skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do companies pay princelings large sums of money without getting anything in return? I believe it's usually understood that they get something in return, even if that something is just not getting into trouble (as is the way in China, if you want no road blocks in your enterprise, you better hire some high official's kid).
Innosilicon selects Imagination’s new BXT Multi-Core GPU IP for cloud computing
Funny you should say that. For a couple of years in my life, when I was about 20, I went through this phase where I went around all year long in just a t-shirt (and shoes and trousers, of course). I also took hot-and-cold showers: I showered with cold water then alternated cold and hot a few times.

I did this because I got sick and tired of catching a cold every year and having a very high fever (39 to 41 C all the time). I blamed having being overperscribed antibiotics as a child, which at the time I believed had weakened my immune system. That was probably nonsense, although it's true that when I was a kid it was common to give kids antibiotics for viral infections, so I got a lot of antibiotics for no good reason at all. I figured that exposing myself to cold would help me build up my immune system again. Also probably nonsense.

I can't tell if anything changed by what I was doing. I never felt any different from doing it, not "more alive" etc as others report. I got over my colds with high fever but that was most probably because I grew up (I think adults don't get such high temperatures from a cold as kids do). I sure got lots of strange looks and people kept asking me whether I'm a) cold and b) mad.

I didn't use any breathing techniques or meditation or anything like that. I didn't particularly exercise much, though I was a strong lad at the time (now, not so much). I think I just sort of willed myself to do it and did it and then realised it wasn't that hard after all. I think the true secret, the real lesson, is that we are made to withstand a lot more cold than we think and we're just used to being warm a lot more than we were meant to be if we lived without all our technology. Except of course we don't have to be cold because we have all that technology. So there's no reason for breathing exercises and so on to learn how to withstand the cold. That's what our brains are for.

Also, don't follow gurus.
I have a better explanation as a CRS sufferer. It is linked cortisol and stress and the humming soothes them.
Yes, Google employees can post rants on Twitter as long as it is the party line.

Some of those rants remind me of "spontaneous" pro party demonstrations of children wearing red neck scarves in North Korea.
Social activism by employees is usually progressive. Social activism by management is nearly always reactionary.
NYPost Article about Hunter Biden (Banned from Twitter)
I don't think the USB-C charger thing is a big issue, Apple already has several different sizes of USB-C charger. I have an iPad pro, 13" MBP and work-issued 15" MBP, and all have different sized USB C chargers. You can charge them with any of the above, but the smaller chargers can't keep up with the more demanding devices. This was already the case with the iPad vs iPhone charger, and the older magsafe chargers as well that came in different sizes.
The very fact that regular employees of these companies might have the clout to take bribes for simply giving their attention to something, speaks to the absurdity of how much power we've given the organizations. We're talking about Facebook programmers like they're state senators.
Man....... equivocating "being cancelled on Twitter because you said something misogynistic" with the pre-2005 reality of "same sex relationships will send you to jail in Oklahoma" is a profound lack of perspective, even by the standards of HN.

"Cancellation" isn't censorship and it's certainly not a human rights violation. Get a grip.
These schools do not always have the resources to monitor large numbers of suspended students, and it would also just lead to the exact same problems, unless students don't need to go to the bathroom anymore. They don't have enough rooms to put students on their own, so they have to put them in groups.

Your school was probably very different from mine.
Neither is China and India. No one mentioned EU.
Yep :( Instead of firing up tethered Chrome in debug mode, grabbing a 7' St. Croix and going to a pier before sun sets ;) Time better spent, perhaps.

My hunch is it has to do with an implementation of EventTarget, the apparent source of all my Browser/JS problems this month. It did work on mobile prior to me refactoring things to the native event system, but, not since. My best suspect. I'll give it a look for an upcoming update, thanks for reminding me.

Though, honestly when it did work, the performance was ... garbage. I don't have too old of an Android phone or tablet, but it was still a performance struggle on both at simplest of settings and configurations. HTML5 + SVG + DND / touch libs simply weren't stellar for this sort of thing.
This post argues that ML is experimental in nature which makes it harder to plan for. That’s true of any R&D project though! Academia is typically not run on kanban boards, for example.
This seems like an interesting corollary to the Streisand Effect, where shutting down means of spreading information makes the information spread further.
I wonder how the data looks on soccer and the long term effects of headers. It seems any activity that causes the brain to rapidly and repeatedly impact the skull is up for review.
They simply put them inside the ear canal.
That document doesn’t appear to say what you are claiming.

Disallowing unsigned software altogether would contradict other statements they have made.

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes something you can only enable from the command line.

They have clearly stated that Apple Silicon Macs will be open to whatever software you want, but they may well choose to make that more difficult for inexperienced users.
The content of the article is relatively benign, but unflattering to Hunter Biden. Just interesting that social media platforms are censoring it.
> Not really sure why it was flagged but whatever, HN does what it does.

If you truly beleive the comment didn't deserve to be flagged (this does unfortunately happen sometimes, especially on threads like this) you can vouch for it if you have showdead on
>this is just begging for legal trouble

Fingers crossed.
Exactly. A public facing ip for a server, especially a database, is just a bad idea. You need something a bit more hardened to route the traffic. And a publicly accessible database is just asking for trouble.
Corporal punishment, hopefully.
Except it simply doesn’t work.

Companies don’t pay taxes, people pay taxes. Companies may be the ones signing the checks to IRS, but they’re not the ones footing the bill.

The only difference is that for big companies it’s worth their while to have lots of accountants working the books, the same way it’s worth it to have lots of engineers fine-tuning the tech.
> Digital Ocean and Linode both get wrong (they offer no cloud firewall of any sort, to my knowledge)

DO has had a cloud firewall for a while now (a year or 2?) https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/firewalls/. It's free too.

Looks like Linode has one coming soon https://www.linode.com/products/firewall/.
I’m saying this specifically about a piece of obsolete technology. Firefox is in no way obsolete, so the comparison is entirely inapplicable.

Polyfills are available for most things but they’re not trivial, and they have a meaningful cost in two axes: developer effort, and performance. Things like CSS Flex, CSS Grid, SVG, and ECMAScript 6+ functionality can all be made to work in IE (with a few exceptions, like grid auto placement), but only by making things heavier, typically for everyone. Other things that are really nice to be able to depend on like CSS Custom Properties and more recent ECMAScript syntax (e.g. modules) either can’t be used outright, or require much more extensive working around which still restricts what you can do in all the other browsers.

Speaking as someone who has had to maintain IE11 support for a couple of things within the last few years, it seriously is a real drain that contributes more code, bugs (not just for the offending browser) and simple complexity than many realise.

IE is not receiving mainstream support. The effort is too much. You should either ignore it, or, if people are trying to get support on specific issues in it, strongly consider actively scuppering it.

IE is dead. Let it stay dead.
That's a separate problem. Individual psychiatrists can experiment with unproven treatments, within reasonable bounds. But it wouldn't be appropriate for an EHR vendor like Osmind to make treatment recommendations without a solid foundation in evidence-based medicine.
Criticizing sexual harassment law is not sexual harassment, not even a "hostile work environment" violation.

On the other hand, employees criticizing the company for not sufficiently punishing sexual harassment is exactly the kind of evidence you're talking about.
A definition from a practitioner:

> "Propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of public or mass-produced communication designed to affect the minds and emotions of a given group for a specific public purpose, whether military, economic, or political."

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pag...
In California, that could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment (political affiliation is a protected class).

In general, political affiliation is not a protected class, and employers are, in fact, allowed to fire people for being too Republican. Or too Democratic, for that matter.
"You're free to speak up and they're free to fire you"
My issue is that high schools and universities serve a purpose to move society forward, and I don't see how an activity that causes brain damage for entertainment qualifies.
But they didn't block stories about Trump's stolen tax returns? Is there any sort of non-political justification?
The only explanation for that would be not looking. Remember Milo Yiannopolous, cancelled by Breitbart and CPAC? How about Alexander Vindman?
To me this is the key paragraph:

> ...employees are told to assume that every document and email will end up in the hands of regulators, so they should refrain from using certain words or phrases. “We are not out to ‘crush,’ ‘kill,’ ‘hurt,’ ‘block,’ or do anything else that might be perceived as evil or unfair,” according to a slide used in the training, which The New York Times reviewed.

In my experience, these policies exist largely to avoid negative PR hits.
Most companies use an ATS to organize inbound applications and ask job seekers to upload their resume. Here, recruiters/hiring managers later view this resume.

You need a PDF or Word doc here (PDF preferred). When applying for larger tech companies, this is the use case 90% of the time.

As a hiring manager, I want to see details quickly. The less "fanciness", the better. I can scan traditional resumes much easier than this one. So my view is the same as when choosing a fancy template: you make the job of the hiring manager more difficult, thus lowering your chances.

With software developers, boring and simple format is good. Your resume content should sell you, not the presentation.
They do piece it together in cases in which that is an issue. Translators are cheaper than attorneys by an order of magnitude and they are available in large quantities. This behavior described just consists of dopey attempts to evade discovery that will not work to obstruct federal investigators. All it does it call into question the character of the company, which does annoy the government and the court and will make the company look worse.
Because Amplitude‘s product offerings aren’t exactly 1:1 to Google Analytics.
Yeah, half the article was commentary on an Andrew Ng keynote and the other half was an ad for their employer.
vouch early and vouch often.
Babylon 5 is a bit of an oddball. They were originally told they'd have a fifth season. Then they were told they wouldn't, so they wrapped it up in season 4 (and season 4 is quite compressed as a result, which might be what you like). Then they ended up getting that fifth season. They used it to do all kinds of fun 'post show' things.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine went 7 seasons. They could have done it in 3-4; especially if they could have had modern 50-60 HBO-style shows, rather than 35-40 minute network television shows.

I'd like to see creators target 3-4 seasons and contracts be written for them to create all those seasons. The really good, fan-centric ones could then do the Babylon 5 style post-seasons or a contract could be written for additional seasons to cover the next story arc. (I'm sure this is impossible for some reason, but I can dream.)

As things stand, I generally don't watch any new show that doesn't already have a few seasons under its belt. I really dislike watching a season of a show, falling in love with it, and then finding out its already gotten the axe.
Thanks very much - you've helped me crystalize my thoughts and have expressed things in a way much better than I did (even to myself). This is exactly the type of value I like to get from HN.
"I'm the type that appreciates art and craftsmanship" is signalling.
They probably have been doing this for a while, and this was just the first time they got called out for it.

Regulatory action has been in the works for some time. Whether or not it goes through depends only on politics. The mainstream media already doesn't like them for eating their lunch. Twitter has nothing to lose by doing this. It will damage Facebook's brand identity as being a "free speech" platform, but that's about as factual as Google's "don't be evil" brand or Apple's "privacy first" brand.
You should have done that instead of posting this comment on hacker news, then. Entry 1, "a reply to lapcatsoftware".

Why use social media?
You can barely spot the good ones.
It's unfortunate that the headline sounds like pure clickbait, because the story contains examples of Google's behavior being more suspicious than the headline suggests.

But, as far as the title is concerned, it seems common sense to prevent employees from talking about potentially very expensive legal issues, when every internal emails and chat logs can be potentially quote-mined by adversaries in future lawsuits.

(Disclaimer: worked at Google before.)
Then they have to burn their time coming up with examples and evidence to defend against a badly-architected argument in the first place.

... which starts to smell like a hostile work environment. Not that that's, technically, illegal if the hostility is about political affiliation (unless the employee is in California).
What's the probability that the story they're blocking is 100% bullshit? And if they have evidence or signals of that, does that weigh in to your opinion on their intervention?
Here is another keynote address about Snap! that Jens Mönig was invited to give recently:

Keynote by Jens Mönig "The Music Comes Out Of The Piano. Learning With Computers & From Computers" during ECTELFI20 - the joint online conference of the 15th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL20) and the 18th Annual Conference of the Educational Technologies SIG of the German Informatics Society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_x5zsuu5jY
Landing Page: The Posterity Project – feedback/thoughts?
Currently in SS and have applied to YC W21. Notion + Super.so is fantastic, so that's what I used. Easy, clean, simple. I'm ex-FAANG with two startups under my belt (B2B SaaS and B2C manufacturing for the MI). One failed spectacularly and one became profitable in 10 months. This is my first as a solo-founder. It's pre-MVP.

I would like some feedback on this LP, if you have the time.

Thanks in advance.
This is an ad. Why is it at top of HN?
Analogies can be helpful if they're straightforward and accurate, and the company you're comparing yourself to is well-known and has a $1B+ market cap (at minimum). Beware of using analogies that are either overly convoluted or inaccurate. As I suggest in this guide, you can test out whether or not the analogy works by trying it out on a couple people that know nothing about your business and asking them to explain back to you what your company does.
When you rise prices, you lose sales. When you drop prices, you gain sales. The market price is where a product of these two maximizes. You cannot make more profit by simply rising prices beyond the equilibrium point. That was economics 101 when I was taught it. Is that knowledge now deprecated? Or is iphone now an essential item?
Often Twitter will lock the creation of new tweets, and require the manual deletion of the offending tweet before you can continue posting. I suspect that's what happened in this case, rather than an outright account suspension.
> But if the firm is purely remote, why tolerate this? Ignoring the issue of pay cuts for moves, why pay $200K for someone in SF instead of $100K for someone just as good in Pittsburgh?

Well, I guess it depends on exactly how fungible you think employees are.

If you set a lower ceiling on the salary for a position, you're more-or-less excluding many of the largest concentrations of available labor from consideration.

For that matter, for more senior positions, you're possibly excluding the candidates that have the most relevant experience (depending on your industry) wholesale.

> The firm receives no benefit from the employee choosing to live somewhere expensive.

The firm may receive some benefit from the employee being embedded in a community that has a high concentration of practitioners, but that's a bit speculative.

When it comes to engineering (and software engineering in particular) many businesses are not shopping for the most cost-effective labor per-se, but for the best labor they can afford (or so they think).

There are a bunch of reasons for this, some of which are based on myths or misunderstandings, but what it comes down to is that so long as there is an extant belief that better candidates are clustered in particular regions, you'll see a salary premium for candidates located there.
There's a lot more to cancellation than losing a twitter account, it's about the instinct to silence and control those who disagree with you. And the underlying process is the same. Conservatives often think they are doing the lords work, and anyone who opposes them is evil and not worthy. And liberals often think they have the market on virtue cornered, and anyone who is opposed is a nazi/racist/xenophobe. And I'm only slightly exaggerating.

Edit: And I should add, that I did pick an example that was unfair to the right since it is worse than what is typically described as cancellation. So i apologize for that imbalance, but my basic point is still that the real issue is illiberal authoritarian elements that appear across the entire spectrum of left-to-right -- regardless of the degree to which they've so far been able to flex their muscles.
There's no need to qualify that with "many authoritarian or the like use". There's no way to know whether or not PRISM has had any impact. Even if the program were to stop today, if everything remained the same, you could still argue that the effects of the program were so great that they've essentially collapsed the US-targeted terrorist attack industry, possibly forever.

The only real discussion that can take place is whether or not the potential safety afforded by the surveillance is worth the real erosion of freedoms. Those in favor of the surveillance are winning that discussion where it matters, whether its through emotional appeal, fearmongering, corruption or whatever. Its a totally opinionated case at this point, which even the ballot box wouldn't help as you'd just be shifting the onus of persuasion from the military leaders to the American people, who definitely don't know enough of what's happening overseas to make a reasonably informed decision.

Its the most complex issue voters would be straddled with, everything pales in comparison.
Aside from the censorship issue, Twitter is making a mockery of its own policy. Twitter is ostensibly blocking this article under their, "no hacks or leaks may be linked to" policy, while only a couple of weeks ago the story about the Trump tax returns (derived from a leak) was all over Twitter without being suppressed at all. If Twitter is going to arbitrarily choose which news to censor it should do so without using the fig leaf of a policy that Twitter itself openly violates.
Why is this being downvoted? As far as I can tell from reading the article, this is an accurate summary. The provided evidence that said laptop is genuinely connected with Hunter Biden is 1) a Biden sticker on the laptop, 2) the fact that it's a Delaware repair shop, and 3) a pornographic video featuring somebody who "appears to be" Hunter Biden. What about this is convincing evidence?
Check out the PDF of the patent for what look like all the details on how it works: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017049261A1/en
Unfortunately still only 1:1 And on mobile only.
E2EE is not available in group chats or on the desktop client.
It's funny that you are talking about Luddites because those were basically beaten into submission by police.
Whatever age the parents can afford comprehensive health insurance at...
> I love this proposal. I think I would use it too much at first, and the pull it back to using it a reasonable amount :)

I can think of a bunch of things over the years where I did exactly that on first discovering it.

A small warning though: I write a lot of perl, and while I care a lot about readability for the next developer, plenty of people fail at the "pull it back" phase so it's definitely a trade-off.
I definitely have.

https://www.google.com/search?q=conservatives+call+for+boyco...
I think a huge ethical issue is the continued existence of American football, especially for children, but also at colleges. Which means a huge cash cow for the NCAA disappearing.
This kind of mess is why I respected Wikileaks so much for all those years including the 2016 leaks. Leaking is an art that requires dumping verifiable and irrefutable documents to as many people as possible so they can independently investigate them. These plant jobs in partisan media will never be received credibly.
The woman in the demo video (not the narrator) uses upspeak in every single utterance, and I found it pretty offputting.
It likely is BS, but not definitely. Even some of the points in the TPM article aren't very strong (I'm sorry, but journalists mocking the story isn't a point.) But, even if it is, it's not the role of Facebook to decide it is or isn't, when it is not verify-ably false. Instead they should just elevate critics of the article/scoop like the article you linked.
Are you sure? To me in the video it definitely seems like they are using an actual piercing, @ 1:05 you can see it swing away from her ear

edit:

In the pdf link above it states

> "Ear Jewelry with Wireless Audio Device" provides a headset apparatus in which the audio device extends through the piercing in the wearer's ear, with the signal path passing through the piercing of the ear itself from a wireless communications device at the first end to the sound production unit at the opposite end.
To all those who are downvoting me for showing the actual truth and defending a child from fake accusation of racism I have just one question: is your bias towards your favorite news outlets such that you will disregard even the truth that is staring at your face? What about basic human decency where a child is being vilified and called a racist without any form of actual verification? Don't you down-voters have any shame in siding with these news outlets that are in it just for money and nothing else? They have zero moral compass and would readily use a child for their 15 seconds of viral content. Yet you down-voters support them! So blinded by ignorance! Unbelievable!