skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we can both agree on is that Dat manipulated people from his position in order to benefit himself financially. Is this normal within the Bodybuilding community? I would say yes — you would be hard pressed to find any experienced bodybuilder or powerlifter who hadn't come across deceiving sellers and figures who push their own agenda. They are, after all, participating in an illegal market where substances (such as Peptides) are either outright banned or within a grey area.

However, what made Dat and his forum unique was their focus on health and wellness. Bodybuilding was one small area that could benefit (in limited cases) from the use of peptides.

>He was a fraud that put his parents in legal peril with his scam.

I am not arguing that he was ethical. I am simply stating that the information gathered over time in the forum was invaluable. Many people contributed their knowledge and expertise on a variety of subjects to lengthy discussions. I would argue that readers of HN would find a forum like this very intriguing and worthwhile.

Stating that he was a fraud does not invalidate the knowledge he and others shared.

>He put many people at risk for financial gain.

This is partially correct. Let's look at "...for financial gain":

From his arrest and the investigation, in fact, he received immunity (IIRC) and likely gave away his list of buyers which included Olympic athletes and major sports stars (a good reference for the NYT article is actually an Al Jazeera documentary on sports doping: see https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/the-dark-side.html). In the coming years we may learn more about some of his buyers.

Now, for the first part of your statement:

>He put many people at risk

Dat did not push peptides onto any participants on his forum. Many anecdotes (and from my own experience as well) show that Dat actually recommended members NOT to use peptides for many of their illnesses or other troubles. The application of peptides falls into a small band of uses: muscle rejuvenation and recovery; stimulating GH release in an older age; maximizing IGF-1 and cellular swelling for optimal hypertrophy (and a few other applications). Peptides are not a miracle cure and do not provide the same benefits as other PEDs.

Practitioners who used peptides knew fully well what the risk of application was. Nothing was peddled as completely safe and harmless; people were, after all, injecting exotic compounds into their body without proper medical supervision.

People who used peptides and other PEDs did so out of their own motivation and will, and knew fully-well what the risks involved were.
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Agree wholeheartedly. The best design teams are ones who either “know how the sausage is made” (that is, have a general knowledge of how their design would translate to code) or have guidance from developers on what is and isn’t feasible. The really good ones know the quirks of the platform and will design around them (for example, messing with UINavigationController on iOS breaks a bunch of things and is generally not a good idea).
Not true for Spotify, if you are regularly racking up millions of plays ie you are hitting editorial playlists, then Spotify is very lucrative. Good Spotify stats also signals to promoters that you are a good to book, so it boosts live income.

I'd agree on YouTube however, artists I work with see very little income from YouTube, which is quite sickening and problematic for artists given how much of the younger demographic use YouTube as a primary source of music.
Thanks Andrew. They are an amazing team with a great ontology, I agree. Thanks for the heads up!
Exactly, it was how she identified herself for years.
You've articulated it much better than what I tried to in another comment ITT.
Ask HN: What are some repetitive tasks you do at work?
Hey guys: I’m starting to realize that a sizable chunk of my work is actually quite repetitive. For instance, I’d have to log into GCloud console every once in a while to check if I still have enough credits… Do you guys have these repetitive tasks at work? I’m thinking of using coding up some automation scripts and I’d love to see where else people might use it on!

PS: what kind of jobs do you guys do? I’m a software engineer at a small startup
Lot's of scientific studies have no control groups.
If that's true, then it's in no way Slack that is the problem. I can't help but think there has to be something more.
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Interesting, I don't relate much to either of the statement (not that my experience negates its applicability for other people).

On a bit of thought, I find it useful to organize and break down things and maintain lists (the daily/weekly list habit works best for me currently). This is different than emailing things to myself because I maintain an actively curated list that's hopefully logically organized in big and small tasks.

On the enterprise software front, I am a linux-friendly software engineer, so commandline tools are my best friend. I am not sure Excel can ever beat the productivity of vim+linux tools, let alone other specialized tools like sql. One thing to note is that a lot of time I deal with production data, so its a huge effort to actually move data to excel.
> Buffet streaming services marry the worst of piracy and the old-school middleman capture.

You have an interesting perspective... as a consumer for me Spotify marries the best of those two worlds. I get the music I want and discoverability, quality, and ease of use is extremely good.
Amazon now is something like a fusion of Ebay and Walmart. Either of those enterprises (or Target or etc) could move into the full space that Amazon operates in, it seems like.

Edit: I suspect that what keeps an enterprise like Walmart or Costco from jumping into full competition with Amazon is that each of these enterprises wants to fish some high profit zone of the eComerce ocean while Amazon wants to be the ocean.
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Like your face or fingerprints, DNA is just going to be one of those immutable features of identification.
Yes, there may be delays or they may postpone the launch. I went on Wednesday and decided to stay one more day for yesterday's attempt and I am so glad I did. It was worth it.
... Yes?
Ask HN: How to run a community from zero as an software engineer?
We're writing an open source forum and got a lot of feedback from some kind man. I think my purpose (learn from others) is reached at present. Thanks to them.

Most of the time, If there is no feedback, you will lose your passion gradually, also lose the chance to learn from others. As we all know, technology is only a few parts of the project (include open source project), you need to do something like marketing to let others know. How should I do? And what'll you do?

If you want to know more about us, please visit this: https://github.com/godiscourse/godiscourse, It's our project address.

Honestly, We're lucky, we have more than 110 stars now. And we'll keep doing it. Hope we can get your star too, and thank you. If you have any thoughts, leave a comment, please!
With how much we depend on the web, we cannot just have one browser engine. Plus firefox despite not having the fancy budget of Google & Microsoft, they are delivering a kick ass product.

Plus with HTML5 & open standards, multiple engines MUST not be an issue at all.

Ofcourse, I don't need to convince why monopoly is bad in this forum.
That's what I think Isaac (Sendgrid founder) is trying to do with JoyLabs.

I had the pleasure to meet him when he came to Mexico and he talked about the idea of "pairing" a very junior Engineer (from Mexico) with a very senior one from top companies in the USA to grow them, even covering the English language teaching.

The theory sounds very good but man, at least I was afraid that he was overestimating what "Junior dev" means down here in Mexico (from my experience hiring in MX and US, MX-Senior = US-Mid-Level, MX-Mid-Level = US-Junior).

Still, it is a good project if done successfully.
With very few exceptions the web has flown from decentralised to centralised because centralised is an easier user experience and allows monetisation for content creators, decentralised does not (or at least hasn't so far).

Plus, the people bitching about their content removed from youtube don't want to just be able to upload to youtube they want youtube's audience, they in fact think they're entitled to youtube's audience.
Apps certainly have been for a long time.

IE6 was famously (in my parts) known for being perceivably faster under Wine.
This is the Slack vs Jabber/XMPP debate. Pro and cons for each side.

But Slack is certainly easier to install and use (by being centralized).
People routinely grant apps location access for much more dubious reasons. Anyhow, I was just pointing out this is an function that people definitely find useful.
Most people ( and a lot of people on HN) really believe that online platforms should be able to suppress such unlawful videos.

"Such unlawful videos." So basically, the government should be able to declare content "unlawful" and it's okay so long as public sentiment goes along with it?

Basically, you've simply thrown out Free Speech. I can understand why someone would find the video of the shooting shocking. Personally, I've chosen not to view it. However, if Free Speech isn't an absolute right, then it's simply broken.

Habeas corpus, the Presumption of Innocence, and due process -- what if the government could just suspend those things when it felt like it? Those human rights would simply be broken.

The difference between a just society and an unjust one, is that the just society extends the same rights and protections to all its citizens, no infringements, no exceptions. A society with Free Speech extends the right of speech and the right to read/hear that speech to everyone without infringement as well.

The interesting thing about the Weimar Republic, is that almost all of the laws covering human rights had an "out" for the government, allowing them to suspend the right, "for the common good" in emergency situations. As a result, the subsequent regime didn't have to change many laws to operate as a totalitarian regime.
> The clue is that MSWin running in a VM on Linux is faster than on hardware.

I'll join the fray in expressing skepticism here. Source?

Anyway, I think this WSL distro is pretty cool. I've set up WSL on my Windows computer for kicks and while it was neat I never quite got it to work for the rust development and environment I wanted. I ended up just doing it in Windows.

But if this sets up rust and VS Code (the editor I wanted to use) painlessly, then I'll have to give it another shot.
I left Symbian for Android 2.1, after several Android devices, became part of the 10% of WP share in Europe, now still using one of them as secondary device.
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> So people want the whole company to go bankrupt and for 50k people to lose their jobs and we have no one leading the charge towards electric vehicles?

Some people wanted that for the big 3 auto makers too when they were looking to be bailed out. I'd say very few people fall into that category, but I think more so people are fed up with being over sold on Tesla. Personally I'd be more concerned if there wasn't people being critical of these companies.
You should be giving gibberish answers to those anyway. They're probably stored as plaintext, but on the off chance they're not, treat them as a backup password and don't answer the question honestly.
>I hope people stop being naive and finally understand they are product, not the customers.

I - sincerely - wish that this were plausible but nothing indicates any preceptable hint at a change from the current modus operandi. That ship has sailed and the rest of us are caught in the undertow.
> likely that there is just as much bias

Biased people can produce content with varying levels of bias. Theoretically, biased people can produce neutral content.

Fox News is the only major TV news outlet (and only network news channel) with the explicit goal of shifting the country in a political direction[1][2][3][4][5], so I'd say that its bias comes not only from its employees, but also from its corporate owners and managers.

I read news from the left and the right (WSJ, WaPo, RealClearPolitics, Reason.com, Fox News, Quillette, Vox, BBC, Al Jazeera, and others), and there is absolutely bias on both sides, but Fox News is by far more biased. It's not even close. The composition of their audience bears this out[6].

From the way they write headlines to the stories they choose to promote, they've become almost entirely a propaganda machine in the last year. They occasionally have some balanced stories when the Pence-esque right conflicts with Trump, but it's rare. And their coverage of AOC seems incessant -- far more than is proportional to her degree of power.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/timeline-roger-ailes-transforme...

2. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39943820

3. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-...

4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/roger-ailes-...

5. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/roger-ailes-...

6. https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444
The main reasons I would like to see a tech unions and things I would want out of it:

1. assessment training and rank. my sister is in a union and has been train and qualified for specific kinds of work. she does this work for many clients and the chance that they are getting the skills they need and she has those skills are very high. she can also call in others from the union if needed and the union handles negotiations of changed whatever.

2. unions handles her seniority. she can work for several different companies a year, but time off and other benefits come from time in union not those companies.

There is a lot of other things about her union I do not like, but my biggest problems in tech are finding or developing the right talent (including my own) and constant loss of seniority (pto, retirement, and other benefits). I lost a lot of both early in my career because I didn't negotiate well.

If a union existed that helped protect my interests, develop my talents, and match my skills with work I would join it. If they were good at training/vetting their members (apprentice, journeyman, whatever) in whatever skill set they learned that would benefit both employee and employer. Might help with imposter syndrome. Might help both sides with many issues if done right.
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To be fair, Sketch is a Mac only program, so the team may have just been unable to use it, and preferred to just move on rather than purchasing an entire new computer (and Sketch). It would perhaps been more helpful to have responded by offering to provide your Sketch assets/layers via Zeplin, which is free and web based.
In my experience, if you narrow the focus of "you" from the company to you the mentor, "will support you and promote you for the rest of your life" can happen. Although it sounds like a certain amount of delicacy is required in the vast majority of companies like your current one where they have to move to get rewarded for their increased value.

There also might be some relevant variations in corporate cultures around the world, what you say rings true for the US, but the author is in Estonia.
Yeah, those should be prohibited by law. I think that genocide should also be on that list. And youtube can (and IMO should) continue to prevent the rest. Death, gore, genocide, fascism, violence, etc. do not belong in general public discourse. There's always some other website to post snuff porn.

I don't agree with the way that youtube has applied their guidelines for removing content in general, but I do generally believe that they should moderate their content.
> The sites are incapable of discerning what is hateful or false.

Oh definitely, it's a grey area, hence me saying that making it law obliterates any chance for nuance.
Anyone have a sense of the business model? Seems like a handy way to help folks manage privacy, but without understanding how they plan to generate revenue I'm hesitant to get on board.
This is essentially the pre-Beatles model we saw in Tin Pan Alley and the Brill Building. Carole King's biggest hits were written for like $75/week. It declined as musicians started writing and recording their own songs and being self-contained creative acts, not to mention the, shall we say, "unfair equity strategies" the record labels used. That is, it's all well and good until the bosses take all the big money.
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It would make much more sense to just use the data for advertising and not peoples pictures.

Examples:
- If you see Steve's close friends all drink grey goose but he doesn't start advertising goose to him
- If you have advertised Polo shirts to John and then he uploads a picture of him in a new Polo shirt, fb can take credit for that sale
- Allow advertisers to exclude users who already own/use their product

etc.

This approach is much less visible to consumers and so would be more widely accepted (or just have less articles saying bad things about it).
All that and it's important, for me, that the organization's mission aligns with my values.
"Data science" is nothing more than violating other people's privacy for profit, so I have a big issue with that.

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Biased HN downvoting my comments, what a surprise.

This site is pure garbage.
Key take-away:

>the difference between working out and not working out is the same as "between individuals with a difference in household income of more than U.S. $25,000."
Working on it :) Planning on making it a free service of readwrite.blog

Also added you to my RSS reader.
In the UK it is on the birth record database that is publicly available to anybody.

If you know the person's name and roughly when they were born (which you can get from the age) and where, you can get the Mothers Maiden name easily.

I found mine here https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl in a couple of clicks.
Mother's maiden name is documented to have been in use for authentication at least as far back as 1882, and even then it was known to be a weakness [1, §3].

[1] Stephen M. Bellovin. 'Frank Miller: Inventor of the One-Time Pad'. Cryptologia 35(3), pp. 203–222, 2011. DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2011.583711
I've been a remote employee for nearly 10 years now. You're pretty spot on - it all depends on the team.

I've been on teams that collaborate a lot in person, whiteboarding, etc, and it gets frustrating to get 'left out.' That said, I've also been on teams where even sitting next to each other in an office, they communicate over slack/hangouts. Those teams made me feel absolutely no different as a remote employee.

In those instances, it was just preference of the team and how they interacted, more than anything. I think anyone who manages teams with remote employees should push towards this. Sure of course you can still have your random whiteboard breakouts, but perhaps require some time of everyone at least on audio, perhaps video.
Agreed. I assumed they would be at $12+... was wise to get in well below Netflix, et. al. Will see how long that price lasts, however...
Huh? Inform 7, the primary authoring tool for interactive fiction, can compile games to a a static webpage out-of-the-box. It's had this capability for years.

Andrew Plotkin, featured in this submission, wrote the Quixe interpreter [0] for this purpose, which is bundled into Inform 7.

The Interactive Fiction Database [1] has—again, for years—an instant "Play Online" button on the listing of any supported game, powered by Parchment [2], which is even older than Quixe.

You must not have checked very thoroughly.

[0] https://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/quixe/

[1] https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2xyccw3pe0uovfad

[2] https://iplayif.com/
Beatport and Bandcamp, at least.

Though obligatory fuck Beatport, they only give you 24 hours to download what you buy and then the only way to download again is to rebuy, or beg. Even a FLAC is only ~30MB, there's no need to be this cheap.
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Likely charge a premium for some apps.
> Ever notice how seemingly all the predictions and new regulations deal in a timeframe always conveniently 10 or more years into the future?

This isn’t correct, the EU and China both have fleet emission standards for cars which bite in 2021 at around 100-120 gCO2/km, which is already strict, and scale down from there. This is one of the reasons why VW is aiming to massively scale up EV production in the next few years.
Such bullshit that this is a patent
> Nothing will ever stop people from making music

The funny thing is how true this statement is, and yet how often it's deployed as if that means nobody needs to further consider or negotiate the present economics.

How would one establish the idea that average person wasn't willing to spend money on music before the 20th century? Because I'd expect as long as there's been instruments and money, there's been some form of economic participation.

But let's say it's true -- does that really direct a normative discussion on current economics? Because a hell of a lot of things about human society after industrialization have only been true for a brief time in human history, and that's no clear indicator of whether or not they have value.

Here's a better standard: how well does what we're doing support people who are in a position to make musical contributions that people value?

Recording sales fared pretty well by that standard, although there was the problem of predatory middlemen. Streaming revenues seem to have the same problem, and don't fare anywhere near as well.
I'm a software engineer too, I'll check us error logs nearly every day.
https://bandcamp.com/ is really wonderful if you're asking about music in general and not artists hitting the billboard charts. However, as it supports free listening there isn't a barrier to searching around and discovering new things.

If you want some good coding music for the day I'd suggest starting with https://wanderband.bandcamp.com/
The protocol can't be made illegal because it's not inherently against the law but if someone uploads something illegal to their node/whatever, that's on them.

Instead, such protocols can be marginalized through social means and through the media. On top of that, centralized alternatives can be hounded out of business and given the same treatment. YT doesn't have regulatory capture. They have effectively captured the lion's share of mainstream video commentary, with no apparent way for them to ever be replaced.
I never said google should rank pages based on monetization value. I only said based on watch time and how well they predict a user will like that video. That is the only fair way imo. Youtube mostly ranks based off of watch time and machine learning to determine how well a user likes a video, monetization seems to only play a small part.
Hashing text is one of the easiest, most common uses of hashing.

As for your first example “you may be relying on a 3rd party service that compares things”, has this ever happened in the history of the universe?
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