skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Like a recent cancel attempt was Scott Cawthon, creator of the game series Five Nights at Freddy's. His crime? Voting for trump.

No really, that's it. His games weren't political, and while he was open about who he was, he pretty much seemed to be inoffensive in practice. But since his fanbase has a lot of LGBT, they felt betrayed because he did so, and as far as i know he was definitely not trolling them or being any form of negative person apart from supporting people they disliked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/nybyo1...

I can understand not wanting to support legit offensive personalities, but increasingly it will be used as a weapon to enforce proper thought.

You can't really get used to siccing the tiger of cancel culture on people, because it gets really tempting to sic it on anyone. Homophobia for example is a useful concept to make people think about why they disagree with legalizing gay marriage, or their attitudes about alternative sexualities. But it also can and has been used as a club to silence enemies or any disagreement whatsoever.

You have to keep things civil and restrained because once unrestrained, like the tiger, it can be used on and go after anyone.
I don't get it. They're concerned about people abusing the system, and their solution is... requiring KYC? How does that solve the issue? It sounds like bot makes can still passively collect the info, it's just that when it gets discovered they can point to a real person to blame. Moreover, why do bots even need to know the online/offline status of users? Why not add a permission system so users can opt in/out of providing this sort of information to bots? I'm not a discord bot maker, but there's plenty of hobby/side projects I'm willing to provide to users for free, but not willing to attach my real life identity to.
Origins of SARS-CoV-2
If you're writing so much software you hang out on HackerNews for fun, and you're not saving enough to max out your 401k AND have savings left over for 6 months off, you're doing your finances wrong (and/or you can get a 4x pay bump in a new job)
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When you make a website, you have to think out of the box.

Your audience will not necessarily be a 20 year old in good physical condition. It may be as well a 10 year old that doesn't know what to do with the information you are giving to them. Or someone with a pacemaker, or someone with some medical condition that puts them at risk.

Then... Not only people can get injured by following an exercise routine in good-faith... some people may injure themselves on purpose so they can sue you.

Will people be able to injure themselves anyways if you add a disclaimer to the website? Absolutely. But it won't be your fault anymore.

But that's only the start. If you allow people to write anything they want in a textbox, bad things can happen. People can write ANYTHING, not only exercise routines... And by anything, I mean, very illegal things.

And if you allow people to upload pictures, well... that can go very wrong as well.
When will OpenAI make GPT-3 available for academic study? Or are there no plans to do so yet?
I love the term "the hoi polloi." Yes, technically the English word the is redundant (because the Greek word hoi is also "the"). But the redundancy makes the term more-quickly understandable. From a UI/UX perspective — with the correct primary goal being not slavish brevity but service to the reader — here the redundancy is a good thing.

(Cf. "ATM machine.")
I think, unfortunately, lots of people can't and don't empathize with our predicament. I feel the same way as you. I hate coworkers who come over to chat and stare at my screen (even though it's just whatever I'm working on). I hate the one guy's air purifier or the office AC constantly running. I hate the temperature being too hot or too cold, not having a good way to put up my feet, not having control over lighting or where I sit. These things make day to day life miserable and hopefully the pandemic will let people like us have greater freedom from these gripes.
If there is high inflation, the Fed will raise interest rates, crashing the housing market. Not saying you're wrong, but there are many factors to be considered.
Covid made it clear that many jobs can be automated
Just because you didn't see any police on your visit doesn't mean there are none.
Verifications typically happen in 2 minutes, oftentimes 30 seconds (for common IDs like state driver’s licenses). And we’re working on making this faster!
As a senior engineer, I've lost a big signal when one of the more junior engineers on my team needs help: being able to see frustrated faces by just looking around. It's much easier to check in and make sure nobody's blocked for too long when we're in the same place. It's resulting in less disruptions for me, but if the cost is the junior devs staying blocked longer, that may not be a net positive.
If your threat model includes "The government is prepared to torture me to obtain my encryption keys", it should also include "The government is prepared to lie and claim they found incriminating evidence on my device, and lock me away forever."

Just make sure that your device doesn't contain information incriminating other people who the government are trying to track down. That means not using real names, or metadata that connects pseudonyms with physical identities (e.g. phone numbers).
Said it in another thread -- SMS's are a tangibly better user experience. You get to say stop in the moment, instead of searching through opaque settings... you can set DND to certain numbers for certain times...

The whole ecosystem is there and very few are playing with it.
They are building a platform where other companies are clearly just selling a product.

Identity verification is definitely something that gets better with more data as more people use it. Pricing low to gain market-share is the obvious move for companies which don't have pressure to show immediate returns.

Maybe it shows a more general difference in ambition between companies in the UK to those across the pond.
This reminds me of how I became a better guitar player by learning piano. I had been playing guitar (classical & metal mostly) for about 15 years before learning piano. Upon learning some basic piano, I found the guitar fretboard came alive in entirely new ways. I believe this to be a result of the piano keyboard having a visually clear and uniform organization of notes, enabling me to "see" how music theory operated in a more visceral way.
What a great idea! The sovereign state could even offer loan guarantees to help stabilize the system during financial crises. Wow, crypto is really turning into a game-changing innovation!
> Do you ever find this makes finding a new job on return difficult?

I am not the same person you asked the question to, but I guess if you work on a couple of hobby projects and actually release those in your break year, you won't have holes in your CV.
Could you leave your email in your bio? Or email me? Definitely interested to learn more about your experience.
It’s Apple’s Internet Now
Nuclear and renewables do not work well together. When you model cost optimized synthetic baseload sources (with renewables, nuclear, and storage), the solutions swap (as assumptions change) from "all renewable" to "all nuclear" with no in-between.
Not sure if this is from intelligent person.
This has value. But I never go anywhere with terrible network conditions, so it has no value to me.
Whats the point of trading and investing in non voting stocks? Personally, I have never been a crypto bull. But the thing is you don't have to get the point, and I don't either. There seems to be a large appetite for risk. Add in to the fact that the risk is outside of (for what we/I know) the control of any one individual entity and it becomes pretty attractive.
"How long until they sunset this for something new?" is the first thing that comes to mind whenever one hears about something Goog did these days.
Most Greek in Assassins Creed Odyssey was archaic. I really enjoyed being able to appreciate the attention they showed on this aspect of the game.
> A host asking you to do something is not Airbnb asking you to do something.

It's not the host asking. In China, AirBnB does, it's a passport form in the app you can't skip.
More americans have migrated to 4chan and Gab. Interesting art, mind expending videos, and news about as accurate as the weather forecast from your grandpa. Apparently, "2 more weeks" boys.
definitely the case in Germany. If you're unemployment and not looking for a job or exempt from it(sickness, poverty, ...), you're going to need to pay on your own.
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I am looking for a fast paced company where I can contribute towards it's growth while polishing my skills.
Frisbee Infinite Loop
Oh great, another API that dodgy sites will try to trick users into giving access to (see also every "do you want notifications from this site?" popup)
Ish. Their mobile experience is notably jankier than discord, but still best in class for IRC.
I work at Stripe, though not on the L10N/I18N or identity teams. It would be tremendously helpful if you could send me some feedback so that we can improve, jlh at stripe dot com.

I'm a native Spanish speaker too, and nothing in this announcement strikes me as unintelligible, but that might be my own biases at play given the familiarity with Stripe's lingo.
That's one hell of year to say "You know, I think banks should be able to choose whatever fractional reserve rate they want"
Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped
It lets them hold the bot author legally liable for malfeasance, which is difficult if you’re only a throwaway Gmail address.
We need dual profiles on phones and computers - that is you can log in to the same account using different passwords and that will land you in a different environment depending on which password you used. You cannot mathematically prove that there may be a second account and thus that gives you a lot of plausible deniability.
Is it too late to push the idea of "files" in today's mobile Internet world? I mean most web content are locked in walled gardens they are not copypastable nor tranferable. Not even editable in a "file" way.
> We all know that once old, the amount of money earned/saved will mean absolutely nothing in terms of happiness/achievement.

I dont think this is true at all. Money in retirement means the difference between mostly maintaining your standard of living after work an “choosing between medicine and food each week”. I think a lot of people saving up and then spending all their savings to party every 5 years are in for a shock when they are 60 and their joints are sore and their knees don’t work and they can no longer make a salary.
Purely hypothetically, if there are string indications that parental socio-economic status influence the chances of their children. And that socio-economic status is somewhat (to strongly) correlated with previous race-influenced policies, is a generation or two of compensating for that "inflicting racial injustice"? Is a failure to compensate for it not explicitly "continuing racial injustice"?

I mean, I literally have no answer. Except, possibly, "yes" and "yes", and "the former is on the whole a lesser evil than the latter"?
>> It would be refreshing if more mainstream fictional media featured them in realistic, three-dimensional portrayals rather than as faceless stereotypes

Yes and no. First, so much media has fallen down when it comes to character development. Then there's the problem of big companies like Disney that are deliberately secular in their content.
Not a sentence I expected to see on HN today. Thank you.
That would make sense. Montgomery similarly advised about China:

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscow”. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: “Do not go fighting with your land armies in China”. It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives.

He reiterated this advice in the NYTimes during the Vietnam war.
Why are you shilling the product you made out of data collection and surveillance if it isn't trendy? What other value proposition is there?
Why some hackers are ditching Bitcoin for a cryptocurrency called monero
We are very specific about collecting consent before doing anything with your data.
We ask for permissions before beginning the verification process, and if you consent, we will only use your biometric identifiers for the verification itself. (And again, those identifiers—which contain the most sensitive info—aren't stored.)
Specifically, we ask for an additional level of permissions before conducting any additional biometric analysis.
https://support.stripe.com/questions/common-questions-about-...
You can actually use Gooey for any arbitrary program or language (if you don't mind configuring a few of your cli arguments in python). Gooey technically just uses Json behind the scenes, but Python remains the most first class way to generate that blob of json.

I wrote a brief guide awhile ago here[0]. For instance, all the screen shots and screen recordings throughout the README are done with a custom wrapper I made with Gooey which just acts as a pretty 'front end' for FFMPEG[0]

[0] https://chriskiehl.com/article/gooey-as-a-universal-frontend
[1] https://github.com/chriskiehl/GooeyVideo
Any iOS notification permits you to "say stop in the moment" - you just swipe on the notification and select "Manage". The options are pretty well thought-out.
It might surprise you, but buildings in places other than the US and Canada now have windows too. By some estimates 95% of the world's windows are outside of US/CA!

(Not that it matters, birds are a pretext, nobody really cares about birds, otherwise outdoor cats as pets would not be a thing.)
One of the nice things about the internet is/was that it requires less bullshit and red tape than many real-life interactions. The internet becoming as bureaucratic and oppressive as, say, international travel, is absolutely a trend - and a very harmful one.
Compared to Florida / Arizona, yes
Learn NLP using libraries from the Hugging Face ecosystem
Make the work fun, and the result something that gives you (quiet) pride: https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/ExyZKbY
Seems handy for building crypto companies
Exactly. This is why Eth has a wildly superior value proposition than pretty much any other coin, because it drives a useful blockchain ecosystem and isn’t just another stagnant store of value…
I used to use Freenode...
There's some discussion on this HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27501659
Just for the avoidance of doubt, Ireland is not part of the UK.
Another entry from our continuing series, "Crytocurrency speedruns re-inventing the last 300 years of finance from first principles"

Part 15: Free Banking Era[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_central_banking_in_...
I guess he/she doesn’t want to write glue code, but solve actual problems in code.
There are a lot of things that used to be pretty normal that no longer are.
Scanning lets you audit for photoshopping and sets a vastly higher bar for counterfeiting. (For example, Blizzard’s name change process requires you to cover irrelevant areas of your ID with actual paper, because no digital editing permitted.)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27503674
I think the hard part is knowing which routine will be appropriate and effective for a given person. What's their existing fitness level/experience? Do they use a gym and if so, what equipment do they have? What are their goals? What's their injury history?

And while adding a likes/ratings/whatever system might be helpful, I'd much rather see a system that considers actual information about people's progress. Did you get stronger? Leaner? Did your mile time improve? Did you get bigger delts? At a high level, for a given goal, routine selection is a contextual bandit problem, but so far as I can tell no one treats it that way.
Great idea!

At some point in the past, I had spent... maybe 10-12 hours putting together a number of bodyweight + dumbbell exercises I picked up from YouTube. I used Giphy to record GIFs of the movement, and saved them all in a Trello dashboard (tagged and everything).

I used it every time I went to the gym to figure out what exercises I could do for a particular muscle group.
I think there's a balance between what they show now and what I'd like them to show, for sure. I certainly do not want GitHub to try to declare what an "official" repository is, in any form whatsoever. GitHub simply is not in a position to make that declaration, philosophically, practically, or any other way.

On the other hand, the network view, which is the closest thing we have right now, is pretty hard to read for the question of "where are active forks right now"? I just sampled them now to make sure I'm not shooting my mouth off, and I think a major problem is that the graph doesn't have a strong visual difference between an active fork with many commits and contributors and someone who happened to commit something yesterday against an old (perhaps "official" fork), and there doesn't seem to be any sensible sorting that I can make out, either. Plus the UI on that thing is just funky in general; I think I see lines going off the right of some of these networks entirely but I can't seem to scroll right or left.

Upshot is, I'd rather they just figured out how to improve that graph, or generally build a "more active forks available here" that can be obtained through a clickthrough, but not have GitHub try to guess at who's "official".
> Since not everyone needs their btc often since they're hodling all the time, the bank could probably lend out more bank_coins than they have bitcoin to help others get access to more assets and get a return on the loans.

I know you're trying to be cute, but the SPDI charter that Kraken Bank has prohibits fractional reserves. Kraken must hold your deposit.
Inversion of control. An idea that could be quite easily implemented by national postal services who already have a database of all addresses.

Instead of an address, you basically use a "PO Box number", which is an opaque handle. When you post it, it goes into the Royal Mail/USPS or whoever and they translate the PO Box into an address and deliver it to you.

Someone still has your address but the post office already have it so it's not much worse.
What I continue to be surprised by is how the left-leaning sources keep denying their liberal bias. Fox news more or less admits to being right-leaning, but CNN is still insisting that they're unbiased, which is almost comical. I think that somehow left-biased types really, honestly, believe they're actually considering both sides of every issue, and just coming to the conclusion that "reality has a liberal bias".
I’ve wondered the same thing but chalked it up to some sort of selection bias.

I always remember Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 [0] and the story of how authoritarian British schools were. I guess there some sort of contingent for making lots of rules and demanding adherence.

There’s a pretty great book called Albion’s Seed [1] by Fischer that goes into the four groups of British people that founded America. The “border” peoples of Scotland/north England were pretty anarchistic and moved to the colonies fleeing British rule. And I think there was quite a bit of rule that resulted in the people who don’t follow rules leaving Britain for the US/Australia/other colonies. So after a few hundred years, that perhaps had an effect on the type of people who stayed.

[0] https://youtu.be/HrxX9TBj2zY

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed
Was the data cached locally in your app?
Maybe this is just my inner American, but what the Irish government is doing is tyrannical. The idea that you must render your secrets to the government just seems anathema to personal liberty. This must run afoul of some human rights commitments the UK has made, no? And, the doublespeak of the quote you mentioned is absolutely repugnant.

Edit: I wrote UK government... I was mistaken and thought of Northern Ireland instead of the Republic of Ireland.
Check out the app Zero to Hero on Android. It has been abandoned by the dev for a few years now, but it has everything I ever wanted in an app.

It has a few well known pre-built routines with different focuses, and then you can build your own if you so desire.

Auto weight progression, easy to use interface, rest timers, graphs, etc.

I still haven't found a replacement.
> Yet both Muslims and Christians are in the news a lot, and there's a lot of political discussion about them.

I'm not sure what your point is? That Muslims and Christians should be grateful that the news media talks about them a bit more than the entertainment media? To be clear, I'm not arguing that any particular group should have more representation; I'm criticizing the media for its increasingly propagandist angles.

> It would be refreshing if more mainstream fictional media featured them in realistic, three-dimensional portrayals rather than as faceless stereotypes, wouldn't you agree?

In general, yes, but that doesn't justify misleading or agenda-driven news media. And in any case, every time people try to "fix" the entertainment media, we end up with awful content (e.g., the GhostBusters reboot) and frankly I don't want to sacrifice that much quality for sake of representation. My wife and I were just talking about how many really good pre-2015 films wouldn't be made today because they don't thrust the characters' race, gender, etc into the foreground.
That still doesn't make much sense if innovation is supposedly easier for small companies.
Mao might be playing Wei Qi, but Jiang definitely is not playing Xiang Qi...

The difference is simply Mao sees a larger China and much better than Jiang. If you look at both men's life experience, you can easily see that Mao won't be nice to intercultural and Jiang will be very harsh to the poor. And in a power struggle, one who effectively mobilize the majority always won.

This by itself will make Mao the winner in the power competition.

As for other aspects, eg, Mao being a better military strategist. It's just a derived results of Mao knows the larger China better than Jiang.