skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While Apple, Amazon, Disney, et al are throwing massive amounts of capital trying to capture a slice of the streaming service market, they appear to have missed signs of cultural change which will likely cause that market to stagnate over the coming decade.

The difference between Disney and the other two being that Disney would be spending that money anyway, and already owns every major entertainment franchise there is to own (and the merchandise rights to it). For Disney an additional streaming service is just a way of further monetizing what they already have.
I think we inhabit such different intellectual universes that I doubt we can have a civil conversation, but let’s try.

If grievance studies is just a “made up term” then how can I be insulting anyone let alone any group?

As for who I am wishing to see removed from academia it people in those areas that the hoax we are discussing exposed - "in the areas of cultural, race, gender, fat, and sexuality studies." [1]

As for engaging with their work I don’t think that it is possible to have a rational discussion with people that think papers like these are worthwhile academic research [1].

Accepted and published

Helen Wilson (pseudonym) (2018). "Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon". Gender, Place & Culture: 1–20. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2018.1475346. (Retracted)

Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity) (2018). "Who Are They to Judge? Overcoming Anthropometry and a Framework for Fat Bodybuilding". Fat Studies. 7 (3): i–xiii. doi:10.1080/21604851.2018.1453622. (Retracted)

M. Smith (pseudonym) (2018). "Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria and Transphobia through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use". Sexuality & Culture. 22 (4): 1542. doi:10.1007/s12119-018-9536-0. (Retracted)

Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity) (2018). "An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant". Sex Roles. 79 (11–12): 762. doi:10.1007/s11199-018-0962-0. (Retracted)

Accepted but not yet published

Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). "When the Joke Is on You: A Feminist Perspective on How Positionality Influences Satire". Hypatia.

Carol Miller (pseudonym). "Moon Meetings and the Meaning of Sisterhood: A Poetic Portrayal of Lived Feminist Spirituality". Journal of Poetry Therapy.

Maria Gonzalez, and Lisa A. Jones (pseudonyms). "Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism". Affilia.

Revise and resubmit

Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). "Agency as an Elephant Test for Feminist Porn: Impacts on Male Explicit and Implicit Associations about Women in Society by Immersive Pornography Consumption". Porn Studies.

Maria Gonzalez (pseudonym). "The Progressive Stack: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pedagogy". Hypatia.

Stephanie Moore (pseudonym). "Super-Frankenstein and the Masculine Imaginary: Feminist Epistemology and Superintelligent Artificial Intelligence Safety Research". Feminist Theory.

Maria Gonzalez (pseudonym). "Stars, Planets, and Gender: A Framework for a Feminist Astronomy". Women's Studies International Forum.

Under review

Carol Miller (pseudonym). "Strategies for Dealing with Cisnormative Discursive Aggression in the Workplace: Disruption, Criticism, Self-Enforcement, and Collusion". Gender, Work and Organization.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_Studies_affair
I remember my younger days. Games today depend on graphics card for quality, so you can brag to have better graphics with your friends if you have a better card.

In the old days, the card was important of course (it's more to whether it's software or hardware, essentially jagged vs "smooth" picture), but having a good MIDI sound card is like heaven and earth for the ear. I literally spent hours just justening to MIDI files downloaded from the internet when I got a Sound Blaster (forgot the model).
I thought early google was great and much better than today's.

In terms of treating bacterial infections, the early years of penicillin were also better than our own era because the pathogens hadn't evolved resistance yet. Early Google was great because the Web's pathogens hadn't evolved resistance yet.
Wrote whole ad tech platform and roped in the advertisers/publishers with my sales skill then received 5M payout got kicked off the company.

After that they hired sales guys from big companies because they had enough cashflow going.

I don't really regret it but he could have given me atleast 10% equity.

I didn't know that the project will ever end up doing multi million dollar business. I couldn't see it coming.

But I did whatever tasks of sales/coding/customer service were demanded from me.

And the worst part? My girlfriend left me for him because she met him at a party and got impressed by his Noveu rich lifestyle and a new supercar.
How does this differ from valgrind in practice?
Plenty of fish was bootstrapped by a single founder.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-markus-frind-bootstrappe...

Stardew Valley was made by one guy.

https://www.gq.com/story/stardew-valley-eric-barone-profile
Renters are more transient, so less willing and able to exert political pressure. And they usually have fewer resources to advocate for their own benefit in the first place.

But you still make a great point. Long-term renters must at least sometimes vote on the side of the "NIMBYs". If you've lived in a unit for 10 years and have rent control, do you want low-income housing or giant view-blocking structures put up in your neighborhood? Maybe not.
The current method of reporting sales experience on forums is open to spamming and manipulation since it is hard to show that a deal even took place.

It is likely that forums and merchants develop best practices to solve this problem. There is the potential that merchants will start to issue “proofs of sale” in a cryptographic form, that customers then use to make statements about the performance of the merchant in public forums.

Could a blockchain or some other kind of public ledger be used to create a public sales rating record? I don't see how such a thing can respond to spamming and deliberate manipulation, however.

Another thought I just had: could some combination of drones and self driving cars revolutionize dead drops?
Find out who's upto what on GitHub
it was before Google, so stuff was really hard to find
Did you take a look at reference 4-6, particularly #4, and Figure 1 in #4? The animal products we consume are objectively more resource intensive than the non-animal products.
Look past the false dichotomy - there can still be a gigantic problem even though this particular hoax didn't do a good job of exposing it.

I mean, the social science journals targeted by this hoax could be awful, I have no idea. But the hoax started with the thesis "if we submit an awful paper it will get accepted" and that thesis turned out to be false. This implies that the journals are not as bad as the hoax authors originally expected, right? They could still be bad, but the hoax doesn't establish that.

The fact that the authors later got other papers accepted, I don't think we can say much about. If an experimenter's methodology is "keep iterating until X happens", then obviously the fact that X eventually happened can't prove anything about their thesis.
The people who control the university administration are not academics in these fields, but disproportionally graduates of these fields.
> characters' decision making processes and the ways things were described felt very foreign to me.

the book isn't a dramatic book - it doesn't follow a hero's journey or the typical greek style storytelling trope. It's more like a description of what happened. But i like that - the sci-fi elements described a pretty fantastical, concepts are fresh and original (however you can argue that it has been done before?!).

I feel that the book is bifurcated amongst readers who read for literary quality vs conceptual quality.
I wouldn't read too far into the beliefs and philosophies of the "local far left".

Most local politicians are just struggling to placate and/or not piss off a large enough cross-section of those few weirdos that are actually active in local politics so that they can continue their career in politics.
This is my general response whenever these types of articles appear. If your labor costs are insanely high, you need to raise prices. If people won't pay more for your products, you need to create better products worth more money, give staff equity and reduce profit, or shut down.
Very comprehensive. Thank you.
I wish he'd write a book about how to run fully remote companies, especially _international_ ones, like GitLab. Having recently founded a company myself, I have no plans of ever renting a permanent office if I can avoid it. So far though, I only had to deal with regulatory stuff in two states (DE and WA), and I get a throbbing headache from just contemplating doing this in every state and internationally as well. Would be pretty cool to know where the rakes are buried under the leaves so to speak, and how best to structure/manage such an organization, even besides the usual communication related challenges.
You mean use (X)SFP(+), not “use fiber”. The SFP+ copper twinax cables I use in my lab at home have lower latency than the majority of MMF/SMF transceivers on the market.
I think it’s just that compared side by side bezels look like unused space. Going full bezel-free is an extreme reaction. People easily leap from “too much X is less attractive” to “any X is too much.” It also seems the only trick Apple design is capable of these days.
Sadly, browsers cannot play MIDI natively. Old version of IE used to be able to via the <bgsound> HTML tag but that's removed in modern versions and no other browsers support it.

For fun, I actually rebuilt <bgsound> for the modern web using a Web Component. https://github.com/feross/bg-sound
Great read about containers aside, I think the most interesting point for me is that `redo` is getting some love. 150 commits in the past couple of months after a six year hiatus, including some great documentation improvements.

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Anyone familiar with the mentioned `bupdate` tool and zsync¹? I'd love to read a comparison, as I've only used the latter.

1. http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
I do think F2F (and not just videoconference) time is valuable and companies need to budget that if they’re remote. You probably need some T&E to make up for people being scattered.
Same thing happened to me. The founder was a business major, knew nothing about tech but was Street smart and contacts with lawyers.

I developed an advertising tracking platform, similar to Voluum.com

But founder kicked me out and now they do roughly 10M sales from ad agencies.

He was even blogging about it how he did corporate Takeover and considered himself supersmart about this move.

He told me see pal, you are not my enemy but in life you only get on shot, either you can be loser or a winner, and you know what I'll choose.
If people want to buy up apartments or condos for much more than they're worth, I'll keep building them until we run out of people who have that kind of money. If you let me keep building, I will win.
As others have said, the second book is by far the highlight of the series, although I did like the first, in part because of the cultural differences. I hated the third though, if anyone is struggling with the characters decision making process in the first then they will be completely lost on the third. The whole thing felt like it was trying to cover way too many directions for one book, especially in the last part, even without that I think it was a poor book.

I think the cultural differences wouldn't have been as apparent if they had anglicized names though, I had a hard time tracking the characters, was assigning some of the thoughts to the wrong people and things like that. I struggle with games set in Asia like Shogun Total War for the same reason.
Show HN: Bringing BGSOUND and MIDI back to the modern web
Hiring Badass Devs for VC-Backed Politics Startup
We just received our first round of funding and are looking to hire our first developers (I've done all of the dev work to date).

Given how early we are, I care much more about talent than tech stack and the ability to ship over years of experience.

Not super passionate about politics? That's okay! While we work with lot's of prominent candidates, our target users are people that don't traditionally get involved with campaigns. So we are really looking for people devoted to the product and our users, not politics.

I know I haven't given you much to go on, but email me (trent@voterchase.com) with your LinkedIn/Resume if you are interested in hearing more and we can set up time to talk.
The opportunity is likely more B2B than B2C, where insurers are more apt to negotiate down prices if they see they are "overpaying" based on comps.

GoodRx already does this somewhat with prescription medication, by getting pricing data on prescriptions from local pharmacies.

Perhaps, based on the GoodRx model, the opportunity is to improve price pressure on recurring procedures for patients who require ongoing dialysis treatment, dermatology care, physical therapy, etc. For emergency based care in hospitals, I still don't think it's a major net-win for consumers, as you don't care enough to ask about price when your leg is broken.
Funny how some people's enemies are stupid and weak while being powerful and threatening at the same time. A superposition! Beware the fearsome Eigenliberal!
They should rebrand it as a Flying Wall and sell lots of them to ICE for extraordinary amounts of money.
Bit of a coincidence that this article was also posted here regarding the loop quantum gravity prediction of black hole to white hole transitions, which is one theoretical explanation: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v11/127

>Models suggest that several observed astrophysical phenomena could be related to the black-to-white-hole transition [8]. Among these are fast radio bursts (FRBs) and certain high-energy cosmic rays

However, since this particular FRB case is one that repeats (most of them are one-time events), I'm wondering if this theory still applies. Black holes seem like too "clean" of an object to have diverse behavior.
Apple Q1 Numbers: Missing Explanations
Stockholm Syndrome and Emotional Abuse – Part II
Iirc this is done in China with Wechat
A couple of questions

1. How big is GetUp here in Australia? How many full time staff?

2. How can you be a postgrad philosopher in both the present and past tense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_cover
Show HN: Daily photo diary of you staring at your computer; a chrome extension
I think that nabla9 by "human rights" refers to human rights as a universal concept (and probably under their own accepted definition) rather than the specific definition by the UN.
Just in case the admins visit this page, it's worth pointing out that the SSL Labs rating for this site is F for at least 3 different vulnerabilities (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.seat61.co...) and in fact I can't access it at all without changing my browser's settings because it doesn't support TLS 1.1 or above. TLS 1.1 was released in 2006 - might want to get on that.
In order to save a friend's answering service (small business), I wrote an answering service software package with PHP, using Comet (the precursor to websocket) using Asterisk as the PBX in 72 hours. Their previous system had been running since 1986, which utilized a 386 SCO server and some sort of external caller id / DID identification box that integrated with it. That caller id box died and a replacement couldn't be found, which pretty much rendered the system useless.
In a word, USENET.

It's still alive today, to get a feel check out sci.electronics.design (which is a still active newsgroup - Winfield Hill still posts to it):

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sci.electronics.desi...
Life of a GitHub Action
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tra...
>what is she doing?

Innovating.
Managed Services Don’t Always Lead to Vendor Lock-In
It just echoes what the parent post said, which states millions of people use darknet marketplaces. they see the whole catalogue whether they go straight to the opioids section or not.

sometimes they even list! lower fees than Ebay. Maybe Ebay and Amazon write those Ask Reddit posts about the "scariest thing you've seen on the dark web" to perpetuate that its scary.
"the food vegans would like to eat": vegan/vegetarians already exist, and we study and analyze their diets when determining crop usage, e.g. see reference #5 in the blog post. Or, my personal favorite: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0594-0

tldr; omni diets consume about an order of magnitude more crops in total, so, you know, more animals die in crop production to eat animals than not eating animals...

oooo, also of interest: we actually eat a very small number of crops, 40 crops make up 90% of the global calorie consumption (see ref #4)
"Old saw"? I remember that quote being new, it's not _that_ old...

<google google google>

It's from 2003.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-h...
True. I see the same thing happening in Ag.

I can tell how we will create jobs there tho’..instead of having people spraying toxic chemicals in orchards with masks on..we can have autonomous drones or sprayers but staff can be trained to use the programs and equipment. But here is the rub. Where you needed maybe 30 labourers in the field doing low wage job..now one robot and one operator/supervisor can do it for a single high paying job. So..while certainly that one person has upward mobility..what about the rest of the 29 low skill workers? How are they going to be trained and what will they do? This is something tech sector and the govt has to think about...I don’t think we have spent enough time or effort worrying about it or pursuing it...honestly..it’s not killer AI that scares me..but it’s unemployed..poor low skill people who don’t have means to support themselves in a world where jobs will get scarce is what scares me.
I got my email address when I started college, in the early 90s. You didn't use it much except to communicate with people you knew in real life. It replaced letter-writing, certainly, but otherwise not a huge change.

During college years, first we got Mosaic then Netscape, and more and more one went on-line to look for non-academic information, e.g., I remmeber when NYT on-line started. My first summer job in college, at the MIT Media Lab, was in a group where people were talking about building a mainframe, digitize movies, and serve (this was before "stream" became mainstream) them to people at home. I remember thinking: "Who'd pay for that?"
If someone approached me as a clojure dev charging $15/hr I'd think they were a scammer.
Sure, but there are also valid pressures keeping people there that otherwise can’t afford the cost of living:

Family and friends. Support networks are vital for every human.

Familiarity with local transportation. SF/the Bay Area’s bus and rail network makes it possible to live without the expense of a car, a necessity in most other cities in the US

Professional networks and contacts, which exist even for blue-collar workers, and, admittedly with no data to back this claim up, may be more localized for someone who doesn’t hold a college degree and hence doesn’t have a name or reputation to fall back on when starting from a clean slate.

Demographics. Sure, many places may be cheaper to live, but most of them are definitely not as welcoming or safe as San Francisco for, say, a trans woman of color or a gay white male

And, last but not least (unless you think everything must have some quantifiable value that is): sentimentality. Would you really like to be forced out of your home involuntarily?

If you take one of these people out of their community they grew up in and throw them somewhere in the middle of the Midwest, do you really think they would thrive there lacking everything they had in San Francisco? Do you think displacing the problem until it's out of sight is both sustainable and humane? It's a fallacy to think the majority of people who can't afford to live there are the one's moving there – it's usually the peoples whose livelihoods were long established there that are being forced out.

A much simpler solution to trying to tackle all of these problems at once is to, well, build more housing.
I am glad he is expanding remote work as it can be beneficial to companies who need it and motivate workers morale; however, working remotely full time is not always the greatest if you do not have other priorities in your life.

For example, for my first job out of college, I was placed in a team where my manager was working in a different city, and half the team was in a timezone 12 hours ahead. It was great if I wanted to leave at 3 or come into work at 10, but man, it was isolating as a new hire coming into the office and not speaking a word to anyone or interacting with anyone on my team while other teams around me had productive meetings or team lunches. Working remotely in this case did not give myself any extra motivation to work for the team or help the team because I did not know them personally. Maybe there are other ways to work remotely and still foster this camaraderie, but I find it hard to see when most conversations are phone calls where people looking into their computer screens.
Prior restraint in the form of requiring approval by an IRB is better than harsher punishment. The point is to prevent any research from getting to the point of criminal charges.

A researcher operating under "better to ask forgiveness than permission" is in serious mad scientist, Frankenstein territory.
Thanks! If you can share your use case, I'm interested.
I may be the world's leading expert on what I want, but when it comes to food, I'm not actually the world's leading expert at making it...
Odd that apt-get was mentioned as a tool that could use incremental downloads: it has supported them since 2006.
odd goods like you might find in craiglist's for sale section. shared passwords or accounts for streaming websites. books. paintings. collectibles. there are often good deals on any dark net marketplace that pops up. All the way back to Silk Road 1.0.

cheaper than listing on ebay.
Clearly they should be investing in affordable housing and volunteering it for rent control.
If your tastes require solid character development then sure. But other people might enjoy a book more for its plot or ideas. There are books (especially in science fiction), movies, and TV shows that are widely recognized as very good without a lot of character development.