skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do your trainers specialize in training older clients?
> I don't see how this is true unless you're just talking about Facebook's non-chronological order.

It's more than just non-chronological. FB buries many link posts. Specific friends can disappear from your feed for months. FB still has the echo chamber issues it had pre 2016 election, just with fact checking notations sometimes. For many people, FB is where they get their world news at this point, and that's a very skewed way to get your news.
I reject your rejection.

Cancel culture is terrible because the goal is to destroy people who hold unpopular beliefs. It not enough to refute the belief. The transgressor must be punished with the full fury that internet-enhanced social pressure can bring to bear. The goal is to punish and destroy.

Shaming and social opprobrium can work in a community where there's interaction between the parties. This also allows for grace and restoration. It doesn't work in the global twitter-verse.

Civilization is the ability to live in peace with people that aren't like you - you may disagree with them, disapprove of them, or dislike them, but you don't seek to destroy them. We seem to be losing it.
> I find talking to my conservative friend, he shares all of the concerns about problems with the justice system and inequality, but when I roll it together as "racism" he vehemently objects.

If the issue is racism, that means that a fix for the justice system's problems won't affect him. You're implicitly saying that any mistreatment he's experienced at the hands of the police is the way things should be, and that it shouldn't be fixed.

Saying the problem is racism is saying that only a fraction of the US deserves a solution, and it shouldn't be too hard to see why some people will find that disagreeable.
The HEY discussion has revolved around money, but this is not about money
If that is true then Apple is a net positive and deserves no active sabotage.

I've seen this platform issue happen in gaming too: Steam rakes in inmense profits at 30%, while smaller platforms like itch.io scrape by by only getting an 'optional' 10%. Yet, consumers prefer the DRM heavy high-cut platform.
> privatization of public spaces.

You're misunderstanding the causality. These are private spaces. Just because lots of people show up doesn't make it public. Yankee Stadium isn't a public utility.

You're asking to make these private spaces public. That's something you have to change in the existing laws. The first amendment has nothing to do with that.

I would also argue that the government creating its own public space would be the best because then there wouldn't be this perverse idea that anything anyone creates can be taken from them by the government whenever it becomes convenient.
Oh right like Android/Google is better
Both the EU and the US are already looking into Apple.

Here's the CTO of the Hey app and the chairman of the US Antitrust Subcommittee discussing this very case yesterday: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-...

These "nothing's going to change, why even try" attitudes are so lazy. Absolutely things can change, but surely not if we don't try. Microsoft was massively impacted by the antitrust action against them, every decision they made since then has been run through the lens of that verdict (I know lots of people inside MS) and it fundamentally changed their culture and reduced their stranglehold on the industry.
Depends on if you consider running a phone with Google services removed "supporting Google".
How could you forget the first?
Brew!

Sept 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for...

"an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phones, featuring third-party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones (mostly with the similar specifications of a mid to high-end mobile phones) but not in smartphones. Developed in 1999, as a platform for wireless applications on CDMA-based mobile phones, it debuted in September 2001."
If you haven't noticed, that's been the goal for a long time now. People get accepted to college because of the color of their skin. People get better SAT scores now because of the color of their skin. Every major company has diversity boards which make sure to hire people based in the color of their skin. Hollywood and big business choose who to be in ads, movies, and other customer facing media because of the color of their skin. Groups decide their memberships based on the color of people's skin. CHAZ protesters in Seattle are arguing for judging people in court differently based on the color of their skin.

It's really so interesting that these groups of politically motivated people think they're ending what they perceive as racism ... by being as racist as it's possible to be.
I see more advertisements that are relevant to me I would otherwise. Often they are just off the mark though, often I see advertisements for products similar to one I just bought. But most people only need one lawn mower, one circular saw, etc etc.

Overall, I don't see it as being remotely worth the trade-off.
I'm perfectly happy with just getting headlines and a link which is what I get from most sources. If I want to see the content, I'll go to the page. Of course, I'm going to block the ads there too, and that might be true of most RSS users. Maybe sites are just figuring out the "RSS User" demographic is one they'd rather not target.
Email is being replaced by Slack.
Maybe RSS / Atom weren't good enough, but what they're being replaced with isn't better either.
It's not just about RSS. It's about moving off open standards to closed properties. It's also more effort to integrate different sources as each one has a different API.

Indeed, nor the world nor freedom of information will die here, but that doesn't mean it's a step forward.
What you are demonstrating is one of many ironies that one can see in academic writing. Here, the writing criticizes the rise of Veblenian entrepreneurship and the fall of innovation entrepreneurship, but ironically, this kind of a paper could be considered an instance of Veblenian entrepreneurship!

Perhaps that could be because Veblenian entrepreneurship, like most entrepreneurship, is made possible through higher margins. I always parade out this 2S Ventures post about the importance of margins [1] because it really drives the point home. On the contrary, "innovation" based businesses require a large variety of environmental factors to succeed, ranging from cultural ones to regulatory and logistic ones. And there is indeed no guarantee that an innovative business is necessarily one with higher gross margins than an incumbent whose products/services it would seek to unseat even if there is societal benefit, so the business may not intrinsically be attractive to investors.

So it is with this piece here. Its explanations of new business formation targeted at conspicuous consumption are targeted towards academics concerned with earlier explorations of these areas, rather than practitioners. I think the possibility of it being thought provoking for the first group while common sense for the second group is where the irony comes in -- presumably, it was intended to be the other way around!

[1] https://twosigmaventures.com/blog/article/why-gross-margins-...
Agree. Even the murderdrones black mirror scenario posits a two-stage system: ~5 mile transport/breech-stage + 100-foot-range intercept unit. All to attack a stationary school building. So yeah, intercepting jets is going to need a another stage. And I think the intercept stage might look more like a guided mortars than a quadcopter.
On a side note, I used to work very closely with Marty at Samsung before his retirement. He is an inspiration for me and I really loved working with him at that time. At that time, lots of ex-Danger folks joined Samsung and later joined Google to work on Android OS.
Nice work ! Your solution is much better, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that floppy drive emulators also exist and are currently in use for people who are using old samplers - https://www.amazon.com/SFR1M44-U100K-Floppy-Drive-Emulator-E....
I mean they definitely called a bunch of college students stupid in the environmentalism episode for falling for the old dihydrogen monoxide bit and then used that to imply that environmentalism was stupid.
I do try to maintain a fast load speed, but I run a SaaS app for small government, so we don't lose revenue due to poor load times. We lose confidence in our app, which still something we want to avoid, and may have a long term impact on revenue.

But the different business models are the reason that Amazon cares about 0.1 seconds, and will work to improve quickly, while I care more about 0.5 seconds or higher and can defer it as technical debt.
I'm essentially supportive of your point, but I think your characterization of free speech advocacy is ... idealistic.

Any time you reserve the right to upset people, there's a question of whether you're doing so because you're altruistic or because you're just cruel, or at least so insensitive that you prefer casual cruelty over bothering to be sensitive. Being protective of the right to upset people is an implicit judgment that sensitive people ought not participate in public discourse.

And maybe you're okay with that, because the hedge-against-consensus angle is so valuable, but I think the standard counter-argument is that the actual result of a free-speech approach is a yet-unhedged consensus determined by the insensitive jerks with the stomach for a public discourse privileging insensitive jerks.

This is orthogonal to the "this meme is so dangerous it must be suppressed" argument. One thing you can do if you want more acceptance to a pro-free-speech viewpoint is actively address the exclusion-of-sensitive-people angle, and try to decouple "having controversial ideas" from "being a jerk about it."
I remember the SDK did not support all of the Java standard library, a lot of functionality were in danger.* packages.

When I first saw android, it seemed to me somewhat familiar. The vm that runs custom bytecode, etc.

Sadly, it looks like all the forums and mailing lists are now gone. I found a site with the source code of some apps, https://hipme.com
Put up a banner that says IE is not supported, download one of these browsers instead.

If you say "No" because it will drive away your customers, then it absolutely is for you.

It sounds like you were putting profits before principles.
Ethos, pathos, logos :: social credit, intuition, logic. Each a very reasonable means of surviving, but ethos is by far the strongest. If you fit in which a bunch of things that aren't dead, you'll probably not die. Something about this play-style seems to result in more than just fitting in, but also hating those who don't. If freedom of speech is your ability to say divergent things, being hated for being different is a problem.
Touché. But in my case only when I'm thinking about this topic.
You may already know this, but when people say "white supremacy" they might not mean what you think they mean. For a certain strand of activist, "white supremacy" doesn't just mean the KKK, lynching, Jim Crow, apartheid, black slavery, all the other obvious and overt forms of white racism. It refers to a vaguely-defined sense of racism that supposedly is omnipresent in American (and more generally Western) society, affects everything we do and is apparently inescapable. These people will tell you that we live in a white supremacist society, that white supremacy is at the core of most if not all of our social, political and economic structures, and if you disagree then this only proves that you support the system and are therefore a white supremacist.

This might sound ridiculous but it's taken very seriously by a growing number of people; it has its roots in a certain strain of postmodern thought called critical race theory that's been slowly emanating out of academia for the last decade or two and is now seriously spilling over into the mainstream. See e.g. Robin Diangelo's book White Fragility (which is currently back on the bestseller lists) which asserts that all white people are racist, and if you're white and don't admit that you're racist then this is just you demonstrating "white fragility" which proves... that you're a racist. This is of course divisive, harmful, unfalsifiable garbage but if you don't think these kind of ideas are becoming very influential then you haven't been paying attention.

So basically the reason why it seems like people are constantly throwing around terms like "racist" and "white supremacy" like they have no meaning is because they have consciously and deliberately stripped these words of all meaning. Of course that's not how they'd describe it, but if think this is just me being a conspiratorial right-wing nutjob I highly encourage you to learn more about critical race theory (newdiscourses.com is a good place to start) and understand what these activists are saying. This stuff is coming for you eventually whether you like it or not so you'd better be prepared.
Try this, it's the entire thread in one page: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1273690362608078848.html
That’s a very cumbersome a way of getting what I want. It’s much better and easier if e.g the EU simply makes Apple do the right thing by force. The market doesn’t solve this kind of problem.
I use a $20 LG feature phone. I don't know what OS it runs, but it's not Android.
“ You can no longer help the customer who’s buying your product with the following requests: Refunds, credit card changes, discounts, trial extensions, hardship exceptions, comps, partial payments, non-profit discounts, educational discounts, downtime credits, tax exceptions, etc. You can’t control any of this when you charge your customers through Apple’s platform. So now you’re forced to sell a product - with your name and reputation on it - to your customers, yet you are helpless and unable to help them if they need a hand with any of the above.”
It's dredging up history (and for once, 'dredge' is exactly the right word), and relitigating it with the presumption that everyone at that time recognized the same issues as we do now in our perfected, enlightened minds.

It is graceless, faithless, trustless, bigoted and suspicious towards past generations, unanchored in history, and sought for the purpose of personal moral status more than the perceived rectification of injustice.
This entire post on hackernews. Likely the people who removed the RSS feed will read it.
Incredible cacophony of whinging cranks.

On the gradient of human needs this falls to about the lowest rung. The word 'monopoly' thrown around here has been made vague enough to be weaponized -- when in reality the ingredient to an actual monopoly is that the buyer has no viable alternative in the marketplace... which you all know otherwise.

Think about this critically: commodities in general are marked up at 30%. The 'mom and pop' liquor store down your street sells bottles at least that. Is it a monopoly because they're the only store in a ten block radius?

Don't conflate your laziness and desire for the highest status-signalling pocket computer for lack of actual marketplace choice. The good folks at Basecamp, or really anyone here complaining, who owns an iPhone, are hypocrites in self denial.

Among the various morally-questionable actions Apple does for growth, this isn't some atrocity.

Don't @me
> Let’s say we tear down Apple through legal means–we send them the message that because they’re so successful they no longer have a right to dictate their own terms around what apps they allow on their devices and how much money they can charge developers to have access to their platform. Just think of all the ways that precedent could be abused against other companies.

Ok, how about we instead tear down this idea that it's legally OK for a company to sell you a computer, and then prevent you from installing whatever software you want on it? Doesn't sound like we have any bad precedents then! And, apple can keep their app store if they want, and pitch it as a curated, safe walled garden.
Thanks for the great feedback. We started with text as it seems more integrated with daily life than in-app chat, but we'd love to expand out channels in the near future. Would love to hear what method you'd prefer instead so I can pass it along to the team!
Just this morning I was thinking about the increasing volume of propaganda, trolling, and heterodox/'edgy' I've been seeing on HN in the last couple of months. Now here we are with a piece suggesting that cognitive superiority or inferiority relates to subjects like "homosexuals", "communists", "anti-american Muslim clergy", and it's on the front page.
Support better regulation. More effective than complaining.
Here's another possible solution. Make the "Hey" app a general e-mail client for all e-mail clients that support the "Hey" protocol, whatever that is. Publish a rough draft of the protocol and call it a day.
It wasn't even an IQ test. According to the paper, they gave participants 10 words, with each word being presented with 5 other words. They were instructed to match each of the 10 target words with the closest of the 5 words. The claim is that vocabulary knowledge is highly correlated with general intelligence, and so this simple test is a proxy for cognitive ability.
This is such a funny comment in a thread with so much divisiveness.

Apple's position sucks for those who rely on their customers (and yes, it is THEIR customers) for a living. No matter how much we complain, they developed their ecosystem.
I think the current state of things is just fine for a niche forum like HN, but not so much for a huge platform like facebook. see my other comments on this article if you're curious about my position.

also, elon would probably be considered a "public figure". it would be pretty hard for him to win any sort of libel suit over a random internet post.
> Email is being replaced by Slack.

Is it? I've never once used Slack. It's not on any of my devices. But email is and it works great.
So I've been sitting in this comment thread for a while and something has been bothering me. I'm noticing two things that are consistently brought up:

1. Free speech as some sort of abstract enlightenment ideal.

2. Cases of clear injustice in our past that stemmed from denial of free speech.

But that's not really why this article was posted, was it? It's really part of the ongoing modern conversations we're having around certain groups claiming their free speech rights are being infringed.

I think that injustice was done to Galileo, but I'm not going to shed a tear for somebody who was booted from an internet community for arguing that certain races have a lower IQ and LGBT+ folk are degenerates that need to be sterilized, even if they do it in a faux-earnest way.
Unlike medieval millenarians, the woke have no vision of the future
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I imagine if I wanted to stop using Google, and created my own web based spreadsheet software, or video conferencing software, that I would face a legal battle with these big tech companies if it did end up becoming successful.

Searching for spreadsheet patents returns a lot of really banal concepts [1]. Maybe they wouldn’t hold up in court, but having been served before, it’s a very terrifying experience.

Or, if you create a successful competing product, you’ll probably just get bought out (whatsapp, keybase, instagram).

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US8332878B2/en?q=Spreadshe...
> I use my Quest many times a day, often for just a few minutes at a time. It is so easy to get up from my desk, and jump into a ping pong game, enjoy a favorite part of Vader Immortal, randomly try a VR art piece, etc., etc.

It was great in that until recently. I leave my quest powered on between gaming sessions. Sometimes I even leave game (beat saber or boxvr) open. It worked great for some time, but for about a couple of months I am experiencing a lot of bugs when it's impossible to recenter headset (using hardware button) and image weirdly freezes for a couple of seconds.

Reboot fixes everything until next time.

It really ruins using headset for frequent short sessions.

And support was really unhelpful.
Telling people to handle their beef "in the market" is basically saying we aren't a self-governing people any more.

The hubris and contempt for democracy emanating from tech bros is astounding. It's not going to be fashionable forever.
Quoting: 'Did you also consider your impact on others?'

Cos: 'Stress results...often... in a kind of enviousness'? (-;
Bias and discrimination in Sort Algorithms
Robinhood’s New Traders Ignore Danger Signs to Bet on Stocks
Quit whining about the internet and just stop using it.
There are many items that are permitted but subject to geographic restrictions such as airsoft guns.[1]

Aside from actual serialized firearms, ammunition, magazines, and some triggers in some state, pretty much every state has no restrictions on firearm accessories such as stocks, grips, slings, sights, and even barrels.

[1] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...
> If Twitter has taught us anything, it's that everyone should not have an equal voice and an equal platform. A person or company's reach or audience should be a function of 1) what they're talking about and 2) what credibility they have re: 1.

How do you propose we should establish credibility of sources? Also, how do propose to factor in the originality of what they say?

> Also, the Republicans would do well to introduce legislation expanding data portability and making it much harder for these completely unethical platforms to keep your data locked into their walled gardens. Friends names, birthdays and emails as a csv is basically impossible to export from FB for example.

Agreed.
Try making your app appear in search results via organic store searches. Good luck.

In my experience, you will likely either pay for search results or do marketing on your own using other channels. Both are paid and Apple doesn't do anything for it.

There's really no good case for taking 30% as long as there's no real marketing benefit from the App Store.
The article completely ignores that the only way most consumers can not buy an iPhone is to buy an Android, which is as bad or worse, depending on what particular concerns you have. (Apple's got a slightly stronger walled garden, Google has far worse privacy and security. At the end of the day, their app store models are the same.)
Seems like they could easily put it into a museum. Or just some plot of land in a nearby town with a plaque. Hopefully that's where it ends up.
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I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying it's harder than checking a box.
It should be known that this tool is purposefully never updated and knowingly inaccurate.
Ask HN: What do you do if your CEO is a “Wolf”?
As the title mentions a "Wolf" is defined as follows:

> The Wolf moves fast because he or she is able to avoid the encumbering necessities of a group of people building at scale. This avoidance of most things process related combined with exceptional engineering ability allows them to move at speed which makes them unusually productive.

The definition is from this article: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-wolf/.

So with semantics out of the way, what do you do when your CEO is a Wolf and your team is growing? I work for a startup with an incredibly productive founder/CEO. However, the productivity of the founder is predicated on behaviours exhibited by a "Wolf", so it makes establishing processes for the rest of the team difficult when the "Wolf" is still the primary contributor. To make matters worse, this is the "Wolf"'s first real gig outside of college, which is both amazing and frustrating so they've never seen common team practices that can help teams scale.

Do you happen to have any pointers to help drive home the value of building software development practices and establishing better teamwork when the founder of your company is a "Wolf"?