skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't just singular use of the word. From earlier reporting: "the Daily Beast reported that students who attended the trip, as well as their parents, had complained that McNeil used the “n-word,” said that white supremacy did not exist and made other disrespectful comments about Black teenagers when he led the student trip to Peru."
I think it's very interesting for others to follow this.

Now, we are leaving the original scope (not just changing a function, but modifying globals). read-only globals even. But prepare for my counter:

let frame = document.createElement('x');
document.body.appendChild(frame);
if( frame.contentWindow.Function.toString.call(add).includes("multiplier") ) throw "boom!";

You might go to also kill "document.createElement", but there are many ways for me to get a new frame. I think when we come to the point where all these are disabled, I would say only a small fraction of the websites that use javascript would still properly operate. It would be your victory though. ;)
> From a security standpoint it is awful because you increase the number of providers you have to trust.

No, a VPN replaces an ISP in most threat models (by shifting who can see your traffic). For some people, this is a good trade (ex. me: my ISP has straight-up admitted to analyzing people's traffic for marketing info).
This is an example of the sort of foible of which people on HN are constantly guilty.

Just because you're an expert at one thing does not make you an expert at everything.
There's nothing magical about a "private tracker", those are regularly infiltrated too.
As the only left handed member in my family, I'm now curious if I ever did that to my family. Though for tasks of that nature I may actually use either hand, or maybe I just started using the right hand because I was the weirdo (asking my mother she said she never noticed but assumed I probably just adapted and used my right hand).

As a bachelor I virtually make all my own bread so I don't really notice, but I think I do take time to figure out which way to twist before opening so maybe that is a thing.

This is just to say, the things you never think about, and I enjoyed the irony of your situation from the reverse side.
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I think there is another one to add to the list, which is assuming something is wrong without knowing enough about the problem to know why something is the way it is right now.

E.g. Instead of telling a cat food company how much they would save with a different size, you could ask a company why they don't optimise for the lowest surface area, or if they have considered it. The first assumes you are right and they are wrong from the get go, while they are the domain experts.

Really interesting dialogue though!
Then you're the only person coming from that IP; a commercial service lets you hide in the crowd.
Looks very slick Simon, nice onboarding, congrats on the launch!
The people you’re hoping to sell this to aren’t interested in programming.

If you can’t sit down for an hour to learn something, you’re going to hate programming because that’s literally the entire job.
This is why I have empathy for conspiracy believers. From their perspective, their understanding of the world is accurate.

This is also why I see the inevitable failure of social media platforms in regulating truth-vs-non-truth.
Non-scary things from a quick reading…

• You must start with 78 square miles (200 square kilometers) of uninhabited land not contained in any township. (Not too hard in Nevada, but you might need to buy out a rancher to get something nice. There are single ranches this size. The size is suspiciously close to one which is currently on the market with good interstate highway access.)

• Initially you appoint a 3 member board to run things.

• You can a la carte take over various government services administered by your county, the sorts of things which are usually delegated to towns. (In the US all land is in a county, but only populated areas are in towns, the rest is "unincorporated" and is administered by the county.)

• Once the population hits 100 people, you have to have an election and the elected board replaces the appointed one.
I personally never liked the whole Nord ecosystem. I tried NordPass and encountered bug after bug and had to stop using it. The software seems kind of thrown together / shoddily made just to make a quick buck. They don't nearly put in as much passion and effort as better offerings like ProtonVPN and Mullvad (no affiliation, just really love their services).
Google earth simply shows the 3d structure at every zoom level. No projection, and when zoomed out, even on the web, it shows a ball.

Probably not too useful for Navigation of course.
AI originally grew out of complexity science, in the form of cybernetics - hence cybernetics' popular association with AI.
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> parents of teenage daughters argue more about parenting than do the parents of sons

This to me strikes me as the thing that might be the culprit. I can't count the amount of times I've heard men how much they would worry if they'd be getting a daughter. It seems as if many people think a girl has to be parented differently - probably more intensely - compared to a boy who can apparently be left to his own devices more often.

I'm speculating here of course.
There’s a simple solution: Mandate EV charging for residential parking spots.
I've run into all sorts of things in my career where competent people completely ignored parts of the problem. Someone, qualified or not, spending two hours studying the problems would apparently have been the first two hours spent; and to good use.

Many times, I've stumbled across reports from other fields about solving problems in ways well known for their field, but unknown in mine that would apply well for some problems in my field. A (kindly worded) suggestion and reference from someone who thought to be helpful would be useful.

Of course, some fences are Chesterton's fences, and some are just randomly placed fences in weird spots.
I've adopted the right-hand rule: The screw goes the direction my thumb points when my right hand closes. And if it's something left-handed like a bike pedal, it's easy to just use the other hand.
>The sophistry of argument is interesting here when it is claimed that lower caste Hindus cannot setup their own exclusive schools, while the minorities can (the right-wing claims this as "discrimination" introduced in the name of secularism). Funnily, such demands for a caste-exclusive institutions have always come from certain upper-caste dominated religious right-wing in India, who actually look down on the lower caste in India and don't socially interact with them unless they absolutely have to. They yearn for the days were every caste was educated by their own community, thus "preserving the purity" of the caste system (which is part of the Hindu religious system).

With such a mindset, it is quite understandable why they would like to set up "exclusive and pure" schools that is only for their caste community.

Somehow I missed addressing this in my other comment. So..

Not at all what I said. Anyway, I will make another effort hoping that you misunderstood instead of willfully distorting what i said. The lower caste hindus are poor and marginalized. They have no land, no money and no connections. Their only way for social upliftment is through education. No education, no social mobility.

Now this is the base for my argument. As a dalit who has escaped from the system due to a combination of sheer luck and having parents who sacrificed their life for me, I want to setup schools just for dalits - to give it back to my community (for sure others won't). Where I am from, it's all dalits, upper caste hindus and muslims - with upper caste hindus and muslims being well off by margins you can't think off. There is zero reason for me to even think of schools for them. It's amazing how you think you should have the right to run your own schools but the marginalized shouldn't. That is precisely bigotry from your fundamentalist believes. Especially against poor who were oppressed and are still oppressed and marginalized.

I also want to address your concern trolling of lower castes. If the upper castes wants to setup schools just for them, let them! parsis, sikhs, jains, muslims, christians already do. Don't worry about us. I also want to point out your logic of using concerns about upper caste doing something to discriminate lower castes. I am yet to meet a single "secular" (for lack of better term) who advocates for adding the lower castes into minority list. Until then, I see through your concern trolling. Everyone of us do. Do better.

As for purity, there is only one state called "the land of the pure" - which was created more or less based on your on reasoning that the mere existence of hindus on equal foot is threatening, and hence there should be a separate country altogether.

Every single one of your argument is - "Hindus must be contained, and thus must be discriminated and oppressed to do that". It's textbook bigotry.
Dispassion isn't hard, it just isn't as saucy... And people are passionate about this stuff. That's what they want.

These things are "conflated" in real life, not just in rhetoric and reporting... lazy or otherwise. That's kind of the point of this article. There is a ton of political power at stake here, and consolidation is how you win at politics.

Whether or not this article, the media, etc. give a fair shake to the (most rational/dispassionate version of) the opposing viewpoint is what.. it is what it is. The biggest reasons why a dispassionate opposition doesn't get much press is (a) the "ruling" version is the more relevant, practically, because it's in charge. and (b) the crazy version of the dissident position is saucier. This is true for both old and new media, just in different ways. There are also, obviously biases. But, we're also biased in our perceptions of bias. Bias is a mess... but I generally think we over-attribute to bias.

Anyway, the topic of this article actually is relevant. Covid/Lockdown and 2020 generally are massive multipliers for shady, exploitative attempts to acquire political power.

That has nothing to do with dispassionate analysis. It's all about channeling the passions that are already ignited. A lot of people got screwed by covid. A lot of shady cats want to channel those feelings into whatever their cause it.

Remember that lockdown/covid is temporary. Most of the actual political maneuvering is not actually about it anymore.

I guess it's a cliche to end with "the medium is the message." It's just so true here. None of these political actors care about the message (covid policies, good or bad). They care about the medium.
This comment exactly illustrates why I don't expect this to be resolved in my lifetime. It is intellectual masturbation around something that should not require any debate at all. Like that lots of bits get spewed every day that ostensibly are some kind of elevated discussion about fine moral points but which in fact just add noise and no signal.

There are very few arguments about observable facts that start with 'for the sake of argument' and then postulate something utterly ridiculous, to engage such an argument would require one to shift ones worldview into the realm of the insane and that just isn't productive.

If you want to postulate that argument you are going to have to come up with some proof, the burden for any kind of argument that is so far out there lies with the one making that argument, it does not lie with the people addressed to dispel it other than out of hand until there is even a whiff of support. That a ridiculous proposition would require other ridiculous things to be true as well is not support, it is lack of support.
As a reader of both books, I couldn't agree with you more.
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I think, if you looked a bit closer, you'd find that Wikipedia is more opinionated about certain topics than others. On Wikipedia, Ted Kaczynski is a domestic terrorist first, and a mathematician second, but Bill Ayers is an education theorist first, and a domestic terrorist second. I don't really see any "standard" here. To my eyes, the bias is fairly consistent - somewhat left of American center plus a little bit of libertarian - not dissimilar to hacker news.

I mention Bill Ayers specifically because I asked a friend if they had heard of the Weather Underground recently and they said "sounds familiar, remind me?" And I said "Google Bill Ayers" and they paused and then said "the elementary education theorist?" And I said "lol, yeah, that's funny." That first sentence is what shows in Google results on mobile devices - it matters.
Indeed! And perhaps programming-style instructions to turn a page into an origami cat toy might be a great way to get our younger adults to engage.

https://www.origamispirit.com/2013/11/homemade-cat-toy/
I agree that TikTok is incentivized to select videos that people, for whatever reason, like. What I find strange is that there is a vocal group of people that ordinarily find this kind of story upsetting and produce public criticism, but I see a surprisingly small amount of it "in the wild" against TikTok. It's doubly surprising because a lot of those people seem to enjoy and use TikTok.

Maybe the story just never got sufficient traction.
Assume my hotel has some MITM running with the right (broken) certificates and so on.

Which is not that trivial to begin with.

How hard would it be to take over the dns and simulate a fake VPN too?

Or just constantly disconnect the vpn and hope the user stops using it for a while.
The thing I find most notable here is the reason he's being forced out.

I mean, this guy probably does deserve to be fired... But Callimachi deserves to be fired right along with him, and she isn't. They were terrible at their jobs.

The reason here highlights two problems: First, that he might be being made the scapegoat, probably to distract from the huge failure of the organization as a whole that that podcast was. And second, that the twitter cancel culture mobs seemingly only want targets they find acceptable; they deliberately didn't target Callimachi but happily settled on him.

It highlights how hypocritical and toxic the cancel culture mentality is. And I don't think it will change if they keep on succeeding.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
More likely C:\Users\OfficerDibble\Desktop\
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When you say "LaTeX", do you mean... maths? I'm confused about what's your criticism.
Florida did it for Disney decades ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Dist...
If you are doing software engineering, Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework is worth a look. Considers complexity as one quadrant to deal with when making decisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_Framework
Even better, IMHO based on anecdotal personal experience
I’m not so sure about that. What comes to mind is all the successful trading companies of centuries past.
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Or run cgit: https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/
You just described the cold war :) I don't have any larger point, but found it interesting.

What does a war between two nuclear-capable nations look like? If they can nuclear bombs, doesn’t that mean their first strike weapons are all nation killers? If we assume they still primarily use cities as the sites of their industrial and population centres then doesn’t that mean any city within striking distance are immediately obliterated by large, dark, unstoppable projectiles? Any point defence you can think of fails when you can easily throw thousands of these at a nation. There’s no way to win that game for either side.
I think most of the video media inside the courses are also available on youtube - maybe you can stroll through those to see if any reach the level of detail you could use?

https://www.youtube.com/c/ComplexityLearningLab/videos
Who's "they"? What's "cancel culture mentality"?
The point is that said laws exist in most of the world, so the racism explanation does not make sense by itself (if https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26046553 is true however it would make sense)

> America is unique in that their culture has only fairly recently outlawed explicitly, institutionally treating people of other races as lesser than whites

USA is far from unique in that regard, certain commonwealth countries have the same issue.
Just curious..and I don't want to turn this into a language war, but which language was it?
Holy hell that website is awfully designed. Why does it try to snap my scrolling position to what it thinks is the right position? It doesn’t even work, it jumps around like hell, I try to click through the examples and it just kicks me to the bottom. This is exactly the same idiocy of bad and unaccessible design for aesthetic purposes that the site complains about. The irony is palpable.
Certain topics like "complexity theory" or even "artificial intelligence" attract this sort of thing. It's easy to appear that you're saying insightful things without actually saying anything at all.
Do you have children? They most definitely need to be parented differently.

With boys there’s a lot of effort into mitigating physical damage to themselves or physical and/or emotional damage they may cause to others. With daughters, there’s less effort with physical harm and much more effort into helping their emotional well-being.

I would argue that social media and media in general has disproportionately affected the minds of our daughters compared to our sons.
The situation where an individual or group of individuals need to petition another group of individuals, to change the status quo so the first group can function - is broken.

Just a reminder that utilitarianism wrongs the minority group by definition, and is barbaric.
WhatsApp new privacy policy is misinterpreted by its users
>> So for all the reasons above when any physician tries to suggest that a physician is the only “real doctor” you can roll your eyes and suggest they crack open a history book and then let them go back to stroking their own ego.

> As to the origin of the title in a medical setting, you may be right, but it has been used that way for a long time now. Being pedantic about its usage isn't helpful when there are lots of bad actors trying to confuse people by referring to its commonly understood meaning.

I wouldn't exactly call it pedantic, just wrong. It's little more than appeal to the remote past as true and correct, which treats and changes or innovations since then as illegitimate.

Also, IIRC, the physician = "real doctor" thing is often just a reflection of the respect and familiarity that ordinary people have for physicians, not some kind of pompousness by physicians themselves.
You’re thinking of the readers, not the buyers. This is an important distinction, since they may not overlap much.

I.e. this might be one of those books which is meant to be bought as gifts for others, regardless of whether the recipient will read them or not.
Not to get too autobiographical here, but isn't divorce a pretty healthy outcome to a marriage? So not 100% the most helpful thing to measure.

My parents and the parents of some of my depressed friends are not divorced, simply because divorce requires communication and a willingness to reflect upon the state of your marriage openly.

As I said, I might be biased, but I think the hidden outcome of "not legally, but emotionally divorced" makes up a significant portion of turbulent marriages.
One reason is to help reduce some identifying information Ad networks and the like might collect since a common IP is shared among many users. There are disadvantages too but this is something you won’t get with self hosting.

Also ISPs in the US are able to sell your browsing history (https://protonmail.com/blog/private-browsing-history/) but I believe this can be mitigated by DOH.
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> ensured the man cannot access [his] largesse

How? Sounds like his address / public key is known but only he (if anyone) as the private key. What steps from an authority, besides an exogenous threat like being charged again is any balance moves, could they take?
If your ISP is realistic vector for your bank details, anyway you have much bigger problems.

Geoblocking I see, but other stuff without knowing exactly who you get VPN from and who is your ISP is extremely murky... And I think there is very few who can make educated decision on these. And they are running their own or using tor...
As someone who has never played cube world, why compare this game to cube world rather than to Minecraft? Looks very Minecrafty to me. Does cube world have something that makes it significantly different than Minecraft?
Katherine Maher is someone that was flagged up recently as what we could call "politically interesting". I wonder if that is why it was deemed time for her to move on:

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-...

While some may object that this is just The Grayzone's biased take on their disagreements with Wikipedia's odd listing of them as not a reliable source it raises some interesting questions.

Seems like the upper echelons of the USA is just as loaded with political operatives as the old East Germany, USSR or China today.

Oh, and I love wikipedia. It is one of the best things to come out of the internet expansion. Even better than the old CIA World Factbook.
If you read closely my post covers the advantages of not doing that

> ... I haven’t diluted any shares of the company ...

Non-dilutive, non-cash compensation, which is often times more liquid than equity

Best of all worlds
Ask HN: Is moving my blog from WordPress to a static-site worth the tradeoffs?
I have a small personal blog on a self-hosted WordPress instance. I'm not a developer (more of a sysadmin), so I like the ease-of-use that WordPress offers and how everything mostly "just works" without having to hack together a solution.

However, I'd like to ditch the LEMP stack and just serve static files for all of their advantages (speed, security, git-based, etc...)

I've been looking at Hugo, Jekyll, and Pelican. However, I don't want to lose features like search, comments, RSS, etc...

Does everyone who switches to a static-site generator make these sacrifices? I really like interacting with my readers in the comments and I think the search is really useful.

I've found things like Grav, which still use PHP, but ditch the database for markdown files. The PHP allows the use of search, comments, etc.., but obviously isn't "static".

I would appreciate any advice. Thanks!
Wait, what?

Like if you only pass one variable, you get the old behavior, and to pass two variables you have to call a new function name.

What am I misunderstanding about what you are writing.
Clearly in modern times conservative == disinformation and liberal == truth...
I’m married to an Indian woman and while I don’t have a strong gender preference, she wants a boy a lot more than a girl.
I don't think you're asking those questions in good faith, but I'll try to answer hoping I'm wrong: "They" is the cancel culture mobs in twitter I mentioned in that same comment, and "cancel culture mentality" is the attitude that whenever someone made a mistake, they made it forever and using those past mistakes to destroy someone, under the belief that people cannot change.
I guess you can have left-wing anti-science too.
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Thats also the trick for sliding out the cranberry jelly-loaf things.