skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I see missing from the conversation is that fact that large corporations are becoming agents of the state, via fear, regulation, and fear of regulation.

I can see Social Media CEO saying "well, I believe in free expression and I would otherwise want to allow this message, but I'm worried what the government will do to me if I do allow it. So instead I will block it."

When a platform blocks some content, some call it "censorship", while others say "hey, it's a private company and they can block what they want to. It's called 'moderation'" - but this may in fact not be something the platform wants to block - it's indirect government censorship.

I wonder how Elon will handle this. Will he be cowed by the government into censoring content they don't like? Or will he ignore them and take his chances?
We really don't know much. The attacker used drugs, his ex partner said the he went away for year and came back a changed person.

He lived in a community with BLM signs and a rainbow flag. He did hemp jewellry.

He registered a website three months ago and only recently filled it with standard extreme right garbage.

This is all so odd that for all we know someone else radicalized him offline, the old fashioned way.
That's cool, I am just vaguely concerned about it. They seem to have tacitly abandoned it in the East Bay area.
It's still mildly uncomfortable depending on how it's used. As a white guy I usually say "they're a black person" or "a person who's black" when referring to a non-specific person. Adding "person" I feel is helpful in the same way it's better to reference "a Jewish person" versus "a Jew"
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Shameless plug but maybe give murex a look. That’s been stable for a while now and does the same thing too.

HTTPS://GitHub.com/lmorg/murex
Who said anything about being the largest? The question was whether they have sufficient data to make predictions about future trends, especially as it applies to their business.
Speaking for myself, it’s not an ARM desktop PC what I need, but an ARM server. Make those highly available and then I’ll start developing/porting my code on ARM.
I know it's true this happens because in a recent round of layoffs, my manager not only found on the very same day, but got fired himself.

During mass layoffs, your immediate manager is often not told in advance in order to stop leaks and also because he/she may be one of the people laid off. (You cannot tell only some managers and leave others out, because managers of the same level talk among themselves. The ones left out would know why).
They mention some truly new things at the very bottom of the article. Specifically there's a new rebate program -- announced Wednesday -- that "could help up to 1.6 million households upgrade their homes and apartments to lower energy bills, including by installing up to 500,000 heat pumps and conducting deep building retrofits through insulation and electrical wiring, according to a White House fact sheet distributed Wednesday."
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It's not free, there's the rub.
> the latest epithet in vogue

These don't happen because they're fun fashion choices. They happen because people are becoming aware. The dynamics may resemble whimsy, but it's more than aesthetics underlying.
Would this analysis also extend to drinks like Kombucha which add more gut bacteria to your body?
that's not a surprise at all...
This is such an adversarial read of things. Some companies do offer employees to quit in exchange for some compensation. It's win-win, the company reduces costs and the employee doesn't work at a place they don't want to be at. The whole "the employee can cause damage to the company" view is ridiculous – guess what, the employee can already do damage to the company while employed there, yet they don't.
There are so many ads on your page.
Just a slow and steady death for Facebook.
Will a similar line of communication be established with other open source distribution platforms (such as F-Droid) that would also like to distribute binaries and call them Signal?
Is it? They probably just haven't had time to update it. Also a lot of times online job listings mean nothing. They are just left up even if they are not actively hiring.
in addition to these, there may be watches without a rebble subscription being used with gadgetbridge which can work without internet
You're not only correct, but Scott effectively acknowledges this. One of the comments on his own Substack is from a person pointing out that his own moderation policies are not in line with this proposed MVP. He has rules that more or less reflect his personal preferences and bans anyone who doesn't follow them (though he leaves up the offending comment).

When asked why, the first reason is he uses Substack and they don't offer this as a feature, and when he was on his own self-hosted site, he didn't have the technical skill to implement it himself. But then he says that even if he could, he wouldn't, because he wants his community to reflect a certain ethos and character that creates a community he actually wants to be a part of.

How he doesn't see the contradiction here, I don't know. But this gets at the core of the issue. Virtually nobody actually wants a free-for-all, even one that is opt-in. But whereas some blogger with a devoted following is allowed the freedom to cultivate his garden, as he has described it in the past, when you get as big as Twitter, the larger public starts to feel like it's their community and they should get to decide, not the owners, or that it's even so big as to be this "de facto public square" people keep calling it, and now it has to just follow the same rules as a government, even though it is a private platform owned by people with their own preferences for what they think the character of the platform should be.

The only fairly large platform I can ever think of that really did adopt the more or less anything that won't get us shut down by the FBI is fair game policy is 4Chan. But if everyone who is so hung up on Twitter being too restrictive is mad about Twitter's policies, 4Chan still exists. Why not just go there? You can't even say it doesn't have reach. There are plenty of users there. Meaningful real world movements have started there. The only thing you lose is the real news doesn't follow and write about 4Chan nearly as much as they do Twitter.
Well expressed thought voyage from problem definition through the solution. Nicely done.
My problem is that they signal that they hire until this layoff. The responsible thing would be to not hire for the last couple of months.
I continue to find it funny that we’ve come to the point where workers are guilted and shamed because they demand more for themselves.

Even if you’re somewhat disciplined about spending you are probably spending $40k a year easily in a higher cost metro on normal everyday expenses/personal travel, leaving you with maybe $20k-$30k to tuck away. Difficult to save up for a family or house on $20k/yr to save/invest.
I belive the viewpoint that many hold that constipation is usually caused by a lack of fiber is often mistaken, and indeed eating a no or low fiber diet can resolve constipation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435786/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15654804/
Ask HN: Non-chronological spatial, data oriented news aggregator
I had an idea for a while that there might be some benefit of accessing curated news and information for a location, that is a town, region or a country, in form annotated map and "BI like" graphs.

By that I mean, both good and bad. For example I want to see all the corruption cases laid against government employees aka politicians for the past 5 years, for cases bigger than 10 million. The annotation on the map would show primary location of the corruption case and when clicked provide data and links to news sites that reported on it.

If you had to make such a platform, what is the framework that you would use?
Yes, you can discover the more useful number of how many people in working condition do not have a job. It's not hidden or anything. But that number is not the unemployment rate.

That means the graph on the article uses the less useful number. And the GP's notice is relevant.
> As an example, we've often been told to eat more fibers to increase "flow"

About 10 years ago I switched overnight from a very meat heavy diet to mostly plant based (I still eat dairy products and one or two servings of fish per week).

Within a week I was shocked at how well my digestive tract was suddenly working. Before that I had no idea how broken it was.

All other factors aside, I could never go back to the slow, uncomfortable digesting process of a typical USA meat heavy diet.
He’s offering advice that differs from what Reddit does in practice. They absolutely ban content rather than behavior. Try questioning “the science” and it doesn’t matter how considerate you are, you will be banned.
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Is it worse to have some condition of your birth used as a casual insult -- a reminder of the generally accepted disfavor of your condition?

Or is it worse to be constantly patronized, behind your back,
by throngs hell-bent on pretending away that generally accepted disfavor (and even Darwin himself)?
will def mention this the next time we chat, thanks for sharing
> Powell has said he believes the tight labor market is driving inflation

No, he has said nominal wage growth is driving inflation. Wages and unemployment are related but not the same thing.
> Operating a private CA ... does not allow me to host my own website that is visitable by a random person on the internet.

It does if they install the CA cert.

UI is not pretty, but not insurmountable on standard browsers, OSs, or phones, and there is no interference unless you are working on a domain-joined Windows PC or your phone is under some sort of MDM.

These UI issues with this process could be resolved by some browser UI work by parties that aren't interested in perpetuating the current status quo and can get past handholding boomers apparently willing to enter bank credentials into anything that moves.

Or just use Gemini.
I think the point is that anyone and/or everyone can be a bad actor in the right circumstances, and moderations job is to prevent those circumstances.
Just signed up and it seems it is not possible to use this on Linux. Disappointing...
Is Linux support planned?
Caddy is just as easier if not easier than that.

> Its just deplorable to me that I now need a third party

You've always needed one or more third parties (ISPs, backbone, ICANN, etc), this is no different.
When you want to do broad company-wide layoffs, you have to adopt some broad strategies, otherwise it'll be way too much work to find 15% of the company. It's like trying to do surgery with a scalpel when you really need a saw to amputate an arm.

Imagine the mechanics if they involved every single low-level manager in decision making. You'd never find 15%. Everyone would justify where a person on their team or their team as a whole deserves to be saved. So you apply broader rules (eg certain products, certain types of jobs, performance based). The upside is that you can avoid people-specific favoritism. The downside is that you lose good people in those areas as you're not distinguishing good from bad.
Recession is mass hysteria just like an economic boom is mass euphoria...
Of the 6 homeless guys on the block around my building, none of them are actually from California. All of them are from the South/Southeast. All of them came for the drugs; 2 of them were bussed here on taxpayer dime by their hometown politicians and the rest came here on their own.
Ask HN: Is Zoom Down?
interesting that's a determined thief. the one who got my cat just used a sawzall.
Doesn't the risk of being overweight completely overwhelm the risk of a not-yet-understood gut flora change?

If you put me in that dilemma, I would choose the artificial sweeteners every single time. So yes. Diets are difficult enough.

But...

Although I distrust all the studies that seem to nudge me into stopping dieting, and the article mentions some of them that are now discredited or impossible to reproduce, I don't simply ignore them. Maybe it's "Big Sugar", as a fellow HNer called it, but maybe not.

Flora disruption seems very real to me. I had to quit Coke years ago (don't ask) and now I've quit sodas alltogether. I don't like coffee, but fortunately caffeine is sold in pills, and much cheaper.

I mention soda specifically because that's what kept me needing sweeteners. Now I drink only water, beer when out with friends, and tea, that unless I'm actively trying to lose weight, I have with one cube or nothing.
Well, based on https://cbldf.org/criminal-prosecutions-of-manga/, it seems you probably can beat the charges, but it will take years and an expensive legal defense. People have been prosecuted and usually take plea bargains, so some amount of jail time can be expected. Simple cases of "manga is child porn! yadda yadda" can probably be overlooked but if the police don't like you for some reason, getting arrested is definitely a risk. Although there is supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty" even getting arrested can disqualify you from many jobs.
What if there was some sort of a store of snaps where you could download vetted packages with a graphical interface. A snap store, if you will.
Your videos are on the extreme end of the quality distribution. I wonder if your observation applies as much to the middle part of the bell curve.
So it would have broken the whole internet for anyone using a UTF-8 domain name and this system would be adopted by no one. It’s like IPv6, using IPv6 doesn’t break anything for anyone not using it. It’s just that if you use ipv6, you can’t talk to half of the internet including this site.
Professional Marketer here.

Don't overthink the website. But the best thing you can do for your SEO is write clearly using words people might actually know. And post decent content on a regular basis. (Prominently featuring happy, recent customers is also a good idea)

Fancy videos are a waste of time IMHO. Good quality documentation or simple walkthrough videos are just fine.

Start promoting it everywhere, but unless your customers are obsessive over the product, it can take time and money to make social media work.
Pretty sure they're referring to the word 'literally'. Especially since it's by itself after a comma, looks like there's emphasis on it.

That word changes the meaning of the phrase in front of it quite a bit.
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Many people think of the labor participation rate is just the % of working among the adults working age population who could be employed if good jobs were available to them.

In reality, the divisor includes college students, the highly disabled, happy housewives/househusbands, trust fund brats and, most importantly, the elderly/retired. Essentially everyone age 16 and over. Not 19, not 21, 16. I.e. it includes juniors and seniors in HS and college students.

The demographic shifts in the US means the labor force participation rate will, by necessity, decline.
Apple has put hiring freezes in place for the next year, insiders say
Obviously. Uber has always been a non business. Important question is those who started this, did they make a shit ton of money. Answer: yes. That's all that matters.
It sounds like a insurmountable problem. What makes this even more interesting to me is that HN seems to have this working pretty well. I wonder how much of it has to do with clear guidelines of what should be valued and what shouldn't and having a community that buys in to that. For example one learns quickly that Reddit-style humor comments are frowned upon because the community enforces it with downvotes and frequently explanations of etiquette.
> They also threw food on some of the paintings - whether or not they were aware of a protective glass pane beforehand is unknown

Probably were, since as far as I can tell it's a stunt with no real intent to destroy anything.

> and at least in one case glued themselves to a 16th century picture frame, itself a priceless cultural artefact.

That's definitely not good.
This could also be the headline of a Onion article.
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A fun idea that I'm certain no one has considered with any level of seriousness: don't moderate anything.

Build the features to allow readers to self-moderate and make it "expensive" to create or run bots (e.g., make it so API access is limited without an excessive fee, limit screen scrapers, etc). The "pay to play" idea will eliminate an insane amount of the junk, too. Any free network is inherently going to have problems of chaos. Make it so you can only follow X people with a free account, but upgrade to follow more. Limit tweets/replies/etc based on this. Not only will it work, but it will remove the need for all of the moderation and arguments around bias.

As for advertisers (why any moderation is necessary in the first place beyond totalitarian thought control): have different tiers of quality. If you want a higher quality audience, pay more. If you're more concerned about broad reach (even if that means getting junk users), pay less. Beyond that, advertisers/brands should set their expectations closer to reality: randomly appearing alongside some tasteless stuff on Twitter does not mean you're vouching for those ideas.
Unless you generate more than $10 from the account. For example in presidential election years in the US billions is spent in advertising the elections. A few PACs would gladly throw cash at astroturf movements on social media even at the risk of being banned.
Twitter used to like 10 years ago but killed them all.
So wait, is this another Olestra? Guess it depends on what kind of response you get in the gut.
thought the two-factor SMS post was interesting as well!

links like these are one of the reasons why I love HN.
Fine, here is a direct example, from the Bank of Ireland security website:
https://www.bankofireland.com/security-zone/fraudster-tactic...
"They may claim that your account has been compromised and ask you for your bank card or bank account details"

The GENERAL (I will super emphasize this word this time - G.E.N.E.R.A.L) advice from financial institutions for a very long time has been that scammers want your personal information, so to stay safe you should not give bank info to strangers. They also reccommend avoiding bank transfers, money grams and other such things and only using secure card payments.

Again, this is GENERAL advice, if someone wants someone else to send them money they can of course give them their account number and get the money transfered, I never said there was anything wrong with bank transfers, just that the GENERAL advice is to avoid them, they are often associated with scammers.

There was a prank call show on tv about 10 years ago called fonejacker (UK tv) and one of the characters used to ring people up and ask for their bank account details (example sketch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3zhzT1wDo ) and funnily enough, no one that I recall ever gave them out.

If 2 people want to make a transaction via bank transfer they can, but the GENERAL advice has always been to avoid them and don't be handing out bank details to strangers. Obviously, "dont give bank details to strangers" is not an exact quote from a financial institution, it is just the GENERAL theme of the overall advice to avoid being scammed.
I think this happens to far more than just 1-2% of users, and re-synching the inbox every few weeks is nothing a paying customer should have to do.

These issues have been around since I started using bridge 3 yrs ago. So im sorry but my patience is running out soon.

I just renewed my yearly membership, but if these bugs concerning the MAIN FEATURE of proton arent taken care of in the next few months than i will be looking for alternatives.
If you break down the latest jobs report by industry. You’ll see jobs are declining in all sectors but hospitality and transportation.
Okay... this is like the 6th knowledge base app I see on HN in the past month. Can you explain how this is different from all the alternatives please?
Because, we have a supply recession, not a demand recession. We haven't had one in living memory (except, kind of, the oil supply shocks in the 70's), so we don't seem to recognize it. Some people think it obviously feels like a recession is happening, but others point to things like this graph to say that it sure doesn't look like it.

But that's because this measures demand for labor, not supply. We are seeing a broad-based depression of economic activity, caused by supply problems, and the supply of labor is one of those problems. We've aged, a lot of boomers retired a bit early at the onset of the pandemic, and there are a lot more people on disability than we once had. The labor force participation rate has never returned to pre-pandemic levels, and even that was low by 21st century standards:

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

Ominously, most of what world governments have been doing to try to help the economy, has been about goosing demand. In a supply recession, that's like giving an electric blanket and a hot drink to somebody with a dangerously high fever...
Maybe this is lazy commenting, but do we actually have any evidence that the bacteria in kombucha even makes it to your gut biome?
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That's why the local newscaster still remains an important component of modern free press; this provides for identifiable aspect of credibility with regard to news transmittals.

But, what do I know outside of Civic 101.
that'd cause an org wide panic, and you might lose key personel in your actually profitable business units. cutting costs at this scale is not just reducing employees, it's getting rid of employees who are working in areas you need to cut. the secrecy lets management retain control.
We created avenues for open source / community participation in AOM that did not require people to pay any money. Specifically, Mozilla sponsored the membership of VideoLAN, which in theory anyone could join, and a number of people did and do participate through that organization.
Great imagery, I am imagining houseboats on this mystical
Unpolluted River, too.
It's pretty awesome in terms of taste - it's just a bit less sweet but tastes just like sugar. I didn't find too much info on impact but it seems pretty safe. And you can really use it as a sugar, it even caramelizes. I use it to make home made sugar free ice cream with real sugary consistency. But for me personally, having too much of it makes my stomach rebel.
If you keep reading it says that there are automated flagging operations which enable third actor surveillance