skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Directly from Yale:[1]

>We estimate that over three quarters of the students who apply for admission to Yale are qualified to do the work here. The great majority of students who are admitted stand out from the rest because a lot of little things, when added up, tip the scale in their favor.

Their applicant pool is so deep that they have their pick of qualified students of every type. They aren't admitting people who can't do the work just to meet some quota.

[1] - https://admissions.yale.edu/what-yale-looks-for
There has to be a news article about it. If you can get the Chicago Tribune to vet and cover your accusation, Yelp will note it. If not, they won’t.
I think you're underestimating how much _fun_ some people find this sort of recreational trolling.
> credible newspaper

Does such a thing exist anymore?
What's a reasonable newspaper?

The NYT has lost its mind over the 1619 project. If I can trust the NYT to get basic facts of history right who can I trust in media?
Misleading, editorialized title. The original title is:

> New Consumer Alert on Yelp Takes Firm Stance Against Racism

The important bit is the alert disables reviews, and posts this message:

> While we understand the desire to warn others about racist behavior associated with a business, all reviews on Yelp must reflect an actual first-hand customer experience. We have temporarily disabled the ability to post here as we work to investigate the content.

This is good for businesses who worry about being falsely accused.
Isn't this the free market in action? Pretty sure if this is unpopular it will just further degrade Yelp's already not very stellar reputation.
Ask HN: How to deal with old grumpy colleague?
I encounter an old grumpy “no-nonsense” very condescending type of character in meetings at work. He is a Sr engineer type who attends meetings to weigh in on things, not in my direct line of management. The guy is older (50+ likely) and talks to everyone like they don’t know what they’re doing. Very little in the way of any politeness whatsoever (and i really don’t expect much). Whenever i come out of a meeting with this guy I always feel a little less happy with my career.

What can i do to deal with this? For reference I’m in my 30s.
I once realized this was happening when the customer service rep was replying to me almost immediately after I hit send. Initially I was like how the hell did you reply/type this fast, but it dawned on me after a few more messages.
Yes? Especially for local news.
My college classmate put in a referral for a specific role a couple of weeks ago, and no word. Not even an email acknowledgement that my job application is in the system.
Well, that's the whole point of this feature - to prevent a store from being flooded with negative reviews while the alert is active.
It's not often consume in comparable amounts is my point.

Even two limes is half a grapefruit.
They are opening themselves up for lots of defamation cases.
Here is a repo of every presidential debate in history, in an easy-to-parse format. I'm adding the VP debates in tomorrow: https://github.com/mytakedotorg/us-presidential-debates
I read Twitter for one thing: comments during a major disaster, but only for the first 24 hours or so of the event. It’s easy to filter the OMG posts and you get immediate relevant information.
I don't see this as good. This will result in disaster in this way:

- It will give violent protesters targets to go and harrass or attack

- It will be a beacon for actual racists to congregate

- Who's to stop a disgruntled reviewer from labelling a place as racist?

Just no.
If you want to use the apple watch you must have an iphone, which somehow seems worse: https://www.imore.com/can-you-use-your-apple-watch-your-andr...
The page made it sound like that's a thing they already do. The new thing seems to be

> Now, when a business gains public attention for reports of racist conduct, such as using racist language or symbols, Yelp will place a new Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert on their Yelp page to inform users, along with a link to a news article where they can learn more about the incident.

While this is not quite as abusable as other commenters have claimed, there is definitely still some potential for abuse given how imperfect journalism (like all things) is at always reporting facts.
I propose they go one step further and start issuing R badges that owners of racist establishments have to display on their person at all times. /s
> Much how working for woke companies usually leads to a 20% drop in salary because you're getting paid in good feelings.

Can you provide an example? Usually I see the label "woke companies" applied to places like Google and Stripe and Netflix which are also known for their particularly high salaries.
I'm glad someone is standing up to these people but I'm glad it's not me having to deal with that level of harassment.
Improve your chances by being good at what you do.
The article misses a crucial detail: the status of those Polish workers. Are they employees of Google or other contractors? If they are Google employees there is nothing to see here.
The free market stops working when a mob with pitchforks shows up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnTTND0UcM

This is what people consider a reasonable way to show you're not racist.
> Maybe I overlooked it, but what’s to prevent a person (or group of people) from filing false claims of racist behavior?

What’s to stop a person from making a false claim of racist behavior against any person/public figure/politician/businessperson/colleague... they don’t like? The answer is “nothing at all”, and it happens everyday. If you’re particularly unlucky it will be scandalized publicly and appear as a permanent mark on your social credit score.

Yelp is just incorporating our own social norms into their product. If you don’t like it, it’s not their fault.
It seems that these things are done under the principle of "it's alright if we get a few false positives in the name of progress".

Will there be an appeal process? How do you clear your name after an accusation has been made? Who's to review the evidence?
It's way too early to tell how Apple is going to end. They've only been where they are for a small number of years. What happens if Zen3 turns out to be significantly faster than Apple Silicon, or next year Intel gets 7nm right? Do they abandon it or do they fall behind? What do they do if Google gets worried about their market share and decides to start selling a top of the line phone for cost and marketing it on google.com?

And the opposite failure mode is just as bad -- you actually succeed in monopolizing the market and then get smashed by antitrust.
It seems to me that the fundamental difference between this and other platforms that require login is this: for Facebook, having an account is the product. Facebook has designed everything about the Facebook experience to funnel users from registration to "engagement," and this is their main line of business and revenue source. Anything Facebook does to require someone to have an account is also forcing them to be a customer of their principle product.

The same situation doesn't really apply to Microsoft or Apple. No doubt there are examples of both trying to monetize account holders (e.g. cross-promotion of products) but neither of them views the "having an account experience" as being the product. You don't "sign up for Microsoft" in the sense that you sign up for Facebook, the account is not a feature but just a tool for providing identity to various products.

This lets Microsoft and Apple make a far stronger argument that requiring an account to use a product is just a technical aspect of the working of the product. Facebook would find it extremely challenging to make this same argument. Google might find itself in a position that is more of an awkward in-between, except for basically all of their attempts at either generalized social media or meaningfully unifying the social aspects of their products have failed, so if they're trying to funnel Google Docs users into being YouTube users they're at least miserably bad at it.
What’s the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ever done to you? Or the Altoona Mirror?
It's strange to me how holding secular enlightenment values like the natural equality of all people is considered "puritanical" or "horrific".

People want to support businesses that help create the society they expect.

You can criticize, pointedly even, the way that Yelp proposes to enforce this policy; especially in light of their controversial business practices.

But let's not put a blanket condemnation of acknowledging when businesses promote racism, or the desire to patronize other institutions.
They don't (yet) make you make an account to see the actual content if you're viewing on desktop or in desktop mode on a phone.

Their mobile site though, file it alongside Reddit as one that's designed to have the appearance of something functional while really just being a funnel to the app. Yelp's worse about it, in fact.
what happened to not editorializing articles?
One of my coworkers replies in threads about 70% of the time, when we're just sending individual messages to each other.

I wish I could force-inline other people's threads. I have no idea how they manage to get by with Slack.

Another coworker never closes any of the reminder messages. Most of their vertical space is not showing anything useful.
Better bandwidth is always desirable; RAM is the analogy;
This is my reading. By including a link to an outside article, they think they can lock things up to prevent a flamewar / flood of non-firsthand reviews. This seems like it will make everyone mad.
Careful of the source folks: Andy ngo is a grifter who is close with the proud boys, an organization whose members are currently facing charges or charged across the US with violent crimes ranging from battery to murder.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/...
Startup in a small town- Beed, Maharashtra, India
Got a few of these and water absolutely make a huge difference. Open air chassis with a large radiators I intended to cool video cards with... not that one can be found right now. Enclosures were turning mine into an easybake. Surfing at 46C, mid 60s pushing it hard. The dust bunnies can get ugly, however.

https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg
The best way to think of it is that Google is an identification service.

They make their money by identifying who you are, and creating a datastore with as much information about you and your activity as possible. This is both online data and offline data. Online data is collected directly via google services and indirectly services like google analytics, google javascript libraries, google fonts, recaptcha and more. Offline data is also purchased and stored, for example consumer credit card purchase data.

Given that, it is clear that every free service they offer can be funded by data collection. Are your kids using google docs? Do your friends email you from gmail? do your coworkers use google sheets?

Ok, so purism doesn't make its money from data. It makes its money from selling you a phone. This is a lot less money than google makes, because you pay it directly to them. They can't turn around and get millions from advertisers.

On the other hand, because data is not their revenue stream, they don't care if you store your mail on their servers or on your own or where you get apps or even what OS you run. So there's no need for dark patterns to get you to interact with them.

Yes, you could have your own store. You could have your own OS. You can create and maintain and share your own maps or data or whatever. Actually linux people have been doing this for years and years. check out nextcloud.
How is this different in intent, effect or result to the Green Book[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
Corporate overlords, on the other hand, are known for their impeccable and utterly fair behaviour throughout history. Not a single bad apple there! Be a good serf and good things will come to you, heed these words!
I expect a class action lawsuit will be filed over this if it hasn't already. Requiring the use of a Facebook account in order to access a VR headset is a pretty clear case of tying, especially since this policy changed after Oculus customers had already bought their headsets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=FriendlyNormie

What does “banned” mean exactly? Because this individual continues to post heinous garbage day after day and they’re “banned”.
> I think you're underestimating how much _fun_ some people find this sort of recreational trolling.

It doesn't matter if it's fun. It doesn't matter if someone paid them money to sabotage another company. The blame for allowing this excessive behavior in a business environment, lays with the leadership, full stop. Management is typically to blame and since CB is tiny, then it lays with the CEO.

One could look at even the positive aspect of it. Say a group of coworkers are very close friends (either through work or prior) then they are excessively talking about something. Well, then that situation is the responsibility of their bosses.

P.S. I've said my peace. If y'all still don't get it. Go read a few leadership or business management books.
An array of tiny little compasses and straight-edges would be perfect!
That isn’t the problem. The problem is relying on biased, unaccountable, dubious information for making such accusations...just like the Salem witch trials, the McCarthy anti-communist trials, etc. New social situation, same puritanical story.

This is doubly a problem when words like racist have recently been redefined in ways that are impossible for the average person to keep up with.
How many credible newspapers are currently being sued for falsely labelling people as racist?
You got lucky and this would have been ill advised.

Congratulations on your bet though!

You should always look at how much something impacts revenues. For example, a 5-minute look at GoPro's financials would show that the company's stock price would likely fall even if all police departments in the entire world had contracts for body cameras. So just because you like a product and can imagine that others will like a product doesn't mean it is translatable to the company's finances or common stock investors.
Back when I worked at Apple, I opened a somewhat detailed issue against the messaging application trying to explain some of the mental health implications of "the dot dot dots". Sadly, the issue was moved somewhere I didn't have access, and surely ignored.

I quit that stupid job.

P.S. I still believe (... though it may be overly complex) that a group of users should be able to opt-in to this mode. But by default, and perhaps on a timeout, it is disabled.
Don't let the door hit you on your way out...
It also links to the news article(s) in question.

It’s a feature that says: “rather than letting mobs review-bomb places, we’re going to temporarily block all reviews and just link to the article because that’s the relevant thing”
This is a great UI, but the quality of the results will depend on the selection bias of the inputs. For example, if you used rally speeches for one side, vs prepared speeches for the other side, that would skew things quite a bit. Can you elaborate on the corpus which is backing this?

I've been working on something similar, but it's got less to say because we've constrained ourselves to just the presidential debates, since they're "fair". https://mytake.org/search?q=supreme%20court

I'm a big fan of "provably neutral" project to try to bring reality into politics, so I hope your project is successful!
So tell me if C/C++ or Kotlin do that.
That show is a dramatization of that period in compaqs history.
Another view, is that applied science that impacts policy making, has become utterly corrupt, and largely unreliable.
The transformation happened in the last 30 years or so.

Deeply flawed academia reward system [1], combined with accountability-free bribe dispersing machines (eg book/documentary deals, speech fees, gifted real-estate, insider trading tips), have made this type of science very similar to 'Instagram likes' or 'Amazon reviews' in its reliability.

On top of that, given that elected officials, at least in US, delegate law writing to K-Street [2], who, then, works through lobbyists to entice politicians to buy-into those laws -- we have really, no checks and balances.

With the above point of view, 'Draining the swamp', makes sense for science as well, maybe ?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680154
[2] https://politicaldictionary.com/words/k-street/
Can someone please explain why this is difficult? I think its trivial but I am often wrong about these things. It's got an accelerometer and a gyro. Doesn't even need vision to do this. Even simpler would be just a hard-coded program without a feedback loop except after the end of the stunt to level out the quadcopter.
How the hell is this not libel? Yelp is just inviting lawsuits by doing that. It's one thing to host other peoples libel. But when you're the entity dishing it out, you're basically saying either one of two things:

"Were only trying to shut down small businesses because of one person"

Or

"Were so big that we can't fail therefore you must kowtow"
At many American gas stations, (I don't know how applicable this is in other countries) there is a lower "cash" price because the station doesn't have to pay credit card fees on the transaction. It's less convenient, because you have to park, go to the cashier, give them cash, go back to your car, fill up, go back to the cashier, get your change, and then go - versus put credit card in pump, fill up, go. It's ultimately a consumer choice and some choose each option.

I'd love to have something similar for online payments. Give me a price, then charge transaction fees for credit and lower fees for debit or ACH, etc.
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> carrying a machete, a large mortar firework and a section of galvanized pipe with endcaps and fuze assembly

All items that can plausibly be weapons, and used dangerously. As others have pointed out, though, had he been carrying a .223 rifle with a 30 round magazine (an objectively more dangerous object) I can't imagine you reaching the same conclusion.

Why is a guy with a fused (but apparently not filled?) pipe bomb presumptively a "criminal" but a guy with a rifle not? Doesn't that have something to do with expression? Shouldn't that distinction be presumptively respected by law enforcement?
I've known plenty of software engineers that don't carry their weight. Some of the big techs make it very easy to do the bare minimum, if that's all you want to do. You don't need a union to have slackers.
I still wonder if there could be any negative externalities or consequences that would counterbalance the benefit of helping those cautious folk.
This is why you will never see a union in Silicon Valley software company. The benefits are great and unions are unnecessary. I’m sure there are other places where unions are absolutely a necessity but not in a software company in Silicon Valley.
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The vast majority of overages are due to user error. These errors would just be shifted to include quota mistakes, which can incur data or service loss. Usage limits might be softer than monetary limits which are bounded by the time dimension, but can still cause problems since they do not discriminate between good vs bad traffic.

Before you go around calling people lazy, I suggest you put more thought into why creating more options for people who are overwhelmed by options is generally not productive and can cause unintended consequences and expose liability. With some more thought, you'll also realize that AWS is optimized for businesses and, as stated, losing customers or data is much worse than paying a higher bill, which can always be negotiated after the fact.
Very interesting... and somewhat unexpected especially re First Amendment, thank you for these!

Star Athletica LLC surprised me in particular. Stripes and chevrons!
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There's nothing precluding the legal analysis you've outlined from stemming from a poor understanding of the underlying technology. Just because the legal reasoning is internally sound doesn't mean the resulting narrative makes any sense when applied to reality, and it hardly is the only possible internally sound judgement. There is plenty of room for arbitrary semantics (and I would argue actively harmful and ignorant semantics) to dominate the resulting judgement.
It's different though when they are the ones putting a "racist" flag because of some random customer defaming you. They have absolutely no way to verify hearsay. They have to stay out of it.
Seems like a reasonable interpretation in my experience. I have definitely seen people told not to talk about what you might call controversial because it is political.

Don't talk about your abortion and how it made your life better or worse.

Don't talk about your birth control.

Don't talk about how you were explicitly told by an authority figure you were not worthy of a job because of your sex/gender.

Easy for me to imagine someone being told not to talk about their gay marriage under similar circumstances.

I think commonly used phrases are "its not for polite company", "keep politics out of it", "don't bring your politics here", etc.

It is obviously selective enforcement of the rules, but that is a common and unfortunately often effective shield.

Luckily I have heard/see less of the above over the last 10 years than the 10 years before that.
Your conflation of "arrest" with "convicted beyond a reasonable doubt and not just for looking the part" is terrifying.
I am with you on this one. The definition of a having a non-political mission must mean all but mentioning a candidate's name.

You can transparently see that some 501(c)(3)s are mostly political groups. As this becomes more common I expect politicians will use them to bypass campaign finance election laws.
They will create charities that 'educate' voters about how bad their opponent is without naming that opponent.
I have a book in my garage that’s a printed version of this manual. It blew my mind at the time that there was a published work about ResEdit, which I thought of at the time as a hacking tool.
Even if we pretend that was so, at least you have a bunch. A bunch that can argue for decent healthcare, for reasonable family leave and vacation, for any benefit you care to find important. Otherwise you’re just some schmo talking to your direct manager who has been put in that role as a firewall between you and getting a bigger slice of the pie.
Bounty programs are in place so that bad actors are not the only ones on the lookout for bugs. If experts get paid pennies for finding enormous security vulnerabilities, what's stopping them from selling them to actually bad actors for a potentially much greater cut? I can imagine that someone would be willing to pay far more than $5M to gain access to Apple wharehouses.
Microsoft accounts are worse in every possible way because Microsoft can potentially monitor all behaviour on your OS, including what's happening in your browser and Facebook.
You can have an apple that does shitty work and pay them 70% what you pay good apples, and everyone's still reasonably happy.

When I have to pay the 70% apple the same amount as the 100% apples, and can't really fire that apple, that's the not fair to the 100% apples.
What’s kind of funny is they are on good grounds w that definition of domestic terrorism. Plenty of environmental activists sitting in prison on terrorism charges for burning portapotties at construction sites etc
You can't discriminate against certain protected classes, but yes, it boggles my mind a little bit that someone could think "a corporation" is anything other than one of the most authoritarian, top-down governance structures ever devised.