skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The book, she said, “was generating wide acclaim for its racist views” and her intention in opening the letter “with an absurd claim that Black people are superior based on the melanin in their skin” was to “hold up a mirror to reflect how reprehensible the premise of black inferiority was set.”

> “It was meant to express an equally absurd point of view — fighting one ridiculous absurd racist theory with another ridiculous absurd theory,” Clarke explained, “and the goal was all about [exposing] the ugly racist underpinnings of the Bell Curve theory. It was deeply personal and profoundly important to Black students and other students of color who felt that their right to be on campus was challenged. And frankly, the fight that we were leading as students is a fight that I am still very much a part of today.”

https://forward.com/news/national/462089/bidens-deputy-ag-pi...

The full letter certainly seems consistent with that: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/10/28/blacks-seek-an...
Wouldn't the data stores of these apps be included in iCloud backups too?
Twitter is a public company, no?
this is my thinking as well. I was already excruciatingly isolated and lonely beforehand. I'm not gonna pass up what few social opportunities I get just to avoid a little risk
Ask HN: Get Magic for Physical Deliveries
There are many delivery services cropping up but they only offer delivery from a limited set of restaurants, stores, etc. You often have to check multiple websites to see if they deliver from a selected restaurant and store and often strike out. Would folks find value in a delivery service where you can order anything from any local restaurant, store, or vendor? This could also include pickup and delivery of items from/to businesses and homes. I'd appreciate any feedback on this idea. Thanks.
Yeah, same here with NZ. Even with the location toggle enabled, if I don't append "NZ" to my query, I end up with a whole lot of useless results from the USA, UK, etc. I still use DDG for everything but the most technical queries though.
I think its just a sedentary lifestyle with poor diet causing much of this. Almost all well paying jobs require you to sit motionless(well almost motionless - typing) in a chair 80% of the working day, couple that with fast food and cheap processed food everywhere, voila, you have a health crisis of obesity and low testosterone.
Interesting thoughts and links. Thank you.
Do we have any evidence this would make a difference to testosterone levels?
No, one doesn't, actually.

Only if one makes a claim about what is generally written in such books.
What is ‘not completely true’?
Fitbit Joins Google
Not really the same thing unless they were linking to particular copyright works you could find elsewhere, is it?
"That's just for the 50% of NYC tenants in rent stabilized units—overall, the city's tenants are about $2 billion in debt"

https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/1349805120318566402
Growth has been close to exponential since 1992, with an average doubling period of 2.2 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

(Someone should update the “Grid parity for solar PV around the world”, that map was last edited in 2015)
Members of Congress and staff are civilians. But definition of these terms is somewhat slippery and mutable since they are also shaped by laws, both existing and in the future.
> I'm not sure as to how I'm supposed to challenge the challenge to my challenge without being “confrontational” as you call it and point out the faults with the argument.

This is a hard problem, and a difficult lesson to learn. I know it took me a while, and I'm still bad at it.

I find it helps to make your points, while trying to maintain a pleasant tone (Easier said than done, and I'm not a good person to teach this). I also find it helps to add questions asking for either other peoples opinions or clarifications on their position, as that helps show that you're not just talking, but also listening.

Edit: Also, the largest part for me at least is to remember that an attack on your argument is not a personal attack against you. I've had issues with doing this my whole life, and am still working on it.
My understanding is that there are actually very few restrictions on what kind of expenses charitable foundations can use their funds toward. The public’s attention was drawn to this because of media reporting on some of the more ludicrous outlays of the Trump Foundation.
I think if you scroll back to discussion on slashdot in the 90s, you'd see public opinion in the tech community was very different back then. That said, I agree with your take on Gates.
I wonder how he has handled the shutdowns, at a personal level (photo from november):

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/jack-d...
It's about time someone formalized Graduate Student Descent, please someone write a paper diving into all it's properties!

"Graduate Student Descent is one of the most reliable ways of getting state of the art performance in Machine Learning today and it’s also ... fully parallelizable"
The Complete Developer's Guide to Airtable
It reads like sarcasm but it's more a sign that our views do not leak out of our echo chamber.

I have a friend who works for the government and laments at how much red tape there is to acquire or link any dataset and wishes for more data acquisition.

To be fair, her use cases were sincerely benign - being able to target people who qualify for more welfare/govt assistance, and being able to make the govt website more helpful/discoverable for support.

Though she definitely subscribes to her data being used for helpful purposes from bigtech
White collar jobs tend to be more flexible with working from home too. If I worked at a factory all day in close proximity to others, I wouldn’t bother distancing when I was off the clock.
The key to technical questions in ddg is to be very verbose. From tracking you Google knows you're a programer who works in Java, ddg doesn't do that by design.

When I search "transformer" in ddg I get the movie franchise, when I do it in Google I get the ones you see hanging on utility poles. Google knows I look at power electronics. When I search "voltage transformer" in ddg I get the same quality results as google.
I did not know this, thanks for teaching me something new! It goes at least back to BlackBerry OS 4, running on the BlackBerry Pearl, released in 2008 (but likely further back):

> You can set permissions that control how third-party applications on your BlackBerry device interact with the other applications on your device. For example, you ca control whether third-party applications can access data or the Internet, make calls, or use Bluetooth® connections.

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/images/legacy/...
You're just attempting to deflect with an unrelated topic.
Reminder that with a ~$25 software-defined radio (SDR) dongle you can receive any aircraft’s ADS-B signal, complete with position, altitude, velocity, and flight ID:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-radar-with-rtl-sdr/
You might want to disclose your affiliation.
They do neither.
Thanks for replying. Your perspective looks entirely alien to me, but I respect it and appreciate the opportunity to understand.

If I may use an analogy. Suppose four major airlines refused to carry one political group. Your logic then would suggest they are no worse off since they can as well drive or take a bus to get places, so there is nothing to worry about. Is that right?
Would you call this a headless CMS? Headless infrastructure?

If you had to put a genre/category on it, what would it be?
Thank you to the folks who told me about favorite option.

I would say then that my request would be that favorite is a link with the main set up links under the post entry on the main page, rather than just on the page for that post.
This problem only grows as the company scales and the science and engineering pieces are formally split along some role guideline.

Inevitably if you treat a job role as a support role, you'll attract weaker individuals into that role then you would get if it wasn't considered a support role. The problem with Science oriented teams is that all roles other than the science role morph into science support roles over time. The same pattern used to occur with Engineers and QA, or Engineers and ops.
Why would they hire moderators when they immediately decided to shut down after AWS's announcement?
I found it rude and indirect. It would have been nice of them to point out why the comment is unhelpful, rather than just saying "This isn't reddit"
Yeah, I really don't understand it. I lived in a peaceful out-of-the-way neighborhood that I absolutely loved -- but every day I had to go down to the Tenderloin (I'm sorry, "Mid Market") and battle through god knows what on my way to the office. It blows my mind that three of the most valuable tech companies (Twitter, Uber, Square) all set up shop in the most miserable few blocks of the whole city.

Eventually it was enough of a drag on my psyche that I gave up and moved down the peninsula.
Yes, that makes sense, development timelines for these features are often far longer than we imagine.
If the only respite to being locked indoors is going outside, of course people are going to dislike masks. It's a constant reminder that there's nowhere to escape from the current situation.
The usernames of new users are colored green for the first two weeks (or so) after they've signed up.
Translation: Google now has access to all your fitness and health data and will be integrated into Google Fit.

No thanks and no deal.
Not great comparison but take iPad for example (different scale of production of course). It’s packed with tech and won’t magically rub off even in 50 years of use. Likeliest failure is software obsolescence, battery, charging and drops.

It costs $600 and is faster than your computer.
also popular with edgy twitterposters and anons, and a large swath of online news-aware people under 40. there are plenty of sunday morning accelerationists for whom all these sentiments could more accurately reflect malaise and disenfranchisement from party politics that increasingly represent no one. personally i wouldn't grant many of these statements much more weight than 'subscribe to pewdiepie'

however as institutions dip their toes deeper into the open embrace of superficial intersectionality and antiracism, it should come as a surprise to no one that retrograde ideas about white identity begin to viscously resurface with greater frequency. my personal opinion is that it is a very bad time to repeat the economic mistakes of obama with an added veneer of identity justice. optimism makes me want to believe that good governance can heal our country, but more realistically, good governance is the one thing we truly do not make in america anymore.
https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20150313/more-sex-better-test...
> walk right up to the limit of the law and greatly antagonize

Such as by blocking roads? Or surrounding diners?
Show HN: A spreadsheet to compare and suggest replacements to Simple Bank
Thanks to @CassidyJames for the comprehensive blog post[1] documenting good online banking alternatives. It's sad to see Simple go. Hopefully this sheet will be helpful to someone else.

1. https://cassidyjames.com/blog/replacing-simple-bank/
To me Japan is more like asian Switzerland.

The tidyness, amazingly punctual trains, mountains and general conservatism make both those countries stand out.
So if someone can write good code they cannot be malicious? Not sure we are using the same definition of trustworthy.
Err, LG, not Asus...
A common cause seems like a sufficiently cohesive identity; I don't see why voluntary political affiliations should be excluded. They were not very clandestine, I agree. Their antipathy to wearing masks has been rather a boon to law enforcement, although even the ones who were masked were fairly easily identified later.
The Moderation War Is Coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse
It's also amazing for analytics.

"What are people not finding on our engine?"

grep -F '!g' log
The Guardian is very careful in which statistics it will report.
It's quite a redemption story. 20 years ago Bill Gates was reviled as one of the most evil people in technology. He was a bully and a thief, and crushed potential competitors for fun.

And then his mom told him he needs to start giving it away. And he said, "how can I make money if I'm giving it away". And she told him "you can give away what you already made while you make more to give away".

And then he started the foundation.
The Epistemology of Deep Learning (Yann LeCun, 2019)
Slippery slope is a fallacy when no evidence that the slope is actually slipper is presented. If someone were to, for example, highlight unchecked incentives Twitter has to further censor then that'd be a valid argument.
And even without an SDR radio, you can head over to https://adsbexchange.com and explore aircraft live in your area!
I think they missed a comma after the initial "No".
You can't, someone will always be complaining about "X didn't get banned, buy Y did".

The only solution is for Twitter to say "You all are right, our moderation policy isn't fair it leans to the left more than the right, but we think Twitter is a great product that provides a lot of value. If you disagree and want to leave, we understand"
That's it in a nutshell though, would in the US/Canada actually snicker because someone was talking with a Texan accent? It's a bit ridiculous.
USGS Earthquakes
Same thing could be said about the Internet. You are leaving digital traces and fingerprints all the time. Are you going to stop using the Word Wide Web?
Yeah, and I have no problem with people using what they want and ignoring what they want at their tables. I just think that a lot of the people who complain that 5e boosts PC power more than they like are underusing new core features and options that counter that effect, and in the core exhaustion seems to be a common piece that gets overlooked or underused (avoiding encumbrance has been common, AFAICT, from the earliest days of D&D, and I don’t think 5e substantially alters the impact of ignoring that.)
From the affidavit: https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2021/01/Gang-Chen-D...

> In one communication, CHEN instructed the colleague to remove any information identifying him (CHEN) as a PRC Talent Plan participant from documents concerning the proposed thermal energy project.

Most of the evidence is about activities he "failed to disclose", but this evidence supports the more serious allegation that he willfully acted to hide certain activities.
That’s definitely not true for TLS. Your certificate private key should never leave your possession, outside of a few narrow exceptions (Amazon’s ACM comes to mind). The normal process is to send a certificate signing request, which your CA then signs and returns.
> 1. no static typing. With typescript having taken off, and now even python and ruby becoming more and more feasible to use in production with static typing, switching to a new dynamic language is a hard sell for me.

While it's true that Elixir is a dynamic language, there's much less "magic" compared to Ruby or PHP, the language server has good autocompletion and warnings.
How is there no lock-in?
except you aren't being asked to remove everything that offends anyone, you are specifically being asked to remove this one instance of holocaust imagery. You are hiding behind a slippery slope fallacy to avoid doing this. You can remove the image then immediately go back to your policy of not removing things. see how easy that was? And as for people complaining about archive.org, can't you just ignore them like you are ignoring this? Your logic doesn't hold up. You either don't want to admit you were wrong or you just don't want to remove the image period. That's your decision but you should have the guts to stand behind it.
Yea that’s pretty much the only way. Mercy Ships is a major charity that does similar. And to the commenter who mentioned the trump foundation, it was charged with fraud, fined $2M, and dissolved. So probably not a great example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Ships
I haven't seen enough direct evidence to attribute that.

It's very plausible but I don't want to lump independent groups together.

In the same way that many leftist groups really don't like each other and it's probably wrong to lump them together.
The most likely episode is #220, "Testosterone": https://www.thisamericanlife.org/220
Yes I get it, I remember the day I told my grandfather that I would never scratch a living out of dirt, that I respected him for doing it but that the reality of the world has changed and that it was time for him to sell before he lost everything. That was a hard day, it was his life, and his fathers life. His father and his grandfather moved to Florida and homesteaded the land, it was a hard pill to swallow, but he knew there was no future in it for the future family given the realities that it is the way America was aligning farming resources. I totally get it that is why I convinced him to sell the land, but it sucks when you are on the receiving end of policy set to realign a segment of the American economy, that being said, there are always going to be winners and looser of policy decisions, I am happy with the way life turned out, he was proud of me and the path I choose before he passed.

I was just noting that there was a human toll that happened for all this farm land to be rolled up by the conglomerates. Not implying that it was the wrong decision on the larger geo-political scale.

I would like to see the return of small farms if someone can make it viable, I would not trade the life I lived as a child for anything, but as I said above, I will never again scratch a living out of dirt, unless it is absolutely necessary for my and my families survival.
I think it correlates, but I don't know if one causes the other.

I've been hearing of these kind of "testosterone levels are declining" studies for a while. For a looong time I've been perplexed by modern males -- they just don't seem like people I grew up with. Physical forms are much softer, voices lighter -- lots of either ectomorphs or endomorphs. For me, these studies provide an "Ah, so that must be it" way of seeing it. At least it's a plausible explanation.

Related to this, we need to bring the word "twerp"[1] back into the vernacular.

[1] https://www.wordnik.com/words/twerp
I use !sp (Startpage). It's basically a Google proxy, if I understand correctly.
And of course so many packages are just adding basic functionality to JavaScript that is available in most other languages' standard libraries.
Machine Learning and Data Science in JavaScript
At least in the EU, it sounds like this should be in violation of the ePrivacy directive (aka the cookie law).

There’s an open complaint [0] about the IDFA on the same basis...

[0] https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaints-against-apples-trac...
Lower testosterone probably causes fat gain too. It wouldn’t surprise me if we eventually find out that something environmental is causing both of those phenomena.
I was a big fan of Gygax magazine that came out a few years back. Unfortunately it was shut down due to a trademark dispute.

http://gygaxmagazine.com/who-we-are/
Paired with artificial odors coming out of the air vents to whet your appetite.
So she sets the record straight over 20 years later, only after being appointed by Biden, that she was only pretending to be racist. Yeah... sure...

Would you accept this statement from a white supremacist?

Again, we need consistent rules against racism. Otherwise you're opening the door to racists and extremists on both sides.
Alpine Linux is a system which appeals to those who want to know how their system works (and to be responsible for it as such). If you don't want to know how your system works, and don't want to be responsible for it, then much of Alpine's value proposition is lost compared to other distros.
Is that a Node specific problem though? I have elixir packages up on Hex that I haven't maintained or looked at in years. In fact, I'm pretty sure they are buggy but since no one is using them I'm not worried about it.
The Lightning network in conjunction with Tor will make tracing of transactions nearly impossible in the future.

However right now the technology to properly anonymize bitcoin already exists via coinjoin wallets. The most mature implementation so far is the Samourai Wallet using Whirlpool.

If you are doing it right there is no danger using Bitcoin at all. In fact it might even less dangerous than any other method of anonymous transactions including physical delivery of Gold.
> very much doubt fitbit has any tech or products google couldn't make themselves in a few months.

Considering how absolutely dreadful Google's hardware (pixel line, pixel watch) is nowadays, and how unfinished all of their software is, no, Google would not be able to make any of that in a few months.
The way she did it is not obvious. I hope this becomes mandatory in drivers education.

This is how most people think its done (if they know about it at all) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ltheqCQnMQ

Which is not easy at all, specially with a bruised shoulder from the seat belt.
A large question, however, is why gender is relevant on a CV...
>Nothing precludes you from doing integer arithmetic in a dynamic language.

You would be surprised. The second you use pandas with a custom data type (let alone any other library you'd want to use) it can randomly auto convert it to a float. Furthermore identifying when it randomly converts the type on you is a pain.

>so floating point basically must be used.

Quants tend to use fixed precision types. It is like a float in every way, except base 10 instead of base 2 so there is no floating point error.
That makes sense, given how much statistics they throw at you. Logarithmic scales, R numbers, per-100000 values, percentages etc. That's on top of all the numbers you must remember to relativise the daily news.

I wonder how much of it I'd grasp if I hadn't used maths since high school.
If he built a city on it then it would be the 15th biggest city in the US by land area. That makes it sound like quite a lot. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...)
Commonly I have a bunch of old tabs on the left, then I might open some tabs on the right and want to clear out all the older tabs.

Maybe "move all tabs to the left to another window." would be another nice operation.
Yeah I would hope they adjusted for work. I'm a SWE working remotely until the pandemic is over and the guy at my house today fixing my plumbing is in people's homes every day. It's pretty unfair/easy comparison that doesn't really say much if you don't adjust for work.
Pablo Escobar’s Pet Hippos Could Take over Colombia’s Rivers
That's just a PR job.
Glossary: Democracy
At least as of a couple of months ago, the lion's share of growth in the S&P 500 was from a few tech stocks, everyone else seemed mostly stagnant. You might respond that stagnant seems to be an overvalue, and I'd agree except that the fed has been pumping money into the markets in huge amounts.
i think there may be some conflating of "very powerful" (?) with monopoly here.

it does not take much effort to realize that twitter is not a monopoly in the space of speech platforms. it's not clear to me that twitter is particularly unique as a speech platform: blogs minimally could serve this role, as could mastodon. more controversially perhaps: facebook/instagram.

contrast that with a situation where you literally /cannot/ get utilities delivered to your house because the utility company doesn't like you: seems like a fairly stark difference to me.
You really think right-wingers are too stupid to grasp the concept of the virus?