skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the problem is preexisting. The local communities can and have been the most psychotically toxic places.

If something is political is only about the level of agreement and not about sanity, decency, or morality. It may be easier to (not) think about divergence of views but that doesn't solve the particular underlying issue isn't real.
>rotors are potentially a lot easier to understand and reason about than quaternions

Quats are quite easy to reason about: a unit quat holds a rotation about an axis: rotation about angle theta an axis given by direction (x,y,z) is quat q = sin(t/2) + cos(t/2)(xi+yj+zk).

Composing quats q1 * q2 is the rotation you get by applying q2 then q1 to an item.

So think of the scalar as holding info about the angle rotated, and the vector part as the direction of the axis.

I don't see how with rotors or quats you can easily visualize composition or more complex actions (and I've used both extensively). "Blindly" trusting the formulas can be replaced by working through a proof enough times until you feel how they work, just like linear algebra, algebra, quadratic formula, etc.
People have changed the world over a tweet. If changing the world is all you want to do, plant a tree. The world will be changed for the better.
Easy for you to say if you're not in the effected communities...
Yes, I hate conspiracy theorists who ridiculously claim that governments tested out things like toxic chemicals, radioactive substances, and pathogens on civilian populations throughout the entire 20th century:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentat...
Follow-up - this seems to be happening to other, maybe all 2019-nCoV posts, I just hadn't noticed before.
Actually, it is rather effective. Your immune system doesn't rely on tact once a particular foreign body proves to be hostile or dangerous; rather tt initiates inflammation and countermeasures.
Exactly. "Don't feed the troll" means report it to the moderator so they can ban them. Letting trolls spew their message unopposed is how you lose your community.
It's a reference to [1] and a mindset arguably most common in the gamedev world that emphasizes simplicity, pragmatism and performance (including compile time performance) over many aspects of "modern C++". I've found it useful and productive, YMMV.

[1] https://gist.github.com/bkaradzic/2e39896bc7d8c34e042b
Oh pray tell us what exactly bigots believe?

Can't believe I'm seeing this on HN.
Noah.. get the boat
I don't know on what basis you think that their cultural impact is nil.
I literally quoted the two claims he makes interchangeably. He makes two very different claims and then seems to imply they're the same thing and then provides no evidence for the actual serious claim. They're not mutually exclusive, one is a much more serious claim than the other and yet he's not provided any evidence for it.

As for the other claims by the Swedish police, I can go through every single point that he makes, but I think we'd all agree that's probably over the top for a HN comment. One of the highlights is his assertion that it constitutes misbehaviour for the police to act on a report of a crime simply and should have deferred to the witness's interpretation of the law. The woman reported that Assange had sex with her under false pretences, now I'm not an expert on Swedish law, but I'm fairly certain its not down to the woman reporting that to decide whether that constitutes a crime or not. That's what the rapporteur is claiming, which seems a rather bizarre and ridiculous claim to make for someone who is meant to be a respected voice at the UN.
ITT racists and bigots making pseudointellectual arguments in defense of evil.
College can be free. Three 3k/mo saases would.
there's that reasoned debate everyone is clamoring for
I will not called you a Neo-Fascist, I will however Label you Authoritarian which would be accurate given the nature of the law.

Then I would ask you why you hate Individual Freedom and liberties which would also be a valid question given the nature of the law

Laws of this type embodies the "good of society" is more important that the liberties of the Individual, is places the collective ahead of the individual.

I, a libertarian individualist, reject any and all forms of collectivism and authoritarianism
> 200 billion locusts

For context - there are 4 billion IPv4 addresses in total if that helps with scale of things for some.
Years ago I built a recipe app for a client who wanted it to have a "smart" shopping list feature that could dedupe ingredients from disparate recipes, normalize their quantities and sum them up to friendly totals. I fell waaaay down the parsing rabbit hole battling those exceptions-to-exceptions, what a mess. Reading your examples gave me a flashback!

The app only had a couple of hundred recipes so we wound up just having someone manually translate every ingredient for every recipe into a common structure in a spreadsheet.

Anyhow, thanks so much for these posts, I quit my job a few months ago to work on a few projects of my own and I've really enjoyed reading your updates. Looking forward to more in the future.
Simulations are not the major bottleneck in drug development.

More generally, the naysayers in this case are likely to be people who actually have some knowledge of drug development, and have seen countless companies that promised to revolutionize drug discovery by using computers, most of which are no longer in existence. If an AI-powered company can suddenly start passing Phase III clinical trials at an unprecedented rate, then I'll be genuinely impressed.
I hate to ask again, but why is this submission also getting heavily penalized?

It seems like maybe all 2019-nCoV posts are getting penalized by mod(s) silently? Because this one and the last one an hour ago are. [0]

I am not making any statements about whether that is sensible or not - but why not comment on why, like you've so often done in other cases?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205338
https://i.imgur.com/08857sZ.jpg
I Get so annoyed when I forget to toggle back on "silence all unknown callers," especially when I'm driving/listening to music in the car and oh hey it's call yet not for me rather some scumbag is trying to steal ppl's money.
The upside to this is obvious. There are very large downsides, though. For instance, the public and the government (at least in the US) has a strong tendency to overreact to things like this, so the people on such lists may be subjected to what amounts to punitive actions for no good reason.

Hopefully, my efforts to evade, confuse, and hide from spying companies like Google and FB have been effective enough that I wouldn't appear on such lists regardless, though.
Wc without any branches in x86-64
Actually, there's something interesting to note. If you enable 2FA, it's not possible to recover your account without either the password or the recovery email (if any). However, via SIM-jacking an attacker can still erase all data in your account and then take it over.
By making it possible to find, but not explicit it avoids low hanging outrage, which doesn't help anyone.

If anyone contacts this company they need to assume good faith and be understanding - it's possible there are good reasons (the individuals health?) for the non-resposiveness. It's not like they've repurposed the domain for financial gain.

I'm guessing C is cloudflare - in which case the situation is a bit ironic as the domain uses cloudflare DNS.
wireguard is now available from android, ios to mac, windows and other platforms.
Adding personal context in subjective writing does indeed help instead of assuming one's local interpretation is the same as the reader's.
It is a major problem in America for the past 4-5 years. It wasn't this bad before then but nowadays, you get like 2-3 spam calls a day at the minimum. The worst part is that the spammers use your local area code and sometimes even matching up to the first 6 digits which creates more doubt if it is coming from someone local or not. Absolutely hate this. I don't ever pick up an unknown number anymore. If is it really important/urgent, they will leave a voicemail and I check that immediately to ensure it was not a genuine/emergency call.
Von Karman Vortex Shedding at the Washington Monument
First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States
This is an extraordinarily weird way to summarize WireGuard's cryptography, which shares primitives with Signal (it's derived from Trevor Perrin's Noise framework) and, while we're at it, TLS 1.3. Bernstein's credibility in cryptography comes from his standing as an academic cryptographer, not as "the developer of qmail".
I believe the reason for the uptick is two-fold.

1.) In general, this is a reactionary movement from the elite class of society(straight, white, cis people) to keep a death grip on the social and systemic power they see being taken from them in the form of diversity, equality, feminism, etc. This has been happening for a long time now, but it got real, real bad after...

2.) ...Trump was elected. Him winning the election was a shot of weapons-grade steroids into the ass of these regressive movements. He validated and emboldened them. He made them feel not only okay about being bigoted, but morally good for it.

That's my thoughts, at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust

Locusts and Grasshoppers are different insects.
Pulling a Pay out of the Anti-Gun Playbook "Encryption like this is only for war" and "Regular people do not need this type of encryption"

I wonder how many people support this line of reasoning when it used as a case to strip me of my Gun Rights, but reject it when it used to strip me of my Privacy rights...

//for the record, I support both Gun and Privacy Rights
Like the idea. It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216827
Voat is tiny. Sure there is always going to be a population of die hard edgelords who are determined enough to move to a new site, but in general the vast majority of people are lazy. And most likely it takes the bot / disinformation account owners a while to move all their activity over to a new community
You only say that because you don't agree with the agendas of the people you've listed. Would you trust me to choose when to deplatform the people who drive the agendas you agree with?

edited because of grammar
Recent discussion of DoJ cases:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22175019
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Garbage collection is not so
much considered a negative thing, but a thing that's inappropriate for the embedded domain. The problem is that garbage collection entails some system code periodically scanning lists of memory allocations to identify stuff that's now garbage that can be recycled. Embedded Devs worry about the scheduling of that code, and how long it could take to run worst case, and whether it will spoil their real time guarantees. There are various mitigation strategies, but for good or evil many individuals and organisations apply a simple "no, we're not going to use GC ever" policy.
To clarify, in 1993 or even 2000, you could see a bunch of flame wars on Usenet, and you could ignore them because they "meant nothing". You could dismiss it as a nerd argument that's not connected to your life in the real world.

That was usually accurate. (Although I should say there were very intelligent people on Usenet, and that's why I used it. I learned a lot there.)

It's harder to do that now. You can ignore certain channels, but they spill out into the "real world" quite frequently.

To give a different example, UFC fighters pick fights with each other online, often on Instagram or YouTube. So what happens online is critical to the entire sport, which has grown a tremendous amount in the past decade. It determines whether they get paid $100K or $1M. Real life happens online now.

That's a somewhat random example but there are many many subcultures / industries where what happens on social media determines what happens in the real world.
I don't know a lot of serious systems security people who actually believe that. OpenBSD is fine, and smart people work on it, but it's been a long time since the early 2000's.
Sure, but in my experience, most robo-calls don't actually leave messages. I maybe get a message every week or two, but I'll have multiple spam calls per day that are sent to my voicemail.

It's also not immediate. I can check my voicemail later when I have time, instead of having to pick up whenever I'm spammed. That's even before I might have a service/feature where it will try to transcribe the voicemail, which often makes it very easy to tell that it's spam.
And what would you like for him to do about that?
Convert any Python 2 file into a single line of code
Likely yes. I'm discussing that possibility with them.
Looks like grasshoppers generally live 50ish days as an adult. That's gonna put some serious limits on your max per-grasshopper-leg-rubber total accumulated grasshoppers.
> Basically no serious programming language uses bison or flex,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bison#Use: Ruby, PHP, GCC until 2004, Go, Bash, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl.

Can we stop with this "duh, real programmers write their own handwritten parsers"? Parser generators are awesome! They force you to write a declarative grammar which a human can understand. If you're designing a language this is very useful. With a handwritten parser you're very likely to encode some unintended behaviour in edge cases; using a parser generator early in this process will very quickly reveal the ambiguities.

That doesn't mean that parser generators are always the best. There are many use cases where a handwritten parser is better. But the picture is way more nuanced than "no serious programming language uses bison or flex".
Question: why did he leave a job to build these sites? He could have built them while continuing a full-time job.
> 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....

Thank you for responding with actual data. I'll have to read the article.

> De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one.

I'm not sure how one can look at Reddit being more consistently liberal, and Voat being... Voat, and see this as "reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces".
The problem with trying to 'fix the problem' is that most people seem to think that the solution to polarization is to silence the 'crazies' that disagree with them, and who are 'causing the polarization'.

In a diverse society it is normal to have a wide spectrum of opinions, and a lot of them are going to seem wrong. Wrong ideas are not a threat, so long as we accept that they are just opinions. What is dangerous is giving a small group the power to decide which ideas are valid and which ones are not, because that small group will be taken over by opportunists who will use the power to control speech to further their own agenda.
Their stance is the only one compatible with their core aims. I'm not sure why you would expect anything else.
I don’t really mind that we’re not on the metric system. I just wish our measurements were consistent as they increase. E.g. foot, kilofoot, etc. instead of foot, yards, miles.
But has far fewer false positives. Especially with a workflow.
Area is not expressed as a length. In general you can't simplify an expression that is a sum of an area and a length (this is one of the features of geometry that GA handles for you algebraically). e.g. "one meter plus one meter" can be simplified to "two meters", but "one square meter plus one meter" cannot be simplified. However if one of the terms is zero you can remove it, so "zero square meters plus one meter" is "one meter".

So x² = xx = x^x + x·x = 0 (area) + 1 (length)

xy = x^y + x·y = x^y (unit area) + 0 (length)
first of all, you only expose yourself as being a terrible human being by making that comment at all about now deleted comment from the troll. why did you feel the need to even say that? you just had to come into my thread where i'm begging for any help so that i don't die and shit on me because you were offended by my tone of words?

that troll commenter said "if i talk like i write then he can see why nobody will hire me" and to "talk 90% less."

you consider that "genuinely trying to help"?

and i'm not supposed to stand up for myself in reply? since i'm on the bottom of the ladder of life, i don't count, and whatever insults people throw at me, i should just take it because i'm a beggar? i'm the one slowly dying here, not that original poster. and i'm only supposed to write dumb, in single syllable sentences and at a low enough reading comprehension level so that you and the troll don't get "exhausted"? neither you nor the troll know me, so that is a pretty big and insulting assumption to make about how i may or may not act IRL. for your information, when i am at work, i am only there to make money for the company, and i'm the nicest guy you'd know in person, and i don't "talk like that" to my coworkers.

perhaps the stereotypes are true when non-technical peasants rightly perceive "Tech Bros" and the Silicon Valley Internet Monopolist MegaCorps as being a Vampiric culture lacking any decency and empathy towards their fellow human beings.

and people like you who hand wave away the homelessness crisis by declaring "you're all just mentally ill, so i am absolved from any personal civic responsibility" are the people with "textbook grandiose delusions."

and what do you think those links to city services provide? people have this delusion that Big Govt is offering free doctors and drugs and padded cells to the mentally ill, but those dang lazy crazy druggy bums just refuse help and they choose to live on the street. if Big Govt was actually offering such comprehensive services, there wouldn't be over 50,000 homeless people on the streets of LA today right now. and it's going to be 100,000 homeless on LA streets within the next 5 years after the next recession hits. and you might be one of them.
It’s not “for the sake of a wink and a nod” or “dogwhistling.” The ACLU is actively campaigning against the way the US Government and ICE in particular treats immigrants and people around the borders.

Have a look at the ACLU website... their position is quite clear.
> Wireguard needs to put actual logging into the product before anyone should consider using it in production.

The kernel already has this:

# modprobe wireguard && echo module wireguard +p > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control

Then you'll get useful messages in your syslog.
This is akin to an argument that you shouldn't fire your nazi-sympathizing coworker when they discuss their support for an ethnonationalist state because they may join neo-nazi groups and "radicalize" as a result.

Yes, they may. But while they do the workplace where most people interact is a livable place for the rest of us. We shouldn't make it easier to be heard if you have despicable views just because of the implied threat it might get worse.
Linux is evolving and diversifying fast. I'm afraid this will be more so in the future.
What you're proposing sounds uncomfortably like totalitarianism.
Add to home screen is two clicks, how more efficient does it need to be?
It's not just that it's not investigated, one of the people convicted of shooting civilians at random in Iraq was pardoned. That can only serve to make the point that it's deliberate. And popular with the voters.
I end up with voicemails from spammers all the time. They'll ring me and while the phone is ringing, they'll ring me again so they get sent straight to voicemail and can leave a message.
To say that ICE or CBP's "effort" is to "target and tear apart communities" is the kind of dishonesty that would be rightly flagged off of HN as inflammatory nonsense.
and China is testing HIV related drugs for treatment since well before this paper came out

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/chi...

but it's just a lucky hunch, right? not like they would try to hide knowing more about it, right?
Talk about the internet of things...
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What if we built an app in Twilio that is like the "firewall or Cloudflare for phones". Unless you are whitelisted or in the contacts, the call will be routed to voicemail automatically. You can get creative with that and may be even add things like voice captcha. "Thanks for reaching out. Since I don't know you, please press 1 to proceed further". This will weed out the auto callers/robots ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
You might not have realized it, but doctors are just mere humans like everyone else. As such they are not magically immune to outside influence.

Also, I believe our interpretation of the quote differs quite a lot from mine. I read the original quote as: the doctors get manipulated. This reading seems to be incompatible with your response.
You can make that sort of argument against anything: the FAA, FEC, FCC, National Wetland Agency, etc.

What’s euphemistically called "the real world“ simply moves too fast for any legislative body to keep up, let alone the current US Senat. So to some degree, the specific implementation of regulation will always be delegated to agencies.
There was a horrendous locust swarms few months ago in Punjab already before the winter.

The same megaswarm was in Saudi Arabia a year ago.

It seems that the swarm has since split, with one swarm going back to Africa
It is about big tech: WhatsApp doesn't need section 230 immunity if it isn't part of Facebook.
a tweak would be to the phone OS to ping alerts on new VMs immediately. perhaps VMs user-flagged as spam can be templates for autoblocking such VMs for other users.
But you can't blame the product for this, can you? You wont blame email because people you work with are adding you to all the mailing lists, are you?

Yes, fb could do a better job at explaining how to use their product, but maybe there is an opportunity here...
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> On HN this is greatly reduced by the point system and the opacity of bad posts. A bad post fades away so it doesn't look as important as other posts.

The problem is, this functionality is popularity based. Yes, posts that get downvoted are usually bad posts. However, some are simply disliked by the majority of people who wanted to vote on them and are not actually "bad" by the standards of this discussion. Similarly, I have seen toxic posts (that I have downvoted and flagged) upvoted (at least once) when the target of the toxicity was "acceptable".
I think the invention of zero is a bit later.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/obama-administrati...

Where was the lawsuit from ACLU during the Obama years?

That’s what makes the lawsuit partisan.
I wish I could edit my comment, but it looks like HN takes away the ability after some time. What I wanted to do was to recommend everybody read two books: "Shop Class as Soulcraft" (cheesy title, I know) and "The World Beyond Your Head." Both books are my Matthew Crawford, a "knowledge worker" turned mechanic / author in Virginia.

He writes wonderfully about this whole idea of what to attend to, what to pay attention to, and how those two things end up influencing your own thoughts and feelings. He's far more articulate and in-depth about this "phenomenon"--how social media is, in a way, dethroning your usual mental faculties.
Because they're left in a situation where the only people they're able to talk to are already-committed Nazis.

Some of those have indirect diffusion paths back out into the mainstream culture. But the direct ones are blockaded.
There's no problem with wildly differing views. The problem is dehumanizing speech. Taking reddit as an example, there's a thriving r/Libertarian and r/guns together with Sanders supporting or communist subreddits.

Don't conflate strong disagreements with toxic speech.