skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unfortunately, whilst all this was playing out, at least one Valley bro apparently decided that a little bit too much progress was being made. That at least one woman too many was speaking out.

So the article opens with the implication that Altman is just another 'bro' complicit in sexually harassing women.

It then hammers on the Bilderberg part like it was somehow relevant.

Furthermore it proceeds to make a tortured comparison between Altman and Trump, even going so far as to call him "some kind of Alt Right Roger Rabbit". Presumably this is because their readership is so sophisticated as to otherwise not understand such alleged impropriety unless framed in context of Trump.

Never mind the fact that Altman is openly gay and harbors a fervent dislike of Trump. But hey—when your job involves passing off third-rate trash as journalism, then I suppose lying by omission to suit an agenda is simply par for the course.

>Which brings me to the moral of the story, where my outrage at seeing Sarah and Pando smeared by a unremitting scumbag like Sam Altman butts against my own guilt at being part of the social group – well-off white dudes in Silicon Valley – who are almost exclusively responsible for all of the shit we’ve witnessed/read about these past few days.

Ah yes, the moral of the story. This roughly translates as: "My boss is in a spat with this guy, and I like my paycheck, so I'm going to call him nasty names and state that I feel guilty about being born with the same skin color as him. Then, I'm going to blame other people with the same skin color as me for the world's ills so I can feel better about myself."
I'm > 45 and I watch a couple of YouTube videos per day, more if I'm seeing if something is suitable for my child to watch.
Veritasium recently made a video [1] talking about how the site today seems to favor quantity over quality. Many of the people in the comments there think YouTube's recommendations are to blame saying they're often not relevant. What have been your experiences?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03dTJ4nXkXw
There's also optics. Flagging the story just feeds the narrative that YC is "hiding" something regardless of the truth.

When you see a PR train coming down the tracks... get out of the way. You can stand there and yell at it all you like but it won't matter. When you get to a certain point in life (high office, large influence, and/or lots of money) there is nowhere to punch but down. That means you have to stop throwing punches or you have to accept the hate. Those are your two options. On the plus side you're still really rich and/or powerful so it isn't exactly a bad deal.
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I might have a complete misunderstanding of the situation, but I see three main explanations:

1) Microsoft has absolutely no interest in Skype being a viable option, and wants Skype users to adopt some other Microsoft product. Why doesn't Microsoft tell Skype users "Well, Skype is done, just use MSN."

2) People responsible for Skype are optimizing for some metrics, which is opposite to user satisfaction. What is that metric?

3) People responsible for Skype have no idea what they're doing, get no input from community, don't see how people are mad about these particular UI changes, and misunderstand how people use Skype... In which case, why are they still in charge?
Same here. YouTube is really good for specialist "common knowledge." Woodworking can monetize this, so it's a natural fit for YouTube. But even in non-monetizable domains, it's useful. It has been helpful for various home projects. For instance, electrical techniques like pulling wire through conduit, or car or appliance fixes.
Seems like it'd be worth trying. Been wanting an excuse to try Rist.
Certainly not. There's a reason people say power corrupts. Nothing especially to do with intersectionality - it's the power, not who is using it on whom.

The amoral use of power to further your own agenda is where excessive political, social, economic, or religious authority always ends.

It's classically antisocial behavior. Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, and narcissism.
I'm very excited that Letsencrypt is free.
So, you’re saying we should actually make German a worse language just for your own convenience? No thanks.
Exponential delay is a much better model than outright denial of service. Take Unix passwords: if you keep making mistakes, the prompt might start waiting several seconds to give you another try but you do eventually get another try.

Nothing frustrates me more than needing to log in to something and having it “locked out” for a stupid typo (bonus points if I can only unlock it by calling some stupid wait-20-minutes support line that is only open Monday-Friday 8-4).
The magic isn't Let's Encrypt per se, but the ACME protocol seems to be something traditional CAs should be getting behind.
VidMe seems to be the one a lot of YouTubers are using as a backup. So I'm guessing it's the most likely YouTube replacement as things are now.
Except it now looks and works crap now. I'm still on the old Lync client at my office even though many people have "upgraded" to skype for business. At some point my hand will be forced and I will be annoyed.
Let's stop perpetuating this myth that this is a "few rotten apples".

This is a systemic problem in our industry, and we need to all realize this, so that we can start teaching each other what behavior is and is not appropriate in a very clear, concise, and precise manner.
There's a huge diversity of content on YouTube.

The "default" content on YouTube is indeed low-quality crap like what you mention, but there is a lot of great content on there.

On YouTube, you can learn about any skill, the quality of "teachers" varies greatly, but there really are some exceptionally good ones out there.

I'd suggest you check out some of these channels

1. Adam Neely - a (bass) musician, he hosts Q/A videos very regularly, responding to comments in previous videos. The quality of his comments section is unlike anything I've ever seen before, real, in-depth questions, insights, recommendations etc... Exceptional channel in so many ways

2. 3blue1brown - a mathematician who focuses on helping viewers build an intuition for various dry mathematical concepts.

3. Yoshiki Oshima - this one is very niche, but I mention it because there are uncountably many high-quality niche channels. His channel basically archives old computer research videos, lots of stuff on Alan Kay, Ivan Sunderland, PARC, Douglas Engelbart, Seymour Papert and others.

Many many many many many channels with different focuses out there. YouTube has a lot more to offer than what the frontpage shows.
I'm 37. I subscribe to a number of channels. Really, if you have an interest, someone probably makes videos about it and puts them up on youtube. For example, picking a channel I subscribe to that might appeal to a generic HN taste, take a look at https://www.youtube.com/user/ThoughtbotVideo
They're conflating two different things. Criticism is fine and should be encouraged. Hysterical ranty responses with false claims is an enormous problem.

This phenomenon that we can't criticize actions without being falsely accused of being an "x hater" is dangerous. What Pando has done is dishonest.
> We are doing all of these jobs for a relatively small fee.

If you were paid simply on the number of hats you have to wear, then every small-business proprietor would be a billionaire.
> a few) rotten apples.

Wow, that's really incredible optimism. I'd be more than happy if there was a 50/50 split between the kinds of apples but I fear that it is more along the lines of 20/80 or worse based on what I see and hear around me when no women are within earshot.
Zoom has a web client these days that I find rather decent.
Honestly it depends on you and your group. My group doesn't care for Netflix or podcasts, but we watch a lot of YouTube channels revolving around video games.

As others have said, YouTube is huge with people around ten years younger than you and more.
Setting up LE requires you to do/learn a new process, so it's expected that it looks more complicated than the process you already know.

But once you get past that, it's soooo much easier. All my domains are renewed via a cronjob. I don't have to do anything.
If you log in and watch what you like, what shows up on your page really adapts. You can think of it sort of like reddit, many siloed communities. I wouldn't judge what you can get out of it by the default front page.
Why would you live in a city when there's plenty of suburban sprawl?

There are lots of reasons of efficiency to build up even if you can build out.
I remember a criticism of the adage "It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll" (or any pop music). It's actually a very short way to the top, or you wouldn't have so many 20-year-olds topping the charts. There's just a hell of a lot of competition.
Why do something if you don't understand why something?
> ..."white dudes"... ..."white bros"...

Why the fck could we not leave the race out of it? Nobody would dare to speak about race unless they are white - in which case it is used as a slur?
It's free, and automated so you don't run into TLS outage post-mortems where the question "why does the cert expire at christmas anyways?" is "Because it expired same time last year and during the emergency repair we used the default lifetime period of one year."
https://youtu.be/E5ONTXHS2mM?t=38s pando pando pando pando pando
Consensus in physics is that the universe is finite[1]. Even if it weren't finite, it's likely still a moot question because the speed of light will inhibit us from every seeing outside a finite radius.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
Not sure this has anything to do with gender or race. Sounds like a disagreement on facts of a story. Seems like stirring controversy to takeover an important conversation and get clicks. Kind of like Fox News or CNN.
Best way to get a raise is to get a new job.
Ah sorry, I'd just assumed you were more experienced. Yeah build up that portfolio, and best of luck!
Ability to "rapidly scale" is an overrated virtue. Scaling is exactly when you should step back and reflect on your architecture, at which point you should understand that very few of your scaling concerns are at the framework level. I continue to be involved with a 2+ million LOC Django site that's been 8 years under continuous development that went from 10+ million users to 100+ million a summer ago. Django was never the issue.

If the particularities of Django are what's in the way of scaling for you, you have bigger issues than Django.
I watch videos on Youtube all the time (literally just came back from watching one).

My main hobby is board games. An excellent way to see how a new game plays is by watching videos of other people playing it and giving reviews on it. The hobby isn't big enough that you'll see shows about this on mainstream TV, but pretty much anyone into modern board games I'd almost guarantee uses Youtube on a regular basis.

A few of the bigger channels just for board games include: The Dice Tower, Rahdo Runs Through, DriveThruReviews, Shut Up Sit Down, the BoardGameGeek, and Game Night. Incidentally I was just in Columbus, Ohio for one of the larger board game conventions (Origins) and spotted most of these people working or hanging out.
Yours is but one perspective.

Consider the alternative that you are the only person in the universe. What would be your modus operandi then?
>Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude

It is refreshing to see this much needed distinction; I think many people in modern society have been conflating flirtation with harassment for the past few years.

Still, not to speak against the author or victimized women, but I cannot understand why sexual harassment takes such a toll on women. I've been sexually harassed by other men before, and somehow it wasn't as big of a problem as it seems to be to outspoken individuals online. I've been beaten by strangers before, and even that was something I got over much more quickly than the years of scarring that women like the author seem to experience from unwanted physical advances. I cannot understand how being propositioned and kissed against one's will is such a terrible fate to suffer.

I suspect that much of the recent backlash against harassment is mostly a result of conditioning, wherein women learn from society to feel more violated and take these advances more personally than they should.

After all, I'd take an uncomfortable kiss over a beating any day, and being put into the hospital by a couple of violent strangers did not leave me, or other men that I know, with a lifetime of discomfort.

I do not intend to be offensive, I simply cannot resolve the discrepancy in my mind. Is this a difference in male and female mindset?
I hope you can keep it going! I've been an Artful user for quite awhile and really appreciate it.
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Not to take this on a tangent but wait till female interns at VC firms decide to speak up. They put up with abnormal requests for attending parties at abnormal hours.
Ask HN: Why does instagram think I'm Irish?
Most of the Instagram paid posts I see are basically regional ads for Irish people. The prices are all in Euros, etc. I'm American and live in Los Angeles. Has this happened to other people? Given Facebook/Instagram's relative sophistication in these matters, how could this go so wrong (and yet be so specific)?
"It’s not just inappropriate, it’s assault."

I'm going to have to stop reading there.

Now, of course, I don't know what happened, I wasn't there. What I'm seeing in front of me are glowing pixels that don't constitute a conviction.

In my opinion if you believe you've been the subject of assault you ought to approach the police, or probably a lawyer.
This article seems to imply that only Roman marine concrete is more lasting because of the ongoing reaction with the sea water, but I was under the impression that all Roman concrete was more lasting... Is it just the presence of rebar that makes today's concrete so short lived or is there something else as well?
Specifically - the issue wouldn't exist if the parts of society these people exist in didn't implicitly enable this sort of behaviour.
The point of probability and statistics is to quantify our degree of uncertainty.
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What a terrible story. I'm sorry she had to go through that and appreciate her sharing it.

I'm curious about the legal aspect of it. "Sexual assault" is a crime, right? The worst repercussions I hear from these stories are maybe a resignation at best. But if this is truly a crime shouldn't it be prosecuted?
The 1988 passports had capital letters and used ß as well, not sure what was used before. International standards (namely ICAO Doc 9303, starting in 1980) strongly recommend capital letters but I don't know the reasoning.
If you invite someone over to your apartment to drink scotch, and then they come on to you, that's not sexual assault. Sexual assault is when someone has sex with another person without their permission.
I use Pidgin to chat with other people at my work who are on Skype For Business (Lync). Works decently.
When can we talk about facetime? They don't even have group chat. I've been waiting for it a long time ago.
I watch a fair amount of youtube, the problem is getting to the good stuff. For example here's a great channel, it just doesn't get many views: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

But I also go there for lectures. All sorts of conferences and talks and debates and lectures are up on youtube, it's just a matter of using the correct search terms. Most serious videos I watch are related to politics so then my challenge is in stepping outside of the mainstream people. No Noam Chomsky for example. When I want to challenge my views I might go to Bill Kristol's channel which is small but good or lookup some libertarian or alt-right stuff. Youtube is one of the greatest things about our current technological age, it just requires a bit of finesse to get past all the crap.
Use Pyramid.
What size side project you looking to buy? :)
Worked for company that was bought by MS. During the acquisition period, I was working for 3rd level enterprise support and were main contact for escalation of issues from our OS X users and MS. And yes, it never worked. Higher up guys where patting themselves on the backs for migrating to Lync and now it was So Well Executed while we in the actual client interface where left to deal with abysmal (platinum) support, private hotfixes, fixes what worked at one release and didn't on newer ones and all sorts of crazyness.

The "reason" that was said to be the issue was "our internal routing between the sites" and Yeah, pretty much every issue we had never manifested it worker was at home and used home connection or used cellphone client and gsm operator for data.

But yeah, fuck Lync. Worst gig ever. One reason why I think rebranding Lync to Skype for Business made sense: let's fool someone to buy it by letting them think they where getting same tech as real Skype, not just same shit with different name.
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If you're aware of harassment and assault of women, please contact the appropriate authorities. It's not normal and you shouldn't accept it as such.
Replace "Sam" with the name of anyone in a position of power and you could say the same about anyone. Case in point:

>Talk to Donald Trump alone sometime for 5 minutes and you'll get it. Super smart dude and it comes through immediately.

Being smart does not make you a nice person, nor does it mean you're incapable of prejudice or harm against anyone. Travis Kalanicks supporters were saying the same things about how nice he was as well, but the allegations of how Uber was being run and the culture of harassment against women reached fever pitch and eventually led to him stepping down from the company.

Taking the allegations Sam was being motivated by the fact Pando is owned by a woman out of the equation, Altman's actions are still pretty damning. The part about having unsubstantiated information from a former employee on Pando is not how someone in his position should act at all.
Because women are weak victims of the inappropriate behaviour of men.

Why can't women be strong and have power?

Because that wouldn't fit the narrative.
It's going to be pretty impossible to sow doubt about the 'setting' on this one like he did with the previous instance. Makes you wonder how often this sort of thing played out, 10's of times? 100's?
Or use the name for marketing purposes, Skype did actually work while Lync has always been pos. Maybe things have improved since but I have my doubts.
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They used to do product development but nowadays it's all sales and marketing. The game testers the other commenter is talking about is centralized testing for Microsoft's remaining game studios. It's not very 'posh' either, at least when I was there, quite dated 90s looking offices. I think Microsoft development in general seems to heavily focused in basically the US and India. Exceptions of course, there's acquisitions like Skype and plenty of other examples dotted around but this place is hardly a 'campus' compared to Redmond or IDC.
My thoughts exactly. There's a gold rush in Silicon Valley (or the tech industry in general) and usually, these rushes attract jerks. You can't create a system of fierce individualism and predation and then act surprised if this behaviour extends to every facet of life.

I read somewhere, a while ago, that assholes moved in herds to Wall Street in the 80s-90s, and now they've decided to move to California.
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why not just call problem people problems and leave color and privilege out of it?
Interesting the doc built of nickel steel rebar. My grandfather owned a fishing boat built during WWII. Because of shortages copper nails were unavailable, so they used nickel. Still in good shape after 75 years.

That said my experience with material science issues has mostly been sadness and fail. As in.

Them: We will solve this problem with Super Duper X material.

Me: I think Super Duper X is going to give you problems.

Them: But it's Super Duper!!!

Me: Yes and it has Super Duper failures too.

Them: If you're so smart what would you use?

Me: I have no idea, why don't you consult a professional?

Them: See so you don't know what you are talking about.

Them: Besides professionals are expensive.

later... Oh noes Super Duper X isn't working!!!
If you think that the front page is representative of all the content on youtube, you're very much mistaken. There are swathes of content for a vast array of topics. Just accept that you're not a majority-demographic viewer and ignore the front page pitched to them.
Here's the HN thread about that (there were probably others too): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10089360
Yeah, that's a ridiculous allegation. If you invite someone over to your apartment to drink scotch, and then they come on to you, that's definitely not sexual assault. Sexual assault is where someone has sex with another person without their permission.
Believe it when I see it. PoW is the only consensus mechanism with a track record right now.
Embrace-and-extend on WebRTC meaning that, despite 2 years notice when Firefox removed NSAPI plugin support, they still need a further 6 months to restore standards compatibility. That’s pretty god-awful.