skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's tech-related or even music, history, or philosopy-related, I'll append site:ycombinator.com to my DDG search queries. Unfortunately, it's not just Google search that's full of SEO-optimised crap.
They have ultimate power over everything. They could ban my favourite subreddit tomorrow if they wanted.

In practice however, they hire a CEO to handle all that for them and don't get involved unless things get so out of hand that they feel their CEO is steering the ship wrong. At this point they tell the CEO what outcomes they expect, and if he can't or won't comply, he gets replaced.
> I serve boiling hot tea to all my guests

You hand styrofoam cups out your window to guests you know won’t be staying? Curious social habit.

> a customer who asked for a hot beverage

Coffee is brewed at very high temperatures but is rarely - if ever - consumed at those same temperatures.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18226454/

For most people, getting a cup of coffee that is near boiling would make for a very unpleasant surprise.
Maslow’s hierarchy in gaming – player motivation
99% of the world, and 99.999% of reddit, has no clue who he is. Nor do they know anyone that has first hand knowledge of working with him. All they'll know is the the way the previous guy stepped down, and what he requested.

I understand it's a terrible position to be put in.
As a fellow European, I can confirm. If you don’t take our word for it then feel free to look it up. We follow cases in our home countries and are used to what sort of sentences get passed.
Hacker News has a weird, almost pathological aversion to Reddit and the cultural mainstream it represents - even a vague hint at some tangential influence glanced at will lead some here to fear the barbarians storming the gates.
Well if you're poor, you have no free speech in any case. Populism is just a desperate way for the poor working class to acquire free speech by leveling the playing field... Sometimes that means taking the whole economy down but poor people don't care at all about the economy; especially when they already don't have jobs. What do they have to lose?

Populism is rational and rooted entirely in capitalist self-interest. What the rich don't understand about populism is that these people are not misguided or manipulated. They know exactly what's going on, they know that populism will destroy the economy, but this is exactly what they want.
Or sells it off for scrap metal.

Metals such as nickel, cobalt, aluminium and copper make up nearly half of the bill of materials in a li-ion cell.
In my experience you just take out a toilet seat cover (aka, ass gasket), place it on the seat, and as you turn around to sit, it flushes automatically. Voila!
Yes, especially the junky plastic screens that would also get all scratched up. And plastic screen protectors that would get scratched, bubbly underneath, and had no effective oleophobic coating.

The modern Gorilla Glass screens and coatings used on iPhones and other devices are so magical in comparison to those early cheaper smartphones.
As a native speaker of polish language and a person who learns english for 20 years and actively uses it every day with native speakers - i can say the same :) agree to disagree
I assume you're getting downvoted because you don't seem to take issue with censorship of free speech ultimately being a problem, and why people take stand against tyrants?
Same CEO; this is a new board member (who happens to be CEO of YC).
Certainly if you get involved in any sort of litigation or whistleblowing, or anything that is public record, then a blacklist would be redundant.
No; some of the first to become have become them in spite their being special (a black, a white, a woman, etc).
It’s a board seat for a company that produces a cultural product, there is no reason it had to be another person in tech, though there may have been an unstated intention to make sure that the representation of YC associated individuals on the board stayed the same or increased.
Is there free software alternative to zoom?
I don't know if "ironic" is quite the right word there; I'd go with "hypocritical" or "completely expected".
Just trying to make a reference to Silicon Valley (TV show).
Is this a problem with Reddit the company or the subreddits you are completely free to browse or not browse and participate in?
> You have to install it anyway (make isn't default on windows, it's not even installed on vanilla Ubuntu!).

What are the odds that you're compiling software on Ubuntu and haven't installed base-devel? I mean, it could happen, but it feels contrived.
And arguably as a society standing up for democracy and free speech should begin to not use any such platforms who sandbox to support these bad actor governments.
More like "first to be appointed to"

There rarely negative connotation attached to accomplishing something or earning something based on merit and not some other factor. It's seen along the lines of nepotism.
Anyone have the actual law suit? Or a list of drugs and all the drug makers? Reuters only names 8 of the alleged 26
EEOC says "In most circumstances, individuals who are partners, officers, members of boards of directors, or major shareholders will not qualify as employees."

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-2-threshold-issue...
And the Eastern Roman Empire lasted another ~900 years!

(Calling them the "Byzantines" is a modern invention)
Yep. I haven't used any version of Android since 6 or 7 and I can still use Google to find out where certain settings are.
I think it's all fine. But do you, or anyone else, really believe anything but a black person was going to be picked?
Rural and hyper-connected: here is the ecovillage of the future
> And is on F-Droid

I use F-Droid whenever I can but only for NewPipe I started to actively avoid it. YouTube occasionally changes it's HTML and breaks NewPipe, the app starts crashing and while it usually gets fixed quickly and the apk gets uploaded to GitHub, F-Droid still takes weeks to update it. Last update was about 2 weeks late, that's when I uninstalled the F-Droid version and started installing it directly from the GitHub releases page. Unfortunately for time critical bug fixes F-Droid still has a lot to improve.

A useful feature you forgot is the AMOLED theme. Also subscribing to channels without having to use a YouTube account.
are you using it on the browser, or are you using the jitsi desktop version (which seems to be distinct and not cross-compatible)?

Are there settings you adjusted?

Are you just doing one-on-one meetings (that works fine for me too) or group calls of 3+ (which is what I need to do everyday where it immediately becomes unusable)?

I'm also using a linux distro based off ubuntu/debian.
They said that they were going to honor his wish...
I saw media coverage claiming the board agreed to his request. I don't know how accurate it was, though.
That is a very interesting analogy! I'm going to steal that.
Housing ‘apocalypse' coming as coronavirus protections expire across the country
Perl5 has HTML::Mason which runs on Apache mod_perl. The reason that never caught-on is the liability of running mod_perl compared with mod_php which is much better at isolating global variables.
I'm surprised anyone agrees to be CEO of Reddit these days. No matter who holds the position, they always end up being vilified by both Reddit's users and its detractors.
Google does engage in censorship in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#United_St...
Systemic? No.
original source on top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482406

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Two comments recommending Jitsi. Suspicious.
I am not sorry for him. What is your definition of merit for a board position?

As far as I know, board positions are often filled based on explicitly subjective criteria, e.g. such subjective criteria might be:
Who is currently on the board and what personality/skillset/experience does the board need in order to balance its membership?
Who does the company & board need in order to: raise as much money as possible, be introduced to the desired go-to-market partners, look good to customers, [insert any other subjective criteria here] etc.

I am not aware of the concept of objective "merit" when it comes to board of directors appointments.

~corrected for bad grammar~
No, saying "governments monitor all major companies" can be an easy dismissal of any privacy concern.

Governments are just human organizations. They have different levels of rapaciousness, resources, skills, corruption...

Even if they were all the same, it does not makes it acceptable.

Equally, software and services can have excellent security or be terrible.
Why stick to the insular Silicon Valley club and not get someone who's devoted their life to civil rights? There are a ton of community activists who could actually bring a fresh perspective.

EDIT: I do not mean to question his particular qualifications or his commitment to change, only to comment on the fact that it could have been someone from a different walk of life. Tech leadership in Silicon Valley does not appear inclined to affect change.
Commercial logging doesn't protect the environment and it's likely even worse than digging up coal and burning it. In the end some politician somewhere is running for re-election and I'm sure this is great press. However, it's not good for the environment:

Here's a quick article on the uncounted CO2 cost of making wood pellets exactly for these plants:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215913-logging-study-r...
"Logging in North Carolina emits 44 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year."

Here's another discussing why the EUs view of burning trees is off:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa512/...
"Sixth, growth in wood harvest for bio energy causes a steady increase in atmospheric CO2 because the initial carbon debt incurred each year exceeds what is repaid. With the US forest parameters used here, growth in the wood pellet industry to displace coal aggravates global warming at least through the end of this century, even if the industry stops growing by 2050."
That's not comparable with PHP as ERB files are not executable by default within the document root.
Exactly but I knew when reading it that your average American would complain. It is an ugly American trait that as soon as somebody commit a crime they become subhuman. All their actions must from then on be viewed as being deceptive or villainous in some way.

I just read the article as an interesting description of the US prison system and technological development.
I think most of the world doesn't have the slightest knowledge of him, though. This is really sad because everyone I see on here who does know him is saying great things about him.
Dollar cheaper perhaps, but not time cheaper for me. I just want an easy place to display web pages and web apps.
The economics of food delivery can’t be solved with efficiency. There’s not enough pie to split.
Genuinely curious: is static analysis really more powerful than the Rust type system + borrow checker?

A more concrete example: is Coverity + C more powerful than Rust?
Mergers and acquisitions rarely work out for the entities as such. To understand why they nonetheless continue to happen so often it’s necessary to peer beyond the corporate veil and look at the incentives of the individual players.
How is it much worse? If you're already using Gmail, they know _way_ more than your billing address.
First step to becoming a global company maybe?
I would never download an app just to buy stuff from a random company, even a local company I'd use (and live in a rural area now, person-to-person contact matters, I'm bought meat from local ranches, etc). Why should I fill up my phone's memory with such things? Why should I run someone's buggy and possibly malicious code on my personal machine?

Why build an "app" when you could build a website?

Is this just an exercise to give you experience? I couldn't fault the urge with everyone wanting to be employable and all but apps as substitute websites is kind of problematic thing. Most of what we're talking about is nearly static data, stuff that used to be on brochures.
Wikipedia was a text gold mine waiting to be mined. They even publish data dumps themselves that anyone can download. I doubt they had any problem with people "stealing" their data.

Just recently I made a website that extracts information from Wikipedia and presents it in a different way [0].

I think it's a great thing that this is possible.

[0]: https://whataday.info/
Reddit publicly committed to selecting a director based on race.[0]

Hiring and firing in the US based on race is typically unlawful, even if the candidate is qualified. You can’t use race as a qualification.

It’s a challenge to the laws, and I assume Reddit(or Conde Nast) wants to raise it.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
> Do you want to say Trump is anti human rights ?

TBF, that is actually true, just not that much more so than the median politician (who votes in favor of things like the patriot act, as evidenced by it having passed).
I switched for the opposite reason. Phone hardware is plenty fast for anything I want to do, but Apple's really restrictive closed software ecosystem and lack of hardware variety drove me to Android last year after being on Apple since iPhone 3G.

I just wanted a touch ID, notcheless, fast and current phone, and Apple did not offer one until recently.

I am not going back, and I am also now seeing the same thing with their laptops. Crappy keyboards, non optional and useless touch bars, low performance per dollar and software that gets in your way. No thanks. Windows 10, WSL, Surface Book/Go/Alienware, wow. Just good, open, usable stuff.
The horse would probably agree.
HN is an asset to YC because the partners are degenerate HN junkies like the rest of us on here, many are worse.

More seriously it helps a lot with YC recruitment and is actually how they run a lot of YC. It also allows for YC company job listings as others have mentioned.

I don't think it's been written in Arc for a while.
Some of those false positives are laughably similar. I have no doubt an LEO would be convinced they have the right suspect.

I actually think it’s probably better than most people’s naked eye recognition in a crowd.
I use YouTube premium in the browser, and there's no video visible in Google Music. I haven't checked to see if the stream I'm getting the data from is more than just an audio stream.
And the Nonresident Aliens get 906 more times PHDs than native hawaian (also twice as many as all of US ethnicities combined)

Statistics could mean a lot of things and can be spun a lot of ways.
Do you not care about Asian-Americans or Indian-Americans in tech? You might need to check your privilege, your comment comes across as very racist.
Deliberate Practice leads to Tacit Knowledge.

Or rather the former trains the acquisition of the latter.
Do content creators get ad revenue if you block ads via that extension?
Presumably the duties of a Silicon Valley board member would center on running a Silicon Valley company, which a Silicon Valley CEO would be uniquely qualified to do.
My 1984 Seiko 6309 watch
Saturn Corporation
Chroma subsampling and latency says "no".
Even taking what you said at face value, what you're describing is a strong body with no mind. If you could get a lifespan of a million years, but had to spend it in a coma, would you want to? If you could live a million years, but only as a passive passenger, while other people (or dice, why not) control your actions, would you want to?
May I seek rather to understand than to be understood says a well-known prayer. I believe the right thing to do is actively probe others’ opinions and points of view to make sure I understand them. If more people placed the burden of understanding on themselves and not the other then I suspect we would not be in this position right now.
> weird replies like if you are “stuck on Chromium”

My bad. I saw the parent and forgot I'd seen keywords on Chromium. To be fair, Chrome buries this deeper than Firefox, whose payment for pushing Google is presumably smaller (and IIRC has a few built in). It's enough of a hassle to set up that I personally used bangs (there are thousands of them already set up for you) when I was stuck on Chrome on a variety of unsynced devices daily at work before the nCov.
This isn't even a matter of security vs. democracy.

This is political control vs. democracy.

How do we do helpful surveillance without destroying everybody's freedom?

Perhaps we can't? Perhaps we just need to focus on response and deterrence measures to bad things people do?

Are we sacrificing too much by having 'prevention' measures (surveillance) in place?
I think people are interpreting this comment as suggesting what this HN user will judge Seibel on. I don't think that's what arkitaip is conveying. I believe they are just stating the parameters that Reddit has often judged high-profile executives or board members on, e.g., Ellen Pao. The keyword here is "perceive."
Perth Tolle who runs the FRDM ETF also had her account knocked offline. She is a human rights advocate who has been outspoken about the HK situation. It’s looking pretty bad for Zoom.
I'm unsure of how this is being positioned in terms of CPU "horsepower". Is this supposed to be something like the next gen version of their "U" chips? More powerful? Less powerful but more portable with lower watt/TDP?

Also the "stacking" approach is really interesting, I wonder how far that approach may go though-- heat dissipation seems like it would quickly become a problem with multiple layers.
Giving Yourself Permission to Fail
It's also worth knowing that, at least according to Linus Tech Tips in a recent one of their WAN shows, they informed their users that YouTube premium pays them better than regular YouTube ads, so that's something valueable, too. I don't remember which one of the WAN shows it was; but, I think it was in the last 2 months. Definitely since the quarantine.
If you're spending enough on AWS, the interaction isn't completely faceless. You'll usually get an account manager assigned to you and they might suspect something is up if they have a lot of mug shots coming through.

If it's a third party with a new name unrelated to law enforcement, that complicates the chain of custody and probably wouldn't be worth it to any agencies to set it up to skirt a 1 year moratorium, even if someone at the agency thought it was a good idea to try and flout Amazon's policies (they definitely won't, agencies just don't move that quickly).

That being said, there's no way to guarantee that it won't be used, but it would be difficult for LAPD to be running at scale with nobody raising any flags.
I don't think technology has progressed, in a meaningful way, since 2007...much less 2009.
It's still all virtualized, cloud providers, instead of servers. It's still digital advertising doing what it was doing in 2002. Myspace and Facebook were around in 2009. Twitter hashtags is a footnote. A lot of what happened is specific events, not technological leaps. I dunno, maybe I'm influenced by how it's all seemed pedestrian since the internet took over mainstream culture in the 90s and now it's just been refined to a sugary powder that's delivered through phone screens.
Is It Time to Talk About Post-Capitalism in America?
Just Eat is danish not Dutch. Close. It's somewhere in Europe.
I don't generally comment on my employer, and I especially don't post about their internal policies. But I think it's reasonable to post this much, insofar as it's also a question I'd also answer for anyone thinking of interviewing: no, there's no MITM proxy. (There is a proxy; it does not MITM.)

> And would you, or whoever is doing it, stop downvoting me?

1) You can't downvote people who reply to you.
2) Discussions about downvotes are off-topic.
3) Downvoting to express disagreement is explicitly allowed.
Honestly, I was blind to police racism against blacks. Until I watched this video.

----------------

This is a shocking video:

https://www.wral.com/ace-perry-pulled-over-by-sampson-county...

+ white cop pulls over black driver (North Carolina)

+ refuses to tell him why he was stopped until he shows ID

+ asks driver questions about company name on his tee-shirt

+ expresses incredulity when driver says he works at the company

+ asks driver other irrelevant personal questions.

+ tells driver he was stopped for driving UNDER THE SPEED LIMIT (doing 65 in a 70)

+ asks driver: "wouldn't you find it suspicious if someone were doing 65 in a 70?"

+ gives driver a WRITTEN WARNING for driving 65 in a 70.

+ brushes off driver's questions saying "I've got stuff to do"

+ Feb 2020

Googling about the case `"Ace Perry" Sampson` it seems no action was taken against the officer. If anyone has an "in" with the ACLU (or similar), the police dept. could use some publicity.

(Strange how some cases don't get the attention they deserve.)

(Note: in response to a now apparently deleted comment: I'm aware that some roads have minimum speed limits. I remember once seeing on a highway: max75 min40. However, 65 in a 70 is just prudence.)
Ok, we'll change to that from https://angel.co/today/stories/reddit-names-y-combinator-ceo.... Normally we don't move in the direction of corporate press releases, but in this case the original article has so little information that we might as well.

Also, the other article's title ("Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian's replacement") seemed to be leading to all manner of misunderstandings in the comments, such as Michael becoming Reddit's CEO, or Reddit taking over HN.
That's weird use of the term "soft power".
YouTube TV started out as something that was almost worth the price; but, yes, it's a service that, IMO, combined should be max $45 a month. At $60 a month for both, it's just absolutely not worth it.
Perhaps I am naive, but I'm going to guess that whoever Reddit's counsel is was briefly cleared on this.
Estimated 24,000 Android apps expose user data through Firebase blunders
Seriously. Just a week ago, Facebook employees went on strike because FB refused to censor Trump’s messaging. NYT reporters forced the opinion editor to resign for allowing a Republican senator to publish an op-ed. Meanwhile, I’ll bet many of those same people consider censorship of Tiananmen Square to be wrong.

Apparently, there is good censorship, and bad censorship. What’s frustrating is that the proponents of “good censorship” do not even realize this irony, or at least they
call it a false equivalence when you point it out to them.

To address that “false equivalence” criticism, I would be curious to hear from someone who thinks Facebook or Twitter should annotate Trump’s posts. Do you also think that they should annotate posts about Tiananmen square to include links to the Chinese government’s narrative that actually, there was no massacre and it was a CIA-instigated riot?

Who decides which posts to annotate and what to annotate them with? It’s not just the CCP who believes the Tiananmen square massacre didn’t happen; there are millions of Chinese citizens who agree with them, just like there are millions of Americans who disagree with Trump. So is there a difference between a mob of Americans asking to annotate a Trump post about a BLM protest with a CNN article, and a mob of Chinese people asking to annotate an Ai Weiwei post about
Tiananmen Square with a People’s Daily article?
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Addendum: sorry to imply you can't also use keywords there, thanks to oefhra for reminding me you can https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23478553
Congrats Michael!
I don't see how that's any different. You've made your dependency on stdio.h explicit, so the build tool knows about it - and if you'd done the same thing for make, it would've done the same thing.

helloworld: helloworld.c /usr/local/include/stdio.h
gcc -I/usr/local/include helloworld.c -o helloworld

Tada.