skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fat acceptance" in the US in 2021 is like being a global warming denier.

You don't need to be Kylie Jenner but when you look around and see everyone around you is fat that is a "normalization of deviance" that is bad for you but good for people who sell diabetes medication.
DDG was pretty much evoled to the point where if doesn’t yield a good result, most likely neither will Google.
This isn’t so much a counter-argument as it’s a disjointed muddy-the-waters statement. Muffin recipes...?

Of course a paragraph-long comment won’t provide a rigorous critique of the media. And I might disagree with that commenter with regards to “fake news”, since you can go a long way without outright lying (omission being one tactic). In any case, there are long-form critiques of this phenomena if one is interested. And they’re not crackpot theories.
Now if only I could make money doing two chicks at the same time..
Hopefully this means a youtube music app for the versa watches.
> Should they really be penalized before being convicted?

People often land in prison before they are convicted. Also restricting a company that appears to be a bad actor to prevent additional harm on society seems only sensible.
I use DDG as well. I use FF as my primary personal browser, I have installed uBlock Origin and Enhancer for YouTube, https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube, and I now never get any ads on YouTube.
I think it’s they’re intrinsically baked together as YouTube has had to license music for all those YouTube music videos, which are hugely popular as you could imagine.
I wonder why?...
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> Maybe consider paying your people more

Salaries are actually pretty good. Not facebook salaries, but good enough and certainly above average. The company can already get very proefficient, experienced developers in Ruby and JavaScript.

> moving to a better company?

I certainly could. But how does this solve the business problem I'm talking about?

The reason I'm not moving to another place and instead helping transition back to normality is because I actually like the company, and my coworkers, and I like to focus on building our product and solve the real problems the company was created for.

Elixir can be a great tech (the best) for certain kind of problems. In our case (and any other "CRUD" like web application like 80% of the internet) is an expensive, distracting toy.
Not a fan of "pirated" as the descriptive word for what Sci-Hub does. I'm sure some of it fits that description. On the other hand, a fair amount of these papers are funded with taxpayer dollars, and shouldn't be hidden behind paywalls in the first place.
Local backups can be completely encrypted (used to be done by iTunes, don't know if they've changed that now though?)

ISTR that local backups would contain more than the icloud backups as well - there are some things that won't be backed up into the cloud?
Can confirm: it still does.
There are content blockers for safari.
I find the notion of owning scientific knowledge kind of unsettling...
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Dasung just announced a 25" e-ink monitor, and it looks pretty good. Expected to be pricey though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/kjvsoj/dasung_just_re...

They also make a 13" you can buy now, I think.
Yeah, I would probably be in the US for at least 9 months out of the year, and I’ll take a closer look at the tax implications when the time approaches.
I went all-in on Dropbox Paper to write up some research I had been working on for my PhD. I ended up having to split into three Paper files(?) because the lag on each keyboard press degenerated to 500-1000ms or worse. I eventually realised it was completely unusable and ported my work back to traditional word processing software. My supervisor proclaimed it a fad, and he was right.
How fast will I lose weight?
If your aim is to losing weight and get a flat belly you must have to adopt something that is very different: In some cases, miracles only happen if and only if you let them happen. If we asked any woman or man a question that from which part of their body they are not satisfied, a good percentage would answer that dissatisfied part of their body is their belly fat. If you think that, there is not any product that makes you fit again so, your thinking is totally wrong? There is a product that helps you To doing that it's "The Okinawa Flat Belly Tonic".
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Ruby really isn't becoming static though. Most code used by Rubyists (e.g Rails apps) is likely to remain dynamic.
I use it to but I use a manual blocker with my own lists. I can't find a way to block YouTube ads.
What will you move from YouTube to?
My nit with DDG is that I like to run my iPhone in Dark Mode, but I really don’t like the dark mode rendering of DDG.

I always browse in Private mode, so switching the session to light mode is totally unhelpful.

I wonder if anyone else runs into this and found a workaround?
Raku is crammed with enough good, original ideas about programming languages that I would compare it to the "learning Lisp" meme in that it will probably reveal something new to you.

But as for usage, it's mostly legacy Perl codebases, which are much less interesting - Python and Ruby basically cover the same bases.
Plenty of people saying it already but I’ll throw my voice into the mix too. Been using DDG for about a year straight across all devices and I honestly forgot I wasn’t using Google. I have never been unable to find anything I was after, well except for some unusual Hail Mary queries with exact phrase matches, but those are my fault and likely wouldn’t return anything from Google search either.

If you’re on the fence... it’s literally free and completely painless to switch out the default search engine in every browser I have used at least, I recommend trying it out!
Yeah if you just read all these articles about Japan, you'd think that all young men beat off to hentai all day at their parent's home, and that everyone is visiting "love hotels", or buys used panties from vending machines. The media loves to spin up an image of Japan to naive westerners by exaggerating its quirks.

It reminds me of HN. If you read HN too much, you might think that you can only write applications in Rust and Go using K8s, no JavaScript but Typescript only, but in reality the vast majority of apps being written are using boring technologies to implement CRUD around a relational database.
Out of curiosity since it is in June, is the next batch in person?
>With isolation becoming a major issue during the pandemic, I'm not surprised people want to hire someone with these skills to just listen to their ideas and stories.

I think you make a great point, but at the same time it feels like you're also describing conventional talk therapy. And if you have good insurance, it's free. If you don't, it still doesn't break the bank.

I frequently joke with my friends that I'm only paying for a therapist to have someone to vent to. I pay them, and they listen my bullshit without judging me. (There's more to it than that of course, but it's a lighthearted way to suggest therapy to someone you feel could benefit.)

I've even found myself rambling about side project ideas with my therapist, which was surprisingly helpful when they pushed back against the inevitable "but it's a stupid idea of course, so I probably wont do anything with it."
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It looks like the data's corrupted too. There's one book on the front page called "Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddw". Unless it's some kind of crypto challenge.
A close personal friend is also a good stand-in for this type stuff.
> Yes, and don't forget the 24 hour news cycle with its focus on getting outrage and attention through fear.

Yeah, social media is just one in a series of possibly misguided techno-social "innovations," and it probably won't be the last.

My understanding is that groups like the Amish don't reject technology outright, but adopt it selectively based on its effects on their society (and will even roll back things they've adopted if they're not working out). Wider society probably would benefit from a dose of that kind of wisdom right now, after decades of decades of "because we can"-driven "innovation."
hunting for the jetpack man i guess. In general with jetpacks and drones of all sizes, including human carrying, the airspace is to become more lively and entertaining with coming years - for example police in Japan is using drones with nets to catch drug carrying drones, so the drug traffickers started to use drones with nets to catch those police drones...
A single political campaign spent $211k advertising on Parler after the election
Hey lawyers of HN - would greatly appreciate if you could fact check this and tell me if there is a campaign finance violation here.
> note that it's not that they're in the military, it's that they're too close and invested

My strong impression has been that the Japanese military in the 1930s was a catastrophically-extreme illustration of Dunning-Kruger syndrome when it came to understanding international affairs and in particular understanding the psychology and industrial capacity of the United States.

(Admiral Yamamoto was a noteworthy exception: Having spent considerable time in the U.S, he strongly favored friendly relations with the U.S. and opposed going to war. When he was overruled by the militarists in the Army, he planned Pearl Harbor and Midway as a roll of the dice for what he judged to be Japan's only hope of success, namely by striking hard blows and trying for a quick negotiated peace. It didn't work out that way.)
What about the spot it started out in? A watch that keeps track of some vital signs. I don't want an Android-compatible smartwatch. I don't want a smartwatch at all. I want a simple "health" device.

I got a new fitbit for Christmas because I couldn't even initialize it without installing their app on my smartphone. I don't want their app on my phone. I don't want it to report all my info to their servers. I don't want it to have access to my gps location, which is might be reporting in. My old fitbit doesn't need any of that at all, and I don't see the need for a new one (that would meet my needs) to, either.
Please stop using HN for ideological flamewar. It's tedious, endlessly repetitive, not in the least bit interesting, and does endless damage to this place. You've done it a lot in the past and we ban accounts that keep doing it, regardless of which ideology they are battling for.

Also, please don't break the site guidelines with downvote-baiting and cheap swipes like "the ultra left-leaning HN crowd", which is trivially false—people just make these generalizations up based on what they dislike, and there are plenty of people making up exactly the opposite generalization.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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“Twitter hosts a #KillTrump hashtag. In all of the glorious English language there is no clearer, plainer, or shorter way to call for violence than the word kill followed by someone’s name. But there it is...And this isn’t new, back in June the hashtag #AssassinateTrump was bouncing around the website with gems like “Someone take this clown out NOW.” That tweet is still up.”

I worry about the ability to evenhandedly censor at scale, but the content examples above should be pretty easy to automate the cleansing of if one wanted to. I’m curious how many would bet (and how) regarding Twitter’s reaction if #killbi*den or assassination-focused alternatives became a thing this spring.

We don’t need to speculate about dissemination of ideas - hypotheses harmful to Trump (Russian collusion) are left alone for years, while hypotheses critical of Biden (grifter schemes involving his son) get prominently deplatformed, not just modded with a disclaimer. Both were legitimate news stories, both warranted the public interest, and both involved government investigation.

To be clear, I’m all for Twitter’s right to do this. Wholeheartedly.

I chaff at the promoted perception that they are even-handed in toeing a moral line simply because a) it seems demonstrably false with even casual examination by an honest broker, and b) it forestalls conversation about their behavior as a market actor.

The bigger concern here isn’t Twitter’s own social alignments, but the barriers they and other gatekeepers evidently can enforce to bar competition. It’s interesting that the market competition in this age seems to be aligning with a competition of ideas, because otherwise I’m not sure this would ever come to a head.

To the extent that there’s a public policy issue that needs examining here, I think it’s somewhere in that ball of string: section 230 probably assumed that the Internet would not be run (for all intents and purposes of being an accessible public forum) by oligopolies: nor that so few organizations would have such massive vertical and horizontal leverage. I don’t tend to think that section 230 reform is a good idea, but am inclined to think that this week’s display of power begs for some trust busting.

So what happens when the targets of such examination have traded staff with the political administration, and have such stratospheric piles of cash? The laws are in place - it’s hard to call Twitter, et al innocent monopolies anymore.
> What does Amazon care if Twitter does well?

Twitter just signed a multi-year contract with Amazon AWS [1] (sorry for the source, but this is really unreported by quite a lot of mainstream media):

> "Last month, Defendant Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS”)

> and the popular social media platform Twitter signed a

> multi-year deal so that AWS could support the daily

> delivery of millions of tweets. AWS currently provides

> that same service to Parler, a conservative microblogging

> alternative and competitor to Twitter," the filing reads.

With regards to:

> Isn’t the simplest explanation here that people are

> covering their ass?

Kinda. Big tech is under serious political pressure to enact these changes to remove any platform that Trump may use. I heard (although haven't verified) that Trump made an account on Parler and just a few hours later every service that Parler depend upon abandoned them with minimal notice. This is servers, phone API, lawyers, etc - the entire stack.

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/parler-sues-amazon-an...
Does the rate limit only apply to non-Democrats?

I don’t think they were trying to take over the government themselves, but they clearly wanted to disrupt and interfere with the election process and keep their regime in power, despite losing the election.
I expected this, but the game I didn't sign the contract yet.
I want to like Alpine because it's so light, but realistically you can only ever use it in Docker / VMs or for very specific locked-down needs.

The musl libc makes it a bad choice for general purpose desktop use (look at the number of hacks required to get some version of VSCode running on it for example).
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One party system

You're going to have to explain that one. Right now I just have to assume you mean "one party controls all three branches of government", in which case, it's not the fault of Democrats that the GOP turned into assclowns and got voted out.
"Counterfeit goods"? Sci-Hub is giving us the real deal unlike these for-profit publishers.
One of the failure modes I'm aware of is people staying up past midnight and thinking of that as 'yesterday'. You had a giant bowl of ice cream and a cup of green beans today.

As anyone who has ever had a morning surgery or even been friends or pet owner with someone who has had one, your body doesn't know 'yesterday', it only knows '12 hours ago'.
For the purposes of making a decision like this, justifiability in court seems like a relatively remote worry. The shitstorm itself, I'm guessing, would be the more immediate concern. Few people in a position to make a decision like this would have neutral feelings about the prospect of a swarm of federal investigators giving them the white collar equivalent of a body cavity examination in order to suss out whether their intentions were pure.
Yes, the person who committed it was a high school teenager at the time. Maturity and good taste isn't generally associated with high schoolers. It was tasteless. And it was reverted.

My family is full of holocaust survivors. My grandmother passed through Auschwitz. 10 of her 12 siblings did not.

I am fairly heavily involved in 9front. I have never had any issues with anyone in that project -- certainly none to do with antisemitism.
Well, neither "caused" those events per see, they were just places where people gathered and talked about doing them and riled each other up.

That's one of my frustrations with this: these issues should be dealt with by police and governments and society as a whole. The total failure of those leaves us looking to Big Tech firms to do things they were never designed to do (change human nature, police speech AND make a profit). Things they really can't do without collaboration and intrusive behaviour. But enough of my hair splitting...

Re the percentages, Any platform over a certain size will have racists (and pedophiles and other illegal or undesirable users). The question isn't whether someone on Facebook is being racist. The question is whether Facebook encourage it and whether they effectively moderate it when it is reported/discovered.

Facebook is huge and has much less racism etc than Parler did exactly because they ban it and mod it. They're not perfect, but they're making an effort. That is all you can expect from a platform that allows user content.

Parler encouraged and refused to moderate the same content. That's how it grew from zero users up. That's how it marketed itself. It could have moderated, it removed all sorts of legal content that didn't fit its brand. But it's taken little to no action on violent right wing groups. Quite the opposite, it's encouraged and courted them.

Percentage measures are a measure of the effectiveness of the mods and the actions of the people running the platform and that's what we can reasonably expect. Absolute measures are at least partly just down to size of platform.

The also percentage matters because parler is small right now. If we ignore it because it's "only a night of rioting" what happens when parler has 330mil users like twitter? Or 2.7bn users like FB? You'll get a lot more than 1 genocide out of a mega-parlar...

Density also matters. If I browse reddit, Facebook, twitter and parler randomly, how long before I see crazy conspiracy theories or calls to violence? That's what's concerning here as well: echo Chambers. All the others are much broader, but on parler you just got a very right wing, fact free and urgent set of inputs. That's much more likely to lead to someone being radicalised than the same amount of BS spread over a much bigger collection of cake recipes, kitten pics and funny gifs. That's the other reason percentages (a density measure) matter.

At least that's how I understand it.

Back to my soap box for a moment: I think we have a real problem with people who are not used to social media not having any BS filter. Thats the root cause of both the riots and the Burmese genocide (I assume that what you refer to, correct me otherwise).

We don't have a solution to that. Facebook et al tried to solve it by dilution and moderation. Parler saw it as an opportunity to profit off of and lean into. Those are 2 different business models morally even if its a difference of degree rather than ultimate outcome.
I was unsure if every ODE solver was able to be differentiated through. The "some" was me trying to avoid making a blanket statement about all, when I wasn't sure.

Sorry for the confusion.
> Pretty sure expats are included in Gini calculations.

I meant European nationals living in the US. Pretty sure the salary distribution would be different between "Software Engineers in France" and "French Software Engineers" as the second includes all expats living in the Bay Area...

> I should also say, just because you raise money in the bay doesn't mean you have to run your business in the bay. Should you choose to do so remotely, you'll like take a bit of a discount, but it's worth mentioning this year's YC class was entirely remote.

Had there not been a global pandemic would that have been the case?
The wealth transfer to Bezos and Zuckerberg in 2020 has been terrifying. Bezos has crossed 200 billion!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/08/26/wor...

In general, US billionaires have gained over 1 trillion while small-businesses have perished
https://www.statista.com/chart/22068/change-in-wealth-of-bil...

You can put considerable blame on those democratic governors and mayors who give shutdown orders to small businesses but allow major retailers to remain open
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/tale-two-pandemics...
https://azbigmedia.com/business/covid-small-business-impact-...
I guess they mean that:

- number of software engineers in the US: X
- number of software engineers in HN: Y
- number of software engineers working for FAANG-like companies: N

Where X >>>> Y >> N. So, yes, I also think that everyone here can't get a job paying 300K or higher not because we are not skilled enough but by simple math.
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What had Sci-Hub talked about on their feed? Who followed it & can report in?

This seems like the ban may well have been because of who Sci-Hub is, not what they said. Which is an interesting complication to this story of what content/who companies opt to host.
It tends to happen any time something becomes trendy. Data science has/had a lot of hype over the last decade, and people seem to have an inherent tend to want trendy things to fail. Combined with that, you have a bunch of people hopping on the data science bandwagon, so you get a lot of grifters, snake oil salesmen, or simply individuals whose output is poor quality. Seems to have created a feedback loop, where there is always a new example of some AI solution failing, or a data science initiative that didn't work out that everyone can point at and say "See! I always knew this trend was dumb!".

Reality is that data science is here to stay. It's coming out of the honeymoon period, and things may never be as hyped up as it has been the last decade, but that's probably a good thing for the field. Everyone will probably move on to hating the next up and coming thing. I have a hunch it could be something in data engineering because, while not exactly new, it is absolutely the next "data science" in terms of demand, and with products like Snowflake having so much hype behind them, it seems the backlash will be inevitable.
I love HN for this, thank you for teaching me about contrast space in a vuln thread!
Nope, just in Welsh. Sounds like it's about health effects of exercise and drinking?
This is clearly overstated. Some nuance would be appreciated.