skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree–eliminate the rhetorical hiding places ("I work here but I object strongly...) and let people either be honest about the fact that the money is worth the compromise (i.e. stop performing outrage) or actually be outraged enough to do something (walk out & get another job).

Personally I would not work at Facebook precisely because I object to the negative impact I think it has on society. I'm not condemning employees for objecting, I'm rolling my eyes at them objecting loudly but seemingly avoiding the personal sacrifice of actually refusing to contribute to facebook and foregoing the pecuniary benefits of those contributions.

I also personally make compromises. I cannot always work at my "dream job" that's "mission driven" etc., and I'm honest with myself about that. We all make compromises, we all draw our own line somewhere.

(also I know some FB workers who have left due objections to FB policy so it's definitely wrong to say "none of them do that")
I don't necessarily completely disagree here, but I'm always thinking of the Douglas Adams quote in Hitchhiker's Guide on this:

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
> How can they physically even come close to building a jet?

A human can't do that either. Humans as a whole can do it because we have enough intelligence to implement the whole chain of technology required to be able to do things on this scale. Not just the physical scale, but also the scale of the science and engineering required to make the thing actually work.
>but as temporarily embarrassed billionaire monopolists.

I don't think anyone seriously thinks that. The counterarguments I've seen boil down to:

* apple's control on the app store is a net benefit for consumers

* we shouldn't be regulating it; consumers should be able to choose themselves

* fuck epic (because of their prior misdeeds)
I've actually run into issues with drug laws from a side I never even thought about: prescription medication. I have asthma, but I don't have health insurance. Asthma inhalers in my country require a prescription.

I know what inhaler I need and I know how to use it, but I cannot legally purchase it. I have to go make a doctor's appointment, pay them a bunch of money so they can write a note that permits me to buy that inhaler. It's a lot of hassle and some cost. The end result is that I just don't have an inhaler. If I get difficulty with breathing I'll just drink coffee and wait until it goes away. Without prescriptions being required for something like this (eg more relaxed drug laws), I wouldn't have this issue.
> Experience gaming anywhere there's high-speed wifi.

They don't talk about playing it on mobile data, just wifi.
What motivation does a crow have to build a jumbo jet?

Furthermore, the vast majority of humans have no idea how to build a jumbo jet, and throughout the vast majority of human history, there were no jets - jumbo or otherwise - does this mean that we only have higher intelligence in today's world, now that we are able to build jumbo jets? For the vast majority of human history, we only had the simplest of tools and if we compared those humans to today, by your standards, these humans do not possess higher intelligence. However, evolution has not progressed nearly as quickly as our ability to work with tools has; as such, the human brain really hasn't changed all that much in even the last 10,000 or even 100,000 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligenc...

Finally, you have no proof that crows would be incapable of building a jumbo jet, you've simply asserted that they couldn't. To be clear, I'm not arguing that they could, merely conceding that because they haven't done so, does not mean that they are incapable of doing so.
> Microsoft stealing

The word you are looking for is "copying".
It is possible that there was an attribute of that person that crows recognized as dangerous: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding...
Rust 2021
Agreed and I have to wonder how any of these companies would respond if it was their users who agreed and knew the terms of their ecosystem and were now asking these three companies to change their rules.

Using Spotify as an example. I can't imagine Spotify responding favorably to a consortium of musicians who wanted to publish direct to the platform and receive a better royalty rate for instance. Spotify also doesn't seem to have any problem agreeing to the terms dictated by the Big three record labels that control and the majority of recorded music that they have no choice but to agree to.
> For example, the Apple watch without cellular cannot use Spotify in offline mode since that would compete with Apple music.

IIRC this is related to Spotify's music licensing agreements only permitting streaming and not copying of music and has nothing to do with Apple itself. I don't believe there are any technical restrictions preventing Spotify from implementing offline playback on the watch, they simply have chosen not to do so.
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Building anything significant requires a relatively high level of dexterity, does it not? Even if crows could figure out how to build and operate tools that would allow them to build significant physical structures and objects, their bodies are not well-suited to doing so.
Can't imagine why someone from the land of fermented shark flesh would like the flavor of ammonia.
This is a pop-sci article that is nearly as out there as the (well-debunked) fantasies of Gavin Menzies, suggesting that the Vikings made it down to Central America. Beware when pop-sci articles on history ask a constant series of questions "Could the X people have done Y?". Sometimes they act like they are being cautious about the answer, but they are never straight with the reader that among experts, even raising that question in a non-specialist venue seems inappropriate. To be honest and forthright that there isn’t even room for speculation with our current state of knowledge, does not sell copies and create ad impressions.
> blond-haired men

Do 1000yr old murals retain their color enough to be able to tell that the subjects originally had blonde hair?
You statement on what is open source:

>The right to study the code running on your hardware, the right to make modifications to it, the right to distribute those modifications.

Description of the license from the linked articles:

> Rights still disallowed under Timescale License:

> No right to distribute modified Source

> No right to distribute modified Binaries, unless as part of a Value Added Product

I'm very confused on how you're reconciling your stated view on the definition of open source and the directly conflicting text of this license.
Google custom date search range broke?
Beginning today, I am finding that that fields where you enter a date are disabled.
I think we missed the boat -- the focus on fancy rendering rather than on the actual data/content set us back years in functionality and helped create free and for-pay walled gardens where actionable data stays server-side and rendering is forced upon us, rather than just having reasonable defaults and then having rendering (incl. multi-modal interaction, etc.) further guided by user-defined settings and heuristics. Even if data happens to be rendered client-side in an SPA, it's done though application-specific means. I suppose deep-learning based data-extraction from free-form pre- and post-rendered content will eventually make up for this, but at least part of that road may have been avoided -- and of course we're probably going to have to pay someone (one way or another) for the privilege of having the content un-rendered back into actionable data at scale...
> If interruptions require 10 or 15 minutes of recovery time for an engineer, it seems like watching someone code and asking them questions during an interview would be even worse.

Does anyone really conduct interviews that way? I've both conducted and taken interviews that involved a coding exercise that was done on either the whiteboard, a laptop, or even just a sheet of paper, and there were never any interruptions. I would just make notes of what they asked and how they solved the problems, but I wouldn't interject with questions of my own. Same when I was the one being interviewed. After they have solved the problem is when you ask questions designed to find out what alternatives they had considered and so on.
Yes, sometimes they are long, but stack traces are also extremely useful. They show exactly where an error happened, and from where the offending code was called. Something you only notice when you're working in a language that doesn't provide them - single line error messages are often not unique enough.

They are also easily parseable and you can filter them to exclude framework code.
I think the point is that we assume that because other animals don't have this kind of engineering ability, we assume that they don't have capabilities like self-awareness or higher-level thought. But we can't see into their minds, so we don't actually have direct evidence of that.

What we do see in more intelligent animals such as orcas, orang-utans, elephants, parrots, crows, octopuses, even cats and dogs, etc is sophisticated planning and inventive use of their environment. We also know that early humans were likely anatomically similar to modern humans (and may well have

Are there areas where humans are smarter. Almost certainly. But is the difference as great as the outward achievements as judged by human standards would indicate. Almost certainly not. And there may even be aspects of cognition that other animals excel at that we are completely unaware.
Would they build a submarine then? Or a rocket capable of reaching orbit?

More realistically: have they mastered fire? There are caloric efficiency benefits to eating warm/cooked food[0]. Have they mastered writing? There's compound interest in terms of civilization development sitting right there, in the ability to put thoughts into a form that outlives individuals without degrading.

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[0] - At least for humans; IANABiologist, but I'd guess this would be true for other animals too, including birds, and at the very least it would expand the range of foods they can consume.
Another article has this line:

"He initially admitted to being in the room with the electrical foreman while receiving overtime pay — but later recanted, according to Pokorny."

https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/mta-workers-had-hidden-man-cav...
People re-watch videos. If it's showing up in your recommendations, the recommender thinks you may act on it.
Dragonflies execute predictive flight patterns to catch prey mid-flight with 95% accuracy, so that ability alone may not be a good proxy for intelligence: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26684-dragonflies-ant...
Except that DRM is legal, and Apple devices are consoles / appliances: "What's a computer?"
Which is a bigger risk for him? Being in sweden or the uk?

Is your opinion, with absoultely nothing at stake, somehow more accurate and superior to his, when he has everything to lose? I don't know the answer to which country is worse. But I'll grant him the right to make his best bet when, against his will, he is all in for having published evidence of war crimes.

I don't know Assange at all. I might not like him at all if I did know him personally, I couldn't say. What is clear is the job they've done on him to "other" him and stop people from sticking up for his rights, which are of course their own rights has been utterly superbly done. Everyone sticking up for our rights has to clear their throat about not being "An Assange supporter" to even make obvious, simple and uncontroversial points about the rule of law and equality before it.

That bothers me quite a bit.
31? damn, I also used 31.
This makes me wonder if this kind of stalking is the reason behind the association of ravens with war? Many cultures have mythologies of ravens protecting warriors in battle. Maybe they literally followed armies in the past, scavenging food, and attacking the foes of the army.

I understand that they eat carrion, hence their association with the dead. But that wouldn't explain the stories like this:

> According to legend, prior to one battle a gigantic Gallic warrior challenged any Roman to single combat, and Valerius, who asked for and gained the consul’s permission, accepted. As they approached each other, a raven settled on Valerius’ helmet and it distracted the enemy's attention by flying at his face, allowing Valerius to kill the enemy Gaul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Valerius_Corvus#Early_c...
I didn't use to track my work and I noticed that at yearly review time it's been pretty difficult to remind what I actually did for last year. I'd go through merged PRs in the main projects, but it's only a tip of the iceberg.

Some time ago we moved daily standup to Slack, and since then I have a pretty good history of what I did each day. I created a wiki page where every 1-3 months I try to summarize all the stuff I did in the quarter (code shipped, dashboards created, docs written & non code work done, like helping X ship Y -- with screenshots, links etc.) and then it gives me a bit of confidence boost during the perf review time.
I just read [1].

I'd hope that a person with Sanger's experience and insight would at least float suggestions, proposals, wish list, or any thing at all, to achieve something he'd consider more neutral, objective, or something.

everipedia.org I guess does some stuff differently. But if it has a different take on neutrality, it's not jumping out at me.

Sanger has some role with Ballotpedia? Maybe his vision for neutrality is there?

Just sitting here, I can imagine at least three different crazy experiments to play with neutrality. And I know nothing.

Also:

I was willing to at least consider anything Sanger had to offer, given his CV. But generally I fast fail (flip the bozo bit, summarily dismiss, shove into the memory hole) any media critic leading with "liberal bias".

I think he just has muddled reasoning. For example, his essay says something about Jesus, the Christ label, how the wiki is wrong... Or something. I was raised Christian, so I'm moderately inclined towards biblical navel gazing. But if Sanger had a point, it's lost on me. I'm just more confused after trying to parse his thesis.

Further:

I'll read any proposals for mitigating social media. I honestly can't even criticize whatever this is:

How to Fix Social Media in Three Easy Steps [2020/09/20]

https://larrysanger.org/2020/09/how-to-fix-social-media-in-t...

Non sequitur?
Isn’t one of the points Epic is suing Google for because Google has a ton of warnings when side loading? I’m curious if there is a middle ground where grandma is protected but developers don’t feel they are described as potential malware.
Want to increase developer productivity? Flow is what matters
I love the taste of broccoli :p.

(and have to admit, that occasionally I enjoy the taste of liquorice, though I only eat it extremely rarely)
The tricky part is getting enough adoption for network effects to make it generally useful. So you need it to be useful to individual users before it has lots of users. Sort of like how Goodreads is useful for keeping track of books you've read/want to read, even if you never read the reviews or look at the lists that are a result of network effects.

The question is what features of a video aggregator would be useful to the individual? Watched list? Playlist management? URL shortening for sharing videos? Better UI? Export list to youtube-dl?
Crows have only been around in one form or another for 30 million years give or take, so if they haven't done anything more interesting than adapt to their environment and use basic tools since, I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that the reason is because they are incapable of it, not because they have chosen not to.

At the end of the day, it is impossible to prove a negative, so no I can't show you off hand that a crow can't actually conceive of this or that or the other thing
You may speak for yourself but you most certainly do not speak for every consumer, regardless of how many superlatives you use.

I, for one, prefer the subscription model for some things. I like that I can dip my toes in and out of the Photoshop ecosystem without having to shell out hundreds up front. I prefer to rent Netflix for a month rather than purchasing DVDs or Blurays I may watch once or twice. And when cloud gaming is baked (it will be a long time away for me as I live in a small island nation) I will love being able to play any game from a huge range with no outlay other than my monthly subscription - no hardware requirements, no upgrading, just a few bucks a month, and only on the months when I choose to keep my subscription.

My only caveat with cloud gaming is that mouse + KB is non-negotiable, I'm not sure how realistic that will be. I will not play shooter or strategy games with a controller.
I've always wondered if it's something like cilantro. They've identified a gene that makes cilantro taste soapy to some. Maybe there's something similar with licorice since I've noticed many people seem to have a strong negative reaction to it. (I find the flavor mild but interesting, like vanilla.)
Are devs better paid on Xbox than PC?

That's a closer analogy.
What about data migrations for destructive changes?
If Humans somehow make themselves extinct, I bet on crows being the species to take over.
Finding ways to solve it's $200 billion unfunded pension liability.

How about not shooting each other to reduce health care expenditure.
You're not wrong. I also understand the viewpoint stemming from that truth that having the option is not worth the extra features. I still think the trade off is worth it.

Just like while we have people tricked into buying apple gift cards for scammers we still don't decide to ban those cards because they do offer utility.
It's not about building anything, really. The cornerstones are figuring out a reliable method to store knowledge over generations, and then figuring out mathematics more advanced than counting your food and potential mates. Having that, you have both an abstract framework for developing better understanding of the world (which is a necessity for better control over it, i.e. technology), and a way to implement it as work that spans generations.
Not Stadia, but PS Now. Ignoring the fact that it lets you install some of the games, the latency isn't really a big deal. It's nice having access to so many games as well that I can play in minutes.
Google for many years did not execute JavaScript as part of it's indexing. This had the very positive effect of making the contents of the web far more accessible, as otherwise you simply did not show in search results.

They're kind of bringing this back around with AMP but in a shitty walled garden way.
On the other hand, the best of our inventions and discoveries seem to have been just barely within our grasp, and it took modern Homo sapiens 200 thousand years to reach this level of domination of the planet.

A slightly less intelligent species (or perhaps one lacking just the right body type), such as our own ancestors or perhaps our extinct close relatives, might have taken 10 million years instead of 200 thousand, or just never have done it at all.
It is very funny to see tile and prepear on the list. Can their intentions be any more clearer?
Trick that often works for me: create a ticket in JIRA, explain well what has to be done, how, document gotchas etc.; assign to yourself; if it's a code ticket, create a local branch with ticket number.

I usually procrastinate when it's not clear what exactly has to be done and how, and writing it down somewhere helps immensely.
Occam's razor suggests that "not capable" is a better explanation than "not interested in", when considering things that are clearly an immediate and strong benefit to a life form.
And how are crows supposed to defend wounded fellows from coyotes? Or carry them to safety?

How about the fact they can apparently build compound tools from parts?

Your example isn't just about brains. It requires both proper bodies and arguably complex social behaviors, which are quite separate from intelligence itself.
Thank you. I had read about their previous experiment but didn't know about what was going on now.
Cairo. I like it but Turkey’s way nicer and almost as cheap. Would definitely recommend trying out the region though.
And youtube knows exactly what videos they re-watch often enough so it can clearly mind this stuff, plus they will probably use the search if they want to re-watch something specific anyway. It is no reason to re-recommend every one of those including explicitly uninteresting.

Or am I missing some research that shown novelty less effective at driving the clicks here?
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Haha yes, I used to do all the WRT54G stuff and tended to have bugs and an overheated router. I also used to tinker a bunch with jailbroken iPhones and rooted Android phones. I'll never have anything against that, but now I personally want an option that just works!
> If you use a DNS name as an endpoint, and that DNS entry changes, you have to refresh it.

This is really frustrating for me. If you put a DNS name as a peer endpoint, wg-quick will resolve the name and then _replace the name with the ip address_. My IP address changes frequently and I have a script to update the A record when it does, but wireguard didn't have built in support for just keeping the domain name around when I last looked.
I share the same concerns. Market economics did not prevent e.g. Enron from scalping millions of dollars out of CA energy markets while rolling blackouts resulted in powerless hospitals.

Speculation - not actual supply or demand - in oil markets drove the price of gasoline from $1 to $4 a gallon (and now back to $2). Everyone else paid for the inefficient market finding a false equilibrium pumped up by perception of security.

(Financial deregulation of Wall St in 1999 preceded the popping of the dotcom asset bubble by very little lag. And then CDS in 2005 and the Great Recession and now this whole mess: and the only solution is to pay cronies who didn't hoard enough cash?)

Sugar water companies can afford to push the price of water higher while the external health and commodity costs are passed onto everyone else.

Markets have thus far failed to solve for long-term environmental damage: their incentive is to externalize costs in order to maximize short-term profit.
I get that Epic and Spotify may want to create their own "stores". I don't understand what kind of store Tinder would want to create - or perhaps I do ;)
> The same applies for if the government said “you have a right to install apps of your choice”.

I don't like the idea that the government can force you to build things you don't want to build. If I don't want to build a general purpose computing device, why should the government be able to force me to?

There's a compelling argument for requiring building in handicapped-accessible features, but that is relevant to the equal protection clause of the constitution. There's no implied constitutional right to general-purpose computing.
This is a sensible caution, but we should also be careful not to do the opposite and assume an animal is incapable of sophisticated motives and intelligent planning.
> Even after their departure, the Norse continued to return to the Americas, most likely to pick up lumber since no trees grew on Greenland and Iceland.

This actually never occurred to me, and it’s interesting that these famous seafarers would have resource constraints for building boats.
There is plenty of evidence from Android that it would benefit both users and developers.