skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually look into the text of the executive order, it bans very specific and very divisive behavior [0]:

>(a) “Divisive concepts” means the concepts that

>(1) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex;

>(2) the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist;

>(3) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously;

>(4) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race or sex;

>(5) members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex;

>(6) an individual’s moral character is necessarily determined by his or her race or sex;

>(7) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex;

>(8) any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex; or

>(9) meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by a particular race to oppress another race. The term “divisive concepts” also includes any other form of race or sex stereotyping or any other form of race or sex scapegoating.

It is worth noting that the media trying to portray Trump's EO as fight against anti-racism is the same media that profits from creating divisive content in the first place.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...
People don't need to spend their money on the most optimal thing that benefits society. They can spend their money however they want. If they want to give it to a kind stranger who made their day better, who are you to tell them not to. I've had some awesome servers who have genuinely made me happier when I need it, screw it, I'll give them money to say thank you.
"Existential threat" doesn't mean "fatal", it means "something that threatens the entirety of human existence".

Being generous, let's say that means "50% of the human race dying out". I'm not aware of any climate change projections suggesting that.
C n00b here - why the `do {} while(0)`? Couldn't you just do something like `#define free(p) { free(p); p = NULL; }`?
I've found myself doing this about 10 or so years ago. Very literally sitting in my car, staring out the window at the office front door, gathering the will to get out and go inside. Not in government work either, this was a private sector SaaS company. Started about 6 months after my employer adopted Agile development. Came to realize it was the signal that I was sick of what my job had become, sick of the ceremonial routines, sick of feeling like a generic cog in a machine, and that I needed to start looking at alternatives.
> But they do have the same people walking on them...

I think this is the part you're not getting. The set of people who use Twitter is not a strict subset of the set of people who use Facebook. There are people who use Twitter and not Facebook or vice versa. A large number of people.

> This is a bit of a catch-22, no? Your 'entire audience' is everyone that you can reach.

Not at all. Your 'entire audience' is everybody everywhere. If a given platform has a monopoly over any subset of people, they have a monopoly. Some people use Twitter and Facebook and Reddit, and none of them have a monopoly over that subset of people, but some people use only Twitter. And if Twitter was federated (like email) this wouldn't happen at all, because there would be no users exclusive to Twitter since you could reach all the same users using any other provider of the federated protocol.

> If Twitter objects to your content, they can bar you from their (relatively small, to point out the analogy again) share of 'sidewalks', but there are still a vast number of other sidewalks 'in town' that you can advertise on.

Which, again, the same people don't walk down, so you can no longer speak to them.

> You are perfectly capable of reaching anyone who uses Twitter through another social media service, or setting up your own website/newsletter/Discord channel/podcast/blog/etc.

You're saying that the company town doesn't deny you from speaking to anyone on the sidewalks of another town, so you can just have the people you want to speak to go to another town and speak to them there. The obvious problem in this case being that the network effect prevents people from doing this. You would have to convince everyone to move at once or hardly anyone does.
Have never understood EFF's objection to 'pay for privacy' (covered in the middle of this article). Being able to pay for privacy is better than not being able to. It creates the beginning of accountability for cos and optionality for users.
Yes, I am not sure I want to discuss politics with anyone from a shop either, but the way that shop is managed is a political position. It doesnt need to be about voicing your opinion to your customers.

Also it is more relevant to tech startups because technology has that thing where it can greatly influence the world after it exists. There's more political decisions to make and positions to take when you do that.
> This assumes that humans and crows are physiologically identical

I accept that this is partially relevant, but:

Since humans choose to consume tobacco, and animals including birds generally won't (hence tobacco plants are becoming invasive), if anything we should expect humans to have a higher tolerance and crows to have a relatively lower tolerance for tobacco products.

Is your point that it should be considered ethical until your questions have been exhausted? That isn't a good standard of ethics.
I don't mind my grocery store tracking my purchases because they can't link it to anything else about me. Granted I always pay cash (at those self-checkout machines with bill acceptors -- why can't gas stations have them?) and got a plastic rewards card without giving my phone number. So it is a little bit of work, but it works.
Wrong president. Also, Clinton doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would wear a F-91W.
But instruments made out of wood are not all equivalent.

There's a ton of variance. Buying guitars in person (or better, built to order from a luthier you know) is always preferred.
I am very surprised to find that Facebook is generating more than double YouTube in ad revenue. I would have expected video ads to be much more valuable.
Why should you work on Free Software (or other technology issues)?
I don’t think there is one (yet?). Apart from already mentioned ones, there is also Urbit, which is different in its own ways.
" In other words, its not so much that violent, racist ideologies are on the rise, as much as we have access to the ramblings of the entire country and the ideas that most easily stand out in the noise are the horrific ones."

Comforting theory and yes, surely the horrific opinions stand out. I remember visiting 4chan/pol the first time and how shocked I was. But now I know a bit more of the internet and I would rather say, that most of the things you see, are just the tip of the iceberg.
After an 8-hour work day or on a weekend. Thanks capitalism!
Thank you. Look forwarding to reading!
> ICE approaches you to buy your service, you suspect it might be used in the family separation program

I could buy that, but only if these same companies refuse to do business with ICE under the Biden administration. Which they most definitely won't, just like they didn't refuse to work with ICE when it did record numbers of deportations and created "family separation" under Obama. TL;DR: it's hyperpartisan horseshit and virtue signaling.

It's the dependence of the stance on issues on who's the president that I find particularly repugnant and immoral. I can buy only two stances: "we do business with ICE as long as they are following the US law", "we don't do business with ICE because we believe the United States should have uncontrolled mass migration across its southern border". Both are well defined political (but not partisan) positions. Once you start adding "ifs" and "buts" to this, you lose the moral high ground.

And no, @runarberg, I'm not the one "deralining the topic" here. You're derailing it by conflating political and partisan stances.
It looks like a lot of americans companies think that if they focus on things that are not related to making money and adding value to their customers, it will somehow make them successful.

Let us know how it works out for you guys..
> Their rethorical device for holding the moral high ground is to frame their political views as neutral and apolitical, while framing views they disagree with as divisive and “political”.

This I wish more people called out. There is a lot of going on this post. There is a lot of, whats called on reddit "enlightened centrism", they definitely come out in full force here to attempt to be clever. This fake argument needs a name and a better description.

similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
I am pointing out that the post title includes "Why it's safe", and yet does not directly bring up why mRNA vaccines are safe/unsafe.
NDAs will not be enforced by a court unless they are "commercially relevant and reasonable".

Unless you're a political consultant of some kind no court is going to enforce an NDA that purports to prevent you from expressing your political opinions.
Only sometimes? :)

It's not just the "lower tech companies", btw. It depends on many factors which include but are not limited to, prevailing company culture, your immediate manager, the existence of an implicit (or explicit) cabal that calls the shots in your team -- which cabal could well exist because its members passed out of the same three-letter institute, say ...

Which is just a long-winded way of saying that your soul is liable to be crushed in any kind of company in India if you have the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
> It’s also why we advocate strongly for laws that make privacy the default

I always wonder: didn't this use to be the case? In the 80s, could we even imagine a telco listening in on our conversations? When did things go sideways?
OP, can you reach out to me at clint@summarymedical.com?
The problem I have with this, is the examples I gave of sexism are institutional, explicit, codified programs. "We will reward hiring and promoting women." "Women get an advantage in the hiring and interview process." "This career development process is explicitly for women." I could go on.

Girls aren't obviously disadvantaged in school. Girls outperform boys in every subject, science and math included, and have for decades[1]. Women are admitted more to colleges and graduate more[2]. Then there are structural programs at major companies to advantage women in hiring and career growth, as I mentioned.

It is true that women face the subtle kinds of discrimination referenced elsewhere. I'm not denying that. I'm saying that instituting programs which relatively disadvantage my career and opportunities due to my gender strikes me as unfair. I don't get a benefit because the executive leadership team is mostly men. They don't share the money and power with me because we are all men - so why am I disadvantaged because other men have achieved success?

1 - https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades

2 - https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-me...
How much a financial advisor costs
* [your lang] std lib functions, their arg order.

* HTTP status codes

* Acronyms

* Syntax mistakes (spot the bug).

* Command line or vim snippets, e.g. "write a for loop over all files in a directory in bash" "grep and only show match"

I find it most useful for catching things I commonly screw up. The trick, of course, is to build the habit of identifying when you've repeated a blunder and then to make it into a card. An example for this in Go would be using `range` and forgetting the second arg: `for val := range slice` is legal syntax, but `val` is actually the index var here, it should be `for _, val := range slice`.
Music123...
So does Microsoft Word. I think you're missing the point. Yes, Photoshop has a lot of more advanced options, but the power of UX is being able to balance basic features and advanced features. Sure someone may not be able to do insane tricks, but doing basic stuff is far more discoverable and intuitive to do.
Palantir is a b2b product.

What makes you think "twitter activists" lead most of the anti-tech crusades? If it's based on your observations of them on twitter, that probably says more about where you're looking than where they are. I don't know where anti-tech activism is centered, but twitter wouldn't be my first guess.
> If you operate a SAAS company, and ICE approaches you to buy your service, you suspect it might be used in the family separation program. If you say: “I’m not doing politics!” and decide to sell them the service, you are being complacent in the policy that ICE enforces, and therefor just did some (highly questionable) politics.

Is there a way to go back from your binary opposition:

- "I support what you are doing and will help you"
- "I oppose what you are doing and will fight you"

to at least a ternary:

- "I support what you are doing and will contribute to your cause"
- "I don't care what you are doing and will sell you the same services as to anyone else (I am only interested in your money)"
- "I oppose what you are doing and will do what I can to impede your cause"

I find the binary exceedingly demanding and almost insane.
Giving my users a good experience is the most important point.

If I give them no experience at all because I cannot get a product of excellent quality done in feasible time would be the worst of all experiences for them.

I am pretty sure given the same amount of time, what you can get done in UIKit will be less and of inferior quality compared to what I will get done with SwiftUI + UIKit where necessary.
Brave browser blocks most, if not all YouTube ads, one of the main reasons it's my default browser on iOS
Harvey Weinstein's alleged reprehensible mistake was allegedly sexually assaulting people. I don't think you're saying that was at one time a popular moral action, so I'm not sure what you mean about Weinstein learning that one day's popular moral action is the next's reprehensible mistake. Is there some position on controversial issues he took that I'm not thinking of, that at one point was popular but no longer is? Or what do you mean about Weinstein making a mistake by taking a controversial political stand?
This reminds of this[0] bird feeder that dispenses peanuts for coins. Crows would use it.

[0]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2982961/The-...
I disagree, I picked up photoshop at the age of ~13 and did most things mostly naturally. I've tried GIMP 4 or 5 different times at various ages and I've never been able to achieve anything without hours of effort and guides.
You can disable the unconfined_u user though, it's just stricter then the normal "targeted" policy which is common today. What I'm saying is we don't need a new technology here, we actually have the technology we just need to deploy it properly.

SELinux provides all the tools we need to implement the guarantees, just Linux distros don't currently have a stance on how they want to expose such a policy option.
You walk out the door. Or you wait until the server is away from your table before walking out the door if you don't want to risk confrontation.
So the issue that is becoming very apparent to me is that people are doing things like denying science, denying people of human rights, saying that everything that they don’t like is fake and calling it a political stance. That’s what “politics” means now unfortunately.

And we can’t really afford not to be involved in politics if that’s what it has devolved into. This isn’t about whether fiscal conservatism works or some foreign policy. We literally just elected people to the House who believe Trump is a savior combatting a Democratic ring of pedophiles who eat children. These people are showing up with assault rifles at places of business (see: Pizza Gate).

I think the most likely scenario here is that people who are pushing for their startups to take a stance are those who believe in science and human rights, and can’t stand to watch as the rest of the country buys into the madness. Because you can be sure that the people peddling this disinformation are absolutely fine with their businesses having a political stance.

See Koch brothers, Hobby Lobby, Chik Fil A, the police with their thin blue line flags and blue lives matter slogan.

If you want to ban talk about political discussion on economic policy from your business, fine, no one cares. But realistically thats not what this is about.
> With a decent set of speakers, you can feel the sound.

All hearing is 'feeling the sound' - that's what sound is a, a feeling of vibration of air.

> I can see the comparison system working alright for some things.

So it's got value?

> It's just not a replacement for listening to something on hardware and if I were out to spend some money on a good set of speakers, i'm going to want to listen to them in person first.

So it's not perfect? Why does everything have to be perfect?
Context: I believe that BLM quote is (implicitly) a feminist reaction against the Moynihan Report.
Einstein's Dreams – Alan Lightman
Someday people will realize that there is something called laws and law enforcement.. till that day tech companies can keep playing that part..
Modern Passport Structure and Bulk Scan APIs
Or, in other words, they don't want a non-elected group of activists decide what views are politically acceptable, and then have unrestricted power to punish those, whos views don't fit.
Yeah, Cagan is big on "product discovery" which is validated learning about what people want in a solution to the problem you're solving.

He also just calls MVPs "experiments" - his main loop for product dev is Build - Test - Learn
Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM)
I've been through this. It's heartbreaking. It completely redefines how you see success and meaning (or did for me). My condolences to Ryan and everyone else in Christian's life.
That doesn't work still. It will reflow all your lines to reflow to 1000. Try it out, anything above 88 makes even the cleanest python a nightmare.

I don't like long lines, but reflowing logic is way to aggressive in these formatters.
The author specifically refers to optimizing for wealth and working time though, so in the context of the article it is optimizing less.
I had this same problem. I does work on the kindle app for desktop. Funny thing about the book, it was made using troff, one of the original unix utilities.
Perhaps automate links to Wayback? Or allow alternate (secondary) links to be added by dang?

There's always a tension between per-article and per-subject that can make trying to do both worse than doing one well, so it would need a light touch.
The any number of flame wars that techies have (like editor X vs Y, operating system A vs B) should put to rest any assertions of us privileging knowledge over emotions.
The CIA should absolutely be abolished.
Sure, but J.P. Morgan being inherently political doesn't mean it's a net positive for them to start to take public stances on cultural issues, and it only serves to conceal their real political impact.

I think there's a strong argument to be made that –– even given your premise of all startups being inherently political –– we're better off for them focusing on their tangible contribution to the world and not obscuring it with politics-as-PR.

And if their "contribution" has a primarily negative impact, political or otherwise, it's arguably even worse to be a culture in which they can reach for cover under cultural politics unrelated to their bottom line.
If you use the stopwatch, the mode button goes back to the current time display. I don't see an issue.
Much of the article talks about Coinbase, whose mission is to create “an open financial system for the world.” That’s inherently political, and if the CEO says not to engage with broader political and economic issues, he’s basically asking his employees to support the political stance that he is advancing.
I am part of colorblind groups. People loves mixing green and red in scientific plots in papers I read. It's effing irritating. 10% is not such a small number, we are many more than IE users.
And in spite of having larger safety margins, they were much less safe for the occupants.
First Steps with Git
DeepSource (YC W20) Is Hiring a Go Engineer in India (Remote)
From reporting at the time:

- the founders had previous exits, and had very high-limit credit cards (think 6 figures)

- their VC (who had access to monitoring graphs) wrote them a check every time they ran out of storage to keep the growth "up and to the right"

- Google dragged out the close for a long time (several months), so there was a feeling of limbo

- Google ended up spending around $1 billion in litigation costs with studios over content claims

- during the legal actions, studios kept uploading their own content to maintain views, while griping about theft of the same files.

- all pre-sale YT staff received at least $1 million, though most had worked there less than a year. Very cool.

- to understand the context of the above, rack-mount servers were in the $10,000 range and bandwidth was $1,500/Mbps 95% at the time, which stopped most competitors cold.

- there's a famous San Jose Mercury News article with a double-page chart comparing Google Video to YT - YT had twice as many features.
>when we are overly focused on the "how" of optimization and lose sight of the "why,"

I have full agreement with you except the quoted statement above. I would actually rephrase this to say: when we are overly focused on our own solution then we lose sight of other coherent variables/solutions that we didn't take into account. Some call this myopic, among many other terms. All our decisions don't exist in a vacuum, no matter how convincingly the perspective is.
Using Core ML and ARKit to Build a Gesture-Based Interface iOS App
> Instead of optimizing for happiness, health, learning, or anything else like that

Humans didn't evolve optimizing for those things. We evolved hunting and scrapping for food and shelter, and looking for opportunities to have more. So that's what we're prone to do.
Hopefully this vaccine also kills millions of people
>Even if what you described about current American elections was actually the case (it isn't)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13301372676801863...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13304872462360289...

https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1330186217355350020

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13303679886215946...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13305556452134830...

https://twitter.com/TeamTrump

> If you were a businessman in Germany during WW2 you would not have been a brave warrior fighting to preserve democracy, you'd just have moved on with your life and kept running your business, as would have (and as did) most people.

Different people have different opinions about right and wrong. A different set behaviors by a large number of people would bring about a different outcome. Left unchecked, the luxury of dissent becomes more and more painful for company and individual.
The family separation program is implemented by a democratically elected government. If it's illegal, the courts are the place to challenge it.
While I didn't claim anything close to that, and the evidence I have is only anecdotal between me and a dozen peers, I myself learned to use Photoshop at the age of 13, yet the half a dozen times I had to use GIMP, I spent over an hour every single time trying to do basic things such as moving pixels around and doing basic transformations.

Look around the thread and you will hear dozens of similar stories.

I'm sorry but I didn't know telling my own experience counted as trolling.