skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its impossible to construct a world view without axioms. Its impractical to construct a usefully large model of the world in the tiny slice of time afforded us without accepting far more uncritically based on prior performance of agent, apparent validity, credentials, social position etc etc and only discarding or doubting when given reason to.

Everyone is mostly a somewhat crappy model based on time and brain constraints. People can be viewed as a graph of agents collecting information about subjects along with meta information about other agents needed to construct a much larger pool of information.

Conspiracy theorists who come into a discussion with a default disbelieve position on a particular agent are likely to spend much more time finding fault and may actually be more accurate at identifying correct faults the same way you are I are more apt to correctly identify a variety of conspiracy theorists as kooks and find immediate fault with their arguments.

Unfortunately kooks are apt to have a broken model of whom is trustworthy and to have built up a large collection of incorrect facts. A particular challenge is the fact that they are possessed of a large collection of "facts" that they aren't learned enough to have come up with in the first place and don't really have an accurate model of. See the moon landing truthers as a particular example. It's trivial to collect "facts" that require only a small amount of bad understanding to "get" but require a substantial understanding of science to actually refute. Since they can't build an accurate enough model of the world to actually understand they would have to accept the expertise of others as valid in order to correct their model of the world. Having already rejected such there is no hope for them.

These "facts" act like prions corrupting their model. When they see people providing true and valid info they are predisposed to discard that agents information as corrupted because it contradicts prior beliefs. Since their prior beliefs predispose them to believe bad agents and disbelieve good agents their model inevitably gets worse until it is unrecoverable.
Fair enough. But is this a common enough occurrence in the life of a programmer that it's worth being a religious extremist about?
Your skepticism here might be based on a logical fallacy that assumes that term has a certain connotation or is even used by the researchers themselves. For all you know the term was just created now by the parent commenter to label a group of individuals in his/her own definition.
I think you’ve failed to interpret the parent who is just adding to the joke by pretending to take it seriously.
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> Apple is nothing else but the digital equivalent of a landlord extracting economic rents from everyone in the ecosystem. It's time to put an end to it, and while we're at it the same goes for all the other platform owners.

And while we're at it, implement a Georgist tax scheme on landlords.
Caveat emptor :D I wrote this fresh out of college.

Locals usage is shown in https://github.com/i80and/rcish/blob/master/trip.rc#L600-L61...

I would love to do a from-scratch implementation someday, but alas, time is scarce.
I feel this discussion always misses an important point. The value of something has nothing to do with its costs or profits. The value of things (labor included) is subjective and is normally related to its scarcity. In the period analyzed the workforce basically doubled because the inclusion of woman to the workforce, therefore it had a huge pressure to keep it low.
Oh hey look, this argument. Do you believe that if 100% of people used adblock websites would stop existing?
That is completely different then what my Muslim friends from collage said they were taught. They said that at home they
had classes that explained how these were "tricks" put in place by God to mislead non-believers.

This isn't far from what I heard from some of my Christian friends, which just makes all the worlds religions more much more alike then they differ.
Okay, thanks!
I'll fix it after I implement the "core" features.
I think he was just saying "this is what's expected" not "this is fine"
What does it mean to review the content on Netflix? Do Apple reviewers sit and go through every single movie and show on the platform? Or do they watch every single Youtube video?
You can't do a proper web app on iOS because Safari/Webkit doesn't support what you need to do it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864131

This wouldn't be a problem if you could install Firefox, Chrome, etc, but on iOS browsers can't use their engine... they're essentially Safari with a different skin on top.

I think complaints from devs/services make less sense on Android. Almost everyone uses Google's Play Store, but you can install an app manually like you do on your phone or even use a 3rd party store. If you don't like Chrome, you can install Firefox. If Google bans VPNs in China (like Apple did), users can sideload the app.

On iOS, for devs, it's either the App Store and Apple rules or you're out of the platform. For users, it's what Apple allows... and many of their rules aren't there to protect users.
The study itself shows there was no stratification of effect on the basis of days since symptom onset. Patients <7 days into symptoms fared no better with the drug than people >7 days.

https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...
That view is even more flawed, since everyone who pays taxes is an investor of technology. Most breakthroughs in tech happen at universities. It’s not private equity that funds tech, but taxes. So the beneficiaries of tech breakthroughs should be... everyone.
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For someone who’s bored with combat-focused games and misses the open nature of games like Railroad Tycoon, who’s following in Meier’s footsteps? I was thinking that if there was a rebooted RT2 I’d buy it in a second but fell off the Civ train due to wanting either less or more plausible combat, not to mention QA.
Exactly.

In terms of rewards and gains, OSS is a way to help other people (for free). Government takes everyone's money and normally the goal is personal gains (bennies, paychecks, overtime, theft, power).

One of the reasons why trust in government drops when mobile tech becomes available is that people tend to consume less of the corrupt state owned media, whether it's TV or newspapers or radio.
I'm not sure why Twitter thinks that quote tweets are better than retweets. Propaganda exists to be spread, and it's long been obvious that "This is wrong/bad [quote]" just serves to further spread the propaganda and raise the propaganda artist's profile. Also, you can disable retweets on accounts you follow but not quote tweets.
This seems a little farfetched, no?
> 30% is too high

What determines what is too high here? If it's about the cost of it (it costs Google/Apple much less money to build and maintain an ecosystem so they can "afford" to do it) wouldn't that imply that there is a huge market opportunity for someone else to build their own ecosystem and charge less? But maybe because that doesn't happen is proof that it may not be "too high".
It looks like a Scramble clone.
I know nothing about Raoult, but when I heard of hydroxychloroquine months ago, shortly before it became a culture-war football, it was proposed as above: early treatment, with zinc. (Azithromycin wasn't part of the idea as I heard of it then.)
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but did you see the headline? it was an entire global array!
Got my BBC B in 1983 for passing my 'O grades' with reasonably decent scores.

Whilst I loved the gaming it was the programming that I enjoyed the most and honing my 6502 assembly chops I'd been getting to to speed with on the school Apple ][; to the extent I wrote a sideways ROM (to provide modem control capability for running a BBS app I wrote) with some bodgery around the user port as well to capture the RS-232 signals the RS-423 port couldn't...carrier detect, ring indicate (all before the days of AT Hayes commands and responses).

I think this is the first time I've seen Demolator available on an emulator, I spent hours playing that, and of course Elite.

Ooh, the waves of nostalgia are almost overpowering :)
Potentially unpopular opinion here on HN, but Android.
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I wish this was on Audible. It's a bit strange that the only audio option is a $30 CD
Also Dr. Comminic Dummings apparently
Exactly, this is so common sense.
I was thinking more along the lines of old political leaders who willingly gave up power, like george Washington or Marcus Aurelius. Yeah, I agree. Maybe you could find someone who cared about some companies, but most companies don't have a vision at all. Is there anyone who actually deeply cares about nestles higher vision? I think if you could find someone both willing and able to do will as ceo while being completely uninterested in being a ceo it would go well, but there can't be many of those people.
Thanks for the Motivation
Almost a year and a half. I was at the verge of giving up being an entrepreneur. I wrote a post here to express my frustration.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20001560

I thought no one will reply to it. But lots of people came together and gave a morale support which cannot be measured.

This year I took a resolution to launch three products and I have already launched two.
https://www.devault.app
https://www.inbrief.app

I am on my way to the third.

Thanks a ton for every single individual who commented on that post. Each comment was a great piece of motivation.

Thanks again.
So when Intel bought Altera their Stratix-10 was announced to be manufactured on Intel's fab. Predictably (Intel is not an open fab business) this massively delayed Stratix-10.

At least AMD is fabless so there should be no such issue with Xilinx.

Both Altera and Xilinx sell premium devices in terms of cost. If you make a high volume product based on an FPGA and care about profit margin, you are better off with Lattice (assuming their devices are performant enough for your application). It would be nice if any of these acquisitions made the FPGA prices more competitive, but I doubt it.
When you say 'on my site' would it be correct to say that you are talking about the one in your 'about' section? If so I was motivated to take a look as a way of expressing support for your design choices.

However, you are using a Google-Analytics script????

Nothing wrong with that Buuuuttt.... uhm, yeah.
> people with undeveloped prefrontal cortices

Someone with an “undeveloped prefrontal cortex”, a vague and insulting description, would be a liability on a battlefield. Not every soldier needs to have a genius IQ, but they need to be competent for their role. The military is also not a college financing program and only an fool would treat it like one.
> I think that retention tactics that drag out the process might be more harmful in the future.

I agree, but the case I directly observed was when the only focus was on the current period. What happened in the current month or quarter was the only concern. Long term effects were "too complex to worry about". This form of business myopia is all too common.
These sorts of comparisons are extremely difficult to make. They depend very strongly on what exactly you’re looking at, how you’re measuring inflation, etc. You can easily make charts that show total worker compensation is closely tracking productivity growth: https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/does-compensati...

(Unlike Common Dreams, this article shows their work and discloses their exact methodology and data sources.)

There’s a couple of big picture issues to consider:

1) Why focus on just wages, rather than just benefits? If productivity doubles, but the cost of providing healthcare triples, should employers cover the increased healthcare costs and also double wages? It’s not Microsoft’s fault that it costs $5,000 to get an MRI. From the perspective of how much is transferred from the employer to the employee, a dollar spent on wages isn’t any different than a dollar spent on healthcare.

Failing to distinguish the two things obscured the real problems. It makes you think something is a structural economic problem when in reality it’s cost disease in a particular industry. Wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of housing in New York and San Francisco. But nationwide, the median mortgage payment as a percentage of the median income has scarcely changed since the 1970s. Are wages the problem or are local laws around housing the problem?

2) There is kind of a metaphysical question about who should get the benefits of investment in technology. If you replace 100 workers with technology + very expensive capital equipment, productivity will increase by a factor of 10. (That’s how labor productivity is measured.) Does that mean wages should go up by a factor of 10?
C’est toujours rigolo de trouver un commentaire écrit en français sur HN. ;-)
There's no reason that we couldn't allow workers to be the beneficiaries of automation.
Of course newspapers are political. I don't understand how this is even a point you're confused about, unless you believe in a truly extreme form of cultural relativism.

You obviously have an axe to grind against a particular political spectrum, so I will pose a more direct example that does not involve it.

Is Russia Today political? Is choosing to display it prominently in a search result political? Is choosing to display a 'this is state sponsored news' tag on it political? Is not choosing to display that tag on a link to the CBC, or NPR not a political decision?

If you don't think RT is political, I can go down the list until we find something that is. Zero hedge? QAnon? The International Council of Communism? The newsletter published by your local KKK chapter? BLM?

The reason the work of tech companies is political is because they've installed themselves as gatekeepers of political information. If they were dumb pipes, this wouldn't be an issue. They aren't, though.
There's a little more to preventing real wage erosion than it simply being the right thing to do from a humanitarian perspective.

The interests of individual firms are not aligned with the interests of the broader economy. It's in the interest of every firm to pay its workers as little as possible, but it's in the interest of the broader economy that most people can afford to buy goods and services. Every employee's wage is ultimately some other firm's income; keeping the game going requires that enough people are paid enough money to be able to spend it on things other than absolute essentials.

Even minimum wage workers have to pay for the basic necessities of life at prices that are largely set on the basis of what the median worker can afford. If minimum wages erode, minimum wage workers can't afford to live. This is a both a humanitarian concern and an economic problem because starving people don't make good employees, and people who don't have money can't buy goods and services from other firms. Every person who is pushed out of the economy in this way is an economic loss as they are no longer contributing to economic demand or producing goods/services with their own hands.

In a society with a social safety net, under-paid workers are also a cost to government as they will not pay taxes and will be due social assistance payments/transfers to help cover their costs for food and shelter. Further, underpaid workers may also pose a crime problem (in part because starving people will steal food), which imposes direct costs on crime victims and costs to government for police, prosecution, and corrections.

Underpaying workers benefits firms that do it, but the practice harms the overall economy and imposes externalities on others. Preventing this is why minimum wage laws exist and should keep up with the cost of living.
> I'm not debating if a 30% cut is reasonable
(throw-away here; mods banned my account, rearranged, hid, and selectively stripped away the context from comments - take from that as you will)

This project in particular:

- attacked otherwise neutral competitors, misrepresenting them.

FTP is a protocol associated with a general air of insecurity and poor practice. Most technical people would immediately say not to use it, and that there are far better solutions which aren't fundamentally insecure. Vault is not anything like that. That is a misrepresentation and additionally an attack on the usability of their competitor's product, which is unmerited.

- does not observe the best practice of having security-oriented products be open source.

It is crucial for software in this category be open source, in order to have them widely vetted, and for vulnerabilities not to be incentivized to hold onto (and sold), vs reporting to the vendor. The team have reached their decision that they will NOT open source it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720669 If I cannot build my own binaries (even if unreproduceable builds), I cannot trust the vendor. Additionally, I must trust them to operate and secure it as a public multi-user system better than one could in their own infrastructure under several layers separating it from the public. Humans are prone to mistakes, closed source software engineers make the same mistakes made in open source, only they have employees who's primary task is shipping new features-not fixing a bug which no one may see until it comes out that it's been actively exploited for years; let people improve the overall security, and encourage the only people looking for vulnerabilities to be those who would benefit from exploiting them personally, or by reselling them to the highest bidder.

- demonstrated that the are willing to say things which aren't true, or that they just didn't care to verify the details before stating them as fact.

The authors make the black/white distinction between "you use Dropbox if you aren't paranoid" and "there are self-hosted options if you care about that, but they aren't qualified because you can only use them this way", despite it not being the case. It's a spectrum, and you can achieve the same results with either offering, only with one your only choice is to trust them and that they have things so tight that several malicious employees would be subverted.

- used their employees' previous employers to legitimize their product.

As someone who may be selecting security-oriented tools for a project, and as a someone who has experienced a lot of issues specifically with their engineering/operations firsthand, Uber engineering as a point pushes me away from considering this tool. Uber has also been criticized many times for unethical actions; sure, engineers may often be simply heads-down and following a spec, but I would rather work with someone who didn't just "follow orders". As someone evaluating your offering, my specific feedback is that you will push people like myself away by leaning on that as part of your marketing/branding, particularly when it involves secret management - a topic which is highly dependent on unbreakable morals.
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"stop them from banning apps from their stores that aren't breaking any laws"

It's unlikely to happen in the US because one primary weapon of Cancel Culture is going for the financial jugular, by getting people they dislike banned from payment processing platforms, who all hide behind "we are a private entity" BS.
Despite all this, I currently have more respect for Apple's ethics than most other companies - currently. But if their incentives continue to lead them in this direction, Apple will be the Oracle of 2025. They should actually welcome regulation in this area, because its difficult for a company to change its own incentives.
I think the general concern with respect to foreign ownership of U.S. firms is reasonable to discuss, but I don't see a problem with Facebook removing content from the website regardless of the owner. Regardless of who owns Facebook there is going to be some content that will be removed, same of every platform out there, I just don't see what the harm is that something is taken down from Facebook.
Hi Peter,

Not exactly immigration, but it does say "AMA" .

My company recently announced a leadership training program in an opt-in basis exclusively for only black or latinx employees. (White, asian, and other racial groups were warned not to signup or "identify as" the allowed groups). This leadership training will focus on career development aimed to ensure their promotions (career development). Despite interest , ability, and potential need for the same help, others are being excluded.

Is this legal? (in California)
What value does technology provide other than increasing labor efficiency? If tech helps me build 10x the number of widgets, should all of that surplus value only be captured by the technology owners?

What about the people who build and service the technology which allows these improvements to be implemented?
Do you already have an approved I-140?
It is, and I'd guess that the companies who've used such processes are disproportionately likely to be the ones paying employees better than in the 70s. It's my understanding that nobody on the GE assembly lines makes close to minimum wage.
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What about video game consoles? Early in a generation, they are sold at razor-thin (or negative) margins, with the expectation that the manufacturer will recoup losses from licensing fees over the life of the console and that costs will come down in later revisions.

If manufacturers lose their substantial licensing fees, they would be forced to charge more upfront for the consoles which is objectively worse for consumers.
Now add an indicator that Yelp has “reached out” to the business to “help them” with those bad reviews
Interesting perspective. Reminds me of how trying to index the web using categories and hierarchies gave way to search using keywords. Similar with email interfaces.
Except the Mafia hasn't built from scratch the neighborhood it asks "protection money" from, it already existed there and they pushed out anyone able to stand up to them and started enforcing their rules over the people already living there. Also comparing an organization that terrorizes, mauls and murders people in real life living in their home neighborhood to a company that imposes strict rules to ensure they get a cut of every sale on their own digital platform seems far fetched.
Actually, De Funes himself used this sentence as a reference to "L'Anglais Sans Peine", which is a famous book to learn English, since he was teaching English to his men.
Where is that? In Germany i pay 480€ for a top notch private plan.
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Do you believe the same to be true for Facebook as well? Why is Twitter encouraging outrage-engagement via the (somewhat filtered) Trending section? Why aren't you actively trying to decrease political engagement if it's a net negative?
Much like a landscape of mountains, lakes and prairies
Can the title be updated, dang, since it dropped the word "minimum" which is very relevant, and is in the actual title?
No they don't.

It's a commonly spread fallacy that only "publishers" are allowed to moderate content, and "platforms" not. The entire purpose of Section 230 is to allow platforms to moderate user-submitted content without facing legal liability for doing so. Social media platforms have always been allowed to do exactly what they're doing.
Seems like a very tiny list, given the nature of the tool (none of which I had really heard of)
The article discusses a hypothetical timeline in which wage growth tracks productivity. So it's already in the land of hypotheticals. The question is: how far into that land is it worth going to try to illuminate the full range of the possible?
In that case you should use a reader ignore:

#_(GET "/something3" [] "hello3")
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