skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was more or less expected given the judge's ruling at the TRO stage and what happened during the hearing last week.

A few interesting quotes:

> First, Epic Games avers that the iOS market is distinct from other video game platforms because Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft do not make much profit, if any, on the sale of the hardware or console—unlike Apple, which allegedly makes significant profits from the sale of each iPhone. This distinction is without legal precedent under section 2 of the Sherman Act. Indeed, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all operate similar walled gardens or closed platform models as Apple, whereby the hardware, operating system, digital marketplace, and IAPs are all exclusive to the platform owner. As such, a final decision should be better informed regarding the impact of the walled garden model given the potential for significant and serious ramifications for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft and their video game platforms.

The judge correctly points out that the outcome of this case will affect all manufacturers of walled garden devices, not just Apple. The fact that gaming consoles are sold at a loss but iPhones are not is entirely irrelevant for antitrust purposes.

> The IAP system does not appear to be a payment processor in the same way that Visa, Mastercard, or PayPal is a payment processor; it is more akin to a link back to the App Store whereby the transaction must occur within the digital confines of the App Store. The IAP system appears to have been created, in part, to capture the value of a developer being on the digital shelf of the App Store which is owed to Apple—either on the initial download, or in subsequent IAPs.

Here the judge rejects Epic's framing that the IAP system is a mere payment processing system, as opposed to the (deferred) cost of distributing apps to iOS devices.

> Finally, the Court finds that the balance of equities weighs toward Apple where Epic Games breached both its agreements and the guidelines, and an injunction would potentially incentivize similar breaches among developers. Epic Games does not dispute that it breached its agreements. Nor is a breach required to maintain or even commence this lawsuit as reflected by the fact that the named plaintiffs in Cameron did not breach their agreements. As explained herein, Epic Games can similarly proceed. The Court declines to incentivize breaches of contracts where the legality of those provisions has not yet been conclusively or presumptively determined to be illegal.

I've seen many people claim that Epic's breach was necessary in order to have standing to bring the lawsuit in the first place. The judge explicitly states here that the breach was not necessary, and in fact there is another lawsuit that is still ongoing where the plaintiffs have not breached their agreement.
I wonder if anything ever came from his CSM stuff or if he just moved on?
That's the logic around most "moral" laws.
I guarantee if you get MS you’ll do some pretty crazy shit too, probably crazier than this.
So there's this thing called polymorphic light eruption (which is a stupid convoluted science word for sunburn):

"The cause of polymorphic light eruption is unknown. It is postulated that there is a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to an endogenous antigen expressed after exposure to sunlight or artificial sources of ultraviolet (UV) radiation."

Hypersensitivity means allergic reaction. UV radiation is murking your exposed skin cells because it causes such severe DNA damage that the cells commit suicide in a process called 'apoptosis.' The body's immune system is freaking out because it's seeing a bunch of stuff all of a sudden, that has floated out of your dead skin cells, that it isn't supposed to see. It releases a ton of chemicals that make you feel nauseous, crappy, and sore, and which normally are key parts of fighting infection as part of the inflammation reaction.

Oakley AM, Ramsey ML. Polymorphic Light Eruption. [Updated 2020 Aug 10]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430886/

This results in:

> "Release of inflammatory markers such as prostaglandins, reactive oxygen species, and bradykinin."

> "This leads to vasodilation, edema, and pain which translates into the classically red, painful skin seen in a sunburn."

> "Additionally, skin exposure to UVB causes an increase in chemokines such as CXCL5 and activates peripheral nociceptors, which results in over-activation of the pain receptors of the skin."

Guerra KC, Urban K, Crane JS. Sunburn. [Updated 2020 Aug 15]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK534837/

That allergic reaction is in addition to the common damage to the DNA of the skin cells caused by the UV radiation, that may occur before you get any of that pain and swelling. This is scary because if the cells are dead, ok you get a sunburn, but that's because they're dead. If the DNA is damaged and the cells don't die, you can lose genes like cell cycle checkpoint inhibitors and tumor suppressors. And BAM, melanoma which winds up killing somewhere in the ballpark of 9,000 people in the U.S. each year, as well as squamous cell carcinoma which kills like another 15,000.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/about/data-briefs/no9-melano...

https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/skin-canc....
Not sure I agree with that. Most astute founders can tell you pretty accurately why they didn't achieve enough sales to offset costs, they're just unlikely to do so for strangers because it usually means admitting at least some amount of self-fault. I know I can give a shortlist for my own failed businesses that's a lot more detailed than "not enough sales".
The trouble with Vitamin D is afaik, as with some other vitamins, that it is fat-soluble rather than water-soluble. So the excess of the Vitamin won't be flushed out through the urine - but rather accumulates in the fat. At some point this accumulation may lead to toxicity ("Hypervitaminosis D" [1]).

Personally, I dose 4000-5000 IU D3+K2 in the darker seasons and that has been working well for me.

Vitamin B12 is water-soluble and therefore should not cause accumulation in healthy people.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity
I agree with you about this.
strange, the post doesn't mention how in the beginning Airbnb was spamming the short-term rental posters on Craigslist https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-harvested-craigslist-...

"[...]he placed a vacation rental on Craigslist [...] Hours later, he had an email from a young lady who said that Airbnb was a great site, and that he should list his rental on it. She included a direct link in case he wanted to check it out for himself."

If i remember correctly similar strategy of leaching off of competitor worked for FB when they got AOL IM friends lists.
You're probably literally right -- this probably is a case of people promoting stuff -- but I personally like Nautilus as a sort of non-technical general science-focused publication. This article isn't one I'm head over heels for, but on the whole I click on the Nautilus stuff that gets posted and it meets my expectations.

(Quanta Magazine also has a pretty similar pattern, though their material tends to be more technical)
Yeah, my point was to demonstrate the whole "curse of knowledge" principle, and something like "photography" would be more suitable. Edited the comment. This is why I love HN, you guys tear apart every single thing ;))
>I'm guessing this was flagged by their nipple detection algorithm.

Needs more leetcode.
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50k is what I’ve seen some friends get for extremely low vitamin D, and on a similar time interval to your prescription. But you don’t want to be taking that every day. Let alone two to three of them.
This is the reason free software is important. Imagine json beeing licensed to pay per file. I do also expect Mirosft to take the word ```open source``` down, because it will strengthen them- but cuts outliners. Gates was great.
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Politicians have been doing this for a while - post silly claims, get a fact check applied to the post, claim persecution, fundraise off that.
I use Fossil myself; it is much less confusing than git. (You can even import/export git if you need to mirror it on Github or if another user prefers to use git instead of Fossil.) However, I do not use the forum feature since I prefer to use NNTP for that instead (although Fossil does provide some of the same benefits, and I might use it if it could be used together with NNTP). I do use the Fossil wiki though. It is indeed good that the bug report system can be used without an internet connection, and also that the repository is just a SQLite database file; there are clear benefits to this.
I never thought about it that way, haha, good call-out.
Your doctor also had you coming back for blood work yes? High doses are meant to top up your liver. Once that works your serum levels will climb and you would cut back.
Wow, congrats to the team @ Segment. This is very well deserved - they created this category. Also, looks that Twillio is investing big time in owning the marketing stack.
That’s a heavy duty accusation. Source? Attached is the wired story. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-homejoy-failed/
Amusingly, my family just bought a new car. Naturally, it comes with a lot of interesting features, and each feature has multiple settings. Adjusting those settings is done by pushing buttons in sequence, just like how you programmed the date and time into your first VCR.

All of the time I'm spending with these settings, I'm thinking to myself: Just give me an RS232 port, so I can plug in a dumb terminal and set everything up using a CLI.

But not all is lost. I've noticed that more and more web pages that give instructions on setting up computer hardware and software start with: "Press Windows-R and type CMD, now enter the following commands." And I don't search for programs any more. I press the Windows button and enter the program name from the keyboard.
I think that it's important to distinguish between thinking "X is true" is probably true and being "pro-X". Especially when we are talking about medical treatments that can affect the decisions someone will make with respect to their health and possibly even risk their lives.

Certainly a scientist can say "I very much hope that HCQ is an effective cure for Coronavirus" but that is very, very different from being "Pro-HCQ".

When I hear "Pro-HCQ" that implies to me a very strong suggestion of treatment, i.e. - "You should take HCQ as a treatment for Coronavirus infection", which is extremely different from, "I hope that the research shows that HCQ will be an effective treatment for Coronavirus, and I am doing a study with the goal of showing that this is the case".

Does that make sense?
> Twitter plays a critical role around the globe by empowering democratic conversation..

I just don't recall electing Twitter to take on this critical role.
Your blood levels tell how much vitamin d your body is holding onto. In addition to not getting enough sun you could have an absorption problem, in which case they may try other things but one of those is just cranking the dose.
It was an interesting article in a lot of ways but it definitely didn’t mention any of the more black hat tactics that companies have used for marketing.
I never understood the fascination with preferring "the element at zero offset from the start" to "the first element" - and I don't think djiskarta makes a compelling argument.
Except for colleges.
It will be cheaper if the local coworking space costs less than your commute to the employer's office.

Both financially and in time spent.
I honestly can’t tell if you are joking or jokingly trying to be an example what the parent comment is describing: numb to corruption when an example is done through “legitimate” means right in front of your nose.
Most of his complaints can be solved via a Julia LSP. LSP‘s aren‘t that hard to write.
> What about the widely held belief that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 Presidential election?

And no one in my family believes that. Myself included (though I wish the Muller report were written with stronger language to clarify itself: its conclusion had extremely weak wording).

I talk about the misinformation that I can see personally and in my social circle. Fortunately, none of my family members are getting sucked into Q or some of the more dangerous stuff... but the misinformation across the spectrum online destroys discussion as a whole. Far more than "censorship" of posts by Twitter or whoever.

After all, I don't do Facebook. I honestly don't care about it: I'm practically "self-censored" from Facebook because I don't use it at all. What I do care about is the misinformation my family is getting from it.

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I mean, it seems clear to me that you are a user of Facebook, and you seem to agree with me that misinformation is running rampant?

I'm blind to it, since I don't read Facebook at all. I can only tell you what has come through my Mother and Sister's mouths in my discussions with them. But as far as I can tell, you're just confirming my point: that there's a huge amount of misinformation here. And I applaud Facebook's announcement that they're fighting against it.
I did. Here you go:

The association of treatment with hydroxychloroquine and hospital mortality in COVID-19 patients

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11739-020-02505-x

Early Hydroxychloroquine but not Chloroquine use reduces ICU admission in COVID-19 patients

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

The Effect of Early Hydroxychloroquine-based Therapy in COVID-19 Patients in Ambulatory Care Settings: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.09.20184143v...

Etc etc they also have Remdesivir, Vitamin D, Ivermectin and other studies if you click along the top.
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Thank you Darko for the research and I understand I should not complain about something I am getting for free, but I was rubbed the wrong way with the way you chose to distribute this—I was first asked for an email id, then sent an email with another link (I was expecting a PDF in the mail or at least a link to the content), this link then went to a page from where I could get another download link for the content, which turned out to be barely 1.5 pages.

I presume this was all done for analytics and for potentially harvesting email addresses to make a subscriber list.

Your privacy policy states—"We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you."

I am pretty sure there was no need to collect my email for linking me to a file that exists on your server for free distribution.

I am not trying to pick on you, but every time we have a post here on HN about FB or companies doing any sorts of analytics, we have lots of righteous indignation about how server-side analytics is enough and this and that. And yet, here you are, an individual (not a megacorp that needs to show quarterly growth) who effectively did something similar.

Anyway, after all this, I finally got a 2 page PDF with a small bulleted list with just the number of founders who vouched for every channel. The channel was just mentioned in a few words, so it wasn't always clear what the channel meant.

The PDF was so small I first thought you were only distributing the table of contents as a teaser.
AI doesn't work that way. It's the overall combo of skin tones and curves that resemble the training material it was fed (porn), and that's why it's triggering.
I sure hope so because I've been taking half a serving of these little suckers for a while now: https://amzn.com/B001LXRWWE

Here's a breakdown of the DV for some of the vitamins for a full serving:

B1 = 33x (yes, 3333%)

B2 = 30x

B6 = 40x

B12= 83x
I'm sure the trend generalizes, but I'd be wary of cargo-culting it because a number of simple and plausible explanations put the causality arrow firmly in the other direction. Failure isn't fun to share, failure implies a need to re-think and strategize, failure means you can't delegate enough of your responsibilities to specialize in appearing quick and decisive to your investors, failure means you aren't in the startup circle anymore and aren't looking to cultivate your relationship with Sam Altman, and so on. Any one of those effects could singlehandedly create the observed trend without implying that quick response times lead to healthy businesses.
I readily agree that there are often skill gaps in many professions or endeavors. I am an absolutely terrible when it comes to skateboarding and ice skating, and they're also not big aspirations of mine. I've opted to pursue other things that I enjoy, like problem solving, system administration and cost analysis!

That being said, when I was a kid I didn't have a skateboard. I had an old DOS box to play on. Then Windows 95, then 98, ME/2000, XP etc. I'm fully aware of how good I am at what I do, but I genuinely have no objective/provable reason to believe that I'm of a "class" of person that's good with computer touching. I'd assume that I would need a machine that displays alternate realities in order to establish what "class" of person I should be assigned to, objectively.

The idea of "classism" inherently (to most) relies heavily on stratification. There are (for a made-up example) The Indispensable, The Useful and The Expendable. In your definition of classism as applied to software engineering, are people born into these classes? If not, what process creates objective classification? How is it standardized and applied?

And further, how does a group of software engineers, that doesn't include you, choosing to unionize hurt your prospects or experience?
I am a Goya fanboy. He was miles ahead of his time in terms of self-determining his themes. He was also surprisingly thoughtful.

His famous 3rd May painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808

...had a lesser known partner, the 2nd May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_of_May_1808

From the left leading down to the middle is a swath of men all caught in the act of killing each other. One 'frame' later they would all be dead. The figure of the man stabbing the horse is looking on in horror. This is the same figure being shot in the 3rd May painting. Hence the set becomes one morbid circle of death.

The article mentions how Goya used staged accidents to come up with visual ideas. That is interesting news to me and I will add it to my list of artists who are known to have employed similar techniques (DaVinci, Max Ernst, Dali).
Maybe, but it's a good collection of studies either way. It's never a good idea to put too much stock in one study.
Pet fish is trying to beat Pokémon Sapphire, and it's already won two gym badges
That's very surprising that something bad happened with as low as 50mcg (2000 IU). I was suggested to take that much by my doctor _daily_ without even bothering with a test (granted I'd taken a test years prior in a similar climate, perhaps that was enough for him). I even temporarily upped it for a period to 4000 IU basically for the same reason as you. And I think I've heard some people claim that as much as 5000 IU is safe without a test?

It's just surprising that this happened to you given that you're naturally deficient.
True, but such enforcement requires accountability and governance in that case - things that they have shown no interest in adopting.

There is a consistent penchant among normal, biased 'fact-checkers' to call sympathetic views 'mostly true' in the face of glaring falsehoods, and antagonistic views 'mostly false' in the presence of any minor nitpick; nothing unusual as far as bias goes, but expecting these orgs to play governance roles is clearly unsuitable.
Hopefully this means Segment dropping their prices - $120p/m for 10k users is out of the range of a lot of potential customers, and changing around an established analytics setup later on is always a pain.
Yes, but is the list really true (in an objective sense). I mean why didnt you act on it, or why was it only know afterwards. (Of course the list might contain a lot of unchangable items, but this would mean the startup was impossible)
My conclusion as well.
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Not really. That’s a definition of survivorship bias. The answer many times comes down to luck.

https://theconversation.com/huge-success-in-business-is-larg...
I would point to Cousine[1] as a nice mono font with a similar set of goals. It is not clear to me if Cousine has an equal Unicode span, but it claims a "pan-european" character set.

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine
>how they can square

I don't think its that illogical to argue there's a time sensitive component. False news is the price you pay for breaking news sometimes. Its fine in the long run, but the argument is during an election the risk is too great.
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Do you dose the D3/K2 combo on a daily basis? I've got https://amzn.com/B075R56QCQ which i do ~3 times a week.
It's my first recommendation to anyone who tells me they'd like to understand a bit of finance - subscribe to Matt's newsletter, you'll pick it up and enjoy the journey.
Sorry didn't mean to tear into you! It's just that violin really is a pretty difficult instrument. When people say it's difficult, it doesn't mean impossible. It means that goals are attainable through slow, steady, practice, investment (both time and money), and ultimately, drive, passion, and not expecting too much of yourself.

Being easy on myself is how I was able to get through 7 years of sounding bad. I had to sound unbearably bad in order to get here. and I am planning to sound bad for the foreseeable future until I get to my goals.

That's the way of fret-less stringed instruments, and probably a lot of other things in life as well.
>I agree that the enforcement needs to be monitored, and also that the enforcement needs to be done. Not mutually-exclusive. There are absolutely agreed-upon lies today: there isn't a deep state of vampire child rapists running the country. Fight me. ;-)

Also Epstein killed himself and had no links to anyone in power. Even if he did they were only Republicans and even if they weren't they were.
Well, then don't ask for the EU to legislate that payment processors can't drop customers. You can't have it both ways...
This was my take as well. I get that they want to “clean up” some of the most egregious tweets but that’s a game you can’t win. It’s just a rabbit hole where everyone will accuse you of being biased.
> things that they have shown no interest in adopting

Can you explain what you mean by this? Because that's literally what they (twitter) have been trying to do for the past 4 years: toeing the line between censorship and handling an administration that delivers a constant stream of demonstrable and egregious lies.
They didn't say that though. They're saying the consequences are worse before an election. At other times the pros outweigh the cons. Not sure I agree but its a pretty reasonable argument, I think.
no because when read he comes across as someone who isn't great at grasping the full details because they are too busy with their own preconceived notions. "not a details person", or whatever. he has always been pretty good at preach-to-the-choir-style writing, which genuinely has its uses, it's just that you have to squint before drawing firm conclusions about the subject matter. which is the absolute opposite of levine.

but hey, that's just, like, my opinion, man. to each, their own.