skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
watch out, if you spend more time in France than in any other country (not just 183 days per year), then you will be considered a fiscal resident of France and therefore taxable on income. in addition, you can't really work remotely and avoid employment taxes, pension contributions, etc... this is only tenable if you spend a minor portion of the time in the country (like any other country, really... states need their taxes obviously).
Before the US the sea belonged to Great Britain. Now it belongs to the US.
"clear" and "user agreement" aren't two words I'd expect to see together. There is always more to the fine print.
They'll have to base their service off the last Apache-2 version of Elasticsearch. Unrelated to this license change, but they'll probably have to rename it, too, after the trademark infringement suit finishes.
Fair, fair. A childhood friend of mine was repeatedly bullied for having red hair, so I've become particularly sensitive to it.
I don't think the distinction between state-backed or lots-of-money-backed manipulation is really what makes it stabilising or destabilising. Rather, I think it whether the manipulation separates out the manipulated into an echo-chamber of similarly-minded outrage or not.

For example, a government statement based on scientific investigation, such as "Covid-19 is a dangerous disease, but it helps if you wear a mask" is state-backed manipulation, but it doesn't try to isolate the manipulated into an echo-chamber, and it is intending to be stabilising.

Conversely, some of the worst parts of social media can whip up a storm of outrage and hatred because the algorithm (which is intended to maximise the advertising profits of a commercial company) recommends outrageous stories that make you angry, but that you are likely to agree with. This is lots-of-money-backed manipulation, but it does isolate people into echo-chambers, and it is destabilising.

Regarding having two large political movements that have become enemies, I think this is an emergent property of a complex interaction between politics and the tendency of people to get sucked into echo-chambers that (as an emergent property, not an intended outcome) steer people towards thinking that the other side is the devil incarnate. Political parties will always disagree with each other. I admire politicians who can say to each other that they disagree strongly with the other's point of view, but they respect them as a person and get on with them well.

I think it will be very hard to destroy the natural tendency of social media to form echo-chambers, but it should be attempted. Regarding politics, I think it's interesting that countries that have election systems that discourage two-party politics in favour of multiple parties having to make compromises with each other tend to be more stable and friendly about it.
Trump can claim better turnout than Biden I guess.
I don't understand the fear of Facebook from WhatsApp / Oculus users in these comments. Facebook has a clear user agreement with how they use your data, including not selling it - and they rely on users trusting them. I'd rather my data be with one of the tech giants than a unprofitable start up.
Not necessarily. I only have a few friends, and a few months ago before the election, I made a post recommending they stock up on food, water, and emergency medications just in case. I don't have many friends and it was probably only seen by a handful of people, yet the post was removed.

It's hard to say exactly what they moderate or how.
Just in case anyone is left wondering, RSU stands for restricted stock unit.
Not to provide facts to counter your generalizations, but...

I was on Parler for several months, trawling it and other sources quite heavily for the last month or so, trying to keep abreast of ... events.

At no time did I see even a single post advocating violent overthrow of the government, white supremacy, etc. Apparently, neither did any of those planning the Capital attack, since they were not Parler members.

So, if you want to deplatform people based on their political leanings, I guess you can go ahead and do that. But, the "reasons" being used to shut down Parler don't seem to be founded in fact.
Try tinyheadedkingdom.com
> New Year’s specials for specialized body armor plates, rifle enhancements, and shooting targets
I'm no Facebook fan or apologist, but I do think there's a distinction between failing to moderate perfectly (or even well) and refusing to even attempt to moderate.
The Garmin Forerunner 45/245 might fit that bill. I'm wearing one right now and only notice it because its riding up on my wrist from my sweater.

And as a bit of a metric nerd the Garmin data exports rock.

Oh, and I haven't charged it in over a week.
Sure, there's a lot of foreign Chinese cartel money too. A lot of this is regional and more focused in Western states like California. The real estate and tech guys are either small-time independents or controlled by bigger money.
There's a consideration about number of users. If 100k users are using your product a lot, in a similar way to the 'million monkeys' thing they're accidentally going to find bugs.

Software engineers tend to use products in a consistent way (based on how they know it's meant to be used) whereas good testers explore the space of possible inputs in a much more 'creative' way.
I think that this is more of a problem with the specific people that you have worked with and it isn't inherent to the role of a data scientist.
You might be interested in page 14-35 of the Mueller report. Yes, it's heavily redacted, but there is some very specific information in the unredacted portions, including individual twitter handles, etc.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/18/mueller-report-sea...
Full Stack Data Scientist (data janitor + data engineer + ML engineer + ML Ops + Business Analyst) is the future
> The case in question is Dodge vs. Ford and rather than believe memes about it just read the darn wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

I'm all for pointing someone to the sources, but let's not instill the idea that consulting Wikipedia is doing substantially more diligent research than looking at memes.
Well we have to use he/she all the time in the English language in a professional context so i don't really see how it's waving your gender in everyone's face.

I do agree that there is a lot of attention focused on use of pronouns at the moment though, which is why i posed the question to learn more about community opinion in the first place.
Indeed, adtech is a great place to work for anyone interesting in working with data. And yes, people working in adtech hate, and block, ads too.
I use the Oura Ring and really like it for sleep tracking. It also tracks heart rate, but with a caveat which is it doesn’t track while you’re moving quickly, so it’s not really an exercise tracker. (Something about how it’s tiny sensors work)

My combo is Apple Watch by day, Oura Ring by night. I don’t often wear them together.

Very happy with the setup and would recommend.
Various advertising companies have temporarily withdrawn from FB over the years precisely because of issues like this. Most famously and recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Facebook_ad_boycotts
I'm in all the Subreddits, and the Garmin users seem pretty happy with those products.

Disclosure: I also own Garmin Stock, but am a FitBit user (owned FitBit stock too but sold when the GOOG acquisition was announced).
Oura ring is good. Tracks heart rate and sleep satisfactorily. I heartedly recommend.
Haha, wow, treason and breach of the peace seem pretty salient here
One thing that confuses me is why this data needs to be stored within the internet at all.

Why can't I have an entirely offline driven system? Data stays local, no ability to upload it online at all, and all processing is done without ever needing the internet.

That's a key criteria if I ever was thinking of getting a smart wearable, I'm not going to generate even more data that can be profited from and potentially used against me.

It's increasingly looking like storing data is a huge responsibility (although, if it is ever leaked, sadly humans don't tend to see prison time for this crime).

What we need is a clause that says "if this data ever touches the internet whether accidental or otherwise the CEO goes straight to jail, are you sure about this?".

Sadly, I think society as a whole is just "used" to this by now and a second thought is rarely given, disappointing this merger was approved, especially when the EU is investigating several "anti trusts", why give them even more power?

Oh well, I'll see you fellow HN readers on the next "major data leakage from misconfigured MongoDB and nobody is punished" thread.
Funny to see France Culture (originally just a radio station pre-internet) on the top of HackerNews. France Culture was often playing in the background when I would go visit my Parisian relatives. For those French language speakers, I recommend listening to the “La Méthode scientifique” science news podcast [1].

[1] https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-methode-scientifiq...
They aren't my miles but for ~5k; I bought it used. It was a "perq car" for a wine tour company.
These are ads so it's ok.

It's only when it's the people that it's the problem.

It's never the 1%.

I miss the occupy movement, at least they talked sense.
In the United States, we specifically block appointment of officials to civilian office that have recently left military service with the National Security Act of 1947 [0]. A waiver from Congress is required to grant exception to this rule, and the first time that waiver was ever sought and granted was just a few years ago in 2017 for General James Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense only a few years after retirement from the Marines.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_194...
The premise of their project is something I fully agree with,
but I always found it a bit too extreme and opinionated. It's
one thing to avoid unnecessary bloat. But going for short code
at any cost doesn't seem to be the ideal solution either; now
we've got over 100 patches for dwm, created based on the
untouched source code of some specific dwm version. The result
is a bit of a mess, only worsened by the source code containing
almost exclusively 1-2 letter variable names.

Nonetheless I like most suckless projects, especially st and
dmenu are fantastic. Even though the push against bloat is more
needed on the internet. I'm tired of all the tracking, loading
times and memory usage, despite ad blockers.
> ...even really smart engineers...

No, ESPECIALLY really smart engineers.

"Techies" have some of the most crippling blind-spots when it comes to political sensibility. Moreover, it's not just bots and computational propaganda that we need to worry about (though that is serious problem too). Propaganda is just as "real" regardless of whether it's computational and offered up by bots, or if it's a guy with a megaphone, or if it's a poster or newspaper article (like in the 1930's).

What really matters is the intention behind the propaganda and that's what needs to be uncovered and dealt with. Coming up with AI to deal with AI-backed disinformation campaigns can only ever be an infinite game of wack-a-mole, unless the root-causes are addressed. These are political problems and they require a political solution. Facebook and Google aren't going to be the hero here.
How long do they last?

Personally, Ive been using Garmin smartwatches for a few years now and they last about a week, with O2 sat scanner enabled over the night. Definitely been happy with them.
Thanks for the feedback! Your suggestion about tag colors is interesting - my earlier timetracker (timeturtle.app) does exactly this, but I felt the colors were too distracting. Will think about how to bring back some of the info in the overviews. Perhaps by simply showing tags in a subtle color.
No one considers systematic consequences of rules and laws, these days. Everything is short-term pragmatic cynicism.
The way it works in Mastodon is that (1) not everyone runs a node, but there are many nodes, and they each have their own policies and can kick users off, and (2) nodes can blacklist other nodes they federate content from.

This two level split allows node operators to think of most other users at the node level, which means dealing with far fewer entities. It provides users with a choice of hosts, but means that their choice has consequences.
> We have ample evidence from the ongoing Opioid Crisis that people who get 'too many pills' from an operation can and do become very addicted and 'do it all day'.

That's kind of different. So that's people who start taking them for medical reasons and become addicted during the course of taking them for medical reasons. This wasn't they decided to start taking them for fun. This also seems to be mainly an issue in the US as other countries doctors don't hand out these pills that often due to nature of them.

To understand what heroin usage is like you can watch a few seconds of this video that I have at the correct time https://youtu.be/17TbF6n4jI0?t=459. While it's Valium and not heroin trust me that is how heroin addicts act while on heoroin too.

Heroin has been legal repeatedly throughout time. It never brought the world down before.
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They may be using the term "dog" to refer to Caninae (or Canidae?) rather than wolf-derived pets, judging by the description of the phylogeny.
except for that tiny detail where we're still critically dependent on raw materials that can only be economically extracted in certain parts of the world.

That’s a contingent, not a necessary fact. The Haber-Bosch process was invented to provide nitrogen for German armaments faced with the same kinds of difficulties. If you really need something the fact that it just got ten times more expensive matters very little.
Thanks for reminding me about the Oura ring, I've seen a few people say they've been happy with it on Twitter in the past year, it sounds like an ideal place to start - thanks! :)
This is what I was referring to at the end of my post:

> Few work directly on strings. But they do it naturally, without enforcement - so like, a function might take a 'str', but the 'str' passed in was parsed into a wrapping structure already.

ie: Most programs in typed languages already do what you're saying - they parse the data directly into a structure, and therefor they validate some aspects of it naturally, so even when you do see a 'str' in typed code it's very often already gone through some sort of parsing phase.
Just one account, for Donald Trump. That's it. That too because of the hateful content that was being posted.

Have they called out for censorship of things that were critical of them? No? Did they have a committee to investigate that?

Did they meet for dinners with Facebook executives? Oh wait, the Republicans were the one that did that.
I hate both most modern and diy smartwatches visually for different reasons, but this strikes a nice balance.

The ESP32 is a great SoC!

I tend to shower with my current watch simply for convenience. While I can get over that without issues, I find it's missing a button. The Pebble Time has a great UI for music control requiring 3 buttons (up/pause/down) and a back button that is incredibly convenient and I just haven't seen matched anywhere yet.

I think I actually prefer this project over the Pine Time because it has E-Paper, no touch screen, it looks nice and developing for it may be simpler.
There’s a difference between what happened to Parler (vendors refusing to do business with them) and Facebook (relatively more self reliant).
> But how much of social media is real?

For me personally, I treat social media as entertainment. Sure you can have reliable sources of news, but I force myself to deal with social media like entertainment so that I moderate myself. I will never sit and watch TV all day and so I will never sit and scroll through social media all day. I keep my follow list manicured so if someone is tingling my BS meter, I drop them. It is far too easy to get inside an echo chamber. The goal is to always have credible but challenging points of view in my feed and to limit how much I time I spend in the feed.
Perhaps Twitter should label bots?
As just a straight 1:1 translation to 5e, it isn't really hard. The monsters are roughly the same, so it isn't hard to run an AD&D adventure on 5e. I would argue a "novice" DM could read through an AD&D adventure and do the translation on the fly.

I would agree you should be able to run the module as-is and insert a monster of the same type from the 5e monster manual, but certainly not use the 1e stats straight up.

1e monsters wouldn't stand a chance against a 5e party otherwise.
Side note, you probably mean "lag behind" rather than "lack behind", i.e. a time delay rather than an omission.
These are incredibly disparate skill sets. Of course anyone would want to hire someone like this, and far more would claim to possess such a broad skill set, but in practice it is extremely rare.

You'd need someone with excellent communication skills (presentation, memo writing, teamwork), project management skills (identifying & overcoming workflow bottlenecks), professional skills (timely responses, political savvy), technical skills (application programming, advanced databases, advanced machine learning, Excel modeling) and finally some business domain knowledge.

This is an uncommon intersection of skills.
They're intentionally not glued together so devs can dev. Seems reasonable.
> what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with

Personally I found Amazons response to Parler convincing: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gov.u...

The question is, why should a company in Amazons situation be unable to turn off that service? As in, your question assumes that Amazon turned off Parler out of nowhere for no reason other then "we dont like them". It assumes they did not had documented reasons, documented attempts to convince Parler to comply to TOS etc.

Otherwise said, contract.
Can we put insurrection in scare quotes please?
"There is a 30 day money back guarantee for product price only. ... Sorry, we cannot accept returns of intentionally damaged bears."
Not yet, but it looks like I will. I had no idea of the acquisition till this post. A shame because I think the Fitbit is fantastic and my current device is years old.
Instead of sneering at "having to deal with" data scientists, consider that the data scientists themselves would often much rather have data engineers and dev ops people involved in the process.

Data scientists like to quip that 80% of the job is data cleaning, with the remaining 20% divided up arbitrarily among other tasks as suited the joke. In some shops nowadays, it's more like 45% data cleaning, 45% data engineering/ops/programming just trying to make your results available to the rest of your organization, and 10% research.

If I can spend less time learning/doing software engineering and devops and more time doing actual data science, that's great. At a previous job, my team was clamoring for more data engineer hiring, and part of the reason our projects were slipping and starting to fail was lack of data engineering support. Our tooling was shit, our processes were shit, our code was shit, and access to (and trust of) our data sources was especially wet and stinky shit.

It made the daily work of doing data science a miserable slog of ad-hoc duct-tape solutions, and it contributed to us being generally ineffective as a team.

All of this would have been fixed if we had one competent data engineer with some actual real-world data/ML engineering experience and good communication/advocacy skills. Let alone two or three!
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> french relies heavy on vernacular, sayings and expressions.

It's more than that. There's a growing divergence between the spoken French and the written French.

Où irions-nous ? Nous hésitâmes... (written French)

On allait où ? On a hésité... (spoken French)

Writings from the XVIIth century bare little difference to most modern novels. Of course, some words have evolved (e.g. "caresser" was akin to "praise", now it's more like "pet" or "fondle") but the grammar and the vocabulary is mostly identical.

Centuries ago, the langage spoken was already different from what was written. I think the main difference was that there were many local variations, like shown in the Littré dictionary (1870s). The uniformization came with WWI, then the modern communication.
My Versa 2 started dying as soon as I got it would just lag every time you tried to interact with it (touch screen, button, gestures). Eventually it degraded so much that it would even stop measuring activity at random. Apparently it's a known hardware issue, even if it really felt like a software issue.

This all happened during the first lockdown, so I had to wait weeks for the stores to open and get it replaced.

But the replacement is going strong, I've had it for 9 months now.
Being the first major platform banning Trump and probably paying the biggest price for it comparing to everyone else in SV, I assume Jack was smart enough to anticipate outcome of his decision is negative: chain reaction from other SV companies, backlash from public opinion left and right, and big drop on stock price. The negative impact on his power, reputation and wealth will be likely significant for a very long time.

I don't like Twitter or its handling of censorship overall, but I appreciate someone with power at such level is going against personal interest in almost every aspect during their decision making, which seems to me is very rare in American business and political elites today.
Well, Merriam-Webster dictionary changed the definition of "sexual preference" to justify the outrage against Amy Coney Barrett after the fact. You probably can't get any more Orwellian than this. I guess something about free markets and private companies though.
RIP Pebble. Their watches lasted over a week on a single charge. Fortunately, my Pebble Time Steel is still ticking, but it's only a matter of time before it breaks somehow. I already cracked the screen. :(
Has anyone tried out Wyse's fitness band? How are they as a company? The prices are the lowest around on their entire lineup
> According to modern zeitgeist, if Facebook can't be trusted to moderate their users, Facebook should be deplatformed and shut down.

They've got (poorly paid and treated) human mods for user interactions, but apparently ad mods aren't a thing with them.

So I'm largely in the same camp; if they're enabling armed insurrection by white supremacists (or extremists in the middle east, etc), Facebook should be boycotted by their partners.

That's what happened with Parler. Facebook's more likely to weather the storm. Parler evidently wasn't able to.
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Sorry, that was what was in my mind when I wrote that, you are correct on that! You want to use the 5e monster manual, not the original stats.
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Bundlers these days are very good. Any code that isn’t used is removed with tree shaking/dead code elimination, and React can be swapped with Preact which has a lot smaller bundle size as well.
Nice little retrospective. I’ve been using Elixir and Phoenix both for personal projects and in production at Househappy since 2015. It’s been nothing short of wonderful and to this day it remains my favorite programming language and ecosystem to work in. Congratulations to José and the rest of the core Elixir team for this milestone!
contributing back can mean monetarily. i’m sure elastic would be willing to sell a commercial license to a cloud provider if the deal makes sense.