skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users don't want to pay a 5$ / month subscription for content. I know I don't. Would they be willing to pay cents or even fractions of a cent for content? I'd like to see a study on that. We need the infrastructure to support that model though, which I think doesn't fully exist yet.
I agree. The only way to have this language paradigm discussion productively is if we're all looking at two well written implementations of the same project in each.

Even then, I think the final conclusion (most likely "agree to disagree") will be that it's largely subjective, and heavily biased by familiarity.

Ultimately though, it's really just a distraction to avoid the much more controversial discussion we need to be having vis-à-vis tabs vs. spaces.
> It's considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day.

So where does the sentiment that it is completely okay come from?
People in Glass Houses: The Legacy of Joseph Eichler (2012)
This seems like an excellent and diplomatic way to address the issue.
Ability != Preference

You claimed his argument was limited to preference, I am showing you that Damore was talking about preference and ability.
Splitting hairs over distribution is a red herring. Nobody here is assuming that Damore is referring to women the individual, but women as a whole.

> Nowhere does he say that women have less ability than men.

Damore does, in several places: [emphasis added]

>Women, on average, have more:

> - Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness. This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading. Note that these are just average differences and there’s overlap between men and women, but this is seen solely as a women’s issue.

> - Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs.

Note that the data he used here is cherry picked from a 90's study that used the Big5 method, which has since been debunked for use in biological differentiation.
Sometimes we turn off user flags but as far as I know moderators haven't touched any of these submissions.
They are below the quality of what one would expect from a government-run organization. Perhaps an online sales platform should be a utility instead. At least it would be fair to third-party sellers, with their market regulated by the government instead of by a large corporation.
I guess we can quibble about the definition of "attractive" and "need to date online," but I think most people who date online find that there are other people who are dating online who are attractive.
Saying you want "authentic" vs "just like home" are very different to me. One implies value judgement, the other does not.
Your point is accurate, but they also power some massive eCommerce businesses and growing number of enterprise shops.

Their biggest investments are for their subscribers that ACTUALLY sell stuff. Dropship-dreamers are super scared of actually subscribing but they are the vocal majority because of guru's and such.

Its all about growing GMV / PLUS / CAPITAL / FULFILLMENT and those are all hitting +50% YOY
I agree with you on the weird tone issue. It very much reminds me of proclamations (usually Facebook, but going back to Usenet) made by folks widely regarded as not all present. The random all-caps words are part of it, as is the word "hereby".
I have at least 4 married couples amongst my friends that met online (2 of them through World of Warcraft, though). I'm about to get married to a woman I met through online dating.

I was actually trying really hard to date people in person too, I was going to tons of meetups, and getting some dates out of that, it just so happened that the woman I'm marrying ended up being someone that messaged me on an online dating app four years ago.

I do know married couples that met through Meetup and other in-person methods as well, so online is definitely not everyone's only option anymore, but online is a definitely viable option.
Agreed, healthcare, education, and housing -- the three most regulated and corrupt industries have grown at an accelerated rate. The are hurting people -- they are caused by unlimited loans (education), corruption/bureaucracy/regulation (healthcare), and housing (government regulation/zoning). These have nothing to do with income and production, but instead are caused by poor governing policies and regulation.

Also goods, e.g. electronics, media, communication, food, are of a higher quality than they were in the 70s -- a substantial qualitative difference that is hard to measure and compare over time.
Glimpse took GIMP's oft-repeated suggestion to fork it
https://getglimpse.app/posts/so-it-begins/

I've personally avoided using the name or even recommending it after finding out the word's meaning, so this is a welcome change.

Open source is always better when people have more options. GIMP has always felt a little stagnant to me. I'm happy to see a fork for reasons beyond the name.

You can find their GitHub organization here: https://github.com/glimpse-editor
VPNs aren’t for protecting yourself from your ISP. They are to separate your IP address from your identity. Your IP address is used by data brokers to track users.
> assume people don't have access to more than one email address

It's more likely that they've considered the costs of this sort of low-level fraud, and have decided the promotion still makes good sense.
@jeremysalwen

What is wrong with my comment above?

Do you have a problem with my opinion that the CEO resigned due to brand damage and potential loss of business in the market?

Or do you have a problem with actual facts, such as the letter the board of directors wrote, the arrest of a pilot for rioting, etc?
Sounds a lot like R, which I've seen smarter folks say is really quite Lisp-like.
True, unfortunately, in many domains: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/04/24/ninety-five-percent-of-pe...
The people who take these sponsorships are punching down by abusing their reputation to hawk this kind of crap, often also in ways that make it unclear that they're being paid to do it.[0][1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781415

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780305
At the moment we are bootstrapping and co-founders work for free, but we hope to become more effective after we reach some scale. We need to keep our team running not only to pay for the internet but for students identification (Working with schools and NGO's), Donor growth, community building, partner relations (ISP's and local Edtech partners who provide their services to our students for free) impact measurement, etc. At the moment a couple of corporate donors are covering those costs. I am not sure if I've answered your question
Didn't they stop child porn? Now it can be found no where on Internet, not even on darknet.

So what makes you say it can't be stopped?
> Meeting someone because of the workings of an algorithm on a platform both of you have signed up for is substantially different than meeting someone through mutual friends or even through happenstance.

I trust an algorithm that gives me results based on personality questions far more than happenstance. I met my wife on OKCupid on OKCupid in 2010. We are both home-bodies, so it's unlikely either of us would have met such a good match without online dating.

I also like online dating because you can hammer out deal breakers before you even meet, often before you even send your first message. For example, I never want children (Got a vasectomy years ago to make sure it never happens), so I don't want to waste years with someone who does.
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> Completely anecdotal but all the young couples I know getting married have all met in real life, no exceptions. It makes me suspect HN’s claim that everybody meets online today.

Yeah. I "dated" online but it was a total waste of time. The only sparks I've ever gotten were from people I met naturally.
Context: kitboga[1] is a streamer on Twitch.tv who makes a living of wasting scammers' time. He uses voice modulation and a variety of tools (such as a fake banking website) to increase credibility in the eyes of the scammers he gets on the phone.

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga
Is drug related death really the right stat to use? Seems like it doesn’t tell the whole story.
It sounds like how White Castle was described in that one movie.

I'm not sure if I've ever had Popeyes, but I was really craving fried chicken today. Maybe I'll stop at the spot on the way home.
I would much rather struggle to interpret a complex expression (monads, partial application) than struggle to simulate a sequence of mutations (that potentially spans the entire object graph).
The acquisition is of Entertainment One a huge company with a portfolio of properties and content. They make $1 billion per year.
By the way, I don't have a problem drawing the line at disruptive political debates. However, I don't trust companies to evenly apply such rules.
Are you referring to the global overall rise out of poverty? or specifically the 'west coast cities' as were mentioned higher up in the thread?

Either way, from what I've been witnessing, as the commenter above yours was saying - but in a more specific way, is that many people who once had a fair amount of discretionary spending ability have seen that money sucked up into higher rents and needs for broadband - having more needs for kids and slightly higher expenses for many things all around... it appears that saving to do big things is not an option.

all the while seeing people on instagram living best lives of travel and decadence, many people can't even afford to make healthy choices for food - that once could.

More and more people who were above poverty are finding the higher rents and other expenses taking them into debt with no good way out - more and more people are getting unbanked by fees, and leaning on pawn shops / family and friends to skirt by getting power and water turned back on.

Sometimes they climb back up out of this, but I think more and more people are just simply going without. Going without dental care and healthy food. Skipping meals. There appears to be a bunch of people using dating apps to get free food.

Just that reality is hitting people - and if they can an unexptected larger expense - they are over the edge.

I don't think we have good statistics to show all this. It may seem that poverty is being reduced, and I saw a meme saying the avg household has gained 5k per year lately.. but that's not enough to take care of the basics for most people I see around our growing city that is not on the west coast.

I hear that things like this are even worse elsewhere.
U.S. government’s blacklisting of Bitcoin addresses is just getting started
It's much easier to write bad OOP and procedural code, TBH.
We need to coin a new phrase then : )

Here i am just referring to the ease of using iaas offerings like s3 buckets but through on prem hardware. Devs build against drop in blob storage apis as if we lived in aws, and my ops guys still manage the backing vms.
Why is there so little innovation around the telephone and voice calls?

I imagine patent trolls are to thank for this state of affairs, along with the system that enables them.

I don't have any evidence of that, though.
Can they ban it without EU consent?
I lived in a house with a swamp cooler, it was miserable. Instead of hot and dry, I ended up hot and wet.
It's important to notice that online dating is how most couples meet, but what constitutes a "couple" here? I don't believe it means a long term relationship that lasts more than months.

For my fiancee and I, we know lots of couples through our friends and including through each other's work. The number that have met online is miniscule. "meeting people" is easy online, but relationships are hardfought when that's the start.

I did online dating in my 20s, matchmaking in my 30s and finally met my fiancee in my neighborhood bar (we don't drink, it just happened we were both there not drinking).
And even for evaluating someone's looks a couple of photos can be less than perfectly informative.
Damore specifically claims that Women have more extraversion and empathy, which:

>This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.
It'd be more reasonable (though still not a great idea) if that were water cooler talk. So the biggest possible incident is a handful of people.

When it's conversation forums with thousands of people...critical mass is achieved, and it runs amok.
In my next sentence I mention that he could declare sanctions, with the caveat that it would be on pretty shaky legal grounds.
> I know. But that website is hosted somewhere, and maybe we can convince those hosts to take it down.

And then they will set up their own servers. Or move to Gab. Or go to TOR. You can't keep people from communicating on the internet. It's not possible. Countries like mainland China have spent a lot more time and money trying to do it, and it doesn't work.

And even if you do somehow manage to kick them off the internet, they'll organize through regular mail. The daily stormer was (and I think still is) a print publication. The post office legally cannot stop them from using the postal service.

> And you're free to attempt to do that at Daily Stormer / Stormfront / any other website where they pop up. But I'm telling you that trying to convince them doesn't seem to work.

I'll take something that "doesn't seem to work" over something that is actively making things worse. Again, these communities have only become more extreme and more violent the more that society has tried to shut them down.

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
Back when I worked there (mid-late 90's) the chick-n-strips were actually marinated in the same stuff as the Chargrilled chicken sandwich. Both items are no longer on the menu, and were vastly superior to their offerings today, IMHO.
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No he doesn't. It would require the law to change and he doesn't have that power. However he keeps increasing tariffs far enough I guess it's the same thing.
> I can't believe that a fast food place has developed a sandwich that would warrant a 30 minute drive let alone a 25 minute wait.

I take it you're not familiar with the craze surrounding In-n-out. In high school, we used to drive 3 hours into the neighboring state to get Animal Style junk food.
According to the NASA the fires of this year are in the average so what exactly are they trying to achieve? Is this simply populism?

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...

>As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.
The NFL's Obesity Scourge
His mind is gone, if he ever had one.
Shoreline,Bellevue woodinville and Redmond all good places to move.
Indeed -- same position here. The trouble with developing Shopify apps is that your own application churn is additive with Shopify's. While that's the case with every platform, Shopify's churn rate is eye-wateringly high.
One has to wonder if the softening of the public stance on drug use is leading to more drug users which are leading to more homelessness.
Agreed. Goes for coworkers too.
Indeed, lots of people also care about stories. Meeting online by algorithm does not make for a very good story.
I feel that it is in fact possible to learn from history, and what humans tend to be good at and bad at, and derive useful directions for the future. "Use the right tool for the job" and "no silver bullets" are certainly tautologically correct, but they seem to miss the point of these discussions: we have a choice in what paradigms we teach, what frameworks we write, and what tools we use. How do we choose the right tool? These platitudes often have the (unintended?) consequence of effectively serving as veiled gate-keeping: "silly novice, you thought learning X was sufficient? No no, you must learn all the possible paradigms, and at some point you will become aware of which one to precisely apply for any given problem. Me merely telling you the solution would be cheating!"

Practically speaking, in my opinion, beginning teaching programming with an OOP approach can be detrimental to students. When I see students work in procedural (not even functional!) environments, they seem to piece together "the puzzle" of the programming task, whereas in OOP environments they often seem to devolve into strange taxonomical metaphysical questions "Is a Car a Vehicle? Or does it implement Drivable? Is a Window a Widget itself, or does it only own Widgets? If it's a Widget itself, then could a Window contain sub-windows?" So at least for the very constrained question of introductory languages and techniques, I think there is nothing wrong with specifically calling out certain approaches, vs. vaguely attesting to the truism that you can write bad code in any language. This feels similar to when people discover the concept of Turing Complete, and thus conclude all languages must thus be equivalent and any programming language discussion is thus moot. No. If that were the case, we should have never bothered going past assembly.
Interesting. Some of the benefits of decriminalizing can probably only be realized if it's done as a national level, so I'm pretty skeptical of just how successful local initiatives can be.

I wonder how Portugal achieved such supposed success in decriminalizing drug use.
And to Alphabet's defense, if it is exclusively aimed at disruptive behavior then that's fine. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Until all your data ends up being re-associated with you in some way across multiple websites. Nothing stopping these sites from sharing data if it ends up mutually beneficial.
On the other hand it's a depressing thought that now it's becoming unacceptable to say hello to someone you see in a public place.

Online dating is definitely a winner take all environment. I certainly have not had much success.

It's also quite superficial to reduce everything down to a two dimensional picture.
nice! This video explains the "discovery" part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdaWJt1yD1M

Wonder how good it can be with more complex sites, incl those needing authorisation
> An organization(in this case, a for-profit company) created to deliver products and services to consumers and advertisers playing politics on the world stage is laughable at best, and downright irresponsible at worst.

Google is one of the largest technology corporations in existence, controlling the flow of information for huge swaths of the world's population.
They have no choice but to "play politics" as many of the decisions they make can have tremendous impact on global policy and society.

> Play the right part, do the right job, and let others with the right skills and tools do the same.

No.
More and more, technology firms and the individuals within them are realizing their own responsibility to consider the ethical implications of the systems they are building.
Well sure, you can option many cars up to absurd prices. You can also buy a basic $35K Model 3 if that is all you want.
“but ofc they attract many white people and thus many asian americans that seek validation by mainstream“

This sounds very harsh and it almost sounds like you’re projecting here. I’m speaking as an AA who 1. Loves boba and 2. Cares about the quality of ingredients in their food. I don’t go eat out to “seek validation by mainstream” but I do care about the ingredients in my drinks.

Boba guys uses high quality ingredients and even sources their own boba and tea using their sister companies (unsure of the exact corporate structure), which is why many people enjoy going there despite the lines. This is in comparison to some boba shops that just use various powdered drinks and who knows what for their boba. I don’t go there as a way to white worship, which is what you’re insinuating here.
The problem is that there is no real definition since all food comes from some place at some time. Even ingredients that are used in many Indian dishes today like Chili peppers and tomatoes are from the new world, so could not have been considered "authentic" at some time int he past. Basically "authentic" when it comes to food feels more like a kind of nostalgia.
Last time I tried to pull down the JDK source it required me to install mercurial (fair enough) but then to install a "forests" extension which no longer appeared to be available (or at least not from the documented location).

Not strictly a Mercurial issue, but using the platform that your audience is already familiar with has a lot to recommend it.
I was out with a friend a few months a go, who does not like seafood. I ordered some crab rangoon. I offered him one. He said he doesn't like seafood.

I told him to trust me and just try a bite. He ended up eating most of them and now every-time we go out to Chinese, he orders them.

I've discovered as I've gotten older. It is not so much that I don't like foods, as I don't like ways of preparing it. For example I don't like cooked fish, but I love sushi. Seriously I can go to a sushi restaurant and spent $150 by myself. Something about cooking fish gives it a different taste that I don't like.
The CPM on ads is a good way to look at this. On YouTube you get anywhere from 25 cents CPM to 4 dollars, usually dependent on where your customers are from. Let's put that on the high side since I'm in the US. Would I rather pay 0.4 cents per video view or see ads? You bet I'll choose to pay that instead. Now that covers the creator costs, Google needs to take a portion of that to run their platform, so let's round it up to 1 whole cent per video. I'm still game.

Now, you have to imagine the CPM is directly related to the value of the goods being sold. That scales per country. It's probably not the perfect proxy, but in the same sense that your viewers from other countries pay out different CPMs, they can probably afford different amounts per video.

It isn't about anonymity. It's about abuse of data. I'm not mad that I can't make anonymous phone calls, I'm mad that my phone provider sells my real time location data. I am happy to pay a company that preserves privacy and trust them with my information. This is a bit aside though, because I more or less trust Google with my information, I just don't like ads. It's not about anonymity.
They can't tell you what to do with your purchases. They can remove perks if they suspect you're abusing them.
You don't "necessarily" believe, but provide an argument and a link to justify that belief (however ineffectively)?

Have enough courage to own the ideas you propagate, this is pathetic.
Yes, we do plan to expand in the middle east and African countries by partnering with the partners on the ground.

Regarding the political issue, I'd rather don't step into these discussions as this thread has another purpose. The fact is Georgia has 250K IDP's (Internally displaced people) in the country not able to go back to their homes.
I bought a regular Windows laptop for a homeless person almost 10 years ago, and have done some tutoring for low income folks. Most of them were not computer savvy. The also had a tendency to lose their laptops, lots of theft. My personal experience tells me that whatever solution gets picked, the easier it is to use and replace the computer, the more sustainable it will be.