skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NaNo is a blast, especially if you can find a group online or in person to work through it together. I'm a bit obsessed with it, if you or your wife have any questions about it don't hesitate to email me at james@sane.digital .
Great points. Also you can dip in and out of Doom quite easily - the original’s three episodes (or five if you include Thy Flesh Consumed and Sigil) can each be comfortably finished within an hour so starting a new game isn’t necessarily a huge investment of time. You also mention System Shock 2 - which is arguably better enjoyed second or third time round.
Just to be clear, 'Han Chinese' is a group whose definition has gradually broadened over the long history of China to include more and more formerly distinct ethnic groups within it. A cynic would claim that this was a deliberate decision in order to create a much more robust, ethnically homogenous state that can more easily play up the 'us vs them' division.

You're also confusing "China" the CCP governmental apparatus, with "Chinese citizens" as individual people. When people criticise "China", it is the former they are criticising. Confusing the two only serves to further play into the 'us vs them' divide.

Both of these factors are commonly used by the Chinese state to frame anti-China sentiment as anti-Chinese sentiment - a very important difference.
> So bugging a political opponent's room is comparable to exterminating an entire ethnic group?

That's your association, not mine.

I posted to illustrate that membership of a UN council doesn't require ethics or morality.

The consequences of spying on East Timor to gain an advantage in negotiations over oil reserves were that new nation's only source of foreign revenue was severely compromised. East Timorese lived in poverty and the new government was weakened. Is that so different from what bothers you about the plight of the Uyghurs?
I dont understand the shock.Just 4 years a staffer suspended Donald Trumps account and was considered a hero.
So it is not at all surprising that twitter does this sort of policing.
Why do we focus on China? Because they're usually doing worse things, and on larger scales, than the West.
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The problem with this is that it's only selectively applied. What happens when Pharma companies get caught lying in about effects of drugs? Are they going to be de-platformed? No, because they pay for ads and so they can spread lies all day.

Look at Study 329 by GSK which said that Paxil was effective in children (when in fact the data showed that it doesn't work and causes suicidal behavior in children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_329
). That published study was a lie and was published and used to put millions of children on drugs. Proven actual harm done to innocent kids.

Yet, GSK and other Pharma companies (which have all been caught doing the same thing) are still allowed to buy ads, to put things on TV, use social media (by the way often with fake grass roots organizations - Astroturfing - which also presumably is against social media policy).

I have no problem with the concept of it, but let's be real, this is not done in a fair way. This is done for specific political reasons. Look what is going on with Dr. Mercola as a real life case study of this.
Again, a simple solution is to slow the spread of information by tying it to a geographic radius of influence. Most trolls should have an audience of 1, it should take a year of positive community behavior to ever have a video shown to over 50 people.

That will dramatically affect revenue, but it will vastly improve quality.
If Verizon is your ISP (e.g., FIOS), opt-out page is here: https://www.verizon.com/consumer/myverizon/internet

Then "Manage Online Advertising Preferences"

We were opted in by default.

Also (they claim) you can delete previous information collected on you at: https://www.verizon.com/privacy/secure/delete
>This is absurd. As a brown immigrant Muslim looking person, not only do I feel safer in the US than I would in China, I feel safer here than in France.

Do muslim looking persons in muslim countries feel equally well protected from America?

>Americans aren’t frothing at the mouth to ban Islamic religious clothing while schoolgirls in France have to remove their headscarves.

That sounds like more progressive. Do women's rights in the West stop when it comes to muslim women -- where we "allow" them to wear headscarves lest they get beaten up by their fathers/spouses?
It's not a dichotomy, there is a middle ground.
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Not to defend China, but the restitution of HK was agreed since long ago. And it would be naive to believe China wouldn’t have started to annex the city back, the last symbol of British colonial domination and the defeat of the Opium War.

Of course there’s no winner here, only losers...
There were plenty of disastrous wars, but clearly the US did not intend to commit genocide, and I very much doubt it did, in any war. The same cannot be said for China. Of course, there's the historic case of the native Americans, but again, that's not actively occurring.
No, not really. I’ll put up with draconian and biased moderation to skim curated tech articles in the morning before I start my day. Don’t confuse that with how exist in society.
Thanks for the info, didn't know it was a thing.

Mind that I mention it was specifically index finger swiping. Maybe it wasn't actually faster than physical keyboard, but it was certainly an order of magnitude faster than discrete thumbs phone typing.
It looks really great at first to have a hassle-free alternative with sensible defaults.

Unfortunately installing seems non-trivial. Would love simple binary or .deb/.rpm install.
Time Warner Spectrum can rest easy? They're worse.
I would check out Axidraw instead, much better!

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> on what basis does the West have any moral authority to judge China's emulation of Western colonialism

This is a counsel of despair and it is pure tribalism. No one in the West can condemn the actions of China the nation because the West has done analogous things in the past. So everyone in the West is guilty for everything anyone in the West has ever done. By this logic there is no basis for moral judgment ever and every group is free to dominate any other group. Might makes right. It's lovely in this scenario to claim membership in a powerful group that can take everyone else's marbles.

No one believes this about their own group. "I can't judge my neighbor for murder because we're both white. His crime is my crime." People frequently believe this about other groups. "My Chinese neighbor is a horrible person because they are Han and the Han-dominated government in China is doing horrible things to Uighurs." This is obvious nonsense. Wrong is wrong whoever the judge. It isn't the West judging China but individual Westerners. Also individual Han Chinese. Maybe even individual Han Chinese responsible for abusing the Uighurs.
Only if repeated experimentation affirms it. Simply being "I'm a scientist and I like this" is not the implication here, but this is what youtube and other major players are trying to legitamize.
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I've used Pcg32 via https://docs.rs/rand_pcg and been quite happy. That being said I don't rely on excellent quality and haven't tested it. One of the main reasons I use it is that the implementation works perfectly in WebAssembly.

I use it to deal tiles in my version of online Azul: https://tiles.kevincox.ca

I also used it to simulate the Red7 game for strategy testing: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/red7-sim
They haven't committed crimes on the scale of the invasions of Vietnam and Iraq in the last 50 years.
Maybe, but what's your argument here? That there's a zero-sum game of one or the other, and that nothing can be done to contain any nastiness? That all alternatives are equally bad? You seem to imply a lot, it would be helpful to actually know what you mean.
???

If mask availability is limited, doesn't it make sense to use them where they have the most positive impact?

Isn't that just good resource management? That seems good for credibility.
Have you ever met a Holocaust survivor?
Commit itself loudly, meaningfully, and practically to minimising that dependency
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It is interesting that people were horrible or selfish or manipulative before the Internet, before the Web, and are horrible or selfish or manipulative AFTER widespread adoption of the Web and these "platforms". It's almost like arguing about the platforms is a side-point to the root cause of the problem - people's personalities and selfishness, and some people's gullibility without investigating "facts" presented to them.

It's obvious that the Internet and social media wouldn't solve these issues with people, or hide these flaws in humanity. I am baffled why people think it would. It's just another form of something governments or institutions cannot handle/control, which has been occurring since written history began. The only difference is the sheer quantity and ease of having a voice these days.

(For reference regarding my use of these "platforms": I use YouTube periodically to mainly watch the C++ conference videos to further highlight how out of touch I am with the modern iterations of the language, but have nothing to do with Facebook or Twitter since I found it to be a stream of people talking about themselves; by definition that is not a conversation, so is not social and should be renamed "Selfish Media" IMHO).
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The only complaint about ChaCha's statistical properties I could find on <https://www.pcg-random.org/other-rngs.html#id7> is:

> Fewer rounds result in poor statistical performance; ChaCha2 fails statistical tests badly, and ChaCha4 passes TestU01 but sophisticated mathematical analysis has shown it to exhibit some bias. ChaCha8 (and higher) are believed to be good. Nevertheless, ChaCha needs to go to more work to achieve satisfactory statistical quality than many other generators.
Also if you want to do anything beyond “what the devs already thought about” you either need deep understanding of the specific system/app or rounds of trial and error.

Case in point: tried sharing a vpn config with an Android user over Signal. They couldn’t do anything with the file, just yielding an error message saying it was unsupported. Sending the exact same file with a .pdf extension allowed them to download it and import it in their VPN app (only after downloading and installing a generic file manager app, though).

Every now and then I struggle with some file that I can’t figure out how to move between apps. Something as seemingly simple as downloading an mp3 file from a browser and importing it to a music player app is quite an ordeal on iOS.
Just did the other way last month from jekyll -> hugo after years on jekyll. Compile times down from 30 seconds to 300ms. Also was not able to reinstall jekyll with lots of ruby related errors and my knowledge of ruby is close to zero.
Meta, but... 10 points, posted 13 minutes ago and number 1 on the front page?
Physical store optimize for you wasting time in them, not for your convenience (e.g. most bought items, such as bread, are always at the back of the store). I don't see a reason why Amazon would be different.
Well, everbody thinks they're doing the right thing. U.S was saving Vietnam from communism and later was saving the world from Saddam's WMD or Afghanistans taliban. China is saving their country from civil disintegration and helps create a uniform culture for the greater good. See what I did there?
How many time per decade does a border change in a post UN world. How many times in an average decade did borders change before the UN?

Reading this thread has made me depressed. I guess lessons have expiration dates. We're going to have to relearn this one.
I would not characterize this story as speech but as carefully designed viral marketing content. If one is in the business of attracting people speaking with each other and selling that access to companies and political parties then dealing with viral content intended to undermine your sales is a continuous struggle. This one was deemed over the line and a case of potentially Russian disinformation laundering.

When looking at the legalities keep in mind that these companies have been explicitly warned by the F.B.I. of such possibilities and have spent time combing through their own databases and have identified such events.
Obliterating email and whatsapp would probably put a lot of people out of business permanently, far more so than the pandemic.

"But I didn't mean those!"

OK, fine, now we need to define social media. Clearly everybody wants to count Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. But some of the major incidents come from memetic circulation of fake news and racial hatred propaganda etc on Whatsapp. The Christchurch shooter (and others) were radicalised by 4/8chan. Both he and Anders Breivik also cited racial hatred material produced by "traditional", "legitimate" sources such as major newspapers.

(I wonder if anyone's ever done an "impact factor of evil" analysis on the citation graphs of mass shooter manifestoes? Going all the way back to Kaczynski, T and beyond)

> people should just pick up that phone and go out more

You've missed all the "millenials NEVER answer the phone" memes, then?

> The opposite of social media today (election manipulation, divided societies, ethnic cleansing) is the state of affairs before social media, which wasn't bad at all

My point is that none of those are new, it's just that people struggle to recognise the warning patterns. Countries that were badly hit by SARS-COV were more attuned to the risks of SARS-COV-2. Countries that were badly hit by 20th century fascism are more attuned to the risks of 21st century fascism. Hence all the endless (somewhat fruitless) discussion about who counts as a Nazi and when it might be OK to punch them.

It's not just the medium, we have to look at the messages. Can we ban certain messages without throwing out the medium?
It’s not often that you come across an article that seems designed purely to engender schadenfreude, but this fits the bill nicely.

In a slightly more serious tone, the interviewee pulls out the old “won’t someone think of the small businesses?” line at the end. Is there any evidence that this is true? Is is primarily small businesses that are hurt with this kind of instability?
> Nativist anti-immigration demands in Europe or North America are generally criticized as hyperbole because immigration will not actually lead to demographic replacement in the near future, in spite of those activists’ claims.

The US is steering towards Majority Minority, is it not?

> Furthermore, in Europe the immigrants invariably assimilate linguistically to their host country – by the second or third generation, the language of the old country is forgotten.

That would be great, but isn't the case.

> China has the numbers to change Xinjiang’s demographics, and almost none of those Han Chinese immigrants are learning Uighur and using it in public.

Absolutely. My point isn't that it's great what China is doing, it's just weird that "you need to assimilate, it's their province" is a weird take when that same stance is violently opposed in other circumstances.

I don't think it's necessary either, human rights don't need a justification of regional ownership. Even if you don't think that Han shouldn't be allowed to settle there, you can still be appalled by the things the Chinese government is doing.
Isn't this article essentially what terragrunt accomplishes
Clowncore published a humorous music video titled Earth is Flat but renamed it to Earth because the algorithm can't detect humor, YouTube had un-recommended the original video and put a big info box next to it, insisting that the earth is not flat.
I should have been more explicit - When Word left Starfleet for bit, and went 'full Klingon'.
Isn't YouTube banning certain content exactly what free speech is about? YouTube, a corporate entity with its own goals and beliefs, exercises its right to say what it thinks is the truth. It's similar to most newspapers: they're not entirely objective.

If content publishers want to post Corona related information that YouTube thinks is false, they'll just have to find/create another platform for it.
> I have worked for a company acquired by a Private Equity that was universally hated by managers and employees alike. They didn’t even want to hear problems internally in quiet. It still wasn’t appropriate to trash them or talk to the media while you were an employee.

> If you don’t like it and you complain to HR or your manager and they don’t or can’t address the problem, you should work somewhere else. If enough people leave, change will happen. Before that, don’t expect much.

I'm curious, how did the PE situation you described work out? Did enough people leave to make change happen?
I think it’s because the writers have this thing called “people skills”.
I think people need to come to terms with the fact that the USA isn’t immutable and no government lasts forever. A divorce is coming and it’s better for everyone if it’s peaceful when it happens.
> 0.01% of Chinese population

I look at Taiwan with great hopes.
> The problem we have is that social media should not exist.

So you are saying we should just get rid of the internet? Social media is not just a few popular sites. It is the entirety of the internet. You get rid of the "social media" sites and people will still connect. Crap will still flow. You'll obviously see a temporary drop until people adjust and reconnect. The internet is about connecting people and making the exchange of information easier. You cannot get rid of "social media" without getting rid of the internet.
If you were poor muslim peasant - where would you rather live?

In China controlled Xinjiang or next door in US controlled Afghanistan?

China and the US are both empires. What happens on the periphery is not always pretty. But to pretend one is good and the other is evil is stupid at best and dangerous as worst.
I don't think this is quite right. An open source 2d printer would allow for a lot of things commercial printers don't allow for. For example, I'd like to be able to print on things which are not paper. If I had an inkjet head mounted on something, there's a ton I could do with it, from modifying it to print directly on fabric, to integrating it with other fabrication technologies to make decorated objects. Even a CNC mill or laser cutter with an integrated printhead would be invaluable, both for labeling parts and decoratively (for making pretty parts).

There's a massive growth curve too. If we could find a way to print on plastic, we could integrate this with a 3d printer and make decorated parts. I think this would be multiple stages of amateur R&D, but it would eventually happen (yes, I suspect someone will respond with all the technical issues why it can't work with current technology, ignoring all disclaimers -- I am aware this won't work right now).

I think of tons of other use cases.

I think the problem is as others have described. Making a printhead costs peanuts, but engineering one and NREs are astronomical. Ditto for paper handling, and many other parts of the printer. There used to be an printhead open enough for DIY (you could buy them in quantities of 1, and there was a spec sheet), but it's not sold anymore.
None of this disagrees with the link I posted. In fact your own link quotes different research saying:

The poll showed that only 45% of Americans believe vaccines do not cause autism in children.

And as the link noted, measles needs a 95% vaccination rate to be stopped effectively.
"I'm looking at my sympathy-o-meter and the needle's barely moving".
When one side says it's raining and the other says it's sunny, there's no point in censorship, since one side is obviously wrong.
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The same that prevents Whatsapp from doing the same: trust.
Is Civil war possible at all in US’s military system today?
By curious coincidence, Windows just threw me this: https://i.imgur.com/iUWoHOw.png

It's disabled the VirtualBox install that I've been running for a year or so with no issues, on the basis that it's "old software".

This certainly shows the true face of the new Microsoft.
"Twilio was a surprise acquirer. Many expected Segment to be picked off by one of the usual suspects like Adobe or Salesforce."

In terms of culture, Twilio would be a better fit, given their focus on developer evangelism in user acquisition which is similar to Segment's strategy. In fact, if you look at Sendgrid, which Twilio has acquired 2 years ago, it also adopts a similar strategy.
I am not claiming that. In fact, it's probably necessary to prevent that kind of disaster, and I wish YouTube would ban a bit more aggressively - but also with more thought and better review.

(I seem to have been misunderstood quite badly, a sibling comment to yours makes exactly the opposite allegation! Also, I'm a Brit)

The risk of any ban system is that true-but-inconvenient stuff ends up getting banned as well. The very real risk that video evidence of murders by police might be banned for "promoting violence", for example. There's already the controversy over removing evidence of war crimes in Syria - kind of understandable, given that those must be pretty traumatic videos.
Hm. But action were taken, no? Both power mentioned were happy to let Germany eat both austria and Czechoslovakia: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

The idea was to let Germany fight Soviets in the east, while British and french were hiding behind that fortification line.
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Neato. That's the app I helped build when I worked there.

If you can intercept the data on-disk you could look at the protobufs that were used to capture all the sensor data (WiFi, IMU etc). None of that data is particularly helpful. I think to get the files you would need to jailbreak & I believe WiFi scanning in code is similarly available anyway once you've jailbroken.

The map data that's available to you should just be the maps you've uploaded. The geolocation map building from the signals happens offline on Apple servers & the results of the map are publicly available on Apple's CDN for download by devices.
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> My view is that attempting to convert facts -- delivered by the scientific method -- to fiction by way of purposeful misinformation is a more corrosive form of censorship

Then you simply don't know what the word censorship means.
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We live in a world where businesses often lose touch with existing customers in pursuit of new ones.

How sad!

I get it, acquiring new customers is great, but retaining existing customers is sweet.

Imagine not having to worry about the cost of social advertisements, Google AdWords, and more marketing efforts that go into acquiring one new visitor.

So, to answer the above question, I’d say a healthy customer retention rate is the one that is always improving.

If you managed to retain five customers this month, next month you have to make it above five.

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Yes... that plays exactly into my point here.

How do the poorest people in India impact the decision of whether or not to lockdown the US?
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That's because it's not obvious if there's any political bias behind the Gmail spam detection algorithm.
They never redacted some of it.