skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The age of information (and knock-on misinformation) started around 1440. It's quantitatively easier these days, but the qualitative techniques remain recognisable. Remember the Maine!

Linebarger's Psychological Warfare (1948) has a history of tradecraft that goes back to biblical episodes.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm

flame wars in the seventeenth:

"The vocabulary of seventeenth-century propaganda had a strident tone which is, perhaps unfortunately, getting to be characteristic of the twentieth century. The following epithets sound like an American Legion description of Communists, or a Communist description of the Polish democrats, yet they were applied in a book by a Lutheran to Quakers. The title of the tirade reads, in part:

... a description of the ... new Quakers, making known the sum of their manifold blasphemous opinions, dangerous practices, Godless crimes, attempts to subvert civil government in the churches and in the community life of the world; together with their idiotic games, their laughable action and behavior, which is enough to make sober Christian persons breathless, and which is like death, and which can display the lazy stinking cadaver of their fanatical doctrines....

In its first few pages, the book accuses the Quakers of obscenity, adultery, civil commotion, conspiracy, blasphemy, subversion and lunacy. Milton was not out of fashion in applying bad manners to propaganda. It is merely regrettable that he did not transcend the frailties of his time."

(europe's wars of religion were both extremely polarising and far less effective at determining who was right than who was left.)
Ask HN: Why is IndieHackers website so slow?
My PC is pretty decent but that website just feels so slow and sometimes Firefox stops executing the scripts on it, why isn't it just like hackernews ?
Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'
Already spoken to him. He has converted an out building into another dwelling and promised he would not add more guests. He deceived us by saying he wouldn't, and then moved into his outbuilding and freed up space in the house. Up to 10 guests can now stay at his house.
Seems most businesses in this space don't compete on price for bulk goods. They compete on sustainability, similar to e.g. people buying Fairtrade coffee even though it's more expensive than "normal" coffee.

Also sometimes they have other non-freight income, such as only a few of the people onboard lift a salary, the rest are trainees paying for the privilege of working on a sailing ship, or even passengers.

You can of course claim that this is just a daydream of hippies, and it can never scale up to provide anything near the cargo carrying capacity of the current shipping industry, and you're probably right. So what?
The data about you it mines from your phone. I think this is the most recent security hole detected: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-a...
There's just no One True Basic Income Experiment, it seems.

But realistically speaking, when it happens, it won't be a big national program, it will more likely look like a patchwork of different city-wide and regional programs brought under a federal banner, decades from now.
Few thoughts on habits and touch typing
Does SAML and OAuth2.0 work together?

We have an SSO server implementing OAuth2.0. We want this to be the basis for logging into elasticsearch/kibana.

PS: we are currently tinkering with the Opendistro version of elasticsearch.
Ask HN: Get sound from mic, process it and output it to iPhone
I am trying to make a program that encrypts audio in real time. Program takes audio input from my earphones which are plugged in via audio jack/bluetooth, processes the audio real time, and then outputs the result onto my iphone via cable/bluetooth, which then could be used as an input onto other apps within my iphone. I see that theres a library called SOX that might help, and some apps made by RogueAmoeba, but as far as I can see they don't really help. Is Apple Developer Documentation my last resort? Any help is welcome
Do you actually say “MS?” I’ve only heard that as a prefix, like “MS DOS” or “MS Word,” but I’ve never heard someone say they work for “MS” or that “MS” makes Xbox. I’ve also never heard “Big Blue” nor “Toshi.” I have heard “HN,” so got me there.
I'm not sure I understand this. Does it not produce a run time error? Why not?

This looks very dangerous, because it essentially does the "nearest to right" thing. Say, you cast 256 to a u8, it's then saturated to 255. That's almost right, and a result might be wrong only by 0.5%. Much harder to detect than if it is set to 0.
> The problem is the relative social status between the client and Geon.

Not only the social hierarchy, but age/experience and projected confidence.

At least I think that was it. Because my suggestions were so completely disregarded. There was no motivation, or reasoning given. Just “no, do it my way”.
It's one thing to say that mail in voting could potentially have security issues. It's another to say that Democrats plan to light ballots on fire. In order to legitimately claim that with any certainty they would need actual proof of someone developing a plan or expressing an interest in doing so. They clearly don't have that. Maybe "false" or "misinformation" are not accurate enough terms but I think "unsubstantiated fear-mongering" is fair and would have the same effect.
Since those patients also received steroids in addition to hydroxychloroquine, it is fallacious to attribute any outcome to hydroxychloroquine.

This is a poorly done, observational-only study with a major confounding flaw.
> Symptoms among others include anxiety, depression and irritability.

It wasn't until the late 1800s that the miasma theory of disease was overturned in acceptance by germ theory. At some point in the next century, computers will become powerful enough to closely simulate the entire human body. We'll be able to hook up our bodies and compare them to a common model in a sort of "debugging" process. I think what we'll find is a diverse host of viruses and parasites, or other curable abnormalities that are responsible for mental health problems.
If I agreed with your assessment, I wouldn't have taken the time to write my comment in the first place.
> it's not obvious what the difference is between it and Chrome.

That's the whole point. If there's no difference between Edge and Chrome, why should the average user go out of their way to get Chrome?
I didn’t read it as implied that Facebook isn’t used to subvert rival nations, I would fully expect it. Subverting rival governments is a part of life. Though I would imagine if Facebook wants to subvert the United States government they would be severely hamstrung.
It's interesting the author argues dropping the term to reduce stigma because many people argue for using the term in order to reduce stigma. That is, if you can explain what is going on with you with some biological case, it seems so much less of a personal indictment than if the case is considered to be psychological.

That said, I completely agree that the explanation should be dropped because we really have little to no evidence for it.
Also: You'd not be able to apply anywhere close to the amount of torque that'd be needed.
Ellie sounds better than Element.
Any algo-trading backtest frameworks in Rust?
it is slow from Android also.
for those who want more on Snorkel, I recommend checking out Chris Re's prior talks:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu15Nf5eJEE (14 min)

- https://www.cs.ucla.edu/upcoming-events/cs-201-jon-postel-di... (1hr talk - snorkel's predecessor was deepdive)

I went down the rabbit hole in this space about 3-4 years ago, and really got the message around "Dark Data". he's onto something huge and I regret not pursuing it further due to self doubt. hedge funds should be eating this up as well.
By any chance if anyone is in the Paris area and is interested to teach Rust at university next year during the first semester. Please get in touch :).
Not really, because the European Commission has not issued an adequacy decision in relation to China and Russia as far as I'm aware.

Russia is an interesting case, though.

They are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights (although enforcement is... let's say tricky), and they are also signatories to Convention 108 (the Council of Europe "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data") and they have signed (but not ratified) the protocol to update the convention (223, combined known as Convention 108+).

This - in theory - puts them at an advantage over countries like the US which lack any real privacy legislation.

However 1) Theory and practice aren't the same; and 2) I think it would be an impossibly hard sell for the Commission to issue an adequacy decision for Russia purely for political reasons, let alone practical ones.
I have no problem with chemical imbalances, but if you use that as a reason but you don't measure it you are not doing science.

It's like diagnosing someone as a diabetic without measuring glucose levels directly or indirectly.
I think many are if you ask them, they just conveniently forget about it in their daily lives.
The issue with crowding out alternative Pythons is a socio-political one. The C-API issue is as well, as you said Python extensions are over coupled to the runtime. ctypes and subsequently cffi fixed this 10+ years ago.

1. Decouple the extension mechanism. Use cffi

2. Modularize the batteries

Each alternative Python has to re-implement large swaths of the stdlib. The code is the spec in Python.

Stackless got the PyPy treatment before PyPy even existed. Besides PyPy, we now have graalpython, rustpython and ...

https://github.com/beeware/ouroboros/issues/21 points to a python stdlib I had never heard of, https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy-lib

The point is, the core CPython devs need stop being so selfish with their toys. The greater Python ecosystem is diverse in spite of their actions not because of it.
> The Nexus 4 was the largest that actually fit a pocket.

My S10+ fits in the pockets of my clothes. I'm sure there are pockets that the Nexus 4 is the largest phone to fit—and pockets too small for it—but it's hardly as if there is a single universal consistent size for pockets.
I presume this does not apply to computer vision datasets? Frankly I am still confused at what exactly Snorkel does.
Initially I suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, because it correlated to when I’d come home. The symptoms were that bad. Turns out it was the dinner I was cooking every night for the family, I’d sit down to relax and eat and just a few minutes after eating asparagus feel completely bonkers. I went to the emergency room, they gave me a few Xanax; then the GP who wanted to prescribe me Lexapro and referred me to a Gastroenterologist. It wasn’t until I got to the specialist that I felt like he “believed” me.
> The major problem here is that content is now largely generated based on maximizing ad revenue.

When has news content not been about maximizing ad revenue? That's been the model for decades before the internet.
I was looking for a comment like this.

Yes, GDPR provides greater protection for privacy than US laws and hats off to the EU courts for trying to maintain that protection.

That said, the US and EU are so closely intertwined when it comes to intelligence that I doubt this provides much protection from Western state level actors.
OMG some people have a snowflake complex .. i drive 4 times a year for super long trips and yes i'm always a bit scared at some point but it's a good fear that make you drive better, and people should treat as a normal thing not a headline-worthy thing
> When you have a broken leg, everyone notices and can relate; when you have a broken mind, no one can see it, and so no one can feel sympathy, let alone empathy.

This hits home and almost moved me to tears. I went through a trauma about 3 years ago, I was Kidnapped/abducted from a gas station at gun point and was forced to drive my attacker for nearly 30 minutes at gun point under threat of death before opening the door and diving out of my moving vehicle to escape. During that experience I considered purposely crashing my car believing it would kill both me and my attacker, but I wanted to live and ultimately took my chances diving onto the street from the moving car knowing I might get run over.

I can’t explain it other than I know I should have been thankful/grateful/happy I escaped with my life, but I knew immediately the trauma was real and sure enough it has been a downward spiral of cutting off every single relationship in my life and extreme isolation/avoidance. I’ve sought help/treatment (both therapy and meds) to no real benefit.

Even 3 years later I have to relieve the trauma because I’m suing the gas station for negligent security (turns out the guy had been loitering at the gas station for 2 hours prior to targeting me, even hanging out in the store talking to employees without ever making a purchase). The insurance attorneys are victimizing next worse than my kidnapper, they have destroyed the surveillance video, Claimed the kidnapping didn’t happen on their property (when I was literally approached while at the gas pumps), and telling me my damages aren’t real. This goes directly to your point, if I were shot they would have settled the policy limit ($2M) but because it’s not visible damages they are doing everything to claim it didn’t happen on their property, if it did they aren’t liable, and if they are liable the damages aren’t real but self inflicted. They either have no clue what kind of additional trauma they are causing or they actually do and are trying to cause me self harm so this goes away for them.

I humbly admit while I always felt for people who went through traumas (soldiers, child abuse, sexual abuse) I realize now I was incapable of actually empathizing...I won’t say I have suicidal ideations, but I often feel I’d have been better off not surviving.
When a patient's symptoms are treated instead of the cause, most people will have subpar results.

The SSRI Lexapro [0] helped my girlfriend relapse on cocaine, before i met her. Cocaine is a much stronger anti-depressant than the SSRI's due to its effects as a Mono-Amine Oxidase Inhibitor [2] (1st generation anti-depressants).

Eventually the professionals figured out she is a poor methylator, and can't convert folic acid into Folate. Folate (Vitamin B9) is important for DNA synthesis. Food companies fortify with folic acid because it's more stable than other forms of Vitamin B9, even though we now know that some people are harmed by this fortification [1]. On the whole, fortification seems to be beneficial (fewer deformed babies), but poor methylators and old people seem to have negative side effects from getting their vitamin B9 from folic acid.

She said adding the L-Methyl-Folate was like flipping a switch between "depressed" and "normal". Her involuntary medical professionals didn't say, "hey sorry we made a mistake, you're not actually broken", and continue to ignore the actual causes of her condition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escitalopram

[1] https://now.tufts.edu/articles/folic-acid-too-much-good-thin... / https://www.futurity.org/folic-acid-too-much-of-a-good-thing...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor

(edit - added bit about cocaine being an MAOI)
I don't think I said anything objective truth, if it read that way I did a poor job.

I am pretty far from believing that there is no objective truth. I was simply saying that there is merit to the idea that human beings themselves can not communicate objectively. Wittgenstein talked about it in a way I tend to agree with. Post-modernism runs wild with his ideas and ends up at things like "there is no objective truth".
The mental health stigma is systemic as well. Did you know that one of the things asked on an application for a CHL in Texas, as an example, is a list of every single time you've received psychiatric treatment and it's a disqualifier. Similarly the Form 4473 has mental health questions required prior to purchasing firearms. If you've ever been admitted for treatment, you're disqualified.

My purpose isn't to re-litigate gun control as an issue, but to point out that our policies and laws reflect our attitudes about mental health directly on access to things which are enshrined as fundamental rights in the US, already. It's a perfectly reasonable supposition to say: "I don't want truly crazy people to have guns.", it's another to say "I think it's acceptable to strip Constitutional rights from millions of Americans because they once had in-patient treatment as a child for their anxiety."

The latter is a matter of policy (regardless of how well it's actually enforced) simply due to the fact we don't understand the human mind or psychology enough to actually draw an objective distinction between those two types of people. Laws and systems work poorly with things which require subjective determination. "I'll know it when I see it" might be an acceptable type of thing to adjudicate, but it's a terrible type of thing to build bureaucratic processes around that are faceless, soulless, with no recourse.

This is just one of many examples where having any history of seeking treatment for mental health can be a disqualifier, or worse strip you of your rights. It's an effective disqualifier for many types of jobs as well in the US, especially government jobs which require a clearance or working at any company which accepts government contracts which would require a clearance.
Show HN: An easy way to do more focused work in Slack
The easiest way to describe Focus Mode is, ‘It’s the Pomodoro technique — designed exclusively for Slack.’

It lets users add the task they’re working on, set how long they’d like to focus on it, and how long the break should last between each focus period.

In essence, it’s a nifty way to bring more focused work to the busy workspaces of Slack.
The creators of Focus Mode are my team at Geekbot: the custom Slackbot that helps remote-first companies (including the likes of Zapier, Shopify, Zendesk) better manage routine tasks, like daily standups, in Slack. So to say we’re at home in Slack is an understatement: and our Geekbot experience was invaluable in helping us see what else was needed to make Slack a more focused, less distracting workspace.

We’re really proud of Focus Mode because it’s simple to use (just three fields to fill in), it keeps your teammates in-sync with what you’re working on (that’s what the Geekbot mission is all about), and it auto-enables ‘Do Not Disturb’ — meaning you can get on with important tasks and avoid notifications from dominating your day.
On the other hand, Swift changes so frequently that book authors teaching the language can't keep up with Apple to write up-to-date books. By the time a book comes out covering version N, we're a couple months away from version N+1. In this situation I can't trust I will be able to buy a book, learn the language and become comfortable with it before there is a new version with major changes. It's a very moving ground.

As for performance, it would be cool if every single thing wasn't behind an atomic reference counter, making it slower than even garbage-collected Go: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9670-safe_and_secure_drivers_in_... (the relevant part starts at 33:06).
How to Embed a Changelog Podcast Player into a React App?
Well, so there is couple of issues with "not giving a shit".

The problem is that it is all too easy to normalize this and get in a habit of stopping giving a shit for smaller and smaller reasons. You begin rationalizing your reasons and at all times feel completely justified in your not-giving-a-shit attitude.

I don't want to be the person that doesn't give a shit. "Not giving shit" is exactly opposite of what I would like to be doing. The moment this happens I feel I will become mindless drone that I have complained about for so long.

I believe solution in this case would be to stop for a second and propose to clearly attribute design to the person that proposed and required the design to be this and not the other way. Being able to decide something is in my book synonymous with responsibility. If I decide, I take responsibility for the decision, if I do not decide, I feel no responsibility. It is just a matter of communication to explain to everybody else who is decisionmaker in which aspects of the project.
And then I tell you that I am not responsible for your feelings, you are. Which is very common thing to say these days. Or I say you that you are oversensitive and emotional.

I agree that "hero" in original framing basically favors status quo.
Closest pictures of Sun reveal mysterious 'campfires'
If anyone else suddenly had a flashback of Wayne's World where the Flowbee was parodied, here's the clip you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrJDt-fPQI
Check the video, it's a fully simulated environment served via user generated content; "chat" is only a slice of what people do.
So at the dark end you can find good gluten free beers. The heavy beers help hide the taste of things like sorghum, however there is nothing similar to a Modelo or Pacifico that gluten free that taste decent, which is want I want on a hot summer day. Oh well.

I have started to really enjoy cider. There are some good ones from small makers. Golden State Cider makes some nice ones. All the big company ones (American) are crap full of sugar.
I think you'd enjoy michael reeves. Altough that guy is a bit out of his mind.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelReeves/videos
HTTP connections are stateful too. Clients aren’t doing tls handshakes every request, for instance.
When did hackernews become a cheap news site?
> So crazy how much our gut can affect our mood and psychological profile.

This is anything but crazy. It has been well known for a very long time and is very well supported.
Some code....with the US government..that really says everything you need to know ;)
Java and WordPress APIs (create tags, category, post etc.)
Must produce. Must create value. Life worthless if no create value.

Seriously, let people have their free time why don't you. A lot of the western world is already half stuck in deadass jobs they hate, getting barely enough money to get through life so they can have the privilege of working more. It's quite something to read, on HN, in a place that has a majority of people lucky enough to not be stuck in that kind of life, judgement on how other people spend their free time instead of "colonizing Mars".
Correct. If you signup for newsletters or read the news on their websites, or open their in-house app, the GP comment is wrong, there are lot's of newsrooms doing solid work, and what the article is circling is the burden of proof for stating "this official lied" as a fact.

If you're looking at social media newsfeeds all day, the algorithm is going to emphasize the things people are passionate about sharing. The people you follow become your front-page editor.

In the end, GP's perception is more about what he's reading and how he's receiving it than what real reporters do every day.
There was no new original product from FB in the last 15 years.
I noticed that without the verified accounts, there weren’t a lot of focal points for rage and partisanship to collect. I suspect that’s part of why twitter felt so different during the blue-out.
What to Do When You Have No Update for the Daily Standup
Interesting post on communication tips for standups!
Show HN: I have created my personal blog.I write about tech and self improvement
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