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Those who believe they are superior will never be persuaded otherwise.
This is headline and article appear to be just a way to sneak a non-mathematical position into questions of supposed mathematical censorship.

True or not, suppressed or not, the claim being described can't be described as a "Mathematical truth". It's a paper in what could be described as theoretical biology and theoretical biology making a point. IE, there's no theoretical math that anywhere near this model - no one's suppressing calculus 'cause they don't like some derivative results.
It's okay for homeless people to use the library as a library, of course, provided that they adhere to basic hygiene standards.

It's not okay to use the library as a homeless shelter, which is what OP implies.
I feel this way at first glance too. Then I remember that one could substitute Ninja for me, and his income for mine, and from the comparison of, say, a third-world trash-heap scavenger, I have similarly little reason to ever utter a peep of complaint about how my life is going. Yet I don't feel guilty saying negative things about my life or being depressed on occasion. And that helps me to feel sympathy for him.
Fixed the grammar :p
That's the entire problem with this industry – we make the assumption that someone less ethical than us will come along and build the shitty product anyway, and use that as justification to do something we likely shouldn't.

Blaming WhatsApp is misplaced, in some sense – the blame lies with startup culture, and with each of us that choose to make that excuse.
Its funny how sometimes you get a juxtaposition between 2 articles hitting the front page. This one reminded me of this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947264 and in particular the author's comment
> do not underestimate the destructive power of lies
This seems to be much more of an issue than the fact they used Whatsapp to spread lies.
This is the Streisand Effect in action. (I am sure there are going to be people in a few years who learn of the Streisand Effect first and then learn about some random washed-up musician responsible for it second.)
I can no longer edit but the first part got cut, instead the "No" can just be removed, to clarify.
tl;dr: No.

Elaborating slightly: A paper that is related to (but does not directly argue for) an "uncomfortable truth" was published, then unpublished 3 days later and replaced with a different paper. The author of this blog piece tracked down the paper and read it, and it turns out to simply be a bad paper that shouldn't have been published to begin with.
The platform is what spread those lies – without the platform, those lies wouldn't have had the reach they did.
The whys don't really matter to their point, which is that this is the reason why libraries aren't all that popular these days.
Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?
Being a bad paper, even a "never should have been published", is not sufficient reason for retroactively un-publishing a refereed and published paper. A rebuttal or at worst retraction is the appropriate action in that case.
There is more going on than this.

It's important to know a bit about the venues in question. Mathematical Intelligencer isn't really a journal at all; it's literally a magazine, carried on the shelves it bookstores. It runs some original research but also poetry and jokes and general cultural coverage.

NYJM is, on the other hand, a serious (if online-only, lower-tier) theoretical mathematics journal.

Ted Hill's paper is light on mathematics. As Joel Fish, an assoc. math prof at UMass Boston described it, it's of the caliber of an undergraduate applied math homework problem. It's also packed with citations to psychology, ev-bio, and current events.

Arguably, Hill's paper was reasonable for Intelligencer. But it had no place whatsoever in NYJM, which basically never runs anything but hardcore proof-heavy theoretical mathematics. In the very most charitable interpretation, Hill's paper is an applied math exercise.

Here's where the plot thickens: apparently, Hill's paper didn't undergo normal peer review at either journal, and, in particular, was fast-tracked in (papers apparently appear in NYJM as they're submitted, not in annual editions) by an editor that vocally shares Hill's politics. In response, I understand that a significant number of NYJM's peer review board threatened to quit --- an understandable response, since Hill's paper is embarrassing in the context of the rest of what NYJM publishes.

I encourage people with strong opinions who haven't done so already to:

1. Read the current version of Hill's paper.

2. Skim the first version of Hill's paper, which had a coauthor and virtually none of the political content subsequent editions had.

3. Skim subsequent versions and notice how and where they introduced political content, and match that up to the dates Hill suggests the paper was submitted, first to M.I. and then to NYJM.

4. Select a few papers at random from NYJM and skim them quickly to get a sense of the venue Hill is angry he was rejected from.

I'm left with the impression that this was an elaborate troll, one NYJM didn't handle well --- but then, that would be difficult, since its editor in chief is out on leave owing to a grave medical problem.

Later

This has been flagged to the nether regions of the HN story rankings, and justifiably so! It's a political controversy! But it's frustrating that the story introducing Hill's side of this in Quillette was at the top of the front page and accumulated hundreds of comments, while an actually-informed story that critically analyzed the paper itself will get no attention at all. Consider that the next time you think about complaining about people flagging politics off the front page. The Quillette story deserved to be flagged.
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> When you compare them to what other well educated and skilled professionals earn in those markets, you'll see that their compensation is ok, but nothing notable. There are lots and lots and lots of jobs that pay better, and may offer more fulfilling work.

Really important comment. People tend to overlook how engineers aren't actually paid that well compared to many other professions.

Especially considering the amount of learning and training and skill-building it takes to earn anywhere near what that Nurse Practitioner in Altoona PA makes.

Also note that there are plenty of engineers who make low wages in SFBay. Sure, they make 6 figures, which sounds high to a lot of people working low-paying jobs outside the valley. These people aren't aware that $100k in SF means you probably have roommates.
> A system of community ownership of resources in order to benefit all members is the definition of "communist"

The definition of socialism is shared ownership of the means of production. A public park isn't socialism. A nationalized industry is.

The definition of communism is socialism + post-scarcity, ostensibly making economic classes redundant.
Words have meanings, and just because masses of people are murdered doesn't mean its genocide just like the Civil War or any war. The reason I've stated elsewhere in this thread is that people want to use genocide with regards to authoritarian left states is a tactic by fascists to soften the horrors of the Nazism.

The Stalinist regime was plenty violent and systematically kills millions of people, but calling it genocide doesn't make sense because that wasn't what it was by definition unless you want to compare it to Nazi germany which killed millions more.
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Hey - I'm the author of that page. Your comment is a common misconception, but the animal pictured is actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel. You can tell because the stripe doesn't extend to the eye. Thank you for subscribing to squirrel facts!
For a longer treatment of the same topic, I recommend reading the book The Haywire Heart by Case/Mandrola/Zinn.
My take on this is that something is badly wrong in NYJM's editorial office.
I plan to build a [linear book scanner](https://linearbookscanner.org/) someday. I admit it doesn't satify OP's concern though, at it uses two upward-facing flatbed scanners, rather than consumer cameras.
How exactly does Poland end up “outside of EU”? Polish government has no such plans, Polish society is strongly pro-EU, and there’s no legal way in EU treaties to force us out so the only way I can think of is if the EU itself ceases to exists
Repeat after me: The Internet is already decentralized. The web is already decentralized.

Blockchains do not have a monopoly on decentralization. People who assert this are trying to redefine the term to mean some kind of extreme P2P model that fits their narrative.
There's apparently a conflict between the editor who essentially snuck the paper into NYJM and the rest of the editorial board, and it occurred some time ago, during a time where the leadership of the journal was changed for other reasons. It's worth paying close attention to the dates in Ted Hill's retelling of the story, and matching them up with his submissions and other events.

Long story short: you're probably right, it probably wasn't handled correctly, but there are mitigating circumstances.
Thing is, the denominations that tend to be less fire and brimstone, are also less communal. I always assumed that it comes from strength (or lack thereof) of shared convictions.
Speaking of salaries being before tax, in Australia for example you'd only see 63 cents in the dollar out of that 5k (assuming a salary of $80k a year, probably not unreasonable for a lot of Australian developers). Might you also consider extra time off? I've done this before, and at one place ended up negotiating 1 day off every second week instead of a pay rise; I still, more or less, got just as much work done in 9 days as 10, and neither I nor the company had to fork over more money to the government. Not to mention, a long weekend every second weekend was great for relaxation and opened up possibilities for my wife and I to travel slightly further afield than we could for a standard length weekend.
It didn't when she still had her hand on it, but as soon as the water began to drain, the funnel/vortex immediately connected the mouth with the air pocket at the top.
It's not that the one statement has enough fact but it does distill all that's wrong with the the nominee in a very concise and clear way with respect to a pivotal issue.

Politics is polarized enough these days that you can easily determine based on that single datapoint exact where the political player stands on the spectrum even across other spectrums.
I don't think Syncthing is the same. As far as I recall, it stores the full sync folder to disk, similar to traditional sync services. This project only stores a cache on the disk.
Yep, I know someone that ran a company stocking vegetables/fruits for one of the top supermarket chains here - they were the middlepeople who packed the pallets.

It's a very hard working/high demand place, it wouldn't be uncommon for the boss to have a 16 hour day every so often. Meth runs rampant for people to stay awake, people take a piss in the corner of the factory and have a smoke while packing. Anything that has a cut or bruise gets thrown in the trash, not sent to another place to get processed, not composted, just thrown in the trash.

Any staff can take home stuff at the end of the day that doesn't get thrown out, this would be enough veggies/fruits for 1-2 weeks for them.. just from a single day.
Hasnt half of the decentralisation problem been already solved by the Tor network which is encrypted and already decentralised? And they still regularly identify and stop tor servers. What makes them so sure that the decentralised nodes on a bitcoin network cannot be physically identified and stopped ? A truly decentralised network cannot be built on borrowed network. A truly decentralised interruption free, government free Internet would probably be built on a satellite based network not this.
And if you want to find some phrase, you have to flip through the pages till your eye spots it. Ditto for your notes.
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> the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it

In early humans only the top 16% of males mated

Most people mate now, due to religious/society-enforced monogamy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2833377/
> Apple clearly states in the press and in advertising that the app store is the only way to get apps that are assured to be safe.

Citation or it didn't happen. No way Apple has "assured" anyone that the app stores are 100% malware free at all times. They've said it's the safest thing out there which is a weaker claim (and still true).
I can’t see Apple getting seriously nailed, since they probably had no idea this was happening.

But beyond shutting the companies responsible for selling these applications down, there should be some criminal liability for the executives. Exfiltrating users’ browser history without reasonable consent is a huge privacy violation.

I wonder if it falls under CFAA.
Agree. As much as I don't like Facebook and by extension WhatsApp[0] I still think we should be fair.

[0]: to the point where I've encouraged (or rather tried to convince) groups moving to other channels.
> 18 years of experience

> make less than industry rates

> trying to adopt

Let me turn this around for you: if you want to take care of the kid, you need to take care of yourself. And that includes your finances and your mindset, both of which will be imposed on the child. Perpetuate the cycle or break free. I'm not saying start a business. I'm saying get to the other side of average compensation.
Would you recommend WSL over a full linux distro, and if so, why? Not a rhetorical question. When I first heard about WSL, my first thought was: but why would people use this? I'm surprised it's so popular, and am just trying to understand what people find so compelling about WSL over the real thing.
It's kind of like changing your keybinds in a game, though (or an editor / IDE) - it's painful at first but if the new scheme is better thought out, it pays for itself fairly quickly.
What exactly is "growth hacking" in a chat app? There were no ads here, no algorithmic timeline, no perverse incentives, nothing that you could potentially consider as malicious.

What should WhatsApp have done?

Every single post about WhatsApp here has people pontificating about this and that but no one offers any suggestion of what should be done.
Of all the tools mentioned in this thread: how do they scale?

We have DAGs that cause graphviz to choke (tens of minutes running time, if it ever finishes). So far I'm not aware of anything that scales better than graphviz with similar results to the dot layout engine.
Cool! I made one awhile back called Todobook, it replaces the FB Newsfeed (and various other sites' feeds/lists, like HN) with a todo app that unlocks the feed when you finish your task(s) (either all or one, via config). Fun project :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/todobook/ihbejplhk...
I would think that a lot of that shift happens due to general consumerism. The more you earn, the more you tend to spend. With a lot of the top-end restaurants still being heavily skewed toward meat-based dishes, people that normally would be eating a lot of canned beans, pastas, rice, and such are now consuming meat in larger quantities. There is definitely an air of "you made it" around meat-based dishes.
And now lets think a moment about the fact that Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and thousands of smaller companies do pretty much the same thing. The only difference is that they collect it differently. Instead of offering to "clean your Mac" they offer components that developers can integrate into their websites and apps, for analytics, crash reporting, captchas, etc.

Privacy on our computers and phones is an empty promise, and we need to radically rethink the way our devices and browsers work if we want to change that. Legislation like the GDPR is one step, but we need to think about ways that make it impossible to collect all that data in the first place.
I would think that this kind of data collection is already illegal, at least with installs in the EU. GDPR mandates that the collected data is either directly required to render the desired service or explicit and revokable consent must be given. Clearly neither is the case here.
Except they silently filter email messages based on certain keywords
You don't care about custom ROM scene, but by purchasing Huawei's products when you have plenty of other highly-competitive choices, you are supporting their ethical standards. And thus by proxy you are declaring your support for locked-down hardware and black-box software. As long as you are totally aware and recognize that you do not support the principles of free computing, and that you support companies asserting ownership rights over something after you have purchased it, then I have no problem with your reply. There is no hostile intent with this comment, but I do wonder if you understand what you are saying, when you say that you realize their ethical standards are not great, but you continue to buy their products because it currently does not affect you, despite having plenty of excellent alternatives in this market. Incidentally, I think you have a cool username.
Amazing response, dang. Thank you so much for the explanation.
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Wow. That was some dark patterns.

When looking into the cookie dialog most of it says it is required.

There is a "Reject all" button and it seems to be live but doesn't work.
> Libraries culling a ton of inventory serves the purpose of the really bad books being off the (real) shelf in relatively short order. Dig through Amazon's Kindle ebooks store to have an idea how much all-digital suffers from lack of this.

Sounds like an unintended but desirable effect. Why not make it intended, and design for it directly? Libraries could have a curated collection that they promote, and archives of all the other stuff.

> I have developed, from years of reading, the ability to look at a shelf with the full aperture of my vision, and in that single glance, pick patterns of letters on the book spines such that I can identify interesting titles at a rate of maybe 200 books per minute. I understand non-readers and people who buy books off of somebody else's review list don't have that ability, but I don't see why I should be deprived of something that literally saves me 30 minutes a week to cater to, well, people who don't actually like books.

For starters, that's a very offensive assumption you're making here - that people who don't have that skill "don't actually like books". Have you considered that they might be reading several books every month, just not paper books like you?

But also, that skill you describe is equally applicable to all kinds of lists. If you can do that with books on the shelf, you can learn to do that with a screen. I mean, do we really need to subsidize shelves full of paper books solely to avoid making a few people's skills obsolete and require them to relearn if they want to remain as efficient as they were before?

Of course, digital makes things fundamentally different, anyway. Why browse long shelves, when you can do fuzzy contextual search?
>We just launched in our 2nd city; Scranton, PA.

That's not... the Scranton, PA is it?
Each TCP packet does not require an ack, at least not as a "receive TCP packet send out ACK". They're returned collectively as a bitset for the last N packets instead based on your transmission window (which TCP stacks already tune based on your RTT). Can't see how you'd get rid of that if you're looking for reliable real-time transport medium.

Additionally you can layer in forward error-correction above TCP to reduce packet loss due to the physical medium.
Well, they’re from villages all across China. They need somewhere to live and it might as well not have a commute.

Nearly every large employer in China has employee housing of some sort, including government agencies. Every single manufacturer has dorms.
Yeah, definitely no advertising, particularly overseas, that could have contributed to WhatsApp's growth. No features added like large groups that could be used to spread disinformation. WhatsApp chats are used to influence advertising, so that goes out the window. This happened because WhatsApp provided the means for it to happen – and you can speculate all day long about whether some other app would have made it possible, and whether it would have happened, but what you're saying is speculation, and what I'm citing are facts.

None of it was intentionally malicious – but not considering the moral, ethical, political ramifications of how your product will be used is negligent. This is negligence, not malice.

Platforms aren't neutral.
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Ask HN: How do I get fiber to my home?
I live in a suburban area without a residential fiber provider but a few business fiber providers. I know all advice is location-specific but any recommendations on where to start looking/how to convince a provider not to charge business pricing are appreciated!
As mentioned in the article "Mob lynching isn’t a new phenomenon in India. According to some reports, there were more than 2,000 lynchings in India between 2000 and 2012 — well before WhatsApp was around."

I agree that WhatsApp has the potential to exacerbate such issues.
My two cents: you don't need to read anything at this point, you need to apprentice. Go work somewhere where there are experienced developers. Spend your first weeks there sussing out who is highly respected among your coworkers and choose one or more of those people that you click with. Then just brazenly copy all their techniques and opinions for awhile. Pretty soon you'll find yourself disagreeing with some of what they're doing or thinking. That's natural, but you should resist the urge for awhile; some of that stuff comes from hard-won experience that is hard to explain. Eventually you'll start going your own way more and more. Sometimes that will blow up in your face, and that will give you your own hard-won experiences. Before you know it, you'll be one of the highly respected engineers that the newbies are cribbing from.
I think you meant to say >> He makes 500k a month ... playing video games ...
Lol, we've found Atlantis, gosh darn it, it was destroyed by a comet!

HN has jumped the shark.

Or is this part of Project Zorgo -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waFRAcloD8c

I do love this stuff, LARPing is fun, but that's why we have Reddit.
I'm pretty certain that Freedom (and many other ad-blocking apps) got banned because they were using a VPN for uses other than a strict VPN. Your app uses a VPN for access control, right? Why do you think it won't be banned?

EDIT: I don't want that to sound hostile at all...genuinely curious
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Oddly enough it is more like addicts rather than millennials. The money is a dopamine hit, I've seen day traders with the same obsession trying to make their 'nut' every day. And getting so pumped when they do and so depressed when they don't. All while constantly complaining they would rather be doing anything else. It sounded like an addict saying they hated being an addict but they needed getting high to survive.

500K a month is 6 million a year. Lets say the taxes are 50% so you take two years to bank 6 million. It is pretty straight forward to live off six million dollars pretty much anywhere in the world. Even at 2% that is a monthly check of $10K. If you've got it in t-bills that is tax free.

But you don't get the dopamine hits from living off the interest.