skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing applies if something gets stolen. Countless individuals have "not" stolen that item. You only take note when it gets stolen.
Is it considered acceptable to push your political agenda on an unrelated events? For me it looks strange and out of place. Now punishing people for that might be too harsh. But if every sport event will turn into political debates (imagine US and RU sportsmen arguing with each other), it'll be bad and free speech has nothing to do with it IMO.
Granted.

But if a country did that, taxed top brackets more heavily, and then specifically allocated those revenues to upskilling, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

The post-globalism issue is that no one redistributed those profits.
But it’s Blizzcon
ah i thought i read marsha lol
> They either have to go to school

This is the real child abuse here.
How does that jive with continuing to buy products made in China, thus ensuring their financial well being allowing them to oppress HK and minorities?

What Blizzard art and media was subject to Chinese influence?
Those things must have been noisy. Like bringing the Manhattan bridge to your own neighborhood.

But if they could make them quiet, I bet people would like them.
Poor parents often don't have a choice: they can't afford to take time off from their job(s).
It's significantly different because in one case the corporations made the decisions without government influence and in the other they made the decision because of government influence.
When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
The assumption that all users are treated equally is debatable for reasons others have discussed, but what is missing here is the consideration for Twitter's algorithm sort and their continual efforts to force this on users. Even if we assert that all politicians have equal access to the platform and exist under the same ruleset, Twitter modifying the tweet sort order using their own custom brand of black magic and routinely resetting user's feeds to this default sort is very problematic. In this case Twitter is very blatantly modifying what users see and we can't know how this sort is determined. Wouldn't this qualify as meddling with political messages?
Tribes call for removal of dams along Columbia River
This is literally the only thing I have used it for in the past 10 years. And it used to work well for that purpose.
Perhaps not cleanly stated, but true. Blizzard quite explicitly catered to the LGBTQ+ demographic recently via an Overwatch promotion, a move that can easily be construed as political speech (and which was voluntarily censored by Blizzard in Russia and China).

They stuck their feet into this arena, and are now realizing that making political statement can affect their revenue in both directions.
Where do you live now
I'm curious what your rendition of "empathetic" is in this case.
>And who's to say I'm being drip-feed these movies on autoplay?

Statistics! For Netflix, 80% of subscribers’ watch choices come from their personal recommendation engine.[1]

>But there's nothing stopping me from stopping the DVD halfway through.

Yeah, but you are less likely to do so given the effort it takes you to start.

Same with vinyl disks: I rarely don't listen to an entire side if I start playing a disk.

>I don't see the lack of streaming as preserving value

It's not the lack of streaming, it's shaping the experience.

As an analogy: Michelin-star restaurants probably don't have delivery. It's not that "lack of delivery" is driving their value, it's that sitting down there allows you to experience the food more fully.

[1]https://techjury.net/stats-about/netflix/
Pretending that you speak for “the open web” in an attempt to sell some obsolete web design dogma that open web advocates have spent the last dozen years or so fighting against is pretty solid evidence that you’ve also missed the point of the open web.
The difference between neo-nazis and democratic protest?

The difference is content. I hate the tendency to fall back to arguments about free speech when that is not the point. Yes, of course everyone should be able to express views individually, but that doesn't mean I don't care about the content of what is being said. That doesn't mean everyone is entitled to the ability to ram that message down everyone's throat through every possible route.

Yeah, companies have a right to self-censor, and consumers have a right to punish them for that.

Hell yes I support CloudFlare kicking off neo-nazis, hell no I don't support Blizzard silencing HK protestors. No hypocrisy because what is being said matters.
That's because Blizzard did the "right" thing in the government's view. Just because the influence isn't visible doesn't mean it's not there, and invisible influence may be even more pernicious.
The benefits to Twitter from showing bias in this way would be more than offset by the risk of backlash.
It may be trivial to do so, but is Twitter doing it? Skimming their ToS I see no instances of such rules.
We store the critical customer data (their personal info, what they are paying us for and their settings), build the interfaces for customer service, apis for s that are used on customer web/apps and logic for what is to happen for each call. I'm a dev but including our devs, database and hardware people we are less than 0.05% of the company employees.

I'm the youngest and almost everyone is 2x+ my age. We've lost 40% of the team to retirements since I joined two years ago.

It's a tight team but communication is oh so inefficient whenever someone is working remote and between our two locations.

We have other services now that we make calls to to get for example mail and email sent to customers, but now and then I still see customers receiving plain text email from the production machine D:
They could have joined the Air Force, gotten some tech-related work experience, and then used the GI Bill to pay for their university education (I used mine to pay for my Masters).
You are also free to leave the neighbour if you don't want to pay the mafia for "protection". It's not theft, right?
Equating so called cancel culture with China political speech policing are truly very different things.
Thanks for replying. I'm not really in the industry so it's always interesting to hear about how things work on the inside.
1. Glad to hear! I lead our data team, and we've got a bunch of open roles, multiple of which probably match your background:

https://jobs.lever.co/flyzipline/?team=Software%20Engineerin...

Happy to talk it over if any catch your fancy! My email is matt dot e dot fay at gmail dot com

2. There's certainly fewer, but still plenty in this field! For example, if you check the 80,000 Hours Job Board, both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are hiring for software positions:

https://80000hours.org/job-board/factory-farming/

I can also ask around if you'd like.

3. The x-risk work is definitely speculative, by definition honestly. If the first two are stocks and bonds, this is the angel investing of cause areas:

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/hits-based-giving

I've stayed away mostly because I was looking for tangibly impactful work (too removed for me), but there are really smart, kind folks making convincing arguments that this is the best use of your time and/or money. For example:

- https://80000hours.org/articles/future-generations/

- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/21/18126576/ai-ar...

- https://futureoflife.org/2018/09/17/moral-uncertainty-and-th...
Looking at some similar stats here right outside Atlanta. 30 year mortgage with 3,800ft^2 for $2.1k. Commute is 30m-40m.

Seconding KS, though. I've only been a handful of times and I really like it.
It's called double-standards. It's OK to cut free speech for those you don't like, it's not OK to cut free speech for those you like.
I thought that was actually the point of the article. The author freely admits that from a human perspective, climate change and habitat destruction and the bleaching of coral reefs are a big deal. The point he's making is that from a planetary perspective, humans are insignificant. Indeed, from a planetary perspective multi-cellular life is insignificant, and life at all is a minority.

The thing is that much of the debate over global warming has been framed in planetary terms. If you frame it in human terms, you already have a good argument: climate change will cause mass migrations, historically mass migrations have caused massive wars and the collapse of civilizations, I don't want to die in a war while my whole civilization collapses, ergo it's probably a good idea to solve or at least adapt to this climate change thing before shit hits the fan. But if you frame it in terms of "climate change will make the earth uninhabitable" or even "climate change will lead to the extinction of humanity", a.) you're probably wrong - our species is remarkably resilient, and we have lived through large planetary-scale shifts in the earth's climate b.) the earth has been made uninhabitable to much of life in the past, and yet we're here and c.) so what, we'll all be dead.
Every year I see what a insurmountable advantage my kid has by having educated, comfortably well off parents. He's in 3rd grade and last week he had a homework assignment that had to be completed on a computer. What, your kid doesn't have their own computer at home? Tough luck!

We're also already into 'projects' - more hours of work, more resources to buy. "oh you can do it with stuff around the house" (no you can't)

No one wants to talk about it and it infuriates me. There are kids who are just out of the running from the moment they enter kindergarten, and everyone is going to blame their parents or their 'culture' and refuse to see what's right in front of them.

There is no more 'public' education, only middle-income private education. It's a disgrace.

edit: raspberry pi

A lot of middle class parents I know would spend 10 minutes trying to understand the raspberry pi site and give up. HN tends to vastly overestimate people's technical skills.
For poor parents with no tech background - forget it.
Yes, because if unpunished, in the next game that will cause another player to wear a MAGA hat. And another to wear a shirt saying "ICE is just doing it's job". They cannot punish those guys because it will make them look biased. And it's all downhill from there.
"Would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?” isn't really a question because "no" isn't really an acceptable answer so there's something dirty about phrasing like a question but I can't quite put my finger on what.

That's not because of the phrasing. That's because eating someone else's food without their permission is widely seen as a dick move.

No matter how you word it, if you clearly mean that you intend to continue eating someone's food without their permission, that makes you the bad person in this type of situation.
Of course this happens after I leave California
70 people polled out of a population of 4700 would have a 12% margin of error at a 95% confidence level, if it was a random sample. 500 people polled lowers that to about 4%.

If Blizzard were a lot bigger--say 100k people, a random poll of 70 would still be 12% and a random poll of 500 would still be 4%. You can play around with the numbers here [1].

The margin of error on a poll, if the population is large compared to the sample size, depends mostly only on the absolute sample size, not on how big a fraction of the population is sampled.

The flaws in this poll are how the sample was selected, not the size of the sample. It's not a random sample.

[1] https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/margin-of-error-calculator/
Red Hat has already announced their intent to maintain Python 2 in RHEL for ~4 years.
I get the feeling you really need to know about the folks you are talking to if you intend to use that phrasing. The oddity of that sentence probably would escalate any situation far beyond just saying: "Don't eat the food that isn't yours" with certain groups of people. I lived in one place that the indirectness would be seen as weakness and not respected at all.
In Germany and Europe (UK is outliner) you pay a fee for ID card, but it's valid for 10 years or so and cost is around 20-30 euro. Really don't understand what's the panic about in America, you don't have to do and pay it every year.
This isn't about poverty, this is about those trying to move themselves or their kids out of poverty. The people who work hard at jobs and push their kids to go to good schools.

Poverty is a complex issue that cannot be summarized in a single word.
I don't think this is over. Blizzard has invested a lot in the assumption that they will make a lot of money in China. And if protesters make enough noise, they might destroy that.

It would take very little effort by protestors to destroy Blizzard's plans that they've been working on for years. The straw that breaks the camel's back could be that at an official Blizzard event, someone drops a banner that says: 光復香港 時代革命.

Even if the deal does not go through, it would severely harm Blizzard's leverage.
The Chinese version of the Blizzard statement was different:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/10/verified-chinese-bli...

It included we will defend the honor of the nation, making it clear exactly what he did wrong.
And everyone else in the room at the time was terminated. Which was the amazing part that totally destroyed any attempt at high ground.
Six is just trading dependency on py2 for dependency on a library that wouldn't otherwise be needed if you just made a code base forward compatible. It is more sensible to gradually work on getting 2to3 to do a clean conversion and then doing a final conversion when the py2 code is ready to be EOLed.
Update for anyone who's interested:

After OPD refused the IDs/cards I contacted a handful of local news outlets and explained the situation. One of them, ABC 7, began reaching out, possibly incessantly, to the media relations office at OPD.

By 4:30 PM today I had a text from one of the ABC 7 producers telling me the OPD media relations officer wanted to get in touch and including her desk phone number. When I spoke with her she apologized, acknowledged that procedure had not been followed, and told me they were in touch with SJPD regarding the break-ins. She also told me she would follow up with OPD leadership.

Not sure how applicable this strategy would be in other communities/countries but it appears to have worked for me. I'll also note that I reached out to the mayor's office before contacting news orgs and got no response.
I wonder what would be their reasoning behind wanting to charge for a customer unplugging an Alexa. Why would it matter?
I wish more people IRL would follow this advice.
A lot of HN regulars come from America, where knowing the equivalent information does often make it possible to steal money from someone's bank account and where you can only make payments like this using third-party companies or paper checks. I think a lot of the misunderstandings in the comments might stem from people not realising that UK banking is different.
The big problem I see, is this still does nothing to inhibit distribution to followers. In an echo chamber, everyone still sees it. It just protects people who already were going out of their way to not interact with it.
This has to be one of the less plausible ways of getting a representative sample that I can think of. Even among the Blizzard employees who happen to be on Blind, most did not answer. So, even if we assume that Blind has a representative sample of Blizzard employees (which seems implausible), the real approval rate could be anywhere from (430+45)/500=95%, or as low as (45/500)=9%. We don't know if those Blizzard employees in favor of the punishment would be more or less likely to respond than others, but it seems unlikely that it would be unrelated.

Better claim would be, "Blizzard employees' support for punishment of HK advocate between 9% and 95%". Except, given that Blind's 500 Blizzard employees are probably NOT representative, it might be broader than that.
You can't say there is no visible pressure on Blizzard while mentioning the NBA in the same breath. China's aggressive move on the NBA is the pressure. It's an example to every company that operates in China: toe the party line, or face local obstruction like the NBA.
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As you note it is a dilemma/compliance strategy where Amina can't say no without seeming to be very unreasonable.

Sneakily, it expands the scope of "please don't eat my food without permission" to "please agree to never eat any food that you did not purchase." The scope of the apparent infraction, as well as the scope of the remedy, are greatly increased.

The trap and the expanded scope make it much worse than "please don't eat my food without permission."
I’m pretty sure a new Call of Duty game still comes out every year and is a huge seller in the west.
I think they're not because of free speech. The question is whether banning people from your platform counts as speech. Which it probably does.
Don't they have your company email address?
Only if China decided to do so. They can pick a fight about anything they want to, so there is really no avoiding that.
They are going commercial soon, so we shall see how well they stand up to different open world environments.
Voice Actress Pranking and Trolling a Scammer as Britney Spears Calling from MTV
"How to be passive aggressive"
I can't speak for the Bay Area, but my region exhibits similar patterns.

Consider an example. A "good" school might have 100 slots for out-of-area kindergartners, distributed via a lottery system. However, the lottery system uses a biased distribution which preferentially selects from students who have been on the waitlist longer. This system is easily defensible by school administrators in the name of "fairness" to students who have waited longer.

The unspoken desire, however, is to preferentially select students with a higher socioeconomic index, because such students tend to score higher on standardized tests (and therefore maintain the school's current "good" ranking). Asking for this information explicitly is, naturally, forbidden.

Instead, the school waits for parents to come for site visits during working hours. These visits are attended overwhelmingly by stay-at-home parents, which correlate with socioeconomically-advantaged families, for the simple reason that they can afford to have a parent stay at home (the -economic side of socioeconomic). Underemployed parents cannot attend, because they are still working, but usually at jobs which do not offer flexible work hours. Unemployed parents can attend, but rarely do so, because the chronically unemployed statistically come from lower social backgrounds (the socio- side) that either do not value education as highly, or may not know that the concept of "school visits" even exist.

Then, when these parents visit, the schools inform them of the existence of the waiting list. However, information about the wait list (and especially details about its biased selectivity) will not be available by phone or website until enrollment opens. Thus, parents who attend the tours will be preferentially selected, since they are on the waiting list first, and the school can put their finger on the socioeconomic scale without ever asking parents for sensitive information.

For purely public schools which do not allow out-of-area students, this approach isn't relevant, because they are required to accept students from the local area and only the local area. These schools don't care, because the locations themselves correlate with socioeconomic factors, due to property values tracking school achievement.

For charter schools, which pass all students through similar systems, it allows them to accept statistically-advantageous students across all levels, leading to better outcomes overall (and shifting the remaining disadvantaged students, and the correspondingly lower level of achievement they statistically will achieve, to low-income public schools).
China vs. the U.S. – Trade War to Cold War?
What a great read. I think that we see the same thing in poetry as well -- the inaccessible modernist expiriments with form, while interesting to insiders, is at its conclusion an esoteric pursuit.

I think that the turn back toward classical forms, towards a broader audience, and largely the turn inward (the self as the primary concern of the work, rather than it's form) really is a wonderful new wave across many genres, and makes for an wonderful time to be a consumer of art.
Or just not went as overboard with it. Doing something might have been a good idea to still send a message (both to China and to players to please not repeat it), the tricky bit is not looking unreasonable while doing so. (e.g. certainly not rescind the price money)
The popular High Line park in Manhattan was an elevated railroad (although freight, not subway).
By shareholder centric, I'm specifically referring to this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/maximizing-s...

Tl;dr - Academic economic theories in the 1970s, as implemented by MBAs in the 1980s, represented a sea change in how a publicly listed company was expected to behave.

Previously, it had been a balance (to taste) of "fairness", "return to workers", "social good", and "shareholder profit."

Post, shareholder profit was weighted above all else.

The argument was that this would result in better managed, more efficient, more productive companies.

I'm not sure history has born that out...
Thank you. But what really matters is not the well-being of individual people who fall through the cracks but the well-being of the whole country. Our public schools on the whole are simply not equipping people to be good citizens. Look at the average Americans knowledge of geography. We are an international embarrassment. How will people vote intelligently when they can’t even point to Germany on a map? It’s a very serious problem.
Yes because news networks are publishers. Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the silicon valley social media gang are quick to remind you that they are platforms and not publishers [0].

[0] https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-1588...
It would not be a strong case. An in-kind contribution is when a party provides a political campaign with a product or service for a reduced cost compared to what it normally charges. Since twitter offers its service for free to everyone, removing access does not constitute an in-kind contribution.
“The social media giant said it will not allow users to like, reply, share or retweet the offending tweets, but instead will let users quote-tweet to allow ordinary users to express their opinions.” (Emphasis mine)

And that, my friends, is exactly the problem with Twitter.

The format of the platform encourages opinions, not substantiated arguments. I’m not saying you can’t have substantiated arguments, I’m saying the format doesn’t encourage them. The whole point of Twitter is for influencers to post short quips to evoke emotion and get followers. As McLuhan said, “The medium is the message”. It’s a losing battle.
U.S., U.K. sign deal to access data from tech companies like Facebook and Google
California: everything is either banned or required.
Blizzard did this first; set the stage for mixing politics with video games. Blizzard hosted and promoted a LGBTQ+ event in Overwatch, and much like Mei is being used by HK, Blizzard are using Tracer as a representative of the LGBTQ+ community.

That the event was not done in Russia and China, and that Tracer has a different sexual orientation in those countries, is quite telling.

The only difference is that the LGBTQ+ political statement had the effect of boosting their revenue, whereas the HK statement may have the opposite effect.