skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are only millionaires your candidates for who people who could be powerless in this situation instead of the vast majority of the non-millionaire population?

I don't believe that's who Paul is advocating for, that's precisely the point. This piece by Osita Nwanevu is quite good on this point: https://newrepublic.com/article/158346/willful-blindness-rea....

> As for JK Rowling's essay, it's one of those things everyone should read for themselves. The vast majority of people reading it will not come to the conclusion that Rowling is anti-trans, and they probably agree with her.

That's the exact purpose of the language she uses. Morality is not as simple as gentle and convincing rhetoric, designed to play on the fears and sympathy of people who know nothing about trans people. The rhetoric that China uses to describe the Uighur population to the rest of the Chinese populace is quite similar.

> I'm not a fan of the "dogwhistle" accusation fad. I just see it as a fashionable way to accuse someone of saying something that they didn't say. Like people claiming the Harper letter is clearly anti-trans when the only "trans" in it is "transgression".

There's quite an extensive field of research into dogwhistle politics. Not reading into it doesn't mean it isn't real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics.

The claims that the letter itself is transphobic are people over-reacting and over-extrapolating. But what precisely do you think Rowling signed the letter in service of?
How to Parse Ruby (2013)
A Bit of Friday Fun – Perceptions of Reality [YouTube 8m51]
This is a terrible idea. Anonymity online encourages people to be highly inflammatory, and in the US, this has led to a massive cultural divide (not the only cause, though).

Human social pattens and behaviors have led humans to correct bad social behavior through a mechanism based on reputation. If you say/do terrible things (what the group disagrees with), your reputation suffers, which discourages saying/doing those things. However, with anonymity, we become victim to the dopamine feedback loops available in online patterns. In the case of anonymous blogs, the stronger signal will be traffic on the blog, regardless of why that traffic is there. Unfortunately, saying inflammatory (prejudiced) things will generate traffic. Othering will generate traffic. Being reasonable and nuanced with drive traffic away in an online environment that provides dopamine hits for much less effort than understanding a complex topic.

This means online anonymity for the masses is largely a bad thing for society as a whole, which is evident with a cursory glance at the anonymous parts of the internet (4chan, for example). It's also evident in less anonymous, but still anonymous places like Reddit, which sees nearly as much trolling as 4chan, but reputation is part of the Reddit system, and Hacker News system as well (just the reputation of your account instead of your real identity).

I should qualify my opinion here: I don't think anonymity is always bad, but in aggregate online, I think it's causing more damage to our society than good. People in a functional society need to be help accountable to the society for their actions, and anonymity removes that social accountability.
For what it's worth, I am an adult that spent way too much time playing video games as a kid. Like, I started around the age of 5 and consistently played hours and hours every day. I think for the most part it's not too adversely affected my life (besides some remedial catch-up on social skills in college) and I think I even learned some pretty good lessons from them. I would encourage your kid to be an active gamer (i.e. teach him how to add to a games content or lore, or even become a 'script kiddie' as they used to be called.) That said, video games are just like any other hobby with the added benefit of hand eye coordination.
I agree, I haven't read the article yet, but I will say, brainstorming in my experience is actually a form of entertainment.

There is nothing more rewarding to me having worked in IT than being able to collaborate with others.

This is not about getting a project done, or building.

This is more about looking back on the course of my career and realizing the only important things are the fellowships gained throughout, otherwise, its all just IT shit, at the end of the day, anyway.
This is just a bit of light-hearted fun for a Friday with absolutely 0% science behind it - but it does illustrate how two different people can see exactly the same issue/problem in very different ways. Try it out at home amongst friends (or here) and compare what you saw with what others saw.

I was surprised at the variances in people I tried it with and, since it’s a Friday – Why not?
Last time I was on the job market, I wrote a little CLI tool that given data in yaml format, spits out a pixel perfect pdf resume. It took me 2 hours and about 200 combined lines of Python, HTML and CSS.

While I wish the author the best of luck, I’m not sure resume builders for developers are a hot market.
I have a huge randomly flowing mane that can only be curbed with hats (short - a cap, or long - a soft beanie). I've worn them for more than 20 years.
The above is correct. Facebook wants you to use the SDK.
Boolean circuits are memoryless, and a strictly weaker class of computation than Turing machines.
I have a porn addiction since I was 14, not really fine.
>Uber and the like claim the workers choose when to work, how much, whether to accept gigs etc. But this is part of the problem: offering gigs at a set rate as take it or leave it is insufficient control. A real contractor would be able to negotiate and adjust this rate.

Isn't it already built into the system though? If no one drives, surge pricing goes up until someone accepts the ride.

Honestly I see no way individual workers setting the price wouldn't lead to lower prices than you see now. Drivers would have the option to either sit and make 0 money or cut their rate by 10 cents and make some money. The way Uber sets prices pretty much mandates a minimum. If the minimum doesn't cover your maintenance costs, you shouldn't be driving for Uber.
How do you make this leap?
How valuable is the “making your team feel good” result mentioned at the end of the article? I think good team cohesion and understanding are valuable outcomes of brainstorms that can be overlooked.

In my experience at an advertising agency “Making people feel good” was the best result of brainstorming, but certainly not the only one. Everyone had a chance to voice their ideas and offer feedback on other ideas. In the end the ideas usually ended up coming from the people who were great at making ideas, and the tactical executions of those ideas came from the people who were good at making ideas come to life, and sometimes they combined to make an even better idea and execution.

As a creative leader I also required each person involved in the brainstorm to do individual work beforehand. Perhaps this is why we saw good results.

Either way, measuring brainstorming success by number of ideas or some other measure of “creativity” is likely missing out on the social benefits of the process.
“ Your first topic will be free of cost.“ This doesn’t sound like the project is fundamentally committed to open source.
Reuters used to have a short form news update at https://reuters.tv but it seems like they shut it down earlier this year.
I agree with this. I detest cancel culture, but downvoting isn't cancel culture. Cancel culture is about fostering a climate of fear that chills speech (specifically fear of harassment a la a concerted effort to petition one's employer to have one terminated). Downvoting is an expression of disagreement at worst, and it's perfectly consistent with free expression ideals.

EDIT: This is cancel culture: https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/128148065056698777...
Not the original commenter, but what I'm taking from it is that the notion of land ownership was/is foreign to indigenous people. Given that, using the term native land can be misrepresenting native history. I'm not sure what the alternative verbiage would be to describe an area has inhabited by an indigenous tribe. Urban Native Era, a pretty large Native movement/brand, holds the slogan "You Are On Native Land" and I believe they are holding themselves to a pretty high standard of racial sensitivity.
You are wrong to think that. I wish I could name the companies.
> This article seems more focused on situations in which you are concerned about government action, but I think here in the West we've found that "cancel culture" and the like is more insidious and far-reaching in its own way.

"While the torture and indoctrination in the secret prisons is bad, let us also have a moment of silence for my tweet that was unfairly ratioed. And yes, it's very sad that your aunt was publicly lashed for protesting in favor of letting women have driver's licenses. But is not also sad that MY uncle lost his job because he was a member of a few measly neo-Nazi facebook groups?"

Anyway I am sorry that I am CENSORING your views (by publicly disagreeing with them) and CANCELLING you (by being flippant). You can probably say that I am "not attempting a rational dialogue" with you.
I'd like to see this article come 6 months from now with $1000 or $10,000 in revenue. $10 is great (especially after 2 years of lessons hard learned) but I wouldn't say $10 is a signal of easier or better things to come.

The next couple of milestones will likely be just as hard to hit if not harder. For your sake, I hope it is mostly hard work and not more pivots or learning.

Coming from someone that can appreciate every step of those past couple years for you and your brother. My brother and I similarly left salaried engineering jobs for the startup unknown. All the best!
It looks to me less like rediscovering orchards, and more mixing them in with livestock/other crops in a beneficial manner.
Decision Theory
> They do mention LibreOffice Online

And it says there is revenue there, correct? Maybe that's why it isn't expanded.
Besides alternatives like WSL 2, someone can also produce a winget[1] package.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-m...
Electroactive bacteria?
That means 30 years of work + maintaining the results indefinitely afterwards to offset 1 year worth of emissions?
Pentagon AI center shifts focus to joint war-fighting operations
Yeah, it would be good to fix this early (even if it means maybe fixing the copy on the front page to not trigger these automated scrapers). I was confused as to why my company would block a financial site and was wondering if you purchased the domain from a previous service that was gambling related.
Because their GDP is growing and at the current pace they will pass the USA around 2025. That's why the USA cares now.

Left unchecked, China will soon be the biggest economy in the world. The USA doesn't want that.
GNUnet 0.13.0 Released with a New Protocol Version
Show HN: My Blazor code/running web app of Jamis Buck's “Mazes for Programmers”
Part of me thinks that MDM on employee phones has become a something of a checkbox item because customers ask for it but it's not clear to what extent it really protects sensitive customer data (which is what they're concerned about).
There is huge demand for easy to get unstable jobs, lots of people want these. Not having them removes options from people, they aren't worse than other jobs just different.
> China is a geopolitical rival. We should probably aspire to be better than them first rather than copy them with an internet firewall and censorship of our own.

You fail to realize that allowing these apps will allow a foreign adversary to siphon data and act as a platform for spying. China has already demonstrated that their technology is not to be trusted.

> One of the challenges of doing that nowadays is we have a president who thinks cultural genocide of Uighur muslims is 'absolutely the right thing to do' and that Tienanmen square massacre was also the right thing to do.

Fake news much? See the 2020 Uyghur Rights Act [1]. I have no idea where you came up with this.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/374...

EDIT: Since I have been blocked from replying, here is my response to your reply:

> This claim originates in John Bolton's book [1]

As you said, it is a claim, and has not been validated. By the way, the bill he signs has sanctioned a high-ranking member of the CCP Politburo among others so it not merely meant as a symbolic win.
Yes, one can counter this by not doing brainstorming (in the narrow sense as defined by Alex Osborn in the 1950s)

The article doesn’t claim there isn’t any way to get creative ideas out of larger groups, it claims that Osborn’s method of doing it isn’t a good one.
> The rumors are the spark that I mentioned. The long-existing anti-semitism is the wood pile that is ready to be set ablaze.

Which arrives at the question, how does anti-semitism propagate through societies? It doesn't spring from nothing. What are the mechanisms that keeps the idea alive? Are all societies susceptible? Someone must be doing the work of keeping that wood pile dry and ready to catch light.
> If we decide that White land is a racist concept, which it is, how can we not apply that same reasoning to everyone else

I think there's a pretty obvious difference between referring to land in historical North America as "Native land" and calling it "White land." And the specific label doesn't matter much, you could say "European land" or "colonized land" and the point remains unchanged.

Your comment seems like the standard appeal to "colorblindness," as if one group of people can invade or otherwise oppress another group, actively set up a vastly unequal distribution of resources and freedoms, and then claim that the only way forward is to deliberately ignore the history and even the existence of the different groups. But of course, to ignore those now is to explicitly support the status quo, and the status quo is still dominated by the historical unequal distribution of resources and freedoms between the groups.
Religion is also a protected class, and that's not unchangeable. Political affiliation is also a protected class in California, and it's certainly possible that it could be made so at the national level.

But in any case, the comment by M2Ys4U was making an argument based on the idea of freedom of association. I'm generally for that freedom, but making an argument from freedom of association without addressing anti-discrimination laws can at least appear opportunistic and cynical (though it may not be).
So the case at hand is about the prosecution of a tribal member by the state court.

While I think the SC made the correct legal decision, I am worried about the implications of this. Do we really want to have separate legal systems based on ethnicity or tribal membership? What if the tribe legalizes marijuana but the state doesn't? What if the punishments in one are more severe than another?

Typically the jurisdiction of crime is based on territory, not ethnicity.

Im not a lawyer and I'm not American, so I could of course be completely misunderstanding what the implications are.
It is a very widely accepted notion (among everyone who matters) that ethnostates have no place in the modern world. Hell, it is nearly as universally accepted that the very concept of "ethnicity" is problematic.
So why should it not be applied in these cases? Why do some groups deserve their own land, but others don't? Either we all do or nobody does.
I hope they add more nations at some point. I know of some missing populations in this map.
Yep! Of course, your chances of getting caught are almost nil.
What is your opinion on "The Meritocracy Trap:..." by Daniel Markovits? I was recently told this would be a good reading to question meritocracy, or at least to understand those who do.
i haven’t had work email on my phone in 7 years. it has not impacted my career negatively
I wrote out a graf with an example downthread, I'd copy over, but posting the same thing twice feels a little redundant.
The Problem with Wokeness (2019)
The cancel culture debate is about free speech ideals, not actual laws. Moral rights, not legal rights (these are not the same thing and the latter is not a perfect subset of the former).
It's more complicated than that. They blend traditional food crops with trees, shrubs, etc, often alongside some kind of transition cycle where they'll change what is growing where over time. Sort of a blend of sustainable logging with farming.
I don't know much about entangled particles or objects; that being said, the one thing I keep hearing is that quantum decoherence cannot violate causality or allow communication faster-than-light. Not that you were saying that, but I keep hearing that people think a kind of quantum walkie-talkie or one-time-pad is possible. I honestly don't know either way, as I'm not in this field.

It certainly is interesting, though!

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.22
The irony, coming from a non anonymous blog
With the overwhelming amount of evidence and testimony regarding human rights violations in Xinjiang, burden of proof is on the CCP to disprove.

EDIT: Since HN has blocked me from posting too fast, here is my response to your reply:

> It's so absurd! Not a SINGLE MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRY is against these supposed Xinjiang camps! Why do you think the USA suddenly cares about muslims? Use your brain.

Maybe China has bought their silence? See https://www.businessinsider.com/imran-khan-pakistan-wont-cri.... UN has been bought as well. See all actions by WHO since Covid-19 started.
Pokémon Sprite Decompression Explained (A Graphic Explanation of RLE)
It's absurd to say that slurring "the general attitude of Chinese people" was civil, polite, and on topic. If you say that, I can only imagine that you're not coming into contact with the very large numbers of people who would find such a comment to be the opposite of civil and polite. That's not our situation, and we have to take care of all HN users. Everyone has the right to come here and not see their country or race or ethnic background (or similar groupings they may belong to) put down in that way.

Perhaps you don't feel like this matters, but I can tell you for a fact that people have been hounded off this site by comments of this nature (e.g. China-related slurs), including extremely ugly personal attacks. I don't want to have anything to do with a site where that happens, and I don't believe that the vast majority of this community would either. None of us wants that community. But we can easily end up with it anyway, if we're not careful, because that's how group dynamics work.

Part of the problem here is that the forum feels like an intimate conversation, and in intimate conversation there is more latitude for talking in a grand and speculative way about this stuff, especially if you have high trust from previous interactions. But when you post to HN what you're actually doing is broadcasting to millions of people. Public broadcasting has to have different standards. Imagine what would result if a million people heard the things that you (or I, or any of us) said to your friends, without any mitigating context.
The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil
Apples iOS MDM framework is exemplary in that regard. Access to the camera is not possible. Access to GPS is only possible if the device is marked as lost, which will visibly change the lock screen. Even when lost mode is deactivated, GPS access that happened during lost mode is highly visibly marked on the lock screen.

Installing an app that relays GPS and camera may be possible, but permissions need to be granted by the user explicitly- the MDM server cannot grant those permissions.
The amount and type of porn available now is completely different from what we grew up with, there’s no comparison at all.
It's also potentially tortious interference:

https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/liability-and-insurance/to...
Office suites are a huge piece of the pie so even minority use cases get a decent number of users.
> if you want trans people to seek mental help rather than take hormones and mutilate their healthy bodies, that's seen as anti-trans and automatically considered to be wrong.

Well, no, basically everyone thinks that given the choice between the first without the second or the second without the first, they should do the first, ignoring your emotionally loaded description of the second option you present.

If you think those are the the actual options, though, you are simply factually in error.
OR, mail cash https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/1/29/sending-cash-use-our-n...
Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.

I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!
Can you be more precise by what you mean by lynching?

If I retweet a message that says "X assaulted Y" and X ends up fired later, have I participated in a lynching?
I wasn't trying to direct that at you, personally and I do understand what you're saying. This instinct to discredit the source is literally what's killing the news right now. People gladly swallow outrage porn, but when they see a fact compilation, their first instinct is to evaluate the one who compiled it (who is irrelevant to said facts) instead of engaging with the facts themselves.

Even to the point of missing that it's an honest compilation and includes those killed by police during the protests. But he's the biased one here, right?

Besides, that's a silly shibboleth all told. I voted for Obama and I wouldn't have cared even if he was born in Kenya (he wasn't). McCain was born in Panama and I didn't care about that, either.
It's really wild to me that investors realizing foresting exists and continues to exist because it makes money is a story. I did forestry related club stuff in high school for a program called Envirothon and there's a rich history of silviculture in the US and Europe going back a long ways. IIRC, we actually have more forest in the US today than 100 years ago because of silviculture. Notably, the Vanderbilt's started modern silviculture in the US and introduced all sorts of interesting measurements only relevant to foresters to the US like a chain (66 ft imperial) or Diameter Breast Height (the circumference of a tree at 4.5 ft, because that was right around the breast of your average heighted forester).
ernst gotsch is the name to lookup.

Growing food under a forest canopy with plenty of pruning, which creates healthy soil and less/no need for fertilizers. It's an effort to mimic a forest ecosystem and let things grow in their natural way (livestock is another aspect).
> Purpose of cancel culture is lynching

No, it's not, and saying it is is trivializing lynching. Which, given the political alignment of the people usually arguing the loudest against cancel culture, is unsurprising.
The first sentence currently reads "Poker players like to brag they win with luck not skill" - I think that is the wrong way around?
I believe it should read "Poker players like to brag they win with skill not luck", based on the rest of the intro.
Doesn't AWS have it as a service? Possibly also an OSS project?
What happened in the past, good or bad, is unchangeable. The only way forward is a colorblind approach as building specific policies around race simply encourage further racial division and entrenchment.

Preventing racial discrimination (a good thing) should not lead into encouraging racial division, but unfortunately our well meaning desire to be equitable often causes that to happen.
What recourse do you mean, exactly?
I like how you identified the hard not to do factor
Also, this seems to be the case for all major sites, not just for Google.
Ah ok, I gotcha. No disagreement here. Apologies for misconstruing your comment.