jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think this is going to divide into "has kids, is aware of a concern and loco parentis tends to agree" and "everyone else" -Not that shielding kids works but the concern is there. It takes a lot of fortitude to say no, to the proposition about potential harm to young minds. A LOT of women are now on record saying their first sexual experience is negative, and highly informed by stupid expectations of behaviour in desire, fuelled by porn.

The alternate past choices of "keeping kids offline would be better" not existing, being in denial about the corrosive effects of ubiquitous access to pornography have to be at least discussed.

It may be not dissimilar to the alcohol/cannabis debate: Not harmful to everyone, but harmful enough to a significant minority at risk of lifetime problems we need to talk about it.

The key problem isn't really require-ID. Its who has access to the ID. Thats going to be the primary concern.

Had the whole covid-checkin thing not been royally trashed (many economies report police assumed legal right to check it for location/ID despite government statements to its privacy integrity) perhaps this would have had an easier run in the general public. I doubt anyone believes this data will or can be kept secret/private any more.
The same way Open Source benefits from the NSA's current and former contributions.
> I would like to know the author's opinion on whether or not women could be more censorious of harmful discrimination due to experiencing more of it in their lives first-hand than men do.

That was my first thought, too. It would be interesting to see similar studies done with regard to race, gender identity, etc.
The latest one was basically the same as that video, but in text. Something along the lines of "the election was stolen, but go home now."
I don't think you can even use the same Signal account on two different iOS devices, much less desktop. Their desktop apps just link to the phone's app.

WhatsApp is a total joke, it loses media (IIRC this includes audio messages as well) people send you after a very short time even when you use it on a single device, so talking about multi-device usage is completely out of the overton window.
> How can we spread this sentiment towards services like email and chat too?

We can't, because those two things are in direct opposition. Piracy was less convenient and offered fewer features that people wanted, so they moved to platforms that were more convenient. The current giants (Gmail, Facebook, WhatsApp...) are more convenient than their alternatives (generic email, Mastodon, Signal...) and so the pressure is not to move, but in fact to stay.

In general, the pressure is always decentralised->centralised, which is exactly what torrents->Netflix was. Even if we had infinite funds to offer people distributed services for free forever, we would still need to make them more convenient than their current centralised ones - if on top of not being more convenient, we also want to charge them, I see no reason why the average person would ever want to switch.
Or because of the incompetence of those in charge people just don’t take the lockdown seriously...
Speaking only for myself, I think your opinion is idiotic based on some simple back of the envelope math I did many months ago (when the UK announced its herd immunity plan), relating to hospital capacity, likely peak case numbers, proportion of cases that would need hospital treatment or die and some simple minded guesses about knock-on effects for the rest of the health system. I have not bothered to redo these calculations in the light of current evidence (some things have gotten better, others have gotten worse), but I remain sceptical that anyone numerate who spent one or two hours trying to work out the likely results of your advocated policy would arrive at similar conclusion as to the best course of action as you did.

So let me ask: on what basis did you arrive at your opinion?

[Edit: HN comment from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578742]
Personalized ads.
I think they are both true, but the second is worded differently than I would.

I think ads can work, but don't in many cases (based on recent stories that cancelling certain kinds of ad spend has no effect on outcomes). In some cases, like Uber advertising to get users, this seems entirely plausible.

So I largely think ads themselves are kind of harmless. But ad-backed business models are dangerous, because they optimize for "engagement", which tends to promote content that is divisive over more thoughtful, nuanced content. Sadly, it also seems to require gathering huge amounts of information about users in a centralized spot, which seems risky for a variety of reasons.

The whole thing reminds me of a call I got about 10 years ago to participate in a survey about smoking, and one of the questions they asked was "Do you believe nicotine causes cancer?" I paused because my understanding is that nicotine itself doesn't cause cancer, but the common delivery mechanisms at the time (smoking, dipping) do increase the risk of cancer. They forced me to answer yes/no, so I said "no", but obviously a decade later, I still remember it. Do ads cause harm? Probably not much, taken on their own. But everything _around_ them seems to.
Doesn't need to be intentional, the fact that when the mistake was shown after the fact, the best they could do is invalidate tens of thousands of votes, which very likely were for one candidate, shows how the win was stolen from him.
Ubuntu on my dell latitude, running 10.10, doesn't handle unplugging/switching primary monitors. So I am far less confident that the parent post's issue will be fixed anytime soon...
Does that mean that cold-processed powder might work well?
I am always surprised in hearing that American students need a programmable, graphing calculator. In most of Asia such is not required, only a much cheaper 'scientfic' calculator, even for graduate courses in science and engineering.

Some disciplines even in sciences/engineering, for example Computer Science, does not require any sort of calculator usually.
That is an unexpected definition of "diversity"
Updates have to be opted into.
What I don't understand is why the road isn't an easement by necessity on the land with the dominant estate being the public beach. If the beach were private property the owner of the beach could certainly claim an easement exists and that the servient estate (Khoslas) illegally terminated the easement. Is there some kind of exclusion for easements by necessity for public lands?

Edit: fixed autocorrect
Very smooth experience, this is really easy to use and unobtrusive. Kudos on launching this and best of luck with it!
The the question arises why did he (Sam Altman) step down?
"Theft of services" requires obtaining a service without payment. Obtaining digital goods would therefore not qualify.

Copyright and copyright infringement are defined in specific sections of law. Any comparison to another area of law (theft, theft of services, piracy, patent or trademark infringement, or homicide) will of necessity be inaccurate.

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Good point, I'm more interested in "Things I need to think about" right now though. I guess I'll research 'how to write a business plan' a bit more.
At the speed at which prices are falling in that industry, that subscription will probably get cheaper or go away with time, so it might be a better deal than it looks if you only extrapolate costs linearly.
Thanks! I just sent you an email looks like I can't do it from NY.

If anyone has any ideas what I can do, here is the email I sent him:

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Hey Christian,

Thanks for the email and willing to do this for me. I just checked to see if I can pay with paypal, it only gives option to pay by card. If I get money on paypal then I will have to transfer it to my bank account and the process takes about 4-5 days (last time I tried it) by then the deal, which is valid till the 29th, will expire.

To make things worse, in the process of doing the checkout I was informed that they have a legal issue for shipping spit samples to NY. :( http://i.imgur.com/hYgzw.png

I might be out of luck for now. But thanks for the offer. I really appreciate it!

Cheers,
pavs

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You raise the single greatest most valid point yet! It's not about those who download it and try it. It's about stickiness. Now, Angry Birds apparently has its fans (I'm not one just because I find the whole genre bland) but I know from experience that I'll down lite versions on my iPhone, often ad supported, try them out, and maybe purchase 5% of them as full, ad-free versions. The rest get dumped off the phone. Same goes with XBLA (Xbox) games. I've downed many trials but purchased only 1.

It's all about live installs... not just downloads.
I didn't watch it, but somehow I think I could have digested the information a lot quicker than watching a 48 minute video. A nice webpage or document, maybe with a few code snippets, and it would be much quicker to take in and understand, I'm sure.
The biggest thing that comes to mind is native clients for every computer and device I own (PC with both Windows & Linux on dual-boot, Mac desktop & laptop, iPod Touch, iPad), complete with nice file browsers, integrated media playing, etc. I was going to put that in my original comment, but thought it was somewhat obvious: at first glance, it seems to me that this would require the most work if you wanted to actually clone Dropbox.

That, and the nicely designed website, marketing copy, clever social/viral features, etc.
It's probably worth getting if you're a woman or have a known family history of a genetic disease. 10% of women end up getting breast cancer, and this is sometimes due to a BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutation. You can take preventative steps if you know this.
I think the rot set in the moment they partners with larger companies in order to make their products. Nowadays, with Kickstarter and cheap Chinese manufacturing, they could have gone it alone, and not have had to compromise on their vision.
They make that in probably the time I took to write this comment. Source: used to work there.
> Australia and NZ's risk profiles are different from pretty much anywhere else in the world right now.

Fiji hasn't had a single covid case in the wild in a year, with all our covid patients being detected in quarantine and isolated until recovery.

No bubble with us though. The Aussies get it first.
You had me nodding along until last paragraph, where I can’t help but ask you to remind me what the population of AUS is, and the population density. Aren’t you also on an island with relatively harsh immigration policies?

Obsessively cleaning bags from the grocery store and cereal boxes may not be the explanation for why your COVID experience seems saintly compared to contiguous regions with 10x the population and 40-50x the population density.

Not saying it isn’t horrific out here, but not all of us live on a desert island in Oceania. :/ Greenland has faired even better than AUS but I doubt it’s because they have better surface disinfecting practices, just less surfaces and people in general compared to AUS.
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It really is not possible to discuss legitimate failures of this labour government without one of you "9 long years" losers showing up. Give it a rest, it's been 4 long years already.
https://t.me/s/fbleaks
That only holds for numbers already part of the dump. If you submit an unknown phone number that is not contained in the leak, hashing it before sending it will increase data privacy.
Speaking as someone from a country outside NZ, your government has succeeded on by far the _most_ important measure: They have eliminated covid 19

Most of the rest of the world are still in some form of lockdown and have been on and off for over a year
If you like this a bit more formalized, take a look at Semantic Versioning ( http://semver.org/ ).

That's one of my primary issues with Ruby.
From what I understand they're not targeting die hard email users, they are targeting a much younger demographic, probably ideally around age 17 and heading off to University.

This is a dangerous game, targeting the youth - they're not very sticky, and it's hard to lure the next generation in when the last generation is sitting there making your service look uncool. If anything, I'd say going after the kids is most effective for a new service, because it will pull the adults in later; going the other way is tough.

My generation saw the cycle play out twice already, with AOL and MySpace: "Wow this is cool, check it out!" to "Sweet, everyone's on here!" to "Hmm, my sixty year old aunt twice removed just sent me a message...that's kind of strange" to "Really, you still have an account there?".

Now, maybe Facebook will be stickier because it's reached such critical mass, but I wouldn't necessarily bet the farm on it - the behind-the-times folks are almost all signed up and spamming friend requests to everyone they know, parents are insisting that their kids friend them, and a lot of the early adopters of my generation are getting disgruntled, wishing that they weren't forced to use Facebook just because everyone else does.

I can't help but wonder if there might just be a natural ebb and flow from one new social network juggernaut to the next, as the last winner begins to suck more and more due to its unchecked growth...
The alternative track is 'research scientist'. That's the title where you get to play on the company's dime. Unfortunately, it usually requires a PhD and have a strong publication history.
Yes, but you generally don't just care about recovering a password that happens to hash the same, so you can use it against a given service; if you've already managed to get hold of their hashed passwords, you usually have considerable control already. The non-recoverability of hashes comes into play when you consider that people reuse passwords on other sites, so if you could reverse all the password hashes for one site, it's conceivable that you could get into the users' accounts on another site. But if you're not recovering the original string, the chance of the password hashing the same way on another site is slim. Of course, so is the chance of a collision in the first place, making all of this purely theoretical in the end.
in even 3 months that employee has formed social bonds with a lot of people in the company. keeping everyone happy is good business. if someone is not working out, you should act quickly rather than slowly.
I wrote something similar a while ago as a bit of an experiment - again, it uses Readability and jsdom.

It's slow because there's a lot of unoptimised code in jsdom which makes certain DOM manipulations pretty slow. It's early days for this stuff.

So in lieu of them open sourcing their code, which is almost certainly more robust, here it is:

https://github.com/tomtaylor/thelma
The number of poor products that quote has been used to justify...
I just read about another prototyping tool that was exactly this, except Apple sent their army of lawyers and shut them down.

If you like this, BUY NOW, because I forsee a similar fate befalling them once Apple gets wind.

EDIT: Huh, I didn't notice the little 3M thing there, and the official Post-It logo before. I guess these are a legitimate licensed product.

...which would explain why that other one got banhammered.
His show about World Cup in Brazil was a real eye-opening for a lot of brazilians. It was shared a lot around here and it was the best way available to explain what was wrong with Wordl Cup and FIFA. I don't know about any "real impact" other than making people more informed about what was happening, which is a great deal, as the local media wasn't able to accomplish it.
Radically functional... unless your intention is to use it as a work truck.
If an overwhelming percentage of the population disagrees with the Supreme Court on something, they can of course pass a constitutional amendment. For example, if enough people didn't like the Obergefell v. Hodges decision (gay marriage), a constitutional amendment could presumably (IANAL) have been passed that said states can only recognize marriage between a man and a woman.(This may get into state sovereignty issues but not important for this discussion).

Now, as a practical matter, the Supreme Court is a political creature and tends not to stray too far from popular opinion. Thus, the decision above was possible in 2015. It's likely not a right they'd have "discovered" in 1980.

However, the Supreme Court has certainly made decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education that were almost certainly not majority opinion even in many relatively liberal locations.
I don't think it's just that; I think that in America, there's this huge belief system that focuses on individuals, self-reliance, etc - and the flip side of that is a the belief that if you commit a crime, well, you've made your bed, and that bed is in a prison cell, and you'll be sleeping there for a really long time.
Looks like there's a shim: https://github.com/openpeer/ortc-js-shim
Looks like there were transfers out of the hot wallet addresses starting yesterday morning sometime. $6M US: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/2rd8h8/daily...
many UberX drivers are driving without proper insurance, a misdemeanor offense

And if that is the case, then Uber's current business model requires that drivers do this. I wonder how much it would cost Uber to increase the insurance coverage such that there is no doubt that a driver is properly insured at all times, and why they have no done this so far.
It will likely cause purchases of the device that would not otherwise happen.

In the US, your advertising is required to be truthful, or at worst, vague claims. Those images are neither.

Now I honestly believe Jobs misunderstood the science, as he's a suit, not an eye doctor/etc, but they shouldn't repeat that anymore now that they've been corrected until they can show their claim is true.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but SF isn't the only city in the US.
Once it's built out, a portion of society is forced to dedicate their careers and extract public funding just to maintain the existing status quo of the infrastructure.

Consider what a large city budget could be spent on if a large portion of it didn't go towards maintaining the roads, maintaining the streetlights and accompanying infrastructure, and hiring extra police force to properly cover the expanded driving area.
I don't know much about either company but I have heard MailChimp sponsoring some podcasts. So that is something to consider.
Sure, but then the question becomes... Where does "I" start and end? For example, the air in your lungs, is that part of "I"? If it is, where does it stop being part of "I"?
I use a pen when I read. I underline important bits and actually write down the key points in the margin. Writing these things down helps memory and I don't really care about leaving the pages in the same state that I found them. Also I don't always have a notebook with me, and I do this to my own books only. I just don't care about "ruining" a book -- I want the knowledge!

Of course you might not want to borrow some of my books when I leave them in this state -- they look like study aids from a med school study-a-thon. But whatever trick YOU find that helps you pound knowledge into your brain is worth it.
Just a minor nitpick regarding your last paragraph, this is no longer the case. Intel is now significantly cheaper after they heavily cut prices across the board.

For instance, you can now get an i7-10700K (which is roughly equivalent in single thread and better in multi thread) for cheaper than a R5 5600X.
I have never said that it was useful :o I work with SQL Server, and I have been always amazed that DDL aren't transactional in Oracle. And it's supposed to be a "serious" database. That and the empty string being equals to NULL, but I think they 180 on that point in the recent years.
This seems counterintuitive to me, especially when a company is near bankruptcy. Are you saying that a company who is facing insolvency decides that the best thing to do with their cash is to buy shares of their own stock. Future creditors will look at that as a signal that they will be able to make their payments? Wouldn't it be a better show of confidence to fund the projects they are asking creditors to finance themselves?

I'm not disagreeing that stock buybacks are an effective tool and that they can benefit employees. I just don't see how they are helpful for companies facing bankruptcy.
ITT: K8s is great because it frees us from the tyranny of Big Cloud providers.

Also ITT: Oh, but of course k8s is totally unusable unless you buy it from a Big Cloud provider.
Exactly this. I've had as many "serendipitous hallway conversations" in the last year as I had in the years before - just this time, they happened on IM, on videocalls, and in code review comments.

A small group of co-workers willing to sometimes go off a tangent in a conversation is all it takes. Doesn't have to be face to face, much less in a hallway or in front of a water cooler.
Please don’t ask people to invest valuable time in listening to a podcast without also providing a simple answer to their question. This is a text forum.
I'm not an expert but I think the 'higher than market rate' part is tough because you're offering services.

In non-commercial terms, it's a nicely appointed doorman building with utilities included and an indoor gym vs a no frills apartment.

So you can expect to pay more - the question is how much more.

For the wework tenant, the cost/benefit should include the price of outfitting an office as well as internet and the benefits the perks provide for employee satisfaction, recruitment and retention. So if you can put a value on that and push it over the time period of the lease, you can do the math on how much more you'd be willing to pay.

For the company running the offices, a lot depends on what deals you can cut with building ownership - for example, a lot of buildings will give you 6-12 months or more free while you remodel, so if you get that done quickly you end up with 3-6 months free; you can use that over the life of the lease to increase margins or have space where you can offer rebates to your customers as well; though that depends on how quickly you can fill the offices.

This was one of the things that I think is killing wework - they started signing deals with buildings without negotiating hard and they gave too much stuff away in contracts with their own customers.