skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s always interesting to see the average account-creation date of commenters on politics-heavy subjects.

I’m not sure what it means. It seems like perspectives can be correlated with account longevity, but I have no data on this. Perhaps newer accounts are more likely to comment on politics-related articles?

Has this been studied in general or on HN specifically?
So something like

> The Biden campaign did not dispute the veracity of the emails
Damore's main mistake was doubling and then tripling down. Had he clarified that he did not understand that his memo could create a hostile work environment, there might have been some leeway for the company to retain him.

He made it quite plain that he thought he'd done nothing wrong. At that point, Google is either retaining one employee or facing a class action lawsuit risk. And he wasn't nearly 10x enough to justify retaining him. ;)
Very cool! Is this using an approved Apple api or a homegrown solution?

Your TOS and PP aren’t readable on mobile - light grey on white.
I'm working on something like that.
Never did Aikido. I practiced Judo for years when I was younger. I suppose I always eschewed things that don't work.
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This article is focused more on boys due to the greater harm received in that environment. It's important to recognise the disparity as we have in other issues such as wages.

Sitting on your desk for hours without taking a walk or stretch is harmful to your body, no matter what gender.

In Indian schools, teachers switch classrooms instead of kids during periods. Often they come early and stand at the door for the current teacher to finish and leave. This doesn't give any time to the students to stand up and cool off. There are also security cameras to punish students who start playing in the classroom between periods if the teacher is late.

Of course, some kids will still end up goofing around and sometimes take the punishment.

This ignores that there are kids with anxiety, disability and other problems which make them less likely to ignore the rules and risk getting punished.

This skews the data and people make incorrect assessment about the impact. There are many factors to consider here. I turn out fine is falling into that trap. You probably just goofed around and ignored the norms.

I wonder how much obesity rates in young people are influenced by the current schools.
On the bottom of the about page [0] they have an "In association with Amazon" badge, so I'm guessing they have Amazon's consent.

Edit: D'oh. Had I looked a bit longer I would have seen the legal disclaimer that confirms this at the bottom of the about page:

> camelcamelcamel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program

[0] https://camelcamelcamel.com/about
Facebook plans to use AI to help fight climate change
Redo doesn't do much original, it's a Unix.
The difficulty I have when doing weird shader stuff like this is almost always working around how UE4 does shaders, i.e. I can write the shadertoy raymarcher but working out how to actually use it is quite hard.

That and Unreal's shader compile process is almost completely undocumented so you have to work out yourself how to bully the RHI etc. into doing what you want.
If games can run via the cloud (e.g. Stadia), it should be possible for any app.
They're free to make those statements.

And Google is free to fire them for doing so.

'Tis quite American sounding, to me.
That's a bizarre comparison, because Trump has repeatedly lies about being willing but unable to release his own copy of his tax returns. And the NY Times didn't publish personal documents, they published facts about a certain class of personal documents (tax documents of a Presidential candidate) which for decades have been considered public information by all major corners of the political arena.
By the same token, why should the Constitution of the United States of America matter, give that was 231 years ago?

I think you will find that there are many of us that are quite dismayed at the state of things here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_addres...
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Me too!

I used hard drive neodymium magnets for awhile, but recently discovered some incredibly strong magnetic strips with an adhesive backing. This gives me way more positioning freedom for my phone. These strips are neodymium and at least ~7 times stronger than every other magnetic strip. (which all use ceramics).

You can find the magnets I'm talking about on McMasterCarr [1] or just search for "NeoFlex magnets". Besides McMasterCarr, I can only find them from European sellers.

IMHO, anyone buying adhesive magnet strips would be happier buying these, but no one advertises any sort of standardized magnetic strength per area unit. This makes the differences very hard to determine for most consumers. The typical flexible ceramic magnets, like this one [3], support 70g/cm2 [4], while the NeoFlex ones I mentioned support 400g/cm2. ( 800lbs/sqft)

Also many people try to stick magnets to magnets, works works for typical magnets, but that doesn't work well at all for the multi-pole magnetic strips like these. It works just enough that people blame the magnets for being weak, when really they might be quite strong if you just used a thin steel plate instead.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/catalog/3651K8

[2] https://www.amazon.com/NeoFlex-Flexible-Neodymium-Magnetic-3...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HYA2SE

[4] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12lb+%2F+%281%22+*+12%...
> Truth wins out.

I think that's a great philosophy for structuring a democratic republic form of government, but trying to apply that philosophy universally to all circumstances and all human interaction leaves it a giant untested hypothesis.

It would be nice if truth always won out. That would be cool. Insufficient data to say for sure that it does.
Many are, and many aren't. Sadly, you can't just pick something up and expect not to be exploited for it
The OP title has limits, this is Jack’s full tweet:

“Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”
While I don't entirely agree with the poster above, I think there can be a notable difference in freedoms that your post ignores. People and corporations are two separate groups, and you may want more freedoms for either or even both. Like, I'm for individual freedoms, but companies have the potential for more abuse than a single person not liking you does, and so they should be far harsher regulated (and they are, though some may want more/less) in how they behave towards individuals.
Starbucks/Amazon do this all the time too. I want to know when my coffee is ready and not when you're having a sale or it's double star day.
That doesn't preclude the techniques we're discussing here, it only adds other techniques to the black hat tool box.
Completely agree here, and I hate Google. A business is not a democracy.

I have worked for a company acquired by a Private Equity that was universally hated by managers and employees alike. They didn’t even want to hear problems internally in quiet. It still wasn’t appropriate to trash them or talk to the media while you were an employee.

If you don’t like it and you complain to HR or your manager and they don’t or can’t address the problem, you should work somewhere else. If enough people leave, change will happen. Before that, don’t expect much.
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Great service! Even if nothing is new, it deserves more attention. It really helps me cut through the noise of all advertising hoopla of "Big sale", "20%" off, etc. when I can see the full price history of a product.
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> One would be wise to not talk about matters of which they know nothing about, especially if it harms their employer.

Hmmm...

After Google interviewed a candidate for an executive job
last year, that person sent a follow-up email to Sundar
Pichai ... the candidate asked about the antitrust implications
of a potential merger.

That's an absolutely valid question for a executive candidate to be asking their potential employer, considering concerns over recent years. However:

An antitrust question to Mr. Pichai was seen as inappropriate,
raising questions about the candidate’s judgment.

Not being able to ask material questions about the very environment they're being asked to perform in, is frankly bizarre.

Hopefully the candidate chose a better place.
It looks like they're part of the Amazon Associates Program which is probably where that banner is from (and it says it further down on the page.). I know there is some API locked behind a signup program for that, so I was curious if thats only what they use or if there is some other scraping going on.
Hacker News submissions don't have to be new. :)
If they are to add the word "were," it would be consistent. ;)
I don't understand. The Daily Mail pretty clearly debunks your earlier claims and highlights the shadiness of the alleged source of the laptops.
> I also have some doubts that the OP has removed some bigger publication names (maybe afraid of getting sued? No idea).

Just for completeness: I have not. This is everything I have near-certainty of. I omitted 2 or 3 possible authors who I'm not sure of because I'm not willing to accuse someone with less than near-certainty (where certainty would be their admission). If I knew anything else, I'd have posted it.

Maybe more importantly, I don't have any reason to believe publishers knew this was happening, and have every reason to believe the opposite. Many of these blogs take transparency and disclosure really seriously.
Thanks for the feedback! Changing now.

We are using our own methods to send iMessages!
Security is hardware level first, at multiple levels. So, I don’t think we’ll get it back, at least until eternal love beats evil.
Current and magnetic field are damping effects on a material's superconductivity. Breach the conductance threshold in particular and you get catastrophic material failure
Since they send traffic to Amazon from people who want to buy things, I don't think Amazon minds. And I don't think they care if they pay out to any one affiliate vs. another.
i'm being downvoted for saying like it is.
Ive wondered too. I mean I've definitely bought things because of a price alert -- and not necessarily that it was that much of a discount. It more or less just reminded me of something I wanted. So, maybe amazon sees it as beneficial.
tbf, in the context of _desktop_ innovation whether or not an OS is a unix or not is largely irrelevant today. That might've been a more relevant statement in the era when all desktop unixes used the same toolkit / CDE.
Yep, it is, I was just noting it in case someone was wondering why it was being wonky after trying it out.

I already did just to test it out, the results include a 'next' link that you can use :)
some method to reliably run new stuff in a fully sandboxed environment (short of going through the time and effort to copy an entire disposable windows 10 home virtualbox machine), would definitely help with that problem.

linux based ideas like qubes are are a step in that direction.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Classic Barbara Streisand effect
Yep, I was just noting it for anyone else that tried it and was curious.
"Hey Cheryl, let's meet tomorrow and confirm we've considered all possible concerns on the privacy constraints around data storage for X" is preferable to putting in an email "Cheryl, we need to meet tomorrow. If we launch X as is, there's a huge privacy hole and we're going to get sued."

In essence, that's all the training says regarding this topic.
macOS is signing the system partition, making it effectively write protected in the next release. Not exactly the same, but people are still considering the idea.

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3xpv8r2m
No, I don't need to pay more attention since I'm fully aware of that decision, but thanks for your condescending attitude.

What impact does that decision have on the long lines in nearly every metropolitan area in the US, including places like mine which have no record of any claims of voter suppression or interference at the state level?
I love CCC. Since yesterday and today are Amazon Prime days, I've been using to compare if the "deals" are really deals.

What I've noticed is that for some of the items I'm looking for (like wireless chargers), the price of the items were slowly increased in the weeks leading up to Prime Day, so the deals are still more expensive than earlier in the summer. I think it's a typical business practice, but it's nice to see it verified in a chart.
Roaches, ants, cats, rats, bats, pigeons, and possums all seem modern candidates for site infil. It sounded like screening and training needed more work though.
That story editorializes and wears its bias on its sleeve. It makes numerous statements about the intent of the story without anything to back them up.
Fast & Furious was indeed a scandal as you and others have rightly pointed out but other than that I think we disagree on what a scandal is, I think there needs to be general public outrage for a scandal and we didn't see that except for with Fast & Furious. Sadly, our society didn't care about the US killing one of its citizens extrajudicially. I'm sure we'll look back on that behavior with regret as a nation in the future but I don't see that regret now.

The IRS targeting of right wing orgs was indeed a scandal but it turned out to not be true [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
> By the same token, why should the Constitution of the United States of America matter, give that was 231 years ago?

because in the case of the new york post, the only thing that remained after 230 years is the branding. The writers, editors, and general "culture" at the newspaper has completely changed. On the other hand, the constitution has remained static. Nothing has changed. We can argue whether this is a bad thing or a good thing, but it's fundamentally incomparable to what happened to the new york post.
But why assume a leap directly to proteins, by definition a long chain of amino acids? Couldn't we have started with self-replicating peptides and incremental improvements?
Money gets your word out. If people don't like your word, though, they won't vote for you.

See Bloomberg, Hilary (outspent Trump 2:1). Many other examples of well-funded politicians failing.
Open the border. No reason people born somewhere shouldn't have the same opportunities as people born here beside greed.
I generally disable push notifications when apps start sending sale spam. But I feel like pushing political ads is crossing a whole new line.

I think this is the first time I've left a negative review for bad behavior.
I would consider those political questions to be directly related to the current workspace, and so allowed to talk about. Most of the time what people refer to is activism (our company should support X, because I think X is the correct political action) when talking about neutral environments, at least from what anecdotal observations of the many times this argument has come up on HN.
As well, I wouldn't consider long arguments during work about opinions on {current political topic} to be relevant or even useful. (If you really desire such, then outside work time is prevalent, though you have to be careful of pressuring coworkers into such activities if they don't want to discuss politics at all with work).
There's Emacs and Vim.
Dont forget SAPE. When I heard of that I knew the SEO world was rougher than I had previously imagined.
For those that don't know, its a Russian run marketplace for link injected/hacked sites. Really big, high quality sites.
Folks need to grasp the distinction between the company requiring employees to be careful about using specific terms like 'market dominance' vs. speaking up.

Using terms like 'market dominance' may have legal implications, they surely will have populist implications as anti-trust issues are as much political as anything else.

So instructing staff to 'not speak about Google's market position' is very reasonable, because words have power and implications beyond what most employees probably believe when they're using them.

This is somewhat different from asking people to 'not have opinions' and a totally different league from trying to suppress whistle-blowers etc..
It’s frustrating to see it suggested that highly intelligent members of the civic community (Google employees for example) “know nothing about” antitrust policy or law.

Regular citizens definitely do know lots about that and represent a voice we need to hear. We should not at all be silent and leave that solely to attorneys or Congress - that’s what gets us into the problem where the laws are selectively enforced in exchange for political favoritism and regulatory capture.
Facebook and Twitter blocks items in the US that they do not block internationally.
I agree with you about this being a double standard. NYT has clearly stated that they obtained Trump's tax records through an anonymous source, i.e., through means no more legal than Trump's sources on Biden: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/trump-taxes-editors-no...

I think they're all shady. Why was there a media blackout on Andrew Yang again? https://vocal.media/theSwamp/a-visual-history-of-the-yang-me...

Andrew Yang on Eric Weinstein's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2f0r9W2Mg
CCC owners are clearly trying to drive people today to click their affiliate links on prime day :)
How do you imagine the company "keeps its shit together" if employees are going around like a disorganized bag of cats making legally discoverable documents about topics they don't understand?

The training this story is about is how the company keeps its shit together. They remind employees that doing things correctly, safely, and within the law is a shared responsibility.
When I was in high school, our network had software, perfectly branded as "Net Nanny" installed which prevented us from visiting certain websites. It was totally lame.

I can't understand why my generation wants to recreate Net Nanny on facebook and twitter. It just adds to the 2020 feeling that everything, all at once, is completely falling apart.
i m sure there are others, there was some website to buy hn upvotes too
This was very well written. Noting the expectations for 'hard tech' vs normal and breaking down the traction metrics discretely was huge for me. We've contemplated retaining an experienced "Outsourced CFO" to help us nail which metrics and models need to be conveyed in a pitch deck but this article shores up so many of the questions that we've had. I'm now fairly confident that I can carry on with QuickBooks and Excel in churning a deck like this out in-house.

Thank you!
They're not passive

NY Post has always been trash and will always remain trash
Simple. No inner descriptions like a cool tech would do. I get that ShowHN is always about bragging something but in this case it's just a pretty woman there showing pictures of her wearing earrings that have tech inside.

The difference between a pure ad and a cool showing is that the first one shows the entire face of the woman to trigger psychological buying - a technique that works on both sexes. A cool bragging would've shown only the ear, no pretty face.

Hence, it's a shameless ad, that should not be atop of HN.
If I, as an employee of google, say a bunch of stuff about google antitrust, it doesn't matter how often I say I'm speaking "not in my capacity as an employee of google."

It will be reported as "google employee says <>". It _will_ be taken as a statement that is believed by "google employees".
Fast & Furious was a scandal (albeit a small one). There's a couple of other posters that outline things that should have been scandals but it's not that the media never reported it, it's that the public didn't get outraged.

Not enough people cared about the extra-judicial assassination of a US citizen because he was probably a terrorist so it only lasted one news cycle, that could have been a scandal but it was not. If people don't care about the behavior as being wrong then the event won't be a scandal.
And they regularly allow material obtained illegally or without a clear source of origin, including Trump's tax returns. Which twitter included in trending for 4 days.
Their blog[0] has some info. There was a great Software Engineering Daily podcast about it [1] - specifically they use the Amazon Advertising API (still) although the nature of their relationship has changed over the eleven years. I imagine the affiliate rates drastically dropping during Covid, hurt them a fair bit.

[0]: https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/how-our-price-checking-syst...
[1]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/05/24/camelcamelca...
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If nowhere else opens their borders why should the US?
This is great! One improvement would be to not use an example that's "meta". Your example company is "YC Series A". It takes mental effort to separate the series A narrative that is your article, and the series A narrative that is your example company. This problem is at its worst on the "Use of funds" slide: "We're raising $50k to scale to supporting $1.5B in Series A funds raised annually." The couple of seconds spent in interpreting that correctly is an avoidable distraction.

Just avoid the common trope of examples that are "meta"!
"Blocking a story because it's helpful to Trump is just fine, but we should have explained our pretextual basis better."
I like the people behind Tailscale, but I’ve yet to figure out how they’re different than ZeroTier.
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That's the point of the training. Determination of whether a behavior is anti-competitive is specifically not something a software engineer is trained in. They aren't lawyers. The law on this topic is huge, nuanced, and deeply technical.

Google isn't comfortable with individual untrained software engineers speculating on law for the same reason it isn't comfortable with the lawyers getting it and modifying the privacy coding---people are trained in disciplines that they are highly skilled in, and it's important to let them do their jobs.
Do you not know what "demonstrably false" means? Here is a simple proof by contradiction:

Claim: Let's be honest, the only people screaming for censorship are firmly on the left

Contradiction: Trump, as I've shown in other comments, has also been calling for censorship for several news organizations.

The only way you believe this claim is not demonstrably false, is if you believe Trump is firmly left, which is ridiculous, but if he is, then I guess you got me.
Remember the LAX jet pack sighting a little while ago? There's been another one
It seems purposeful that more internet startups have innuendo in their names. (GroupOn competitor)
Maybe because I suggested Facebook and Twitter are concerned with the news hurting Biden. A better way to phrase would be - "is the story consequential to the election". I think it was not until they took this action, and it is a very strange hill to die on.
Sure. But that presumably does not mean requiring that The National Review carries articles providing a strong case for "cultural Marxism" or that Marxism Today carries articles supporting neoliberal trade policies. In fact, it presumably doesn't mean requiring that any particular medium or outlet carries anything in particular at all.

As you note, there's even less of a monopoly today than there was 50-60 years ago. So why should Twitter (or Facebook or any other similar medium) require any special attention?
He's my friend on FB. Although, he rarely posts...
I would guess people regularly create sockpuppet/throwaway accounts to talk about politics. Too much reputational risk to discuss political topics in the open these days...