skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The long answer to your question can be found in Pinker's "Blank Slate". In a nutshell: the nature/nurture discussion went off the rails after WWII. 'Scientific' racism and eugenics had culminated in the Holocaust. One generation later (i.e. 60s and 70s), a strand called "radical science" had emerged (in the US) that was into deconstruction of ideas. They creatively came up with the assertion than any notion of human nature was the bedrock of racism and eugenics.

When Wilson published "Sociobiology" and mainly talked about non-human animals, they lost their shit completely. All of research, science, and academia, they asserted, was more a negotiation of power distributions than an honest attempt to make sense of the universe. The most aggressive tactic in that sphere was research on the nature of humans. Another generation later (90s), some of those "radical scientists" had secured tenure and made it their gig to teach creative deconstruction and cancel culture to students (yes, for real in the 90s). Pinker's book is from 2002, but you know the rest of the story.
I don't know what your questions mean or how it addresses my comment so I'll just repeat.

Political maneuvering doesn't mean someone is not a libertarian, and military and border control are not incompatible with libertarianism either.

Thiel like anybody has pretty complex views that don't fit neatly in a box, you could argue where they put him in the spectrum, but the examples you used are poor. I know many libertarian purists obsess over their image and "principle" to the detriment of actually achieving anything politically, but that doesn't mean all of them act this way.
That was my thought too - on the origin of troll imagery, but not "don't feed" (or at least it's not explicit in the story which is more 'my brother is bigger' as I recall)
I wish all marketing was like this then!
Three years worth of painting, that explains the extraordinary level of detail on things like the weapons well out of the central focus of the painting. WOW
It's emotionally charged because the author is Ashutosh Jogalekar, who in the mid 2010's got himself fired from Scientific American as a blogger by praising the theories of a scientific-racism book:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/whats-going-o...

> Jogalekar praised the book, saying it confirms the need to “recognize a strong genetic component to [social and cognitive] differences” among racial groups.

It should be noted that Jogalekar is a chemist.

What did the people whose work Wade cited for his book say?

> "Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate account of our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q. test results, political institutions and economic development. We reject Wade's implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not. We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade's conjectures."

Instead of keeping his head down, Ashutosh followed up shortly thereafter with a blog falling over himself to find reasons to excuse or explain Feynman's rampant history of womanizing and general asshole-ism:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...

...and then we have Jogalekar defending EO Wilson, whose book Sociology, proposed (in 1975) that human behavior was determined by genetics, was widely criticized as sympathetic to eugenics. Sound familiar?

Ask yourself this: why does Jogalekar keep defending authors of works that tread around scientific racism and eugenics?
There's a flatpak version available:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.zotero.Zotero
In this instance it is to enable use of any TCP client, namely ones that do not support TLS, e.g., original netcat, tcpclient or an early version of a text-only browser. I use a variety of clients and with only one exception I only trust the proxy to make remote TLS connections. If one uses a client with acceptable TLS support, then there is no need for a TLS proxy.
Note that functions in other languages, like Haskell and Scala, do allow some control over evaluation order. One can annotate function parameters to achieve call-by-value or call-by-need as required.

Macros can analyse/manipulate the abstract syntax tree of their inputs, so I think of them as extending the compiler.
Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?
Ever tried to help a relative over the holidays to set up their home-banking? Lost in the juggling of your multi-factor device garden? Tried to get useful search results from Google recently to find yourself in advert hell? Longing for the old Amazon experience when today's seems like running the gauntlet of grey-imports and scam-price offerings? Logged out of a site for 6 months and returning to a completely confusing new site where nothing is like it used to be?
Today's Internet experience has become user-hostile and it almost calls out for returning to the 90s: walled gardens aka Compuserve experience, dedicated devices for home-banking and standalone cameras.

What has led to this experience? On the top of my head I can see the following reasons:

* Release Often as KPIs for developers

The release often KPI for promotion and bonuses has led to constant changes to 'systems that are working fine' to become ever-changing user experiences. While daily users can gradually phase-in changes, most sites that are casually used will confuse users with completely new error-prone experience.

* Payment Security and Financial Regulations

At least in the EU fraud has led to various tech-related regulation calling as an example for separate apps for IDs and for transaction verification. While it is well-meant, it leads people to check bank statements less often and anecdotally in my family confuses especially elderly users to the point of introducing more opportunity for scams and fraud.

* Patch-work nature of ID & Verification

Captchas, Two-factor SMS, password rules and Authentication Apps have been patched onto the original user/pass system. The experience has become truly annoying with some clear winners: anecdotally more and more people simply use Google/Facebook OAuth as logins to sites. This is fine from a UI perspective, but lacks consumer regulation - what happens if you lose your access and who can you contact if your accounts get compromised/scammed/blocked?

* KPI switch from customer first to business model first

Having gained their audience share, Amazon and Google have switched from a 'customer is king' perspective to one which suits their business model most.

What are other reasons?
> I would say this code fails the principle, independent of particular application problems.

For every system call you determine satisfies that principle, I could come up with a application level algorithm that is broken because of it. The principle is aspirational, Linux does a best effort as all Unix systems do not because Linux is buggy but because it can never be 100% given the spec. The core issue here was not close() taking 100ms or whatever it took, the core issue was doing unbounded work on the main drawing thread, which has strict timing requirements.
Videos on reconstruction: http://www.clickspringprojects.com/the-antikythera-mechanism...
> I still don't know what about Wilson's work was supposedly "problematic".

To oversimplify slightly, his detractors have a deep ideological commitment to the blank slate theory of human development, largely because it implies human behaviour is socially determined and not biologically determined. They believe that if we accept that human behviour is influenced by our genes, it follows that that certain negative human behaviours like racism and sexism will be excused as natural and therefore permissible. Most people can agree that those behaviours are undesirable, but instead of arguing that we can overcome our genetic heritage, blank slate adherents argue that biology has no significant impact on human behaviour and anyone who thinks it does is a racist and a step away from being a Nazi-style eugenicist.
Yeesh. The tone of the blogpost is quite extreme honestly. I read the SA article and the tone felt like it was dealing with what they saw as a complicated topic while the blogpost's language seemed to paint it as more extreme than it actually was.

That said, the tone aside, I agree with the blogpost that I can't really gather what the issue is with the late Wilson specifically. I do agree with the SA author that people like Charles Murray exist and various people misunderstand genetics and psychometrics (and honestly, psychometrics has its issues) and use statistics misleadingly to demagogue or spread racist propaganda, such things were rife on 4chan et al. a few years back. I don't see how that fact squares with Wilson though, at least from the article.
In the case of UO the game no longer exists commercially so any ownership on servers has vanished as well. You can run your own servers but the populations are generally so small now that there is an abundance of space.
Wuhan is a very large city in Central China and a transport hub. So it at least sounds plausible that the virus might have been carried there by someone, though I don't know how plausible it is that (if that's what occured) it did not seem to have left a trail of contamination (or perhaps it did but we don't know...)

Also, I believe that the first recorded outbreak of SARS was in Guangdong while the origin of the virus was eventually found to be in Yunnan, 1000+km away.
Only elite few who can buy GPUs and do mining. Majority of 3rd world can't. Smoke from coal and leaded petrol provides more value than health for those living in 3rd world too. I also don't know why the insistent of going green when not doing so is so much cheaper for the poor.
That's because the title was editorialized.

The original title "The Thinner Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear" is explicit on its nature:

> The most important ideas in your typical 300-page book can usually be distilled into several pages. These several pages are the thinner book.
> Trump should have mandated actual national lockdown

In the US the president and federal government do not have the authority to do as you suggest. That's part of the problem. When the other side chooses to wage war against him, despite the fact that we were at the doorstep of a disaster, well, the rest is history.

Please note that I did not disagree with you about the negative effects of playing politics with a pandemic. You are absolutely correct. What I wanted to note is that the Trump administration did take seriously bold measures very early on. The only reason the entire nation didn't take this seriously is because media is overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats in the US and they were so blinded by wanting to destroy Trump that they actually caused death through COVID across the nation.

Nobody likes to talk about this because people just can't escape their ideological bias and look at reality in an objective fashion. As the pandemic started nearly our entire media machinery as well as the Democratic party were in full-out, take-no-prisoners war against Trump at every level. When the pandemic starts, that train had so much inertia that it was literally impossible for media giants like CNN and MSNBC to halt their war and do a 180. They were making money with the hate Trump narrative. Imagine turning around to say he was right and that we all had to support him. Impossible. And so, people died.

I hope history looks at this objectively because there's an important lesson here that we must learn and there's a real risk of not learning it. Most historians are Democrats and it is probably fair to say most of them are part of the Trump hatred machinery. And so, nobody will be held accountable for what pain and loss they caused, not only in this nation but likely elsewhere.

Every time I heard Trump speak on TV I wanted to vomit. The guy had the social skills of a brick. However, I think it is fair to say that nearly every single program he initiated and measure he took was right on point, including how the pandemic was handled. The entire world owes the very vaccines we are using to save countless lives to the effort his administration organized and ran to develop multiple vaccines faster than ever in history. The current president and vice president were actively maligning the vaccines and promoting all kinds of doubt upon them until they got elected. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted everyone to get vaccinated. The game they and their party played was nothing less than disgusting, if not criminal. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that Biden actually publicly recognized that the Trump administration got us the vaccines in record time. Unbelievable.
> And if you check country prefix with the list of country prefixes anyway... Why do you even bother with country AND prefix?

For users subscribing to the SPN, we are required by law to pay taxes. In order to attribute an Internet user to a country you have to collect 2 of these 3 data points, and naturally they have to overlap.

- an IP address
- a country the user selects
- a phone prefix the user selects

Many tech companies collect all three, with the addition of collecting the full phone number instead of only the prefix.

We chose the approach we felt respected user privacy the most. We know the resulting UX with the phone prefix is uncommon, but thought it superior to storing your IP (which most companies do while hiding that fact away in the Terms of Service)

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For the DNS implementation, we do have in depth docs talking about DNS integration. As a summary, local queries or not leaked. [0]

We are not too content with Cloudflare as the default. We opted for them since they were the fastest at a time when Portmaster itself had speed issues. A re-evaluate is probably due since a lot happened in the meantime. Thanks for this input, I took a note. Also, here is the context of that time if you are interested. [1]

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And lastly, yes Portmaster deeply integrates into the OS via a kernel extension. Specifically, via the Windows Filtering Platform APIs [2] This means network packets can be intercepted. Just as browsers, who enforce DoH, manipulate network traffic, or VPN software.

I have difficulties seeing your concerns here. We document everything we do and that can be verified by inspecting the source code.

[0] https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/architecture/core-service/...

[1] https://safing.io/blog/2020/07/07/how-safing-selects-its-def...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fwp/windows-f...
The main key being the operations on them do not represent the same operations on the reals: adding two floats (both real) gives you another float (which is also real), but doesn't necessarily give you the same result as adding two reals.
if you recompile the world, it did...
I had hoped to find downloads to the raw data...
I also can't downvote because i'm a little bit too shy and insecure about my written english skills
One more thing: a heap can be easily packed contiguously in memory, while the tree nodes are typically dynamically allocated.

This helps with allocation pressure, which is often the "hidden" cost people don't pay enough attention to, especially in garbage-collected languages where the allocation might appear to be almost "free" (often a simple bump allocator), but the deallocation price is paid at later indeterminate time (when the GC runs).
Nothing. I'm not saying he'll do it. I'm saying it'd be funny if he did.
Obviously not. For women, the clock is ticking ever so fast once they hit 30.

For men, it's really not, until they are 40+, and if in good health, even 50.
In Italy it went down 14% without doing anything special.

Lock downs seem to be a good way to reduce homicide numbers all over the Planet, except for the US.
CloudFront has CloudFront Functions now which is similar; a very stripped-down JS environment that runs at the edge locations.
Tamriel Rebuilt Roadmap
"Avalanche is an incredibly lightweight protocol, so the minimum computer requirements are quite modest. Hardware: 8 core CPU >= 2 GHz, RAM: 16 GB, Storage: 200 GB free space."

Is this satire? I can't tell anymore.
the intern who wrote the code didn't think of the future farther than the weekend party and the senior who reviewed it 10 years ago didn't catch it and doesn't work there anymore.
We havent had this side effect in the first year of the pandemic.
The ableism you faced is terrible. I will ask you how that relates to the post though as it says "discrimination based on racism is worse than being 'cancelled' by the woke mob"
> I remember painful memories of late 90s and early 2000s. Until DosBox, it was impossible to run DOS applications under Linux.

I seem to remember playing Commander Keen under DOSEMU seamlessly on a p200mmx with 64mb of ram. If this mail from 1999 is anything to go by, others were able to play similar vintage games:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000118171326/https://www.mail-...
"Just a bunch of intellectuals getting their book tours cancelled" is a strawman that people use to trivialize an increasingly hostile environment that is seeing regular, non-famous people getting silenced and having their careers destroyed. Here's a Twitter thread compiling some examples of instances other than book tours and twitter blocks:

https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404648389926913

Sure, nobody is getting lynched yet. If you want to hold an oppression Olympics, minorities still win. Does that make you feel better? Do we have to wait until people are getting murdered to care about it?
The passive-aggression will only get you so far... here's the comment you seem to have already forgotten replying to:

> Anyone trying to shickle a few dollars from the medical system to provide "pre-natal diagnosis" without sound science - they can come burn in the same hell I live in every day.

Where's the ambiguity?! How much more clear could this be?

> Anyone trying to shickle a few dollars from the medical system to provide "pre-natal diagnosis" without sound science

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Or is it that you don't understand why someone would be angered by people pedaling prenatal diagnosis based on unsound science for personal gain? And doubly so someone who experienced so much pain after these types of tests failed them?

> You seem to be really dramatically upset about this

So you can pick up an emotional cue! (Well... actually you still seem unsure despite me being very clearly upset, so still have some ways to go.)

Yes, I'm very upset I had to tell what I assume is a grown adult that casually asking people if they wish they had aborted their child is not ok!

And as I write that I have to say: if you actually do have some medical situation that affects your non-verbal skills, then I do apologize for being harsh.

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Otherwise if you really want me to feel better soon, stop with the flimsy runabout and be better.
(or (lambda () a) (lambda () b))

Now you only need to define the function OR...
I think we need to "Make Science boring again". No ideological drama, no cancel culture, no bigotry and no one should feel threatened by anyone for contrarian opinions. Otherwise, Science ceases to be. We need to get back together and discover how nature works, quoting Feynman "For nature cannot be fooled".
How one goes about using TLS proxy? Are there any services? You have any links? Thanks.
>You do realize that that implies that it would be less fascist if the government could force a private company to publish falsehoods and propaganda, right?

No, I do not. How do you figure?
Assumption 1: resonant frequency is correlated with physical size (where COVID is 0.1-0.5 = normal distribution around 0.3 µm)

https://visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-relative-size-of-pa...

Hypothesis 1: UV-C light at 300 nm can make the COVID dance itself to pieces.

Hypothesis 2: UV-A or UV-B light at different wavelengths can cause mutations.

Assumption 2: masks are COVID concentrators. They catch the droplets and virus particles so our lungs don't get it.

Hypothesis 3: putting masks in environment leads to increased risk of mutations. Flies lick masks, bats eat flies, bats give us COVID again.

Conclusion: pick up the COVID concentrators (masks) and put then in a biohazard bin. All people are responsible for all litter seen. We're only responsible for what we see, but we are personally responsible for everything we see.
> Yeesh. The tone of the blogpost is quite extreme honestly. I read the SA article and the tone felt like it was dealing with what they saw as a complicated topic while the blogpost's language seemed to paint it as more extreme than it actually was.

I mean, regardless of the politics of it, the quote about the normal distribution was completely inexcusable for a supposedly scientific publication. The fact that that got by their editors, and afaik they have not corrected it or changed it, is a pretty harsh indictment. And I think that's true even if you agree with their take on EO Wilson and his legacy (which I don't, for the record).
Wonder if Count Things can do that https://countthings.com/

But then Basmati rice is judged on grain length too. Wonder if they report like "22 cm of broken pieces per km of grains".
I'm very favourable to getting rid of blacklist. It's random whether it's an allow list or a deny list, and there are domain specific words you can use instead to make it really clear what the list does
Google easily finds correct results for "python random" no spam no bs.
well i did not need that i just posted on twitter that i have shared about my app on hackernews and few people checked it out and share their opinion

what id your opinion of the product
I tried to google "Mass formation psychosis" yesterday. Guess what happened.
yeah will do that soon
Thank you Eugene for your work, I really like these kind of projects for a open web! I have a question: do you have a list of hosted instances, as Invidious has [0], or are you planning to do it in the future? So people like me can use it without opening their own instance?

[0]: https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md
I don't think the issue is with the centralized server, but the browser and the JS components they use. I prefer local anyhow.
> When writing a technical document, stick to one word per concept

Yes, this is absolutely critical. As a tech reviewer I once came across a doc that used no fewer than seven different terms for the same underlying thing. Part of the problem was that it has been written by at least two authors over a couple of months. At least one of the authors admitted that they hadn't take the time to remind themselves what had already been written.

In non-fiction, it can be good to introduce variety, and challenge the reader But as a tech author, if the reader has to work to keep track of things through a doc, simply because you have been lazy to check for consistency, you have failed.

[Edit] There are a couple of things that can help avoid the problem. The most important is to have a final step that involves consistency checking. Where I used to work, we encouraged a peer-review step before docs where submitted for formal tech review. This significantly reduced the workload on the formal reviewers.
It's a disgrace really.A top-down command (not even trend, because that would assume this thing is organic and authors are not pressured or influenced) for accepting certain political ideology without any room for discussion,debate, and aim towards the truth.

If one wants some other good reads from another ex-SA person i recommend Michael Shermer.And people who scream homophobes/racists/sexists should take a good look in the mirror at the start of the day and ask themselves if they're afraid or they like what they see.Most often than not, the people who accuse others of something are the ones doing that thing themselves, it's a tale as old as time.
please check the 2 min demo video on the website