skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “What we tell people is, ‘Please be lawful and please be considerate,’” Andrew Ng, a machine learning researcher whose venture fund invests in driverless startups, told Bloomberg.

This is like web developers criticizing users for using their website "wrong". Unless Andrew Ng has found a way to eliminate all crime on Earth, then I sure hope the startups he's investing in don't actually count on "people being lawful", and they make sure their cars are safe even when people aren't lawful.
Results vary so widely in this field. My general understanding is:

• Polyunsaturated fats, the supposedly "good" fats in the classical model, actually go rancid really easily and cause damage.

• Saturated fats are associated with high cholesterol, which is a marker of some misunderstood kind of arterial and vascular inflammation. Not everyone gets an increase in cholesterol from consuming saturated fats, and we don't know why. It may be determined by the intestinal flora. But these "bad" fats are actually very stable, and do not appear to cause damage via oxidation as they don't go rancid easily.

• Monounsaturated fats have the best qualities of both.

tl;dr (imho): Have some of everything in moderation and with the due awareness of what you're having vs. your particular body.

Consume limited PUFA and be very aware of the potential rancidness vs. the effectiveness of antioxidants present in the source. Whole foods with antioxidants e.g. fruits tend to mitigate the oxidation of any PUFA that they contain. Consume limited saturated fat as per your propensity for LDL. You can't go wrong with monounsaturated fats, which are relatively stable and tend to come in high-antioxidant sources, and also do not cause LDL to rise. But overall, eat a moderate amount of fat.

Don't go too low carb as it causes a stress state (cortisol + damage-inducing free fatty acids). Get your carbs from buffered, whole food sources (e.g. fruits, whole wheat bread), but don't go high carb because it's damaging.

Have as much fiber (incl. resistant starches / FOS / FODMAP / "soluble fiber") as you can stomach. If they make you feel especially sick, you probably have gut fermentation (SIBO or similar). Some people like myself cannot tolerate anything fermentable.

Be aware of your idiosyncrasies, e.g. I can't tolerate histamines, so I must avoid high histamine or histamine-releasing foods like avocado, as well as anything fermentable or fermented.

Moderate exercise is superior to intense exercise. Exercise that is too intense is damaging and is linked with poorer health.
Maybe it's just me but my experience is that except for the actual streaming (after you started to watch a movie), the Netflix UI is super bad. It recommends movies which I hate, it shows series which have been on Netflix for years under "New on Netflix", it doesn't provide any usable sorting, the searching is crap and so on. I would put zero faith in a statement by Netflix saying that something is "useless". The actual streaming experience is super good but when it comes to everything else they seem clueless to me.
I will say that the subway in NYC is not really typical of its public spaces in general these days. (Go back a few decades and both the subway and many of its public spaces like parks were much worse.) There is a fairly large homeless population and Manhattan generally is a rather dense, fast moving, and chaotic place. But parks like Central Park and Bryant Park are pretty pleasant for the most part.
I used the reviews. Sometimes a movie would be polarizing and I’d read the good ones and the bad ones to see if I’d like it myself. It’s not a hugely valuable feature (I can do the same on eg Rotten Tomatoes), but it wasn’t unused.
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Yeah, it's like Phoenix "the kidnapping capital". Mostly just cartel members kidnapping other cartel members until they give up the drugs where your common citizen doesn't ever have to worry about it.

There was a story a while back where a girl got snatched (for leverage to get the drugs her father was sitting on) and when the kidnappers figured out they got the intended victim's friend instead they just let her go with a "umm, yeah, our bad".

Not to discount the issue, though. There are cases where the human smugglers keep people hostage until the families come up with extra money and/or sell them into slavery which is definitely no bueno.
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You're welcome.

And I think the California government and many of its supposedly liberal citizens could do more as well. "Screw you, I got mine" applies to both sides.

Even better, we as a nation should be implementing all those and not just leaving it up to wealthy states.
> "mastodon is a technology, not a product" - it doesn't have a business model, a way to scale and grow like a business.

I'd agree with 2/3rds of that. Mastodon is a technology, not a product, and it doesn't have a business model.

But that does not mean that it can't scale and grow—it means that it doesn't have any way to turn scaling and growing into money. email is a technology; javascript is a technology, the microchip is a technology. All of those technologies have seen tremendous growth, and none of them have made money (though products using them certainly have).

I suspect that, if Mastodon grows, it will be precisely because it is a technology, not a product. Making money isn't the only way to grow.
Offtopic: there's nothing more hilarious than to read the reviews after having watched a bad movie. However, I use IMDB for that.
Its worse than that, the only part of a DMCA notice that is made under penalty of perjury is that the filer is authorized to represent the holder of the copyright being claimed (so really it just protects big owners of copyright from people impersonating them). The only real recourse for false claims is to sue for damages, and even then the bar is high. You need to prove damages and that the claim was made in bad faith, not merely negligently.
> Look, you want me to get excited about Mastodon? Show me something exciting I can do with it that I can't do with twitter, instagram, or Snapchat.

This, again and again. (And again; it seems I can’t stop writing the same thing on my own blog: https://davepeck.org/2015/05/05/twitter-mainland/)
For personalized movie recommendations http://www.gnovies.com is a nice alternative.

I wonder if movie reviews could be done via ActivityPub somehow.
In my experience the author avoids animal/mouse based studies if at all possible.

He mentions only those that are frequently cited so as to address their results.
Maybe you used it, but overall few people were using it. That's why they got rid of it.
"Declining use" is a result of Netflix's own decisions to downplay reviews because they were helping people decide not to watch movies they wouldn't like.
I've noticed for a while that Netflix seems to be making it a lot harder to rate content and find high quality content. It's like they want you to watch junk. Maybe junk has lower licensing fees so it increases their margins.

I've found some amazing gems digging through Netflix and relying on user ratings. They were films I probably never would have found otherwise. A few somewhat recent examples that come to mind are Enter the Void, The Discovery, Upstream Color, and A Dark Song.
Here is a good example of Google's new autocomplete algorithm
Go to google.com. Type 'windows'. Look at the auto complete suggestions. Delete. Type 'ballmer peak', search by hitting enter key. Delete, now type 'windows'. Did you notice the change in autocomplete suggestions?
Tracking what actually happens in scientific studies and how many don't get published would be a good idea. And a blockchain would be a way to do it. Knowing the whole truth could make science better.
Quit my professorship about four months ago, and I've Never been happier. Academia works for some people, but is systemically twisted and has become terribly corrupt in most places.

There's a life outside people. Not just life but intellectual life. I'm so much happier not contributing to a system I hate.
> "HEY! We've got gambling and naked women!"

And for that reason there is a mastadon instance for sex-workers:

https://switter.at/about
The CSPA thing is interesting to me because the founder/CEO was formerly the head of engineering at Crunchyroll, and interviewing at Crunchyroll was one of the worst interviewing experiences I've ever had.

Let's just say I'm skeptical. I hope it works out, but...

MacD looks interesting... but I'm kinda surprised YC would invest. A Mac n Cheese company? Very strange.

I'm very excited about the biotech space, so looking forward to seeing how that shakes out.
How in the world does this make sense? The entire competitive advantage of having the scale and user information that Netflix has is to be able to do personal recommendations by recommending shows based on what others with similar taste like. Heck, I know very little about big data and even I have walked through a simple sentiment analysis proof of concept demo to rate comments as positive or negative.
It's just how it goes in those fields...remove all of the negative results, don't actually report the ridiculous number of fishing expeditions you went on (especially in fMRI research), make it sound like you mostly knew what you were going to find in the first place, make it a nice clean story.

This has always bugged me about our implementation of the scientific method. There's no reason it has to be this way; it's just convention.
Money corrupts everything including academics.
I guess that depends on how you like to define humanity, doesn't it? If it's simply being a general sort of shape, or having a particular set of DNA, then perhaps being human is a simple yes/no. This creature isn't human, that creature is.

If you like to define humanity as an ideal, or a process, or a goal, or some other such, then it becomes much more of a spectrum.

All that said, anyone who does think in terms of binary when it comes to humanity needs keeping an eye on.
> Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter

I sort of agree, it's like Twitter users forming their own groups but it didn't make me like Mastodon. I don't like the name, I don't like the fact I have to sign up for every group, every group has its own layout, which is confusing and I just don't get the whole idea behind it. Sorry, I'll stick to Reddit
Ask HN: How can I generate side income?
Hi HN,

I work as a full time dev earning an OK salary (In UK terms). I find myself often struggling to buy any luxuries/pay off debt after my paycheck comes in.

I have lots of free time which I just spend doing side projects for fun. I need to turn this fun time into money time.

As a developer, what are some ways I could turn my time into money? Obviously I could try and sell some side projects, but I love open-sourcing everything I write.

Thanks
>In 10 years, noone will care about twitter.

If they won’t care about Twitter, why should they care about an open source clone with no users?

It’s also not true of all tech platforms. It’s not true of desktop operating systems for example. Today the desktop is dominated by Apple and Microsoft. Who dominated it 30 years ago? So there’s nothing inevitable about these things.
Bluebird maintainer here - not sure why you included it in your example. I've been working with the V8 team and they've been making a ton of progress making native promises fast.

Bluebird has more of an API appeal as well as performance in older apps/servers.

Also, if you're bring it - you can `Promise.try(() =>` and don't forget to add a:

```
process.on('unhandledRejection', e => { throw e; });
```
They are probably determining this directly on when someone is watching a show, which shows, etc.
Reminds me of facebook and how they stopped showing me all of my friends' posts because they thought they knew what I wanted to see.

I eventually left facebook.
As an engineer looking, it's rather depressing how many places have job requirements that are just a wishlist, or a resume-whittling strategy.
Comparing buying books online vs at a physical location isn't even in the same universe as retweeting something but without a message attatched
Yeah that second part is how it works according to people on the doordash subreddit.
Say what??
I believe this as well. Since years now I have the very strong suspicion that they aren't all optimizing for me finding something great but rather to waste my time on their platform and hide that I in fact might have already watched everything I'll like. But then I'll sometimes find something in there only after some digging that obviously should have been heavily suggested to me.
The biggest problem with the Netflix content discovery algorithm is that it's in total conflict with Netflix's brand management, and brand management will always win.

By far their most prominent platform for brand impressions is what the user sees when they first log in and view their home page. So what displays on that screen is of vital importance to their brand management team, and what kind of content they associate with that brand is everything.

Which is the reason why when I log into Netflix as a middle-aged software developer who watches war documentaries, true crime series, and old episodes of Frasier, I see a wall of hot focus-grouped twenty-somethings pulling their hair out and trying to fuck each other.

Because Netflix is young and cool and I just need to get with it, and if I can't get with it then that's my problem. Because Netflix is fierce. Netflix is the pulse of a new generation.
Your point no 2) is in agreement with my parent post. In short, rather make life uncomfortable for the leaders that are causing people to migrate from their countries. Your point no 1) is something the voting public in the country (e.g. US or UK) need to make known to their public representatives.

You are right avoiding migration issues requires leaders with foresight and motivation to make those decisions. It suits some leaders to have their countries always in a state of crisis so there is no clear accountability. It suits leaders in these countries to always point to the West and say that is where all our problems come from. They take no accountability and then they go on holiday and get medical attention in the West. The question is how do we motivate these leaders to make the right decisions, life is pretty good for them as things stand. It's not their relatives jumping in boats to try to get to the West. They fly first class.
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A few thoughts regarding today's big carb study in The Lancet:

- This study will get tons of press, with misleading headlines all over the place. Like this one we already saw: "Low carb diets shorten your life unless you are mostly vegetarian."

- Nobody actually knows which diets are best for longevity, as it's an impossible question to answer without a trillion dollar randomized trial. Supercentenarians eat a wide variety of diets, calorie/methionine restriction helps in some animal studies, etc. A collection of observational evidence (like in the Lancet paper) is helpful for noticing overall patterns, but can't say much about actual diets. One high-carb diet could be high in candy and cake, and another high in fruit and tubers. The Lancet study wasn't able to address diet quality.

- The Lancet paper is not one study, but two: a long-term observational study in the US, plus a meta-analysis of international cohorts.

- The "easy" conclusions (low carb bad, high carb bad, high meat bad) are not so easy. The broadest way to cut dietary data is by macronutrient, so the result interpretations aren't always useful. Those with high and low carb intake are more likely to be on a diet, for example, and dieters can be more likely to have health conditions they're trying to address.

- When you meta-analyze heterogeneous data sets, problems arise. There's no good way around this, since the different data sets are from different research groups, and individual-level meta-analysis is thus rarely possible.

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This should be the top comment.

And 37% is not low-carb. If anything what this shows is that if you have moderate carbs, you won't be doing so well. But if you have moderate carbs + more plant-based food, you'll be healthier.

So all this study showed has nothing to do with carbs, but everything to do with eating more veggies = you'll be healthier.

I bet that if had they replaced not just part of the meat/animal fat with veggies, but also another 20% of those "low carbs", they would've gotten even healthier people (and on an actual low-carb diet, too!).
Netflix's stupid UX and recommendation engine, will be the end of it!
How do the ants coordinate the 70/30 ratio? I'm assuming there isn't much communication going on, rather that there's some procedure they follow so that the ratio occurs emergently.
It may also be the case that negative reviews of movies, TV shows, and stand-up specials did more to dissuade potential viewers than positive reviews did them to draw in; ...

Netflix's bigger problem is that much of its content looks good on the surface, but on closer inspection is not worth the time. A lot of this stuff is produced by Netflix itself. Bill Nye's most recent show comes to mind, but there's a lot more.

Netflix shouldn't have deleted those reviews. It should be using them to clean the junk out of its lineup.
If you like Enter the Void, have you seen Irreversible?

[Edit: typo]
Fine, that was technical.

But regular people care about being threatened and hateful conduct. On twitter countless reports go unanswered, and it's pretty clear at this point that there is no intent to make the situation better. On Masto when you report someone or a post for being abusive you've got an actual human (your instance admin) who will look at it and actually do something about it (like blocking that user for the entire instance).
If applying in a market with rampant ageism why not just leave specific dates off altogether. Just list degrees received and durations of employment.
Quick search results are lots of claims of eating foods high in tryptophan to raise serotonin with little research results included.

However, the NIH research suggests(which I am more inclined to trust over commercial sites):
Sunlight, happiness, exercise and diet. Fatigue even reduces amino acids that may inhibit absorption of serotonin. As for the diet part:

"Although purified tryptophan increases brain serotonin, foods containing tryptophan do not."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2077351/
Right. We changed the title from "Oracle stops Java SE for commercial use starting January 2019".

Submitters: it's against HN's rules to rewrite titles to make them more baity or misleading. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission rights on HN, so please don't do that!
Wow, that's hard to read. I thought people who went into Literature had it bad. It sometimes seems like the education sector is an experiment in how to create a society with almost unlimited power to do things, and almost total ignorance about what's a good idea.
This is a hard question to answer. For some people, it's easier to A) find a higher-paying job, B) lower their cost of living, or both.

Is your lifestyle or your city expensive? Do you actively apply to jobs with better salaries? Have you asked for a raise recently?

Passive/side income often results from luck and lots of hard work, despite the stories you see on HN making it look easy.
> But it is too much to ask of the general public to wade through many niche servers they won't understand, e.g. the one for BSD fans

What is the general public though ?

Most people have niche interests. Grand parents can go fishing, and registering to a fishing centric server could be great for them.

The network I like the most is a place for people to show their drawings. It’s as niche as you can get, I don’t know if these people fit your “general public” label, but they’re not “techies”, they just like to draw.

In that sense I think it doesn’t need to be an ocean of content, small ponds are fine as long as they are discoverable, and most niche communities are good at sharing these kind of technical resources.
I was a very early proponent of REST in the Danish Government, for about two years before Gartner announced SOAP was dead and made a co-worker nearly cry to me at lunch and I had to make him feel better instead of doing my well-deserved victory dance.

That said when young people blithely get their smart faces on and start talking about REST I cannot avoid the old fogey suspicion that they don't know a damn thing they're talking about.
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> If they won’t care about Twitter, why should they care about an open source clone with no users? That’s the worst argument ever.

You’re just assuming the alternatives will have no users. That’s the worst argument ever.
> can dive into a React project and fix an issue because I don't carry the baggage of doing things "the react way".

Would they not want your solution to conform to existing solutions; which (regardless of being idiomatic to React) would be idiomatic to the codebase?
For me, I have always counted it as a step if my foot-in-the-air lands on a different level than the other foot.

So, if I am walking; & approach a flight of stairs going upwards, before until my both feet are on same plane, stairs have not started & I can't start counting. As soon as I step "up", my feet is on different (higher in this case going upwards), I count it as first stair. Same on the other side. I continue counting till I am stepping up. As soon as I land my both feets on same level; any foot-step after that doesn't get counted in step-count.

Other way to count steps are imagine if we look ar stairs' drawing or cross-section view from side; i.e. a right-angled zig-zag line going up. On both ends, ground & landing lines are also there i.e. the drawing has always a horizontal line on upper & lower side representing floor & landing. This line is from bottom-left; going upwards towards top-right; the drawing's triangular section of bottom-right is, assume, filled in with concrete/anything; & a person walks on left-top section.

Any 90 degree outward bend on this side is a step.

┍────
┍┙
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Four steps in above.
Hah, wouldn't you love it if the junk was removed and one day you log on and you just get a message telling you that you've watched all the stuff the algorithm thinks you'll like and you might as well go do something else?
It happened in China and Uzbekistan too. I think there was a report on Russia too but can't find it now.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-son...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uzbekistan-incident-raises-susp...
Why take someone's word for what they like or don't like when you know what they actually watch?
With early stage companies, often what happens is investors subsidize an investment precisely because they know what the profit strategy is and because they think it's strong.

With Uber, Travis was attempting to undercut competition. Investors subsidize rides because when there is no competition they are in a better place to profit. Amazon (I believe?) was reinvesting the money in the business while subsidizing prices and package delivery to gain loyal customers. Many times an investor will subsidize a no-advertisement experience to gain an audience, and then switch on ads when the network effects are strong enough to retain the audience.

This is basically Machiavelli's advice that new princes should give favors to the masses when they rise to power, so that their positions are stronger later. But the real goal is always to turn profit aggressively, even if investors are patient for a few years while they maneuver into the right position.

Also just to be clear, no investor wants a business to pursue every profit opportunity. They want the business to focus on a strategy that will maximize profit given their strengths, and that always involves focus rather than being distracted by every possible opportunity.