skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So developers need to follow Apple's rules in the App Store but they can't be bothered to follow Google's rules in their store. Crazy
This is fascinating. In passing, they mention how the highly privileged may conspicuously consume 'immaterial' goods for status, and the less privileged do more traditional conspicuous consumption of expensive goods.

So if wantrepreneurism is a form of conspicuous consumption for the privileged - or those who desire to become so - what's the equivalent for the less privileged?

I think it has to be MLM and Instagram influencing. The wantrepreneur wants to be a mini-Jobs, but the MLM/Insta dreamer wants to be a mini-Kardashian, hawking products with a glamorous image. But their desire is exploited ruthlessly by a system that promises success but will mostly drain their wallet. Nevertheless a lot of them feel the need to keep going, largely because they've publicly bought into the image.

Maybe it's about what forms of success one is exposed to and what one sees is popular among one's peers?
There are lots of conversations about ideological echo chambers online. I am concerned that tools like Pinterest and now Keen may be creating creative echo chambers that result in large swaths of artists drawing from the same few styles to help build their own.
Back end code test question
Hey y'all I'm interviewing for a full-stack engineer that leans heavier back-end, and I'm trying to come up with an adequate code test for the position. I have typically only applied for positions that leaned heavier front-end so I'm unsure of what a back-end test consists of. Would love to pick some of your brains if you have any suggestions.
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For people to use a consistent identity especially with issues where you get fired for an unorthodox opinion, it's necessary for people to be able to go back and delete comments that could be used to doxx them. This is one of the biggest drawbacks of HN and why I increasingly use throwaway accounts.
Ask HN: How do you RSS?
There is building momentum around a return to blogging and RSS. Perhaps we're near a tipping point.

To give another push: How do _you_ RSS? What are your preferred tools? What are the highlights of your feed these days and why? What practices and workflows bring you value? What considerations should consumers and producers of RSS content be aware of?
Well I'm not really advocating for choosing people based on skin color or gender per se. Rather that in a cases where there is an surplus of talent for the role we should consider making a choice based upon serving the interests of society more broadly. Sometimes this will fall along racial lines. For example, having doctors of color to serve communities of color has demonstrable positive health outcomes for society more broadly.

In the case of managing portfolios, I think that there are compelling reasons from a risk management perspective to cultivate different perspectives (a room full of Bulls will get burned in a downturn). Increasing the number of people from working class backgrounds, genders with different spending priorities, or races with different community ties can potentially add a lot of important perspectives to a financial portfolio.

Blind Auditions in orchestras are an interesting idea. People are actually much better and judging sound quality of violins than they are judging the quality of stock options, so it is easier to definitively state that someone is the 'best' Violinist in a group.
Relativistic effects.
Is is possible the USA could wipe out the 50 ICBMs before they are launched. It would take around 15-20 minutes for an ICBM from the USA to reach China. A sub off the coast would take that down to less than 5 minutes. If the President gave the order to launch from the subs as soon as the first Chinese missiles hit Taiwan it would be seen as an acceptable risk. The real politic of this has nothing to do with Taiwan per se, but everything to do with the fact that everything is priced in dollars. Allowing China to invade Taiwan without doing anything places the dollar as the world currency in jeopardy. The ability of the USA to borrow money to fund its government and economy is key. Loosing that would pull everything down. So yes, I do believe the US would trade a city or 2 in order to ensure its place at the top of the world order.
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The complaint is about the entire field. There's a reason pop psych is separate from "real" psych - if fields don't learn how to communicate to the population at large and just keep research within ivory towers, then you'll just end up with increasing disconnect with the rest of the world while the narrative is increasingly controlled by unqualified but charismatic "thought leaders." This is a publication for academics, but not for all professionals, since "professionals" include a lot of practitioners that never stepped foot in an econ class but are still immensely powerful int he entrepreneurial environment. There's an entire set of stakeholders left out.
> The answer to the question 'how do you know who the user is when they request a server rendered page containing some sensitive data?' is literally the copy/paste solution to how to do authentication on your API - as in, it's basically the same code that must be implemented on the backend in either case :-)

100% agree. But that (authentication) is not what this thread is about.

> The point is it's the same data and mutations, just a different interface over them. There is no security tradeoff of using one over the other.

100% agree again. A properly written application makes no security trade-off here by using an API. But that's because a properly written SPA stack does the work of interpreting the data and it's relationships twice on both the frontend and backend.
Excited for your launch! How do your coaches get parents to become motivated? Been a challenge for me to get them to exercise and eat better
Saving you a click

https://www.gitkit.io/

"A desktop app to boost your productivity with GitHub Issues and Pull Requests."
That'd be special relativity for you - nothing ever exceeds the speed of light, hence a corrective factor needs to be applied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
> an obligation on social network platforms to remove hate speech within set deadlines as tight as 24 hours for easy cases — with fines of up to €50M should they fail to comply.

Is only hate speech criminalized, or do false, misleading, or unsubstantiated statements [1] promoting multiculturalism also face such legal risk?

[1] I'm assuming truth is a defense in either case. Please correct me if otherwise.
Some might consider banning somebody else's speech a "hateful" act.
So, two things:

1. Your assertion has empirical counter-examples. My favorite example is Tinker. The dissent in that case already foreshadows exactly your concern, that the "substantial disruption" test was quite arbitrary. But, in fact, lower courts were by-and-large extraordinarily friendly toward student speech when applying the Tinker test. So much so that SCOTUS has had to limit the scope of Tinker at least a few times in the intervening years (e.g., Hazelwood and Morse). It's not perfect, but no reasonable person looking at the historical record can say that the "substantial disruption" exception to free speech was used to ban "absolutely anything". And "substantial disruption" is probably the most mild form of harm.

2. Remember that TulliusCicero isn't arguing against free speech. They're only pointing out that DanielBMarkham's particular defense of free speech isn't compelling. I think that's fair. DanielBMarkham's approach toward defending free speech, which has at its roots in some enlightenment-era ideas about what man is, really doesn't provide us with a good conceptual framework for addressing TulliusCicero's critique.

So, although I'm pro-free speech, but I don't think the argument that either you or DanielBMarkham put forward are particularly compelling.

If you want to defend free speech, you have to honestly deal with the valid concern that speech really can harm. Insisting that man is a rational animal, or even that the search for truth will always lead to good outcomes, is... just not historically compelling.
>Victims of fatal shootings by police were majority white, but disproportionately black.

That depends on what you take as a baseline. I would assume that police shootings mostly happen in response to violent behavior. I couldn't find any data on the violent behavior, however there is an open FBI dataset on homicide offenders by race [0].

If you assume a correlation between the number of homicide offenders and the general probability of violent behavior, it could very much explain the disproportion you pointed out.

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
>notwithstanding arguments that would define “hostile work environment” in terms of one’s puritan ideals

This is essentially an infinitely large loophole.
To me, a celebrity bus is not more substantive than the Grand Canyon. This would include Furthur if it still existed. YMMV.
Relativity. If they could add that way, you would get 300 megameters/s, which is breaking the speed of light.
Weird how no one seemed to care much when racism permeates our culture and law and resentment builds up in groups that feel cheated by such a system.
The transgressor must be punished with the full fury that internet-enhanced social pressure can bring to bear.

Which has, when you really think about it, very little power. Consider this: the nebulous "cancel culture", with all its fury, didn't cancel the Rosanne reboot. ABC execs did.

you don't seek to destroy them

Who is getting "destroyed"? Getting fired from a job is not getting destroyed.

You should be more worried about what people in positions of power are doing rather than what nobodies on Twitter are saying.
Of course its relevant: you said the EU intervenes when people complain to stop corporate dominance and abuse.

Lots of people complained. The EU did nothing. Truly - Microsoft office is as dominant as it ever was. It the EU has an anti-monopoly/dominance purpose, if MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint isn't its white whale, its hard to imagine what would be.

And the GDPR is being similarly defanged.
Russell's Paradox in Agda
I guess that’s the truth to power bit - Joe Sixpack isn’t powerful and nor are most verified accounts imo, the President is.
When it was released they offered a free upgrade. You are still able to use the same method to upgrade for free: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-download-windows-10-for-f...
The question to ask is whether Amazon’s policy and corresponding procedures are reasonably designed and effectively implemented to prevent violations. Will a few things slip through the cracks of a reasonably designed and effectively implemented compliance program? Of course. But a reasonably designed and effectively implemented compliance program will iterate and improve each time something is identified that has “slipped through.” Over time compliance increases while the number of cracks decrease.

Is Amazon’s approach to this policy reasonable and effective given the resources at the company’s disposal? Amazon is a tech behemoth. Surely they could spare a developer or two to come up with a more effective and automated way to monitor for banned items. A process that looks for keywords wouldn’t be hard, especially given how Amazon’s retail system works. Or maybe a system that identifies product listing photos that are similar shape/size to banned items. Amazon has some experience with image recognition and machine learning that would make that much easier to implement compared to most online retailers that allow third-party listings.

Amazon is more than capable of designing and implementing procedures to achieve much more robust compliance with their policy without expending considerably more effort. The only reason they don’t is because they don’t want to - because it hurts their bottom line and (for now) failing to reasonably and effectively implement their policy costs them only the occasional PR ding.
Fields outside of those are either just note taking (history), subjective (music), or just nonsense (sociology, anything that ends in “studies”).
Hi dang. The feeds are _not_ populating for about 24h now, but any rss readers that fetched the last news from 24h ago will still show the last news from 24h ago (like in the imgur picture). With all my respect, I would agree to change the title to add a question mark, but not to downweight the fact that, intentionally or not, reuters killed their rss feeds for 24h now, and some of us are impacted, and they would like to share their experiences and opinions.
Deoptimizing a program for the pipeline in Intel Sandybridge CPUs
They lie at the same roots, don't they? Different people at different level of engagement in different arenas, but acting on the same baseline ideas. Whether ten years ago or centuries ago, rummaging through the past is the same, only some of the results have more immediate effect. Many times that person was in the wrong, but may have learned since. Many times, only selective views on the person are presented, to shape a narrative of evil. The same tools, the same motivations, just in different contexts and scopes.
I think you need to point to the sentence where he says or even implies that. I can’t see it and neither can the other people responding here.

Three of us (when I last looked) pointed out, independently, that he has two main arguments, and “trust the government” isn’t one of them.
I'm not sure we want to use nepotism as the standard to meet.
>but I think it's wrong to say what you have is free speech, if you think that people who say the wrong things get what they deserve.

Then having laws prohibiting slander, libel, fraud, harassment and incitement to violence also means we don't have free speech, since that is the state saying "people who say the wrong things get what they deserve."

I think all but the most hard-core an anarchist free speech advocates would agree with those limits to speech. Even Benjamin Franklin had limits to what he was willing to publish, as recounted in a comment here[0].

Freedom of speech does not mean all platforms must be forced to host your speech, nor that all people must be forced to consider it. The line between social consequence and censorship only tends to be drawn between agreement and disagreement with the speech being rejected - it's social consequence when you agree with it, and censorship when you don't.

If that means we don't have free speech, then I guess we don't have free speech and, more to the point, have never had free speech.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23065586
I get most of my news from youtube but have stayed in for months now. If anything I feel like allot of what I learned made me overly cautious. I also watch mostly doctors on youtube:
MedCram:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-iSMVtWbbwDDXgXXypARQ
Dr. John Campbell:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
Snapchat apologizes: Juneteenth filter prompted users to ‘smile’ to break chains
It’s definitely not all that it entails, but point taken. Anyways, I prefer the open web instinctively, but it would be interesting to see data on the average age of software on the internet alongside where that software is hosted.
A $100 Android can run a modern browser.
It might help the balance of the system to put the battery at the back of the headband, like this: https://uploadvr.com/vr-power-battery-quest/
"People being hurt" is never a reason to stop something. If we took that route on everything, then everything would be banned because in some time or place, everyone has the capability of being hurt.

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, people would censor things "because of the children". Nowadays, people censor things because "it's going to hurt me".

I believe in absolute free speech, even if it's wrong and it makes me nauseous hearing it. I believe that the truth and reason will convince the majority. You can't protect everyone, and you can't convince everyone. If you try to protect everyone, it's a slippery slope to fascism which is what we are seeing right now.
Original title was too long. It was:

Snapchat apologizes for Juneteenth filter that prompted users to ‘smile’ to break chains
Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over
Making the annotations portable across the same site hosted in difference places is an interesting idea.

I use Hypothesis a lot to highlight e.g., the few important lines of codes, commonly used config values, etc buried in longer dev docs.

This mostly works pretty well. But I do lose my highlights when the URLs change e.g. version 1.0 to 1.1. Sometimes there is a "latest" docs site available to work around this issue but not always.

I imagine that a script could be made with the Hypothesis API to migrate annotations across pages and approximately re-anchor them as much as possible.
This is cool. I can mount most of the Internet Archive as a directory with this. Would love this to grow into what your consumer cloud storage services are but for torrents (a global file system you can mount locally, using torrent data as inodes, with visual representations for availability status similar to the Dropbox green check boxes). Perhaps even with support for web seeding from a storage system of last resort (Backblaze, S3, etc).
Complexity Is the Mind-Killer
Nothing David Cicilline said amounts to anything more than talk. He frequently refers to them as a monopolist in that podcast, but that means a very specific thing in antitrust law. DoJ or FTC would have to prove in court that Apple has "monopoly power" in a relevant market. Since a court will toss it out when Apple moves for a summary judgement if their antitrust theory is that Apple's 45% of the smartphone market gives them monopoly power (based on precedent), they will try to define the market more narrowly to something like "iOS applications".

But again a court is unlikely to accept that reasoning. And if you think about it for 3 seconds it's obvious why: Apple's "monopoly" was established when the App Store was launched in 2008 when the iPhone was an insignificant share of the market. That would also mean that any future product (like the AR glasses, or from any other company) would have "monopoly power" in their platform as soon as they ship 1 unit. This is obviously an absurd outcome.
Agreed, that slippery slope argument is so fallacious. I'm a free speech advocate, but let's not pretend that banning Nazi imagery in Germany is some sort of dangerous precedent, it encompasses so much historical context that it's asinine to use it as justification for a slippery slope argument.
Will a competitor to Pinterest make google images more broken or less broken? I need to know before I make up my mind to like or dislike this
The MacPro is overpriced but they're trying to differentiate - what desktop computer has absolutely pornographic insides, full CNC metal body, display that hits all checkboxes (except for refresh rate). Nothing else out there. So, they can get away with charging more.

Consumers are kind of assholes, especially the average consumer. They demand that Apple reduce their price to make it affordable for them. Why? Why should they? If they can get by with charging more than we should blame the competitive landscape, and not the only company that's pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Everyone else is cutting corners, selling ads, backstabbing customers.
We don't have 'free speech' here in the UK. Her comments have instigated hate crimes [1]. This isn't a hateful act; she's an awful person that doesn't need amplifying.

1. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
I spent a month on an ice field and glacier in Alaska and let me tell you, that state is no joke. We nearly lost a couple of my team to a glacial runoff river that we crossed, I have a permanent scar from devil's club. Fortunately we didn't get poisoned (the onyl thing we ate that was local was some blueberries). It was really amazing being only ~50-60 miles from Anchorage in the most isolated place I'd ever been (chugach ice fields)

We did have an interesting experience- an encounter with Dick "Black Ass" Griffith (his nickname came from the frostbite that removed his back parts) who adventured all over just on the money that Alaska gives to its citizens every year.
I'm working part time (2 days a week) in office. It's a lot quieter, as were only starting with around 25% of people back in office.
Is data of European citizens processed? The site says it's not, but how do they know? GeoIP?
For interviews and programming puzzles you only need to know notation for basic mathematical logic, basic set theory and the summation notation and maybe some bits and pieces from number theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_connective#Common_logi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantifier_(logic)#Notation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory#Basic_concepts_and_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notati...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic#Congruence

If Wikipedia is too hard to follow, you can learn this from early chapters of a discrete mathematics textbook.
> There's plenty of videos of white people being killed by police that you all just ignore.

Two perfect examples are the videos of Daniel Leetin Shaver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc) and Tony Timpa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4PUwrq8tA).

Ending qualified immunity, no-knock warrants, civil asset forfeiture, over-criminalization, mandatory minimums and militarization of police are not race specific issues. They affect all Americans.
Freedom of speech or the “right to say anything you want” is a myth. I’m sure you view would be different if someone started tweeting hateful things towards you that incited others to take potential harmful actions, no?

This is the problem with the internet. It is evolving into a platform for disseminating hate and careful crafted malicious fake “realities” and events.

Our society and our brains haven’t had time to evolve to it.

All good things eventual evolve into bad. Something like that.
I’ve never heard of the phrase “problem taste” until this post, so if Sam just coined that phrase, well done!

This is such an important issue in the startup world. The most common mistake that founders I’ve worked with make is that they focus on the wrong problem or even worse focus on too many problems.

Having good “problem taste” is critical for anyone who wants to start a successful company or publish breakthrough research.
> Both sides could also be right.

When both sides claim opposing things, that's pretty unlikely. My point is that to jump from "don't just blindly trust A" to claiming the person meant to say "blindly trust B" is a cheap shot. It's "so you're saying [insert something they absolutely didn't say]" and it's a meme mocking the person that does it for a reason.
I was surprised that a bus needed to be removed because it was dangerous. Apparently you have to cross a river to get to it -- that was killing people.

The stories of McCandless's journey suggest that we should consider the psychology of self-harm and suicide when we ask about his motivations. He ignored even the most basic precautions, which considering his education and age should reveal something other than mere stupidity. He seemed to want to put himself at risk of harm -- leaving food behind, refusing assistance from locals, and not even learning to preserve meat, so the animals he killed could not feed him. It seems like his being at constant risk of death by starvation and exposure was not an accident.
Please stop throwing around the word "science" here. I see no science in this whatsoever. Science is formula for validating information requiring experiments and controls, which this does not have. Science falls within the domain of research, but not all research uses science