skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are losing the ability to consider multiple sides of an issue

Seems to be long gone, to be honest. We're now at a point where people are de-humanizing those on a different side of an issue to themselves. We unfortunately know what the next step is.
> Many things in life can have severe, life-destroying consequences including smoking, drinking, and eating fast food, but none of those can pay you tens of millions of dollars and the praise of millions of people like sports can.

This article is about USC linebackers, meaning NCAA sports athletes, which means no millions of dollars. They are unpaid student athletes.

> So all of these articles and hand wringing - so what? Don't watch. Don't pay money. Let those who like it continue to. It's everyone's right to make their own decisions.

Many students are encouraged to play football throughout the US. Critiquing social norms is important and shouldn't be minimized as "hand wringing." It's important to surface the dangers of sports like these to help folks make better decisions for their lives. Society can come together and be like "hey kids are losing their dads over these sports, either to death or horrible symptoms e.g CTE-induced violence" -- maybe the value of these sports doesn't exceed the damage they do to the folks involved, even if equitable compensation was possible.

Personally I don't think it's worth it. You can have sports that don't cause these problems (e.g basketball, baseball), and you can make sports safer if they do cause harm (e.g fouls in basketball in the 80s vs today).
A worse battery, no reverse charging, huge notch compared to alternatives...
I was planning to upgrade my phone but I guess I'll have to wait for iPhone 13
Don't forget the startups:
We'll do the right thing, unless times are tough
That is some seriously impressive improvement on performance and memory use; I'd be interested to know what exactly they did to do that (ex. did they realize they could rearrange something to do the same thing with less work, or is this just a lot of little optimizations adding up?).

Also cool, if a little weird to me, to see full-blown map-reduce and APL-like features; I feel like that moves away from the "beginner's language" that I think of when I think of Snap, and builds at least the ability to take it a lot further. Which, honestly, is just really cool:)
Let's be honest, the only people screaming for censorship are firmly on the left. Controlling "disinformation" is a dog whistle for censorship, hoping that average citizens don't realize what they're really after. We all know who is going to be the moderators in flagging "disinformation" and we all know which ideology they overwhelmingly favor. I'd sooner trust a pyromaniac as fire chief of my local county than I would trust big tech companies to manage "disinformation" on my behalf.
I can’t say definitively why you’re being downvoted, but it might be consistent with the very point you’re trying to make.
Was it Cyberdog? I know that’s extremely obscure, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
They posted 3 hours ago.
None of them are serious. NY Times made a big deal out of trumps taxes when everyone knows depreciation offsets revenue in real estate, its 101 stuff. You get taxed when you sell the asset which happens infrequently but in large magnitude. Most people in the industry were laughing at the gaslighting they did on that story but they fooled their little pawn readers. Just one example out of many. Every news source is full of shit even the ones that are supposed to be reputable.
Consider reading John McPhee’s ‘Levels of the Game,’ about tennis. Or ‘A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton,’ about basketball. Both are about so many other things too.
it seems weird to plug a phone into a usb c device that can charge a notebook

I love using the same charger for my laptop, phone, and tablet. When traveling I only have to carry one charger.
If I was a Twitter or Facebook investor, I have one question:

What did you expect was going to happen?

Honestly. Did nobody have the foresight at Facebook or Twitter to think that this wouldn't blow up? Did nobody think, just once, that this might invite regulatory action or be in news headlines?

And if honestly nobody thought this might happen, I'd want the entire management and "safety" team replaced for having no foresight for their actions whatsoever.
In fairness to Apple, they didn't just make other ports for the sake of it. When lightning mini was made, it was objectively better than mini-USB. When magsafe was made, it was objectively better than barrel plugs (and for charging, it's still better than USB-C.) Now that the standards are better, Apple is slowly transitioning to USB-C, which is a standard.
It's not just Twitter, it's also Facebook. (I believe Facebook was actually the first to take action.) What if Google does it too?

In the past few years, we've seen these big tech companies operate in a manner that seems collusive. They follow each other's cues. One company is the first to censor, and then the other companies follow very quickly with the exact same censorship. (The quick collective action tends to dilute the criticism against any single one of those companies.) It's not just one company doing what it wants, it's all the major players doing the same form of censorship.
Ok, changed to that from https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy.... Thanks!
Are there any plans or a way to use existing tools?
By existing tools I mean winscp or any other tools that use a normal ssh client? RDP etc.
I guess for shh and rdp you can just run the Boundary cli with a the predefined target in a terminal embedded into the UI (MremoteNG, MobaXterm etc) but tools like winscp are very much used for sftp file transfers.

A desktop client with a list of services/targets would also be great. Especially for the less technologically inclined individuals.

I know that people have their own opinions on port knocking but I find it as a good tool to remove a lot of noise, some pre built tool for that would be nice but could always just use fwknop-2
It's boilerplate advice a corp will get from corp lawyers, who can cite you the specific cases where an employer has been burned in the past due to otherwise-irrelevant employee communication.

Here's the trick: In the event a lawsuit goes to discovery, who decides what's in scope to enter evidence?

Hint: it's not the corporation. Nor is it the employee who made the (in context, at the time) innocuous statement that used the wrong keywords in a way that can be taken out of context.
Still needs to be --, not - -.
It’s VIP tunnel vision. Rich people with celebrity status never suffer the negative effects of those systems. In fact, it actually benefits them because the system knows they’re rich and actively favours them because they’re considered more valuable than the rest of us.

Of course he doesn’t get worked up because if his assistant calls for support on anything they get routed to the VIP support system and a team of people spring into action to solve the problem for him.

People like Carmack don’t have to use the shitty systems they’re building, so they don’t care. He’s just another rich asshole IMO.
Depends on how you define legal trouble. Getting hauled in to testify before a judge or Congress would certainly qualify as legal trouble for me. Perhaps not direct legal trouble, but trouble nonetheless.
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Matter to who? You? The family of someone who died? The person who died? Someone who lost their job or home due to lockdown?
I agree; you can really see the writing quality diminish when shows just go on forever. The original 'vision' is completely lost and you can almost hear the discussions between writers as they have to come up with new plot twists to make the story believable for yet another series/season.

That's why I thoroughly enjoyed the German show Dark. They planned 3 series/seasons and that's what we got: a well-thought-out show from start to finish with a single vision of how the whole thing will end. That clue in the first episode? Yep, directly related to the ending in season/series 3 and not some, now inconsequential, detail the writers 'forgot about' or changed course over.
>Google employees are not shy about speaking up. In the last few years, they have openly confronted the company about building a censored search engine in China, the handling of sexual harassment claims and its work with the Pentagon on artificial intelligence technology for weapons.

I'd love to see what would happen to a Google employee who tries to argue that sexual harassment laws and policies are stifling normal social interactions, empowering the vicious and overly sensitive to destroy anyone who upsets their particular sensibilities, and creating an overall climate of fear and conformity.
Credibility comes from both the progress you've made with your company, as well as the relationship you build with the investor. We cover how to build credibility in your relationships with Series A investors in our Series A guide (https://www.ycombinator.com/library/1s-relationships). In short, the best way to establish credibility is to consistently predict an ambitious goal and achieve it.
Correct. Primarily to protect the corporation.

Indirectly, to protect the individual employee, because if a lawsuit going south harms the business prospects, the company might have to downsize, cut benefits, cut bonuses, &c.
Not only that, but also-- regulatory capture.

If Google's competitors didn't have a Justice Department that blatantly serves their own interests of investigating Google, then Google would have no incentive to keep their employees from discussing anti-trust law.

Government cronyism is why corporations can't simply let us have nice things.
You may enjoy Mike Pesca's podcast 'The Gist' - among other things he talks a lot about sports which I don't care for, but he has such passion and talks in such a compelling way that I can't help but be engaged.

(It's a daily podcast, so don't feel bad about skipping episodes)
Thank you for bringing up this great point - yes, agreed that patient-reported outcomes can be sometimes challenging even though this is the standard of "objective" measurement for mental healthcare! Part of our whole goal is to find additional objective measurements that don't need to rely solely on the patient's reporting. For example, how one uses their phone (have they left the house? are they socializing and in touch with others? etc.) could be telling. By combining different streams of information we can relieve patients, clinicians, researchers of just relying on the types of surveys you talk about to give a more objective view of the patient. We don't know of anyone else taking this comprehensive approach.
Can’t really comment on anything above the waterline but below typically they become more attractive to marine life, basically things grow on them... if this is good or bad depends on who you talk to (eg should barren places remain barren, is increasing the amount of marine life the right thing?).

I worked on a project decommissioning an oil rig d as no it nearly got canned because rare cold water coral started growing was found on the structure. Marine life is weird...
Doesn't this apply to most people as well? Most people are happy to vote for rent control - unless they're a landlord. Most parents will vote for higher property taxes if it means better schools, but most childless homeowners will not. Most urbanites will vote for gun control, most hunters will not. People who walk or take public transportation to work will vote for higher gas taxes, people with 2 hour commutes will not. Heck, isn't one of the claims leveled against liberal white suburbanites that they will happily fight for minority rights in the abstract, but then fight for zoning codes that in practice keep minorities (other than high-earning Asians) out of their neighborhoods anyway?

Social movements that succeed tend to take this into account, and frame things in ways that are not zero-sum. I lose nothing by letting gays marry; my heterosexual marriage is still just as legitimate. I lose nothing by allowing abortions - as a male, I'm not going to get one anyway. I lose nothing when YC seeks out qualified minority & female applicants; I have plenty of advantages of my own, I don't need that extra attention. I lose nothing when Black Lives Matter - my life still matters too, we just need to fix the institutional systems that let a black person get shot dead with no repercussions to the killer. (Personally, I think the left has made some very large tactical errors recently by ignoring this principle - fights over things like affirmative action, political correctness, and white privilege are all because the debate has been framed as "You must lose something in order for life to be fair", which isn't a great way to persuade people.)
I searched for "peripherii" and found:

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017049261A1/en
So? Just don’t use the included cable.

I’m overflowing with USB-A to lightning cables. Apple bundled USB-A to lightning cables with their wireless trackpad and keyboard even after they dropped USB-A ports on their laptops. And if you don’t have any, they cost like $3 from the supermarket or drug store.

I’m going the other way. I think my phone charger is one of the last USB-A chargers in my house, and it’s days are numbered. I love being able to throw my laptop charger in my bag when I travel and charge all my devices with the same brick.
I really haven't had a problem charging an iPhone and all my other devices from a handful of USB bricks. I suppose the charging tech might mean they don't charge at optimal speed, but I've never noticed the difference.
If they had to give me five dollars for every spam call that got through, I bet they'd find a way to stop it.

T-mobile already classifies these calls as 'Scam likely' and they've never seemed to misclassify any, so obviously it can be done.
Some cigar chomper transformed The X Files from a beloved show to one where everyone just wanted the damn thing to end.
Right, but what if the story is 100% legit, and the people interfering in democracy are actually FB, Twitter, Google and Cloudflare? All of which are heavy lobbyists, and have their own interests at heart. Shouldn't they just be elevating journalists that are casting doubts on it, or going in to try to confirm or refute the story...instead of just outright blocking something that isn't verifiably false? This isn't remotely the same as QAnon or antivaxxing, as that are verifiably false.
You're welcome. I might write it as an article so it could be shared easily.
The question is more whether Google would fire someone for circulating such a thing. Outsiders will always howl about something, but the interesting question to me is what Google would do.
We can't, in general, rely on companies to be on the forefront of activist work or to push the boundaries, for exactly the reasons that you outlined, but I think the role they play in rounding up the stragglers is also very important.

To pick a specific example, you're completely correct when you call out that a lot of companies only started visibly supporting LGBT causes quite recently, when the social momentum was obviously moving that direction, and there was a direct profit incentive to pridewashing things. I know many members of the LGBT community who are against corporate involvement in pride events for precisely that reason, and I know many LGBT people who find it very disingenuous that companies might be profiting off rainbow marketing while not (or only recently) having non-discrimination policies, or offering equal coverage for health insurance to their LGBT employees.

On the other hand, I would contend that the pride washing and corporate push into LGBT rights is a large reason why they haven't backslid as quickly during the last 4 years as they might otherwise have done, and why there's still broad public support for marriage equality even in the face of a possible reversal of Obgerfell after the inevitable SCOTUS appointment. The activists did the work, but a few years of corporate pridewashing, seeing rainbows on every t-shirt, cereal box, soda can, and brand of tennis shoe normalized things for a group of people who wouldn't have ever listened to the activists who are pushing on things. There's real social value in signaling "Supporting LGBT rights is the cheap, easy thing that we're obviously going to do because everyone agrees it's the right thing". It won't change the mind of the active bigot, but there are a whole lot of people who will just go along with the majority opinion on social issues, and corporate signaling is perhaps the defacto way to signal the majority opinion on social issues.
> I'm not sure what could have been done to make a new FTP that was better than SFTP.

Or HTTPS, IMO; it supports file download/upload, user/pass access control, and encryption. It's a little annoying to have HTTP subsume yet another thing, but it's actually pretty decent at this one.
For a counterpoint on why this story is likely BS: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5-points-on-why-the...
You do if you want to keep posting here.

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a lot lately. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24772993 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24772982 are not ok. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? I don't want to ban you, but we can't have people throwing their weight around and attacking others like this.
The average person who buys a $1,000 phone in 2020 and has no USB charger at home or charging brick from a previous iPhone or laptop or computer or anything to plug in the cable. Sure.

There's probably someone like that, and they can buy a charging brick. The rest of us can do without the 300,000 tons[1] of e-waste per year these amount to.

[1] https://goodelectronics.org/iphone-charger/
Wow, this really hits home because I have a friend who was, well, a USC linebacker and then a professional linebacker. Further, he's deeply conspiratorial and not in dialog with the medical system or much of mainstream anything. He's also quite forgetful in areas that are alarming for someone his age (early 30's). Anyone have ideas on how they would approach a friend or act as appropriate council to try to make sure he can continue to age appropriately? No one else in his immediate circle is really as health aware or conscious as I, so I feel like the onus falls particularly on me to try to be proactive if there are any steps that can be taken. Further, surprisingly to me, former football players are in little if any dialog with the teams they played on so I don't expect great advice to come from those organizations either.
>It seems like this computer shop fellow voluntarily gave over this hard drive only after the computer in question became his property (as a result of someone not collecting the computer and not paying the bill)

To say this strains credulity would be be a massive understatement.
>I don’t care if MMA fighters beat each other to death, they’ve got the freedom to make those choices, but keep your blood sports out of high schools and universities.

Not necessarily disagreeing, but I'm curious if your issue is with the age or with being part of "high schools and universities". Most MMA athletes nowadays started as adolescents but not part of a sanctioned school program.
The combination of twitter and Facebook are a huge percentage of public conversation. "Just go start your own twitter" is missing the point.

How would you feel if they had banned all talk of russian conspiracies the last few years? Would you be making the property rights argument still?
As a non-lawyer, such an employee is probably stepping into relatively dangerous territory committing to discoverable media open speculation that the law under which the company operates is bad.

It's not the company that might hold them accountable; it's the government, if the government's looking for evidence that either individual employees break law regarding hostile work environment or there's a pattern that can be established that the company either encourages or turns a blind eye to creation of hostile work environment.

That sort of speculation is for a law salon or (anonymously) Reddit, not an internal mailing list.
I found myself wanting a little more content here. Felt mostly like hand waving followed by a plug for their product.
I don't think the definition of price gauging is simply 'it's a bit more expensive than I think it should be compared to what it used to be for this optional luxury item' - if it is then it's a useless concept and we shouldn't worry about it!
> New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, or other major broadcast outlet with actual journalistic standards.

"Actual journalistic standards" yeah right! They literally carried out a fake news story about Nick Sandmann without any sort of verification. CNN settled 250 million $ lawsuit followed by Washington Post. Other publications are in the line next. They have zero credibility... especially after causing irreparable damage to a child's reputation by labelling him a racist when he was anything but. The real racists at the rally were those who accused this kid of racism. For full video of the actual altercation you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNyOD8FIQk and decide for yourself.

Demonstration 1 of so called "Journalistic Standard": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/business/media/washington...

and

Demonstration 2 of so called "Journalistic Standard": https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-new-york-times-rollin...
Right - it's why we suggest founders start with a one-liner that describes what they do right now, that's clear enough that investors have a concrete picture of it in their heads. Once they've established that foundation, they can cast the vision / make the argument of what $B company that foundation allows them to build towards.
The rules against PEDs in sports are arbitrary, but that's fine. Most other sports rules are also arbitrary. The intent is to ensure some level of equality and keep the competition interesting. We don't allow cyclists to show up for a race riding motorcycles.
I don't really care about Twitter or Facebook to be honest. It's not the only game in town.

I'd be more concerned if I bought server hosting from AWS, stood up a WordPress blog about my thoughts on capitalism, socialism, sports, and dogs, and Amazon decides to suspend my account due to my writings.
I don't think it's that Gorhill doesn't want to port to a separate API, it's that they have no interest in making a crippled blocker.
I used to watch one or more NFL games per week, but after reading up on traumatic brain injuries, I decided to stop supporting football.

I still think it’s the most intricate and exciting team sport, but the long term impact on players (especially the ones who never even get a big payday) is too negative to ignore.
They are utilities at this point I hope they get treated this way. The monopolistic public square of debate cant have kings in charge.

Also can you imagine what would happen if big tech oligopolies teamed up with one political party for a "I scratch your back you scratch mine" situation. You could have a 1 party political system for eternity and essentially remove the democratic system.

The threat of big tech oppression is significant. And if you watched the movie "the social dilemma" the oppression and political strong arming by big tech is already happening in countries outside the US.
> For employee productivity they could just hand out AR goggles that translate everything in sight automatically to a language the employee knows

Because if you actually have this to the point needed, you’re far better off selling those out to the world.
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