skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to try to change your mind on analogies, and even without analogies (although I _will_ use an example)!

Analogies are an attempt to generalize an argument. Say we are trying to prove that "It will rain" is a valid conclusion from "If it is cloudy it will rain and it is cloudy". We can generalize this to "A -> B" & "B" -> "B", which you will recognize as an application of modus ponens from formal logic. Analogies try to use this power on fuzzier topics.

A normative principle like "We should build a new post office" are so abstract that they cannot be tackled head on (try defining "should" in the comments section and having no one point out a flaw to see why this is difficult). Because of this, we try to make comparison to other, seemingly similar, cases in an attempt to draw out the underlying logical structure. Because of this, I think they are a powerful and useful argumentative strategy.
The root of this problem is that iPhones don't allow their owners to install software without jailbreaking their devices.

Any real solution must be pointed at fixing that problem, either convincing people to stop buying Apple devices or beating Apple in the trade war they started.
from https://developer.apple.com/support/enrollment/

Do I need to enroll to install apps on a device?
No. You can install apps on a device for free with Xcode. You’ll only need to enroll if you’d like to distribute apps, access beta software, and integrate with capabilities such as Siri, Apple Pay, and iCloud.

So, Epic, Spotify and Tinder can make their stores, they just need to automate the process.
Hear birds communicate without using their beaks
The most material difference between the two is that Reddit is based on user voting and Facebook is based on an opaque algorithm controlled by Facebook's executive board.
They are not paying the right tool then. ;-).
GEPP – Developer's Helper to K8s
And Trump is played by Putin, and Putin is played by green aliens.
It's not just about 'looking the other way'; companies that take these stances are presenting a risk of discontinuation of services to customers. Any potentially politically controversial customer now has to discount Hootsuite's reliability; somewhat akin to how Google has a reputation for cancelling products.

Hootsuite has basically eroded every client's faith.
Rather self-fulfilling - in a way, isn't it?
What you said isn't strictly true either. Transporting a train load of food across the country emits less CO2 per unit than a farmer driving a van load of their produce to a farmer's market. Scale drives down price and emissions.
I actually think that it's totally legitimate to call out whoever you want (employer, customer, vendor, friend, family, etc) when you believe there is a clearly and grossly immoral action being carried out. But when there's a "I can see both sides but I strongly feel x because y" you should leave your political beliefs to your non-business relationships.

Reasonable people can disagree on immigration laws generally or ICE specifically! And I'm disappointed to see the level of confidence people have that anyone who disagrees with them is evil.

I wonder how people feel about immigration laws in other countries. Would Hootsuite employees be mad about working with the Thai department of immigration?

Is it really grossly immoral to have immigration checkpoints, borders and laws... and corresponding enforcement of those laws?
$300/month isn't reasonable for hobby projects.. too bad, it looks like a great platform.
"I was just following purchase orders"
If you accuse me of something, and I start frantically hiding the evidence, that's probably not a great sign.
Can a developer offer in-app purchases in a Steam downloaded game w/ direct payments using stripe or another payment processor?
I should clarify, any large transfer to an individual that hasn’t demonstrated access to large amount of capital will generate a SARS. If your not a private client at your bank and you get a $10mm wire will more than likely will generate a SARS and lots of phone calls from the compliance dept at the bank. That like the text book definition of a suspicious transaction. Low balance accounts getting large transfers.
I’d prefer it if Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and other device makers released products that were on par with Apple’s. We are in this situation because Apple release better products than the competition. As a costumer, I want better products.
Not really. Modifications only apply to next versions, doesn't change to prior versions:

The modified agreement shall govern any new version of the TSL Licensed Software
(and all its constituent source code and binaries) that is officially released as
a complete version release by Timescale on or after such Posted Date.

https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses#section-7-2-modific...
>most project failures I see are failures of empathy

That is quite the statement. Would you provide some examples of situations that made you come to this conclusion?
Perhaps he was talking about "kill all white men" radlibs.
I understand that this can be a point of dissatisfaction, but I think most people are reacting to the presumption that it is somehow the employers responsibility to address it.

For most of society, the answer is obvious: Figure it out, Snacks aren't in your contract.
The fun thing about restrictive diets is that you have to watch what you eat to stay on them.
https://genieframework.com/ (A Django like MVC framework, with templating and a julia -> JS compiler for the frontend)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUOCQ2SJF0&list=PLP8iPy9hna... (JuliaCon 2020 | Write a WebApp in Julia with Dashboards.jl |)

youtube.com/watch?v=uLhXgt_gKJc&list=PLP8iPy9hna6Tl2UHTrm4jnIYrLkIcAROR&index=10&t=11428s (JuliaCon 2020 | Building Microservices and Applications in Julia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sciqIMXBng&list=PLP8iPy9hna... (JuliaCon 2020 | Interactive data dashboards with Julia and Stipple | Adrian Salceanu)
I think it's pretty cool that Linus Torvalds is the only name in this document (edit: other than the references section).
Amazon’s new Echo Show 10 moves to look at you
I'm so baffled by this comment. It's saying that there's no path forward when refusing to engage with people/viewing people as subhuman, as an argument for the benefit of people who view others as subhuman! WTF?
Higher Order Functions in Python
No, I didn't bother researching that. My dad very well might have gone in the options settings and disabled some stuff if the WhatsApp message instructions told him to to get something he wanted. He has, for some unknown reason, the desire to trust all the things he shouldn't, and for him I need a device that simply can't be touched.

Especially since nowadays your financial accounts and everything is secured via SMS 2FA.
Well, I think the Holocaust taught us that is true, no?
> But I have no idea how an "investor" could read this and think they can price the risk correctly. This isn't even the wild west of finance--this is intergalactic space.

To be a successful investor, you don’t necessarily have the price the risk correctly, you just have to price it better than others.

I imagine someone successfully investing in crypto can read stuff like this fluently.
Scheme / LISP was a standard in academic CS for serious theoretical & AI work. FORTRAN, C, Pascal were more like tools for simulations, networks and building user facing applications. I really think it's as simple as that, more than any inherent design features of languages themselves. It comes down to influence and community and taste. We can see it now in real time with the adoption of Julia. Is it the "best" language for science / HPC? Perhaps not, but at some point it simply becomes a "norm". And a major part of that process is introducing the language to incoming students ;)

Intro to Computational Thinking in Julia

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/
That isn't as good of a rebuttal as you think it is.
Put ICE aside. Is there any organization that you feel "should" not be served by vendors?

If you want to dodge by claiming it should hinge on the legality of the org, I'd be happy to give you a menu of several that were perfectly legal at the time to choose from.
Mozilla employees, volunteers, and others used their freedom of speech to say they would exercise their freedom to dissociate from Eich if he continued to support discrimination. Eich dissociated himself from Mozilla so the others wouldn't.
"monopolize their game's monetization"

That is a silly oxymoron. One game doesn't constitute a monopoly; users who don't like it for whatever reason can go play any one of the vast number of games that computing has produced for half a century.

What you're saying is like why should Burger King have a "monopoly" on what sauce goes into a Whopper? Gosh, darn it, the market should be open so that you can order a Whopper with MacDonald's Big Mac special sauce.
‘A Million Random Digits’ Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. But It Has Flaws
This. It would also benefit to "drain the swamp" if you will of these toxic employees.
It's more gray than that.

Some governments and some agencies do enough evil that the decision to do business with them is a moral choice.

ICE may be one of those agencies. NSA likewise.

Arguably contacting with the US military falls in a similar bucket. I wouldn't call it evil, but it exists almost solely to enforce American interests abroad (vs a purely defensive force). I wouldn't fault somebody for seeing that business as immoral.

There's also a huge difference between selling a product to that agency, but is not specific to that agency (Word, Linux tech support) vs something that exists only to enable that organization to do bad (spying equipment, the cages used to imprison immigrants, etc).
If they don't like the App Store rules, those companies are free to develop, sell, and promote their own cell phone hardware and ecosystem. Nobody is forcing them to use Apple.
You are limited to three total apps installed for free with Xcode, they expire every seven days, have limited API surface access (you can't build a VPN app, for example), and among the things you can't integrate with is push notifications, which is one of the key reasons people build apps in the first place. So uhhh... thanks for playing, but that isn't helpful.
Except that Facebook's algorithms (like YouTube's, and I'm sure others as well) push people towards groups and sources with "high engagement", which often tend to be conspiracy theories and hate groups.

It's not that their algorithms are trained with poor data sets; it's that they're trained with good data sets, and those data sets show that this right-wing, radicalizing content has huge engagement numbers. Thus, since engagement and time-on-site are surely key KPIs for Facebook, promoting those groups exactly fits with Facebook's stated business goals.

Facebook needs to be political, because they're destroying society and democracy for profit; in the early days they could have been forgiven for not realizing this, but in the last five years I think it's become incredibly obvious that it's happening, and Zuck is doing everything he can to shirk the responsibility of not screwing everything up for everyone.
What happens when the handshake blockchain forks (say, because the developers can't agree on a change), which of the two 'trustless' forks am I meant to trust from that point on?
If you must read a book, Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey is maybe the best introduction but IMO you're still better off reading the papers/tracking the latest research if you're interested in the topic. You'll save a lot of time and be more up to date, as it's a rapidly developing field:

West, Michael D, Hal Sternberg, Ivan Labat, Jeffrey Janus, Karen B Chapman, Nafees N Malik, Aubrey DNJ de Grey, and Dana Larocca. “Toward a Unified Theory of Aging and Regeneration.” Regenerative Medicine 14, no. 9 (August 28, 2019): 867–86. https://doi.org/10.2217/rme-2019-0062.

Shetty, Ashok K., Maheedhar Kodali, Raghavendra Upadhya, and Leelavathi N. Madhu. “Emerging Anti-Aging Strategies - Scientific Basis and Efficacy.” Aging and Disease 9, no. 6 (December 4, 2018): 1165–84. https://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2018.1026.

Brown-Borg, Holly M., and Rozalyn M. Anderson. “Metabolic Adventures in Aging Research.” Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Metabolism of Aging, 455 (November 5, 2017): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2017.08.012.

Longo, Valter D, Adam Antebi, Andrzej Bartke, Nir Barzilai, Holly M Brown-Borg, Calogero Caruso, Tyler J Curiel, et al. “Interventions to Slow Aging in Humans: Are We Ready?” Aging Cell 14, no. 4 (August 2015): 497–510. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12338.

López-Otín, Carlos, Maria A. Blasco, Linda Partridge, Manuel Serrano, and Guido Kroemer. “The Hallmarks of Aging.” Cell 153, no. 6 (June 6, 2013): 1194–1217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.039.

A couple resources for keeping track of recent developments:

* https://www.lifespan.io/road-maps/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/

* https://www.fightaging.org/

* https://www.sens.org/srf-publications/
Chris:

Thanks for including the link to your paper[1] in the README. I saved it in my Zotero library and am looking forward to reading it.

Do you have any thoughts or experience with literate programming? What about the role of Docable, versus choosing PDF as the medium for your own paper, versus something like this[2] sort of thing?

1. http://chrisparnin.me/pdf/docable_FSE_20.pdf

2. https://csarven.ca/this-paper-is-a-demo
If employees refuse to support it and they have the market power to change the company's behavior, then yes, they should be allowed to stop servicing ICE. Its not a power that the companies are "given" - it's a power they create by creating the product that ICE wants.
Ungated: https://archive.is/hPxeA .
I think this machine is fascinating and prescient. Here's the company's paper[0] about it and an article[1] in Popular Mechanics.

[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001088046500600...

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=stMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80&lpg=P...
No, the argument of the poster you are replying to is that these companies are competing and rooting for one or another doesn’t benefit anybody, developers or costumers.
Canada has a history of being more restrictive and less forgiving of 'permissionless entry' than the USA, so it will be interesting to see how Hootsuite transacts with the Canadian government.
I bought iPhones for my parents precisely because they can't be tricked into installing software that hasn't been vetted by at least Apple and the software increasingly can't track them.

I paid a premium for that peace of mind.
I agree. I also feel that most of the dissent here is straw-manning. Nobody is saying you shouldn't work with the government at all. Rather that helping ICE is inherently more political and distasteful than helping say the DMV.
How is this better than Namecoin?

Namecoin has the unique advantage that you can do merged mining with Bitcoin which would make the network as secure as Bitcoin without further waste of resources.
I've commented on it before, but I have to say again, the Timescale Helm charts are by far the best way I've ever seen a database run in Kubernetes, and actually from an operations, backup, and scaling perspective they are the best database management experience I've had period. Huge fan, always enjoy talking with Feike, and keep up the great work Timescale team.
The impression I've gotten is that while some people have coarse/simple views of how some of these things are bad. The main focus is not on them as institutions so much as how they treat those in their custody. Enforcement doesn't need to be abusive.
>Reddit is based on user voting

and heavy moderation
But I would also argue that it's also ok to choose not to associate with people who find you abhorrent. Would you genuinely expose your gay friend to your homophobic relatives and expect the gay friend to be happy and fine with being a target of bigotry/hate?
I'm going to shamelessly take this thread as an opportunity to link the work we recently did with IPFS that didn't stick when i tried submitting it before.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-09-08-nix-ipfs-milestone-1/

I'm very keen on seeing IPFS succeed, and (unlike with economics). I think a "trickle down" approach of targeting developer workflows in hopes that devs "reverse dogfood"[1] is very viable.

[1]: take the thing they use themselves and make it their program use it.
this looks interesting, but what if you're not around when a user requests video?
The article is an interesting perspective on the factor of choices given in "opinion" polls. Forcing a choice one way or another has a really interesting effect (as in including only agree/disagree, and no "I don't know" option). It can force individuals to take a stance on a parent topic, even if that parent topic is implicit (for example "do you trust the government" for conspiracy theories).

It reminds me a little of forced choice assesments [0], commonly used for interview screening or employee assesment. Its interesting, but kind of inevitable, that people will often default to the choice which is "best" rather than most accurate/correct. Forcing a choice can have all sorts of effects, and it depends on the context if that effect is good or not.

[0] https://methods.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-...
> Actually, just people in general these days

This is how people almost always behaved. In the Middle Ages the term "heresy" was used, today only slogans have changed, the social mechanisms are the same. Of course there is a group of opportunists, but there is also a large group that really believes their ideology (it used to be some religion) will do good.
this looks interesting, but what if you're not there when someone requests a video chat?
40 people being shot every weekend in Chicago is "fine"?

Murders are up 55% in Chicago this year. CPD clearance rate for solving murders is 45%.

citation:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/platform/a...

that is not "fine." the Left choose to ignore reality and see a happy little tree illusory version of reality. that is why the Left keep losing elections.
Yes, I don’t want to create one more logging that gives up my IP address tied to my payment information.
There are still some warts but it works pretty well. It is definitely the future of cross-editor Java support.
Let’s compare malware on Windows, OSX, Android vs iOS, shall we?
> Do you really believe that if there is proof of this doctor performing unnecessary surgeries that he will not go to jail?

Absolutely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

For an example of how pervasive and silly QI has gotten:

https://reason.com/2020/05/19/qualified-immunity-supreme-cou...

"Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Court decided that two police officers in Fresno, California, who allegedly stole more than $225,000 in assets while executing a search warrant, could not be sued over the incident. Though "the City Officers ought to have recognized that the alleged theft was morally wrong," the unanimous 9th Circuit panel said, the officers "did not have clear notice that it violated the Fourth Amendment.""

> But when it can be proven that people here broke laws, they do go to jail.

I mean, sometimes.

Sometimes they kill four people while drunk and get probation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch
Because it's their platform not "ours", if you decided to start Twatbook for instance you could decide what was acceptable to post on your platform.
If you wanted positive change this time you should have voted for positive change harder last time but alas, apparently people just stayed home instead. Nothing Trump has done has truly been a surprise. We knew his brand of bullshit and grifting from the beginning, and warned our fellow countrymen and women that this is what would happen.

Apparently that just wasn't good enough for some people, so now we are in a desperate fight to prevent the absurd backslide of the US
Does anyone know if there’s potential support for newer Pi’s?
Ha, not bad, it puts the action where you finger is already on the screen and it removes on step (the url/search overlay).

Thanks !
It's worth considering:

1) A distinction between 'opinions' 'facts' and 'hate speech'.

and 2) Media is an existential power, almost like a wing of government. If you control the media, you can control a nation. Which is why authoritarian states take a very active role.

FB and others already do have policies against very aggressive speech, for example, if you start calling people the 'N-word' - you'll get banned.

But where 1 and 2 collide is on the issue of factuality.

Take the pandemic: it would be quite easy for 'big name politicians' and others to outright lie about the nature of COVID. These lies perpetuate into behaviours and outcomes which are very bad for everyone.

I'm not sure if the statement 'COVID doesn't kill anyone' is much of an opinion, more or less statement of fact. (Edit: which is wrong of course, I hope that is obvious)

When you take this information and push it into the political arena, where facts are harder to discern ... it becomes a problem.

This ultimately is the crux of the issue.

We have no choice but to 'call out bad information' or it will hurt us severely. We did this traditionally by forcing some kind of consent and responsibility with the major news outlets - they were 'free' but responsibly managed.

Press owners, are kind of 'part of the elite' - they have a kind of status of responsibility.

Once there's no control, you have 'Democracy by TikTok' and it's not good.

It's an issue we have to deal with.
> iOS App Store 2018 revenue came to $46.6 billon, while Google Play revenue stood at $24.8 billion by this measure

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

> Apple Users More Willing to Pay for Apps

https://www.statista.com/chart/14590/app-downloads-and-consu...

> The median iPhone app user earns $85,000 per year, which is 40% more than the median Android phone user with an annual income of $61,000. [...] The average in-app shopping check is four times higher for an iOS user! [...] iPhone owners are also more likely to make purchases on their phones on a regular basis. These are important considerations for both retail app developers and those seeking to monetize via paid apps or in-app purchase. Mobile ads are the main source of revenue generation in Android apps.

https://buildfire.com/ios-android-users/

> Distribution of free and paid apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play as of June 2020

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263797/number-of-applica...
It's tough question. I mostly agree with you, because I was the one who was exceeding during COVID.

But some people objectively could not because of stress and family distractions and living conditions (eg no separate office room).

Socialists (who drive most SV companies) consider that an unfair disadvantage (like being a woman, or being black, or being gay), thus that unfairness need to be compensated.

It is similar to a compensation for parenting: only parents get paid parenting days, while childless people don't get it, and it may be considered unfair.
This is simply not true, if you try to explain the reasoning behind any "unwanted" policy or idea, you get downvoted. It doesn't matter if you advocate for it or not; you simply get shot down for making the enemy look less like a monster.

The "lunatic fringe" applies equally to the other end of the spectrum, by the way.