skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat map!

Some usability issues -- if one border is entirely within another border, e.g. near Seattle, I couldn't figure out how to click it. Also, I wish the map was larger without fullscreening.

Edit: The title also seems to be not quite right, as the map covers more than North America.
> Freedom of speech protects you from people who attempt to silence you by jailing, torturing, or killing you. It doesn't mean people are forced to put up with your stupid and unpopular opinions.

You (like many) misunderstand the debate. "Free speech" proponents aren't advocating for a prohibition of criticism--to the contrary, criticism is free speech. Rather, free speech proponents are arguing against intimidation (e.g., harassment, doxxing, petitioning one's employer to fire them for wrongthink or false allegations, etc).

Anyway, you concede that things have improved in the past, but you criticize people for opposing regression to a more limited-speech state. This seems remarkably overtly inconsistent.

EDIT: This is cancel culture: https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/128148065056698777...
Somehow I doubt the Russians, English, Spanish, French etc that arrived in the Americas landed on a Westphalian continent. I think maps like this give the wrong impression.

Wabanaki (among others) invited French colonists to settle Quebec in part to check (and perhaps attack) the Mohawk, among other conflicts. ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Wars

I think it is almost universally agreed that the French treated the natives better and more collaboratively than the English, who took a different tone. It's somewhat a shame that the English won that balance of power so early. I wonder how it would be different today if Canada was still New France.
What's the security/privacy vulnerability that would allow TikTok access to sensitive info from email?
Or so you thought at the time.
Please try to make high quality comments on Hacker News. Here are the public guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There are plenty of high quality, _critical_ comments and discussion to be made on this submission and broader subject - why eschew that in favor of flamebait?

edit: You've since edited your comment, but I still think it could be substantially improved if you want an interesting (and provoking!) discussion.
If Uber drivers become employees, I'd expect Uber would have them work fixed schedules rather than have free working hours.

They try to incentivize drivers to work during off-hours, but can't specify shifts and have their workers remain classified as ICs.

This would make Uber less useful for the workers that want to dip in for an hour or two.

Net utility from the change might still be positive as I suspect these days most drivers work something closer to full-time / shifts, but I'd want to see more data on this.
On your third point, I want to reiterate something I've said before: Nazi's aren't stupid. They take advantage of people who want unrestricuted free speech without consequences and use it as a recruiting tool to radicalize more nazis. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722215)

Kicking them off of a site raises the threshold for someone to be exposed to radicalizing factors. We have evidence that this is actually, really, effective at reducing rates of radicalization.
> > LibreOffice is far better compatible with MSO

> Why do you say that? I trialed both of them with an array of complex Word documents and OnlyOffice far outperformed.

Not in my experience. OnlyOffice often failed to render simple documents LibreOffice had no problems with at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910702

I watched the entire talk and found it disappointing that the speaker just kind of buckets programming languages into different psychoanalytic vocab words based on their pop culture stereotypes.

Hacker News ate it up because that talk demonstrates the exact neurotic compulsion to organize, classify, "understand," and kill, that the tech industry breeds.
How the brain grows and develops in humans is not very well understood. We mostly use animal models to understand the nervous system, not humans. As an example of why this is problematic: mouse embryos pretty much turn inside out at day 3, and are the only known mammal to do this. All others, including humans, don't. Why and how are unknown, as are the effects on long term development. Basically, mice are better subjects than zebrafish, but not very good being humans.

The limiting factor is not budget or time, but 'stomach'. How elastic are your ethics?
I would not feel unsafe around someone who voted for Trump, though I might question their morals.

I would not feel unsafe around someone who voted for Hillary, though I might question their judgment.

I would feel unsafe around someone whose political views were that you should be fired if you voted for Trump. (I would also feel unsafe around someone whose political views were that you should be fired if you voted for Hillary. However, such people are few, and they currently have no traction with the HR department.)
Sex is the bargaining chip of one of the sexes. Its availability - even virtual, lowers the value of that bargaining chip. Thus endless moral stampedes to curb the devaluation.
> You need to have a 2FA authenticated connection or be on a 2FA authenticated device within validity period to change 2FA settings. You can elect to have 2FA not remember the device you have logged into as well (ie, the remember this device for 30 days option) if you are particularly paranoid.

To change security-related settings, it's default practice to double-check even the user's password without 2fa.

> This is a fantastic balance in terms of security and usability.

Sorry, that's plain apologetic bullshit. How often do you enable and disable 2fa? This has nothing to do with usability.
My dad worked in construction, and from the late 80's and throughout all of the 90's his company kept offering him a company phone (I think car-phone first).

He never got one, because as he said, if they have your number they'll call you, if they don't then they'll solve their own problem. Looking back on it now, it was prescient advice.
I agree on Thomas, hence the "to a fault" part in parens.
Interesting idea. I wonder if instead of requiring oxygen to hand off electrons to during respiration we could substitute a simpler system by dumping the excess charge via a wire? Anyone with domain expertise care to comment on whether this is possible?
Do you have a source with that? Based off of the majority of my family members it seems like that would be the opposite. I wouldn't be surprised that there's a correlation between tech-savvy individuals and those who cancel straight to subscription trials right away.
Kind of odd that they don't compare themselves to Blender and its successful foundation in the article, not even mentioned once.
Oh geez, it's been at least a decade since I did a MBTI, but probably you are right on the money.

I've thought about it because I honestly considered running for POTUS, but even that is because I consider my oath the the constitution still valid even though I've been out of the military for a long time, though I'm still recovering my brain.
Can you explain further? I don’t see how you reach your conclusion from your premise. Or, how you reach your premise at all.
Apparently not, OP followed up.
> 'With all respect, you seem to be retreating here.'

Nothing I said in my last post with inconsistent with the letter or spirit of my foregoing posts.

I didn't set out any 'remedies'. You asked me about about two relatively narrow issues. As I have repeated, I take 'cancel culture' to be, in the first instance, a cultural problem. The fundamental remedy is, therefore, cultural. Abolishing Twitter would help, though I don't see that happening.

If you don't know what I'm arguing against, return to my first post.

> 'And the Rowling thing seems like a complete misinterpretation on your part.'

You seem to be implying someone can only be negatively affected by cancel culture when: (i) their lives are destroyed; (ii) everyone who engages with them is participating in cancel culture. Why?

Obviously not everyone who engaged with Rowling disagreed, and not everyone who disagreed exhibited the pathologies that I attributed to cancel culture. But there was a very large -certainly the majority of voices on Twitter - contingent of people who didn't engage with Rowling's arguments, had no interest in persuading Rowling or those who sympathised with her, castigated her as evil and hateful, and called for a boycott of her books, and on authors writing for her publishing house to terminate their contracts.

'In any way that matters'. Rowling's entire profile has been shaped by the debate. This will define her life and career, and how she is remembered for the rest of history. Of course, she is a billionaire, and lives comfortably. But the point is that this is merely one (prominent) case representative of the very tendencies you deny exist.

The consequences are the degradation of the conversation in the public sphere, and of the willingness and ability of people to debate and think for themselves. Given that I share many of the broad goals of 'cancel culture' - i.e. curbing prejudicial and exclusionary discourses - I also worry that this kind of toxic approach will preclude the coalition-building and persuasion necessary to long-term hegemonic change. It also creates an avoidable blowback, i.e. most people feel condescended to, others take up the same style of politics on the right.

Read the Atlantic piece linked to above - there are many less prominent cases of individuals have been 'cancelled', often with little cause. I see this happening every time I log on to Twitter, in all directions.
but amazon doesn't care about its employees in that context, only about protecting their own company standing. (and many people will say here "why shouldn't they?!")
Good point! I had forgotten about this.

kinlan is referring to this web API[0], which allows a PWA to store data persistently.

[0]: https://web.dev/persistent-storage/
Thanks for all the info. We are thinking of home schooling over the virtual learning for my 5 year old son. It sucks to think of skipping kindergarten, but this zoom environment is not conducive to kids, at all. Way to much overhead for parents as well. I could easily get my kid up to speed and well past the learning goals stated on my local school's web site.
There's currently 993 font families on Google Fonts from a very wide variety of open license amenable font foundries, in a wide variety of styles (at least for latin scripts). Are you implying it is uncreative to sift through such a large gallery of possible fonts and find ones that speak to you or your project? Or are you implying it uncreative to use open licensed fonts and people should pay for their fonts, perhaps confusing creativity with capitalism? Or are you simply making some sort of stand that to truly create something like an apple pie, first you must create the universe and thus real creatives make all their fonts from scratch one kern at a time?

Google Fonts has problems like privacy concerns definitely, but it seems to facilitate a lot of creativity in web page design that otherwise would seem impossible. (Self-hosting fonts is not fun, and that's assuming you are capable of handling the complex slalom of font licenses, web-capable font licenses, font to webfont conversion tools, etc. There are more options beyond Google Fonts, including for commercial fonts, but Google Fonts is still the most accessible for the wild, free/open source creative parts of the web on low or no budget, the parts most like the 90s web.)
If I am a salaried employee, no matter how much time I work, over 40 hours a week, it would not earn me more money.

The only reason that I would work around 40 hours a week instead of slacking off is because ethically, that’s what I agreed to do.

Most people aren’t in a position where they could put in every waking hour into pursuits that generate money.

What percentage of people that post on HN are working hourly billable jobs?
One can counter these challenges when facilitating a group session by including separating diverge and converge phases. Give people time to work individually without influence by the group before sharing and combining the best perspectives of the whole group.

Often when a brainstorm session is run in a way where everyone's work is immediately visible to everone else people get anchored early and miss out on good ideas.

This could be as simple as everyone spending a few mins jotting down their ideas separately before sharing them in a group chat, or on a whiteboard.
A better programming language than Javascript, and a better CSS. CSS is not intuitive IMO.
Is schizoanalysis an absurd derivative of psychoanalysis or a rejection of it?
That is a poor man's REPL.

- No graphical display

- No support for displaying interactive structure data (Lisp Machines REPL/commercial Common Lisp/modern notebooks)

- No debug-break, fix, redo workflow

- No partial selection of command statements and "Do this"

- No interactivity with running graphical applications and scripting them (via COM, DLLs, OS IPC)
> That's not what the Cloud industry is about, it's about speed and time to market.

Not sure how that's even an argument? Istio already was the de-facto standard, it is already in the market right now. Nothing prevented them from submitting to the CNCF - even if the acceptance would have taken a while. This wouldn't have suddenly stopped adoption or development in any way? It would only have enforced the view that the project was committed to stay vendor-neutral. Now, at least in my eyes, they've shown exactly the opposite.

> For a non profit that doesn't hire the core developers

Not sure why an organization formed to allow multiple vendors to work together on the same tools and play neutral party there would need developers. That would make them a stakeholder, something you want to avoid. They do have staff though[1], which also costs a lot of money, and organizing events isn't free.

[1] https://www.cncf.io/people/staff/
Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, you may also be interested in the Persistent Storage APIs: https://web.dev/persistent-storage/
You missed the nuance of GP. If senators represent states, they should not be given the power to create laws about people, but instead only about the interactions between states, leaving laws about people up to the House.

This would make the Senate more akin to the Supreme Court, though empowered to craft legislation instead of just rule on existing issues.
Do you have any evidence of this claim besides press-releases from the US government?
Oh no, this one came from I think the win98 era. I read about it in some (paper!) computer magazines, I had no or barely internet at the time. SDDs had not yet been invented.

Once one vendor decided to screw us, the others had no choice. It was trivial for benchmarks to work around it, too: Just send more data so the cache becomes irrelevant. The whole episode took a few months at most.

I dont remember if they flat-out ignored the flush, or started a flush but didn't wait for completion.
Yep, in addition to increasing corporate taxes to 28%, Biden's plan is to ensure that corporations will pay at least a minimum tax, regardless of all the deductions they can avail.

https://in.news.yahoo.com/joe-bidens-tax-plan-may-wallop-the...
The third option - accessing only browser sites - is under appreciated. I never needed to install Google's MDM on my mobile devices, I just used mobile web gmail and so forth. It's great, honestly, and the mobile web Calendar has the advantage that it doesn't destroy your battery life like the Calendar app will.

I even saw a guy using the code review site on his mobile, on BART. That was dumb from the standpoint of infosec, usability, and mental health, but shows how much is possible in the browser.
China is just US public enemy #1 because it's a geopolitical and economic threat. The US doesn't want to export data to them for free. It's funny America sometimes gives China flak for banning Google/FB/etc because they wanted to control their data (on top of national security stuff but I think the data is just important). And now the US is doing the same.
But they also have a history of original programming that dates back to the early 90s (and earlier). They've had time to perfect those ripples.
YouTube is now letting creators know how they’re earning thanks to 'RPM'
"Jew bankers" is a nasty slur. But is it a slur because It's unfair to Jews to call bankers Jews, or to call Jews bankers, or unfair to bankers to call bankers Jews, or to call Jews bankers?

If you attack a person or a race by accusing them of misbehaviors, that doesn't mean it's wrong to oppese misbehaviors!
There are absolutely people who I would feel unsafe around because of their political views!

But politics is the process whereby we negotiate our competing beliefs and interests in a society. I can make an effort to silence the folks who make me feel unsafe, but that doesn't make those people go away. Even if they no longer work at my company, they still have a vote. Acting to assuage your immediate concerns without consideration for the long impact on the political discourse is foolish.

Let's also remember that "unsafe" and "uncomfortable" are not the same thing. Unless that person is actually posing a threat to me through harassment or violence, I would much rather engage with them in a civil manner.
Why though? How is there any benefit to using a VPN with TOR? Especially when it’s obvious that there’s a lot of risk involved.
No, they are controlling the environment under which their company emails can be accessed.

If you, as an employee, don't want to remove TikTok I believe you will have that right, it's just that you won't be able to access company emails from that device.

Now, whether or not that leads to a company phone or you having to look for another job, depends on the individual and how important that individual is to the company.
It's not just the user's choice to make. They are not risking just themselves, they're risking all the other users that could be harmed by the compromise of their account. The bitcoin scam videos posted on YouTube, the fake Facebook likes, the spam sent to random Xbox accounts, the fraudulent credit card charges done on in-app purchases in an attacker-controlled app that get charged back, the Mugged in London scams sent to their email contacts, etc.

What you're saying is basically "if I don't wear a mask during a pandemic, I accept the risks of catching the virus". No. You are opting an indefinite number of other people into transitively catching the virus despite not accepting that risk.
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I'm expecting my first child in October.

You best believe I just bookmarked your site. I can't wait to show my wife
There's also no requirement to have your business email on your phone, at least in my organization in Amazon. I'm happy to leave it off and not worry about any issues like this.

Of course I do have other apps directly related to work... I guess those aren't an issue if I had TikTok?
With all the security implications there could be, I would just refuse to use or own a smartphone in any capacity if it's related to work, unless there was no camera, mic, or GPS sensor (or they could provide hardware switches).

Seriously, they could be logging your exact location, remotely activating the camera or doing any number of disgusting things.

Requiring the use of a spy should not be a factor in an employment setting, of course we're seeing this is the case and it is very offputting.

Thankfully not something I need to worry about though.
Clipboard access.
Agree to disagree I guess. Throw out the helping the world part. Your definition of gambling just seems off.

By your definition, pretty much anything would be considered gambling? A generic savings account might return less than inflation and you get nothing else for it. A checking account earns 0% and you get nothing else. Is that gambling?
Or they didn't want their writing to draw attention to their identiies, which is key in the public-shaming debate.
I'm not replying to Sam36 here, but to anyone who read this post: please don't read Sam36's implication that Muslims are to blame for US-style chattel slavery (and the ensuing 400 years of oppression) and blithely believe it to be true.

In fact, reading pretty much any scholarly treatment of US slavery (outside of the "Lost Cause" school of thought) should give you an idea of the unfathomable scope of the millions of lives ruined over centuries. It's kind of sickening to see that glossed over as "tried to treat these people as some kind of property" in a hurry to make a point about the current controversy about removing monuments to treason.
Those assets are, in large part, the church buildings themselves. They are not liquid assets. Indeed, they are even more illiquid than most other real estate, because the market for church buildings, all of which are constructed to meet the needs and functions of a particular faith, is quite limited.

A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that the Catholic Church has vast piles of money sitting around in a Scrooge McDuck-style money bin. Whereas if you look at the balance sheets of your average Catholic parish or diocese, you'll see that their budgets are relatively modest, they sometimes operate in the red, and to the extent that they have liquid assets, they're generally set aside to fulfill pension obligations.

Even at the Vatican level, the annual operating budget is roughly equivalent to a mid-sized U.S. city, and expenses tend to be fairly close to income. The art in its museums is often mistakenly viewed as if it could be sold off like gold or diamonds, but the Vatican actually acts more as a conservator than an owner of the pieces. It does not consider itself at liberty to sell the art, because it was entrusted to the Vatican's care under the expectation that it would be perpetually maintained. In that sense, the art truly is priceless; it can't be sold.
> It can't possibly work if people with unpopular opinions are are cancelled (i.e. blacklisted, fired, castigated, sanctioned)

What would it mean for JK Rowling to be cancelled? Legitimately an honest question: she's a billionaire backed by a media empire. What do you think would have to happen before she could be considered "cancelled"?
You have incorrectly framed the issue. The fact is that China has been anti-US and anti-democracy for the past few decades and the world is finally coming to terms with that and defending themselves. It is both laughable and sad that so many Americans like yourself are so ill-informed and quick to jump on the "US bad" train.
The major reason is going to be software support (e.g. MDM, endpoint protection, etc). Having a deal / set procurement process seems like a pretty real operational constraint to me. At the end of the day, it's going to cost them tens of thousands of dollars to support 1 Linux machine. If you were on the other side of the table, does that seem worth it when most folks are happy to take the machines you already offer?
Does Samsung have to follow Apple in everything they do? It's as if they don't have a creative bone in their Seoul.
Contacts at least, as the lowest-hanging fruit.
Actually only one of them was a Google engineer. The other guy was an analyst at Chegg. But you’re right. The platform doesn’t seem that...special. But credit to them, they’ve done well advertising the platform and building networks.