skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bluntly, if we removed everything that confused or angered people, it would be a full-time job. It's more likely that we'll include some version of the above in order to further clarify our rejection of Nazi values and provide the context that was missing."

Bluntly, this is just a lame excuse. Where i live, denying the holocaust and related actions are considered criminal offenses that can land you in jail for quite some time. While this picture might not be seen as such by itself, what else am i to expect from a project that does something like this? It sure sends some very bad vibes.

So please, just remove the image. There are no arguments for keeping it.
Dominion by Tom Holland, actually everything by this author

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
This is an interesting hypothesis, and data probably exists for it, right?

For this to be the case, we'd expect to see a spike in the frequency of masturbation that corresponds with the drop in T.

General sexuality like this tends to be pretty well studied, and I'd expect that if such a correlation existed, it'd have been noticed and called out. But it would be good to see some data. I've got no idea where to find such a thing.
I understand you, but I love my Pixel series devices. Every other one had some compromise that I did not agree with, but on the whole they have been good for me.

You may point to other competitive devices that do things better, but I think that just shows how hard it is to compete in the smartphone business.
You are exactly right. The Bitcoin Core GitHub repo was hijacked years ago by Greg Maxwell's and Adam Back's Blockstream.

Until more people understand the history of Bitcoin Core (BTC) they will continue to be confused about the high fees and slow confirmation times.

[1] https://medium.com/@johnblocke/r-bitcoin-censorship-revisite...

edit: looks like you are getting downvoted too for telling the truth about Bitcoin Core.
> I'm sure you can imagine how I received that

Yeah I can see that now. Thanks. I guess once you process the first bit that way the rest drops off.

By the no nazis bit not meaning anything what I meant there was that with everything else it can be hard to tell what's intentional on the site and what isn't.

I honestly don't care who calls you guys nazis or not. Even if I wanted to (which I don't, I gain nothing by doing so) I wouldn't need to. There are plenty of people doing that already. The harder thing to do is to try to understand without pre-judging. Thanks for clearing a lot of this up.

EDIT: I noticed this in another subthread:

> I do think the image should be provided with context.

I'm editing here because I don't want to add to the pile-on in the other thread. You mentioned this above:

> Once the actual Nazis started showing up we had to get more explicit in our condemnation of their evil

If you want to keep the picture, what would your thoughts be on a log of that condemnation linked from somewhere in the FQA? Not necessarily Appendix L. No skin off my nose either way but I thought I'd mention it in case nobody had thought of it.
You're probably thinking of the Mountain Pass, CA rare earths mine. Molycorp finally got the process clean enough that even the Sierra Club approved. Then China cut the price on rare earths and Molycorp went bankrupt. Then China raised the price on rare earths.

The Mountain Pass mine is operating again, but it's not clear who owns it now. Names involved are JHL Capital Group, QVT Financial, Shenghe Resources Holding Co. Ltd., and Fortress Value Acquisition Corp.

The output has to go to China for processing because the plan to build US extraction facilities at Mountain Pass has slipped from 2020 to 2022.
AWS ES has major problems, have been a pain us for years. Pretty sure they cannot be competitive with a hard fork
> I purchased a Mi Band 5 for $35 which is a vastly better device than fitbit equivalents for a quarter of the price. You can use it without data being sent to the cloud if you use the open source package GadgetBridge.

Gadgetbridge is mentioned regularly in these threads, thank you! Privacy is one of our main goals. We support quite a few bands and watches and the list of devices and features is growing.
We are also happy for contributing members, so if you think that your movement data and notifications should remain private and can do some Android development, stop by, we are at Codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
The mi bands seem great if you want something very basic. Super cheap but still retains a lot of the features of premium smart watches.

Only issue I noticed was the heart rate monitor was wildly inaccurate but this was on a much older version (the 2 I think, maybe the mi band 5 has fixed this)
So this assumes there is pent-up demand to use BTC as part of smart contracts that is not yet met by WBTC on Ethereum. I don't see anything that would validate that assumption.
You can buy body armor in Portugual too: http://www.engardeportugal.com/produtos.htm

And apparently it is much needed:

https://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/procurado-por-tenta...

https://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/homem-ameaca-mulher...

https://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/gnr-em-alerta-maxim...
They are welcome to do that if they feel that way. But it's not theft for people to use software under the terms of the license you offer it to them under, and it's a fucking stupid accusation to make.
I don't know how much actually being outdoors matters. I suspect that getting exposed to a forest environment; cold, bacteria/molds in the air, sunshine, and so on might matter too. Even possibly eating gamely animals.

I grew up on a farm, so I know that dogs that are kept outdoors, act differently than dogs that are kept indoors.

They are more aggressive, appear fitter, and smarter. I suspect their brains might develop differently from living outdoors.
I would wager that over the past four decades there's a pretty tight correlation between sugar consumption, obesity, and reduced testosterone.
The Entrant’s Guide to Automotive Industry (Updated)
> Mortars or fireworks?

“Mortars” and “fireworks” are overlapping categories.

https://fireworks.com/products/aerial/reloadable-mortars
I think if the phytoestrogens found in soy-based foods had an effect on testosterone levels anywhere close to estradiol, we'd see feminine transgender people using them as part of hormone-replacement therapy. It tends not to happen though, as soy-based foods aren't really effective at feminizing men.
Indeed, the entire city of NY is only about 303 sq. miles (land area only), on which resides 8.5 million people.

Another stat I read said the median US plot size is 10861 sq. feet., so Gates owns very nearly 1 million times the square footage of the average property.
Well the true genius of Eth was making choosing the fork the default option. So no, there isn't evidence that the community intended to accept the fork.
Isn't that CodeWeaver's version?
I've read so many people say this, but it does not match my experience at all.

I use DDG 100% of the time, and maybe retry on another search engine a couple times per month.

There's clearly some difference, but I don't know what it is:

- Search topic (my searches are mostly tech-related, but other family members are also happy on DDG)

- Query style (I may be a bit literal/keyword-inclined, but others are more conversational)

- Location?
Pretty much every single camera that has interchangeable lenses, and thus can mount a telephoto objective sufficient for taking good pictures of helicopters has a mechanical shutter. From the Sony alpha series, to Nikon DSLRs, to the Canon EOS line, and so on.
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Most of those arguments are out of date. Tcl has evolved significantly since 94. It's never going to win on raw performance, but for its intended use cases, interpreter performance doesn't have to be best in class.
> (I totally dig their counting system though, septante, huitante et nonante makes so much more sense).

French beginner, holy shit I'm just gonna use that if I ever speak with native speakers. I'll tell 'em I learned in Switzerland. soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix is bonkers!
Unless production is controlled by the environment rather than strictly genetic factors.

This wouldn't be a genetic argument then.
Especially since everything else is on Ethereum anyway. Since this is just a layer 2 solution, you might as well treat Ethereum as a layer 2 for Bitcoin.
This isn't actually controversial for anyone who got interested in bitcoin before Gavin Andreesan was kicked out and /r/bitcoin was taken over and heavily propagandized.

https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor...
I agree, the sentiment was more akin to "taken advantage of" rather than "getting robbed".
SpinLaunch expands New Mexico test site
Wow. That's almost $5k per insurrectionist! Not bad!
It's conflating traditional gender norms, social masculinity, and physical traits like testosterone, then bundling everything into you gotta act like X to acquire Y, because that's how muscles work. Rugged man living off the woods in Alaska feels like a tropey barbarian.

If his logic is to believed, there should be equal methods to raise hormone levels for estrogen. I'm curious what he would propose.

Living in the wilderness is probably hard work, but I might bet more on the guy who plays team sports on weekends, eats healthy meals, and tries to get laid in a civil society.

People had meek cousins at all times of history.
You gotta put on a good show for the "tough on crime" crowd plus how do you expect them to justify funding if they aren't geared up like they are staging a raid on a terrorist stronghold to arrest some 20 year old for a couple of grams of meth (or someone growing okra¹)? They are fighting the ”War on Drugs" after all.²

[1]: https://time.com/3479728/marijuana-okra-police/

[2]: I say this with as much sarcasm as I can currently muster
Treasury backs down: Crypto monitoring rule will wait until new administration
"In response to a deluge of comments, the United States Treasury Department's Anti-Money Laundering office is slowing its roll on a rushed proposal to monitor a whole new range of cryptocurrency transactions."
You cannot do this in the US without presenting your own ID and electronic fingerprinting.
Most of the protesters were just protesters. Some of them may have had quasi-violent intent, such as 'let's break in an make a point', but a very small few seemed to have some very dark intent.

If you rile up enough people, then a small slice of them will be on the radical margins.

It only took a ~5 Serbs to kill Franz Ferdinand.
Opinion columns are a curated forum of ideas, including agendas, sure.

But the publishing of them does not represent them as being anything of any validity any more than publishing "letters to the editor" asserts the opinions therein are of any practical value other than the exposure to the fact that they are indeed held. It's an attempt to hold an even remotely civilized, and detached discussion at length.

No single opinion column is a conclusion, except maybe that of the writer's. That's why you'll see debates go on for extended periods of time-columns and papers written back and forth on singular ideas sometimes for years, decades even.

But I'm not here to defend opinion columns—I rarely read them myself outside of a few more local polemics. I was discussing the dishonest treatment of an "MSM" that is only "fake news" and "propaganda" because of a misreading and lack of media literacy in general. (If only many people who frequented forums like Parler treated those discussions with as much deference rather than planting bombs and bludgeoning a federal officer to death)
The Radical History of Self-Care
I'm glad that the SSPL is becoming more of a standard for this sort of "open source minus AWS" software. One of the benefits of standard open source licenses is that it's easier for companies to give blanket permission, "you can use software that's MIT licensed". Hopefully it becomes easier for companies to just pick whether they say "we allow the use of SSPL'd software" or "we do not allow the use of SSPL'd software" instead of making all the software engineers have discussions with lawyers to get work done.
The last time a bunch of minorities exercised their "Second Amendment" rights, funnily enough a bunch of gun control laws went through tout suite.

Civil rights didn't come about because the establishment liked Martin Luther King. Civil rights came about because the establishment was MORE afraid of the Black Panthers, et al.
It's strange to hear a CEO speaking about his own company's decisions almost as if he was an outside observer. This feels like an attempt to disperse accountability and blur the lines around their own decision.

It's even strange to hear a CEO use this opportunity to promote his Bitcoin investments:

> “The reason I have so much passion for #Bitcoin...
Many earthquake engineers and researchers are all too familiar with Tcl, because for years the preeminent structural analysis tool OpenSees [1] required Tcl scripts to use/run. Just in the last few years was it forked to python.

https://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/home/about.php
Every time I see a post like this - it’s like duh Israel has less people than just one state, Michigan, and there are 49 others.
The iPod analogy is so perfect. Gotta love how it rhymes with the Jobs reality distortion critique while also striking at the heart of the argument. There is definitely a difference between the value generated by excellent attention to detail and that generated by sweeping an industry with transformative technological dislocations, and the impact of the latter can dominate that of the former.
> Mortars are a hell of a lot more lethal any consumer firework.

Well, some mortars are. Other mortars are consumer fireworks.
I like minimalist and sometimes esoteric dev environments but I must confess that I just don't get acme. I know that some people swear by it but it's hard for me not to think that it's the programming equivalent of listening to music on vinyls.

For one thing it's extremely mouse-driven, which is already disqualifying in my book but to each their own.

The whole "anything can be a tag and you can execute it by clicking the middle mouse button" can seem novel and exciting if you've never used Emacs, which did the whole "everything is configurable and scriptable" a long time ago and IMO better.

Then the lack of syntax highlighting is pure elitism in my book. I tried to give that a chance but when you listen to the arguments of its proponents it often boils down to "colors are childish" and "books are black on white and we read those just fine" which makes complete sense unless you think about it for two seconds.

I genuinely don't get it. When I first read a Vi(m) tutorial it seemed esoteric, complicated and weird, but I understood why some people found it more efficient that way. Watching somebody explain acme reminds me of TempleOS, filled with weird idiosyncrasies of dubious usefulness while lacking super basic features.
> Firstly, love hotels are a sign of not being lonely. They do not offer a prostitute; those batteries are not included

Look up "delivery health". The batteries may not be included at the love hotel itself (although I've heard of places that do come with a menu), but it's also a common use of love hotels.
As a first step you could try alternative frontends. On the web invidious¹, on Android I suggest NewPipe.

As a next step you could try out entirely different platforms. I personally find Peertube very appealing, because it federates with ActivityPub, which I already use and love. There's also LBRY, but I don't get how it works, so no opinion on that. It seems to have more well known publishers on it though.

¹ AFAIK they don't (may not?) have an official instance. But there is a public list here: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation/blob/master/Invidiou...
"I completely blame the food. Even eating absolute junk in Europe I noticed I lost 5 or 6 pounds over 2 weeks."

I don't. Certainly it doesn't help and, of course, Americans should eat much better than they do, but ...

I think the most important factor is that our built and cultural environment are constructed to make us obese.

If one does not live in a modern city center one barely ever walks. Most Americans sit all day - at a desk or in a car.

Further, many Americans are 1-2 generations removed from "the farm" and are still heavily influenced by habits like "three square meals per day" that made great sense on the farm and make no sense at all in the city.

We're bad at being urban.

I contrast us with people I see who are good at being urban. The old Chinese women in the park doing Tai Chi every morning. The 70+ woman I saw running (running!) to get the bus in Zurich. The Spanish people I lived with who sort-of ate one big meal every day at 14:00 ...

We'll get there ...
Per US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. 2.2 billion acres of land in the US. 900 million of that is marked as "farmland". 400 million of that is marked as "cropland", and 300 million of that is "harvested cropland". There's also 400 million acres of "pastureland", and 75 million acres of "woodland".

I couldn't tell what kind of land Bill Gates owns. It does matter, but not all that much, because however you slice it, it's a pretty small amount of the total.
World’s first dwarf giraffes spotted in Uganda and Namibia – Science – AAAS
Long time DE here. I recommend trying to build your own data warehouse around something you're interested in. Don't worry about teh scaling - focus on the core engineering, taking data from different places, combining it into a sensible data model, update it automatically every day. Add in more sources.

It's shockingly difficult, and something that only experience can teach.
Turns out he was a few decades too early.
Grew up in USSR and Israel.
Nothing even close to it.
If you want to move fast and break things, choose ETH.

If you want to move slow and never break things, choose ETC.
Of course, I am affiliated, but also using it for Alpine Docker image notifications.
I did settle on Debian, using i.e. python:3.9-slim-buster (though you can just as easily start from debian and install your python version)
So then totally irrelevant to the silver fox experiment.
+1 for this warning. My scores are on the low end of average (mid 400s). Not low enough to warrant corrective T therapy (200s), but enough to wonder if the 600-700 range might mean a big change in quality of life.

I was pretty adamant about giving it a shot, and consulted with an endocrinologist who said the same thing ("it's not low enough to introduce what would become a life sentence of treatment"). After much stubborn research trying to find a legitimate second opinion[1], I finally conceded that he was right.

I'm all for biohacking, but the one-way/ratcheting nature of T therapy specifically should make it an endeavor of last resort.

[1] I say legitimate because you can effortlessly find someone who will agree that you and everyone needs a T boost, and will write you an Rx on the spot if you have the cash. An it will work. It's not that it's a scam, or particularly deadly. The benefits are just very overplayed compared to their permanence, which is downplayed.
I’ve seen enough YC companies fail and enough non-YC tech companies succeed to question the value of this supposedly exclusive human network.
Wow, I might suggest de-escalation, but yeah, feed that bear some more crazy. That'll work out fine.
Yeah the heart monitor on my Mi Band 2 isn't very accurate, even when I "press" the band to my wrist. It came out in 2016 so I'm assuming the 5 will feature a much more modern sensor suite.
> a) Should twitter be allowed to cancel accounts who harm twitter?

Although some people agree that is the question, it is not the fundamental one here. Most of the respectable arguments are that Twitter's bans are senselessly harming Twitter. They're building a gaping hole in their offering that a competitor can cover.
They only support Chinese exchanges (and probably requires KYC). This thing is not gonna take off.
Citizens, Suspects, and Enemies: Examining Police Militarization
If you want to discuss my comment in other terms, I'd be happy to. However, I only aimed to be as clear as possible—using the correct words is part of that. A great deal of the vitriol that tends to bubble up in discussions about sensitive subjects seems to come from misunderstandings—accurate language is one of the few ways we can try to prevent such misunderstandings.

And stuff.
And because their contributions can be tied back to revenue. You need both, demand for talent, as well as the ability & justification to pay for it.

Engineers are in high demand all over the world. But most companies do not profit enough from technology to justify similar paying SV salaries.
Saw this earlier in Swift forum too. It demonstrate that performant Swift code is possible, but with a lot of profiling. I initially choose to use Swift in hope of better performance characteristics than Python (for some pretty heavy data preprocessing prior feeding to neural nets), but at the end, writing some simple code still 2~3x slower than in C / C++ if not more.

Hopefully at some point when Swift matures, people can start to optimize the generated code more.
> I'm not sure why I'd reach for Tcl today when lua exists.

Regular syntax, for one thing. Command-oriented sensibility, too.
The title should really be something like “The nicer a home you have, the more likely you’ll social distance, study finds”. This seems closer to the causality which is implied in the article.
I like the idea but the interface needs some work, its unclear how to move through the tree, found out by a lot of clicking.
Lol, I totally agree. I actually believe that they care a lot about protecting my data -- more than any other data caretaker. Probably because if they abuse our data it would be financially costly. But that's the beautiful thing about capitalism...
99% of Bitcoin remains passively outside of smart contracts. Only about 5B on Ethereum. This can be a fairly large market and we're in early days. More use cases don't need to take anything away from Ethereum!
You could say the same about the GPL - the practical effect is almost never to make a company release their previously-proprietary source code, the practical effect is to make companies not use it in the first place. Which is fine, as long as it's clear what the rules are, and the rules seem clear enough to me.
It's not only the New Yorker. It was on many Youtube channels, many news articles, etc.

It even made the news in Japan.
so ... Luke Smith is an "insurrectionist" now?
Do data engineers have good analysis skills? Do business analysts have good engineering skills? I don't think either of them can fill the data scientist role.

The scientific training and mindset (scientific method, hypothesis, experiment setup, etc.) to even create an accurate model is an undervalued skill here no? Even if data cleaning is automated, these skills cannot be easily learned.

There is a reason why so many PhDs get into the field, because they were trained in the exploratory/research mindset that no engineering or analytics skills can fill. Correct me if I am wrong.
This is addressed in the post.

For example, New Jersey has 9 million people. Denmark 5 million. Why have other countries or states not achieved the same thing if size is the main driver?
Expected /s as well, but at home I often hear the "I don't work for the CIA" argument against privacy paranoia so I'm not surprised.
This was true even before the China Virus
you do know that startpage.com "is now owned by an ad company" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577