skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is so manipulated at this point. The front page always has a political agenda, unbelievable what happened to that website.
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From what I can see the_donald is effectively dead and theredpill is also quarantined so it might as well be, since quarantined subreddits are always eventually banned.
Not sure how you are coming to this conclusion, yes it can become more sophisticated while also be on a sliding scale of what people consider "hatred" from one year to the next. I'm not sure what is not to grok about this conclusion.
According to the FBI, there's been a move by white supremacists to essentially take over the police of this country: https://www.justsecurity.org/70507/white-supremacist-infiltr...

Cops seem to enjoy beating up protesters, and I think that's the real problem.
Yes, mechanism of action is an ideal, but not attainable yet with current technology. Of course, we have to make do with what we have, and there is higher probabilities of errors with medicines which we don't understand the mechanism of action.
Reddit mods wantonly abuse their power and I'm not even talking about politics.

Ever been to r/science? 8/10 comments are deleted and those posts can't be read ever again (I'm understating that number, if anything). Honestly, half the reason I come here is because you can still view dead comments - censorship is a surefire way to get me to leave your community.
But that's why she was ousted:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-steps-dow...

Turns out only allowing speech that you deem acceptable makes for a pretty boring internet forum.
Honest native answer: it depends on which side of the political spectrum you are on. Plenty of citizens are defending the police's actions, even their current actions during the protests, as completely justified. The POTUS doesn't make his fiery speeches in a vacuum; his base completely supports that attitude.

Edit amendment: Folks, OP wasn't asking whether or not the police actions were justified or not justified. He was asking about whether association with them would be interpreted as inherently "stinky" in the future. Whether good or bad, a prospective employer's feelings about a prospective employee's work history with US law enforcement is strongly coupled to their political views. That's true for military service, its true for ICE, and now its true for local police as well.
All good things!
I would also say that STRESS KILLS. It has real physical harm to the body. I love working in high-stress situations but it has taken a long time to learn how to make stressful situations not stress me out.
Finally, find meaning in the things you do even if they are not 'meaningful things'.
If what you are saying is true then there is no need to censor. In your scenario people already know what is propaganda. Twitter allowed Oprah getting arrested for sex trafficking to trend to #1. There was no financial hit for that.
Sorry, used to writing British Columbia. Will edit.
You can't enforce complexity rules or check against known leaked passwords or that they don't reuse username as password or anything like that if you hash on the client too
This is a great question. I try to spend my evenings without my phone now, and spend more time with family or reading. I also put it in either airplane mode, or do-not-disturb, plugged into a charger. I've been increasing the amount of time I can get by without my phone. The effects have been positive
You're absolutely right but I don't think holding someone's retirement account over their heads is a good move. Let them keep their pension for the number of years they actually did serve. Strip them of their right to serve sure, but don't go back in time and pull their paycheck.
A post on Reddit the other day said it best:

>People are being radicalized on your site. Ideological violence—murder—is committed by people who were heavily involved in hate communities on reddit that are still not banned as of today. All you jellyfish can muster up is some finger wagging and a yellow triangle to let them know that they've been so naughty that they get an ad-free experience and the inability to give reddit money through awards. Here I am wishing every subreddit could be so privileged.
It looks like anti-oxidants can prevent you from dying in case you don't sleep at all.

It doesn't tell much about the long term effects of low levels of sleep deprivation.
This is the first time I’ve heard this obvious point. There are riots now because people just don’t have the energy left to protest while surviving in hyper capitalism. They’ve got plenty of entertainment at home. This is bout energy and time. Employment supresses protest because it takes time and saps energy.
What's wrong with /r/conspiracy?
After reading the article, I think it's quite clear that both Palantir and Google paid someone off to get this contract.
> Only approved users may post in this community.

So now it's the truest propaganda machine, you're saying. Approved users only for consumption by a dedicated subscriber base.
>The word "chemical" also doesn't mean "toxic".

While that may be true, the definition of "chemical weapon," according to the OPCW does indeed mean toxic: https://www.opcw.org/our-work/what-chemical-weapon
Human cycles: History as science (2012)
Most police forces and sheriff departments in the US are small and go years or decades between controversy.
Except you're still killing grandma which is just as bad as police brutality.
It's also indicative of one aspect the problem, where we largely don't care until we have a personal stake in things.

For another example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506

> Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay.

It's great that people change. It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.
Reddit got too mainstream for its own good. The company desperately wants to become the new social media (think Facebook or Twitter), but many users are standing in the way, making the change from a discussion website to a social media website slow. What made me and many others use Reddit in the first place is that it didn't really matter who you are and what's your political and religious background, the only thing that mattered is what you are saying in that particular thread in a particular subreddit. Now politics and controversies can be seen in all subreddits, people are using the platform just to post selfies of themselves, and with the addition of the "profile" feature, there is an insentive to make a name for yourself there.

So yeah, while a lot of people, including me, hate the changes, it is obviously better for the business, as it attracts a wider range of users. But still, I'm starting to use Reddit less and less, and relying on RSS and HN to get my daily dose of tech news and discussions.
Wouldn't hashing on the client side possibly introduce a reduction in complexity of the password? The hashed password on the client side could be used in place of the plaintext password if the channel is insecure. Lets say the password length limit is 256 ascii chars this is 8*256 bits (ok a little less since not all ascii chars are printable), but if hashed on the client (lets be generous and hash to 1024 bits) it's still half the complexity of the plaintext.
The issue isn't there are good or bad cops. In any large organization there will be "bad apples" (malicious actors), that just statistically will happen. What is very important is how misconduct is handled, and how these "bad apples" are handled.

Due to the legal concept of qualified immunity, it is very difficult to sue the police for civil or criminal liability. I understand the intent of qualified immunity. The idea is that a police officer did the best they could knowing what they know, and it is very easy to look at things after the fact (hindsight is 20/20), so it makes it easier for a police officer to do their job without constant worry of lawsuit. However, it has been abused to the point that it is next to impossible to sue for criminal/civil liability.

Additionally, there is wide conception that police do not police their own (look up "blue wall of silence"), and police unions are very strong, so it is extremely difficult for an outside organization to police them.

Case in point, it is argued that if it weren't for the cell phone video of George Floyd, the police officers would not have even been charged with misconduct and would still have their jobs, much less criminal charges.

If you have an organization that has a monopoly on violence and there is not a good way to keep that in check, THIS WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE PROBLEMS.
Steve Huffman has been the CEO since July 2015. Ellen was calling out Steve, not Alexis.
There are artificial grown tissues from human Stem cells called "organoids" [0] that are used in labs to conduct experiments. But of course these experiments are very limited as it remains to be seen how far can organoids resemble the human brain (or other organs). Behaviour experiments are of course a far far goal on this.

[0] https://hsci.harvard.edu/organoids
The Shareware Scene, Part 4: Doom
>If we are to learn anything from the last 10 years of the replication crisis, it has to be that a single paper is a data point, not a conclusion.

I highly recommend this elaboration upon that idea: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...
Free speech of corporate-owned property is not new. In London, there's a huge amount of public spaces that are privately owned, but companies can't control their speech. Facebook may be similar.
who cares about virus in time of political crisis?!

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste." (c) Rahm Emanuel

'democrats' (aka. neo-communist) are largely benefiting from the current crisis and not wasting it. Only to realize later that they were exposing themselves and army of their associate UIs for people to see their true color.
There's a copy in the Internet Archive as well: http://web.archive.org/web/20170621172438/https://slackhq.co...
Good luck disobeying if you are small business owner who was told you can no longer legally do business.

On a more personal note, my 98 year old Grandma has been confined to her room at the nursing home for three months. Good luck to her civil disobeying orders.
By 2023, the USGS plans to have taken high-resolution LiDAR over the entire continental U.S., as well as creating 1-meter raster elevation products. Maps like these will be easier to create in the future.

Progress: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/1-meter-dem-availability-c...
Never thought we'd see wide support for book restriction or censorship again. Are people not reading history or considering the second order effects? Heck, you don't even have to go back that far. Just look how badly "official sources" handled Covid-19.

For example, remember what the official word was, even despite being a self-contradiction: masks don't work, but save them for health workers. You may say that's a noble lie, but it destroys credibility and covers for the fact officials failed to prepare for the known threat of pandemics.
When I sort by date submitted the last post that came up was 2 months ago. That seems pretty dead to me.

Edit: Also the sidebar says there are 600 active users. I assume that includes me following your link. For comparison /r/news has ~68,000 users as of this writing.
Or - reversed - "non proprio" means more than anything else "not exactly" (meaning something that is similar, almost, but not quite what was expected) BUT "non è proprio il caso" means "absolutely not" or "definitely not".

Nuances in languages are tough.
This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a compilation of data that hasn't been widely reported.
These are the first examples that come to mind. There are many more with similar userbases that has migrated from them. Don't forget all the Pizzagate/QAnon stuff, incels, etc. Here's a longer list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

Also, quarantined != banned. It's still on reddit, and those users spread out onto other non-quarantined subreddits and spew the same kind of garbage.
What benefits do you find that discord offers over Slack?
Anything unambiguous really, whatever works for the job. So unless the job is looking at very limited amount of data and drawing conclusions from it just using your brain, that means you need some kind of visalisation and processing tool. Like pandas or excel since we're talking tabular data. I.e. actually the whole premise of 'let's look at data in a plain text editor' is sort of wrong, imo. It's too limited and hence not the right tool for the job most of the times. You can't do anything but the simplest things with the data anyway in a plain text editor, so from the moment your data is more than a couple of rows in a table you're better off with another tool anyway.
Nice post. Seems to be hot topic lately.
And always nice to see a simply designed and well-written blog.
I am going to try to say something neutral, not related to current politics. Frankly, I'm doing so because I'm curious if such a comment is even possible.

- I applaud anybody who takes a moral stand, especially if it might cost them something they hold dear.

- Whenever people complain about social media, the usual response is "But these are private properties. People can do what they like with them." I agree that this is the role of private property

- It's a fact that these social media networks operate because of the network principle, that is, it's much easier to get into than to get out of. It's also a fact that just a few media sites control the vast majority of online conversation and commerce

- Might it not have been useful for this moral stance to have been taken much earlier? First, you made your money and built your company. Walking off now isn't exactly standing in the soup line next week. Second, lots of folks are stuck with your product that might now be changing its operating parameters. Third, there's no way to predict what future event might cause even more changes.

Once again, kudos for reaching inside and doing a gut check. Life is full of a bunch of people, all with different opinions and points where they would change their mind. That's a good thing, but is this just something that keeps getting more and more restrictive over time? If so, might want to put that on your sign-up page, perhaps periodically remind folks. (This is a rhetorical question aimed at every service that does what reddit does online)
Depending on how many police officers are subscribers in the_donald, possibly.
Black holes are like a hologram
On that, I recommend "Fool's Gold: Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library"
You may enjoy this classic verge piece: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back...
Being skeptical of the claim that a certain qualia is not modelable in machine is just as valid as being skeptical of the exact opposite. This is exactly why I asked if there was anything beyond what the original poster said. Without it, a post based on the exact opposite assumption could have been written and considered just as valid.
In this study they showed that exposure to anti-oxidants restores sleep and normal lifespan. But be cautious that is only in comparison to sleep-deprived animals. There is no claim that lifespan went beyond "normal".
That is why he said, we should do both: hashing client AND server side. Hashing on the client prevents sending plain text passwords to the server which could mishandle them eg. Logging them for instance like Twitter once did. Client side you can also check on registration if the user password is known to have been pwned (1password offers an api for that) and use a secure hashing algorithm. Server side the hash (which is then the password) will be salted and hashed again.
Hashes do reduce it, by an amount determined by the hash size and algorithm.

This has nothing to do with client vs server. SHA1 of STRING will always have the same entropy wherever it is computed; it must, for the hashing to work.

EDIT: I suspect you are confusing PRNGs or KDFs with hashing. Entropy is relevant with the former, not the latter.
I didnt sleep enough for all my teens and student years, and ended up with an autoimmune disease. Taking sleep and other health seriously has been a big part of getting myself back in working shape.
> And even then they can just practice them. They might even learn something.

And you can "just" contribute to OSS, can you not? You might even learn something.

You seem to be advocating for the interview style that fits your personal strengths and preferences while arguing that others should not do the same.

Personally, I test just fine and I also contribute to OSS. Perhaps I should argue for that to be the standard, since it would benefit me personally.
Confirmed: having young kids is bad for your health.
No the sub doesn't exist anymore. There was an admin takeover and they left it in this odd "technically existing" state for some reason. TD is gone - you can look for stories about it some months ago.
Sure, just saying it's not that they haven't tried. If you have some specific ideas for low-hanging fruit that you think the Julia devs have missed though, I'm sure they'd welcome a PR!

edit: also, time-to-first-plot is a lot less than 30 seconds for me these days, even without PackageCompiler. (time-to-second-plot is, as usual, instantaneous)
Agreed. I hope hacker news doesn't become what reddit became. Contrary to the link, Reddit admins/mods actively police its content to be left leaning.

Silencing/hiding content has the opposite intended effect on those being silenced, to those wondering why it's a bad thing.
Anecdotally, and interestingly, I've only ever seen the phrase "virtue signal" from the alt-right/white supremacist/Trump supporter group. I think I understand what it's trying to convey, but it seems to be used anytime someone sides with something with which that group disagrees. It's like a "dog whistle" for white supremacists and personally when I see it used, it makes me question everything else that person said.
that proves the point of the person you are replying to: there is no activity at all; they've moved on.
Unless they assume the average Chinese user is just like the average user everywhere else on the planet which tends to reuse password in multiple locations.
This sounds like a “follow your dream” pitch.

Great for the survivors, bad for 99.99% that did not make it. I’d be curious to know how many people tried that got nothing for their effort.
You're giving a message forum way too much credit for Trumpism in the United States. Do you actually think that social media is representative of a majority?
“After making a shit ton of money, raising way more money then we needed to, and ultimately handing the future of the platform to soulless investors, I’ve decided to leave to better support people oppressed by police brutality” seems like a more honest statement to me but I guess it doesn’t read as well.

Edit: Snark aside, his actions and financial commitments to various organizations (as well as some of his future earnings) are commendable. If more founders and executives took these actions the world would be a better place. There's always more that can be done, but that shouldn't stop us from committing smaller actions as well.
/r/the_donald was quarantined a year ago and hasn't been banned yet.
This is a great way of phrasing something I've tried saying several times but it always fell flat.
Ha. Have you ever played SimTower[1]? On the surface of it, you build a high-rise mixed-use building (complete with basement levels). If you click around most things in the game can be tuned a little bit (oh, you don't have enough housekeeping staff, so your hotel will become infested with bugs).

A major piece of the game is moving people from point A to point B, usually via elevators. If you happen to click into the control panels behind the elevators you find a whole, very different, complex control panel with its own UI. That turns out to be because SimTower was built around a pre-existing elevator sim[2] that's complex enough to have its own guidebooks on the web.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTower

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090916193335/http://www.gamasu...
Jean-Yves Sireau, CEO of Deriv.com shares the story of the brand
We are human, experience is how we learn. Rather than moralize against it because there is an ideal human you’d prefer recognize that there is a clear and known path to helping people humanize their worldview through exposure.
This is just scape-goating and finding something recent to blame for a situation that has been going on for 150+ years.

Besides, it was effectively shut down, and all that did was lead to the creation of thedonald.win, which by all appearances seems to be thriving and growing rapidly, probably much faster than Reddit itself grew when it was founded. To blame the situation on a forum is to misunderstand that the country is filled with people with these viewpoints regardless (and it has been for far longer than anyone today has been alive).
lately its been them sharing memes about "why are protestors so surprised when we gas them" and the like
>That would be pretty trivial. If you had the Windows 3.0 source code, you could compile it, and the binaries you'd get would be the same as the shipped binaries. //

That's not how that works AIUI. Repeatable, provable builds are I understand a recent phenomenon. Use a different compiler, or different flags, and you get different binaries.

You're right on BoP, but the burden of proof still lies with the alleged copyright holder of a work, who certified in their internal processes, does not exist anymore.
> could most likely just apply to a FAANG company directly

Honestly most of those companies don't look at their resumes. Back when I was in college I submitted my resume to one of those companies no less than about 10 times.

And then suddenly out of the blue some PM at that company reached out to me saying they came across my website and saw a couple cool projects and asked if I would be interested in sending them a resume. (Yes, I did, and I got the offer, but ended up later declining it since I wanted to do a PhD.)

But that shows that clearly the previous 10 times my resume went nowhere.

In most tech companies any employee reasonably high up on the ladder can more or less whisk you into the interview process if they know you or your work and it's strong. Whether or not you get the job depends on the interview, but you'll at least almost surely get the interview. Multiple merged PRs on an open source project by that company is a near 100% ticket to the interview. Don't underestimate the power of knowing people, even if you are an amazing coder.
Yep.. now people to can say "They" don't wan't you to know the truth.