skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, I have personal experience with CRS (specifically headaches), and have since I was a small child when I had never even heard of it or MSG. Obviously it isn't MSG (I use it as a seasoning more than salt and pepper), but am thoroughly convinced that there is something to it.
> Chinese Restaurant Syndrome

you'd think the name would give it away, but people are so quick to dismiss racism that this blaring red flag is just glossed over
Everyone is.
I've heard this repeated so many times but I don't actually understand what that means - can you elaborate? Mentioning racism causes more racism? Doesn't that make sense?

Sort of sounds like the same thing as "the more you test for COVID the more cases there will be"

I've read your sentence like 10 times and it makes no sense to me. How would one exploit someone calling out (false by your definition) racism to cause more racism?
This article is trying to equate a medical controversy with racism. There exists a medical controversy over the effects of MSG. There exists racism, both in general and in particular against Asians in the United States. There also exists a very profitable industry that relies on flavour enhancers, and MSG is one of the most potent yet least expensive flavour enhancers available.

I'll tell you that I've inadvertently done the double-blind "Is MSG harmful" test too many times in my life. I'm one of the very, very few people who are negatively affected by MSG. But just like the hordes of non-celiacs who refuse gluten, there are many people who are not affected by MSG who prefer to avoid it as well.

What I do find disgusting is the attempts to conflate racism with the ill effects of MSG, in an effort to discredit those who do suffer from MSG sensitivity. It is telling that independent studies done in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as told in the fine article, found a connection between MSG usage and onset of negative symptoms. But when the knowledge of the connection began affecting the food industry, other studies with different findings started appearing.
How could you vote with your wallet if there is not competition?
My laptop is about 13 years old. I got a new battery and an SSD a few years ago for it. Still works fine. I usually just use my desktop for most stuff.
Humans already seek out foods rich in MSG, while we don’t necessarily search out Cyanide.
C became popular because it's easy to implement– the syntax is easy to write a compiler for.
> Something that took Adobe thousands of engineers and decades to build up over time.

It's not true in every case, but the efficiency of solo developers and tiny teams is a massive advantage vs. inefficient huge teams crippled by corporate bureaucracy and layers of management. Even though the latter has astronomical budget vs the first, it doesn't actually guarantee better software.
From the quick glance I made at the book, it seemed like Nokia was bleeding money, Symbian was dying and Meego was not ready for prime time despite good potential.

Nokia had to make some tough choices. They had to go with another platform made by someone else and both Google and Microsoft were really interested in having Nokia as their partner.

Nokia needed money badly and it seems like massive layoff were out of the question. They wanted Google/Microsoft to pay them to put their respective OS on their phones.

Only Microsoft was willing to do that, since they too were desperate to have a strong device maker to push Windows Phone.

In the end, both Nokia and Windows Phone failed.
what is CRS, please use the full name
I know the linked book "Operation Elop" is a long and occasionally tedious read, but it's worth reading a couple of the initial chapters if you still believe Nokia was fine in 2010.

The problems started already years before, but Nokia management was successful for a while in hiding its dysfunction behind the immediate effects of the 2008 crisis.
Then you have places like Citibank that disables 2FA periodically to make you “re-authenticate” with your password.

And Synchrony (think every credit card not issued by a retail bank) which gives you a menu of every phone number associated with you from the Transunion skip-trace database to choose from when they request SMS.
I'll have my online discourse with an extra dash of racism accusations please, hold the logic.
No, because you can easily disable the hotspot.
Maybe you forgot about Siri, Ok Google, Cortana, Alexa?
Ask HN: I'm gonna be in WiFi-enabled quarantine for 2 weeks. What should I do?
I'm going to NZ and will be locked in a hotel room with a couple of laptops for 2 weeks. What should I do that is stimulating (and maybe even productive) for this period of time beyond Netflix and gaming?
1. Where would this military police force take its legitimacy from ? The only legitimacy there is is when people get together and agree to institute a force to police them. That means democracy. Since the UN is currently very far removed from the will of the individual citizen of the World, I think your proposal would require a deep change of governance of the UN to include more democratic processes.

2. This proposal assumes that there is a single set of values and rules that can be applied to everyone. I don't think this is actually true. The world currently allows several value systems to exist simultaneously, which can all be valid. Your proposal would raise a single value system above all others. How do we chose which one ?

3. The further the government is removed from the citizens, the less it cares about their actual needs. Special measures would need to be taken to make sure that police force actually serves the interests of the people. I don't think the current forms of democracy actually work in that case, when so many people and cultures are involved, you can't be satisfied with a majority rule.
doesn't even have to be a "multinational" company, any entity that buys computers in bulk can be a candidate (local schools or a small business).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EATdYG7h9IQ

apparently a private school is Aussie land was going to throw 100 of these MacBooks into the dumpster/landfill. They were intercepted by someone else and this person received 15 of those MacBooks (I guess he just paid for shipping and handling?). After repairing them, he had 11 functioning computers at the end of the video. The other 4 were salvaged for parts or something like that.
> “do you think racism plays a part?”

> Are you really saying the only possible reason is racism?

I don't think that is what they're saying
The guy who created this is truly a genius.
His software has been really helpful for me

And i truly appreciate people who create useful software and open source it
> SOC2 is pretty heavy duty to achieve and to maintain.

LOL, no. I've gone through SOC2, and it's not hard at all to achieve. SOC2 is basically just about (1) documenting controls and (2) following them. You have a lot of leeway with your auditor on what those controls entail (and remember, you choose and pay your auditor, so there's also a huge conflict of interest here).

We did have to do a yearly security audit, but it's foolish to think that will catch all issues, and it relies a lot on the company being helpful and open with their auditor. You also a lot of leeway in arguing down issue severity.

We got SOC2 certified because many companies require that their vendors have it, but I personally think it has little to no value, and I would not trust a company any more because they've gone through it.
I think you’re assuming the Dave guy accused those folks of being racist. That’s not the same as suggesting historic racism demonizing MSG is what led to them internalizing some feeling of “MSG allergy”, which is what Dave IS suggesting.
> We need to actually coin a word to describe "company solved their use-case wonderfully and can't resist fiddling around with it for reasons that don't align with their user-base.

Apple can only serve so many people well.

Apparently, you are not the "average" customer.

I'm in this exact situation every time I go shopping for shoes and find out I'm not within 1-sigma from the mean.

It sucks, but it's how mass production and mass integration works. Choice becomes very limited, and no company will rise to address a specific shortcoming for a specific group.
I have heard this a lot. I think it is a fantasy.

(a) N9's sales were a drop in the ocean. It is like if you have a game with 100% good customer reviews. But there are only 50 reviews. The tiny but vocal segment who loves it, loves it. That doesn't matter.

(b) There was no room for a third ecosystem. Developers were busy writing apps for Android and iPhone. Nobody would write apps for (random 3rd OS that has a couple of million phones). It wouldn't matter if the N9 had had working desktop fusion and teleportation. The platform was dead.
Could you provide a definition correct, smart and sorta helpful?
Sadly, "being fashionable in UNIX circles" is more important than it sounds, because those circles have quite a lot of skilled people, mindshare and staying power and they contribute to lots of critical components that only now are (partially) considering to accept contributions in a different language than C, and that's because that language is Rust (see Linux, GNOME, etc). The refusal of C++ from those "UNIX circles" has led to decades of reinventing the wheel from people that reimplemented all sorts of weird hacks in C for reasons that basically boil down to a strong, unsatiable desire to avoid C++ at all cost (see Glib, Gtk+, etc).
I mean, this is all well and good - if those people wouldn't actively consume porn and take the services of sex workers, as the OP points out. The "yuck" factor seems to only apply if this stuff is discussed in the open.
explain why it's called "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"
I have been with Comcast for about a decade and live in SV. I started out paying them $30/mo for 10 mbps and now pay $25/mo for 25 mbps. Their 'regular prices' are ridiculous, but I just call them once a year and ask for a discount (and sometimes say I'll leave) and they find a discount if I commit to a year. There isn't any competition where I live, so I don't mind.

I'd be interested to know if others in SV (or elsewhere) have seen effective prices (not just nominal rack rates) increasing.

For the record, I don't love Comcast and have even written blog posts about how much I dislike them. But in terms of pricing, I've had an OK experience over a long period of time.
Technically, every server I run is an extremely localized meteor detector. The rate of false positives is horrendous, though…
Considering what the original idea behind Facemash was, I don't think the type of industry to achieve success in matters.

Porn spam is difficult in the same manner filter-evading YouTube clips are - it's human intelligence applied at scale. With highly motivated humans at that. It really is harder than all the things which you mentioned.
I don't think no fap is right wingers- it's just people who think they are healthier not faping. I'm not saying they are right or wrong (For all I know it could be true for them but not for you?), but it's more like a fad diet than a political thing.
With Sophie Wilson as the barmaid in the Baron of Beef Pub in Cambridge at the end!
Your throwaway username that was created 3 days ago is also boring and unoriginal. GPT-3 itself could’ve generated it
The idea of concentrating more power into one set of hands right now strikes me as absolutely insane.
Israel sure does siphon off intel with all their companies, but it's not strictly limited to just them though.

Also it's definitely not slander, they always just seem to get pissy anytime one calls them out.
This is an old paper. A lot more work has been done on Japanese and on Kalash (see Reich) and the Altaic language family is on the backfoot these days. Reich himself is also very sloppy with attributions about Dravidian language.
apple news
> This article's main point left me deeply confused. Isn't mostly men behind OnlyFans? And also aren't male performers in general paid significantly less than female performers in porn? I feel like things like that were deliberately left out of the article because they didn't contribute to the narrative it tried to build.

Have to use a throwaway lest my skeletons get attached to me.

> Isn't mostly men behind OnlyFans?

Yeah. The irony to me of this wave of the 'sexual revolution' is that the message is that it's OK for Women/Men to sell their bodies as such on the internet... And the end result is a bunch of white men who were in many cases already rich are getting richer via their 'cut'. OnlyFans/Manyvids/Etc are just like the Apple or Android store. They provide some level of legally required and/or percieved need (Verification, APIs and docs, etc) and then get a cut for doing not much else.
Chicago School vs the EU. We need the EU model, the Chicago School is Gilded Facism.
Even a financial audit is based on what the company tells the auditors and is about whether the financial reporting conforms to generally accepted principles, not whether it's actually correct.
What about the performance though? I believe these older models can be unbearably slow, just to browse the web with. For some of my friends this is a problem just because of the limited RAM, but you won't be able to upgrade it because it's soldered on.
Umm "red flag"? If you are going to chastise people please make sure your language does not rely on racist cliches...
> would think you silly for not considering them

Apple has never not dropped a port or adopted a new standard because they cared about user backwards capability. If they are sticking with lightening it is probably because they make good money on lightning cables and licensing.
What I miss the most about JLC is the rage that seeps through the pages of his post-soviet works. The detached tone and third person narration can’t hide the fury he felt for the corruption, the hypocrisy, the evil.

In a funny way, I always saw a parallel with Terry Pratchett on that front. Though different in nearly every conceivable way, both are capable of writing books that seem to be dripping with anger at the stupidity and evil of man.
Right, I'm not questioning the quality of blue banana or nordic country healthcare. But... are you willing to vouch for the quality of healthcare in Spain or Italy, or some of the eastern EU countries like Romania? Because I lived in Naples and Rome for a combined 5 years and I was not impressed with the quality of healthcare I received compared to what I'm used to in America (for one, doctors don't usually come in with lit cigarettes in america, though I'm told "that's a Naples thing").
Was this plugin recently re-licensed from paid to open source?
One of the biggest examples of this is probably Tumblr banning and removing porn and other NSFW content from their platform.
It’s not a “USA” thing. Different groups of people are skeptical of other groups of people, all over the world. The US is just unusual in having enormous amounts of people from different groups interacting with each other.

The UK, for example, isn’t just 90% white. It’s 80% white British. Same thing for Germany and France. They’re borderline ethnostates. The US isn’t more than 15% of any ethnic group (with German Americans being the largest group).
> But I've also seen wonderfully productive, supportive behavior.

Me too, 99% coming from the rank and file, cleaning personnel, etc. A VP wont sacrifice his chances of promotion to help you, and if he has to fire you to get it,he will.
I'm curious to know where you live. I've had Comcast for a long time and have looked into pricing on a regular basis. It has never been less expensive for me to add other services, and I never have. Instead, I just go with the "starter' level of service, which is currently 25 mbps. When it's running properly, that's more than enough speed for us.
It's knot so bad.
Both glibc arguments are bogus.

First, to simply replace strcpy with strcpy_s is not possible on purpose. He cites that as disadvantage, but the advantage is that the user has to check for the error value and do something. Before the code ignored any errors and was happy with either UB, SEGV's or silent overwrites. Now some action has to be performed in the error case. The _s functions are not to be used as nested expressions.

The 2nd argument, that error callbacks are insecure, is also bogus. The current practice of env callbacks and overrides are much more insecure and slower. Look at the myriad of nonsense glibc put into their dynamic linker or malloc. LD_ this and MALLOC_ that. Same as a hacker can redirect the cb function to his, he can overwrite the process env block to set some evil LD_LIBRARY_PATH and load the evil .so. There are about 20 of those, safeclib has two.

safeclib is also not slower on good compilers. On recent clang it's even faster than glibc. glibc likes to break the optimization boundaries with asm, safec uses macros for zero-cost compile time checks, and proper code which can be easily inlined and tree optimized. That's why it can be safer and faster than glibc.

glibc does not support strings, only raw memory buffers, length or zero delimited. Strings are unicode nowadays. glibc does not care about strings and about its security implications. safec does.
Four Arguments for Eliminating Television by Jerry Mander (2005) [pdf]
It used to be that botnets for ddos were valuable, too, and you'd think some sort of low-effort crypto miner could be uploaded or something. Seems odd even without the email benefit that they'd just not follow up at all.
Hiring an attorney comes down to a lot more than simple will. The phone camera is one of the most powerful tools the average person has to combat abuses of authority. Not everyone who is a victim of that has the means or resources (or sometimes the sympathy) to just go hire an attorney.
My parents used to have an msg shaker. I don’t even recall what they used it for.

The first time I heard something about avoiding MSG foods was from upper middle class fresh transplants from HK. Others of less means never mentioned it. So it’s news to me that someone would apply a blanket accusation as to where the myth comes from.
Herman Hauser: "Did that happen"

Chris Curry: "NO!"
IMHO, the Thinkpad T430 was one of the worst T-series laptops Lenovo ever produced. Mine barely lasted 3 years and had to be serviced multiple times as the screen hinges broke and the fan became super loud, among other things.

The T460p which I use now is much better. I'm currently testing a T490 as a replacement, which seems quite nice as well but has some annoying features (glossy display, integrated smaller battery) that might convince me to stay on the T460p for a while longer. Also, CPU performance hasn't really increased in the last 4 years, the T460p has almost the same Geekbench score as the T490. The display is arguably better (nicer color rendition and higher brightness) and the laptop is 35 % lighter as well as signifantly thinner, on the other hand the battery is 30 % smaller and power usage hasn't gone down compared to the T460p, so it maxes out at around 4 hours of usage.
European states ban travel from UK as new Covid strain takes hold
Somewhen in the last two centruries, the general population seems to have internalized the view that making money = work, keeping a house functioning = not work. It's peculiar, if you think about it, given how big a multiplier the latter is to the former. I'm guessing this is one of the early case of society falling victim to metrics - making money is easy to quantify and compare, housekeeping isn't.
> It is a misconception that all nomadic or foraging humans had to spend 100% of their time trying to stay alive.

Agreed.

> I'm fact, if you look at African tribes and their original lifestyle you will realize how little time they had to spend on getting food and how much time they were able to spend just being happy, playing, drinking hallucinogenic substances to get into an enlightening trance etc.

Generalizations about foraging populations are fraught with problems because there was a lot of diversity among them and its not possible to study them in a "pure" (untouched by agricultural peoples) setting.
If it had shipped two years earlier, perhaps. By 2011 iOS and Android already had sufficient mindshare that Meego (while a fine OS!) didn't stand out sufficiently to have stood a chance (although obviously Nokia's pivot to Windows Phone meant it didn't in any case).

If you want to play with something similar, Sailfish is derived from Meego and has been ported to various widely available devices.
"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"
There are also many non-celiacs who would swear that they cannot eat glutten. That does not discredit the actual existence of celiacs.

When I was younger, I would sometimes discover that certain foods contain MSG by identifying what I had eaten before the onset of symptoms. Now I've learned to check everything beforehand. And the one time that the mother-in-law used her neighbour's soup mix instead of the soup mix that I bought her, I was able to know by the symptoms. Now my teenagers avoid MSG, but not because they are sensitive. The older of them is a vegetarian, but not because she lacks incisors or canines.
I remember when someone walked into my office about 27 years ago (in 1993) and showed me NCSA Mosaic on SunOS. I was mesmerized.

And my productivity hasn't been the same since.
"your langauge"

My language? That's the f@#$ing name society attached to it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51139005

So you calling it a racist cliche means that you're agreeing with me that the origins of this hoax IS racism.
What kind of (racist) actions are taken in the east due to this prejudice they have? And how does that compare (or how is it way higher) to how western racism is towards those minorities in the western countries? Thinking they are better doesn't really compare.
> I remember being taught it was something "shifty" Chinese people do to their food to make it taste better as a sort of dishonest competitive trick, at the cost of the health of their customers.

Yeah the MSG thing is clearly racism. But to be fair pretty much every Chinese takeout places uses white rice by default and charges an extra dollar for brown rice, which makes the food taste better at the cost of the health of their customers.
Ah but people didn’t make up that term. It was ‘popularized’ by the likes of the NYT. I’ve never heard a regular person refer to their perceived reaction to msg as Chinese restaurant syndrome. That comes from the press —the same ones now chastising people.
Does selling advertisements for cars or penis pills provide societal value? I think a lot of things we do don't have societal value but we do it because there's a demand in the market for it.
"Invoking racism and gender discrimination when it’s not the reason, causes more racism"

So, wait, you're saying if someone who's not a racist gets called a racist that's going to be enough to turn him in to a racist?

If that's all it took they were probably racist to begin with.
Low effort cryptominer or ddos drone sounds exactly like the kind of thing that'll get you caught early. Even if you are actually after profit (and not other goals one would assume with what's claimed to be state-associated hackers), that might not be a good idea.
Oh, they can definitely be kinetic. Benghazi wasn't a cyber attack.

What keeps them non-kinetic, in general, is CIA / NSA vigilance and executive authorization to intervene. Which they can't get if the executive isn't fully briefed.
> The report from Reuters identified people internal to the investigation who said it "bore the hallmarks" of known Russian hacking groups.

I too believe that report. That's not what we're discussing though - the supposed straw man was "experts on TV are saying this hack was so sophisticated it could have only been done by the Russians".

What I'm saying is that many countries and companies have the capability to perform something like this. Not that Russia didn't do it.
Mastodon. Someone building a JIT translator from 68000 machine code to ARM. Elementary OS.

I also chip in toward upkeep on my favorite Mastodon instance.