skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What basically kicked off major concerns for me were articles and reports about human cases where people are too disabled to express their emotions and thoughts. Think strokes, major head trauma or birth defects.

From this perspective, I would at the very least become far more careful about judging animals too quickly. Just because we cannot read them and interpret their emotions doesn't mean they don't feel love, comfort, fear, amusement or terror.

How long did it take for us to understand that lobsters feel excruciating pain when boiled alive? It took microbiology to figure that out... whoopsy, what are those pain hormones doing here?
Right, that's how I read it the first time, and that's exactly the point I aim to refute. Imagine a sheep that is sneaking out of their enclosure. Either they manage to mate, or the human catches them and deems them too unruly to mate and a more docile sheep is selected. Either way, the enclosure is reinforced and unruly sheep are phased out of the population.

The most correct statement would be intelligence, if possessed && if it makes the specimen more selective, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction. Countless animals don't rely on intelligence for gene propagation, and wouldn't achieve higher reproductive rates from higher intelligence. Big brains are resource intensive, birds and ants are doing just fine at the natural selection game without high intelligence, technology, culture, or civilization.
Did anyone use a SAT solver?
Can you explain this more because I really can't wrap my head around this concept of some kind of natural state of a homogenous group of humans.

Even if we were to simulate a preternatural perfectly uniform society of clones, wouldn't they need to have different ages, genders and vocations and wouldn't they as a consequence of living their lives arrive in a variety of economic and health circumstances? Wouldn't even this artificial society therefore find a benefit in having the capacity to value and include each other despite their differences?
I guess that depends on the person and on the country, but system is certainly broken at least in some countries. For exmample in my country hunter's organisation is something like NRA - it's the only easy way to have access to weapons, and a lot of people participate just to shoot. They treat state forests as farms - feeding animals so there's overpopulation and then they can shoot them using the excuse that there's too many...
For some crazy reason, I am seriously considering long-haul trucking and I am wondering how did I reach here. I actually opened this post hoping to find someone mention long-haul trucking and your comment just was at the top. Weird.
As a slightly related precedent, some early trucks used an engine->generator->wires->electric motor system as an electric transmission as this worked better than the early gearboxes.

On a bicycle, the wiring would certainly be easy and considerably lighter than shafts, chains or hydraulics. You would take a hit on efficiency as pedaling force would have to be converted to electricity and then back to motion, but generators and motors are pretty good these days. Weight could be an issue, but again the developments in hub motors have seen the weight come down a lot to the point that your idea seems viable.
The downvotes without replies are proof I've hit a nerve, and am saying things others cannot stand because they cannot refute them.
Anyone working on AI or robotics is supporting accelerationism, whether they are ideologically for it or not. The singularity will remove the need for white collar labor, and while there is not such a clear turning point for robotics, robotics will eventually replace the need for blue collar labor. When human labor has no value, then only products have value, and the world is divided into those who have the products and those who do not, with no chance for mobility between the two. Class mobility, or the assumption that labor can turn one from a have not to a have, is the only thing that makes capitalism palatable, so I can't imagine that the complete removal of that possibility will go unnoticed.
Same - I don't eat any cephalopods now. As an avid diver who has interacted with octopodes and cuttlefish, they really are fantastic creatures and it bothers me to see them on a plate. I also worked on a farm growing up, and though they show signs of intelligence too, pigs never really struck me the same way.
A brand new car.
> relatively generous PTO

Why not attribute a number to this instead of being vague? I personally think 28 days PTO (not including holidays) is "relatively generous" (for the US).
Trump impeachment inquiry begins after allegations about Trump and Ukraine
please tell me you called your app "GoalTender", if it involves payouts for social goals.
It's an important start, but sometimes it just feels like it's not enough, especially if people have certain beliefs that they hang onto without being able to defend them, for fear of a slippery slope situation.

Take for example smoking. It's absolutely disgusting how they just throw their cigarette butts on the ground when they're done with them. So, not only is it a harmful activity to engage in for the individual at hand, it also harms people nearby, as well as the environment as the trash they leave behind is not biodegradable. No idea what can be done about this.
It would be a good argument if censorship were actually used to protect the uneducated e.g. from scammers selling miracle cures to the desperate, but that's not what happens. Instead, the scammers are better organized than their victims and can co-opt the censorship mechanism for their own purposes. Someone sceptical of the scam might check Zhihu to find out whether it is legit, so the scammers can ask a question and answer it themselves, claiming that it totally works. Then when a burned victim tries to post their own answer to warn others, the scammers report it for illegal content, causing an account suspension.

The government is too busy hiding embarrassing mistakes like confusing 农 and 衣 to even think about benevolent uses of censorship.
Antitrust moves slow but when it comes it hits like the proverbial hammer smashing a wall-sized tv screen.

Remember when all the Microsofties were gloating about how it was never gonna happen to them?

Pepperidge farm remembers…
Hetzner sells hosted nextcloud. Not sure if the security team is absolutely top notch, but they are no 3 people startup neither.
Has anyone gotten it to work in useful way in recent years?
Challenging the Truth
Telling someone there is a problem does nothing to drive the solution. Especially when the problem is known but the solution is incredibly complex.
Only fools care about fashion.
For some perspective on apple "killing" developers.

Apple is FLOODED with copycat crap apps - 10 different names etc etc. Seriously, the play store used to have lots more of these - maybe now cleaned up. But saying that apple needs to encourage this crap is silly. This is what was killing the play store.

The guy complaining here has his "privacy policy" as follows: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes

When someone who doesn't know git or github tries to read his privacy policy they have no chance.

Why it this all apple's fault? I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for a privacy policy.

One fix, developers should be able to pay $500 to have someone give them some training on what sections of app review guidelines they are breaking. Do 30 minutes to prep, spend an hour talking with them, then 30 minutes to wrap up.

Someone has this service - seriously - consider paying for some guidance if you don't want to read through the lengthy Apple stuff yourself.

https://www.iosconsultant.com/services
Taking care of the celibacy might be a quicker solution, and a longer lasting one too. The military is not an institution put together for social work.
What about someone who was raped wanting to have the details of that rape de-indexed?
Internet sector contributes $2.1T to U.S. economy
especially on R, S, Space, and left-shift for me!
I'm as comfortable using Google apps today as I was a week ago, because I figured out long ago how to disable Keystone permanently. (It wasn't easy.)

But I am rather pissed at Apple because SIP is a global switch and with it enabled, there are several significant, legitimate things you cannot do with your own computer. SIP should work like sudo, not like a meta version of root. If it did so, nobody would have been affected by this week's Google nonsense.
Not only that, but having my references checked before an actual interview. No way. I don't think even the NSA does that.
Yeah, I don't get it. Why hand years of your life over to a bunch of greasy shysters?

I'm looking forward to the day these oversized bully companies become irrelevant. That day will come. The amount of innovation and progress they're holding back from humanity is criminal. Can't last.
> What is the end game of the interviewer who is lying? They'll get found out when asked to deliver and lose their job eventually. This is not without cost to the employer, but it gets harder to explain so much turnover in your resume as you accumulate early exits.

That's a pretty idealistic view of people. Most people exaggerate on their resume. The most reliable tool (at the moment) to cut through and establish some common metrics is the technical test. How do you compare technical "chats" between individuals? Duration of call? Gut feel? How do you ensure that the person on the phone has the breadth and depth of experience to thoroughly discuss any and all projects on the phone with the interviewee? Is it the same person on all of these calls? It can't be, so how would you compare between two interviewers' subjective feedback?

> This is not without cost to the employer...

This is a HUGE cost, especially at a startup. A mis-hire at a startup can sink the entire ship.

I do think that your approach has merit, and I personally dislike technical interviewing, but for a startup the OP's approach is, IMO, the best tradeoff.
So what's it like being an anime villain for your politics?
The site is infinitely redirecting for me; https://web.archive.org/web/20190926183124/https://blog.tima... is the archive.org version.
I do understand that. And that doesn't change my bewilderment one bit. This goes back to what I said about dogma: it breaks people's ability (or desire) to ever ask "why?". Why is there a prohibition on pressing electric buttons? Is it a prohibition on making "fire"? Why? Does that stem from a prohibition on doing "work"? Why?

When you keep going down the "why chain", you just end up with "I dunno, the holy book just says not to do it", or the more creative among believers will invent something they think isn't arguable, like "we do this to show our respect for our god". Which, to me, just reduces to people willingly allowing religious leaders -- fallible, corruptible humans -- to control them for whatever purpose they desire. And no matter how much I see how religious people get to where they are (indoctrination from birth, followed by unconscious fear of being rejected by their in-crowd), it still utterly puzzles me why so many people still go along with these systems of control that are largely there for the benefit of the leaders, not the followers.
My understanding is that mass in a black hole doesn't operate any differently at a distance. So if there was an earth-mass black hole in a tight orbit around the sun, it shouldn't have a significant impact on the orbits of objects in the solar system, even after it consumed the entirety of Sol's mass. Maybe Mercury would get messed up, depending on how tight the orbit is.

HOWEVER. Getting a black hole into a tight orbit - I don't know how that might happen. A black hole from outside the solar system would be coming in on a parabolic path past the sun. It would shoot right back out of the solar system.

If the BH managed to absorb enough mass from the sun, I would imagine that would throw off it's trajectory enough it could become captured into an orbit. On each subsequent fly by / through the sun, it would capture additional mass. This would reduce the period of the orbit.

In a situation like this, you have an increasingly massive object passing through the solar system in an irregular pattern. That can't be good.
I have a complete set of the first 5 years in a box in my basement. Sometimes I pull out issues from the pre-WWW days and the ads alone are worth the entertainment value.

If archive.org would scan them whole, I'd donate them all in a minute.
Amazon Dives Headfirst into the Techlash
> Can't speak for the Google store, but as a consumer, I definitely trust Apple's apps more than random developers' apps.

Couldn't you still have that without banning off-store apps?
We have no idea if they feel excruciating pain we know they have a pain and stress response. That isn't actually the same thing. But why not play it safe.
Tesla Vehicles Can Now Stream Netflix, YouTube, & Live TV with Hulu
Same. I do feeling like something is missing in this story.
I have reported two Chrome OS bugs that allow bypassing Chrome's Own enterprise security policies. Both bypasses involved using Chrome extensions... written by Google.
I am not familiar with all of the reports listed, but with some of them. Science today has problems, but it had similar problems before. (gaming the system for self benefit is hardly new) And science still got done (otherwise we wouldn't be using computers or internet or electricity for that matter)

If after reading that you came up with:

> It's 100% politics and money generation.

Our world view is so different, that I am not sure that further debate has much point.

Have a nice evening/day
Whistle-Blower Is a CIA Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House
> Just because we cannot read them and interpret their emotions doesn't mean they don't feel love, comfort, fear, amusement or terror.

What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria? Can lab grown algae burgers feel love? How would we know?

I'm not trying to argue that we should stop eating everything. But I'm not sure how we'd draw a line between some/all animals and other things that are even harder to read. I'm genuinely curious where we'd draw a line.
Europeans don't necessarily have "freedom of speech". Not in the same ways Americans see it.
There is nobody advocating for developers nor monitoring or reacting to abusive behavior except scattered competition and consumer rights bureaus struggling to impose fairness within their limited domain.

Companies exploit this for profit in many unethical ways. For instance Apple didn't voluntarily print new marketing material for the EU they advertised a one year warranty illegally instead to upsell Apple Care and went to court multiple times for it. Steam had to be sued to provide refunds. Google had to be sued to refund $75 million in funds they claimed they were returning because of fraud.

Business as usual is basically a dark pattern - do whatever they want because it will take years if ever for anyone to challenge them meanwhile there is zero oversight.

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/02/123207/apple-is-fo...

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/valve-australia-fine-12...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-refund-advertisers-af...
The most touching part is that the very last moments of her life will be to spend whatever energy is left after heating the nest to swim far away to avoid attracting predators near the offsprings.

Bond by sacrifice .. who would have known.
Google ranks things better, at least compared to the play store. Ads and its side effects make apps and the stores total freakshow. You can't install any app for kids by using simple search without dark patterned ads flying at you and your kid by accident opening them. Some poor soul is paying for this so called engagement too.
I have a lot of miles on my Iron Rangers. Best boots I've ever owned. They are both comfortable and durable, which is a rare thing in my experience.
Feels like there are some pieces missing from the story.

This isn't a "we won't approve your app because it's not following the app guidelines" rejection or an app stuck in review purgatory. (I once had an Apple TV app stuck in review for 10 weeks before it magically was approved with no changes from me.) This is a "your account did something it shouldn't have done" flag. The whole account is suspended for an alleged infraction of "App Store Review Guidelines’ Developer Code of Conduct". Did your account do contract work on other "spammy" apps or similar? Even if you worked on completely different apps, it's not unprecedented for Apple to just blow the whole account up if it's in any way tied.

Edit to add Code of Conduct:

5.6 Developer Code of Conduct
Please treat everyone with respect, whether in your responses to App Store reviews, customer support requests, or when communicating with Apple, including your responses in Resolution Center. Do not engage in harassment of any kind, discriminatory practices, intimidation, bullying, and don’t encourage others to engage in any of the above.
Customer trust is the cornerstone of the App Store’s success. Apps should never prey on users or attempt to rip-off customers, trick them into making unwanted purchases, force them to share unnecessary data, raise prices in a tricky manner, charge for features or content that are not delivered, or engage in any other manipulative practices within or outside of the app.
wow! thanks for the amazing input. we actually also worked on a player that is like an overlay over the page. That sits in an experimental branch, which we'll continue to develop.

really nice idea with the symmetry between the vertical and horizontal scroll bars!
Compilation databases for Clang-based tools
> The guy complaining here has his "privacy policy" as follows: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes

The iOS version links to that page, but the mac appstore listing [0] links to a different website [1] with an actual privacy policy.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/app/fsnotes/id1277179284

[1] https://fsnot.es/pp.html
FWIW I think that behavior may be specific to the Giant Pacific octopus[1]. I'm not sure if other octopuses (octopi? octopodes?) behave the same way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Pacific_octopus
> we fundamentally haven't figured out how to manage updates in a way that meets requirements.

Depends whose requirements. The user's requirements are incredibly straightforward:

1. Never update; there's no benefit.

Updating is pushed on users anyway on the theory that they're connected to the internet, but it's not meant to help them. It's meant to help other people. Updates that help the user are generally provided on a pull model, and often charged for.
None of this "unlimited PTO" either. It's just a way for the company to save money as they don't owe you anything come the end of the year or when you leave and still have PTO days.
Yes, an app accidentally deleting a folder after you've turned off protections on that folder is definitely the same thing as serial killing.

People here sometimes.
If there is a rule that's meant to be broken, why bother having it in the first place?
Show HN: Write setter calls/assignment statements faster in IntelliJ IDEA
Amazon, FB, Google, Twitter, Uber are all mentioned together in one paragraph. I wouldn't really consider all those in one industry sector.
Not a smoker but I have a friend who is, and he diligently collects his butts for proper disposal.. but I think he is in the minority.
Micron Q4 profit and revenue dropped sharply but beat Street view
How about keeping a plan secret makes you more motivated to accomplish it.

In the opposite case, you were already rewarded before the successful action, in this case, you will only get the reward once it succeeds. It forces you to focus on accomplishing instead of on giving off the appearance that you will be successful.

Although often the former may depend on the latter.
DoorDash Data Leak; 4.9 Million Customers affected
"Frankly I do not understand why do people submit to this kind of stewardship"
Uhhh:

"I am lucky that so far I have managed to avoid all this walled garden madness"

"All of my products..."

"...desktop based or browser based and servers are hosted on my own/rented hardware"

This is like a professional chef saying they don't understand why everyone does not make their own souffles. People want the same services you want, but are not software developers. I have to assume you're being very facetious?
Looks cool. I think you should add a listing for public rooms, I couldn't really try it by myself but would have liked to.
Number Theorist Fears All Published Maths Is Wrong
Our local village has a market, every thursday. The municipality (don't know if I say this correctly) controls who can have stalls there.

It's hard to get permits, so sellers are depending on that one permit for at least 20% of their revenue, even more if they deal with the same municipality in different villages. In theory they could go to other markets, but in practice it can take years to get a good position elsewhere. Too long to survive.

If the local municipality decided to ban a seller, for reasons unknown, the seller can get a judge involved who will quickly say if the seller was legitimately banned.

Justice prevails.

With the App store? Not so much. The arrogance of the tech giants knows no bounds, their legal budgets are endless and judges will never fully grasp the similiarities between the online and offline world.

App developers are no different from market sellers, they are just dealing with the worst marketplace model ever.

I am not even an App developer, but I really think this should change. It's just not healthy for an economy to have a gatekeeper that has the power to just bankrupt a developer, be it accidentally or on purpose.

Banning accounts without detailed reasoning while "investigating" for a long period of time should be seen as criminal behavior.
I was under the impression that neither definition was exterminated.
I see. Curious they just spent a big wad of cash on it, though I suppose they've been doing lots of construction work with marginal utility.
I'm not sure I understand this line of reasoning. Crapware/Malware exists even in locked down store monopolies, therefore we need to open up the platform even more? What do you want, alternative app stores? The ability to sideload apps? Android has all that, it's still an awful platform to develop for.

Let's say this guy could go the alternative route and publish elsewhere. He'd still have a problem because most of the traffic goes through the Appstore, not some other venue.
Bizarre. Meetup is the perfect match for bringing new customers. They will pay more for customer acquisition if they divest this.
This is some pretty exciting stuff. I read the wikis about the autopilot processing units and these ML accelerators and its honestly mind bogglingly exciting.
I haven't read that book, but I'd argue that it's pointless, as god is not provable scientifically (or disprovable), so it's meaningless to attempt to do so.

I never said it was impossible to think critically when you are Catholic (or any other religion). But I do believe people willingly (or unconsciously) shut off their critical thinking centers whenever many topics surrounding their religion come up.
No problem, if this crap (really no), why not delete this? Main point in post — 3 month investigation is not normal.
To be fair, social advertising accidents do happen all the time, everywhere.

But USAGM (VOA/RFERL/etc) broadcasting to America is still barred today as it was then. That cited law was a modernization to Smith-Mundt recognizing that internet works very differently than the old method of pointing a shortwave antenna toward somewhere and bouncing the signal off the atmosphere.

There was a relaxation clause for affiliates that often gets misinterpreted and intent of that relaxation was to permit any private news agencies to request and use VOA material. For example, a Minnesota radio station can use VOA Somali material, but that part is up to the free market.