skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect if I were TikTok, I could keep track of the skits you watch and start directing similar skits with subtle political messages towards you in their place. If I were really nefarious, I might be able to professionally produce skits that look amature that are essentially well designed propoganda.

I've never used the app but I'm sure they also request location information and a lot of people agree, so I can make a reasonable guess for most people where their home location and corresponding voting districts are.

Also, over time, the type of media delivered may subtly shift anyways. When I started using Facebook, it required a .edu domain to register and focused on listing your courses, finding peers in your courses, campus events, and so forth. Now, it looks absolutely nothing like that, yet I still have a Facebook account (which I rarely check but thats another story, many of my peers appear to still actively use it). For now it's a bunch of silly videos, maybe it won't always be that way.

You may be lured into a platform, grow accustomed to it and the convenience of a user base, then slowly go along for the ride as the platform shifts direction. Perhaps you may be vigilant of this (the reason I stopped using Facebook many years ago), however, a large portion of people may not.

Now, whoever manages TikTok has a direct route of information to a wide group of people providing they don't upset them or a competitor doesn't lure them away.
I dunno but I have been unable to get back my Gmail account after changing phone numbers, and unable to change email on Netflix account after credit card I used to open account expired.
Using labels to short circuit debate works both ways equally well.

13. The blanket term "accountability" implies some sort of clear, reasoned collection of guidelines. The reality is that there is little consensus on public standards. If there were a real level of consensus this wouldn't be a topic.

14. Calling your mob a movement doesn't change it's nature. Movement is every bit as loaded of a term as culture.

15. That looks a lot like "If you disagree it's because you're a Victorian racist". From what I've seen, the vocals sides of this are both affluent whites claiming to have the moral high road.
> What is the cause of this situation? Is it simply that commercial entities using FreeBSD does not have wifi as a requirement?

I don't have any numbers to back it up and I'm not sure if anyone even could know (does FreeBSD have any kind of hardware statistics program?) but I have a strong suspicion that the proportion of laptop users running anything even related to BSD other than Mac OS is fairly tiny. Beyond that, I suspect that many of those that do are using one of the same bunch of older Thinkpads that are popular with the kinds of people who work on operating systems. Devices that aren't used with those laptops probably don't get much attention.

Also 802.11ac in particular seems to mostly require firmware blobs, which are kryptonite to a lot of the kinds of people who would have to be developing these drivers. That's why you might have noticed that devices like the Librem 5 and PinePhone only have 802.11n.
> because everyone _wanted_ the world to be the way he portrayed it, almost nobody looked closer.

This is definitely the real issue a lot of news sites/sources have now. They have an audience in mind, they and that audience have some ideas about what the world is like, and anything that conforms to that view isn't properly fact checked at all.

If you want to get a hoax past any news outlet, make it a story that shows their ideological opponents in a bad light.
The backstory here is that I pitched Zulip for an organization which I suspect would be an ideal customer fit. They told me later they had evaluated it but since it wasn't operationally sound, they didn't take it further. Being surprised by this I spend a number of hours on my own with the product, so I did not write the above lightly.

The installation example is just an example. If script doesn't run or doesn't do what you want, it doesn't help. Perhaps the basic problem here is that you are expected to run a script to set up a complex system, with a number of dependencies on the platform repos, where you'd expect to just unpack a tarball and modify an example config to get running.

This is not completely unheard of, it used to be common with proprietary unices, but most were just a basic shar script whereas this is a series chained scripts where if the version of Puppet on your platform isn't what the script expect it's really hard to even get started. And, no, Debian is (sadly) not as big with enterprises as Red Hat and SuSE is. It might however be a mistake to tie software to a specific Linux distribution at all. Those are moving targets and work is probably better spent on other things.

I could elaborate further on software procurement if this anecdoctal evidence is of any use. Generally, there are boxes to be ticked, and things like four interlocking databases and a dump script in cron makes it hard for a DBA to answer if point in time recovery will be possible.
Yes, but it's video content, not text. So they would need to hire young pretty americans to produce and distribute political content. That is a much higher bar than a fake bot account reposting a link.
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That’s all I could think as well. I for one welcome our new robot hair cutters.
Difficult to answer directly, but scanning through the most popular feature requests, most of the non-VSCode-specific feature requests have been solved (somewhere) by Emacs:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3A...

I will say that this was way worse a couple of years ago. They seem to have added a lot since then.
My buddy's nickname in HS was Flowbee. His mom cut his hair. It actually looked good, I think it was the uniform nature of it that earned him the name.
I have worked on controls in this area for a few US health insurance companies.

From what I have seen, it is common to have additional restrictions on accessing high profile individuals and specific groups data. There is also a ton of auditing around this stuff.

It is more primitive than what you described, but things are heading in that direction. It is a somewhat harder problem space because many parties need access to a customer's records in that domain.

Ultimately, the only reason things are even this far along in health insurance is the regulatory environment. It'd be nice to have stronger privacy laws that compel companies to build good controls.
When I started learning Rust over a year ago now, Rocket was extremely appealing to me. I never subscribe to any GitHub threads that I'm not involved in, except for Rocket on stable.

In general, stable proc macros is an awesome step for Rust.
How can you justify a statement like that? Anyone can control their transactions if they want as was just explained to you. If anything it is decentralization with extra steps.
are you sure?

https://www.google.com/search?q=answer+to+the+ultimate+quest...
I don’t know if Pakistan is quite comparable with Romania on the healthy and happy metrics, but the real efficiency comparison is between Pakistani and Indian Punjabs on groundwater depletion and tube wells. Indian Punjab may be better at getting the groundwater out and irrigation intensity but at what cost to the aquifer? (This is not saying Pak doesn’t need to move away from wasteful canals and build water storage for rain - they do)
I'd like an actual neighbour, not rotating guests who never get to know you. Half the year the owner lives in abroad and when he's gone the guests don't know how to put trash out, don't plow snow, don't know where to park etc.

It's these small things that chip away at the otherwise close-nit neighbourhood.
> I used to have an N900. This is better.

I've had a couple of them, they were way ahead of their time. The hardware had a few bugs but the form factor and keyboard were amazing, and the camera was very nice. I actually preferred the resistive touch screen on a slider like that, it made for fewer accidental touches, and it was very precise for stylus use.

There's a (stalled?) project[1] to swap out the main board with a modern, supported replacement, keeping the rest of the hardware the same. I'd love to see the interest in the Pinephone cause that project to wake up again. PostmarketOS would be a good fit for the Neo900.

[1] https://neo900.org
Tech interviews are kind of like a lot of games in life: do something difficult and boring in order to survive, and make it look easy and enjoyable while you're at it.
It seems like anybody familiar with the history of the profession would be wise to not so easily “accept treatment.” But then again, even insiders like Jordan Peterson will “accept treatment” that nearly kills them. The hubris isn’t unique to any one branch of medicine, but consider that not very long ago shock treatment for homosexuals was the accepted treatment. That should give you pause if nothing else.
Simple, promote divisive content that sows discord with your rival society.

We saw Russia taking advantage of this with Facebook groups. The threat model exists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/if-r...
> However, in the real world many people are resistant to the idea of therapy and/or medication as it feels like admitting defeat. Or perhaps they've read cherry-picked horror stories of bad therapists or medication side effects on the internet.

This is hugely compounded by the fact that even when people do decide to go for treatment like therapy, they discover that its painfully inaccessible. As in, if you don't have enough money to afford the 100$+ hour sessions, you feel like you completely run out of options.

There are more services trying to address this cost issue but from my experience (in Canada), they leave a lot to be desired
These are all predictions about the future, so of course they don't have concrete evidence. Holding them to that standard so they can be declared "false" or "misinformation" is a rhetorical trick.

It's pretty hard for anyone to be objective about any political issue, but for what it's worth I vote third party, so my opinion about this is as non-partisan as I think it can be. That disclaimer made, from a purely engineering perspective, mail-in voting doesn't seem very secure. The 2016 election was pretty close; it wouldn't take that many mistakes or deliberate malicious acts to sway the outcome, especially with no clear chain of custody over people's ballots.
I once sat in a meeting where a high up person was giving us requirements for a new feature she wanted to add to our application. It was adding a button to the screen, and when the user clicked the button it would initiate some complex logic and actions that would be invisible to the user.

When we gave her the estimate for the change, she went nuts. She couldn’t understand why it was going to take so long and cost so much. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, all she said over and over was “It’s just a button!”.
> "Watch for yourself. Decide where you think the truth lies."

Capital "T" truth does not lie solely in a video clip. Just as with _literally everything_ online and everything digital, we need to be good _consumers_.

In the case of the George Floyd killing the is a witness video (over 10 minutes), security camera video (over 5 minutes), plus officer body camera. These of course have POV issues, audio issues which need to be considered. Despite these defects, there is the narrative of Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for over 8 minutes, which is evidence of the cause of Mr Floyd's death.

I have yet to read any comments here which take seriously how this firehose of brutality videos should be consumed--let alone making _any_ decisions about "truth".

When I was a young adult, the biggest issue concerning the internet was the potential danger of anonymous people online. Post Facebook, the danger was putting something online now, that you'll regret later.

Today, impact of the videos from the George Floyd killing is enormous.

What about the next video? I would like to hear more about thoughts on consuming videos, and presumed truth of any video.

And watching just some of those videos was sickening. All of this violence is sickening.
> The analogy that brains are like machines is harmful because it makes it sound like there is some operating manual and simple cause effect relationships that are known.

Why? We have complex machines and systems as well, where nobody would claim that there are only simple cause effect relationships and you only need a two-page owner's manual.

Drugs work pretty reliably. While you can't predict what exactly is going to happen when you take LSD, you can be pretty sure that something is going to happen. Why, if not because the brain reacting to some chemical?

This idea of "don't say it's a machine, you're oversimplifying it" is what's harmful in my eyes. It leads to anti-scientific positions, mysticism and fatalism. If there's nothing we can do to help, and nothing we can learn because it's so super hyper duper complex and "emergent", why bother. It's not, of course. While we don't know everything, we do know something. And we should extend our knowledge. Pretending that we can't know isn't useful.
Did you just say most people are not educated enough to have free speech?
Here are some more sources:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-wuhan-writers-life-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/china-hong-kon...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/1...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-twitter-disinformat...
Source? This is the first I've heard of the dashboard allowing for post creation.
China News 16 July 2020
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/milestone/8 is what's on the milestone for the next release, I don't know how closely that actually tracks. I'm super excited though!
> That's fantastic you found the right SSRI for you immediately, that's incredibly rare.

It's not accurate to say that it's "incredibly rare". Most people can expect at least some dosage adjustments, if not a few trials of different medications.

However, most people will see some improvements from any antidepressant treatment, even if it's not full remission. Getting to full remission is the challenge that requires fine-tuning.

Practically speaking, antidepressant medication shouldn't be viewed as a one-stop solution to depression treatment. It should be used as a larger treatment regimen involving therapy (ideally professional, but even self-directed with books is helpful) and lifestyle changes to identify and address the source of the problems.

As such, even a minor boost from an antidepressant can help move a person in the right direction, even if it isn't a one-stop cure for the depression. We need to collectively get past this idea that antidepressants are an all-or-nothing cure all and start viewing them as an adjunct to getting back on your feet and staying there.
No. POD is about who you share with, not what happens after you share.
Counter-example: if you’ve ever struggled with OCD or compulsive thoughts then you know the extreme emotional anguish that comes with trying to resist the impulses, that feeling of powerlessness as you feel forced to do something that you know rationally makes zero sense. In this case, recognizing the condition as a “chemical imbalance” may be comforting and a sole source of hope that things can get better.

And this is why I don’t like elitists telling me what I should or shouldn’t say.
A warped perspective on math history
New Android Malware Now Steals Passwords for Non-Banking Apps Too
I think you forget how serious Americans are about free speech. Trying to force an American company to allow Lolli or cub content(just an example) on their platform won't end well. " the opinions of Americans shouldn't determine European policies." The issue here is that's not how international politics works. Unless you don't see an issue with forcing someone of another culture to do something they find to be morally evil.
I'm not sure what to make of this piece. First:

> Psychiatric research doesn’t support the notion of simple cause and effect in mental health, instead uncovering a far more complex and indeterminate picture of vulnerabilities. There is no evidence to justify the continued promotion of one-dimensional theories such as ‘chemical imbalance’.

I wholeheartedly agree with this, and believe that it's a huge problem with the mental health discourse. However, the author then goes on to say:

> Mental health treatment needs to re-engage with the language of persons. This means suspending the detached, third-person stance toward patients, and attending to their actual experience and circumstances. And it means encouraging patients themselves to avoid this stance and draw on the normal ways that people make sense of their emotions and actions.

A problem I've experienced is that "the normal ways that people make sense of their emotions and actions" do not seem to work for me. I haven't found a good description of it, but something in my sensory and cognitive feedback loop seems to be broken such that I don't get any useful sense of things in the moment and need to reverse-engineer my emotional state after the fact when it seems important to do so (NB: I don't just mean that this disconnect occurs when there's some kind of intense moment; it's pretty much constant). So I don't see how it's possible to both hold that up as the standard and also respect my "actual experience and circumstances". In other words, this sure seems like exactly the sort of one-dimensional theory of mental illness that the author decried earlier.
I started having disturbing, invasive thoughts a few months before the pandemic hit. I’d be watching a movie with my family after dinner then boom, I’d feel insane. It wasn’t suicidal just things like “soon you will be DEAD!” kind of stuff. Turned out it was me reacting to some of the food we were eating at home.

The GP I saw suggested Lexapro which I’ve taken before and it’s not for me. I told him the problem had a strong correlation to food; if I fasted I didn’t get these thoughts. Doctors look at you weird when you say you think asparagus is driving you mad. He just sort of ignored me, I think the fact I saw him right after the pandemic hit just made him assume I was depressed and anxious because of the lockdown.

The really crazy thing to me is that Nexium has basically made the problem go away (Prilosec worked but wasn’t quite as good) I saw a GI specialist and he showed me the low FODMAP elimination diet and suggested I eat low FODMAP foods and that has helped it the rest of the way. So crazy how much our gut can affect our mood and psychological profile.
The problem is specifically working from home with your spouse who also works and babies/toddlers/kids all day long at home because of the lockdown.

It's a killer combination and it's not merely "working from home" (which of course has its own challenges). A person without kids or single may find it ideal. I don't.
Maybe after dinner smoking will make a comeback.
This rather niche fixing of unsafe behaviour is excellent:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/07/16/Rust-1.45.0.html#fixin...

I spent a few years as a scientific programmer and this is exactly the sort of thing that just bites you on the behind in C/C++/Fortran: the undefined behaviour can actually manifest as noise in your output, or just really hard to track down, intermittent problems. A big win to get rid of it.
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Cars do not block our driveway, they just take up space. This happens especially when the owner does not plow snow on his driveway. Guests basically cannot park on his driveway.

Noise is not a problem, fortunately.
Another benefit that hasn't been mentioned in the comments is that it serves as documentation. As new developers come into your team, you need to describe the infrastructure setup. Having your infrastructure defined in a clean repository is one of the best ways to do that.
Very similar alright. I felt so conflicted listening to him because I knew nothing I would say would change his mind so I just kept quiet. He was a pensioner trying to save to leave something for his progeny. Kind of heart breaking.
I have no idea how the physics of this works.

At first it seems pretty simple--but at that overall reduction a small motion at the motor end translates to a motion at the far end that is ridiculously smaller than the Planck length. The motor end is a simple classical physics system, but that thing is a quantum system on the far end.

I have no idea how to figure out what would actually happen if you let that run for long enough that the far end should have moved significantly according to classical physics.
What parasites are we talking about and what's a 6 day liver cleans ? (I mean, the procedure).

Do you mean to say you had depression for a few months (with anxiety on top) ?
Anthology of Dorkness
In many cases, like say the intel WiFi drivers on Linux, the driver is written by Intel employees.

The BSDs don’t have the critical mass to get this vendor support. For example, much of the intel WiFi work on OpenBSD is done by one person, Stephan Sperling, on a volunteer basis.

I only mention intel in the above examples because that’s what’s in the Thinkpad I had that didn’t have support yet. So I looked into the driver situation on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
The fact that everyone accepts the level of centralization for a platform like Twitter is crazy. It should be a decentralised platform, and nobody else, besides the owner of the account, should hold the keys to it.
Tiny Camera Backpack for Beetles
Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
That's a very 90s view. The modern view is that only robots are sysadmins, and those robots are indirectly controlled. Some humans have superpowers in some systems, but not in the whole system.
Charlie apparently also works at a large US car manufacturer as they do some bit mashing as well as a form of "encryption" in their software tooling (though only for the key as they then decrypt everything with the unmashed key with salted 3DES so no xor there at least).
What young pretty American is making that subtle political content that china will start to slowly move me towards? I gotta be honest, the potential for abuse so much less than facebook as it is a video medium. Their best attack vector is to use that information outside of tiktok by trying to target ads on other American owned platforms like Facebook, Instagram or Google.
We live in crazy times. No one takes any argument that they don't agree at good faith. It is all about the zinger.
i learned from this back in college:

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/091409...

one of my favorite text books ever. (tho it was paired w/ one of my favorite teachers ever, which i'm sure helped a lot.)
>We really need a DoNotTrack-like

Ahh...that thing that is mostly ignored because its based on goodwill?
Bingo! Leave people alone.

If you want to give people money, make it yourself first. Then you are free to give it all away to serial murderers and junkies and cartel members and prostitutes and white collar crooks and drunken mobs that burn down my home all you want.
This is the important part that is glanced over. It's very much a situation of tit for tat but we can be hopeful that rulings like these aren't just lip service. Schrems has been a positive force for privacy in the EU.
That's certainly one way to do it. Maybe the best way. But there's all sorts of things to study, and it may be valuable to try and study them in isolation.
can you educate me on how you do multi-label w/ snorkel? As far as I can understand that's one it's largest drawbacks.
I would add the 'Political Decay' as a must after 'Political Order'.

IMHO 'Decay' its more important as it digs into current trends (i.e. mechanisms of undermining institutions).