skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this is about trigger warnings, and therefore teaching more than research.

It also hasn't really aged well. I remember this criticism was far more prominent a few years back, including on HN.

What happened since? Trigger warning were renamed "CN", for "content note", I believe. We also got ourselves some actual problems, so nobody cares about these things anymore.

Popular perception of these warnings also became less scandalised with their increasing popularity: first, because people note that the abundance of "CNs" they come across mean precisely the opposite of what was feared: it's a sign that people aren't censoring themselves, but instead using a commonly accepted practice to mitigate any possible negative effects without the need to self-censor.

And here's the second misunderstanding: "CNs" aren't really meant to make people leave the room or not read the book, and the examples from these articles were pretty rare back then and are almost unheard of now.

They are, instead, an acknowledgement that I, the speaker, realise that this may be a sensitive topic for you. By flagging this up-front, I show that harming you is not my intention, and that I will be supportive if any issue arises.

This understanding defuses the situation. Because it's not usually texts about the Holocaust that are traumatising for jews. It's people using those texts and that history to hurt them anew.
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I guess "throwaway" is the wrong word. In my case, I created a few emails under Fastmail's domains and then used them to sign up for things like reddit, newsletters etc, where I don't need to tie it to my identity.

I don't think it's a given that spammers will find your domain, if you only provide your email to real people, and give generated emails to online services.
These are good points, I really want to break down everything one by one here, but you identified the root of it which is that people don't want to be treated differently. Black people, like everyone in America, want to exchange time for food and shelter, accumulate wealth and resources, contribute to the growth of the infrastructure.

The only reason you should be concerned that you have to patch your behavior is because your normal banter with friends includes insensitive stuff! If there is a genuine interest in being actively anti-racist, then call out your peers that want to bee-line conversations into frustrations about minorities. Or that are always looking for excuses to use the N word because it sounds cool (or trying to be actually racist). When - logic aside - you know normalizing that grammar would require constant patching around other people.

Another thing that underlies this code switching, for a lot of people, is an irrational fear of being beat up any black person in the vicinity, or even worse "cancelled". For the former, I consider that an entirely racist assumption, people don't want a record or a ruined day over some slip up in grammar or a troll. For the latter, try not to do it on twitter, you'll be fine.

So if you need to, you should consider patching your default conversational behavior so that you don't have to patch it around black people. If you don't need to that, then just assume it's all in your head, just like I assume its all in my head when different mormons are being awkward to me specifically despite knowing what their religion teaches about people of color. Everyone is just trying to go about their day without wondering why anyone is being awkward around them exclusively.
He is 100% unequivocally wrong, and whats worse, with no strong evidence to support his position, I am dismissing his theory.
This isn't being skeptical, this is straight denial. The useful aspect of a skeptical approach would be to not be convinced until a very high level of confidence in a result is shown. The skeptic would be saying 'hmm, the evidence is mounting up, but i'm still not convinced'. Having people like this about when decisions are being made can be very useful, as they can help avoid expensive mistakes.
Why does no one talk about brave’s approach to micro payments. It makes micro payments effortless. One doesn’t even need to use their ad based model. Instead, just buy some of the BAT tokens and use them.

Is there some inherent flaw in there approach that it’s not more widely discussed.
>How can something be a factor in ad targeting without being used to target individuals?

Really weird question. Easy. The tracking ID sent to DoubleClick could be used to target groups of people, such as "people who rarely update their browser". Such heuristics can indicate age, tech knowledge, etc.

No other browser is doing this. Why does Google need to send such tracking information to DoubleClick? You cannot justify it without also explaining why Safari and Firefox don't need this.

Coupled with Google's other self-dealing behavior such as refusing to crackdown on egregious third-party cookies like Safari and Firefox, then this is starting to look very suspicious.

For me personally, the fact this data is even being sent is the smoking gun. Shifting the goalposts to "well we don't abuse it" is classic gaslighting. You don't need to send tracking information to an advertising network.

Why should I trust an advertising network with a hard-coded, impossible to disable, opaque tracking backdoor in the first place?

Google does not disclose it does this. Google provides no way to opt out. Google has not adequately explained why it needs to send it to DoubleClick, given Google Analytics. Google snuck this into the Chromium source code hoping nobody noticed.
> The “Weapons of Mass Destruction” lie could be described using the exact same sentence, and that wasn’t even twenty years ago.

Yes, and not even twenty years since it happened we know a lot of details. Compare that to Moon landing, where conspiracy theorists can at best switch to another accusation after they've got the first one explained.

> It’s to recognize their origins - a (often justified) loss of trust in institutions and governmental narratives - and work on addressing and fixing them.

People should maintain healthy distrust of institutions and governments - after all, as you say, it's not the first time when such mistrust was justified. Too much distrust is however a problem. Similarly one can hardly expect to solve all origins of conspiracy theorists - some people are just bored and want to believe in unicorns, and even if you'd create a more interesting life to them - a big "if" - they could choose to believe what they want.

History teaches that our understanding of history is lacking, sometimes sorely.
Maybe within 100 years. Hopefully not within 10.
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Again, there are specific, identifiable evidence based reasons you should listen to those theories, and you can do so without equating every lunatic with a pet theory to the popular image of Galileo.
There are many VPN services that begin just by reselling white-label VPN solutions, such as provided by NordVPN[1], because it's much cheaper and easier than building your own globally distributed high-capacity and low-latency network. I hope that Mozilla didn't go down this route, as many suspect ProtonVPN did[2], which Mozilla has partnered in the past with[3]. In fact, given that partnership I wouldn't be surprised, if Mozilla VPN was just a rebranded ProtonVPN service underneath. That would bring additional income to Mozilla without taking away any of the development resources from Firefox, and could be seen as a win-win situation by both companies.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/white-label/

[2] https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn...

[3] https://protonvpn.com/blog/mozilla-partnership/
we won't be able to answer this without specifically comparing framework by framework. some frameworks make your code more complex, some help keep it simple.

i have used different backend and frontend frameworks, and i found that backend frameworks do not make things simpler in the sense that you are talking about, if you want to create clean and maintainable code.

sure you can put everything in one file, but the number of files is a meaningless metric. more useful is the number of functions and abstractions. an API is an abstraction. you can do away with that if you generate html in the backend, but the price you pay is with a much closer coupling of interface and business logic that will make future changes harder. in any sufficiently large site you can't afford that and you end up rewriting your site to create the same architectural complexity simply because you need it.
I mention flat earth and anti-vax, because they are conspiracy theories that are not obviously driven by the government's behavior.
These companies compete with each other, but they work together to implicitly suppress anyone who may join the league and compete with them.

The 30% platform tax is a fantastic example. A giant will always win, or be able to stall a fast-growing company, if they can tax 30% of the revenue and build a competitor without this headwind. Even allowing apps that require people to sign up outside the app, that is a significant growth and conversion hurdle.

Advertising-based apps are untaxed and hence incentivised. However, Google and Facebook have acquired and monopolised the market so that you really can't make good money unless you go through them -- and they get to take a 40% clip. Thus, FAAMG will always grow faster than you because collectively enforce a tax on anyone who might be able to challenge them.

FAAMG is the modern day OPEC, just relying on subtly and game theory instead of outright cartel meetings.
He did add that. Second to last paragraph.
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Someone in a recent discussion about randomly-generated spaceships in Blender linked this: https://github.com/aachman98/Sorcar

Not terribly familiar with how things work in Houdini (and only dabbling in Blender a few times), but that's been compared to it.
Except the other candidates never had someone put the hands into the work to the extent that systemd developers have done, so is the nature of FOSS.

Who gets the work done wins, even if it isn't the best solution.
Bread for all? In Soviet Russia they had Holomodor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor), many non-conforming people died in gulags (where bread was pretty rare).

Soviets could not emigrate, they were prisoners in their own country.

As far as I know Einstein & Hawking political views aren't in line with what Soviet Russia was, nor pretended to be.

Which "socialist perspective" do you appreciate?
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki... claims to support this without blobs. I haven't tested it myself, but some friends seem to have no problems with their de-googled Androids.
>For instance a great question is if the EU thinks a fab is worth the effort?

Most EU countries have fabs, even small countries like Switzerland and Austria although they're not as cutting edge as TSMC.
> In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.

> And yet, the chief deficiency I see in the sceptical movement is in its polarization: Us v. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, you're beyond redemption. This is unconstructive. It does not get the message across. It condemns the sceptics to permanent minority status; whereas, a compassionate approach that from the beginning acknowledges the human roots of pseudoscience and superstition might be much more widely accepted.

Selected quotes from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
I think conspiracy theories fill the same void as religion does. It’s for people who want to believe in a higher truth, that someone more powerful is constantly pulling the proverbial strings and the universe isn’t just a chaotic series of random events. And I believe, like religion, that those who love conspiracy theories are less interested in researching those facts themselves because they’ve come to rely on their assumptions for comfort and their peers for unity.

In short, it’s less about the actual conspiracy and more about the individual needing something more in life.
Used `checkstyle` 4 years ago to improve the quality of code. Has neat XML based rules and good IDE support.
See if it fits your use-case.
Parent comment said nothing to gain from.

Pascal's wager (at least) would suggest some kind of logic to it
This is a small town on the outskirts of Dallas. A few blocks from this neighborhood it becomes completely rural. Back when the streets were put in it was a distant commuter town.

But there's no potholes in those pictures. Are you referring to others? Though there are really bad streets in some places. Generally seems to happen when the streets are not as needed as they were previously (e.g. urban decay where businesses and people left the area), and the city doesn't have good options about what to do with it.

Street parking and walkways are optional things anywhere depending on whether they're useful. More of a dependence on the population density. Really expensive subdivisions often lack them too.
I remember reading an article years ago, saying that it’d have required the invention of electronics that did not exist yet to slow down the footage (simulating 1/6th g) and pull off a live broadcast that lasted hours and hours. So in essence, it’d have been the more impressive thing to do technologically speaking. Having seen the new 1 hour documentary on Apollo 11 and how rickety everything looked and barely worked, I’d agree with that assessment.
This article reads like modern TV is shown.

Repeating parts over and over, then telling you what's coming up, what just happened, and padding out content to try and fix it into the consumer's mind despite their attention span being... Ooh! Ponies.

I don't enjoy being disparaging, this just gets my goat because it's happening more often across more media.
Do you work primarily on ads or DoubleClick at Google? Would you stake your own reputation on this tracking ID not being using in any behavioral, group or user tracking algorithm at DoubleClick or any other ad system at Google?
How does this compare to NetLogo?
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565102)
I honestly didn't get that feeling but I am genuinely obsessed with museums and landing on the museum Island, I had spent the entire day lurking through the museums and by the time I got to the gold had, my brain had turned into melted jelly, I could barely focus my eyes at that point.
Huh, this doesn't explain why they added the V.
Giving people money won’t solve this problem, per Ricardo’s law of rent.
As a Guy that does back&front programming and gaming on the same PC, my subjective opinion it's that having a decent color gamut it's important. I saw details that on a old monitor (with a worse color gamut) dissaper or looks worse.
Also, a ultra wide screen gives a lot of screen space to handle a code editor/IDE and a browser on the same screen at same time.
At some point on the future, I would replace my secondary monitor following this priorities:

* Correct color gamut.
* Minimal resolution of 1080, better if is 1440.
* Minimal refresh rate of 60hz, better if at least is 75hz.

This push me to get a LG IPS monitor like the ultra wide main screen that I have now.
We have the phenomenon that we now have very sensible measurement instruments usable to detect trace amounts of materials, or miniscule changes in metabolisms. This enables much new research, but also leads to essentially irrelevant news like cocaine in tap water everywhere, or results like this one you linked: Of course the insects absorbed the microwave radiation, as almost every living tissue does. The interesting research question, though, is: Does the radiation influence actual behaviour, or do actual illnesses emerge due to exposure?

We also have a lot of this in research about humans. One thing that often pops up here on HN is blue light and sleep: We can reliably show that blue light exposure before sleep affects serotonine levels in humans, but we mostly have a hard time showing effects on actual sleep. (I'm not interested in derailing the thread here, just an example)
Sure, but in a democracy it’s very difficult to defraud the public, because the government employees doing the defrauding are the public. At any given time, large swathes of those employees are politically opposed to whoever is in power. That’s why the WMD fiasco is so instructional. It failed immediately, for precisely the reasons we would expect any such fraud against the population to fail, and for precisely the reasons we would expect faked moon landings to be rapidly exposed.
> If I take an extra hour commute I don't get that 15 bucks. And that commute time does not go onto GDP either. It's hard to argue the economy lost the time I was doing nothing productive.

Presumably on average you work an hour's less overtime/day while the diversion is in place, or maybe you quit your job and take a less productive one that's in decent commuting range, or so on.

> And if we really want to take it to the extreme, if it costs the country 15 bucks each hour people are not paid to work, but could have been doing something useful, Avengers Endgame must have cost the country more than it made in ticket sales. Thanos' final revenge:-)

I mean it's certainly worth thinking about how much time you're putting into things like movies and whether that's worth it to you. If something that takes 1 hour and costs $45 is more fun than something that takes 3 hours and costs $15, you might well be better off doing the former.
I take issue with your "quite". Did you try to establish a new religion? Star Wars had some success on that, but even them - with all modern might of persuasion - didn't get billions - or tens of millions - of followers, and those who they did are arguably at least partially follow in jest.

You can't apply "religion" argument that easily.
I found no evidence for either side, but I can't easily test it right now.
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Do you know when it’s supposed to become default terminal? I thought I heard it was coming eventually.
Because you still need to build and launch a rocket, even if it doesn't go to the moon or carry the actual crew, it needs to at least go over the horizon convincingly enough.

All that design and construction still needed to be paid for.

Presumably faking the capsule return is cheap enough if you drop the capsule out the back of an aircraft.

Faking lunar return samples, returning signals from orbit for the various ground stations around the world, and a variety of other things also required a lot of deception, too.

Then, ofcourse, you have to hope that the Russians didn't put out a headline of "Americans fake lunar landing". Since they kept a close eye on things.
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If "blacklist" and "master" are considered racist, how is this not 1,000 times more beligerent.

"Fake Cracker" is absolutely beyond racist, and if you think otherwise, maybe you don't understand how racist you really are.
Well, they could easily just claim that the samples are fake. If you try to rebut that, there’ll be further nit-picking arguments, ad infinitum.

I don’t think that’s the route to convince a true conspiracy theorist.
Apollo looks nothing at all like the WMD lie. There is more evidence available today that the Apollo landings happened than there was at the time, such as photos of the landing sites taken by later Lunar probes. Lies generally degrade over time, not strengthen, and the WMD lie has collapsed.

Nobody believes the WMD lie any more. Even the Republicans are now admitting that. Many knew it was a lie back then.

I remember as it was happening getting the impression that nobody believed it, that it was universally understood to be a straw man placeholder for the real reason for the Iraq invasion.

Now as for what that was... that's the real mystery as far as I'm concerned. A large number of America's political class of both parties believed invading Iraq was important enough to burn massive amounts of money, trust, and reputation. Why?

The only even marginally plausible speculation I have is that some sizable contingent really believed the catastrophic collapse peak oil scenario that was popular back in the 2000s and that the invasion was rammed through damn-the-torpedoes to get exclusive access to that oil so America could weather the impending apocalypse.
Try KDE/Kubuntu. It handles very fine multi monitor setups.
> an argument that I love: Microservices and microfrontends are (most of the time) a failure of encapsulation [1]

There are plenty of problems and challenges with microservices, but that rant makes no sense at all. The blogger does not understand the upside of running separate processes? And then although he presents himself totally oblivious to the problem somehow asserts that "programming languages give us all we need to encapsulate state and environment", claiming that any shortcoming is due to people doing it wrong?

Quite frankly, that article is just a rant devoid of any rational point, and it surprised me how it has been presented as some sort of argument on an entire architecture style.
“https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15789758/ - exposure to "extremely LOW" EMFs in rats caused them hyperalgesia”

Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields. I can’t find what field strength they used from the abstract, and that may not matter much, as radio isn’t extremely low frequency, and newer technology tends to be higher frequency because that increases bandwidth. That article is more about the 50Hz/60Hz of AC electricity than about radio communication waves.

Also, your WHO link says

“A number of studies have been conducted where EHS individuals were exposed to EMF similar to those that they attributed to the cause of their symptoms. The aim was to elicit symptoms under controlled laboratory conditions.

The majority of studies indicate that EHS individuals cannot detect EMF exposure any more accurately than non-EHS individuals. Well controlled and conducted double-blind studies have shown that symptoms were not correlated with EMF exposure.

It has been suggested that symptoms experienced by some EHS individuals might arise from environmental factors unrelated to EMF. Examples may include “flicker” from fluorescent lights, glare and other visual problems with VDUs, and poor ergonomic design of computer workstations. Other factors that may play a role include poor indoor air quality or stress in the workplace or living environment.

There are also some indications that these symptoms may be due to pre-existing psychiatric conditions as well as stress reactions as a result of worrying about EMF health effects, rather than the EMF exposure itself”