skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, absolutely.

And it's not just news. I have a strong suspicion that the 'weaponization'/professionalization of marketing/PR/propaganda is at the root of a lot of our problems, whether social self-marketing leading to depression and anxiety, spin-doctors in politics, 'organic' corporate marketing, and the massive amount of self-expression directly linked to the latter.

I am uncomfortable with these kinds of statements, because they feel too vague and a bit too Adam Curtis/Gladwellian, and it's extremely frustrating to feel that there's some 'root cause' that I can't quite put my finger on, but I truly believe that David Foster Wallace managed to get closest to the root of the issue, as I see it, in his essay on television (E Unibus Pluram[1]).

Despite my discomfort at being able to properly argue for a 'root cause', and my discomfort with the idea of root causes, I can't help but feel we've just gotten too far up our own collective asses when it comes to how we look at the world and interpret it. We have the Petersons of the world blaming 'cultural marxism', the Wallaces blaming irony, and large swathes of otherwise intelligent people wasting their time and creativity on reddit memes that mostly just refer other memes. Maybe this has been what young people have done throughout the ages, and I'm just getting old, but I strongly doubt that.

[1]: https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf

EDIT: mostly I find myself often surprised at how irony, or perhaps some kind of 'recursive perspective' has infused so much of my surroundings. Everyone is skeptical of everything, and yet seems so susceptible to the media-induced panic of the moment. I really don't mean to sound arrogant, but I expect a certain degree of referential humor/perspective from my more academic or pretentious friends, but nowadays it's a central part of even the 'working class' in a way that I feel it wasn't before, or in a way that it isn't in many other cultures I've experienced. Apologies for being a bit ranty. It's been a long day, and recent personal developments have made me yearn for a kind of directness and honesty and non-irony I just don't seem to find in my surroundings.
It seems that takeaway from this is that in a collision of people's rights the explicit rights takes precedent over implicit rights
Yep, also experiencing it here in NYC. I'm assuming it's because of the high traffic volume from the Microsoft/Github-related posts.
"Microsoft bought GitHub? Let's move everything to SourceForge!" -- said no developer, ever.
It's going to take a hell of a lot more actual honest-to-goodness support and good actions before I'm willing to trust them. I remember the browser wars, kerberos, samba, hard drive compression, their acquisitions they ground into the mud, windows 10 spyware, and more.

It's the ol "Embrace Extend and Extinguish". I'll give it 5 years before I trust them. They'll likely show their usual colors soon enough.
> Will surgeons soon be able to refuse to operate on patients because they're gay? After all, it's a service in an open market.

No my interpretation of this doesn't allow that, nor should it. What it would allow is for a tattoo artist to refuse to ink a gay (or straight, or really anything else) message on someone's arm. Maybe if it's an elective surgery that could be considered to be purely artistic (rhinoplasty?) then the surgeon could refuse but that'd be fairly narrow.
Do you know of Transit? https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format
In addition, it's not clear how to keep a currency's value stable without some kind of central authority. It may not even be possible to do in a distributed fashion.
The Rust Language and Special Cases
Bullying farmers into buying your custom (patented) seeds, suing others when seeds blow into their farmland for patent infringement, ensuring farmers in South America and remote regions need to rely on your seeds and your pesticides for yields... The list is endless. I don't really see how one could modestly even intimate that those perceptions have no merit, if you have been paying attention to how they conduct business and how they've been patenting natural processes it's a very cut-and-dry matter. Shady is shady no matter what you rebrand yourself.
Microsoft the cash cow, please milk in your own yard and stop messing up with FOSS land, you have been evil, and that's hard to change, just leave FOSS alone.

You lost the OS war, from cloud to the phone, just get over with it.
Apple told the Times that it wasn't involved with this since September of last year. I wonder if this is why it's no longer possible to update your Facebook status from the Notifications panel.
In this case "narrow" has to do with the scope of the ruling, not the margin of votes. It could have been 9-0 and still been correctly referred to as "narrow."

The court did not rule on the conflict between free speech and discrimination that was at the core of the case. Instead they made a "narrow" ruling saying that the shop owners did not receive a fair hearing in front of the Colorado Civil Rights commission. The broader free speech/discrimination question is still an open one as far as SCOTUS is concerned. I assume we'll see another case down the road somewhere on this topic.
You are right - this will be a strong incentive to keep as little as possible in a checking account, and either lend or invest the rest. There are two main differences from the current system:

1. Depositors will have to explicitly give up/lock their funds for a set period of time if the funds are to be lent out and they are to earn interest. Early withdrawals come with a significant fee. This makes bank runs very unlikely, eliminating the need for a central bank. The longer you want to lend the money for, the higher the interest. But you can also lend money overnight.

2. No money creation, leading to proper alignment of time preferences of investors/consumers and businesses. Interest rates correctly reflect this time preference. If money represents a claim on real resources, then a business can only use as many of these resources for investment as consumers are willing to forego consuming. Interest rates reflect the actual supply and demand of resources/consumption at different time horizons and do not get artificially "set" or otherwise manipulated.

Because of these two properties, the boom-bust leverage cycle is greatly dampened, if not completely eliminated.
Maybe if it's a sex reassignment surgery? The baker just refused to bake a wedding cake specifically.
I'm guessing you live in The Bay or maybe New York?

I've lived in Salt Lake and Las Vegas, and the idea of someone who owns a pickup truck not using it to carry stuff because it would damage the bed....

Like I've never even heard that as a joke. It's a sad world out there if that's really happening.
Sorry, to clarify my frustration, the windows client for Teams is an electron based application.
Much like other pushes for equality it’s probably less about the individual people and more about setting a legal and perhaps societal precedent. If you zoom in on individual cases during the civil rights era you could have expressed the same sentiment.
I've seen and blocked it on my own network.
How can we actually quantify this alleged exodus? I'd like to see which projects are moving.
I mean if you have a choice in the matter and all other things are equal, clearly you don't. But it turns out not all surgeries are elective, many are emergent and even for the elective ones, surgical experience is not evenly distributed so making it so that some people have a smaller selection of surgeons to chose from is less likely to lead to good health outcomes for that section of the population.
Maybe it's interesting that there's a town in Portugal named "Monsanto." Its name comes from the Latin "Mons Sanctus," which means "Holy Mountain."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_(Idanha-a-Nova)
1) Not related to the github thing (this move happened last week...)

2) They moved when GNOME moved to gitlab.gnome.org.
"Narrow" has two meanings in court opinions like these.

You mean the first one: a split that's close.

The meaning your parent meant was "not making sweeping generalized judgments, but staying close to the case at hand".

That's usully considered to be a good thing, because it leaves open the possibility to decide differently another case that is different in a relevant way, but whose relevant difference couldn't really be foreseen on the former case.
well, luckily, a Trump supporter is not a protected class
Why not? If it's a service available to the public, it must be a public service, no?
It seems I'm wrong then, I didn't know the contents of the Civil Rights Act. Thanks for letting me know.
Copyrightable APIs and patent shakedowns against Android we're done Oracle not Microsoft, right? Or did I miss something?
Because it is best for everyone if public businesses serve all customers regardless of race, sexual orientation, appearance, etc. No one wants to be rejected service because of their sexual orientation. Just like how it was terrible that businesses in the south would not provide service to African Americans back in the day.

Sure, this couple could have easily found another bakery to get their the cake. But, do we really want to allow business owners to reject service and make people from certain groups feel dejected and out of place?
Glass look as good for 99,9% less anyway
GCC compiler passes, Zelda puzzles, structs,oh my Monday Cup of Coding Issue #3
In patients presenting with problems related to their reproductive organs I tend to agree. That's not actually what's happening, though.
> you'd end up complaining about how Google was sending you unwanted marketing emails about new features multiple times per week

Maybe they'd combat the perception I have of Google - that they just do UI redesign every couple of months, which more often than not lose useful features than add anything of value.

You say you get lots of those e-mails internally; I'd love to know where Google is actually adding all those features - because it definitely doesn't seem to be Inbox, or GMail, or Google Maps.
This is like saying that Chrome, Edge or Firefox are “third parties”.

Embedding user agent functionality into the OS is not the same as third party access.

Talk to me when a device manufacturer is caught exfiltrating this user data off the phone and then aim your pitchforks at them.
>> they still refuse to publish the complete list of what is collected

Seems like refusing to disclose what is collected would run afoul of GDPR. The law requires that "categories of personal data" be disclosed, and also that Microsoft's European customers have a right to a copy of their personal data. Are you claiming that Microsoft is not or does not intend to comply with GDPR? Or perhaps there is some other qualification implied; such as this only applies to non-European customers? If so what is your basis?
4th time @chris408 has posted this in less than a week. Enough already!
People have fuzzy memories, and think Skype was a gold standard before Microsoft bought it...which is far from the truth.
Your quote directly contradicts your assertion.

On Gershoff's meta-analysis, from your meta-analysis link:

"...most of the research on physical punishment “lumps” together nonabusive and customary punishment with overly severe forms of physical punishment. For example, 65% of the studies in Gershoff’s (2002) meta-analysis included overly severe physical punishment in their measure, according to Baumrind et al. (2002). Examples ranged from vaguely defined “punitive discipline” (6% of the studies), composite measures of the frequency and severity of physical punishment (29%), and the inclusion of extreme violence (31%), such as slapping in the face (seven studies), beating up (three studies), or hitting with a fist and causing bruises and cuts (one study)".

The parent comment specifically mentions punishment at the very bottom of the scale and guradualy escalating from non-physical punishment.
>The system I described only has one unit of account, Bitcoin. It doesn't matter whether they're on-chain or "virtual", they're both Bitcoin, and are worth the exact same amount.

Ofc it matters because those bitcoins cannot be used as part of the bitcoin network they aren't bitcoins at point at best they are some weirdly defined bitcoin option.
As long as I won't be able to spend those bitcoins as bitcoins and as long as it's not enforced by the network itself this won't really be fractional reserve banking, or at least not what people consider FRB since CAR is an important part of it.

>You have misunderstood fractional reserve banking. Banks are not allowed to give out more money than they have received in deposits. Here's Wikipedia:

I think you misunderstood my point I should've been perhaps more clear about how money generation through fractional reserves works currently and how multipliers on deposits work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation
I assumed based on the topic we've discussed so far "creating new bitcoins" it was a given state.
Ticketfly breach may have exposed data of 26M customers
This happened last day 31. Feels like karma whoring to me.
I haven't seen any errors, but pages are taking way longer than normal to load for me. I'm in St. Louis, Missouri.

EDIT: just got the nginx error page others have mentioned.
Historically a big purpose of central banks or at least a rich institution was to be a buyer of last resort and prop up the economy in times of panic. Doesn't always have to be a central bank, but needs to be an institution big enough and independent enough to save markets. A decentralized system would almost by definition not have this, and probably result in disaster if there was a panic.

Don't have an exhaustive list of financial panics offhand, but for ex:

Panic of 1837 was thought to be as bad as it was in part bc central banks weren't strong enough to step in

American economy recovered from Great Depression in part due to increased govt spending in ww2

Panic of 1907: Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan acted as financial backstop

2008 financial crisis response led largely by central banks

China's stock market is managed very tightly by central bank
Your statements are untrue.

Not only can you do community-driven project development with Gitlab but the core product itself is also open source and community participation is encouraged. See:

https://gitlab.com/explore

https://about.gitlab.com/community/
That's not what the case details say; I am rereading now in case I misread.

From what I read they only found out that it was a gay couple _at_ the design phase because it was a same sex supporting cake, which went against the morality (however wrong) the bakers held.
In this case, yes :)

u/stcredzero's example is also a great one, as over-regulation is a massive problem. However, it's not as much of an issue for higher paying jobs, which I think are more relevant when we're discussing high-end software engineers.

Note: I'm discussing over-regulation. There's a very strong case for heart surgeons to be highly regulated. There's a weaker case for having strict regulations for hairdressers.
If only all other things were equal...
No problems here, Italy.
Vulkan is just a 3D graphics and compute API, it cannot replace DirectX because it doesn't support most of the things DirectX does.

Did you mean to say Direct3D? That's still leave you with input, sound, maths, and 2D missing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13208626
Seeing the same issue in London, so you're not alone.
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Do you imagine this to be an original and valuable comment?

This news is connected to Hacker News in that our community has long been interested in civil rights and societal shifts.

And more importantly, in that it has made the front page. 95 out of 100 times reaching the front page means it's proper here. The rest are buried by the mods without fifth-time commenters lamenting the declining quality as if they were a fixture in this forum.
Well... I can say honestly, I haven't looked at the site since the adware bundling in GIMP fiasco. That was so criminal, I just couldn't fathom looking again. I guess that's my bad, but is illustrative of the public perception hole they have to climb out of.

Good on 'em for trying to do better. I still fondly remember days of the first places I looked in the morning were SF and Slashdot.

My apologies for being out of the loop.
Would you say the same to a black person who objects to a "Whites only" sign in a store window?
in what part it says sexual orientation though.?
>You know,the scary thing about the US intelligence community isn't that they all are "after out liberties" or "againsy our privacy". My experience and encounters related to the IC scare me because they genuinely believe they're the good guys who're on the right side of justice. The real scary part is that they are scared of what will happen if they don't do something (where something entails disregarding laws and the will of the people). I would rather they be "after me" than scared of me.

>I hope academics consider this before getting into bed with them. They don't just have a subersive mission,they're making decisions out of fear.

sed 's/ US intelligence community/Commies/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/Hippies/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/Liberals/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/Mormons/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/4chan/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/OP/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/The alt right/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/BLM/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/white supremacists/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/academia/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/the tech industry/g'

sed 's/ US intelligence community/whatever group I happen to disagree with today/g'

See the point? You could have said that about any group you didn't like.

In my opinion any individual or group seeking to restrict the freedoms of the individual is inherently subversive to democracy.

edit: And I'm wrong because why?
I received a couple bad gateway errors recently.
Big-Data Malware: Collection and Storage
Whatever happens to Gitlab, you have the option of hosting the open source edition yourself. If they get acquired by Oracle in the morning, a fork could conceivably rise to take its place.
Are you using AWS Polly?
I find the argument that Gitlab is community driven a joke. They are not. And they never can. The community edition can never be ready for more than git hosting.

We were recently evaluating it, and found that basic needs like code reviews are not covered. And their hiding of LDAP Integration (luckily the extended community stepped in and duplicated their module) is a joke.
What crown jewels are these? Windows? Office? Edge?

They're trying, they see the writing on the wall, it's foolish to not see that they're trying. I think it would be equally foolish to just whitewash away the sins of the past.
Great example of a startup (Ada Diamonds) getting valuable PR/press by piggybacking off of current news/trends. While the meat of the article has been discussed to death here at HN, the marketing success is something other startup founders should take notice of and attempt to emulate.
People don't buy prestige items for value, they buy them to show off the fact they can drop x amount on items with no utilitarian value
How is this clickbait? It is literally the article title.
The Fundamental Errors of Jordan Peterson
And De Beers now say they will sell lab-grown diamonds for 90% less. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183603) So either De Beers will make a huge loss on each diamond, or the synthetic diamond startups must be making huge profits?
Microsoft is one of the largest open-source contributors in the world, possibly the biggest. The world has changed.
This must be what Stallman feels like most of the day.
The advantage of a large community of users goes away as soon as you can implement federated identity, which can be as simple as OpenID. (Heh, OK, could probably be simpler than that, too.)
$7 billion in stock isn't "about to fold" money.
I believe in local organic self motivated test fiesta. The rest may follow
I'm not sure what it's like in this couple's town, but in my hometown in the South, as of when I was in high school, I genuinely don't know where I'd go to find any gay-affirming baker. I could probably find a few who would take the job for money, but most of the good bakeries in the town were owned by old Cajun families who generally had strong Catholic beliefs, and most of the people not of that demographic were conservative Protestants. (I can also tell you a little bit about being raised in that environment and whether I would have felt totally comfortable selling such a cake if I hadn't left the town.) I think my best bet would have been a supermarket chain, but a) do you really want a supermarket cake for your wedding b) I have no reason to expect that the person working the bakery counter that day would be comfortable with my order.

Is the answer for a gay couple in such a place to just leave their hometown?
Slowdowns here in Boston.
Of course you don’t.

Why even make such a comment without at least googling it for 30 seconds?

Since this whole thread has been flagged anyway I’m gonna go ahead and say I assume from your lazy display of ignorance that you throw the phrases “virtue signaling” and “snowflakes” around a lot.
If Austrians cannot give one an idea of, for example, what the outcome of QE would be, then what is the value of this school of thought? Does that not make it merely an interesting abstract theory with no practical real-world applications?
Why did Microsoft cross the road?

To Git to the other side.
Whatabboutism.

The story concerns Microsoft. And I do.

Tech monopolies are bad, mkay?
The free market is not inherently just or fair.

In the south many restaurants did not sell to African-Americans. Those restaurants did very well in the free market compared to restaurants that sold to African-Americans.
The term bottom feeder refers to going after the "leftovers" that premium market leaders leave on the table: lower-paying, more demanding (e.g., requires open source), higher acquisition cost (closeted international markets), etc. Good B2B companies often raise prices as they deliver more value and build brand trust, and as they establish the market, bottom feeders will pop up and spot the missing chunks. However, they are forced to play catchup in terms of features and with less $ (or a LOT of VC $). Says nothing about being nice, smart, and high quality, just the market & financial pressures.

No label is ever 100% accurate, but a lot of that dynamic has played out here pretty clearly..
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-teaming-up-with-orac...

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20111111222912...
are gays a protected class?
But nothing like that happened here... in the slightest?

This was OS chrome integrating Facebook features. An API for Mobile OS UI to integrate Facebook features.

How else do you think the OS provides FB functionality... after you enter your credentials into the Settings screen?!
No problems here in VA over the past few hours
When is Facebook giving full disclosure? Why do we have to find out like this?
Facebook knows exactly which entities have been harvesting data. Just tell us already...
Only if they're disillusioned. Many people have drunk the koolaid.
Nothing noticeable here in VA over the past few hours.
Ah! That makes sense. Thanks!