skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politicization is not isolated to climate change, nor is the bastardization/twisting of truth and facts. It seems every viewpoint (flat-Earth, anti-vaxx, essential oils, Goop, climate denialism, Creationism, pro-life, etc.) is amassing its own set of "facts" and "truth" and the lack of moderation and discussion across the aisle is worsening. I point the blame at social media, cable news, clickbait, headlines, sensationalism, and general human nature towards tribes, othering, and basic psychological weaknesses.

While I laud scientific and writing efforts to be less sensational and more truthful, it seems our primate minds are incapable of rationality on a society-wide scale.
It seems to me that you could regard something like the Y Combinator as a design pattern that is a palliative for dynamic implicitly typed languages.

All kinds of languages have patterns. Whatever kind of language you use, learn the patterns that are relevant/useful for it.
No but the regulation and the protectionism does. My father recently flew to los algodones, Mexico for dental work that included bone graphs, tooth pullings, bridges etc. throughout his whole mouth for around $2k. The estimate for the same job here costs at least $15k.

I am really surprised there aren't any online price arbitrage websites for healthcare. You could pay a few pennies to fly across the world to get competitive healthcare at a 1/10th of the cost it would be here.
Per capita US produces more CO2 than China right now.
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I think this is fair. Correlation between [website] performance and "customer happiness" (convert as you want) is pretty established. Also, I think workers and argo (both starting at ~$5/mo) is the right path of breaking down cloudflare cost from free/pro/business/enterprise to "pay as you go".
>My understanding is that ford is really really bad for this as well, requiring incredibly expensive computers, software packages, and training to repair even basic things without it pissing off the ECU

As a family who has owned Ford cars and trucks for 25+ years, this is news to me. Do you have a link or anything to substantiate this? It would be surprising if true.
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Seems pretty clear to me: Google doesn't show the website link in the top 3 results but shows a lot of fact-checking sites in the top 10. It definitely should show the site at #1. The number of fact-checkers shown seems a little excessive but as long as they do something similar for equivalent left-wing sites, I don't have much of a problem with it - The Gateway Pundit publishes a lot of made up bullshit
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One of the reasons I love my catchall email is catchall + password manager* throws a wrench in a lot of tracking. Even if you don't use Oauth, a commmon technique is to hash the email and compare the hashes. You can strip out periods or plus signs (ex: dontbenebby+hn@mydomain.com) but it's hard to track a person who gives a unique username, email, and password to every site.

(Though I guess they could intuit I'm the only one who uses my custom domain, but that'd be hard to do at scale)

*use PW manager because each site needs a unique PW
But at the same time everything's gone from a dank esoteria to polished standards. In the sense of visual aesthetic the internet has been "gentrified" I'd say.
Neoclassical economics tells the story that algorithms drive differentiated news and other content because different users seek different content out, and the market obliges. This form of gentrification, like many other forms, is generally downstream of an equilibrium around different preferences, whether stated or just manifest. Given how many commerical forces shape the structure of the internet as a marketplace of ideas, I don't think this is the only thing going on, but I think it's ignored at one's peril.

> Platforms like reddit and 4chan still operate this [non-algorithmized/gentrified] way, but most social media platforms use existing IRL personal networks to link users and push content.

This passage in particular struck me as revealing. Reddit is a meta-community with a notorious echochamber problem while 4chan is a meta-community with a notorious troll/dirtbag problem. That the majority of internet users tend to avoid both isn't due to unfair competition over their eyeballs from Facebook et al. so much as an appetite for curation, content accountability/surveillance, content differentiation, community standards, and all the other forms of "online gentrification".

The same attitude that bemoans the existence of content differentation as a cause of problems rather than a response to existing conditions that are far harder to improve seems to drive the belief that the appetite for fake news will evaporate if fake news is made harder to find. I consider both rather wrong-headed.
On the bright side, at least they make sure their technology works for minorities as well. Perhaps the egalitarian ideas of the West are finally starting to take hold there.
one nice thing about having the terminal within vim is that you can manipulate the output like any old buffer. So for instance if you want to copy something from the terminal into a script you're editing, you can yank the text from the terminal and paste it into your script, taking advantage of vim's editing features and without needing to move your mouse.
Spoiler alert: so does everyone else (see subscription numbers).

There are a few niche and highly specialized publications which I view (GQ, Men's Health, etc.) but for major news and in depth reporting I'm more likely to frequent WaPo, NYT, Vox, etc. There is a huge drop off in quality when viewing work from the mid-tier news providers.
Well, gee, golly, Apple finally supports what the rest of the universe has been supporting for decades--so innovative!

Yeah, I'm salty from working around Apple's brain-damaged short range communication idiocies for years.
I never said no one would like it, so your counterexample isn't a basis to disagree unless you think most people are as rational as you [think you are] in the checkout line (they aren't).

Besides, our own assessments of our preferences are notoriously inaccurate. It would be logical for you to like it, but I'll believe you actually do when you make choices reflecting the preference. Which you'll never have a chance to do unless some store's marketing department thinks this is a good idea.
Maybe the strategy should have been to maintain trustworthiness and condemn hoaxes on all sides of the isle, such as the type that have been talked about on Capitol Hill lately. Who can blame them at this point?
> It pictures the time when mental illness diagnostic was an easy method to put away anyone annoying or inconvenient

One of my friends was sent to Napa State Hospital by his step dad because he had epilepsy. When he was seven. It took six years for his dad to win custody, because his dad was a Mexican.

That was the world of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
It really does prove it. If they were completely aligned with politics, they would have ALWAYS voted in a predictable way.

They may have more conservative or liberal tendencies, but to think that that all Justices will vote the way that people want to pigeonhole them into is ridiculous.
I see no reason this should request full access to all sites I visit. Why not just trigger it with an extension bar button? I'm definitely not allowing extensions access to my email and banking sites.
Because your use case might be different than what your company targets? I see no problem with that, heck, if the person used cloudflare and only cloudflare, I would probably question if they are making proper desicions of benefits of diffirent products, and if they are drinking company kool-aid.

I would rather read content generated by someone who is able to compare and contrast various technologies in an objective fashion, instead of a yes man.
And yet if you walk in without money in an unregulated market, to a company whose goal is to maximize shareholder value will they (a) treat you out of the kindness of their hearts or (b) do what they always did and tell you to pay up or die? It’s like walking into an Apple store and asking for a free laptop. But you know, with your life.

Kaiser isn’t much of an innovation it’s just a scaled down model of any socialized health system. It’s exactly what Canada has but smaller.
The controls have gotten less granular, and I don't see a way to add new sites to the filters without an article showing up in your results first. But they do still seem to work on personalized news such as the "For You" section.

- Blocked sources: https://news.google.com/settings/feedback

- Favorite sources: https://news.google.com/my/library

What I have noticed is that the filters don't seem to apply if you click on "Full Coverage" of a topic anymore (via the little icon with the colorful rectangles), perhaps in response to those echo chamber complaints.
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> If I'm a current employee, I'm underwater. And my tax implications are scary. So, am I not motivated to stay and let things recover, rather than walking away when I vest after six months?

You have to weigh that against the realistic chance that the stock will never recover. That happened to SNAP and it could happen to Uber too. How long are you willing to wait?

You may be doubling down on a sunk cost, and missing out on the opportunity to get a job at another company with more valuable RSUs.
We are absolutely no where near this reality for some industries, and sadly may never be. See how fervently Apple is fighting consumers being able to repair their devices.
Interesting, it seems similar to how large sailboats need to head into or down wind when attempting to trim sails in some conditions? (to reduce pressure on the sails to allow trimming to be doable by hand)
> If anything is a meme, then memetics itself is.

Of course it is. Pointing out that something is a meme isn't really an insult, it's just the nature of reality.

Indeed, chanting of team slogans, etc are all forms of memetic, cult-like behavior.

> Name something memetics has impacted. Viral marketing? Nope, that would've happened with or without Dawkins. Etc.

Memetics isn't an "invention", it's simply a label given to a general observation (itself a meme) of ideas like people do not think in facts, or fully realize the difference between reality and their interpretation of reality. Whether the discovery and documentation of these human behaviors has "impacted" anything is no proof one way or another if it is a correct theory.

I happen to believe it could impact the world in a major way, if large numbers or people were intimately aware of it, but that's far easier said than done. Accepting these ideas in principle isn't terribly difficult (although plenty of people seem to find the ideas offensive), but even having intellectually accepted the principle, changing one's real-time behavior (not jumping to conclusions or mischaracterizing/imagining the beliefs of others during conversations, humbly admitting when someone points out your facts aren't actually facts, etc etc etc) is something else entirely. This can be observed on HN, Reddit, and everywhere on a daily basis.
What % of employees with stocks would that apply to, in your estimation?
It's pretty interesting how the author attempts to tie gentrification, caused by real life constraints like supply+demand, to a corporate-backed internet mono culture.

It's kind of a stretch since one of the causes of real-life gentrification is protections for existing stakeholders, the lack of change/adaptation(Friendster -> myspace -> FB for example), and an inherent lack of supply(whereas on the internet there's a near infinite).

I'm not sure whether you can call this gentrification or rather the internet being less of a niche sub culture + more mainstream or just attribute it to a human tendency to self-segregate/put ourselves in our own bubbles.

Tbh, internet n/yimbyism doesn't really have too many effects besides sanitization of content. Other message boards have names for it like noob or a popular one where the word start with "old" or "new' after all.
Is a literary review of a book about architecture, so has quotes from the book. I assume the pictures are one level down.
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“employer made the choice on the best provider they could get at the best wholesale price.”

Best for the employer, not for the employee. In addition when you start a job you can’t really evaluate health insurance choices.
No. Now a substantial part of the lift no longer points up because you use it for turning instead. That's why when you turn you have to increase lift (i.e. you pull back a bit, or adjust trim if it's a shallow turn that takes a while to complete) or the nose drops, to compensate for the loss of lift by not using all of it to remain at the original altitude.

Remember that unless you have negative or zero g you always have positive lift even with a nose pointed down, so taking away some of it won't help you, you'll just help gravity. You could slow down (forward speed) - if you can, that is. Banking won't help your descend rate all else remaining equal.
Maybe, but I’m afraid I can’t see that happening. Too many people lose their marbles when the topic of Assange comes up.
This example of tracking is tiny and harmless. But there's a wide spectrum of tracking behavior from sites.

> whiny, entitled users who think they have a right to use any website they want on their terms

Users do have a right to use any website they want to on their own terms. If I make an HTTP GET to your site, it's up to you to decide what HTML to return. Once you do, it's up to me whether to request the images, scripts, etc, and whether to read the sidebar, etc.

It's up to you to decide whether to show me any content of substance without first collecting payment. I can't demand that you publish content for free. I'm not entitled to that.

But it's up to me to decide what I consume. You can't demand that I view ads, send back tracking cookies, etc. You're not entitled to that.

If you don't like site visitors refusing to be tracked, then don't let them view your website. Nobody forced you to.
Twilio took $255M in funding, not $17.5B. Entirely different set of expectations for a backend software company and a company that is trying to redefine transportation.
Just noting that the URLs weren't formatted as links but code
Experienced nurses already prescribe drugs for people. Walk into a random retail clinic and you will most likely be seeing a nurse, not a doctor. My PCP is not an MD. She has the legal authority to prescribe me any drug she wants, including highly controlled substances.
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I don't want to come off as flippant or insensitive. This comes from my honest attempt to understand why identity politics should be viewed as appropriate in the workplace.

Note: I am not interested in whatever that identity actually is; be it political, sexual, racial, religious, economic, normative, counter-normative, age based, or whatever. I want to understand why showcasing your identity (whatever it is) is or should be viewed as appropriate in the workplace.

I personally want to work with people because we can create something great together. I don't feel a need nor an inclination to assert my identity, to know your identity, or your views on my identity.

For those that do feel the need to project your identity into the workspace, how should your colleagues acknowledge your identity? Since I assume that must be the motivation. Would it be inappropriate or even realistically unavoidable to be judged (positively or negatively) based on these projections? How would/do you reconcile with a colleague, manager or client who happens to project their own but somehow counter identity?
I think the key is proximity, I believe. Like with a QR code, you could hypothetically take a picture of it and have that QR code be used anywhere. With this, you have to actually be in proximity to use it, I believe, which adds value in some contexts.
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I'm not sure if "60s and 70s" is supposed to be some kind of strawman, because I specified no such thing (I was really thinking of a time period slightly later than that), but the Zeitgeist in that period was influenced by what happened earlier, so I'll humor you.

Here's the sentence I assume you're referring to again:

> In the past society used to challenge opinions more directly and immediately, sometimes even descending into outright "intolerant" behavior.

The end of segregation fits well into the time period you specified, so let's use that as an example.

- 1955-1968. Martin Luther King Jr becomes spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement.

- 1956. Montgomery bus boycott.

- 1961. Freedom Riders.

- 1965. Beatles refuse to play in front of a segregated audience.

- 1965. Showdown in Selma.

- 1968. De jure segregation is fully outlawed in the United States.

You can imagine that all of these topics were publicly debated back then. Labeling someone a racist or intolerant would've been met with "Yes, I am. So what?" by some people, so that didn't even work as an "argument" by itself.

For even more perspective, have a look at these surveys[0] conducted in the period 1960-1970, featuring such questions as:

- "Do you think most Negroes believe in nonviolent action or do you think most Negroes would like to use violence in their demonstrations?".

- "I'd like to ask you if you were in the same position as Negroes, if you think it would be justified or not to march and protest in demonstrations?"

Imagine having that kind of discussion today. Yeah I can't either. People would be outraged and try to get someone fired. Maybe rightfully so.

It took three decades for half of the opinions that were expressed back then to become "taboo", and another two decades for us to arrive where we are today, where pretty much anything that isn't a mainstream opinion on the matter is now a dangerous topic. Hence the pendulum metaphor.

The predominant viewpoints have become entrenched and are being defended against any opinion that doesn't smell the same. Anything that just might threaten them, even if there is no obvious conflict, is labeled "racist", "intolerant", "left", "right", etc and shot down on sight.

Debates back then weren't less heated, but there were more "real debates" and there were significantly less taboo topics and opinions.

Edit: I rambled on for a long time, so to get back to the issue at hand, please imagine "Story 1" or "Story 2" from the article were set in 1960. They just wouldn't be plausible anymore. Nobody could feel "unsafe" or "shaken up" over these opinions - they are tame compared to the opinions publicly expressed back then.

[0]: https://www.crmvet.org/docs/60s_crm_public-opinion.pdf

The PDF contains public opinion polls about some of the events I listed above, I recommend having a look at it.
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>Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities.

That's neither here nor there. Many countries who weren't communist at all are like that. And most of them are far worse.

>Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims.

Well, the extravagant "65 million" number and summation of anybody that died during that era as a victim is a spit in the face of the billions who say it as their cause, overthrew colonialism in their countries, and died by the tens of millions fighting Nazis.
> GIFs are images and so displayed as such with little concept of play-control

> A video format communicate that you might want to pause for example.

> I believe a GIF-killer will need to be considered an image as a format.

If we consider animated GIF to be an image, then the distinction between "image" and "video" is pretty arbitrary.

I would say the distinction isn't inherent to the format either. It's inherent to the HTML tag. There's no reason we couldn't support `<img src="foo.av1" />` or `<video src="bar.gif" />` with the appropriate UI for each.

I actually think this is a symptom of something bigger: browsers (and most other applications) shouldn't care about media formats at all; that's a low-level concern of the OS/stdlib. The Datatypes system of AmigaOS (and later BeOS) is an example of how this could be improved.
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If you install it, you can specify an option to read and change site data only when you click on it.

It is optimized for the lazy 95% of web users.
I just finished up the second of back to back Ford leases this month (2010 F-150, 2014 Fiesta ST) and didn't have a single issue with either car. 8 years, 2 cars, only oil changes, tires and brakes (on the ST).

I guess your mileage may vary, literally.
What free speech does Google explicitly censor?
> I was literally just a robot arm with a human brain attached to it, and for what?

This is how I felt as an undergrad working in a research lab. Endless, annoying pipetting. Labeling tubes. Bitchwork that the postdoc didn't want to do. I kept thinking... there's no way they can't come up with a robot to do this.

My guess is the technology to do it is there but the motivation isn't - most undergrads (me included) work in research labs for free with the hope of getting into med school.

Luckily, I'm in med school now so I don't have to worry about being taken advantage of in that way. But every time I think about how the system does this to so many premeds, it pisses me off.
I don’t think anything is possible risk free. So it comes down to your/societies risk tolerance how save, expensive and slow or risky, cheap and fast progress should be. Ideally the risk is taken by conscious and free individuals. But yes, bystanders will be hit as well.

For manned flight it was totally worth the risk.
Meh. I'm not the guy you're replying to, and I think he is introducing a bit of an 'issue' where there really isn't one. However, I think it brings up an interesting topic/observation about Cloudflare.

There certainly is a stigma in many companies that employees should use their employers products. I used to do work at some major beverage manufacturers, and for example, carrying a can of Coke into a Pepsi office will literally have you escorted out of the building. For lunch, Pepsi employees are heavily discouraged from eating at places that serve Dr Pepper or Coke products. Company money absolutely cannot be spent on buying catering/services from caterers that don't have Pepsi, etc. For airlines, I have a friend that works at United and he has said multiple times about how he hopes his colleagues never find out that he flies American sometimes because it's cheaper when flying to his hometown.

More recently and relatable to this forum, there was a post a week or two ago where a GitLab employee got lambasted by the CEO for using Github for his personal projects rather than GL.

If anything, I think this is an interesting observation that Cloudflare might have 'less of a stick up its butt' in terms of policing what its employees do. Is this thread the right place for that discussion? Idk, but it's an interesting discussion nonetheless.
Sorry if I don't have much sympathy for already wealthy people not wanting to give others the standard of care they already have access to.
I'm not suggesting less training or lowering standard, I'm suggesting less regulation.

Company can still provide as many training or requiring as high standard as they want.

One way to reduce risky driving behaviors is to impose high penalty/punishment for risky behaviors.