skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you label one sector of economy as harmful and another one as beneficial, why not use actual data to support your claim? Unlike thesis like "goto considered harmful" there are enough data out there. Authors even mention the actual size of the untrepreneurial industry in $, but don't dig any further.
The URL puts it as 2020, and the bottom of the post says "Posted by Jimmy Maher on June 19, 2020"
Private equity isn't an appropriate asset class for 401(k)'s. Public markets have a threshold for rules/regulations and reporting requirements.

You don't want your retirement account to be a casino. You want companies that can provide stable, long-term growth of your portfolio-- so the money's there when you need it.
> I wonder what these differing qualities are, then.

The most obvious is that researchers care about finding truth for its own sake even if that truth doesn't have any commercial value, and founders care about producing a product for a market, even if that means ignoring some truths.
> The problem you proposed strikes me as primarily being that one company controls the Internet. That's the problem that needs to be addressed.

You don't forego treating someone's symptoms just because you don't yet know how to cure the disease. You need to manage a patient's symptoms and keep them alive.

Figuring out how to unravel or limit these huge monopolies is something that will take government years to figure out, if ever, much like finding a cure for a disease. As much as we need to solve that problem, we can't just throw up our hands in the meantime and say "I guess there's nothing we can do."
BTFS with mutable torrents would make a nice piracy suite
No, a "hostile work environment" is one in which one's colleagues are unable to do their jobs effectively. That should be lawyered more precisely, but we needn't flesh it out here. No one's job depends on everyone adhering to the very narrow ideologies that mobs are enforcing today.
I read the actual research and it seems to me the authors are confounding a lot of things. I believe people with a decent background in business and economics should see this. A few things that jumped out at me:

1- The rise of specialized services that lower the entrance bars for many industries.

2- The rise of the wantrepreneur.

3- "Inefficient market offerings" that reduce innovation.

The answer to these:

1- Yes by lowering the entrance bar with SAAS products, regular people can create companies more easily. This means many people that shouldn't be company owners are now. But this is hardly a bad thing. The converse to this is that many people who should be entrepreneurs that weren't are.

2- This is really complex. And yes, the ease of starting a business and businesses that service businesses will always play into this segment. But it's hard to blame mailchimp for the rise of the wantrepreneur, which seems to be a logical conclusion if we follow the premise of the study. Since that's not a logical conclusion, it follows the study's premise isn't very sound.

3- As I understand it, inefficiencies in the production of services means more people offering a service than can be sustained by the demand of such services. Such events are normal when industries are in flux. It's actually a good thing, as it fosters competition and the surviving brands are stronger, leaner and smarter than they would be if there wasn't such 'inefficiencies'.

I'm really not sure what people see in this study. Even the language used is... emotional? lacking? I mean, it's just not language that lends to nuance and understanding. It's almost marketing like. And I say this as someone who is a digital marketeer, so I'm not using it as an insult. It just feels out of place, I expect analytical language in a study.
The author of this article seems to believe that 2D graphics cannot be re-used in a game and/or is unaware of the use of tiles, palette-swapping, and other techniques used to make production of 2D games more efficient. Very strange.
Isn't part of the idea here to _be invasive_ though? If part of the intent of the service is change behavior then the coach must interject themselves into the clients' lives in order to create action.

How would you see the minimal invasiveness of email aligning with such a call to action?

(hope this doesn't come across as an attack as it is not intended to. Just trying to understand how you see these two ideas as compatible since I see them as opposing and so wanting to know what angle I'm missing)
Exactly what you said. Also Hypothesis has more features around privacy (private annotations) and groups.

For me Genius's annotations were more of a tool for surfacing authoritative knowledge on a song. I use Hypothesis more for personal notes across the web, but other people use it collaboratively as well.
You know that you're in essence saying "While I'm uneducated in the field, I demand all dialogue happens at my level", right?

This is not how science works. Never has, never will. Like any specialty, it will - inevitably - develop its own jargon. Not as gatekeeping, but because shorthand matters for efficient communication.

If you'd like to understand topics at a more layperson level, science papers are not what you want to read. You want to look to science communicators, who do the work of breaking it down, dejargonizing, and making it understandable for a wider audience.

Demanding science is conducted at the lowest common denominator level makes science impossible.
That sounds like quite strongly motivated reasoning. Basically, I can not accept that other people have specific big problem, because then resources would go toward problem I don't have.

Therefore if there is both problem with racism and other one, racism can't exist untill all problems touching me are solved first.

I mean, I can see how people who have the other problem would find him obstacle to solution to their problems.
There actually is, kind of.

The IndieWeb[0] community has come up with a protocol called AutoAuth[1]
that solves this exact problem.

It's only a rough draft at the moment and it is built upon the IndieAuth[2]
protocol (which, in turn, is based on OAuth 2), but I think the way it works is highly fascinating.

Here[3] is a an overview of how it works.

[0]: https://indieweb.org/
[1]: https://indieweb.org/AutoAuth
[2]: https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/
[3]: https://www.svenknebel.de/temp/autoauth.html
Taking Ideas Seriously (2010)
I hate Pinterest, all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman.

Why do we need an alternative??
True, and even when there was a federal AWB the definition was kind of arbitrary.

pistol grip + collapsing stock? assault weapon!

pistol grip + a2 fixed stock? not an assault weapon?
They would, but it's a shame that that everyone is forced to use webkit on iOS and for some reason is refusing to implement push notification API need to make PWA's. I wonder what that reason could be.
You also see this a lot in translations of undeciphered scripts. Often there's a period of speculative translations that really make no sense, but are justified with "it's just religion, of course it's esoteric".

Example in hieroglyphics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeliscus_Pamphilius?wprov=sfl...

Example in an undeciphered script:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_rongorongo#F...
French court slaps down Google’s appeal against $57M GDPR fine
if you have bash, awk and sha1sum then you can try this:
export PASS=mypassword

then

PT=$(echo -n $PASS | gsha1sum | awk '{print toupper($1)}'); curl -s https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/$(awk '{print substr($0,1,5)}' <<< $PT) | grep $(awk '{print substr($0,6)}' <<< $PT)
Those are all great points, but in English, "dumping" is also used when you want to get rid of something/someone (dump a boyfriend, dump into trash...).

If anything, the translation is too literal, and you are advocating for a better translation for the actual action. It's a common complaint, but it's a hard balance to strike: literal translation is (usually) easier to translate back (not the case here), but a translation that is more descriptive is easier to understand.

I think I am in the same boat as you, in that I usually prefer descriptive translations when a literal one uses a metaphore or concept that's alien to the local culture.

Still, in this particular case, I'd use a less commonly used term (I imagine spremiti/sačuvati is also used for "save") like "zapisana" or "zabeležena", just so there's a better chance to keep 1-1 mapping between English and Croato-serbo-bosnian-montenegrin language.

What English has mostly done was keep using old concepts (like "core" to represent "memory"), or repurposed seldom used words which I always found intriguing. Such approach would require some re-learning for us who grew up on English IT terminology, but every profession has a specialised terminology like that too (I like to bring up the example of maths, where in Serbian it's integral and izvod for integral and differential: always try coming up with a good native word, and if it _is_ good, it will stick :)).

Note that people translating free software are usually volunteers working without much local support, and without an established vocabulary for all these specialised terms, so they will frequently come up with awkward translations.
Minor nit: there’s no final authority in Christianity either - the pope only matters to Catholics.
The KPMG report was a good moment. As was earlier this week when EY refused to attest the 2019 balance sheet. Maybe not perfect, but still enough profit potential if you ask me.
Speaking of devil's club - what really sucks is scrambling in the brush down a hill (I did a lot of that in 15 years there), slipping, and grabbing a nice spiky devil's club as you reach out to catch yourself...

But the nature is amazing, and now that I compare it with other places, just plain good for the soul.
Hey I agree, once we say "you're genetics give you a diversity of viewpoint" we are typecasting by genetics. Once we say, "you're genetics make you think this way" we are walking right down the path of eugenics....seem's wrong?
I tried to click the links towards the bottom for eg Norml but the animation populating more ppl in jail kept moving the links around so I closed the tab. This was on iOS Safari
There is an alternative - Android. You aren't forced to pay the Apple tax, there is a far, far more popular alternative there.

If we took this argument and extended it, no business would survive. This is like saying Toyota has a monopoly on it's car transmissions. of course it does - it decides what transmission goes in. Your idea would force it to accept all manufacturers of transmissions.
> Lack of respect for traditional authority, entrenched interests, and boundaries would be my take. Forgiveness > permission mindset, with a healthy risk tolerance above baseline.

This is an interesting take. A lot of researchers are pretty anti-authoritarian, at least initially, and the scientific process involves a lot of tearing down existing knowledge and rebuilding. We all really, deep down want to prove everyone else wrong.

However, when the funding comes from institutional sources, there are certainly limits on how rebellious one can actually be.

Furthermore the peer review process encourages a kind of camaraderie and politics where you compete with each other, and are actively tasked with finding fault in everyone else's work, but you are also stuck with them for decades, so you don't want to screw anyone over too hard, because their turn to review your grant proposal will come around soon.

> Founders take their research and drive towards profitable exploitation of that knowledge relentlessly.

Yeah, this latter part is what I've never really gotten. My goal is always to take my research and drive relentlessly towards... more research. Ideally while freely disseminating the products and tools used so that others can do the same, thereby letting everyone share in the fruits of the labor.
> Clojure is indeed mind-expanding. Unfortunately its most compelling ideas don't translate to non-LISPs, so I must sadly disagree with the "learn Clojure" suggestion. It's wild fun, but it's hard to apply the ideas to DayJob.

I must say, having learned Clojure (and ClojureScript) and used it in production in my day job (we even still have one ClojureScript project in production), I strongly disagree. I would probably not choose to use it again, mostly because I've come to prefer static typing, but quite a lot of what I learned from learning it (and learning its idioms) has greatly improved my work in other languages.

In particular, Clojure's approach to state is something you can (mostly) apply in most mainstream languages. Handling most runtime state as immutable values, with clear and explicit use of mutable state for the cases where it's either necessary or makes the code easier to understand/more maintainable, is a huge boon for developers working in imperative languages.

In my current job, I've seen the quality of projects improve drastically as I've lead by example with that approach, and as I've asked for changes like it in code review. I've seen the volume and severity of bugs decrease, developer productivity improve, and morale trend upward.
Google doesn't block ads for competing products though. Nor does it prevent competing products from being listed in its search engine. That's the analogy here - no one is saying Apple's app store shouldn't be allowed to have _any_ standards, just that their rules shouldn't be anticompetitive.
Ask HN: Does it bother you to see yourself in video calls?
We're building https://team.video and are debating how prominent to make the video feed that shows yourself. Some of us think it's distracting to watch ourselves in the call, and others want to be able to see clearly what everyone else is seeing of them. We hear a similar range of feedback from users too, although like us, they are often not exactly able to articulate why they feel so strongly.

Do you like to have your feed prominent and sitting alongside everyone else's? Or does it make you uncomfortable to be seeing yourself? Why is it that you feel the way you do?
I misread this title as a MIDI capable 'flying' Baby Grand Piano. So was mildly disappointed, but OTOH that could be a whole other level of drone-art/aeronautical/electro-mechanical project for some enterprising hacker out there?
I'd like to get someone who knows more than me to weigh in here, but as a 527 I'm raising the money to directly influence elections as a primary purpose. Most 501s can only focus on issue advocacy and can't run ads like this without losing their non-profit status. From what I understand of election law, we should be in the clear for running ads supporting/opposing representatives.
Are you reading the article or straight to the comments?
i have to admit that I mostly (like 99%) of time go firdt to the comments before I even think about clicking to the article..

what about you?
We're finding it quite effective to record short 2-minute videos and circulate those. Everyone can talk and point things on the screen, not everyone can write or even read attentively.
> I am assuming that having workforce hired purely based on their ability to perform the job, would be a competitive advantage if the company was aiming at efficiency rather than playing games with investors (which is another long story)

Have you considered that the companies with diverse executive teams and boards did exactly that?

Can you point me to the list of companies where their lack of diversity at the executive and board members level has 'cost them dearly'?
Yeah the dumb practice seems rather feudalistic effectively in trying to dragoon "guilds" of entities they can deal with in domains with raised barriers to entry for the sake of their ease of administration and grip on power.

One of the few good things to say is that Germany's case doesn't seem to be an attempt to try to bypass its own internal restrictions at least. But that bar should be so low that it is buried.
Or Rattlesnake Ledge in Washington.
Maybe just stop linking to pinterest pages or images and just link to the real pages pinterest is taking from? Pinterest is such a dark pattern of 7 clicks to actually see the damned image in google results.
Lots of things can kill a business. Anti-competitive practices are made for the goal of reducing competition.

But the reality is Apple's App Store provides a ton of value to many developers and end users alike.

Just because your business model failed doesn't mean the system is broken or monopolistic.
As I said, I think it's perfectly fair to place other values above free speech, but I think the examples you give can more fairly be summed up as "the right to free speech doesn't extend to these types of speech" rather than "you're free to libel as long as you're willing to live with the consequences." The second framing is technically true, but only technically...

For what it's worth, I agree with you about not forcing platforms to host speech and with your point about the line being drawn arbitrarily. I think that free speech can be both a legal right and a value that is shared by the members of a society.

Edit: The Ben Franklin quote shows that he wouldn't publish anything he thought unworthy, but he would still print it for people, so he didn't refuse to do business with the people whose writing he found abhorrent.
This is a brilliant concept of a tool. I’ve never worked with monorepos before, but something like this with rw capacity would be an absolutely amazing pipeline, if every developer in the office and beyond are full nodes in the system.
The only reason I didn't use Mustache was because it was unnecessarily complicated for my very simple use case. I just needed to effectively include blocks from other files in order to be able to share boilerplate between pages, plus having basic variable substitution for things like the page name. I even considered using the C preprocessor instead!

But I definitely wouldn't recommend using m4 for anything beyond a quick hack, unless you're a m4 wizard (or willing to become one) and you trust that whoever is going to work on the project is going to be one too. It's definitely clunky and not very user friendly.
This is the same strategy as getting on the NY Times best seller list by literally buying lots of copies of your own book[1].

The key innovation is realizing how cheap it would be to make it to the top with nearly every theater in the USA closed.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/22/heres-...
You're forgetting about the people who find Hey through some other channel, but sign up through the app anyway.

And because discoverability on the app store is terrible, of the people who sign up through the app, it's very likely that the majority of them won't have discovered it through the app store.
yes, that's exactly what happened to me- well, i didn't grab it, just brushed against it while bush-whacking. A whole section of my skin turned red, then black, then sloughed off, and I still have a big scar 20+ years later.
No, RHEL/CentOS aim for an absurd 10-year lifecycle, whereas Debian, even with LTS, is aiming for 5 years.

Compare https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos and https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/debian for exact figures.
The fact that Wirecards claims against the FT weren't laughed out of court, well at the front door, is just stunning. I guess Germany was just happy to have a high profile, highly successful FinTech. And that resulted in some reluctance to look too closely. Not acceptable, either way.
I recommend ublock origin.

When I checked with the disclosure page (give me everything you have on me), after disabling ublock origin for that page, it said they had nothing on me. The truth of that statement is debatable, but it seems to be effective.
> we're experimenting with the idea of an app that has a comic reader, book reader, Reddit client, art viewer, video player

Why? I have all of those on my computer without strapping anything to my head.
This is some serious commitment to the cause. Hats off, sir.
If you're extremely guilty you keep going until the music stops.
From the Twitter thread by @DonutShorts linked in another comment..

> In summary, the $WDI fraud has all the features of today’s highly evolved art of corporate financial fraud. Its scale, duration, and brazenness (faked cash!) highlight just how free a hand financial fraudsters enjoy to ply their trade.

> It also exposes just how deep the rot is in the realms of regulation, accounting, securities exchanges, and (with important exceptions) almost all of the financial and business media.

> BaFin – their reputation as a financial regulator lies in tatters. The entire leadership of the organization should resign immediately. Merkel should launch a sweeping investigation.

> Taken as a whole, the ‘circling of the wagons’ by the German regulatory, business and media establishment around a long running and obvious fraud casts a large shadow on the integrity of the German economy.

> A fraud this big and blatant can only persist for this long with the assistance, either active or passive, from a wide range of enablers. They all need to be named, shamed and suffer the consequences of their complicity for the good of the financial markets.
I agree. my only concern is that certain companies try to entangle themselfs in these public funded projects and gain large benefits in essence from tax money.
I think it would be good (in Europe at least) that bigger tech companies donate much more to these projects.
Assembly lines work if you have economies of scale, i.e. if the incremental cost of production can eventually be brought below the value of the product on the open market and you can start turning a profit. The economics of planetary exploration are fundamentally different because the product is not the thing you're mass-producing. The product is data, not spacecraft. Furthermore, the hardware required to produce the most valuable data, i.e. the data you don't already have, generally needs to be different from the hardware you've already built. That's the fundamental reason planetary exploration is unlikely to benefit much from mass production any time soon.
And with the increase of Subscription fatigue, torrent may possibly make a come back.
I like to see a thumbnail of myself. I have some holiday decor up that would be unsightly to have in view during summertime. I also like to see I'm centered in frame, posture looks good, etc. I want to verify I look presentable through the duration of a call.
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There is a lot of information on the Internet, but most of it is in English. If you don't have the ability to use English, you won't be able to access that information.
Some sites that are published in other languages, but they too require you to learn that language.

Many translation machines available these days, but they won't always be accurate enough to rely on them. Either way, it will take decades for the language barrier to go away.

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