skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that government often has to step in when companies reach a certain size.

The problem here is that government doesn't understand technology well enough.

Which makes sense, the majority of people don't. Your post is an example, no disrespect meant.

You can't have transparency in search. It's an arms race between search engines and black hat SEO gaming. It's been that way for decades, likely always will be. That's why the algos absolutely have to be secret, and there has to be no barrier to rapid iteration and innovation. The minute that changes, black hat wins and search goes back to looking like Altavista before it died. In that scenario everyone loses.

It's also imperative that there's a financial incentive to continue to innovate and stay (sort of) ahead in the arms race. It's easy to imagine that a government (or a nonprofit) could run search well, but that's only without an understanding of the scope and depth of the technology involved.

I'm not sure what the best solution is, but there's no question transparency isn't it.

I do, by the way, appreciate your idea of mandating more reasonable due process. However I'd add that if your business relies on search, you're gambling. It's often a smart gamble, for as long as it lasts organic rankings are free money, but be honest with yourself about it.
And you don't see any issue with suppressing the discussion around this clearly sensitive issue? You taking one side is a sure way to alienate many on the opposing side. Let's have an unbiased discussion while maintaining civility.

It seems like you're trying to tell people what they can and cannot discuss more and more on HN.

> Can you clarify this? Anyone can sign up with an account and the whole thing is meritocratic.

This seems like a perfectly reasonable question.
That’s what happens when bad press about your company comes out, and you’re too clueless to recognize it.

Why do I really care about other people with similar genetics to me?

This seems to be a greater risk for me, if I put myself into that database.

And if someone else has a similar genetic as mine, and they commit a crime, then I’m automatically roped in as well. Do I really want the police knocking down my door, and slamming me to the ground, while they barge into my house with assault rifles and ballistic protection gear, and pointing their guns at every member of my family. This is a case of mistaken identity. But their m.o. is to shoot first, and ask questions later. No thanks!

This is the Law of Unintended Consequences at play here.

And for all the talk about cross linking your genome with others to find markers to get clues on how to cure diseases, well, I never really bought into that.

It may help, but I really don’t care. The disease problem will need to be solved in another way, that doesn’t involve the compromise of my security, however remote it may be.
Oh... I was a little disappointed that this wasn't literally about walkie-talkies or a comparable technology, but rather some centralized internet-dependent computer software :(
IMDb went through this, it was basically open and crowdsourced, then suddenly became much more commercial, which freaked out a lot of users.

And it's... fine. But it was really amazing in the beginning. Much less cruft, much more usable.

There was a lot of drama on the late 90s internet that now seems impossible to read about or search for.
This seems like a fallacy ad absurdum.

A lot of people, creators, merchants, etc; often get taken out of business by simple misunderstandings or arbitrary decisions from these platforms. Nobody is going to ruin anything, just have some form of due process where everyone's right to exist is respected.
Some motives are more aligned than others.

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/US-China%2...
Vandana Aspen, draspen.com.

I found her by searching Psychology Today's listings and looking for therapists who specialized in CBT and little else.
I dunno about ugliest, but I can imagine it being the least 'fun'. Certainly kids won't gravitate towards it.
I can't recall ever seeing an analogue TV display a flat blue screen - with no signal, they generally display black&white noise
I didn't want to share my financial data and wanted to use the six jars budgeting system so I made this tool to help myself. It's a pwa so you can save it to your phone and all of the data is stored locally (very private). Nothing ever gets posted to the server.

sixjars.xyz
This same thing has happened in the USA as well. TVA will use eminent domain to seize a bunch of properties, paying fair market value (usually a little bit above appraisal, hardly enough to compensate for having one's farm destroyed and needing to start over), and then sometimes the project falls through or gets cancelled. 20, 30, 50 years later, the property is sitting there, now federal land, no one on it, with no planned use for the future. It would make sense to sell it to someone to use, but they never do. They just squat on vast acreages acquired for obsolete projects.

New London Connecticut went to the Supreme Court to establish the right of local governments to seize private property on behalf of for-profit multinational corporations, under the theory that the corporation would pay more in tax and thus evicting the owner and seizing their home is a public good. Connecticut won and established this right permanently as fundamental to the Constitution, unable to be challenged or diminished by law. New London's corporate master then decided they didn't really want the land after all. Owner was cast out and her life destroyed, her house sitting rotting to this day, no taxes at all being collected. But thank God the corporations have this new Constitutional right to seize any private property under eminent domain!
okay; sorry. I was trying to compliment him on something I found interesting by alluding to it being alien technology. I took aeronautical engineering a long time ago, and I've never seen anything like this, so maybe it's just a foolish amazement.
> everybody is going to close it immediately as soon as they accidentally navigate to it

If only bots weren't color agnostic then this would be an awesome way to get rid of them!
I don't buy this. Search placement gets exploited all the time. Hiding it hasn't worked. Ever. All history is against your argument.

Maybe it gets exploited because its made exploitable by design. How do you know if you can't check? You worry about bots but you don't worry about outright massive cheating from the company itself?
This person has clearly not spent any time programming using SwiftUI.
I already use this in my shrc files:

alias ls='ls --hide="lost+found" --hide="#*" --hide="*~" --hide="*.pyc" --hide="*.egg-info" --hide="__pycache__" --color=auto'

But I'll be adding your item into my config for the rotated versioning, I wasn't aware that emacs does that but I assume it'll save me anything from few hours to a few weeks yearly. Thanks!
The way I'd do it in vim is to record a macro of doing it interactively by hand once, then play back that macro. I have space bound to @q to make playing back the macro in the q register easy (using the q register because q is also how you start and stop recording a macro.)

noremap <Space> @q

These days I do this from evil-mode:

(define-key evil-normal-state-map " " "@q")
It wasn't long ago that there were ~zero games for Linux/Mac on Steam. Now I see Linux/Mac icons on at least a third of the AAA titles. And the most popular games in the world (Dota, LoL, CS:GO, Fortnite, etc) are playable on Mac and sometimes even Linux.

Seems pretty obvious that cross-plat is winning. Especially once you consider the most ubiquitous cross-plat vehicle of all: the browser. It's also the only platform with a built-in ad-blocker and development console, thus the most open and end-user-friendly.
Using it now, for the first time in over a decade. I'm pretty pleased with libre writer so far, even though it is pretty bloated, relatively, when compared to wordpad.
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I wouldn't want to eat ice cream three times a day, but that doesn't mean it tastes bad.

What do you think will sell better this Valentine's day: bouquets of magenta colored flowers or Pantone 448 C colored flowers?
I think most ordinary consumers like your mom and dad don't care about privacy.

I know at least two DNA companies that send your data to China for processing and yet nobody cares.

So it may not be the reason of 23andme's problems - it might be just that the market is saturated. People who wanted to take the test, like me, already did it.
I remember an episode of "The Office" where Michael Scott states that Wikipedia is very accurate, "because anybody can edit it". And that was the joke. Michael Scott being naive and gullible enough to believe this ridiculous statement, while other characters made exasperated reaction shots for the camera.

A lot has changed since the mid-2000's. Wikipedia was so revolutionary at the time.
The fascinating thing is the same applied for female voices in the same era in the UK too. I had always thought it was some artefact of the awful posh received pronunciation everyone was expected to adopt going through school. If you listen to pre-war newsreels or movies you'll get the same shrill female tones.

Hearing Australian from then is similar, though sounds much like UK RP, with a more gentle hint of "Strine" than you'd expect today.

Yet anyone who's been around long enough will have probably dropped pitch over the years. Listen to any wartime or pre war famous women speaking and hear them twenty or thirty years later, e.g. the Queen, Vera Lynn, not only has the stuck up constricted accent gone, but the pitch has dropped markedly too.
These regulations already exist and come up all the time.

US and EU have different payment process requirements. Same for data collection. There are numerous examples and all platforms find a way to implement them and comply.

Having some creator and merchant protections is not a technical issue. The US could legislate to protect US users and they could comply only in the US. No big deal.
Corporation at the base are people. I'd let people organise themselves, potentially with a deadline, and prune the dead branches. Enforcing structure might be going too far, however providing guidance is a good idea, as you pointed out, for the sake of consistency. You can always rename later once people have found their shoe size.
Yes, was going to say this. Magenta isn't on a rainbow and isn't really a normal color in that sense. By the weirdness of how our eyes detect colors amd how our brain processes them, magenta is something like an error response catch-all for colors outside our eye's capabilities and from that standpoint it is quite interesting.
The entire reason why we're facing down these privacy and surveillance issues is because they came one small step at a time. First it's rolled out for some incredibly small part of the population, gradually expanded to everyone else as people get used to the new norm. Rinse and repeat.

The way you win battles like this is by winning many smaller ones and pushing back what is acceptable or not one step at a time.
There has been a severe population-level decline in testosterone levels since the environment was flooded with xenoestrogens. This is a major global problem.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/196/2598434

Soy is optional and consumed voluntarily, but BPA and other such chemicals have a significantly more potent long term effect, and contaminates everything it touches.
> That's why it ended up being in one of the palettes for the primitive-by-today's-standards CGA adapter in the early IBM PC's.

Interesting... do you have a source for that?

The hideous CGA palette is legendary, but I thought the reason for its ugly palette is a consequence of: (1) only having 16KB of video RAM, and (2) only having ~10 bits of mode-setting and colour control registers. The CGA card was built entirely from off-the-shelf discrete logic chips (plus a 6845 CRTC) and there simply wasn't room to add any extra registers.

At 320x200 resolution the colour depth was limited to 2bpp, and these two bits are wired up directly to the red and green bits of the display output. The blue and intensity bits are (in graphics modes) wired up to the mode control register. Thus the four hideous palettes: the B and I bits have to be set to a fixed value for the entire screen, and only the R and G bits can vary on a pixel-by-pixel basis.

(There's a bonus palette of red, cyan, and white that can be enabled by yet another mode control bit; and the background colour -- which is usually black -- can actually be set to any one of the 16 available colours.)
Not quite #ff00ff, but T-Mobile gets pretty close to that[1]

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/magenta
> it always takes 'em yonks an' it's not

In written form that's incredibly hard to parse, especially when you've just written a lexer for a very similar file format (space separated, sometimes quotes, sometimes quotes in quotes).
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ADHD is complex and can involve multiple causes. To date, all of the major ones fall in the realm of neurology and genetics (biological causation) with no evidence that social factors alone can account for the condition.

People ADHD are definitely more likely to overindulge when it comes to gaming/internet usage (hyperfocusing). The reason is because it's stimulating. Sites like reddit is an endless influx of information.

Since I have ADHD it's a struggle to do anything that is boring. Sure most people can relate to that but the difference here is that my school/work/relationships have suffered greatly because of that and the other ADHD symptoms.

Some people who say they have ADHD probably don't but are suffering from something else (stress, depression, anxiety, etc.). It's a disorder that's over diagnosed because avoiding to do boring things, losing focus, and/or hyperactivity is pretty common (especially among youth).

Kids who are obsessed with gaming/internet usage might develop bad habits and behavioral issues but not necessarily something permanent. I seriously doubt it can cause ADHD. Traumatic brain injury would make more sense.
> Medicine for heart health does not change your behavior significantly.

This part of your argument is decidedly false. It's been an open secret for decades among public performers of several stripes (actors, public speakers, musicians, etc.) that beta blockers can prevent stage fright [1]. More recently, there have been multiple studies suggesting a link between statin use and increased irritability and aggression [2] [3]. Basically, the distinction between "psychoactive" and "non-psychoactive" drugs is more about the reasons people take them than it is about the drugs themselves. To a first approximation, there's no such thing as an objectively "non-psychoactive" drug.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/arts/mixed-reviews-for-a-...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5005588/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488854/
If you release the search engine weighting process, you open up to gaming it. This is inherently an adversarial space. You will ruin it by asking Google to make the engine open.
We’ve had to handle Holocaust Denial since WW2, we’ve had to handle anti-vaxxers since Andrew Wakefield, and conspiracy theorists since the first apes developed complex language.

This is not a “fight every five years” episodic battle,mthis is a daily struggle, with the vested interests on one side looking to squeeze in more of the wedge until they can walk through the door unobstructed.
Cool. Perhaps I didn't understand how severe were your symptoms based on your article. Thanks for the clarification. I'm glad you found something that actually works well. I know the struggle is real. Hopefully you will be able to keep on keeping on without too much pharmacological medications and won't let that part of life define you. :)
Except he ignored the opinion of every single venezuelan.

He just sat on his couch, read some leftie newspapers he likes and decided about an entire foreign country.

Just another talking head clown having opinions with no basis in actual research or reality.
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A company's direction is going to be aligned with the owners/shareholders goal, which isn't always but in most cases is profit. At least we know that.

Government? Who knows - whatever behavior emerges when you get a bunch of self promotors, egotists and idealists to compete amongst each other for whatever it is that each is individually competing for.
This is sloppy generalization. The US travel ban has never applied to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Indonesia which host the largest Muslim populations.
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> Google has also crammed the top of its mobile search results with more ads. This has forced many companies, including TripAdvisor, to buy more ads from the search giant to keep online traffic flowing.

That seems wild to me: not only does Google get more $ from ads, but they have this massive power to wipe out competitors this way, with minimal repercussions. Two-birds, one stone.
Because most people probably want to use their existing phone number which is tied to their SIM card.
I had that thought when I heard about gait recognition too, and I'm still curious if the general counterpoint is the same as the next thought I had, or unrelated:

It seems surprisingly hard to spoof a limp (or any other biomechanic change, like randomly swapping shoe inserts or some prosthesis to change arm movement patterns or something), consistently, for an extended period. Also, painful. Also, noticeable to humans, like most MV-dodging techniques are.
Yeah that's my point. If the vulnerability relies on nukes then is it even a vulnerability? If nukes are being exchanged that's game and it's a moot point.
Maybe just discredit them when they say they support freedom from oppression when they actually support comically transparent dictators?
This exact same thing happened just over the hill from where I live now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocks_Island_Dam_controversy
>Two, writing code for other people requires empathy. Rumination. Flow state is considerably absent of both of those. So the problems and gotchas you know about ahead of time get handled, but anything you find along the way is very likely to get ignored. The quantity of your code goes way, way up, the quality goes considerably in the other direction.

Yeah, I thought "flow" required extremely low resistance in the task (i.e., someone sewing, playing an instrument, or playing a relatively simple game competently and with no interruption of confusion, frustration, or distraction).

I wish I could code like that. xD Constant typing to an ambient soundtrack. Instead, it's a minefield of
"uh wait I have to Google this thing",
"uh, what should happen here?",
"oh no, an error with a complicated message I probably also have to Google".

And I can only carry on the rubber ducking to competently deal with those with a FULL MARSHALLING of my mental resources, which seems too strenuous for "flow" and is exhausting after a few hours.

But if you're sewing, you're just sewing.
This is certainly not true. Evolution of programming languages is circumstantial. There are many flaws in all of the ones you had listed.

The marginal cost of deprecating something or breaking something is higher than the incremental cost of workarounds. This happens all the time from the laryngeal nerve in Giraffe to the evolution of a programming language, say JavaScript.

Please don’t mix good design with popularity. It’s a correlation/causation fallacy.
That shows it's enough to establish probable cause, but once they'd identified him, they got a direct DNA match, which means he won't be a test of the ancestral scenario outlined in the GP.
This is a marvelous premise, I'm very glad that games like this are getting made.

"Miegakure [Hide & Reveal] is a game where you navigate a four-dimensional world to perform miraculous feats and solve puzzles"
Yes, it would be worse. If Google ranked its own results higher (which I don't believe they need to do) then it's not that big a deal; I can just skip past them.

If every black-hat SEO knows how to cheat and they grab the first ten pages of results then the useful stuff gets lost in the noise and the search engine is no longer useful to me (or anyone else).

Even evil-Google wouldn't do that because they do have incentive to keep people coming back.
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Welp. My bad. Do you use Telegram? If so, why not go through the sign up process yourself, and explore?

Edit: OP says it's all about moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129710

Unclear to me if there's any encoded requirements.
Thanks for the idea of the "blank filter". I found out it's called a "bypass plug" and apparently it should have come with my fridge.
Next step: sell all the DNA results to the highest bidder.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uh-huh

I happen to know it's not specific to American English though.
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ah, here we go. The notoriously flawed "I'm doing nothing wrong and I have nothing to hide" argument.

There are so many reasons why this is wrong and it is a pretty well known philosophical stance. A couple reasons:

- You assume that the government is acting for your best interest. What would happen if we elect a crazy president that changes the direction of the country? (Think WW2 Germany with their eugenics).
- You are not doing anything wrong but don't you have information that you want to keep private? Getting an STD for example is not illegal but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like that medical information available after a search with your name on Google.