skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Biden is a "communist," or "godless," or "anti-American." What do these statements actually mean?

They didn't attack Biden as being those things. They attacked Biden for being old, not entirely there, and weak barrier against the radical elements of the Democratic Party. For example Karen Bass, who was on Biden's VP shortlist, had a bunch of communist ties: https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/karen-bass-vice-presiden...

> First reported were her ill-chosen words upon the death of Fidel Castro in 2016, she opined, that “the passing of the Comandante en Jefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba.” Ouch! But politically survivable.

> Far more damaging was news that that Bass first visited the island while, in college, at age 19, in 1973 with the Venceremos Brigade, a group popular with leftwing student radicals and social progressives that organized and ferried Americans to Cuba to cut sugar cane and build homes—in defiance of the U.S. Embargo and policy. She would take eight trips with the Brigade during the 1970s alone

As to "anti-American" many on the left embraced taking the name of founding fathers off of school buildings. My magnet high school in Virginia is named after Thomas Jefferson and there has been an effort to rename it. Even Abraham Lincoln has been indicted (if not yet convicted): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/20/fac....

Taking Thomas Jefferson's name off a school building is a declaration of war to conservatives. They believe that civilization is a product of history and tradition and practice, not abstract principles. The idea you can "keep the good things Jefferson believed" while ditching the historical figure himself is something that makes no sense to them. It'd be like taking Jesus out of the Bible.

> You can argue that their feelings of economic greivance make sense--but their voting habits are a rejection of policies like universal healthcare (which would benefit the vast majority of them) because "socialism."

Trump voters already have healthcare. They're disproportionately likely to be folks who bear greater burdens under the ACA--like small business owners. Or the majority of people who are happy with their private health insurance.

More generally, the Republican Party is a coalition of social conservatives (some of whom are quite economically liberal) and economic conservatives. Voting Democrat wouldn't make any sense for them, especially because, as you observe, the Democratic Party is staunchly neo-liberal as well. I recall listening to interviews with Trump voters around Scranton (where Joe Biden was born). Folks were talking about how they were multi-generational Democratic voters, but were disillusioned by Democrats' support for NAFTA, etc. If Democrats chose to prioritize social liberalism and economic neo-liberalism it makes totally sense for those folks to vote Republican.
You jest (I assume), but it really is startling how this isn't treated like the health crisis it seems to be.

I come from a country with compulsory military service and there's regular talk about the health of young conscripts declining over the years. The solution by the government? Reduce the requirements for fitness so they can get the necessary number of men (not women of course).
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Slight correction: Sputnik V (and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine) uses cDNA as the genetic payload, not mRNA. The adenovirus injects the cDNA into the nucleus, where it is translated into mRNA, which migrates into the cytoplasm, where the rest is similar to Pfizer & Moderna.
I've heard that too, not that they're a cult so much as a kind of Live-Action Role-Playing that escaped into the real world. I don't know to what extent that's true, but it helps me try to answer one of the questions foremost on my mind, to wit: what the hell did these folks think they were going to do? What was the plan here?

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From the article you posted there's a line that seems particularly telling to me as an older person who does not use a smart phone:

> As Babbitt lay dying on the floor, her fellow members of the crowd pulled out their phones and began to film

Even in this media-saturated era, that seems particularly cold-blooded or rather disassociated. They didn't help, nor leave, they started taking video.
If users are using the DuckDuckGo mobile app or extension its baked in tracker blocker does block a lot of analytics tools so there is likely a large level of under reporting especially on the mobile side.
UK plumbing firm to make workers get vaccinations
Look up the system requirements for games released <= 2008, that should be enough.

Sys requirements for Half Life 2:

OS: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP/8.1.

Processor: AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.80 GHz.

Memory: 1 GB RAM.

Graphics: DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE)
DirectX: Version 8.1. (GeForce 4?)

Network: Broadband Internet connection.

Storage: 7 GB available space.
A flight all the way around greater LA while following freeways suggests a training mission. What they're training for is another issue.
Well the top comment mentioned far-right so that's probably why the parent dropped that. Separately, I don't think it was a productive comment.
I think you find this amazing, in large part, because in 2021 the American culture (and to an extent, the global culture) has equated wealth with corruption. If somebody has wealth, then they must have done something distasteful to get it. The wealthier they are, the more people they must have exploited to gain their wealth. So the logic goes.

This is wrong-headed but pervasive thinking. In reality, rich people are just people. Politicians are just people. Celebrities are just people. All people are corrupt to some degree, and some people are corrupt to a large degree.

It's easy for you to imagine a very wealthy person slipping into amoral hedonism, but I contend that their wealth has little to do with it. I once visited a rural Siberian village where a significant contingent of the older men wandered around town drunk. It was so commonplace that 10-year-olds in the community could tell you which of the men were angry drunks, and which ones could be led by the hand back to their homes. Those men lived on food rations from the government, and the first thing they would do when they got their ration of bread was to take it to the local convenience store and trade the bread for vodka. There are probably lots of reasons why someone would wallow in drunkenness for months at a time, but one reason is that they're just following whatever desires they have at any moment in time. Amoral hedonism isn't strictly a rich man's game.
All BTC privacy technologies will be opt-in, and all empirical evidence shows this doesnt work - both from a technical and sociological perspective. On the technical side, analysis is always much more difficult to stop than people think. In terms of people's behaviour, adoption is nearly impossible and services will ban or flag such transactions, if mining pools even mine the transaction.

Sure grandma can just practice output control (that I still struggle with after using BTC for 8+ years) and pay hundreds in fees for coinjoins with every transaction, problem solved /s

> The Lightning network in conjunction with Tor will make tracing of transactions nearly impossible in the future.

I only see papers finding flaws that prevent it from being private, and that people are struggling to get it to work even without thinking about privacy. Scaling is still a difficult and unsolved problem for now, lets not make absurd privacy claims alongside it. Relying on Tor is an issue in itself.
Building up to a usable desktop in Alpine is a good way to start gaining some of that knowledge.

I had a laptop for a while that I built up from alpine-extended to a pretty nice side machine, complete with Sway, vim, Rust, Firefox, and a couple others.
Gotcha. Have you exhausted your first and second degree LinkedIn or ex-coworker network? Most of the user interviews I've done (different domain) have stemmed from reaching out to acquaintances, including those I hadn't spoken to in several years. People are usually willing to give you 20 mins of their time.
Beware of buying a new ETF for a hot stock sector.
A baboon group lost its alpha males to illness from spoiled food. Researchers noted the remaining group developed more affectionate, communal behaviors as a result.

Perhaps our change in culture, teaching kids earlier to adopt a more thoughtful approach to interacting with others is creating less external stimulus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/no-time-for-bulli...
> One side trashes a bunch of cities, the other the capitol

First, both sides are mostly made up of non-violent people dedicated to their cause. Both sides can rightfully claim that a minority of "bad eggs" amongst them caused the violence.

But that's where the equivalency ends. We have to look at the cause itself.

It's quite a stretch to say that a group protesting police brutality (in the face of actual police brutality) is at all equivalent to a group seeking to overthrow a legitimate government (with zero evidence to back their claims).

It's not the same ballpark. It ain't even the same fucking sport.
I started my own TIL collection inspired by Josh and it's been fantastic - I'm up to 102 now: https://til.simonwillison.net/

The thing I love about these compared to regular blogging is that they reduce the barrier to writing something up to almost nothing. Did I learn something? If yes, I can write it up as a TIL - no pressure at all for it to be anything novel or interesting to other people.

I refer back to mine a LOT. The principal audience for them is future me - if anyone else finds them useful too that's just a bonus.
I think lethality is extremely DM dependent and it's hard to generalise across different games.

The DM my group plays with has no issue killing off PCs, we're level 4 and have had 3 deaths across our party of 4 so far. (Two for the same player!).
adding more cores requires moores law. When we hit the end the only to get more cores will be either larger dies or more dies.

Moore's law does help with efficiency to some degree, small transistors generally require less power to switch. However, most the power is last due to the miles of wiring in a modern chip when running at such high clock cycles. Again, it's the parasitic capacitance.
The study is focused on the last couple of decades, doesn't it seem unlikely any evolutionary selective pressures are a cause in such a short and recent time span?
Skipping the YouTuber spam and go straight to the source: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4ZqTjKmhn5Qr0tCHkCV...
The 7% is a real downer, especially with the meager amount of cash they give you for it. However, that's highly tailored to their target audience (quarry?) of fresh college grads (or dropouts) with a plausible idea and a lot of moxie.

"Old" geezers like me are better off building a product and getting some traction before contacting VCs or angels through common connections.
Do people commonly wear masks outside in some places?

Where I live, we have more or less universal mask wearing in stores, but the only reason people wear masks outside is that they are about to head into a business or are just leaving one. What's the point of wearing a mask outside?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779342
But with lots of testing throughout, no?
This has been a bit of an annoying thing for me for quite a while. There is a huge difference between a data engineer and a data scientist. A data scientist is not and should not be a data engineer. These are 2 different specializations that work together.

A data engineer is more of what we use to refer to as people who wrote utility processes to process data or do system optimizations. At some point the industry decided to do away with a lot of the things we used to do (desktop apps, distirbuted systems, etc) and moved to REST services only. Then people realized oh wait.. we can't process data on a rest/web app. In typical inexperienced fashion, people tried to cram in there, but it doesn't work. (See Javascript neural networks)

What is data engineering? It's all about moving data around efficiently and processing it in a way to is per formant and reactive. A lot of people tie hadoop/spark to being a data engineer. That's a terrible way of going about it. More of the modern approaches to this is using streaming platforms and reacting to events. (Sadly a lot of the ML stuff is tied to either python/tensorflow or spark)

At times data engineering is pushed towards data maintenance and pushing all of the data in a bucket. This isn't a very valuable use of effort.. but people want to be buzzword compliant.

Note: There are use cases for hadoop and spark.. but those rarer now. (They've better for very large datasets and merging for data that you have a much longer timeframe for the answer).
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You don't want to get to the point of a court order. Expecting twitter to defend you when you're committing copyright infringement is ridiculous. They don't have to do it only when the platform is used for direct infringement, they remove the account before they can do that and before the legal problems.

This isn't about speech, it's copyright infringement.
>My group gave up on 5e because it (subjective) felt like the PCs were overpowered early on (especially the healing rules).

You might just be too good at the game for usually appropriate encounters. My group's having a blast, and we've come to rely on all that healing to push our luck: jumping into more dangerous encounters, building our characters more for story and less for optimization, being able to play even when two of the five can't make it (usually the healer). If imagine newer players also need that healing, even when they're trying their hardest.

That's not to say you're wrong for not liking 5e. If it's too easy for you, then it's too easy. You could try to account for that by using tougher or more monsters, but that makes balancing encounters harder for the DM.
>The data lifecycle is waaay overpopulated with Data Scientists who are not empowered or knowledgeable enough to work with product designers and engineers to do everything that empowers Data Science and ML.

Reading this thread has made me realize just how lucky I am to work very closely with strong a very strong Data Scientist, who is complemented by a very strong Data Engineer. Conversations with the Data Scientist are always about strategy, product alignment, and ensuring we're optimizing what we build for learning. The Data Engineer works very closely to ensure we're actually capturing the data we think we are, getting it to analysis systems, and making sure those data pipelines stay healthy.
Gates funds the BBC? What?
> Example search for "A apple a day keps the", Google corrects AN and KEEPS but DuckDuckGo only corrects KEEPS.

Not just spell check but Google understands natural language queries, too, better than duck.com.

Ex A:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/search?q=the%20movie%20wher...

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the%20movie%20where%20...
One further: we should bar the government from giving subsidies and contracts. The government should do the work itself, not contract out to third parties who don't have to spend the money with the same constraints government has.
This must be an error because Bill Gates said he was going to give all of his wealth away.
GP comment mentions far-right wealthy people not socially distancing, the commenter you are replying to seems to have connected that with the parent's comment on education.
if you take the human factor out of play it is painfully absurd that businesses and itinerant professionals continually choose to locate their business hubs within midsize boutique cities that are poorly situated for if not outright hostile to expansion. seems like it'd be a lot easier to make phoenix 'hipper' than it will be to make boulder or austin 'bigger'. resentment is intellectually lazy and i know hn frowns upon NIMBY-ism but it is hard not to feel like the west coast locusts are bearing down upon us to cannibalize everything that made home 'home' before moving on in another 10 to 20 years once our communities have been stripped to the marrow.
Tommy Collison on the benefits of hiring coders without a CS degree
This was a thing in recent years..

In the 90s it was normal for truck drivers to literally drive 100mph in some parts of the country (No, I'm not making this up. A few states even had no speed limit on their freeway and semis would drive even faster.), but once gas prices rised during the bush administration most companies capped their driver's speed to 62mph to increase mpg.

During this time when gas prices shot up people stopped traveling for vacations as much. Ride share programs popped up at this time too. This was the time I got my first remote job, but that may be a coincidence.
> Yeah there’s a lot of non-religious people who are finding the advantages of abstaining from porn (/r/nofap and /r/pornfree) or trying to limit its use. They say the T boost is temporary

The T boost from refraining from masturbation is disputed, and AFAIK no one has even asserted that there is one from refraining from porn, as such.

“Some folks online claim that refraining from masturbation makes them feel more manly, more masculine, more assertive, more dominant, and more attractive to females. They allege that this effect emerges from a supposed increase in testosterone when they stopped masturbating.

“These claims are often supported by reference to a very small, un-replicated study from China, which involved a very small sample of 10 males. Being interested in this study and how the analysis was conducted, colleagues have attempted to obtain the study data to verify, but have been unable to. But better research finds that testosterone isn’t as simple as these claims would have it.”

— https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2020...

“In other words, while there is indeed some research finding that sexual abstinence is linked to higher testosterone in men, the evidence is—at best—very mixed. Also, if you look to the overall trend in the data, it actually suggests that being sexually active in general increases testosterone, with the most consistent finding being that looking at porn enhances T.”

— https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2020/1/24/can-abstaining-from...
> To be a bit facetious, that's like saying that I still possess all of the money I spent on groceries because I chose to spend it that way... at some point it's not my money anymore.

I mean, you could say that groceries are part of your net worth, and immediately after purchase are roughly similar in value to the money you traded for them. Obviously people don't tend to bother counting their groceries as part of their net worth, mostly because they go bad or are consumed quickly and comprise a tiny percentage of most people's net worth.

But, in general, yes, your net worth is the value of everything you own (minus your debt). It's not at all crazy to say that, when you buy something very valuable or transfer money to a foundation which you control, your net worth is not changing much.
> Perhaps, but you suggested

I did not.
Oh. I see what you mean. Yeah, I guess by definition backwards propagation is trial-end-error. Huh, I never thought of it that way. Thanks for clarifying, I thought you were being saucy: my apologies for being snarky.
Part of life is that unless you live miles from others and hunt, forage and fish, you are pretty much always relying on the goodwill of others. I don’t want to start designating some corporations as special just because we happen to like their service a lot, and part of just how unspecial they are is they remain mere private entities carrying out their own activities including enforcing their own property rights.
You live in a town with no fresh water, and the only drinks available are sold by the local store. This store does not sell bottled water, wine, orange juice, milk, or tea. The only drinks it sells are Coca-Cola and Pepsi. But if you don't like Coca-Cola, just buy Pepsi - how silly it would be to complain of monopoly when you still have a choice!
But attribute what? I'm just saying that plenty of people believe this. No attribution whatsoever.
It's not, but he said "[i]n terms of land ownership".
Which they did because of unprecedented Republican obstruction in judicial confirmation.
Birth control pills these days are a fraction of what they were back in say the 50's.

Women on HRT take 20,000 times the estrogen that is found in a estrogen birth control for example.
As private late-stage rounds get larger (funding) and secondary pre-IPO markets emerge (employee liquidity), what incentives do companies have to go public?
> And even if they wanted to hire some smart engineers to do the job for them, we all know that engineers tend to swing on the other opposite of the ideological spectrum.

Do we all really know that? Some very good technical people don't have particularly strong political views or keep them separate from their job. Example: lots of ordinary devs helped build porn sites.
This point is why I believe DNS, network and colo services should only be taken down (for content) by legal order.

Social media is layer 7, I think it needs less regulation in that regard. It's like saying "you can't have your business in the phone book" vs. "you can't have a phone".
And here is the corresponding report, ‘You can log out, but you can never leave: How Amazon manipulates consumers to keep them subscribed to Amazon Prime’ (PDF), which has more information:
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/202...

Based on this, the Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a legal complaint against Amazon for breaches of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive:
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/amazon-manipulates-...
There are legal avenues to do this. We already have Arxiv (admittedly not peer reviewed) and I believe that there are some open Wikipedia-style journals in the works as well.
thats not good...
The Illuminati, of course.
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You can't add files or commits from the web UI.

The wiki has had some work done to it in recent versions, it has preview now for instance.

Fossil syncs *FOR* you. let fossil handle syncing, that is it's bread and butter.
As others have pointed out, this assertion is the exact opposite of reality.
> filter their water

what kind of filtering?
> I just checked Fitbit and was surprised to see I’m now in the “ideal” range. I have man boobs and a muffin top. While I’m rarely the fattest person around anymore, I’m very clearly still overweight.

In college a classmate used the term "skinny fat" to describe himself, same body type you describe. He was within the healthy weight range for his height and frame, but because of poor diet and exercise (primarily exercise) he had a rather high body fat percentage. It's easy to hit that point if you have a halfway decent diet (at least by calorie count) but a sedentary lifestyle (like us at the time, and perhaps more now, living on our computers playing video games and programming). The rest of us were just "fat fat" since our diets (especially sodas, he never drank any and some of us were only hydrated because of them) were much worse than his and we were similarly sedentary.
I wrote about my thinking and process behind this TIL repo here: https://dev.to/jbranchaud/how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...