skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you might be looking for in this thread. Just also download the 2010 annual manually to get everything. https://ia800204.us.archive.org/29/items/Dungeon_Magazine_An...

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wget "https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_$j/Dungeon_Magazine_$j.pdf"
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I really want to know more about the usecase of having to store SSH key on your watch.
And then COVID happens and people want to express a legitimate concern about taking a hastily approved vaccine, but can’t.

And then some politician claims ancestry from Holocaust survivors to score political points, but the details seem questionable... only you’re not allowed to question whether this person’s story is real.

These issues are never, ever clear cut enough to make all discussion of truth illegal.
The Washingtonians part was added by the OP after I made my comment. Originally it was a comparison of CA with European states only.
They aren’t against free speech, they are irrelevant to the discussion. Is a bartender kicking out a rowdy patron against free speech?
Yes, the tide is turning now... who came up with the term "data scientist" anyway? It's a made up profession. If you need someone who understands statistics, get a statistician, or maybe a mathematician. If you need someone that designs and writes computer programs, get a computer programmer. But a "data scientist"? No, thanks.
But they received no gratitude at all while sending endless requets.
It is about the mindset that needs to change for the SWE salaries to increase. I was working for a world leader in mobile space. The company was located in a place where there are lot of startups, big world leading local companies, lot of investment activity, US companies etc. The salaries are pittance in that area even though it is a major place of tech and innovation.

I will give you an example of what is the mindset of people(mostly HR) here. There were major changes going to happen at this company I was working for(we didn't know at that time, but came to know much later). The usual trick HR plays in these types of cases is to increase some perks to keep all employees "happy" so that they don't leave the company. So the HR of this company announced a perk via email, that the company will be providing "fruit bowl" to employees every day in the morning. Everyone was excited as there was no other means of eating at the office except for a small vending machine that delivered limited supply of sandwiches and a small coffee machine(did I mention that this company was a world-leader?). The day was announced for the "fruit bowl" perk. So on the day of the perk, when people came to the office they saw that a small bowl of fruits was kept in the "kitchen". There were 2-3 bananas, 2 pears, 1-2 kiwifruit, one apple and a bunch of grapes. One senior engineer who was with the company almost since its inception sent an angry email to the HR and CC'd it to the rest of employees at the office asking them how on earth this fruit bowl was going to be shared between 50+ employees at the office. The HR's reply was(again CC'd to everyone in the office) "But there are grapes"!

And I am not kidding you, I saw this type of "perks" being advertised in the country where I am. The perks are something like this:

"We provide our employees with lunch on Fridays" or "We provide our Employees lunch on first Thursday on the month" etc. What are engineers, beggars? But that is common in companies that are founded in the country where I stay. When I moved to an US founded company in my country, not only did my salary increase substantially(by local salary standards) but the perks were something like this:

Breakfast, Lunch, Pizza if had to stay late, unlimited supply of coffee, onsite postal service, onsite laundry, haircut, manicure, shoe-polish, ironing service, on-site shop for snacks, payment for car fuel(extra pay if the car was environment friendly), 24-7 access to free gym at the Marriot, discounted shopping coupons and the list goes on. And this was not FAANG!

The reaon this is happening is because(I learnt this indirectly), the local companies collaborate, in partnership with recruitment agencies, behind the scene to not only keep salaries low but to share the information with HR that someone is looking for a job or has interviewed at some other company.

In the US, if I am not mistaken, there was a very famous litigation that forced US companies to stop collaborating in artificially keeping salaries down and deliberately not hire from certain companies. This is not there in Europe I suppose.
History of Tcl (2009)
Connecticut probing Amazon’s e-book deals with publishers
Expose a Rust Library to Other Languages (Esp. C++)
Because they want to hide where the smoke is coming from at all costs if it's a fraud.

They had the investigation on hold for a few years.
Former Workers Allege YouTube GameXplain Was Exploitative Workplace
I saw a lecture on psychology 101-- I think it was the free online one from Stanford-- where the professor said the main benefit of talk therapy is just having someone who cares about your problems for 45 minutes.

So he what he is doing is therapy.
> Your sources need work. The salient point (defensive gun use) is not substantiated by your linked report as it specifically mentions the CDC may not collect this data

This is an odd claim, given that the "salient point" seems to be a verbatim quotation of the linked report, which contains further citations...

> Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by
criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to
more than 3 million per year (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about
300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the
other hand, some scholars point to radically lower estimate of only
108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997).
We're a company of about 12 FTEs. Nobody here filed for unemployment, yet we've seen 5 fraudulent unemployment claims (for people that still work here) come across our HR department that creepily accurate information. What gives? And are those claims included in these stats?
At one point Wine DID work under WSL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603451
>Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple.

That's more of a problem with who you choose to communicate with and their security practices than a problem with Apple. The same counterparty could also have a weak/non-existent passcode on their phone, or is jailbroken.
I've suspected this for years- twitter and reddit are especially manipulated. You don't even need an email for reddit and it's mostly browsed by Americans. You'd have to have your head in the sand to not think it's manipulated like crazy. They're huge juicy targets with incredibly low barriers.

Anytime I'd try to bring the conversation back toward civility I'd be downvoted to oblivion.

I find it's best to separate news from social.
Startup Growth: lessons learned from science
I think the problem is more in microtargeting than in anything else.

Once upon a time, advertisers would struggle to create an ad campaign that had broad appeal, that was disseminated broadly. Think Budweiser Frogs and other superbowl commercials. Now a campaign can be targeted to divorced white men over 40 whose ex's have remarried and consist of allusions to the false fact that jerks like your ex's new husband drink Miller, therefore you should drink Bud.

What is bad is with A_B testing, machine learning and low cost targeting, the process of creating those campaign gets easier. When applied to politics it gets even worse. Because now you can target your racists message to just the racists, and your wholesome family message to soccer moms, safe in the knowledge that these contradictory messages will never been seen by the wrong audience thanks to Facebook et. al.

So of course ads for tactical gear are going to show up next to insurrection posts by the kookitariat and ads for homesafety will show up next to cat picture posts by soccer moms - even if it is the same company selling the same products.
> Ahh see. There's your issue. Assuming these people are arguing in good faith.

Comments like this add nothing and degrade the conversation. The point of this site is conversation, not muck throwing.
Do you have any suggestions for where to start looking for good places to apply that don't suffer from this?
Agreed, there's a difference in degree between randos with no reach rage-tweeting into the void, and Trump being read by millions.

That said, if they're going to say Trump's tweets are finally a problem, there's definitely other public figures with thousands/millions of followers who are also tweeting messages of violence, and it sounds like continued crickets on that front.
The worst part is that there is nothing you can do if the person you are texting has enabled iCloud backups. There is also no notification when you start the conversation that it is not e2e protected anymore.
On a second read that sentence became even funnier.
Oh, yes, that seems a hard problem. But with sufficient effort (cloud patterns, parked cars, other people in the image) there is still a lot of information to extract. Especially if other people were taking exim-tagged photos in the same time and place and putting them on instagram.
Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
The later reincarnation of Dungeon and Dragon magazines that coincided with the release of D&D 4th edition were exactly this, you could purchase a D&D Insider (iirc) subscription that included these two magazines and some online tools for things like character creation.

Sadly those both ended with 4th edition, but just yesterday Arcadia magazine was launched through Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mcdm (I'm not involved, just a fan!)
>I am curious, is it possible to do an icloud equivalent backup without using icloud? Perhaps with a different backup app, nas, etc?

itunes.
You can learn from history the same way you can learn how to be a mogul from Bill Gates. That is to say, not much other than general principles and that you have to find your generation's big idea on your own. Certainly nothing that will guarantee anything.
In specific research areas such as biomedical science it is certainly tricky to get involved because of the data governance / confidentiality issue... so we have to do both roles to some extent
America's Cup 2021: New graphics to be used after knights' copyright stoush
Ask HN: Why did Apple disable the 'Presidential Alert' system on iOS?
This was noticed by my wife and it is bizarre and one could argue dangerous if it is fully crippled. She was changing her Amber Alert notification settings when she noticed one alert type was completely missing on her iPhone. I haven't seen much news about it till recently. I'm curious if anyone else has more insight into this. I think it's dangerous if they've fully crippled the service as it could be used during a real national emergency and leave iOS users exposed and unaware to take precautions.
> This software is working exactly as it was designed to.

Exactly this is why I think micro targeting should simply be banned by governments.

I mean:

- It's fundamental meant to manipulate people.

- It's easy to abuse and not really possible to control.

- Discriminatory micro advertisement, weather on a gender, race, religion or similar basis are pretty common for affected people, but at the same time hard to detect for Facebook or any control organization.

- Category combinations which indirectly target addicts are repeatedly used to target them with ad's promoting what this people are addicted to, e.g. gambling.

- *The value it provides for the consumer is questionable.*

- *The value it provides for a ethnically acceptable free marked are questionable.*

- As far as I can tell the only ones noticeable profiting (and as such majorly losing out from a ban) from it are such which act without any regard for the health and dignity/well being of the consumer and society in total (well and big ad platforms).
What's surprising to me is that people seem to think that the PsyOps stopped after the Iraq war.

That the Pentagon just decided "oh we're done with wars now, let's stop telling CNN/FOX/NYT what editorial content to push."

Anytime the mainstream media tries to drum up outrage I'm skeptical. That includes the narrative that Facebook/Twitter is the cause for social unrest and not the NYT/CNN/FOX.

The 2000s and were about manufacturing consent. The 2020s are about manufacturing outrage. You can say it's all about click-bait and getting eyeballs, but I'm skeptical this isn't the same people that started the Iraq war. They want civil unrest on purpose. People didn't want to live in a fascist society just because of Al Qaeda, so they needed a new enemy. So they tried to radicalize your gun-loving neighbor, dressed him up as QAnon Shaman, and now we have to live like 1984 because of him. It's absurd.
I don't want to see "legal but distasteful" content (and I would also add: annoying, boring, stupid, etc.)... and what I mean is that I don't want it to be shown to me... but I am okay if other people show it to each other.

So instead of some global moderator (whether it be one person, or some complicated "democratic" process) deciding globally what is okay and what is not, I want many bubbles that can enforce their own rules, and the option to choose the bubbles I like. Then I will only be concerned about how to make the user interface as convenient as possible, so that the options are not only hypothetically there, but actually easy to use also by non-tech users.
Adding Typesense to the list as an easier-to-use alternative to ElasticSearch: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

One thing to point out though is that Typesense, MeiliSearch (and Algolia) are designed for Instant Search experiences, and so hold the entire index in memory. So for petabyte scale data (like logs) it might be wasteful (and expensive) to store that size of data in memory. This is where ElasticSearch shines and of course comes with it the overhead of managing it.
What are the typical entry level Data Science/Engineering positions like? Are they available to fresh college or bootcamp graduates?
Exactly. Shifting the blame from trending pages to posters is just a way to blame users for opinions instead of platforms that spread them as fact. These websites want to be the problem and the solution.
Not everybody shares your sensibilities.
Again, without wishing to assume bad faith on your part, I find this very hard to believe.

If this was so prevalent, there would be many screenshots of the offending tweets used to prove that this hashtag was actually being used for making threats against Mike Pence.

Instead, all I have seen are screenshots of tweets discussing the chants made by the mobs who stormed the Capitol last week, as well as many tweets asking why this hashtag was there.

If can share some screenshots of a "page full of Tweets", or link to some evidence, then I will gladly take that onboard.
I come to HN for fairly civil conversation on difficult topics. If we can't do it here, I honestly don't know where else I can do that.

I agree that it's become a flame war, and IMO part of the issue is that at times people promote (up/down) vote based on agreement, and at other times people vote based on promoting a good conversation.

I really want to see two voting mechanisms, an I agree woot, and another button that indicates is a well constructed argument that I think deserves conversation and views because it will promote healthy conversation. I'm not convinced people would use these appropriately, maybe they sit behind a "vote" count or you only get 5 votes a day or something, IDK.

We've gamified agreement on these platforms, and I see things swing based on who shows up. I've seen my votes swing wildly based on what I'm interpreting as someone of a particular ideology come through.

Either way we need to gamify conversation and not agreement, I don't know how to do that, but I think HN would be a great place to experiment with that idea.
Not sure if you are a wine drinker, but the natural wines coming out of Auvergne are absolutely delicious!

Some of the most interesting wines in the world IMO.
Vitamin E is a group of chemicals, tocopherols and tocotrienols Many past studies have been poor in specifying the form used; some even used the synthetic version.

Most Multivitamins / Supplements will just be the alpha tocopherol form. But the gamma tocopherol form might be the more important one. You can get low quantities of tocotrienols from rice, but its not too practical because it will come along with some arsenic ;) Also, they should all be gotten in balance, not just one out of proportion to the others. One supplement that does this is Jarrow Famil-e but there are others.

Vitamin C is also tricky, its much more bioactive when present with certain bioflavanoids. So it might be best to get a lower dosage from fruits (like kiwis, which are high in Vitamin C) rather than a high dosage from supplement w/o bioflavanoids.

With respect to mitohormesis, the study mentioned above does not seem to indicate the proximity of antioxidant supplementation to the exercise in its methods section, it simply says:

" Participants in the antioxidant treatment groups (n=20 each, out of which n=10 were untrained and n=10 were pretrained) received 500 mg vitamin C (ascorbic acid, Jenapharm) twice a day and 400 IU vitamin E (RRR-/D--tocopherol, Jenapharm) once a day"

In my mind, I would not take antioxidants "near" exercise, within an 8 hour window (4 hours before / after), but it would be nice to get some clarifications on this.

I agree though, things are not so simple. Recently there was a story "Antioxidant-rich foods like black tea, chocolate, and berries may increase risk for certain cancers, new study finds". The theme is similar, antioxiandts gotten thorough the diet may short circuit your body's abilities.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-antioxidant-rich-food...
What else could you call it? You can't drop taxes on the wealthiest Americans who are seeing the lions share of wealth transferred to them and then have the government spend like a drunken sailor to try to keep the economy from tanking.

SOMEONE has to pay for those stimulus checks and it appears right now it's turning into a loan that our great grandchildren will bear the responsibility of so that Bezos and Co can see an extra 0 at the end of their net worth.
As I see it you need people who have shallow knowledge of many areas and deep knowledge of one area. That lets you have a group of experts but ones that know enough about other areas of expertise to work with those other experts.
I'm active with Mastodon and absolutely love its moderation model. In a nutshell:

- It's made up of a bunch of independent servers, or "instances". The common analogy here is to email systems.

- If you want to join the federation, stand up an instance and start using it. Voila! Now you're part of it.

- My instance has a lot of users, and I don't want to run them off, so it's in my own interest to moderate my own instance in a way that my community likes. Allow too much in without doing anything? They leave. Tighten it so that it starts losing its value? They leave. There's a feedback mechanism that guides me to the middle road.

- But my users can leave for greener pastures if they think I'm doing a bad job and think another instance is better. They're not stuck with me.

The end result is that there are thousands of instances with widely varied moderation policies. There are some "safe spaces" where people who've been sexually assaulted hang out and that have zero tolerance for harassment or trolling. There are others that are very laissez faire. There's a marketplace of styles to choose from, and no one server has to try to be a perfect fit for everyone.

I realize that this is not helpful information for someone who wants to run a single large service. I bring it up just to point out that there's more than one way to skin that cat.

(That final idiom would probably get me banned on some servers. And that's great! More power to that community for being willing and able to set policies, even if I wouldn't agree with them.)
This man is my hero.

He doesn't boast his credentials or nor indeed his work, such as it is. He is totally Zen about it.

Aspirational!
The network effect is strong. If I post a comment to stop using Chrome (since there are better alternatives and Chrome is a near monopoly) we already see how resistant to change we are.

If you order something, people don’t search for alternatives. If your tied into an eco system, you don’t move away from it.

Personally I actively try to support local businesses, use only non-monopolies out of principle.
> As application engineers build increasingly "stateless" code (e.g. pure functions, serverless deployments, etc), that state gets pushed elsewhere.

Exactly. You can't magically make a stateful problem stateless, you can merely move that state around. Sometimes moving state around means moving it somewhere that is appropriate and capable of expertly handling that data. But if you make those choices wrong, it makes every aspect of your application more complex.

UI programming tried going down this idea of stateless programming, and for a while it was trendy to do so stuff like redux. The problem is that UIs are state machines. That's not an analogy, that is a literal statement. And it is true of all UI's...it's just as true of the transmission lever in your car as it is for your saas dashboard. You can't program stateless UIs...they would cease to be a UI. So at best, you can move that state around. And with most of these solutions (eg. redux), you end up pushing that state into a massive global singleton, where even simple things like the state of a single radio button needs to be fed through dozens of tightly coupled components in order to "statelessly" render. And even worse, you lose the extremely helpful distinction between UI state and domain state, mixing them both together into a gigantic shit stew.
> the context & juxtaposition is the problem

This seems like an issue that cannot be solved (yet). No human editor would place insensitive adverts next to related content, and I think we're a way off ML knowing the myriad subtleties that could be involved.

A sibling content mentioned adding rules to stop this particular case in point, but that just sounds like an endless game of whack-a-mole.
You have already failed by posting this comment.
That's first line support not engineering
Yeah, I see what you see. People are delusional.

I have to laugh when I see people calling this an insurrection. I mean, did they see these larpers in their costumes?

A true insurrection would be scary and look much different. There would be hundreds if not thousands of dead people.

What we saw was a protest with a minority of crazies who broke into a shamefully defended capitol building. Which is why the chief is out of a job.
As usual on HN, Apple is always given the benefit of the doubt, where any article is interpreted in the strongest possible way in favour of Apple. Compare this to any article about Google, where anything they do is interpreted in the worst possible way for Google.

AMP was my favourite example. You could interpret AMP as Google ensuring a better experience for users, or as Google highjacking the web into a closed ecosystem to squeeze out competitors. HN threads about AMP almost always concluded that it was a terrible overreach by Google, anti-competitive, and bad for everyone. But an article suggesting that Apple maybe put the FBI ahead of users in this instance? Dismissed because OP is "inclined to believe."
This is a strawman of free market advocates. SOME monopolies are the outcomes of government intervention.
I reported the first tweet mentioned in the NYPost article.

This was about an hour ago, so I would expect it to take a few days before the tweet is removed.