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> It's not hard to figure out what Biden is.

You're right. Biden is the warmonger who pushed an approval for the invasion of Iraq through the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, back in 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhcuei8_UJM

Meanwhile, Trump is the war-shy buffoon who failed to deliver a single new war to the military-industrial complex. No wonder he has to go. War is good for business (and research grants).
Been trying to find this in the iOS app but not having any luck. Did I miss something in the article?
Anecdotally, but having done 100% WFH for over a year now, I think the first point depends a lot on company culture. We're given explicit permission to use work hours to play games/hang out together, specifically because of the lack of traditional social structures. In the same vein, we're given regular time to work on work-related projects of our choosing.

It definitely doesn't work for some people, but a lot of problems I've seen people bring up can be rectified by the employer. Some of them can't be, but those that can shouldn't be expressed as fact.
When I try to post a tweet, I get this error message: "Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."
In the past in order to be a dilettante you generally needed to be one of the idle rich - that gets you the trifecta of time, resources, and lack of pressure to produce anything worthwhile. Today all you need is an internet connection.
For a large commerical real estate deal, the termination fee is always negotiated as part of the lease contract.
Just tried it out on my throwaway Android. Wow, this actually works really well!

As I write this from my iPhone, this might singlehandedly be the reason why I switch to a Pixel instead of another iPhone this fall. I was always disappointed that even after acquiring Shazam, Siri could never seem to correctly guess what song was playing unless I had a perfect recording.

Anytime I go to a live concert venue, or even a club, I never can get a recognizable song from my phone. Live music I could maybe sort of understand, but the club part failing was always weird to me, because besides a little bit of distortion, the song being played is coming directly out of a speaker. It shouldn’t be that hard right?
HN also wouldn’t be able to benefit from immunity when infringing my content while simultaneously shadowbanning me for “wrongthink”.

HN would have to give users tools to moderate content themselves, instead of HN using moderation as a tool of political control.

Good.
I just tried this with a melody I've had stuck in my head for days - no results.

Then I tried "Happy Birthday" and got three results:

"Las Mananitas" by Canticos

"Iyi Ki Dogdun Melissa", by Eser Ulun

"Iyi Ki Dogdun Zarife", by Eser Ulun

I'm no Pavarotti, but I can sing on pitch and have played the violin for 40 years.

EDIT: Heh, "Iyi Ki Dogdun" is Turkish for Happy Birthday, and the links would have taken me to YouTube videos of the song sung in Turkish, then English. But why not to videos in English? YouTube has some, and I'm an Anglophone user in the USA.
I don’t understand what outcome you are seeking here. Clearly social media companies can’t prescreen every piece of content so either you want them to all go out of business or you want to forbid them from moderating even to delete spam. There are already forums with “zero” moderation and there’s a reason all discussion hasn’t migrated there.
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> Speech is considered violence by some people. It has been this way since the late 80's but it was confined to certain subcultures that weren't taken too seriously. But they have taken over certain institutions, like the university (and increasingly big-tech), and own that platform and teach this as esteemed fact rather than an opinion.

Who is they?
I did that once while sitting in my car all right on my phone.

I was about to go in to something I couldn't blow off, and I couldn't blow off returning the mail as soon as possible either.

But I had a Note 4 phone and a working cell connection and managed to get it all done in a few minutes right there in my drivers seat.

I think I didn't even end up using the Note4's stylus but writing the signature on paper and taking a pic.

It was a while ago so I don't remeber exactly what I did or what apps I used. I probably tried a few different things on the spot before I found something that worked. Maybe the official adobe android app had signature support like the desktop app does now, or maybe I had to do it more manually with some other combination of apps, but I know that I went from receiving an email with a pdf attachment to returning that email with my own new pdf attachment all in about 15 minutes with nothing but my phone.
The early cancellation payout was probably part of the original lease agreement. Big commercial contracts are dense and cover a lot of contingencies.

You can usually find a public company's leases in SEC fillings. I couldn't find one for Pinterest, but I found Dropbox's 200+ page lease agreement here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001467623/000119312...

(it's a 15 year lease, with the cost increasing from $45 million/year to $68 million/years over the 15 years. Hope there's some option to re-negotiate in there)
I see a lot of potential legal liability for posters and/or companies here. They're not bad ideas, per se, but why even try that hard when you can just take money to remove bad reviews or inflate ratings?

Again, misaligned incentives between one group of users (people) and the other group of users (businesses), while trying to act as a middle-man. The key is that one group of users has the upper hand in terms of 'investment' into the platform.

... until one group (people) grows increasingly disillusioned and skeptical and the other group (businesses) sense an opportunity to start up another iteration and the balance skews towards the other group (people)... until...

So it goes.
The process of finding a 'good fit' CEO could very well take a very long time though. But your point is valid as well - nobody wants to jump onto a ship that's about to go down.
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The majority of examples are either open source software or games from the 90's...lmao
Fox News has plenty of articles on the matter. Can you explain?
What is the end goal of this argument? That everything is great now?
What did you think of that class? I’m doing a Reforge program now and hungry to keep doing similar. The Innovation Course looks pretty awesome.
> cynicism should be a default strategy for everything you're not an expert in.

Cynicism is not the same thing as skepticism. Cynicism encompasses an abstract and often moral judgment about motivations and machinations, permitting you to draw conclusions without evidence. Skepticism is more about coming to terms with the contingent nature of truth, and can be a difficult skill to employ, particularly when you're presented with concrete choices and have to make real decisions--as opposed to merely opining on matters.
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I work for a remote first company for years, and they are now doing the same thing, and I hate not having an office so I can sit and code alone with proper infrastructure in a quiet manner. The company is basically offloading the office costs to employees. I'd appreciate if they give me a 20k stipend to invest on an Air conditioner unit for my house. The heat this year is being brutal in the Bay Area.
How about Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. I'd call him a productive critical employee.
> However, it is highly unusual for an article published by one of the mainstream popular newspapers to be treated in this way.

BBC coverage routinely, and correctly, classifies publications like the Daily Mail as tabloids - yet the NY Post is a "mainstream newspaper"? That's inconsistent.
Both good points - so this kind of crime would likely be indistinguishable from a random, terrifying software failure, with the blame falling on the car maker.
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> If only every case of lying were so simple for the public to understand.

> Banning this story is on par with banning a tabloid story that Biden is conspiring with Martians.

This is the contradiction that I'm trying to get at: To justify censorship by claiming at the same time that something is obviously wrong (like the claim that Biden is conspiring with Martians) and that the public can't understand that it's wrong (though it presumably could understand that Biden isn't conspiring with Martians).
That's sort of the crux of the problem, right? That's where people seem to split.

How do you balance individual, constitutional rights with the need to help people who are ill.

We either force people to undergo treatment, or leave them alone to live in a cardboard box, scream at mailboxes, and self medicate with heroin and amphetamines.

I have heard, and am swayed, by arguments on both sides. I tend to lean in the direction of getting people help (maybe against their will), but at the moment we have zero infrastructure to accomplish that in a remotely humane way. We have some short-term systems in place, but they don't extend beyond the duration of a 51-50 hold.

Enough voters are not confronted with the issue of homelessness and mental illness on a regular enough basis for it to have become a national talking point, but damned if it shouldn't be.
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Hypothetical question: What if it was WFH 4 days a week but the company foots (a) the difference between your rent and the median rent for the square footage of your living space in the country you live in, upto some reasonable limit, AND (b) all of your home office equipment and furniture?
> you’re acting like the victim

Now you’re the victim... of bad interview questions that have nothing to do with generations. There are assholes of all ages. Just because YOU don’t ask interview questions about manhole covers does not make it a generational trend. I still get these questions and you can delude yourself that all the people asking them are GenX or Boomers if you want.
I don't know how sophisticated of an answer your looking for, but I can tell you what I'm doing.

1. I have a standard portfolio of index funds split between stocks, bonds, real estate and cash, weighted more into bonds. The bonds and cash weight is because I think the market will tank at some point, the stocks are because I might be wrong.

2. I rebalance periodically to take profit from whatever is doing best.

3. I've tried to broaden my investments further by adding a "market neutral" fund from Vanguard, and an asset fund.

That's the basic setup. As I said, I'm pessimistic about the stock market, but not out of it, so I've based my allocations on that. I'm not too worried about index funds being a bubble themselves. If the market goes down enough to trash index funds as a class, there won't be anywhere to hide... That's why I'm trying the market neutral fund. I'm hoping it won't correlate with the stock or bond market. That's my big concern, that everything will crash at once.

I am somewhat concerned about the Fed's actions, so I have added an asset fund in case we end up with more inflation than people expect.

Personally, I think we will have a crash, but I've been wrong so far. I just don't see how the market will go up rapidly for another 5 years, and if it doesn't, that doesn't justify the current prices, but who knows...
> I don't want countless people to be pawns of the wealthy

Too late. People are too easy to manipulate when you can amplify whatever you want.
The large uncertainties in climate modeling have only been getting smaller, as we've made progress on estimating cloud feedback lately. Fundamentally, there is a lot of guesswork (aka parameterizations) but these are all tuned with as much data as we can get. Projections made in 1980 and 1990 have been pretty accurate so far, and show the warming world we live in now, so it should count for something.

But despite all of the complexities in the science, I think people have missed the human element. The hundreds of thousands of people that have already died from climate change, such as: the increase in tropical cyclones, the crop failures which sparked the Syrian civil war, the mass migration therefrom which has sparked the rise of nativism and right populism in Western democracies, expansion of harmful insects into environments that used to be too cold to support them that cause fires or famines, and the water shortages worldwide which add economic stress to the people. None of these things are directly attributable to climate change, but collectively they set a story that we're already in the middle of a climate disaster.

Will we all die? No. But the mass death and destruction is already around us. And if we keep burning fossil fuels, it can only get worse.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24795550 (and my followup tomorrow)

I think (not being familiar with any of the above except for Karen[1]) you're mentioning US-specific culture war items which are orthogonal to the subject of the book, which are the sort of beliefs that lead "high RWA" followers to violently punish those their leaders have branded as Other.

The book has to do more with the sort of 1940's beliefs that built and staffed Treblinka, or the sort of 1950's beliefs that lynched Emmett Till, or the sort of 1970's beliefs that led to people being pushed out of helicopters, than to the sorts of beliefs to which I believe you refer.

[1] which I know of as a meme where melanin is incidental. Compare Scumbag Steve.
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If you intend to work from home then of course hire an electrician (or low voltage contractor, don't even need an electrician) to run an Ethernet cable! If you won't invest $500 in your WFH setup you're missing the forest for the trees.
Which may mean you underestimate the value of your input and, in some sense, leech off the contributions of others...leaving a vacuum that gets filled by shills and hacks. Why would you do that? A little preparation and basic work-study and critical thinking skills is all a post needs, along with something you really want to say and is actually worth saying, of course. Maybe once a day, maybe once a week or once a month. Internet posting practices and moderation have matured enough to make posting on sites like HN useful without an inevitable devolution into rantfests or infomercials. (Although it can still happen.)

Silence, digital or otherwise, is a fine spiritual practice. It’s not necessary for some...probably sorely needed by others...
Yup, I've tried a bunch of different clients, different networks, different accounts. All have the same error as well. I've also noted that my twitter stream has really really slowed down.
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Didn't mention what I consider the biggest blow to the arts: our educational system's teach-to-the-test ethos quashing children's innate tendency to create. Adults' tendencies are quashed too, probably more by lack of leisure time, spreading thin of in-person community, distracting environment, financial insecurity, and unhealthy diet.
I agree. I also tried to figure this out and couldn't narrow it down to a single person.

However, while the lead investor companies are established, the "partners" of the lead investors listed on crunchbase do seem to fit the fresh investor note. Especially since Series B and C were 5-6 years ago.
> If you do this you need to remake the copy whenever the OS update or else Spotlight will crash whenever your phone rings. (took me awhile to figure that one out)

Wow, that's some Windows-level bugginess right there
This is one of the main reasons I switched from Android to iOS. Got really tired of getting new phones when they would run out of updates. I hope to keep my 11 for 6 years, maybe more.
Could be two different audiences here. Staff and customer. And the use cases could go beyond pathfinding to event planning and such. Given how fine grained it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already done work with some casinos.
The long-available one is similar to how siri / shazam / etc work - it only detects the actual song. I forget how the audio fingerprinting works (probably varies by system anyway), but they tend to be pretty picky and very sensitive to small timing or frequency changes on "interesting" audio points. E.g. even quite-true-to-the-original covers often fail to find matches for me.
If Jim Jones had an amplification like Twitter, maybe it would be 909,000 people that drank the kool-aid and killed themselves rather than the 909 people that did.

Some ideas don't deserve to be amplified, and there is no guarantee that anyone and everyone gets to have their ideas amplified by everyone else. I see far too much right-wing kool-aid being guzzled today, and it seems like about 40% of America would rather die by suicide than live in a world where compromise happens with liberals, and for no good reason except misinformation, disinformation, and subterfuge.

So you'd really rather watch the world burn than accept that Twitter has no obligation to amplify anyone's lies?
I'm kind of confused about where you get the comment

"They were strongly opposed to their own enslavement, but not the idea of slavery itself"

The article never really speaks about them being opposed to one and not the other. There seems to be some anxiety on your part concerning the subject matter, and you are reading things that simply aren't there. Especially when you complain about some sort of American-centrism, but then reference the Black Panther which is a US organization.
PIN isn't really needed. PINs are only more secure than chip in scenarios where the physical card is stolen, which is an extremely small portion of credit card fraud. Most physical fraud was from skimming, which chip blocks equally well as a PIN, but chip is more convenient. Using a chip reader for their point of sale system would have prevented the breach in this article.

Source: used to work adjacent to the fraud analysis group at a large bank.
Calling it an amplifying algorithm is an insult to the term - literally a sort by most recent or appending to the bottom of a text file primitives posting would favor flame wars as "engagement". The rhetoric of sinister algorithims has been passed around a lot by propaganda "documentaryists" but really with even a bit of knowledge knows trying to cast a correlation algorithim as a singularity in a box master manipulator is absurd. What is next? Putting the wind on trial for billions of sexual assault charges because of all of the skirts it blew up without their consent?
Lol, you're assuming this couldn't just be a web application with microphone access.
Employee salaries are a huge expense because housing near San Francisco or New York City or wherever is expensive, so you have to pay those salaries to get people to sign up. If you can hire someone in Arkansas (who frankly would rather keep living there then move to SF) you can pay half the salary or less.
Presumably (am not an expert in this!) because the barrier to entry in a field of knowledge was lower in the past. As in, at one point you could read all there was to know about a subject.

Also, there was more 'low hanging fruit' in the past. No one is impressed now if you reinvent the calculus. So it used to be easier to have major discoveries in multiple fields.

Finally, the whole idea of different areas of knowledge is relatively modern. The 'sciences' used to include astrology, for example. Even the distinction between biblical studies and observation of the natural world was vague at some point.
I'm reminded of the CollegeHumor "If Google was a Guy skit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxqca4RQd_M

"song that goes meow meow meow meow meow meow", can't find it at the moment for a timestamp. Wonder how many real queries of that actually happen.
Sounds like twitter is doing a good job of keeping it's user base happy :) and I would argue that not spreading disinformation is part of keeping them happy.

Other companies/platforms are free to advertise or offer services to entice users to switch. As conservatives like to remind us money is speech. You are not entitled to someone else's attention but you can try to buy it.
It sounds like what you want is to publish an anthology of submitted content, all about Ninja 400s. The behavior you describe is simply automating an existing business practice: acting as an editor when deciding what’s included in an anthology.

That’s fine — but it makes you a publisher, not a platform.
Check out Civboot.org, this is something I'd like to change
Hardly. Things are a mess. But if your solution involves having (or making) "better people", your solution likely won't work in the real world.
I spent many years on the size-reduction path of mobile phones during the 90s to mid 2000s, as my mobile phone went from the one-pound brick NEC P3 of 1991 all the way down to my shirt-pocket chocolate-bar sized Nokia 6300 that weighed less than 100G around 2005.

Then I watched in sheer disbelief as mobile phones got larger and heavier and less portable year-by-year.

What have we got now? We have mobile phones trying to be computers that are too heavy to be truly mobile and too tiny for doing full-screen creative computer work.
>So basically anti-WFH people are sad that they can't hold pro-WFH people hostage anymore.

Ehh I think this comment is what the root comment was critisizing. I think a more empathetic lens is that you can either provide a remote-first or in-office-first experience for a team, and that at a larger office many or most teams being remote-first would detract from the office-first experience. I think it's short sighted to assume that having 200 people primarily in the office would be significantly different than 400 people, for example, but going from 400 to 10 certainly would.

The good thing is that after companies finish out corona, engineers will have more remote-first work options and still plenty of office-first options - I don't think there will be much in the way of hostage taking, but I'm sure some folks will be (rightfully) miffed if they joined a team for one experience and post-pandemic are getting a different one. They are also able to find a new job :)
Sorry, it's built for people who can't sing. You'll have to find a friend with a chalkboard voice.
I'm equally cynical. But is it a chicken / egg question? Does attempting to be genuine, vulnerable and reflective lead to a bigger audience, or does seeing that the audience gets bigger as a result lead a person to be more genuine, vulnerable and reflective - to a point of artificial oversharing?

I guess the other question is... if there is good to be done, and being this kind of person causes a certain amount of help to hurting communities, does this form of vulnerability capitalism have a downside? (assuming its done with respect to the person's family and friends, who never asked to be thrust in this weird limelight)

And a question I often have to ask myself, what if it is nothing but genuine? How does one call out BS without trampling on the spirit of the genuinely hurting?
That version is succinct, but without color. Here is a longer but also a better telling.[1] That Hornet must die, and die now.

[1] http://b.johnwurth.com/aspen-20/
It works just fine in the Google Search iOS app.
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Money helps you get to know people, particularly in China for things like getting grades and jobs. If, after you give them money, they then "know" you, money was still part of the equation.
The slave trade within Africa and the rest of the world as people ALWAYS like to bring up is a world of difference from the transatlantic slave trade.