skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll just leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Again, as with other comments above: I am not advocating for a slippery slope type of thing. I am however saying that specific groups mentioned above are widely (though not universally) considered undesirables. The specific groups: men who beat women, racists, and Nazis. Do you have a better ruler by which to measure those people and whether we should create software tools to help them communicate better/easier with each other? Do you condone any of those group and do you want to publicly defend their ideas as moral or valid? Because if not, feel free to get off the high horse and shut the fuck up.
I’ve found that to be much, much better.
Reddit shut down the subreddit because of repeated violations of their usage policy.

It is interested to me that violations of their reasonable policy correlate with the direct actions of Donald Trump himself.
The App Store can enforce things like "users can deny permissions and the app still works for anything else" or you get booted out of 50% of the US market. A web site can say "oh, you denied access to location? Well, I won't let you continue at all until you do". We saw this on Android - on install apps would require a raft of permissions, but if all your friends were on Facebook you'd be compelled to accept them all anyway.
I really value information and learning how different people think and what's important to them, but it's really hard to do that on forums so I prefer just talking to ppl. Preferably in a non-campaign year to get a less emotional account. Plus it helps me have a more balanced perspective b/c I can put face(s) to different sides and that prevents me from saying things that I can't take back
I wonder how someone like Hitler would have been treated. I guess free speech advocates would have helped him to spread his sick ideas and rise to power? Free speech needs to have limits somewhere. If others are insulted, smeared, de-humanized, if hate is spreaded, if under the protection of free speech people rise to power who poison the political climate, then the whole system is in danger of falling apart, with all the good elements, even the right for free speech.
I think the distinction is more than semantic. The point of the exercise (and Adams' self help advice generally) is to promote entrepreneurial thinking. The combination of skills is seen as "added value" or differentiation. Whereas pursuing a single skill may have a clear path of training & advancement, this is encouraging people to create a new path.
Completely normal phenomenon
> This is a difference of semantics. "Do a thing you are especially good at" vs. "Do two things you're really good at ... to create a unique result" is another way of saying "find a thing you're uniquely good at."

This is like in accounting/economics when someone says, "Everything is a variable cost... if you wait long enough!" Sure, the payments you make on a 10-year contract are variable if you're thinking in time periods of 100 years (in years 11-100 you can decide whether or not to keep paying for the item), but that's rarely the case.

Similarly, when people talk about specialization and "finding something you're good at", I would assert that the norm is that people think in terms of one specific area/skill. Hence, it's important to talk in these terms and point out to people that they should consider that they might actually get the most benefit from being good at two skills.
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I lived my parents until I was 25. I payed off my student loans, saved up a 20% down payment, and purchased a house 5 minutes from my work. I think the few years of sacrificing my social life has put me on a better trajectory. They didn't insist on rent but I paid $300/mo for their generosity.
It's Norway, though many European countries have similar policies. It's not cool to be met with social workers, though. It means you've basically failed at life.
it's definitely a joke. nobody uses chernoff faces
Jeferry Katzenberg is way way overrated.

I believed the shtick about him being behind Disney's animation success. I held Dreamworks Animation, admittedly the buyout was a fair price, but he got paid a ton of money for fairly mixed performance. Shrek, Kung Fu Panda definitely decent franchises but he piled the profit from these films into a ton of shit that didn't work (and his own pocket, somehow he is a billionaire).

But yeah, this had failure written all over it. I think the concept is basically fine...you don't know until you try it. But pouring a billion dollars into this was fucking lunacy (and the fact that Katzenberg invested too, shows that he is genuinely just not very good at his job). Like you prove the concept with far lower levels of capital...the issue was that the product was dogshit, not that you needed a billion dollars to make it work.
This is a purely symbolic move at this point. It was effectively shut down and has been completely inactive for something like four months, and by all accounts the competing site has been thriving.
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump
What alternatives do you suggest? Ultimately people are responsible for their own government's actions.
>There's a lot of non-techies outside of SV who seem to think that developers/designers/product-managers are just doing the menial plumbing of building out other people's ideas, and that anyone can do the same thing if they just had access to capital. Maybe this debacle will convince them that there's more to building a successful business than just capital and "an idea".

The problems with Quibi had nothing to do with the developers, designers, or product managers. The only real app specific problems, such as forcing it to be mobile only, likely came directly from the executive team. The undertaking was flawed from the start and lots of people in the entertainment industry believed it was a monumental waste of cash well before the service launched and anyone had a look at the actual tech.
The Donald would have been deleted under the old leadership too...

They got in hot water not for supporting Trump (there are plenty of pro-Trump subreddits) but actively breaking the most basic rules of Reddit, maybe you should actually look at their history.

Spamming the same images to the subreddit, interfering with other subreddits, trying to out whistleblowers in federal cases, gaming the content discovery system with sticky posts.

I'm tired of this narrative that The Donald was banned for censorship reasons, they were banned for being a virus that was infecting Reddit.

They could have been supporting the Dalai Lama and their behavior would have been against the basic expectations of Reddit, and that's exactly why they were quarantined/banned

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald#History

In true fashion of people trying to push a made up point, every reply is nitpicking over which one of their many incredible misbehaviors was the deal breaker, from doxxing people to brigading other subreddits, instead of actually providing a rebuttal

It doesn't matter which one broke the camels back, anyone who can read their history of behavior and pretend Reddit didn't have a reason to take action, even by those 2012 rules, is in denial.
The title is shown in the entire title bar (e.g. long titles for web pages) all the way until it reaches the buttons, which as you say have their own border, so there is no gradual change in its character. It's 100% draggable and 100% showing text all the way, so the form (showing gradual change) is at odds with the function (sharp distinction between title and buttons).
Interesting article. Then I cam across the term "man management" in the article. Is that a real thing, or a typo?
I've been a tech consultant in LA for more or less 15 years at this point.

A very large portion of well funded, early stage startups that crash and burn in LA are typically because media people have a hard time conceptualizing lean startup, and rapid iteration etc. Over the years I've accepted it's not so much hubris as it is entertainment is just a different industry with a different way of doing business and people who found success in entertainment think that method they achieved translates to tech startups, when it unfortunately doesn't.

In Hollywood you put all this time and money into one big event like a film, or an album or a pilot and people scoop it up due to marketing. They consume it, then they are done. If they like it they ask for more. So if you have the money you spend all of the money at once to make the best thing possible, put as much marketing and PR against it as possible and people will consume it anyway. Usually you make some of your money back. If consumers ask for more, that's a bonus. Then you go out and raise more for the sequel or the next album or whatever.

Of course tech is different - you can't put all that money into the first iteration and expect it to pay off. You need to stretch it out over many experiments and control burn over years. It's just a totally different financial model and business plan. There are so so many Quibis out there that never got past private alpha / beta. The execs spend YEARS crafting that perfect alpha, open it up privately to friends and family, it flops and then they throw in the towel just like that. I've seen it more times than I can count now
“Slightest bit inconvenient” is hyperbole. People are busy; don’t blame users if privacy features are built to be too inconvenient for users to adopt. This is where Apple helps too by making privacy easier, e.g. Apple SSO.
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Reddit bans 2000 subreddits including the_donald and chapotraphouse
I’m John Cassidy the founder of Klutz Books and right now I’m sitting shotgun in a long car ride. I’m so impressed that people have 20 year old memories this sharp. If you want to know about Klutz back in the day, Ask Me Anything...
I’m going to assume I wasn’t part of their target audience, given what I’m about to say, but the whole thing looks like a bunch of amateurs with a ton of money.

First off you’re spot on with the name — what a terrible decision. Secondly because the name doesn’t tell you anything about who they are or what they do they needed to have advertising spots that got that across quickly. Except for some completely inexplicable reason they ran ads from a show about a mobile app, requiring you to watch for over a minute (!) before realizing the spot was for a show, not for some new app named Quibi. I literally saw their ads dozens and dozens of times before accidentally letting it run long enough to figure out what the hell it was. Did they recruit marketers from Microsoft or something? They’re the only other people I’ve seen capable of causing that degree of product confusion in marketing decisions.

Next, where the hell did the focus on short form content come from? If anything the trend has been for longer and longer form content as seen by the success of HBO, where a shorter medium (cinema) has moved into a longer form medium (television) in order to tell the stories they wanted to tell. Given the focus on celebrities I’m sure I wasn’t their target audience, but what mobile-first audience WAS the target anyway? Why wasn’t YouTube serving their needs? Why weren’t there production companies making and promoting this form on YouTube and other platforms already? The mind boggles. The whole thing reads like a bunch of amateurs with too much money.
Its subjective. The side who has more power get to define the meaning of hate speech.
Reddit particularly used to be a free speech platform where anything could go and then used network effects to gain dominance. Now that they have dominance they now implement censorship of right wing views comments. This is true for Facebooks deboosting capabilities.
NY made mistakes, the federal government has made worse mistakes and other states have compounded them.
One of their books that provided endless entertainment to me as a child came with a working stopwatch and provided prompts for random things to do against a timer (how fast can you re-lace your shoelaces, do 10 jumping jacks and say the pledge of allegiance 5 times, draw a gorilla that somoene else can tell is a gorilla, etc) and compete against the records published in the book, or make up your own challenges. I found a used copy a couple weeks ago and sent it to some friends' kids in the mail. Their books felt honest and fun for children, not pandering, immature, or fake-educational.
From Hasan Minhaj and the team at Patriot Act on Netflix:

“TurboTax and other tax prep companies misled millions of Americans into paying to file their taxes even though they could do it for free. That sucks ass. … We think it should be easy to file your taxes - even if you still use TurboTax. … File for free by clicking the links below.”
> They were just politically unviable.

We all know reddit leans a bit left, but the ban also included /r/chapotraphouse which is a leftist subreddit that was also notorious for rule breaking. Frankly, it seems reddit went out of its way to accommodate the_donald for a while now.
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I would like to know this as well. If it is clear how to do so, I'd gladly join.
With the radius of the resulting explosion maybe
Update from the radiation authority in Finland -

https://www.stuk.fi/-/stukin-helsingissa-ja-kotkassa-havaits...

Translation - very low levels of airborne radioactive isotopes have been detected in the last couple of weeks (Co-60, Ru-103, Cs-134, Cs-137, Zr-95, Nb-95) but they are not high quantities enough to affect normal radiation levels. They do not originate from Finland. The isotopes are the same as used on nuclear power plants and small quantities can be from normal reactor use or maintenance.

You can see realtime radiation levels here - https://www.stuk.fi/web/en/topics/environmental-radiation/ra...
I would imagine American workers interpreting decrease in their quality of life and their wealth as a negative event. Condoling the fact by pointing out that some folks in India are now much better off is tone deaf at best.
> they weren't breaking ... any more rules than other groups on reddit

Do you have data that backs this assertion? Because it seems to run counter to the stated reasoning for the removal of the subreddit.
To repeat a trite argument, that is the case for the free speech that is guaranteed under the US constitution. Free speech advocates usually claim that either reddit does indeed violate that constitutional right (similarly to how it applies to federally funded private companies) or that the human right of free speech is violated.

This second version is assumed to exist a priori from any state/law similarly to how international human right conventions Recognize human rights rather than Create them.
There was another thread earlier today about how CS degrees don't give you any social status, so that may be something to consider.
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I haven't really posted it anywhere yet, just a WIP side project for now. That said you can create your own Board and add any RSS feed, and moderate comments.
"Rent seeking" doesn't literally mean "seeking rent", so when people use it to condemn rent in general, it's just meaningless. It's a technical term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
I abandoned my iphone4 for a nexus because I felt the walled garden approach Apple were taking was a stranglehold; there was no flexibility with the home screen, I couldn't run any emulators, blah blah. On my nexus I could have the hacker news feed on my home screen! Felt like a huge win for a few years. Now I'm 100% abandoning android to head back over to IOS, which has been reinforced by IOS14 detecting TikTok capturing huge amounts of data nefariously. BUT here's the added problem - I've had a google account for over 15 years, all of my email is handled via a (paid) google account and migrating it to something else is the kind of nightmare that I've been procrastinating over for a few years. I know I can control lots of privacy settings, but my overall trust is pretty thin these days. Add to that a lot of friends only use WhatsApp means that Facebook still have an 'in' as well... it feels like even with the best intentions the market still has an almost insurmountable leverage over the individual (in this case me!).
So, nothing changed since 1986.
I feel like I have a déjà vu.
The main value I get from the physical bookstores I love is the curation aspect. Kepler's Books in Menlo Park is an example of a place doing this well. I suppose this could be done digitally as well, but so far Amazon seems more focused on having every product on earth and using "you might be interested in" algorithmic recommendations than hand curating selections with a point of view.

I think the low visual density of an online shopping page vs an in-store display is part of the challenge in replicating that experience.
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Why is the article so cagey about mentioning what the successor is, while mentioning two other sites, Gab and Parler, that are equally controversial? It seems like a basic failure of factual journalism to say "[r/The_Donald's] volunteer moderators and much of the community had left in recent months, moving to a website that mimics Reddit’s system of conversation and user voting on content but appears to have fewer rules." If they're trying to preemptively de-platform thedonald.win, then why mention Gab and Parler?
If you still have the Ikea one, that was caused by a fairly wide-spread issue with the power bricks. They'll replace them under warranty with just an email with some info about the brick.
> Now that they have dominance they now implement censorship of right wing views comments.

They did the same with chapo - so, it's really not just right wing views...
Honest question: how do you manage to work your way through that stuff without feeling incredibly shitty afterwards? Because whenever I have tried to make sense of them it was genuinely unpleasant for me to "reason along" with people that unreasonable (I'd almost call it painful, but perhaps that's a bit too strong).
Then disable those permissions.
Back when I first heard about this, I read up on it: it seemed to me that it was quite time to move China off the list of "extra cheap shippers". I know it'll have a number of knock on effects over the next few years, and I'm not sure what those will be for the average American.

It'll be nice , in theory, to be able to set up a widget shop in the US and sell to China at the same parcel rates that my counterpart in China could, to the US.
They figured out this would happen a while ago and already made a bolt-hole, thedonald.win.

You'd think a big tech operation would prefer to keep overlordship of a community they hate and despise. They can fuck with the users, edit articles, and generally cause a big hassle. Now with all the users moving, they lose that power and the ability to closely monitor and profile for their partnered organizations, like the Atlantic Group, the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, and the rest.
IMO this headline is too selective. They banned a whole group of subs, including /r/trapochaphouse, which is a left-wing subreddit. Only highlighting this one is needlessly simplistic and will mislead anyone reading it.
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With any bold claims like this, look for a consensus approach. Are the claims repeatable? I have seen these kinds of reports about TikTok from multiple independent sources, so I'm inclined to believe them.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyL-8Q_sAIE

TL;DR:

EU companies buying illegally imported timber from Myanmar via a Croatian company named "Viator Pula" [1], registered to a single shareholder (Ivan Popovic):

* abc.net
* boogaerdt timber NL (previous EUTR violations)
* crown teak BE (previous EUTR violations)
* wob timber DE
* vandecasteele BE (previous EUTR violations)
* hf italy IT

[1] https://www.fininfo.hr/Poduzece/Pregled/viator-pula/Detaljno...
Even if Rowling is currently getting torn to pieces, and Obama is not making the front page every day, they leave behind a legacy in history and culture. What they say matters, even to their enemies, as the Rowling case shows.
I also read yesterday's post from the same author, but neither article is really a mental model (despite that being the subject of the entire blog), and they aren't particularly informative enough to be on the frontpage for the blog's first two posts?

If you upvoted this one, what am I missing that you liked about it?
Yep, r/videos is so locked down you don't get anything relevant other than some old cat video repost.
The point is the level of configurability and that you can remove all sharp edges from within emacs.

Then when you sync your Emacs config to your laptop, those sharp edges remain gone.

Examples like this, especially those widely meaningful to everyone, are nearly impossible to craft.

It's like seeing different paths of movement before trying parkour and after training a few weeks.
Would something decentralized help?

I don't think people want that. The_Donald involved a lot of spreading their message / fake news sites / spamming across other subs and etc.

Do people want to be on a platform where other folks on the same platform are targeting their community with dishonest and often bigoted content?

I'm also not sure how much The_Donald was as a community. The sheer volume of users at its height seemed to involve a huge amount of brand new accounts you never saw again / never posted again (except when they show up as a group again), and etc. Or those without brand new accounts show up and post strange dishonest lead in type posts that sort of try to lead folks down a bigoted path ... that you can blatantly see in their post history.

So you'd be in your other community and one day they all show up and down votes and the vitriol begins... it was no mystery that this happened, it was spoken of openly in The_Donald for a time.

Who wants to deal with that?
> What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules?

1) They don't want to alienate people who care about free speech.
2) A lot of people liked reddit because it was user-driven, and don't like it when the content they see is selected by admins and mods. They want to keep the illusion of being user-driven as long as they can.
Apologies, I didn't mean to imply that you had flagged the article, and I didn't think that you had in this instance. Thanks for clarifying what [flagged] means, I was unsure about this.
My job title, as it was printed on my employment offer and paycheck, at a start up that was located a few blocks away from the Google HQ in Mountain View in 2014 and staffed by plenty of xooglers, was "Front End Hacker". Six figure job.

Not that it disproves your statement that the titles are uncommon, but hey, I just want to stand up and say "Hey, us professional hackers and ninjas and cowboys are REAL!"
> Reddit [..] has every right to decide what speech it will or will not publish.

For legal reason that publish should be host.
I'm sure, I was at least not picking polycarbonate glasses for reason they look, and feel too toyish, and too many of them would be scratched in transit/pop out of frames unless overmolded.

For the same reason, I did not risk buying plastic frames. They break/bend too easily.

I'm still amazed that Chinese factories managed to make optical grade glass, cut, and polished for glasses almost as cheap as molded polycarbonate.
I must have seen their (annoying, to me) ads over a 100 times already.
Honestly, I hope one of the side-effects of the current crises is that there is a re-assessment of the value of multi-generational households. We are currently in the process of building a new home (planned before Covid-19) that will accommodate my wife's senior mother as well as provide a future shared home for our son.
My (probably poorly informed) take is that they're compensating for a weak economy by basically waging asymmetric/guerrilla warfare. Using minimal cost techniques to sow the most chaos possible. They may not be able to be strong, but they can make others weaker.