skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I didn't describe was the non-trivial cost, workload and time it took to deal with a very simple libel case. When you have publications, major TV networks, where almost literally every single piece they publish is filled with lies and manipulation it becomes an impossible task.

A couple of years back I decided to highlight such lies to a group of people I was in regular online conversations with. Friends and people I have known for 20 to 30 years, not strangers. The effort and time required to research and gather the evidence necessary to demonstrate falsehoods in just one story per day was significant enough that I had to quit after a couple of months. Not to mention the fact that writing-up articles on these findings and then discussing them until people understood they had been lied to also consumed a ridiculous amount of time.

The problem with the press engaging in constant lies and manipulation is that the vast majority of the population (I'll guess 99%) consumes without questioning any of it. Which, in turn, means people, over time, develop twisted narratives of reality that serve no useful purpose and do nothing but cause damage to society. The roughly 3.3 million people in the US who might be wiser or take the time to dig for the truth are powerless in rectifying the lies and manipulation. Refer to my feathers into the wind analogy on this last point.

I sincerely doubt anyone would propose we should tolerate the level of lies and manipulation weaponized by mass media today. The difference with respect to 1807 is that everyone is now reachable via their phones and computers through myriad services, with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube perhaps being the main culprits.

I do concede and fully understand that this is an area of law that requires very careful consideration and a soft touch. There isn't a simple fix. I don't like the idea of saying "well, just litigate using existing law" because of then massive asymmetry between these large corporations and the people. This approach actually harms anyone who isn't a millionaire or billionaire.

It would be almost impossible for the average Joe to go up against the major news sources except for the most egregious of cases (where a large law firm would take the case for a piece of the action). In other words, large news operators can utterly destroy your life and massively affect public perception and nothing ever happens to them. The simple proof of this is that they are full of lies today, which means they haven't been challenged and suffered enough financially to change their ways.

Sometimes I think the simple addition of the word "truthful" to the first amendment could be enough. IANAL, so I don't know how that could be detrimental. As a lay person it makes complete sense:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the truthful press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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54N. just how the jet stream likes it.
2020 would be painful for Smart Beta.

A few big stocks (e.g. AMZN, AAPL) represent a large faction of stock market performance and have done well compared to the average stock in recent years and particularly the last six months.

"Smart Beta" will almost certainly be underweighted those stocks, so they would have 'gotten killed' compared to index funds.
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> He is using a language that was mainly developed by Israeli and has Israeli on its core team, this is a flimsy excuse not to merge a PR. Laravele itself probably already has Israeli contributors too. This argument makes no sense. If he is using PHP and Laravele he is allegedly already in danger by your logic, since using code and libraries authored by Israeli. This isn't a github or a git issue, at all.

You've done it! You've found a logical hole in the policies of a government! Everyone is happy, the maintainer is no longer at risk of death if they approve this PR, and the world is saved once again.

Thank you for your service.

For an actual response, the maintainer only states that they are not allowed to have any relationship with someone from Israel. While possible, they do not state that they cannot use software that was contributed to by someone from Israel.
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> Why would a drawing API be needed on a server?

There are plenty of reasons to want to generate an image dynamically on a server. Dynamic image resizing to fit client requirements is one that immediately comes to mind.
What a nonsense. If you are limited by a language then maybe you just chose the wrong language for the job. I guess your argument about the vast ecosystem of go libraries and tools is that they are all created by mediocre programmers?

Another note: most of us are "mediocre" and many of those who think they are somehow great, often turn out to be just "mediocre" themselves when put into a certain situation.

And maybe you are truly a genius, only work alone and Go really limits you. You are free to choose whatever language you want. But don't project your outlier experience onto everybody or even onto teams of people with vastly different skill levels.
Good point even if it is pedantic. I shift between terms depending on my audience, but try to use TLS in technical circles as an example.

I worry that I'll forever have to use both terms, because while SSL is the term that communicates better to semi-literate audiences, I worry that some security expert will assume I don't know anything because I'm using the "wrong" term.
Ironic, that.
The only realistic option is another set of engines on the other end.
Flipper Zero is great! I just pledged them last month on Kickstarter.
> You've done it! You've found a logical hole in the policies of a government! Everyone is happy, the maintainer is no longer at risk of death if they approve this PR, and the world is saved once again.

That developer made himself a target for retaliation the moment he started using github and commit code there. Spare me your sarcasms.
Hi
Author of the PR here.
Would you submit a complaint to GitHub?
What should I do?
Your logic assumes only one such person. The problem is that there are tens of thousands of similar people with, let's be super kind, unlikely ideas. If you hire them all that's not a hedge that's a huge cost with an almost 0% probability of payoff.

I'd bet the number of such people with unreasonable ideas will go drastically up if you start hiring them too.
> Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

I have personally done business with individuals in countries that are on my country's "naughty list". This is one of the reasons I fully support the concept of cryptocurrencies - even though there are myriad problems with there current implementation, Bitcoin has allowed me to transact with individuals in both Venezuela, which is on the "naughty list", and Somalia, where to my knowledge no major bank allows direct fund transfers.
Even though consolidation is natural in this type of industry, the lack of competition is why there was no creative or progressive development. Why burden yourself with risk and investment if the current system pays you as-is?
Are you using sendgrid? They've been having a lot of issues with spammers recently so it could be affecting your delivery rates.
If you're already using Rust, an alternative might be raqote, which would avoid the need to interface with C++ at all... and it's the canvas library used by Firefox's Servo:

https://github.com/jrmuizel/raqote
sure it does

bindsym $mod+Tab exec --no-startup-id rofi -show window
>Of course, we were also only paid $6.15 an hour and had to pay union dues out of that, so in total, it didn't add up to much...

Not to you, but it definitely added up to a noticeable amount for your employer.
If anyone is interested in a different perspective (the Iranians you will interact with online know English, have affinity for the West, etc. These are not representative of majority of Iranians, just like many Americans aren't represented by the Twitteratti for example), there is a book by Hermann Hesse called The Glass Bead Game, where humanity has undergone a devastating Third World War and in attempt to keep it from ever happening again they install a council of ascetic Monks who have final veto power on any action of any state. The idea is that people who are experts in morality, who have no worldly attachments or things to gain by leveraging their power would be the best check on a society which routinely falls into war.

This is a very similar arrangement to Iran's "democracy" where the democracy runs but is checked by a figure whose "true" attachment is to God (or for non-believers at least to some kind of objective morality).

If you look from an average Iranian perspective, Ayatollah Khamenei is not just the leader of the country, he is also a venerable religious figure, an ascetic and someone who ostensibly cares little for worldly pleasures. If anyone were to have "guardianship" or veto power over a democracy, wouldn't he be a good guy to have it, from that perspective?

It's a lot of the same arguments you see for Trump. He doesn't need the money. He's not beholden to special interests because he's not a career politician, etc. Etc.

Just a different perspective. Many here allege torture and harsh imprisonment but these aren't inherent features of the system mentioned. They are things which could be fixed within the system as well. The same is true for American police brutality, for example.
Slightly off-topic, but interesting. Threema contributed back to web-rtc with security improvements they made for video calls.

https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/c/src/+/177980
Actually, I've heard all those sayings at Bay Area companies, and often by senior managers who wilfully enforced them.

So the trite article advice to man up and DIY is more tone-deaf clickbait.
We are definitely open to a self-hosted solution, but at the moment we have a small team, so we are trying to keep our engineering surface area manageable.

In the near future, we will be offering deployment to an isolated instance. It would be operated by us, but we would be able to provide infrastructure access.

A step after that would be to offer VPC deployment where the updates are applied by the customer and we wouldn't have access to the infrastructure.
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This sounds good on paper but ... if your team asks you to e.g. prove P=NP, “taking ownership” of that is just going to be stressful and unsatisfying. Is that deflecting?
I've been doing more googling and several articles refer to it as "Israel's Zend Technologies"[1] before the acquisition by Roguewave.

1: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/1.4891691
It's awfully suspicious how all of the other candidates except Warren dropped out and endorsed Biden overnight, right? Meanwhile, Warren, who was presumed to draw votes from Bernie, was all of a sudden awash in SuperPAC money despite her campaign having no chance.

Almost like someone made a few phone calls.
I would not want to be Optimizely and have to compete against a strong free offering like Google Optimize.
> If someone has a peanut allergy do they have a disease or a disorder? no, they have a different response when exposed to peanuts.

They have an "allergy," which is just another medical term like disease or disorder to define something which is abnormal which negatively affects life. If everyone had an "allergy" to peanuts then we'd just call them poisonous.

> As far as your idiotic comment about the medication I need everyone and a while. Well, have you ever taken as aspirin for a headache? Same thing. The aspirin is only needed when you have a headache. Do you have a headache disorder still?

No, because a headache is atypical, while bipolar disorder isn't, like other mental health issues. We define bipolar disorder differently from mood swings. If someone with epilepsy finds improvement in their condition from following a ketogenic diet, that is also them finding an effective treatment for their condition. It does not mean they don't have epilepsy.

> What I am suffering from was clinically diagnosed. I am no longer considered by my doctors to have Bipolar Disorder. Isn't that crazy!? After 35 years of being told this?

What's important ultimately is you found something that works for you and makes your life better for it. Your insights can be valuable but shouldn't be seen as prescriptive to people that aren't you.
Wouldn't have thought it to be necessary to say explicitly but here it comes:

You can also get stuff done with other languages. Big surprise.
The Solar Foods product is also a natural creation from bacterial fermentation.
Why not use the industry standard acronyms? ICR intelligent character recognition is the term for extracting handwritten characters.
Or like a funnel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
Yeah, it's SendGrid. Good to know.
I can totally see myself using it to render PDFs server side (invoices, reports, etc).
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It is essential to have a clear notion of what the goal/success looks like, so that you can own that. At present, These days I'm confronting a few situations in life where the direct path to what has, for a decade, been the ostensible goal is demonstrably closed.

It has been useful to realize that, in most cases, those goals have been proxies for more abstract goals that are more attainable. Owning those outcomes is both possible and powerful.

If the linked post is resonant, have a gander at Extreme Ownership -- the same general philosophy.
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Many decades ago something similar happened with Best Buy employees and waiting to leave the building. My memory is fuzzy but I recall it having to do with some ruling by a government authority. Basically at night shift we could clock out but had to wait for the manager to let us out of the building. Sometimes were were waiting for 15 + minutes. All employees got back pay.
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Are you sure?

His comment has right now 109 thumbs down, zero thumbs up.
> It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that someone would be tortured and executed for merging a Github PR is top rated.

Crimes of treason are handled by the revolutionary court. That court is allowed to hand out death sentences. People are strangled publicly in Iran. It's hardly a stretch to compare them to North Korea.
It's been awhile since I did work that required (super fun) export controls training sessions but I really don't think this is accurate. For certain the sanctions apply to all government and non-government entities in Iran with exemptions for a few categories. Technological goods and services are generally not exempted.

As for individuals, it's way too risky.
Potentially destroying the ocean vs spending money to reduce carbon emissions is a no brainer, and it's the job of these scientists to say that out loudly rather than to push for these extreme solution which can produce a blackswan disaster of epic proportions that even money won't be able to save.

The arrogance of scientists to "try out my method instead" is at fault since if these scientists were to actually want to save the planet they would push on politicians to spend money rather to try and implement potentialy extremely destructive solutions.

In short, you fail to understand that this might create a unfixable disaster, while global warming is obviously solvable by other means since we are far from any kind of an serious crisis, regardless of what "scientists" say.

The world is NOT burning yet, which means we can and HAVE TO avoid stupid solutions like dumping iron in the ocean while there are harmless solutions available.
Here's a side-project I'm working on to demonstrate how I can take things to the next level: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365084.
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<- a loose associate of this "everyone" here. (10+ years exp, proficient in FP and OOP languages.) Primarily Scala dev now so I write code that's both functional and object oriented. I'd say my code leans more towards the functional side of things, favoring composition, type inheritance over class inheritance, separation of data structures from behavior that acts on data, and a reduction of shared state to the bare minimum. However when it comes to persisting state throughout a programs lifecycle then objects/actors become a great way of handling that data in an easy to reason about structure. They're great for encapsulating data after all.

Seeing code that goes all in on OOP absolutely makes me cringe as I know it generally means the unit tests are going to be more complex than they would be in an FP environment, the code's likely going to be harder to extend as there's no amount of class inheritance planning that can prepare you for all future business requirements, and in most cases it's just going to be so much more verbose than an FP solution would be (I know this last point is a bit of a personal issue).

Code that goes all in on FP I absolutely love on a pure nerd level, but absolutely hate on a practical level. Pure FP is neat in the same way that seeing someone who can calculate out pi to a hundred digits is neat. Sure it's impressive, but like... I got this calculator that will handle it much easier.
Israel and Iran are not that different, they're both monoracial theocracies that cost the us a lot of money
As I see it it's not that one can't push towards a solution. It's that one doesn't find the potential reward (or potential risk of negative consequences) of doing so worth the work/stress/time. Plenty of companies where the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
So I tried a few years ago. Was looking for an old obscure TV show and couldn't find that anywhere. Installed aMule on a whim, got it connected and used the search function. Actually found the show, started the download. A minute in it found a couple peers and started downloading, very slowly. Then I remembered that you can see the file name that all the other peers stored the file as locally. It was handy back in the day (around 2001) to spot fakes. For some reason, people back then liked to rename random movies or porn to current blockbusters, so when you look for a new movie you get the wrong thing. That's why eventually websites that manually indexed links took over.

So I opened up the window that shows all the file names of the tv show I just added to the download queue, and most of them very explicitly hinted at child porn. I freaked the hell out and nuked the whole installation, deleted everything, overwrote empty parts of the disk with zeros. It just downloaded a few kilobytes of a couple hundred MB, but still... I just thought what would have happened if I hadn't remembered that file name thing and would have found out when trying to play the damn file after downloading it. So probably not gonna use it again anytime soon.
https://complyadvantage.com/knowledgebase/north-korea-sancti...

I was going by this which states that "importing technology" is covered by sanctions.

If encryption can get classified as munitions export (which, pre 1992 it was) I could imagine a PR from NK can fairly easily be classified as "importing technology".

IANAL but if I was taking a risk averse approach like this Iranian dude then I'd err on the side of caution and not merge.

I certainly wouldn't want to try and establish case law that a PR is not importing technology, either, even if, say, the lack of a financial transaction meant it technically didn't count. It's playing with fire.
I can't speak to exactly who uses this terminology, and I have not heard it from a medical professional, but I feel like it lingers on, like in medication pamphlets.

Because fundamentally, I think, it is necessary to try to get people to comply with medication that seems to help sometimes, while avoiding the reality that the way it works is not known.
Go a round against a heavy weight champion in boxing and ask the question again.
I don't think he has anticipated this and I think he is probably panicking right now. I would be. Even though this got attention because he tried to comply, getting any government attention for any reason is not a good idea in such situatios.
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This is where discussions about this stuff can go off the rails, as the main modality I've used has links to the chiropractic profession (even though I think that profession is highly dysfunctional and many or even most of its practitioners are quacks at best and frauds at worst).

Anyway, the modality I've most used is a technique called NET (neuro-emotional technique), which (I believe) is similar to a practice called Psych-K (I've never done this one but I'm told they're similar). Both of them use muscle-testing to identify incongruences between different aspects of the mind and body (e.g., conflicting/incompatible desires, beliefs or values).

I've also done plenty of Holotropic Breathwork and Ericksonian Hypnosis, some EMDR, some EFT/Tapping, and some use of basic affirmations. Someone else I know well has done a lot of a practice called Family Constellations, as well as another practice that focuses on healing the trauma of birth - though I've not done either of those practices.
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“Last summer, the Sheriff’s Office announced plans to begin keeping tabs on people who have been repeatedly committed to psychiatric hospitals.”

People are going to die because of that.

There is a close friend of mine who, if unlucky enough to live in that hellhole, would have her life made miserable by this. She’s a nurse who’s never committed a crime in her life. She’s also bipolar, suicidal, deals with major depression, and has a less-than-supportive family, so she’s been committed a few times. Being harassed by hyperzealous cops who think they’re fighting terrorists is exactly the sort of thing that could push her over the edge.

I think—and hope—that this is what does them in. It should never have gotten to this point, but they can wave around terms like “reduced crime” and as long as it’s just the bad guys who are being targeted, no one cares.

But I suspect there will be a point soon enough where the sheriff here will find himself answering questions about why his department drove to suicide a mentally ill person with no criminal record, and I hope to god the resulting consequences put an end to this un-American madness, here and everywhere else.