skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shawn: This article's conclusion by one unknown author stands in stark contrast to the results of The China–Cornell–Oxford Project, a 20-year study—described by The New York Times as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology"—conducted by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University, and the University of Oxford. T. Colin Campbell was one of the study's directors.

It looked at mortality rates from cancer and other chronic diseases from 1973 to 1975 in 65 counties in China; the data was correlated with 1983–84 dietary surveys and blood work from 100 people in each county. The research was conducted in those counties because they had genetically similar populations that tended, over generations, to live and eat in the same way in the same place. The study concluded that counties with a high consumption of animal-based foods in 1983–84 were more likely to have had higher death rates from "Western" diseases as of 1973–75, while the opposite was true for counties that ate more plant-based foods.

Meat based cholesterol was highlighted as the main culprit.

As for the article you posted ?
Funding: The investigator’s work and publication costs are funded by an institutional start-up fund ?

Details of this institutional start-up fund ?
I’m legit worried about consumer FOSS, and especially around how work just kinda gets stuck in this limbo when an issue is over, say, 3 years old (I recently had this come up with a 12 year old FF bug as well)

I desperately want to pay, like, $100/month to get some guarantee of cleanup work on the free software I’m using (FF, GNOME, and Emacs in particular)

Lots of software projects do fundraising for lots of auxiliary stuff but I really want maintainers to be paid
Third-hand knowledge, but a neighbor who is an ER doctor is always complaining that many nurses do not take PPE and Covid seriously despite seeing hundreds of seriously ill people this past year.
Well, there was a post on the front page just now linking to an executive order from November that prohibits exchange in certain securities that the government deems beneficial to the CCP, so avoiding having my investments banned by administrative action is one reason.
Does anyone know why AWS hasn't kicked off Parler yet? Is this a hard decision for Bezos?
The election results are not in question. Biden won.

What we fear are those who wish to violently overturn Bidens legitimate win.
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There are cartel and monopoly arguments to be made that are based on maintaining an efficient free market. This is generally a bipartisan issue, but the sides are taking turns on it.

Of course Stripe does not have a monopoly, but the broader discussion involves major players that can function as a cartel.
Thank you for the accurate description. and it's also broken in xfce. I personally deal with this annoying situation by ascending to the grandparent and then descending to the parent again.
This is the worst, a french website Leboncoin (craigslist basically) does this, makes me want to murder the people behind it

When you click next page nothing happens long enough to make you think your click hasn't been registered, then right as you click again the page loads with ads right where the button was
> I hope these are things which remain in place when Biden gets in,

I don't really see why they wouldn't be, where is the pro-china coalition in politics at the moment? On top of that, the idea that because Biden didn't go around saying "China!" in an amusing fashion doesn't mean he's best buddies with Xi Jinping.
Plasma Desktop uses about the same amount of resources as XFCE.
How is AWS anything like an “utility”? There are hundreds of viable hosting options for large sites.
Which GHz frequency?
Q&A: How Bad Will the UK Covid Strain Be If It Reaches the US?
There's also the reproducible build effort, which is somehow more parallel to nix, or cross pollinating than influenced.. but same spirit (and great work by lunar and his friends)
And all of that except for the "kill blacks" and calls for violence would be perfectly fine on Reddit on /r/conservative. Most of it would also be fine on Twitter or Facebook, except that some of the conspiracy stuff might get a misinformation warning and/or a fact check link.

That's why sites like Parler, Gab, and Voat end up as cesspools. Those who don't feel the need to post racism and calls to violence can just stay on the mainstream services, getting both their political discussion and their non-political discussion in one convenient place.

Voat tried to have the non-political stuff too, but it just ended up with racism there too. For example, in /v/movies people complaining that the "Call of the Wild" cast included a black actor, and going off about how it was the Jews in Hollywood behind this for nefarious reasons.
Yes, there will be a short boost to parler and bannon, and then a long deafening silence. These bans will be effective.
I have been thinking about this. you know how computer nerds have been using IRC, email, source control, github etc. to work online for decades?

And you know how highly competitive e-gaming teams compete at things like Rainbow Six and other things without being in the same room? (Not for a tournament, but competitive enough to beat any casual team online).

I feel like, yes there is lots of room for improvement, but part of this is actually being overblown. By people not willing to type in a Discord or who don't own a comfortable headset and know how to use it. Or people who have not learned how to use an online whiteboarding system or Google Docs etc.
The lies are 100% of the reason the capital riot happened, so yes, they do need to stop. Fox News lies every single day.

What do we expect from a population of people that only hear these lies, day in and day out? They're going to react just like they did on 1/6.
That page looks kinda out dated, and "contains some ideas how to improve the Plasma notification system". So a lot of that is mocks and not real screenshots.
You must not have seen the active investigations into the Biden family... for securities fraud. They took money directly from the Chinese (billions to start a company and millions in a “forgivable, interest free loan”)

Attorney general of Delaware: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/10/what-is-known-abou...

Family business associate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NcaxJifxY&feature=youtu.be

Senate report: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...
Here's an important question: would it be a good thing or a bad thing if it was very difficult to make plans involving violence on the internet?
As a kid, images like this were SO fascinating to me. Escher was over-represented in my psyche.

(unrelated) I also recall being fascinated by a genre of posters you could buy that showed some location with hundreds or even thousands of people doing stuff in great cartoon detail. (think of of a state fair seen from above)
These are opinions though. It may be untrue, but you're going to find yourself with a ministry of truth. "Who decides" who gets charged with the crime. These opinions can be entertained. After all, most trump supporters are clearly enraged by democrats.
Sorry, I thought this discussion was on a different post. You're right, the argument above doesn't apply to Stripe.

Instead, I would respond that freedom of association is considerably more limited than other rights. Soldiers, students, jurors, prisoners, etc are often forced into association with people they would rather not associate with, and businesses are legally forced into association to protect the rights of other people. When there is a conflict between freedom of association and other rights or government interests, freedom of association rarely prevails.

So forcing businesses to associate with someone in order to protect fair elections or free speech rights wouldn't be incongruous.
Apparently, some cattle don't have a problem with them.

https://imgur.com/zTNZEl6
Poor Orwell must be rolling in his grave. Maybe we should wrap him in copper for free power?

For the record, Orwell was a leftist. Yes, 1984 was a warning about the USSR, which he hated, but the idea that he was warning about creeping leftism in general turning into authoritarianism is to really misunderstand him.

For the record, he hated the authoritarian right just as hard as he hated the authoritarian left, possibly more so. He participated in the Spanish civil war, following his own advice that everyone pick up a rifle and shoot a fascist. He was wounded in action by a sniper bullet to the throat.

By the terms of his place and time, he considered himself a libertarian (that word later came to be a right wing phenomenon in America, self consciously co-opted from the left). We’d typically call him a democratic socialist; someone who wanted the government to help solve the “social problem” (where the term “socialism” partially comes from) of poverty and what not, but he was also wary about giving too much power of the government to control people.

He was a complex guy with even more complex political opinions. Sadly our Cold War fueled reading of 1984 has flattened out a lot of his nuance from him.
I see where you are coming from, but I do not agree that they are being punished just for “having the wrong opinion”.

The Trump campaign just attempted a coup. As in they attempted to seize control of the government by stopping the lawful transition of power. That it failed does not make it any less serious. Should we let them continue to try until the are successful? Let’s not repeat the mistakes of 1920s Germany.[0]

I do not think it is hyperbole to say that Trump and his ilk are fascists, not unlike the Nazis.[1] They are the mob that is coming for you.[2] Do not make the mistake of failing to believe these people when they tell you who they are and what they are about.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/BxMXjGz7Zjsa1G6Q8
[2] https://twitter.com/59dallas/status/1346963199778828290?s=21
MacOS also has this issue. The thumbnails are so small as to be useless. Especially if you have multiple similar images. In the Finder you can choose larger thumbnails but not in a file open dialog. Used to be able to several versions of the OS ago though you had set some internal OS setting (no UI) but that setting no longer works.

If Windows does anything better than MacOS this is one tiny area. I don't understand who at Apple thinks not being able to have large thumbnails is a good design.
AWS laid out the timeline in their letter to Parler:

> "Because Parler cannot comply with our terms of service and poses a very real risk to public safety, we plan to suspend Parler’s account effective Sunday, January 10th, at 11:59PM PST."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...

According to my watch, it's a few minutes past 17:30 PST.
> Direct engineer -> engineer communication between teams is O(N^2) to organize things between N engineers.

This isn't true in my experience. I'd say it's more like a binary search than a fully-connected network. I talk to my immediate team first. If they can't help, I dig through the company-wide documentation and codebase, then message people who have done or considered something similar to what I'm trying to do; they either give me the information I need, or direct me to someone more likely to have it. Each hop gets me closer to an answer, and I typically end up having to talk to 1-3 engineers rather than the O(500) who work in my organization.

Part of the reason this works is because there are a handful of very senior engineers who have a good sense of what's going on across a big part of the company. Complex requests often get routed through one of these people, and they always seem to know who to talk to. I guess that's a form of hierarchy, but without the "command-and-control" aspect. I see it as an occasional escape hatch rather than a primary means of problem-solving.
It's not a conspiracy theory.

GNOME 2 was a project of 100+ developers.

TOPAZ was a half-baked tablet UI tech demo from a dozen Red Hat employed devs, later dropping to 7-9 regularly active ones.

Tell me what is more to explain about this?
what’s being banned is systematic destruction of people’s willingness to believe facts in order to support a world view that is inconsistent with facts.

why it is being banned is that it has convinced people to attack the government because they believe the government has done things (for example, “stealing elections”) that it has not done.

big tech has apparently decided that they do not want to be blamed when the government has to shoot a bunch of delusional people to stop them from committing violent crimes based on lies
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
It doesn't make me anxious but it gives me exactly the same feeling I get when someone looks over my shoulder when I'm on LSD.

I haven't tried it for a big call yet, but Jitsi seems better. For just a chat Discord still reigns supreme for call-quality of the services I've tried, although it may be bad data because I'm usually playing a game or helping someone solve a problem rather than solely conversing.
The AI war is not over yet
The changes need to still allow for anonymous voting. Nobody should face repercussions for how they vote.
Being tolerant of those who believe differently absolutely does not preclude pushing back against those who are not tolerant of those who believe differently from them.

There's no hypocrisy there.

Acting against intolerance is supporting tolerance.
Biden and his son have very strong, secretive relations with China.
It was on a quick steep incline, with a real fence (with matching slats spacing) that actually was going across the road right up to the dashed center line. They fixed it by regrading the road like they should have done in the first place, as cattle guards like this must be level, and the local codes required it.

Editors getting desperate with their TSLA puts.
Trunk derangement syndrome. Anything he touches must automatically be reversed.
> Setting aside for a moment the multiple orders of magnitude difference in lethality per participant

Is this really true? I’m tempted to charge the entirety of the post-summer urban bloodbath to the BLM movement. This represents an increase of 3-4000 deaths over the prior year.

> BLM is not about overthrowing the government, and has never posed a credible threat to it. Even if BLM overthrew the government, no one has been talking about mass executions.

This is sidestepping your point somewhat, but Antifa (who figured prominently in the protests) do explicitly avow both these things.
Ask HN: Ever had a great job but hated the tech?
I have an objectively wonderful job. Great people, great job security, wonderful work/life balance... but I absolutely HATE the tech stack I've been assigned to work on.

Has anyone else faced this? How did you handle it? I'm not in a situation where I can ask for a transfer or anything like that.
Agreed. It occupies some weird uncanny valley of design that is hard to pin point.
The funny thing about the mob is that it does not remember whether you cheered it on or not.

And the funny thing when there are two mobs fighting each other is that neither will exercise restraint if the other backs down.

So the smart thing to do is to be either so powerful the mob can't touch you or to be so invisible the mobs can't see you.

There is always the Kolmogorov option.
I am excited about the optical waveguide AR/VR systems getting cheaper and consumer-oriented because they are so lightweight. I actually personally find that VR is often more direct interaction than I want. Things like Spatial and VR Chat are mainly missing eye contact but that eye tracking is coming within a few years.
Beer (wort, at this stage) is heated before fermentation, normally not boiled but enough to kill bacteria.

Wine is normally made from pure juice, and isn't heated at any point in the process. But again, it's made from pure juice: the inside of a grape is not a usual place to find dangerous bacteria, and on the outside one would normally find only the yeasts which produce the fermentation.

Modern wine-making washes the grapes thoroughly and adds yeast, the old-school method was simply to crush, and rely on the surface bloom and residual yeast in the vessel to do the work. Which lead to rather more vinegar than the modern vintner would tolerate.
You mention that what he said was taken 'literally', so is it your insinuation that Bannon's 'heads on pikes' comments directly led to heads being placed on pikes at the Capitol?

Also, are you in favor of sanctioning and deplatforming for anybody who uses rhetoric that when taken literally would mean some sort of violence? Even if those espousing such rhetoric fall on different parts of the political spectrum?

After all, we've seen what happens when it gets taken literally.
Can someone explain the effect of this?
It does not feel like any of these purges are voluntary. Maybe fb which is coincidentally under most legal pressure atm
Could someone apply software such as is described in this paper to create a "virtual reality" walk-through of the riot?

https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/icmew/2018...
Problem: improved mousetrap cannot catch spotted mice

Solution: replace spotted mice with spotless mice

I'd love to see you try and convince a farmer that this is an "improvement" and that they should replace their cattle guards
Honestly? Breaking the law.

Companies providing a service should not care what it is used for. If society has a problem with what people are using services for, it should pass laws, and the companies should comply with the requirements of the law.

I don't know why we are allowing massive companies with unchecked power to make decisions about what is acceptable behaviour on social networks. Since when did they make the laws?

We have a process for this, and it is for democratically elected representatives accountable to their voters to write laws.

Just because you agree with the decisions made by these companies today doesn't mean this is the right process. They're unelected and unaccountable. It's an insult to democracy that we're allowing them to control people's behaviour, even if you agree with them.
Yes, Jira is very configurable. But whether you'll be allowed to configure it is an open question.

I worked on a team that had a very finely tuned Jira workflow. Then one day we discovered that all our customizations had been eliminated. The company had decided that it wanted all configurations to be based on a company standard, and no deviations would be allowed. We weren't even warned ahead of time.
> While you're technically correct, you're also making a conversion right there, which increases your ad relevancy score on most auction driven platforms including Google and — ironically — Facebook, which in turn leads to this ad actually getting _cheaper_ to run for the advertiser on other customers coming after you.

But you're always going to see an ad regardless, right? If that's the case I don't see any advantage in making yourself more expensive.
so secretive that random message board commenters know about them?
> At this point I get the feeling that a lot of people posting here are apologists for domestic terrorism and it worries me.

What a great way to shut down any discussion. Anyone who doesn’t agree must be terrorist apologists?

If you read these comments and all you can see in anyone not posting full throated praises of this purge are people defending terrorists, consider taking a break from the discussion and come back when you’re ready.
I think that's essentially saying that "Customers who stand in the town square screaming 'T-Mobile sucks!'" get attention faster than ones that send private letters to T-Mobile.

It's sad, but at least we have a digital public square?
> more bloated (in terms of features and options)

that might be subjectively correct to a lot of people, but I find that they are usually set to sane defaults and a lot is disabled by default. Also, I would like to emphasis that the choice of disto kinda matters here as they sometimes change defaults.
HN readers would be well advised to ask the question of how they should adjust things in their teams & companies going fo to avoid both the legal liability and the ethical stain of CCP
There is no ministry being erected, just a bunch of private parties not willing to get dragged into the mud.
Yeah Durov does that

He also claims that Telegram is not server-side open source, because then Iran and China could run their own versions of Telegram and he doesn't want that.

As much as I like Telegram because of its GUI and features, Durov often says half-truths like that. (And do not forget all the TON stuff.)
Skimmed the article. Interesting that they chalk it up to basically just nostalgia. I know many do it because you can be pretty confident that old hardware/software is much less likely to be phoning home and is actually something you own and control as opposed to being a service that you are licensing and can change functionality at the whim of the company you are getting it from.
I added a "Related work" section to the README. It's a tad vacuous since, really, these things are all pretty similar. Dexter can do things with swirly lights though. Swirly lights are cool.
The internet, to some extent. It's one thing to let someone who believes in the flat earth to go on with that strange but admittedly entertaining belief. But if they believe in something more drastic and you ignore them, they might decide to make you pay attention, eg by carrying out a mass shooting.

This is a real thing that happens; for example, Robert Bowers, who shot up a synagogue and murdered a bunch of people in Pittsburg a few years ago, was very sociable with other people who shared his anti-semitic beliefs. Eventually he got sick of complaining and other people saying 'there's nothing you can do it about/you'll never do anything about/don't do anything about it yet, wait for a 'better' time.'

Although there's a popular trope about 'lone wolf terrorism' some researchers are starting to argue that it's a bad caricature and that many ideologically-motivated mass shooters have social support of one kind or another, as discussed here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321955758_End_of_th...

Of course, most people with ideas we consider wrong are very unlikely to be future terrorists. But they can end up having a significant impact on policy by voting and donating. So if you care about, say, the environment you have quite a strong motivation to argue online with people who say that climate change is not a big deal, and so on. It's not too hard to think of examples of this from around the political spectrum. Universal communications technology that allows us all to talk with each other at near zero marginal cost has brought conflicting worldviews and values into the sphere of public debate and depending on the stakes and the degree tow hich said values make up people's identity, the discussions can be very bitter.

It's important to remember that a great many people simply don't have the option of ignoring people who are wrong. You could be walking along minding your own business and suddenly find a complete stranger harassing or even attacking you because of some bias or bigoted worldview they hold. Sadly, this is not unusual.
By the way, Twitter is not "the press", freedom of speech has nothing to do with private social media aaaand... Trump's speech is no literature. So what is the point here.
[Citation needed]?

edit: you have provided a citation now - Tucker Carlson..., but is that it? So there's no evidence of any services being rendered, or anything even close to a smoking gun other than proof that Beau was the better Biden?
It's not in dispute at all, there's video of the mob beating him!
You've just made me realize network effects work both ways: If you can't receive any of your GMail friend's mail, you have a problem. If the last of your GMail friends can't receive any of their (in this example, Republican friend circle's) mail, they have a problem.
All of this is bullish for cryptocurrencies, that's all I'm gonna add here.