe to my mailing list on the blog for more information, or email me at me@yingw787.com :)
I guess it must work well for some people inside FB. For me, it was just another high noise, low signal thing to try to remember to check: email, workplace, workplace messenger, irc, wierd automated smses with links I couldn't load and I couldn't quite figure out but at least stopped after I quit, whatsapp messages (where i worked), sometimes phone calls and people coming to my desk. Plus diff reviews and task tickets, which theoretically sent notifications through whatever, but since it's so full of garbage, you just have to check.

Of course, you can't actually rely on workspace notifications either, if you really want to know if another team did something, you need to skim through all their posts. Of course, if you asked someone directly, they would send you to their group feed, like an outsider would be able to skim it with ease.

I may still be unpacking a bit
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They survived fire and toxic fumes. So what happened next to Notre Dame's bees?
JBL Flip 4 but turn the volume down, and also you are always ready for after work party ;)
I think the poll answers your question. It would be a little bit disruptive if 140M people suddenly moved to the US.
Bucketing all North America together made this less interesting. I can't help but think the reasons of migrating from Mexico would not be the same as US or Canadian citizens.
I wonder if this correlates to the resolution and frequency of social media use globally. I might be completely happy with my apartment and job in the EU, but seeing 'ads' for the US on social media every day may begin to chip away at my contentment through the introduction of a comparison.
I can understand why RHEL would still ship ancient PHP versions to keep legacy apps running, but I think WireGuard would be an easier sell considering it's so unobtrusive and has no legacy software to worry about breaking.
I agree with the 'editorial' aspect of this comment.

The illustrator is able to draw the defining characteristics of the plant/subject and leave out what is not important. Things like veins or leaf structure to define the genus are incredibly important.

The editorial nature can bring that forward. With a picture, it is hard for a lay person to tell what details are classifying/important.
My scan of the print edition (kindly mailed to me many years ago by Doug McIlroy), which includes the historical manpages as well as the commentary: https://archive.org/details/research-unix-reader/
Read the article, it's explained there. Once you become a prisoner, legal loopholes can allow the state to keep you there forever.

Us regular citizens are of no particular interest to the state, hence we can expect a fair trial. If you had, say, the key to a 88 GB insurance file, you would find it much harder to fight the legal system.
Haha, great irony :-)
Why just men though? Anyone can be disagreeable and plenty of people who drive nice cars are not men. Can't tell you how many non-male tesla and BMW drivers cut me off without a signal.
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>I've never heard this stereotype of Tesla drivers.

Really? Tesla drivers are like 2% tech enthusiasts and 90% the kind of people seeking the latest and greatest flashy car.
I find Prius drivers to be disproportionally bad when it comes to not stopping at stop signs. In terms of merging aggression, big vehicles seem to be the worst, presumably because they know other cars are going to get out of their way.

For reference, I live near Palo Alto.
I want you to know that in general, I strongly agree with you.

However you must be careful, as these arbitrary rules could cause some collateral damage.

Namely: Bernie Sanders (78)
We might just be in a weird transition period where the modern technology us youngins are used to is still a relatively new thing in the long term. The fix might just be to wait until the older people in charge retire or die out and the new older people in charge are those who grew up with these modern technologies.
If you happen to do .NET, you can make use of BenchmarkDotNet.

As usual, one platform kind of mirrors the other. :)
"Never" seems a bit much, if you accept the premise that all backdoors would be made to look like accidential security flaws.

But since there are probably a lot more accidential security flaws than backdoors, I agree that erring on the side of stupidity is justified.
I'm not personally a huge fan of taking away choices just because you're afraid someone will make the wrong choice. If you don't like older politicians, then make your voice be known. Claiming that you know better than everyone and that your view needs to be the rule of law seems a bit heavy-handed, though. Same goes for censorship.
I guess you're just left with no VPN software then? If WG isn't suitable for production, then OpenVPN, IPSec & co. definitely aren't.
i don't believe in borders and if you believe in the free market then you shouldn't either. of course this is heretical and people will immediately jump down your throat about culture and patriotism and etc as a diversion from the material fact that it's only about profits. right now globalization is very profitable for the west because manufacturers can arbitrage the differences in cost of living. it's not technical innovation in anyway shape or form that you can pay people to assemble iphones in a low cost of living area and then sell them in a high cost of living area. let people move freely and let wages equilibrate.
Exactly. It would be more honest for Soros to say “Mark Z. doesn’t support my political views, so my preference would be to silence him and his platform.”
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$10/mo is far less than the cost of thinking about the issue at all.
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I like term limits. But how would you respond to those who say elections are term limits?
It was a pleasure meeting you too, Andy.
How far away are car windows with baked-in AR? Highlighting the mapped route ahead of the driver by inserting a sequence of semitransparent arrows will render any non-AR map style obsolete for in-car use by drivers.
> Still don’t understand why I can’t just move to another country... I have a degree, no criminal records. But I need visas, permits, etc. Why all this difficulties?

If you are living in first world country, you should know that you still have it very very easy.

To some, a chance to move is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Anonymity isn’t it, or isn’t all of it. YouTube comments were deanonymized but that didn’t improve discourse. Look at Facebook and some of the “discussions” about politics there. Newspapers tried running comment sections, but either they’re a cesspool, real names or no, or they just gave up having comment sections entirely. Even locale isn’t a help - NextDoor is full of the same, or worse, combative vitriol. Sure, child porn and death threats don’t go unpunished like “back in the day”, so things are infinitesimally better, but we still have a very very long way to go.
I've been on dial-up bulletin boards since 1983, Usenet since around the same 1991.

Though in some ways it's the same, here is the difference: it has become more diverse.

In 1991, the people you might have conversed with on Usenet were a lot similar to you.
Of course, if we go to some comp.lang.* newsgroup or whatever, people are similar even today.

But I mean that if you went into any newsgroup whatsoever in 1991, on any topic, everyone there would probably have been some sort of professional in a STEM field, academic or university student. Go to, say, rec.pets.dogs, and it wasn't just any dog lovers from any walk of life, but mostly engineers, programmers and sysadmins who are into dogs.

That's way different from going into Reddit today, where it's now any Tom, Dick and Harry from any walk of life, who only have a certain topic of interest in common and that's it.

People have social interactions online which they wouldn't have in real life. In real life, if you run into someone who is from, say, a "lower" social class, they have it written all over them, and it puts them in their place more effectively than any downvoting system.

For instance, in real life, you would either never argue politics with an obvious "despicable", or else you'd immediately attribute everything they say to the limited scope of their background and just nod your head politely.

Basically, there is no new divisiveness; the quiet divisiveness we already have just comes out when people get together and hide behind aliases and avatars.
Anecdote incoming: In South Seattle, it definitely isn't just "white men in fancy cars" that are doing the most dangerous of driving.

My guess is that the higher the loan value is when compared to the driver's income, the worse the driver will be. Ex: $20k/yr guy driving $45k loan V8 Mustang would be a much worse driver than $100k/yr guy who owns his BMW outright.

Side-note: I do not drive a luxury car, for those about to presume.
So awesome seeing your posts at the top of HN!

>> I've also noticed that readers are less interested in business lessons unless the story involves thousands of dollars — earning or losing large sums both seem to work.

I would love to read more about the mundane, small business lessons, because that's where I am. And I'm positive I'm not the only one.

Keep writing about the smaller day-to-day struggles, you got readers!
FWIW the American psychologist/philosopher William James once compared long spans of attention to weight lifting. The more you do, the more you can do easily.
I thought that Mark Zuckerberg would be pretty aligned with Soro's point of view.

What does Soros not like about Mark Zuckerberg?
That is not AI, that’s just Eliza, seen that trick.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Any long lived project (that doesn't want to end as legacy code) is a performance art piece.

If you've ever seen five minutes of an opera (go to YouTube if not), they move their mouths in an almost comical exaggeration so the people farther away can see what's going on.

Early on when I relied on subtlety, I'd find repeatedly that someone has grossly mistaken my intention and undone a bunch of work that I put time into. The bigger the gesture the harder it is for them to either misunderstand or feign confusion (easier to ask forgiveness... unless forgiveness involves admitting you're an idiot).
That's because this conversation is occurring in the abstract - surely you can think of examples which don't fall into your supposed pattern (flat earth, pizza parlors, etc.)
Looking at those numbers, isn’t the EU the most desired place to migrate to? Feels odd to not split the USA into its member states while splitting Europe up.

How many of those potential migrants want to move to Texas vs Spain?
"Mr. Soros is a philanthropist."

also note that Soro's position isn't to inform a position on which Facebook should proceed with community guidelines, but instead he just wants to replace the heads of the company for whatever reasons. very helpful!
Facebook is not an imminent or obvious danger to the public; it is slow, subtle, but nonetheless clear. Much as the purveyors of leaded gasoline in the 1920s understood their products pose a risk to public health, Facebook is fully aware of the consequences of their product. We've all read countless articles, exposes, and leaks about the calculated human cost of this company, whether it is the rampant spread of misinformation, the operant conditioning designed to make their applications addictive, the abuses and leaks of the personal information of users, or the psychological trauma inflicted upon their armies of minimum-wage contracted moderators.

Facebook shareholders have demonstrated no interest in curbing Facebook's negative externalities, as it is still yielding profit. Facebook is a de-facto monopoly with no direct competitors and ruinously unethical policies. If ever there were a case for government "interference", we're seeing it.
Tyler Cowen runs the George Mason University Mercatus Center, which is directly funded by the Koch bros; one of the Kochs is directly on the Mercatus board. In other words, they have a very specific economic and political axe to grind.

Mr. Cowan's food blog of DC/NoVA restaurants is pretty good though.
There's Google that uses your name but doesn't enforce its authenticity.

Anyway, I don't comment on any services that use a real name policy. I'd prefer that my name didn't appear on the Internet at all, but don't fight against it when it inevitably happens via some participant lists and whatnot.
I always thought MASH was about Vietnam tbh
...in Finland. It would be interesting to know how car-buying behaviors (and brand popularity) differ across countries and cultures. Might be the same all over the world, or it could be very different. But why wait to find out, when you can put up an overbroad headline and get lots of clicks now?
> (3) If you've chosen not to give them your contact book, they have worsened the UX over time (for example, it only shows phone numbers now and not the display names they have set).

Adding to this, you also cannot initiate a first (new) message to anyone unless you have granted contact access. The workaround is to ask the other person to message you first...
While no criminal records is definitely a plus, and a degree is also a good thing, neither of those are what bind a nation together.
Nice yeah, it does look promising. Doesn't look like full-blown scripting support like in the aforementioned text editors, more like the limited support that Mutt has. But this is definitely enough to pique my interest, and it looks better than anything I've seen in any other browser.
The authors say that their current version(s):

> should not be considered real releases and they may contain security quirks (which would not be eligible for CVEs, since this is pre-release snapshot software)

I figure they know better than I do.
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Few weeks ago I read Heinrich Böll's "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum" [1] which is a literary reflection on how society and media treated RAF [2] sympathizers.

What struck me was how much the described trolling and toxicity resembled what we observe nowadays. The book and the setting is the 70's so the anonymous bullying and hysteria just materialized via letters, newspapers and the phone instead of social media.

Also it has been mentioned on HN several times that society didn't become more toxic - possibly even less. But more and more people gained access since the 90s and take the opportunity for abusing it in such ways. Also there are now troll farms and a single person without a job can spread poison like a gatling gun bullets.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Honour_of_Katharina_B...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
What solutions would you pay for as a software engineer? What would your boss/team lead pay for? You can't really do it for someone elses domain, you need a motivated partner in that domain for that (my general experience, of course there are exceptions)
Very few people believe in a true free market. We have plenty of legit regulations around it and probably could use a few more to level things out.
Not all actors are participating in online conversations in good faith. Meaning, a big part of the problem are trolls and propagandist antagonizing and encouraging division. Part of the solution has to be stopping them.
Yes. Encountering the Apache Helicopter joke on 4chan is par for the course, but I just really don't want to hear it out loud from a coworker who is senior to me in a meeting room, and have everyone else laugh along with it.