skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federal law prohibits discrimination based on:
race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, and handicap. Not political belief or outlook on the absolute state of things.
A national news outlet such as the BBC is obliged to be accurate and clear, factually and in its use of legal terminology. Both the BBC headline and the amended one above encourage a partisan interpretation of the case that is not clearly supported by the given facts, sparse as they are.

1) The word "troll," for example. That invokes a specific meaning of an individual who deliberately provokes strife for the sake of it. A heated disagreement may be deeply unpleasant for one or both parties, but we do not normally understand the actions of either party to be "trolling."

2) The word "damages" is generally taken to mean compensation decided by a judge or jury following a verdict. It appears that this was an out of court settlement without admission of liability. There can be many reasons apart from genuine liability for which a party may opt to settle.
Nothing like a good race to the bottom to ruin an entire industry
I strongly oppose the notion that one can be healthy/fit at every size, and I don't view claims that overweight people should lose weight as intrinsically body-shaming, but I still think this is a good move.

Those who are buying ads on Pinterest for weight loss aren't doing so out of good will and a desire for people to be healthier - they're doing so to generate profit. They have no interest in actually helping a person change their lifestyle so as to lose weight, keep it off, and become healthier, as those people do not make for repeat customers. Also it's harder to sell a "lifestyle change" (i.e. the information one could use to go from being overweight to a healthy weight) than it is to sell ineffective and sometimes dangerous alternatives such as diet pills and plans.
> Without showing how that compares to normal, they might as well not mention it at all

The article shows how that compares to normal
> The USSR was actually very successful, especially during Stalin’s time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...

Curious definition of "success".

Guess that must all be "propaganda" too.
This ban is a critic of how to address excess weight commercially.

> Ads promoting healthy lifestyles, habits or fitness services and products are still allowed on the platform if they do not "focus on weight loss."

“Get thin fast” products do more harm than good, so they’re banning the messaging typically used by that family of goods.
I guess it depends on whether or not you think weight loss ads drive health. I certainly do not.
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Two notes:

1) Shaming is a bad idea, even in that case. We see this in all manner of public health policies - shame isn't particularly effective as a motivating tool. It also leads to poor outcomes - like people with obesity getting measurably worse care and skinny people being under-tested for heart disease and diabetes because those are "fat people diseases".

2) Not all weight loss is the same. Carefully constructed diet and appropriate exercise tailored to your goals under the supervision of a doctor? Great. Some pill from an unregulated supplement manufacturer? Not great.

As a professor of mine once put it, the swiftest way to drop your BMI is to suddenly have one leg and both arms amputated. But few of us would say that's healthy weight loss.
Weight loss is something you should go speak to a trainier or a nutritionist about.

There is no shortcut or product. It’s calories in, calories out based on your resting metabolism + activity. Do not eat processed foods.

Unprocessed whole foods, lots of fiber and micronutrients.

There is no one best specific diet for everyone. There is no one best specific exercise regime. You figure it out from trial and error.

We don’t need ads for this stuff.
To clarify, there are exceptions bit the vast majority of people are overweight because of metabolic imbalances like high cortisol and insulin resistance. There is no way to escape that without addressing the root causes. Maybe your father did, this is an achievement. I wish hin all the best.
I'm almost surprised you are allowed to disclose those facts to us today.
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Courts have generally held that the paramount first-amendment right is the right NOT to speak. The government can't force Facebook to let other people commandeer its megaphone. This has been clearly decided in caselaw that the judge quoted amply in his decision. This also isn't new to social media - just because a newspaper has a "letters to the editor" section, doesn't obligate them to publish every letter they receive, or even to be fair and unbalanced in the choice of letters that they do publish.
They aren't banning ads for vegetables or gym memberships. They're just banning what I assume are mostly scams and fake supplements.
It is tough starting from very little and when your family has very few financial reserves - to deny this is disingenuous.

You have fewer resources, less influential contacts, less social standing, and are viewed as more of a credit risk. You may be viewed as easy meat by competitors. You cannot afford the same premises or advisors or equipment and when you are short of cash there is no bailout buffer. You have more obligations and less time to rest. You are likely to be more stressed and if you get ill, you will struggle.

This sucks - big time. It is going to mean that quite often less competent or industrious people are going to enjoy greater success and prosperity.

But you cannot let that consume you. You can still do a great deal by using your initiative and using the opportunities that are available to you. Because, it is possible to succeed even from very humble beginnings - I have known quite a few people do so.

And work with good people. Find intelligent, hard working types who appreciate where you are at and what you are trying to do and who will have your back. Work with these people - make sure you have their back too.

With the right allies it may cost each of you half the time and half the pain to improve your financial situations by 100% compared to going solo.

With the wrong 'allies' you are committing suicide, so drop them. Whilst people can be your greatest assets, they will generally also be your biggest liabilities.

Statistically, even with changes affecting government and society, more people are likely to be of below average wealth.

So, if you want to pursue a system-wide level of change, I suspect that a measured approach to doing so would be wisest, using opportunities as they arise, focusing on your immediate circumstances first and being aware that the tangible outcome for yourself can be very hard to control.
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It really irks me because “owning” it in that way flies in the face of cryptocurrency’s supposed raison d’être: anonymous decentralized currency. Dogecoin held at RH is none of those things.
Microsoft just announced being able to run Android apps on Win 11. Related in some way?

Will Win11 use the Play Store listings or something else?
Ads in question are most likely not about treadmill but high-margin supplements / meal substitutes with dubious results.
I agree and I hear these anecdotal success stories. What I'd be more than happy to do is add some time series which are considered to be in Prophet's strong suit, to see where they end up on leaderboards like
https://www.microprediction.org/stream_dashboard.html?stream...
However the skeptic in me thinks that prophet might be performing a bit of a trick (not in any evil way) on the user ... convincing them visually that something is being done when really, the generative model means you have to get really lucky for it to add value. Happy to be convinced otherwise!
I've interviewed with them 2 times, and had poor experiences each time. I'm sure I had my own imperfections surface during the interviews, but I've experienced hundreds of interviews at other companies, and I can safely say these were poor.

Maybe I was mostly unlucky, but it left a poor experience on me, and I have no desire to work at Amazon. On the other hand, I had really good experiences at Microsoft. shrugs
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You are aware of the "troubles" ?

I am assuming good faith here but there are para militaries on both sides that make Trumps most headbanging supporters look like boy scouts.

Their idea of "legitimate political criticism" goes a bit further than you would like.
What do you mean by numerics?
"From Thursday, manufacturers will have to make spares available to consumers, with the aim of extending the lifespan of products by up to 10 years, it said"

Whoah. Can you imagine trying to make sure your iphone 4 still worked today?

I'm all for right to repair, but that seems a bit excessive, no?
Don't see a lot of ads for broccoli online
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I suppose Venus has a different enough thermal spectrum due to surface temperatures being 3x Earth's, roughly 900K vs 300K.

Also, Venus must have a big enough sulfur line in the atmosphere, which is absent in Earth atmosphere.

Probably Mars and Earth could be considered close, save for the oxygen line, but not Venus and Earth,
The ternary is new. Before, one could use the merge intrinsic function to write

y = merge(a(i), -Huge(y), i>=1 .And. i<=Size(a))

but this is risky, because merge does not short-circuit, and the program could crash if i < 1. The ternary syntax

y = (boolean ? expression_1 : expression_2)

only evaluates one of the expressions.
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I don't think so, especially if it's nominally part of a trial. US Ebola drugs and vaccines were used in Africa before approval.
Your first sentence is a personal opinion.
For instance: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/an-epidemic-of-...
Ugandans paying new tax for using the internet
Right so you have to purchase your fractional shares on your next platform, which I guess would only amount to the fractions so maybe not a huge deal if you have 100.5 of a stock you're only losing the .5, but it could add up if you have a really diverse portfolio.
But are you the exception or are you the norm? I agree that if you seek out the right information - you can learn about all the safety concepts. I would say climbing is fairly intuitive and follows some basic rules.

But I've seen my fair share of people setting up american death triangle or threading ropes directly through the metal anchor. I've seen people using daisy chains as personal anchor device or taking hands off the grigri.

I fall on the side of holding people back is better - but who knows, maybe not
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Not only that, but the gas stains actually close at night because it's not profitable to staff the early hours. I've almost been stranded before due to this.
I might be biased because my mom fell victim to snake oil weight loss treatments on the Internet that sent her to hospital. Some of these advertisements are for 'medicines' that are so aggressive and lacking in proper dosage practices that they can cause permanent/chronic damage. The dose maketh the poison, and with little oversight these advertisers specialize in peddling poisons with little accountability.

I'm inclined to believe this is a net positive, honestly. Think about how this can affect:

* Less tech savvy and skeptical people.

* People who don't understand medicine well.

* Different geos that are harder to monitor for safety violations and false advertisement. This stuff is huge in Latin America -- does Pinterest really have the bandwidth to monitor these ads in all their geos? What about different legalities by geo?

* People with eating disorders whose user experience is degraded by this kind of advertisement.

Etcetera. Facebook gets constantly lambasted for their poor moderation -- this is a healthier pre-emptive attitude than theirs, I think.
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Before 2100 this pathetic violence suppressed species will be eliminated. Humans are shit. Au revoir!
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She's not alone. Robert De Niro is as much if not more responsible.
It covers before and after the final decision. Most of the text is about how people are supposed to be tenacious and not compromise for the sake of social cohesion.
Why can't low interest rates be good for tech stocks, but also all the innovation in the 90s be good for tech stocks?

It appears like you're saying that only one of these can possibly be good for tech stocks.

Why not both?

How do you know tech stocks couldn't have done much better in the 90s under different monetary conditions (ZIRP and a Federal Deficit of 35% of GDP)?
You're not wrong, but nobody that's advertising on Pinterest is helping fix the problem.

Some people can handle their own weight loss, by intentionally altering their relationship to food.

Some people need actual medical help, either counseling, surgery, or something else that has been proven effective to the standards of the FDA.

Nobody needs a bottle of FatBlaster 9000, which has an equal chance of being sawdust or caffeine. And nobody needs to be assaulted by "before and after" shots of two different models who have both been photoshopped to hell and back, presenting an unrealistic idea of what is possible and/or healthy.
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Jokes are difficult to pull off well on HN. Worst downvotes I ever get are when I'm joking.
It is my (layman, not-a-lawyer, possibly incorrect) understanding that, if they were to state that they did not allow a protect class to join and banned all members of that class from joining, they would encounter significant legal issues. Which would most likely be avoided by just enacting the policy silently (risky) or becoming an invite-only service (probably legal).
Does this remind anyone else of the high APR (20-30%) credit cards offered to college students? I remember a table set up outside the main dining hall where they pitched getting started building that credit history ASAP.
Now it's about building that portfolio ASAP and offering it to the most risk-tolerant age demographic. Subtly updated buying whatever you want on credit and worrying about whether you could afford it later, to buying into whatever risky position you want and worrying about covering it later.
I’m not too fond of that narrative, partly because I don’t think it’s true (top percentile don’t need much more than some encouragement / acceptance), and partly because “we have to prioritize our resources and it’s more important to help the bottom percentile” is used as an excuse to hold the top percentile back (or used to be, in Sweden at least).
>surely they'd be happier with a smoother UX experience compared to a competitors offering.

Apparently not? That's my point, that these large TV manufacturers must have enough insight to know if something simple like that would be economical.
There's a glut of lawyers, despite all of the gatekeeping and credentialing in that industry. Don't think you can blame it on the ABA for that. Not sure if they're the ones behind exorbitant law school tuitions either. Not to mention, that's only one profession out of several. What has the IEEE done against you lately?
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Private companies have the ultimate decision of what speech they allow on their platforms. This has always been true. The right of free speech includes also the right to not speak - no private platform can be compelled to publish speech that they don't want to publish; doing so would be a violation of their first amendment right to dictate how they speak and don't speak.
Where I live there are many doctors who don't want to talk with their patients about their weight.

Talking about weight has become off limits for many and this isn't good for them or society.

According to the CDC [1]:

> Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. These are among the leading causes of preventable, premature death.

On a personal level, all these health problems suck. In addition to these, obese and even overweight folks have less energy and vitality than they would otherwise have. That sucks, too.

On a societal level, there are so many costs that go along with the healthcare for these.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland#Public_opinion

The people of Northern Ireland disagree, and we ought to leave it to them.
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