skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only challenge is writing: English is awful to learn, compared to other languages because of how obtuse and irregular it is. (Chinese & Kanji aside I'm sure, due to memorization). It's hard for kids who learn say, Spanish in school then at home struggle to master also the English language. Still, I suppose English is hard for most people regardless!
mmm interesting
You're challenging received wisdom, status quo. Wear the downvotes proudly.

I treat arguing on HN as batting practice. I write to understand, refine my messaging.

It helps to treat arguing as performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking
Well, it does break pihole.

And I already use trusted DNS providers (over TLS) so it's not really an issue. My provider can't see my DNS lookups. Also, in the EU providers are not allowed to use deep packet inspeciton so they only know your queries if you use their own DNS.

Hardcoding an IP is really difficult to do for adtech providers for 2 reasons:

1) They usually subcontract to cloud providers that don't
guarantee IPs

2) It breaks SNI (Server Name Indication), also heavily used on cloud services

There's better ways to do secure DNS than DoH, like DoT (DNS over TLS)

I like secure DNS but I still want my own server to be the middleman. With DoH this isn't easily possible, especially on mobile due to the root CA issue. DoH is normally implemented using a major player like CloudFlare. Sure, they promise not to look at it. But the phrase "Don't be evil" still is pretty fresh in my mind.

But anyway, it's a moot point. Even if we could block DoH somehow (we can't due to certificate pinning and Android no longer allowing to add a global root CA since Android 7), app providers could just implement their own lookup system or something. Whether we like DoH or not it's here to stay.
On somewhat related note.. When I was in Japan I was staggered by the lack of diesel cars. In one month there I cannot recall seeing any of them. It was all petrol or hybrid.
It must be European thing..
I don’t buy that marshmallow experiment.

In an obesity crisis world aren’t you better off eating one marshmallow rather than two?
But the site is not a law-enforcement official.

Also, a person’s health-care information is quite private.
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I think you’re right. What about general propensity to obesity (as in genetically, or whatever) being more prevalent?
I know people that eat far worse than me, and do far less than me, but are still far skinnier than me.
All of this.

That's the problem with conflating everything to freedom of speech, then forgetting its exceptions while prioritizing it over every other right. You end up with these perversions wherein the right to violate someone else's Constitutional rights is just "speech".
What does it mean for a civilization to be “successful”? The vast majority of our progress has been made off of exploration, slavery and war. The latter fueling the entire tech industry starting with the code cracking computers of WWII and the nuclear holocaust survivable internet. Who is working the mines for the materials in our iPhones, and under what conditions?

It’s worthwhile to teach children the true history of progress and ask if perhaps there isn’t a better way.
Are commenters on this site functionally unable to click links anymore or something? Literally the first link in TFA's body text is the take they're replying to.
Yes, I skipped it because it had no relevance whatsoever to the point of the original comment you replied to, because, as I pointed out, it's clear from context that it talked about Amazon's shortage, not any general form of shortage.

My reply above made that clear, so again you're being obtuse.
Some of those Xes, Ys, and Zs are actually good points and it's good the people who were talking about it all along have a voice now. Just because some people, usually not those actually affected, go overboard or talk over the people they're trying to help doesn't invalidate the concerns.

It's actually good that, now, I understand the big ol generic "Indian" with a war bonnet painted in the school gym when I was a kid was a misrepresentation and misuse of sacred, hard-earned symbols. It's good that I know whose land those pipelines cut across now. It's good that I understand spirit animals are a sacred, private thing, not something to bandy about or declare for every fleeting interest on Twitter. It's good that I know naming certain evils is kind of a jerk move to do in a crowd of people who believe in them.
It's a bit of a catch 22. On a surface level one might say that they are faking having Tourette's, and that they are completely healthy. But look a bit deeper and you realize that a mentally sane person would not copy the tics from a YouTube personality and keep the schtick up all the way to the doctors. So no, it's not Tourette's but yes, these people need help.
Aren’t political or religious groups protected?
After Janus my wife could stop her union membership but she does not due to concern about repercussions from union members in terms of their ability to reduce her opportunities.
I don’t believe that the data stored in iCloud is encrypted from Apple since you can view it through the iCloud website.
There is Frink [0] which was created for the manipulation of physical quantities. I used it extensively in college… imperial units for fluid dynamics? yuck!

[0] https://frinklang.org/
This may not be helpful in the context of Fortune 500 companies, but here it goes. I started at my current small company as a designer in 2011 with minimal formal training and a couple of years of self-taught experience. In the past ten years, I’ve been proposed to Sr. Designer, Consultant, and now Sr. Consultant. Moving from $10/hr to $95k/year in the process. The line of work is AV consulting and programming for commercial architecture.

Let me contrast this with my job experience immediately preceding this, circa 2007 to 2011. I worked as an IT Manager at a University Law School. I started as a student help desk and eventually managed the AV systems in the classrooms. I couldn’t get promoted because it was part of a sprawling organization with super rigid job roles. I’d get in trouble for going above and beyond my job role. I wanted better pay at one point, so I applied for the tiniest move-up at a different school on campus and made it through a bunch of interviews until I met with the CIO of that school. She figuratively spit on my resume and told me to get fucked. I swear that she had a chat with the CIO of the law school, and they plotted her performance with me.

My educational background is a BA in music, so I don’t have rock star credentials. Well…I have very modest rock music credentials, but hiring managers don’t give a shit.

So what happened with my current job? It’s a small company. 10-20 people for most of the time I was there. Everything that pissed off the university delights the small business. I was able to wear new hats and jump into little side projects and demonstrate the value of my intelligence and enthusiasm. Also, I can’t overstate this; I work for the best boss I can imagine. She assumes the best in everyone and has a mental growth trajectory for all that isn’t marred by fuck ups. She sees the mistakes as learning, as they should be.

I’m far enough along in my line of work where I can see that I’d need to change companies if I wanted a quick and easy promotion or a 20% raise. However, I can build/grow the position I’m in. My ambitions are more tied up in my family and personal wellness and growth lately.
What "No-code" platform? It makes no sense at all! First, you're extremely limited in what you can do. Second, in all these limitations, you are completely dependent on what someone else decides to create for you (or not). Just forget it.

It all depends on what you want to create. If your idea is relatively simple, like CRUD-based, you will do yourself a favor by trying to implement it yourself in something like Laravel or Django. These projects have huge communities with tons of modules. You don't have to be that "technical" to use them. Creating an MVP will give you a rough idea of the level of complexity and effort needed, and this will help you to make a decision about the actual implementation.

Besides, an experience you get while working on this MVP will make your next projects much easier. You will also understand your coding colleagues better and it will be difficult for you to be ripped off when outsourcing to another team.
> But I'd like someone, anyone propose what Apple (Google, Facebook, ...) is supposed to do?

I think what apple should do is follow Facebook/google's lead: the "report this message" button that _everyone_ else has.

Obviously google doesn't encrypt user's stuff, so do server side scanning. Whatsapp supposedly relies entirely on reported messages.

Given that iCloud accounts are tied directly to ID, it doesn't seem all that difficult for apple to get their report rate up just by letting users report stuff.

> EFF and others should be savvy enough to see the meta game and advocate their own policy (platform) accordingly.

agreed, the "EWWW NO NEVER EVER EVER" approach is counter productive, it just allows people to paint them as people that hide kiddyfiddlers. the wider public supports apple's drive a lot more than I would like.

But apple do need to do something more, they apparently reported less than a thousand people for having illegal images.
If you've not read, it's not about that.

GoDaddy had a ToS that includes statements about inquiry of medical conditions

Crimestoppers or whatever isn't asking you to submit things regarding people's medical status, it's asking for crime reporting.

There's been a large amount of privacy with regards to healthcare in the US in general for the longest time. The fact anybody is surprised by this is somewhat unsettling.
When it comes to aftermarket OS for android phones, bleeding edge is not always the right choice because developers often put their best effort on the devices when it's out of warranty & security updates as there's increased demand then.

r/LineageOS[1] puts out information on devices with official support as and when they get added.

If I was in your position I would buy OnePlus 6/6T as they have both official LineageOS support and also fast becoming the best best device to run PostmarketOS[2].

Disclaimer: Although my earlier comment(even past comments) seems to give glowing recommendations for LineageOS please be aware that it works for my use cases. I've traded in convenience for freedom. Android is fast constructing walls around the garden, Everything from banking apps to Netflix might soon stop working on LineageOS because the developer who built the system to hide the hacks is joining Google Security team(Good for him & android security though).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/

[2] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchil...
Sounds very similar to "Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment" - https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aap8731

> Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their concept of it. When blue dots became rare, participants began to see purple dots as blue; when threatening faces became rare, participants began to see neutral faces as threatening; and when unethical requests became rare, participants began to see innocuous requests as unethical. This “prevalence-induced concept change” occurred even when participants were forewarned about it and even when they were instructed and paid to resist it. Social problems may seem intractable in part because reductions in their prevalence lead people to see more of them.
Sometimes the bias and liberties taken for persuasion is glaringly obvious, including to people who agree with the overall premise.

One Michael Moore film, I saw at the cinema in the neighborhood of an expensive liberal arts college, where the people generally have a broad education, and are (like myself) left-leaning by US standards. What I most appreciated at the time about the experience was Moore would do some non-journalistic thing (e.g., what seemed to be a dishonest editing cut) and the crowd would instantly erupt with laughter -- like there he goes again, that mischievous imp.

(I haven't seen enough Moore to guess whether this was intentional, and this might've been before the style of The Daily Show got popular.)

One of my recent societal concerns is that, although we might still be able to notice bias and manipulation, we collectively don't believe as much in truth and critical thinking as we used to. If the cinema anecdote happened now, would people who can see the liberties implicitly think "this is obviously not something we would do ourselves, but Moore will be Moore, ha ha", or would those people think "yes, go, team, be angry, and shout about the enemy, by all means necessary".

I think I understand and am sympathetic the latter perspective, given some of the horrible problems that have reached a boiling point in recent years (and hopefully will finally be solved). But I'm concerned about even some college professors throwing out the baby with that boiling bathwater.
That clarifies my thinking. Thank you.
> why the hell isn't adblocking built into my browser?

In the case of Brave[1] and Vivaldi[2], it is.

[1]: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022973471-Wha...

[2]: https://vivaldi.com/features/ad-blocker/
Please, read the article again. Masks might affect COVID-19 spread. They don't prevent people from dying eventually.
And decreases the ability for people to hear harsh communications. You want to take over the US? Just stand right in the middle and start saying mean things.
They probably seeded it from one of the available online keyword sets, possibly even one Microsoft has generated from its online gaming services.

Those lists will sometimes end up with surprising content because they are populated by a predictive model with an optimization function around "When this word shows up in conversation, is it going to lead to someone having to step in to moderate the chat?"
Nothing. You are just on a forum that is populated mostly by people on the left of the political spectrum in the US, and you alluded to fact that contradicts their current moral panic about the danger of "Nazi" groups in the US. And, yes, they are much rarer.
Framework-free, no-build websites – how far can they take you in 2021?
Ugh, c'mon, this is Fox/CNN-tier. "The Squad" is not especially woke (maybe Ilhan Omar?), except in the minds of Republicans who want something to rail at, and Democrats who want to appeal to "the youth". Like, AOC in particular, the figurehead, is really not especially radical. Neither was Bernie (with whom she was roughly aligned), even if he did absorb and make peace with parts of BLM (actually I respected him for that; it shows he's a peacemaker -- I digress).

As a general rule, you're not going to find a lot of this woke stuff in conventional political channels. You're going to see it more in universities, or from "public intellectuals", and on Twitter.

If we're looking for someone who actually does hold political office and who might fit the bill, Chesa Boudin might be appropriate:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/28/why-san-f...
Something that will make a huge difference is good lightning, and secondary a good camera lens. A 720p video with good camera and lightning will look better then a blurry high iso 1080p video.
First thing I thought was she should watch some more Wong Kar Wai movies. Then she gets to the end and I'm like yaaaaas.

I wish I knew Cantonese. It's such a beautiful language. One of my dreams is to go to Hong Kong. Hopefully it won't be too pillaged by the Chinese before I get to visit.
> Overwhelmingly the sort to get themselves banned are sharing crazy. I don't think I'm missing much or indeed anything. Why shouldn't I embrace less crazy in my life.

Because when someone is censoring you can't know if it's crazy or not. You just assume it is, like you are now.
Exactly. It's selection bias, ruthlessly exploited by people who have their own agenda and therefore an interest in focusing attention on the worst excesses of those who resist (continued) imposition of that agenda.

What might that agenda be? Here's a hint. A certain "shadow docket" decision by the US Supreme Court has been in the news a bit lately. As it turns out, all five of the concurring justices are Catholic, and under pressure (e.g. threats of being denied communion) to decide as they did. That pressure should have been grounds for recusal, but of course none of the five had the decency to do that. Where's the "mercy and grace" in that law? What "woke" group is doing that much harm to that many people's lives?
Speak for yourself. This behaviour has kept me away from Windows for a decade. I won't even consider a Windows laptop anymore.

I did buy a Surface Go 2 a few weeks ago, and I returned it after 3 days in large part because of this behaviour.
> Other than my agreeing with the moral position in this case, how is this different than a baker not making a cake for some particular customer?

What this illustrates is that liberalism only "works" incidentally when people share the same ethos and moral standards or who submit to the ruling ethos and moral standards in relevant conduct, as it were. As those diverge, mutual coexistence becomes increasingly impossible. That's why libertarianism is such a joke.
As do people on the the right ; indeed I see UBI as a more right-wing policy which simplifies the welfare state.

I don't think this has anything to do with wokriem
I'd like to point to a separate library for dealing with units: Barril

https://github.com/ESSS/barril

Docs at: https://barril.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

While it does have support for creating "random" units from computation (such as Pint, unum, etc), it's more tailored to having a database of units (which the library has by default -- see: https://barril.readthedocs.io/en/latest/units.html and the implementation: https://github.com/ESSS/barril/blob/master/src/barril/units/...) and then you can query and transform based on the related units.

One thing it supports that does a lot of difference in that regard is dealing with unit conversions which would be "dimentionless" -- such as m3/m3 (i.e.:`volume per volume`) and then converting to `cm3/m3` and keeping the dimension.

i.e.: in pint:

>>> import pint
>>> ureg = pint.UnitRegistry()
>>> m = ureg.meter
>>> v = 1 \* (m\*3)/(m\*3)
>>> v
<Quantity(1.0, 'dimensionless')>

And then, after that (as far as I know), it's not really possible to do additional unit conversions properly knowing that it was m3/m3.

In barril:

>>> from barril.units import Scalar
>>> a = Scalar(3, 'm3/m3')
>>> a.GetValue('cm3/m3')
3000000.0
>>> a.category
'volume per volume'
>>> a.unit
'm3/m3'

and something as `a.GetValue('m3')` (with an invalid value) would give an error saying that the conversion is actually invalid.

The unit database (which was initially based on the POSC Units of Measure Dictionary) is a bit more tailored for the Oil & Gas field, but should be usable outside of it too.
> What's inexcusable is for a business entity to apply discrimination on moral grounds.

Should a business be "moral less" and allow all behavior?

The idea that we should embrace cold, profit-only business entities is much more reprehensible to me.
Howdy, I've been diagnosed with Tourette's for 23 years. Including coprolalia and all the """fun""" symptoms (narrator: they were not fun). I read the paper behind this phenomenon last week and wrote some thoughts to a friend, reproducing here.

From the paper:

> Thirdly, patients often reported to be unable to perform unpleasable tasks because of their symptoms resulting in release from obligations at school and home, while symptoms temporarily completely remit while conducting favourite activities.

I was conclusively diagnosed back in the stone age before smart phones were a thing and the internet was still dial-up, and even I got this neverending skepticism from teachers and classmates in the run-up to my diagnosis. "Hey Lars, how come your tics disappear when you're playing video games, but they flare up when it's time for a math test? PRETTY CONVENIENT!"

Well, because tics are brought out by anxiety and vanish when a patient goes into a "flow state," -- this is super well established.

On the other hand, the rest of the diagnostic criteria for this phenomena seems very reasonable to me, and I also am totally ready to believe that an induced faux tourette's syndrome would absolutely present this way.

And then there's this one:

> Fourthly, in some patients, a rapid and complete remission occurred after exclusion of the diagnosis of Tourette syndrome.

So apparently when a doctor in a white coat tells these people they definitely don't have Tourette's, the behavior stops?

They also kind of bury the lede with this one:

> While it appears that age at onset is very similar in different countries with a preponderance of adolescents and young adults, gender distribution seems to be different: while half of our patients are male, the group of Davide Martino and Tamara Pringsheim at the University of Calgary in Canada reports a female to male ratio of about 9:1

I've always heard that the sex ratio of Tourette's diagnosis is like 1:10 skewed towards males (looking it up it looks like it's actually 1:4.3 favoring males). So a sudden swing in the sex ratio for a disease that's long been presumed to have some kind of male-associated underlying genetic basis that lines up with a prominent female influence seems like pretty strong evidence for their theory.

So I don't have the medial training to validate the clinical methodology, but from knowing what real tourette's syndrome feels like from the inside, this seems plausible.

TL;DR -- these kids aren't getting tourette's from the internet, but it does seem like they're experiencing a real phenomenon that they need real treatment for. The correct first step is accurately diagnosing them with whatever this new thing is. Maybe some kids are just faking, maybe some others have genuinely convinced themselves they have something going on and this manifests in weird behaviors (which qualifies as a real condition in my eyes). Believe me, you absolutely do not want to be prescribed powerful brain medications unless you really need them.
And thanks to T-Mobile, at&t, Verizon it could just stop working with a2p
And what would you buy instead?

Apple has been up front about what they're doing. They're explaining how what they're doing is specifically designed to protect your privacy in practical terms. No, they probably don't have to be doing this, and I would be happy if they decided not to.

But do you really think that any other phone you buy—apart from something ridiculously niche like a Librem—doesn't have exactly the same problems, only they're still keeping it secret from you?

"Voting with your wallet" only works if there are realistic alternatives.
Both are diminutives. The thing with diminutives is that they can show both affection and disrespect.

It's usually the first if referring to familiar people and the second if referring to strangers. Even exactly the same word can cut both ways. "Dear" is affectionate towards family members, calling a coworker "dear" is condescending.

Also, as other posters have said, rule-based logic can only get you so far. It's all in the context.
My experience with BO:

Me: "I bet I can guess your password..." I said to a close friend.

Him: "No way. $50 says you can't".

Another friend: "Stupid bet".

Me: "eatme8"

Him: <speechless>, turning red with rage.

Another friend: "Holy shit".

Needless to say my late 20's were a lot of fun, very little of which I could do now without serious repercussions.