skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you know this, but just to mention it:

For issuing cards, you can use Stripe nowadays. If you're doing this as part of your business (e.g. like Expensify is doing), its available to all US based businesses: https://stripe.com/issuing

The more convenient Stripe Corporate Card (which sounds like that may be your use case?) is still invite only: https://stripe.com/docs/corporate-card

(I myself am queued up for an invite on the Corporate Card, and using Chase Credit Cards in the meantime, which are okay, but not great)
What does “academia” have to do with anything?
Apple takes many anti-competitive and consumer-hostile actions. They can freely get away with it, though, as they aren't a monopoly.
Netflix rival ??!!

Only in the wild imaginings and ramblings of its founders.

A stupid concept endlessly hyped by billionaire founder and vapid celebs, anti-consumer and useless, and having the nerve to blame Covid-19 for the failure of your idea - the hubris and arrogance is truly breathtaking.
I think you're right. I don't watch anything political on youtube, and don't receive any political recomendations. Instead, youtube seems to be trying to "radicalize" me into becoming a CNC machinist, presumably because I watch plenty of videos about manufacturing.
PUBG mobile requires either FB or G+.
No option for email+pass.
Bingo ! This is Apple’s really hard bargain here. Implement us or get rid of all the other garbage sign-in.
Do you know if this is allowed within the scope of Sign In with Apple policies? A company I work with is implementing Sign In with Apple and said they can't do this. Not sure if they're right or if this is their weird interpretation.
Except that in many cases the email address is an obfuscated one controlled by apple, so Apple really is a gatekeeper between the user and the service.
I'm talking mostly about normal tabs in normal desktop browsers. When you open a new tab, it should keep the "Back" history of its parent.

Safari for iOS, too, has a feature where you can temporarily go "Back" from new tabs. But like you said it breaks if you do anything else. Kind of a hack for mobile convenience rather than a true feature.
I've come to the conclusion that, much like how purchasing decisions seem irrational until you realize that different kinds of purchases come out of different budgets, there are different "complexity budgets" or "ongoing operational maintenance burden" budgets in an organization, and some are tighter than others.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. The main point seems to be that in absence of rule of law and due process, armed revolution will come, so let's subvert the rule of law to prevent that? What am I missing?
This is just depressing, man.

> Civil liberties are protected by individuals themselves, by asserting their rights, and conforming to the non-aggression principle to avoid getting into conflicts with others.

Some people are are not in positions to "assert" their rights. Furthermore, by claiming they have a duty to not use violence in order to reclaim the rights being denied you further give power to a group of individuals to are systematically denying people rights. Again, arguments that the free market works this sort of shit it out is just philosophical thinking not founded in reality and obviously coming from a lack of experience with systematic oppression.

> As for "equality", I really could not give a shit.

That's where we're just going to disagree and you reveal your values. There isn't room in the future for people who think this way. You're going to become further polarized as it becomes increasingly clear that the global community is increasingly concerned with equality and you're standing on the sidelines.
I do wonder, though, whether the requirement for Sign in with Apple is coming in a few years. As in, if you allow users to sign in with email/password, you must allow users to sign in with "sign in with apple". It might be more subtle, like suggested auto-fill to create a new account.
In a perfect world people would share things with you without entering your private email address in other people's systems. I don't want to be in the database of whatever app or system my friends decided to join, nor I want to receive spam from these companies.

Many of the objections come from wanting to do things the old way, without privacy and responsible handling of private data.
I've had this same experience with Chase on my business accounts. They're boring but attentive on the customer service side.
Yeah also note that Russia has its own domestic replacements of the popular American services. They only had to resort to bots etc for influencing American elections.
It's not, which is why they are also removing FB login.
Of the explanations you have given here, most of them appear to be good things. Voters learning more about and becoming more aware of the actions of their representative parties.

Except the hastert rule.

The hastert rule appears to be uniformly evil, and would appear to be an underlying reason for all of the other trends you've described in your post. Because it makes it impossible to govern, except in an extremely polarized manner. Leading to all of the other changes you've described.
I detest Donald Trump and everything he stands for and enables, but the idea of banning him from Twitch makes me imagine a world where he didn't get banned from Twitch and instead tried to pivot to being a full-time game streamer, and that makes me laugh at least a little bit.
Please do look into what the East India Company did, I'm in no way qualified to list out the very long list of crimes/misdeeds this company did.

But one large difference is that they had a private army and used it to force through their ways in any non EU country.

It is not absurd to say that the East India Company did occupy India like a country would have occupied another country they won against in a war.

They where also one of the main driving force behind the Anglo-Chinese War (see Opium wars).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

India’s GDP is much much smaller than most think: its smaller than California’s GDP. That doesn’t seem so bad since they’re so close to other European countries but remember that India’s population is also considerably larger.
I don't mean to sound negative, but I thought from the original announcement that this model was absurd.

Yes, people like watching content on their phones, but the novelty of that (for me) was the freedom that came from being locked in to my TV or PC. Freedom was the thing that made me welcome YouTube to my phone.

When I read that Quibi was going to lock customers into a single format I literally laughed out loud. It seemed to me that maybe the founders consulted a handful of teenagers and got pranked in the process.

I installed Quibi a while back, got the 90 day trial, and uninstalled it in under an hour after realizing I couldn't cast it to my FireStick.

>...the company is in talks with Amazon Fire and Roku to bring the app to TV.

This is even funnier. If they had done this much, much earlier they would probably be in much better shape. The fact that they're doing it now indicates that this is the case.

Again, I cannot stress how funny it is that at some point in some meeting, somebody pitched something akin to "You know what people don't care about/hate? Choice." and that flew. It's like something from a Christopher Guest movie.
Losing your data.

JK, sort of.

My first go to is something like RDS, but I’ve run Postgres in k8s for pretty much one use case: everything else is already in k8s _and_ I need a PG extension/functionality not present in RDS.
No, only patronizing to black people and dismissive of white people less fortunate than you.
I find it odd that there is no mention in parent article or in any comments that Reddit is a subsidiary of the Condé Nast media empire. Their ultimate profit goal doesn't align with users and relies on algos and top-down intervention to generate cash and clicks.

Partisanship doesn't contribute to this aim, so, how is their killing a discussion board newsworthy or surprising to anyone?
Company Builds Hyper-Realistic Artificial Dolphins to Replace Captive Animals
Transferred to Apple more than the user.
The evidence is in: HN hates the paradox of tolerance and loves the idea of having its cake and eating it, too. I'm not surprised, but I'm slightly surprised that you're surprised.

> "Tolerance" is kind of a weasel word anyway, essentially giving carte blanche to the one that invokes the paradox.

How so? Demonstrating that a principle makes for a poor foundation has little bearing on its ultimate validity.
What are the problems with Big Tech?
The naming style wasn't great, but you get used to it, like anything else. The architecture itself was beautiful; rather than trying to build a single monolithic application, the developers built a federated suite of applications that all shared a common architecture. This made it possible for the developers to treat each Phabricator component as a separate project and also allowed Phabricator administrators to set up a la carte configurations according to the organization's specific needs.
For most other languages the package ecosystem is a competitive advantage; Perl had CPAN; Python famously comes with batteries included, but is used where its batteries don’t matter (numpy and friends, django); rubyists will go on about their gems for as long as you care to listen. JS is the only ecosystem I know of where the libraries are something that scares people away from the language. My own opinion is that npm is not state-of-the-art, and there is a culture problem (starting with wrapping single statements in a library — leftpad is most famous, but wrapping a single regex in its own, incompatible wrapper seems to be an accepted way to do things, too). The culture problem may be unsolvable.
A thousand dollars is 1/12 of the average Chinese annual salary

That's why they buy 99$ phones

You're comparing a few millions people living in SV with billions of people making less than 10 dollars a day and assuming that they have the same PPA and that they represent the entirety of the World's user opinions and/or will
Next 48hrs could determine the fate of two of America's largest newspaper chains
Real world vs. Ideal UX process. What I learned at work. [video]
They are state governors, but did the state have a majority that wasn't either of the two main parties? That's the point. In India, in this particular instance, majority of the population were sick of the political parties in the country, there were protests and then this person created an entire new party and this party went to get elected in the capital state. I think that's the what democracy should allow you to do.
I generally work with smaller companies, but early on (Kubernetes 1.4 ish) I found that hosting mission-critical stateful services inside Kubernetes was more trouble than it was worth. I now run stand-alone Postgres instances in which each service has its own DB. I’ve found this very reliable.

That being said, I think Kubernetes now has much better support for this kind of thing. But given my method has been so stable, I just keep on going with it.
I don't understand, can you clarify?
I'm surprised that makes the jump from employment/labor law to speech/politics policies.

Strawman: If I were a politician campaigning and were to say something like, "Veterans do not deserve benefits and I don't think we should fund veteran benefits" or "Veterans do not deserve our blind respect", am I now discriminating and will get banned from the platform?
I recently read "How to Read a Book", the grand encouraging of pencil marking and personalizing books (especially expositions), and have come out on the other side wondering how giving books to friends will ever work moving forward. I just have to fork down more money to the publishers to share great thoughts and gift them.
Not advertiser friendly.
Lucky you! I've run into lot of these apps offering only FB/Google sign in. Or offering mobile number only login.
For e.g. I like playing scrabble and Scrabble Go only support FB login so I'm playing only as Guest user for months now.

Mobile number login is even worse! Why do I need to share my mobile number for something where you don't need to have it!
(late reply) Hm you've negelected to do the obvious thing and explain the difference.

I don't think there's a difference, and if there is one, it's probably not relevant to programming. Whereas the one I'm highlighting is relevant to programming.
> Ok, but what's your point in bringing that up here?

To foster solidarity amongst the working class.
That's awesome. Thank you!
Thanks a lot.

I think if that's what people mean they should just say nazi.

Most of us (and I am definitely in that group) can agree on disliking/hating nazis.

In my opinion there's no reason to mix skin color or religion into this.

Again, thanks. Certain American cultural norms aren't obvious to me.
Context matters. You analogy isn't applicable because it removes the context for these response. The boycott of Facebook didn't hit critical mass until the end of last week. These companies are taking preemptive action so they don't receive a similar boycott. That is an explanation that doesn't require coordination.
(late reply) Right that's what I'm saying. Who said it was pedantic? :)
Well, given that Communism was outlawed in the US [0], it seems sensible that the membership numbers would decline. Do you think it is sound policy to outlaw ideologies? I don't think that making something illegal is akin to deplatforming.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954
Nucleoside analogs are notorious for breeding resistance, which is why they should ideally be used in combo with other drugs.
For my last two companies (both B2B), I implemented login via Google accounts only. Google login has a number of advantages:

1) Identity is an email address. If I wanted to rip out Google, or Google kicked me off the platform, all I need to do is add passwords and put a "forgot my password" link and my customers continue business as usual.

2) It's not a google-specific email address. You can create Google accounts for any email address.

3) Google login effectively lets other businesses federate their auth system with ours. When they terminate their ex-employee's @example.com account, the employee loses access to their resources at my company.

I don't think you could get away with this for a consumer company; too many people have strong feelings about FB/G/Apple/whatever. But it's fantastic for B2B.
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Yeah... Unilever and Verizon -- among many others -- boycotting ad buys on Facebook have zero impact. Keep on believing that.

How about a couple links that just showed up under "newest" here on HN: Ford, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and other brands are boycotting ad buys on Facebook right now:

https://www.axios.com/scoop-microsoft-has-been-pausing-spend...

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/3182/why-...
What graphical library did he use to implement Minecraft? Or did he roll his own?
It seems like in modern lexicon, Fail means "didn't live up to it's hype."

Whereas success means "exceeded expectations."

Even if an objective measure (revenue, users etc...) is higher for the "failure" than the "success."
Regarding most of this: I think this is why they built (bought?) Memberful.
CalTopo[0] doesn't support email+password. It's one of the few websites I use that doesn't support it, but an unfortunate number of mobile apps don't either.

[0]: https://caltopo.com/map.html
Microsoft has been pausing spending on Facebook, Instagram
Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands
The White House and the Pauline Kael Syndrome. Short version: In 1973, all six major US class segments were centrist. Over the next 35 years, five of the segments moved slightly to the right, but "Intellectual Upper Class" moved far out to the left.

https://www.aei.org/publication/the-white-house-and-the-paul...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160221064932/http://heterodoxa...

The essay below makes an outstanding point about polarization.
The thesis is that the Western Right's outgroup is people who aren't Westerners. BUT the Western Left's outgroup is the Right. It's the best explanation I've ever heard at this link. A bit long but worth reading every word because it answers SO many questions.

http://archive.is/QRJ6m

[links fixed, I need that extension that auto-archives your bookmarks]
He has a concept playbook [1]. His MO is to tie current events back into the concept playbook. If you haven't been following along for a period of years, it is easy to get lost.

[1] https://stratechery.com/concepts/
Anyone who believes that conservatism is “a very different politics” from any of these ideologies is either full of shit or completely ignorant. Conservatives like to pretend they don’t know what the “conserve” in “conservative” refers to, but the reality is obvious: they want to conserve a status quo that disproportionately favors them, to the exclusion of any demographic that poses a threat to the status quo. It is no wonder at all that conservativism has become a safe haven for racists and fascists.

Edit: look at the absurd amount of censorship taking place in this discussion from the “free-speech advocates”. irony is lost on you lot of geniuses.
What happened is wikipedia turned into a leftist propaganda outlet.
This is the point I'd really like to see some more detail on or discussion on from relevant experts. I'm sure you can build some kind of GNSS with the capabilities of OneWeb satellites, can you build something with similar capabilities to existing GNSS (GPS was original designed in the 70s so was designed with receivers with limited computational capability, with modern capabilities can you build a system that requires lots more satellites for a good fix, where those satellites don't need the same capabilities as a GPS satellite for instance)? If not do you need small tweaks to OneWeb's current platform or a total overhaul to build a GNSS?

I can well believe the UK government has been sold on a thing that can't work, but equally I can see reasons it may be possible to use OneWorld's existing platform for a GNSS service.
Because there are such perverse incentives in Academia that what they do and teach have no relevance to anybody.

eg. There was a major linux conference at the local university.... Full of cutting edge real world OS / HW stuff.

The CS department didn't bother to attend.
Technically speaking you can have single "deno" npm with all those apis and you'd be in pretty much the same place, dependency-wise, no?
> Are you sure about that ? both Putin and Xi would jump to make a deal for future oil exports in exchange for meeting Saudi social / security needs

Xi maybe, but that would be a lot of money for future benefits; I doubt China can afford it.

Putin is aligned with Iran, Saudi’s enemy, and would also be in a lot of trouble in a hypothetical collapse in oil prices. He’d be in no place to help.

Also, the Russian economy is actually kind of small; Italy would actually be better positioned financially to bail out KSA than Russia.

> Americans can’t handle that level of lifestyle change without it being turned into a revolution.

Debatable. But between “My lifetime earnings have been halved” and “I can’t get food tomorrow”, I’ll tell you which one will trigger a revolution faster.
> According to academia, this is correct: racism only exists in the context of class based oppression.

Which is silly on its face. If two opposing races that hated each other held equal power, they might not be able to get the upper hand on the other, but they still hate each other solely on the basis of race. Is this the "non-racist" utopia they're after?
Please try to avoid attacking the messengers instead of debating the message. It's that kind of behaviour that led to Remain losing the referendum.

Where's the corresponding one mocking UK public and foreign policy spending

On the same website! The TPA exists to mock wasteful government spending and inefficiency regulation in the UK, that's its entire purpose. On their website right now there are only UK specific campaigns, like one to abolish the license fee, or this one on wasteful local government spending:

https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/city_hall_rich_list_2020

The "tax payers alliance" is one, murkily-funded, extremely partisan guy.

The TPA lists 21 people on its team page, it's not one guy.

At any rate, you didn't respond to the substance of my post. The EU wastes a lot of money on projects that don't help the people who pay for them. Its attempted defences of this practice are very weak. This sort of thing combined with shoot-the-messenger responses like yours create euroskepticism. That's the key point.
> The next browser we tried, Otter, did a better job with Ars—but Otter failed to render video in either YouTube or Vimeo.

That's a smidge surprising, since Otter on Haiku x86-64 (on my laptop) does indeed render at least YouTube videos fine (I'm playing "Pamela" by Toto on it right now), albeit not as performantly as I'd have hoped (long time to load, and some stuttering at the start of every video).
But it won‘t.
I'm right there with you. I hope the people with this option realize how lucky they are.
There are a lot of startups which make you question your sanity, but they end up working out because your initial assumptions or understanding of the market are completely wrong. I've been caught enough times over the years to give the benefit of the doubt to new companies.

That said, this is not one of those times.

Quibi's business model as it stands now is batshit insane. The fact that it hasn't taken off has given me a deep sense of relief that the guy in the mirror is not the one who is barking mad.

Personally, my guess is that it's some sort of Russian oligarch money laundering scheme. Or something akin to a modern day equivalent of The Producers where they make money from total failure.
This has nothing to do with Silicon Valley.
> I then said many prominent people such as [American politicians who stand to benefit from people supporting certain foreign policy positions] said this theory is credible.

Maybe that's the potential weakness in your reasoning she was trying to pick up on.

> She got very emotional and burst into tears at the accussation. I then explained the association fallacy,

I hope you also apologized.

Apart from that, I think your observation is mostly correct.
Ask HN: Does reddit now allow hate speech against certain groups?
It was my assumption that hate speech was banned on Reddit, as it is on Facebook and Twitter. (Let me add that I am a European and almost everyone in Europe are used to concrete and hardline boundaries when it comes to hate speech - this isn't a question about free speech - its about the blurring of the boundaries)

There has been a recent policy change:

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or

"While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate. "

There are still existing policies against promotion of violence however. There are also existing policies against harassment and bullying. These all still apply.

Does this mean that before the change, hate against any group was bannable, but today it means that it's not bannable if its against certain groups? Before was there no rule against hate speech?

For example "punch a nazi" would not be hate speech as the nazi's promote hate but it might come under the violence rule. But "you should hate white people" would not be classed as hate speech now, nor violence, nor really would it be harassment or bullying. Before it would have been bannable I think? It would be classed as hate speech on Facebook.