skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine too. I am not attempting to let regulators off easy in this comment, merely pointing out that regardless of their specific motivations or their specific level of human integrity, systems that rely upon the good judgment of a small number of people often trend toward corruption... not necessarily through willful graft but due to human nature.
This already happens when your Uber rating declines below a 4 or so (as drivers get to pick their riders by rating) and you can no longer get a ride.
Why single out Uber, Google, Facebook and others appear to be neck deep in equally if not more shady activity. Infact most of SV is, Palantir come to mind and seem by media reports to be infinitely worse and a lot of this behavior has been normalized so many do not find it particularly objectionable.

The posturing about Uber is valid but the zeal seems a touch misplaced or this board would be full of similar opinions about others.
Dear Sam Altman: All Coherent and Fruitful Thought Is Restricted
Tweeting is not an HR complaint. So you have any examples of that, or were you exaggerating?

You've twice now given me examples of things that aren't "an HR complaint filed for someone showing interest." That's all I'm interested in. Can you back up that assertion, or not?
There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.

This is a pretty solid argument for freedom of speech in the sense in which it is generally protected: as something that contributes to public dialogue in politics, the sciences and the arts.

Many things seem to be this but aren’t. Hate speech is not an opinion in this sense: it is not something presented as an argument or topic for discussion. You are either with the haters, or you are against them. Whether something is political speech or not depends very much on how it is offered to the public. The same idea — memory safety is a recent, innocuous example from this forum — can be a rallying cry for some and a point of discussion for others.
I'm not going to dispute op's claim that he's never sexually harassed someone. I never asserted he did in the first place. My point is very simple: there are a lot complaints about people right now and I believe most people will be be reflecting on their past actions and determining whether they've behaved appropriately.

Don't be snarky. You're not adding to the discussion.
It pangs me to see this sort of garbage logic on a site like HN.

This whole "it wasn't illegal" mindset is just so far removed from reality.

Do people honestly think that Goldman Sachs paid 5 billion dollars in settlement money because they did nothing legally wrong?

No, they agreed to pay such a large settlement to avoid criminal convictions, because what they did was a crime.

This is a whole other topic of conversation regarding Eric Holder's justice department techniques of going after settlements instead of convictions, and sadly the end result is that after all of the settlements are done, and the companies profit off their crimes, somehow people get the idea in their head that the actions were never crimes to begin with.. which is not even remotely true.
>I wish that Amazon could split the market place off.

Recently Amazon made it much harder to select sellers.

Now on some products, the page is so confusing that you don't know is it "Fullfilled by Amazon" or you are buying from someone in China.

Race to the bottom and all...
This one line was so powerful when I read this piece in college, I had to read it all!!!!
"don't work for that person, he rapes his employees"

That statement needs to be backed up by hard evidence. It's a very terrible thing to accuse someone of such a serious crime.

And if the statement is true, I somehow don't feel comfortable accepting that the solution is just to warn people not to work for them.
I don't think the problem lies with feedback. I think it lies with willful ignorance of it.

I believe that most people in group 1, are in fact aware of the problem of their behaviour and are willingly ignorant of it. This is because if they made any unwanted advances against women, even if the women didn't tell them to stop or publicly humiliate them, they surely ignored or tried to get away from the situation. At the very least the victim did not enjoy it and that is feedback enough.

Now the question boils down to whether a perpetrator considers the victim to be a human with a standing equal to his/her own. So as far as I can tell, it is the general problem of dehumanizing victims. The blame does not lie with Type 2 people who did not feel "comfortable" enough to publicly speak up.

Take any crime which doesn't take in public view, let's say child abuse. Is it the responsibility of the victim to give feedback to the perpetrator, or is it the responsibility of the perpetrator to view the child as a human being?

PS - I made a very similar comment down the thread to another commenter as well.
“I think that most of the time in other situations which are not sexual we see that most people keep their mouths shut and try to make the best of a bad deal: it's why there have been fewer violent revolutions. People with strong, clear ethos who make the choice to "speak truth to power" are rare, everywhere, in every time.”

I fully agree with you. I tried to account for that by pointing out that this is a pattern that can be observed irespective of gender, but I guess my striving for brevity meant that this point didn’t come across clearly enough.
This is just a lengthy ad for the "Call Me Private" and "Text Me Private" services.
Yeah but they didn't. Money in the bank doesn't do any good, I'm glad they moving it around. Do you think it halted other things because they did this purchase? This year they advanced pretty well so I don't really see what could they be missing.
My guess is they send regular pilots up on training to see if they detect whatever latest stealth drone they are also testing. They obviously are not going to tell the pilots beforehand.
Vipon looks like an interesting site. Do you know if they have a Twitter listing their deals? I don't have an iOS device (which seems to be the only place that they have an app for). A Twitter account would be a perfect in between.

Incidentally, I started a deals & promos list of accounts on Twitter that provide the latest sales on a variety of sites. Feel free to check it out. I have no affiliation with any of the companies listed (Well, I have an Amazon associates account - but it wouldn't benefit me here, since it's other accounts posting their affiliate links)

I find @kinjadeals to have a lot of good deals, but unless it's name brand stuff, it often breaks or wears down after a few months.

Check out Deals and Discounts by @pogue25: https://twitter.com/pogue25/lists/deals-and-discounts?s=09
i have a question: why do any of this?

yahoo and google pay hundreds of millions, is this not sufficient? have any of these gimmicks actually helped gain users? it's likely that only Quantum - a purely technical improvement (plus marketing dollars) - made any dent in your user share. it's almost like mozilla keeps expanding into all the shady corners to use up its budget so it can have a bigger budget next year.

many users use firefox for ideological reasons, even when Chrome is/was technically superior. and these reasons are disintegrating at a ludicrous speed. you are throwing away the very users that helped you grow. we are telling you this here, directly and in plain language. much of the same group uses firefox because they can make it work exactly how they want with exactly 0 surprises. some of this died with the web extension addon transition, but it's at least justifiable from a technical & security perspective.

every time you force-feed what should be a visible and removable extension, i have less and less control over my browser and less incentive to to use or recommend it. it's heartbreaking, really. whoever is pushing forward on all this farcical marketing spin and bundling stunts needs to be shown the door, asap. call ads "ads", not "experience enhancements". it is not okay. you guys need to stop this before you lose your most dedicated users that have stuck with you through thick and thin. having been on firefox/nightly for over 10 years, deploying firefox on thousands of PCs, reporting many bugs, and making donations to mozilla, i am this close to saying "fuck it" and taking my friends, relatives and coworkers with me. i'm gonna be one user that costs you 2000 more.

please get this to whoever needs to hear it [and gives enough fucks to actually do something].
This seems like an error in the law if there is no minimum quantity or any other kind of test for who is a "dealer". I sold some speakers once but that doesn't make me a Hi-fi dealer.
In some countries it's much harder to build a profitable solar farm than a profitable wind farm. Both are viable in much of the United States.

In 2016, the US installed 8203 MW of wind power:

https://www.awea.org/wind-energy-facts-at-a-glance

It installed ~14000 MW of solar PV, including about 10000 MW of utility scale projects:

https://www.seia.org/solar-industry-data

Given the higher capacity factor of utility-scale wind over solar, wind still has the lead in effective electricity supply added in 2016. But both are being built. Through Q3 in 2017 in the US, solar is actually way ahead of wind in terms of capacity increases. Q4 usually dominates the year for both wind and solar, so it remains to be seen if that's true with full-year data. Large scale solar construction in the US could slow down significantly in the near future depending on how harshly the solar module import tariffs/quotas derived from the Suniva ITC case are set.
By the time I got here, there were two identical comments and I thought it was weird, so I added a third identical comment to make it weirder (and because the article link was completely useless and unreadable, so it was a valid complaint).
It'd be funny to record it and then add that as a submission to the site.
That's true. Buying Chinese electronics is a lottery (usually). I would, however, recommend some Xiaomi products. They are really excellent considering the price.

BTW I actually ended up buying Sennheiser headphones after I returned the crappy ones.
Sounds really inspiring and beautiful!
Since when is regressive defined that way?

If we can’t agree that there exist regressive ideas, what are we even doing here?

I haven’t stated what I believe to be progressive or regressive. You don’t know what viewpoints I hold. I have withheld these viewpoints from the discussion precisely because I am trying to establish agreement regarding some basic, primitive notions.
Zero. Because the workaround is that reviewers are asked to buy the products with their own money and then reimbursed via Paypal.

Source: I used to do incentivized reviews but stopped after the rule changes. I still get asked to do the Paypal workaround.

In fact, the old system was better. At least the incentivized review disclosures let you know to take a review with a grain of salt. Now, it's even shadier.
I don't know if alien spacecraft have visited Earth or not, but nothing says they would have to be piloted by aliens. If they exist, they could just as easily be robotic drones.
Reputation systems are vulnerable to religious fervor/zealotry.
A religious fervor builds up the numbers and the intensity needed to invalidate any reputation system that you might come up with.
I don't agree. This is entirely the choice of the team.

The idea that 'you are being sold' is not fair either.

You choose what to use, for how much, and the resulting product.

So if you want to pay $ a month AND have ads. Well, then do that. If not - don't.

If Mozilla wants to have an 'add free non-profit' they can do that.

But they can't because for whatever reasons - people won't pay.

Some people won't pay because they simply don't want to - and are willing to live with the alternative choice of 'having a sideload now and then'.

Other people use insufferable intellectualizations about all of it.

But mostly it's kind of greedy and irrational.

We get immense value out of web browsers. A $1 a month fee would enable Mozilla to forge ahead being the best browser, free for those who can't afford it - and ad free.

But we can't have that because we are not as intelligently organized as we need to be.
This is just really sad. I was among those thinking about switching to Firefox from Safari on my work machine. If Firefox is going to act creepy, I might as well get better battery life with Safari. Does anybody here known of better open alternatives than Firefox?
I don't mind if it is slightly slower, or not as feature rich, or if it means I have to compile it myself. But, it has to be truly open and sane.
Why mentioning sci-fi can be a bit hyperbole, the fact is that rocket reusability was considered a pipe dream a decade ago. Nobody thought it could be done commercially. SpaceX sticked with it and prevailed in the face of all skepticism. It's just not "commercializing" and "streamlining" as you trivially dismissed
I didn’t say “common.”

Of what intellectual value is common belief?

It’s more worthwhile to anchor the discussion sub specie aeternitatis.
What I was responding to was a claim that the police investigation was not included in the article because news tries to separate it's news from opinion. If the police did not decide to press charges without any reason, then this can be discussed as part of a news article.
yea, I know. I didn't tune the website yet. I'm updating the documentation of v7. It'll be finished soon and then upload the new version of the website. after that moment, all those hamburger menus without submenu inside will be fixed. ;)
>That’s because as a Christian, you enjoy the benefit of being the majority religion (assuming you’re in the US). You get a break on your holidays, nobody questions your traditions, and nobody really disparages you.

If that's your perception, you can't possibly have spent any significant time in the USA in the past 30 years. For at least that amount of time, Christians, and Christianity in general, have been openly mocked, disparaged and insulted in popular culture, university classrooms, in casual conversation, and all over the internet. (I'm OK with that, FTR.) For as long as I've been old enough to pay attention, it has essentially been open season on Christians in the US. Among the left-wing, educated class, there is virtually no social penalty for insulting Christians or their beliefs. Quite the opposite, in fact.

It’s ok to punch upwards but don’t kick down.

That's just an arbitrary rule, made up by you. I suspect it's because you want to maintain the status quo I described above, while keeping any public criticism of Muslims a very risky endeavor.
This is really weird. My granny died several weeks ago from dementia and she somehow managed to memorize really old song from TV. Even just before death she tried to sing several notes... it was really amusing. Reading this article is exactly what was going on. So... weird timing for me I guess.
That's not how it works. If there's evidence of intercourse, and the girl claims she didn't consent, in the overall majority of cases the guy is screwed, even if she is lying.

You're 10 times more likely to be exonerated for murder, than for a false rape allegation.

There's no double standard - the burden of proof is on the prosecution, as it should be.

And you still keep dodging the question - what exactly do you propose?
Any alternative scheme to the bailout ought to cost less than the bailout. I am under the impression that they profited from the bailout but if that's not the case, then they could do it at a loss so long as the loss is smaller than the bailout loss. And both of these profit/loss comparisons would be based off of projections rather than what actually happened.
TFA says investors were concerned about the amount of debt SolarCity was carrying so when Tesla bought them they pivoted more towards commercial properties.
Amazon Basic makes quality stuff, and after I started buying Anker I fell in love with them.
Ask HN: Uses for old Mac hardware?
I have a c. 2009 Mac Mini and a c. 2010 MacBook Pro that have long since fallen out of use. Any fun or interesting ideas out there on what I could use them for?
Actually, all the issues that you bring up are easy - being oblivious isn't a defense in any other aspect of the law and it shouldn't be for rape either.

If you didn't realize that you didn't have consent, sucks to be you, but you should still suffer the consequences.
Size is not a requirement of a programming language: look at Lisp, Smalltalk, Lua, etc to see simple systems that can be fully comprehended and are quite powerful.

If anything, the monstrosities produced by committees are less powerful and less beautiful. (That we put up with them says more about us.)
That request is just rhetorical grandstanding. There's no way for anyone to know what laws would have been realistically proposed and passed if the universe wasn't in the state that it's currently in.

If you attempted to collate such a list you'd end up with an infinite amount of garbage, including but not limited to a proposed law that anyone suspected of wrongdoing be beheaded.
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Or they see drug addicts as health care issue, not criminals. Portugal has decriminalised more than a decade ago and they don't seem to turn to legalisation any time soon?
California is now on the Electricity Map
Yeah, but that's what we're discussing. How do you tell if the allegation is true?

I propose due process, evidence, trials.

What do you propose?
Firefox keeps acting like they desperately need money, but there are clear paths to monetization with a freemium model.

The simplest method is to limit the browser sync capabilities (bookmarks, passwords, settings, etc) and charge a small fee for improved sync. Limitation might be sync frequency or storage space.

For Thunderbird, they could roll in an advanced spam blocker system and make it subscription-based. Or they could create a single button in commercial buttons to automatically unsubscribe from the content.

Or, for the simplest model, just charge $10 a year for access to binaries from the beta + nightly + dev channels
I don't like your bottom line. Tell me how many fewer Portuguese people are affected by the crimes and pressures of druggies, not how many fewer of the criminals themselves have accidents.
(one of the replies to that article says that Portuguese drug use fell period, so this is rhetorical)
Sorry, but how are kernel panics related to userspace software? Isn't it just the indicator that your operating system is somehow broken?
This is actually one case I've been thinking of using docker for, that is, having a development image for your project's build environment to provide a consistent base that has all the development libraries installed and doesn't require any fussing around with library versions.

I'm sure with certain languages/runtimes you can leverage the package/dependency manager to serve the same purpose, but I imagine having a docker image for this would mean everyone's using the same base OS with the same installed library versions. This way anyone who wants to contribute to your OSS project can clone the repo, run a simple command to initialize the dev environment, and start hacking right away.

As an aside, I completely agree with your sentiment about trying to learn about the actual tech rather than just being sold on some sales pitch targeted towards less tech-savvy crowds. The best "solution" I've found for this problem myself is to educate myself as much as I can on the fundamentals of the problem space and try to reason about that decision myself.

For example, I haven't done much of a deep dive into docker yet but have spent a lot of time trying to learn as much as I can about the fundamentals/primitives provided by operating systems and kernels. I feel this way I can always reference back to basics and make a better decision of whether something is gimick-y or not.

Lately I've been so frustrated with people selling these "solutions" yet not having any understanding of the how things work that I've spent the last 3 years trying to learn as much as I can about infrastructure primitives (TCP/IP + general networking theory, database theory + database engines, and OS/kernel internals). It takes a lot of time but I definitely think it's worth it since it's a lot harder to be "fooled" when you actually understand things from the bottom up, for some definition of "bottom". It also helps that I work in this space professionally, so the investment in learning these things literally pays off.

Anyway, that's the end of my rant : )
That is really astonishing.
GP is talking about an actual system - if 99% of people have positive views of someone and then 1 person accuses them it's much less credible than if 20 people accused them. Obviously there are inherent problems, but maybe better than what we have now.
It's been pretty clear for some time now for those who study the facts that there is a very good chance there are real objects in the sky that maneuver in ways that conventional aircraft are unable to and cannot be explained adequately as other observed phenomenon. The taboo around this subject due to the common hypothesis they are due to extraterrestrials is a shame because there's been plenty of documented evidence that not only has this been going on but that governments around the world take it seriously enough to investigate it.

I found this book to be a good take that avoids hyperbole and tries to stick to the evidence and facts:

https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Offic...

If you were to ask me to guess, my bet is that current and past government programs to investigate these objects have concluded that a) they are non-threats to US national security and that b) performing further invasive means to investigate them past our current level of understanding is too risky to pursue. So (again if I had to guess) the consensus is, theories of their origin aside, "don't look into it further, and be assured that there will be no harm in not doing so," which is why you can see a program like this shut down without necessarily assuming that it was a waste or a wild goose chase.
"Facebook is fast becoming the MySpace of this generation."

True, that's why they bought WhatsApp, Instagram, Occulus, and so.

Mark Zuckerberg knows that FB is dead.
But isn't the visual feedback counterproductive? I think grit means repeatedly doing it despite not having that immediate feedback. At least, that's the kind of habits I think people have a real problem sustaining.

I do make my bed every day, although not in the morning - I prefer to unmake it so it can receive sunlight. But I don't think it takes any willpower, since I find it a pleasant activity.
I can accuse someone of being an asshole, and that we shouldn't hire him because of that.

How come nobody freaks out over THAT? Saying "this person is unpleasant to work with, ND we shouldn't hire them" wouldn't make anyone bat an eye...
What specific legal improvements are you proposing?
That part of the article fucking boggles my mind.
Well, you even have to take the Wirecutter with a grain of salt. IIRC, there was some heated debate over whether they were pay to play from some standing desk co that didn't sell through Amazon (Wirecutter makes a portion of their revenue from amazon referral links).
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