skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will certainly be interesting how history plays out on the last 20 years in America. So much has happened both good and evil. I wonder who/what will make the cut in the history books.
I saw this link as an answer before, but now I don't.

Anwyay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
Roman Polanski won an Oscar after pleading guilty to drugging and raping a 13 year old girl.

Look at all these vile people applauding this villain, who couldn't accept his Oscar because he fled the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnNOBj26lk

In some ways I think we may have over responded (Aziz Ansari is not Harvey Weinstein), but it was shocking what behavior people were excusing from the powerful even in recent decades.
Wow that sounds super interesting. Did he have any cool stories?
The question was about "static rather than unconstrained supply" not the relation to real wealth.
Right, the slothful approval process for log retention and access is a feature, not a bug. It's part of the reason why Google's technical privacy story is incomparable.
Yeah, but isn't that because obesity correlates with poor nutrition and weight loss correlates with improved nutrition?
...How exactly is this hacker news?
I can tell you that the last thing I want to do when assembling an ikea shelf is to keep unlocking my phone :)

I've been trying to use the website because I miss going to ikea and let me tell you... it's bland like amazon.com but much less usable...
IT was always normal, it didn't make any "progress" except from the general "progress" that the whole society did. It wasn't different to any other industry 40 years ago and not today. The only grief women had is that there were not enough of them, which is still the case but the ones who worked in the industry whether as programmers or other peripheral jobs were treated exactly like they would in a law office or a bank or other jobs with more women.

The funny thing is that the whole agenda causing women to think as if this industry is so bad was pushed by the actual bad industry, the media, film and music industry. An industry which let hip hop artists say the most horrible things about women for years, that actually raped and traded success for sexual favours as a common trading coin. They misdirected the fire to IT and mid America and everybody swallowed it hook line and sinker.
All the reasons you've given for fast pace are tech reasons and I don't think anyone is arguing with that. The author mostly discussed how people reasons is why the pace is slowed down and that's something that's a lot more prevalent at big corporations than at startups.
Testimony of Keith P. Gill Before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services [pdf]
I don't get how you can be against having more options/freedom with your device
> Somehow the locked down 'S' version of windows is not very popular.

It doesn't have any benefits.
The problem isn't so much that people don't want to pay for news. But if the competition is giving away news for free, news now has a price of zero.

You have a global network of individuals and companies producing news. If you offer good news for $5 but someone else is offering acceptable news for $0 that acceptable news is going to win every time.
I see the difference as being that boycotting is a means of protesting a specific policy or practice in the hopes that an organization changes.

Cancel culture is wanting to punish a person (or virtue signal) for something in the past. Maybe they deserve it - I get it more when there's a history of credible charges of sexual assault or something (but then, I'd prefer they be tried in court and punished via the legal system). But the bar seems to have lowered and now you get fired for a tweet people don't like. And maybe people have the right to do it, but that doesn't mean it's always a good idea. If we're not careful it takes over the role of rule of law in our society and will do a worse job of it.

In the recent case of Gina Carano specifically, I don't think her tweet is remotely offensive to the level of being fired, and the effect will be that she's given a voice and seen as a martyr by people who have far more extreme opinions than what she's voiced previously.
They really should get a public status page, only way to know if problem is their side is twitter.
Then again, companies rarely update the status to down..
Yes! No more news links on my FB feed would be great!!
There is talk of floating tunnels.

I believe they have done similar things in Norway when they need to go across fjords which are about 1km deep on places.
US is a far more religious society. At least my religion expressly forbids cursing and swearing. I still kind of have a visible reaction when people curse, but I think it makes people regard me poorly, so I am trying to correct it.
Thats a fair take.

I hadn't considered the sort-of agenda that boycotts tend to have.

I bet a lot of cancels also have a salient agenda, but since the movement is so democratized it gets lost in the noise. Just a gut feeling.

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You lost me a bit on:

> Much of "cancel culture" I guess wants an organization's policy to change, but often that policy is to excommunicate an individual...

I've been conceptualizing the cancel as individuals choosing to not support creators, but this makes it sound like theres a third-party involved. A sibling comment mentioned people repeatedly calling Disney.. am I missing something here?

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I've been involved in one cancel before, so heres the frame of reference I'm coming from:

I like an artist named DojaKat.

A while ago a video surfaced of her singing a song with a racial slur in it.

I saw the video and said to myself "Oh man, I don't want to support a racist artist, this sucks, but I don't think I should stream her on Spotify anymore (In my mind, that was the cancel).

Some weeks later, DojaKat released a video in which she apologized, talked about how much she's grown as a person, and promised to do better. It seemed sincere to me, so I added her work back to my Spotify playlists.

Am I correctly interpreting that as a cancel?
IMO the main issue with cancel culture is when it targets people who are innocent or gives unreasonable punishments for small mistakes. Those being cancelled are tried in the court of social media, where critics attack without evidence or even knowing the accusations. The accused' friends and employers fear being associated with the accused, even if they ultimately get cleared of any wrongdoing, and they can sue for defamation but it won't necessarily work out.

People have gotten kicked out of colleges for using racist words in text messages. People have been fired for their jobs for messages taken out of context. Non-public individuals start getting death threats online and they get called out in the streets, for small mistakes or things taen out of context.

A separate issue is that people sometimes get cancelled for things that happened a long time ago, sometimes even when they were still young. The issue here is that people change. It would be like boycotting a company because 20 years ago they exploited workers, regardless of whatever they're doing today. It's a really grey area.
Hmm, my one surviving parent lives in my own investment property (which is not a very good investment, but at least allowed us to keep his rent from spiraling ever higher). He does have a nicer woodworking shop than I do, so at least is good for some repairs!
When highly compensated people moan about the less compensated people not putting in the same kind of hours I wonder what kind of blinders they have on. Anyone who has even a little bit of smarts realizes that they generally shouldn't work as hard as their boss, because they will not be compensated the same.

Early on in my career I believed the mantra that managers shoulder more risk, so that is why they deserve higher compensation. But in my 30 year career I have never seen anyone in my management chain face legal trouble. At most managers were fired, same as regular employees.

Very high level position hiring tends to be slower than lower positions, so you could argue that that is the reason the VP salary should be higher. But the compensation is so out of whack that this doesn't hold water either. Companies could save a lot of money if they paid employees more uniform compensation, and when firing someone, the compensation package would be proportional to how long a person in that position typically takes to find the next job. So maybe an engineer would get a month, and a VP 6 months equivalent of salary.
The example that comes to my mind is Roman Polanski. He fled the country while under investigation for child molestation. It was shocking how much other celebrities came defending him over the years. He is a child molester and fugitive. It’s just bizarre.
There's not much substance to this article. The author declares a few opinions, but doesn't take us through his reasoning (let alone evidence).

I'm even tempted to call this FUD, but that usually implies some sort of agenda. I don't even see that, here.
So, assuming that’s what it is, subpixel resolution is now being advertised as the “true” resolution? Because when I buy a 1080p display, I’m expecting 1920x1080 addressable pixels. Whether that’s implemented as 3840x2160 (2x2 subpixel) or 5760x1080 (3x1 subpixel) is not my concern. And if I bought a display advertised as 3840x2160, and my computer told me it was 1920x1080 (because it’s a 2x2 subpixel layout), I’d be upset.
I wonder why the e-ink company company is using this strategy. I feel like there are a huge amount of embedded devices that would absolutely love to have a screen like this or cannot even exist without a such a screen. But the amount of NDAs, restricted dev tools, and unit costs kill most of these devices in their infancy.
Agreed, but that became a lot less likely when Microsoft supported the new law (while claiming they were taking the moral high ground).

Reminds me of when Google pulled out of China over censorship and Microsoft took the opportunity to try to jump in and take their place (in search).
I think it counts as a dupe by HN's standard. The issue isn't whether the URLs are identical, it's whether the story is substantially the same, because that's what determines whether the threads are repeating each other. In this case that's clearly so.
Currently there are major scandals in France around coaches and team officials sexually abusing kids in swimming and figure skating. It is not just a US thing...
This is why "something you have" should be ALWAYS replaced by "one of a few things you have" where you report/deactivate any lost things.
Technically it’s supposed to be a USB toaster. Not sure how practical such a device could be.
30% is one of the lowest fees in the market. Amazon's Twitch takes 50% fee.
Also Tencent, who is behind Epic Games lawsuit takes 50% fee in China with their Android App Store.
The web is surprisingly segregated. Seems there is at least three versions of everything (from my perspective), from websites like the typical social network to utilities people use day to day, english/spanish/chinese.
Not true, a public prosecutor can, not a police officer. A police officer may request the data on behalf of a public prosecutor. Every canton is organized somewhat differently, so it depends on the canton who does the actual work in the end. The letter often states the case number opened by the public prosecutor. Depending on the organization, the public prosecutor will ask the police in writing what to request.
Moving Design from Outputs to Outcomes
And this was a hip "tech savvy" PM who was CxO at an ISP, the rest of them are worse.
I can never understand these "Bitcoin selling for XXX in YYY Country" stories. Why don't people just buy it online at the current 'global' price? It's not like you have to buy it locally.
Man, he speaks fast!
This looks pretty cool

However, I have an issue. I'm looking at this area (south coast UK) and there are many dots in the sea which are clearly not cell towers?
Do you use Pass to get out the VPN password?

I like that set up, even though that’s a password manager and not like an ssh key held on Yubikey.
React is king (and that’s not changing anytime soon)
Location is somewhat important. Losses in a high-voltage direct current power line are around 3% per 1000km.
I have to wonder who is more entitled, the person who expects to do the 11AM yoga class, or the person who expects his employees' weekend time?

To me, the yoga class example is the kind that people can see and point judging fingers at (i.e. images of youthful people in yoga clothes stretching in a nicely lit yoga studio).

Expecting your employees to work weekends to meet your vision (especially if without a clear reward system for doing so) sounds like a much more profound form of entitlement.

Disclosure: Long time Googler, and my experience with managers at Google has rarely been like the author of the article. When it has, I've voted with my feet and changed projects, or avoided projects like that altogether.
The Release of Appwrite 0.7 – The Open Source Firebase Alternative
A boycott is when consumers protest an organization by refusing to do business with them. Typically this is done to try an effect a change in behavior or policy in said organization.

Cancel culture usually targets an individual. The objective is typically not change in policy, but the ostracism of the target.

E.g. refusing to buy from Nike until they pay better wages to their manufacturing labor is a boycott. Pressuring a company to fire a certain employee because a group doesn't like the political views of said employee is cancel culture.
Solar Energy Isn’t Always as Green as You Think
> He's only about $10 billion shy of the Koch brothers

Just want to note that one of the Koch brothers, David Koch, died in August 2019.

Also, I think we should switch to referring to net-wealth (not net-worth). Net-wealth is accurate and humane, while net-worth is neither.

The exactly 1 million bitcoins (sure is a perfectly round number, right?) referred to in the article probably weren't created with the intention of ever spending them. I assume that whoever/whatever Satoshi is, there are other Bitcoin addresses not publicly known, and those have probably been used over the years. What if Satoshi blew their "real" wallet when BTC was at $40? Crazy thought of the day.
Facebook-specific threads on this from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24337269 - "An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia", 2020-09-01, 158 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24347676 - "Facebook to block news on Australian sites after new law, riling lawmakers", 2020-09-01, 78 comments

The big threads about this issue include:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111783 - "Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week", 2021-02-12, 269 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26030135 - "Google News Showcase Launches in Australia", 2021-02-04, 54 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999799 - "Australia’s PM suggests Bing adequate if Google blocks searches", 2021-02-02, 175 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25987671 - "Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia", 2021-02-01, 49 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903511 - "Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax”", 2021-01-25, 29 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873001 - "Could Google Really Leave Australia?", 2021-01-22, 51 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870571 - "The spat between Google and Australia, as reported on HN", 2021-01-22, 95 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867547 - "Google Threatens to Remove Search in Australia as Spat Escalates", 2021-01-22, 33 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867264 - "Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia", 2021-01-22, 135 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866493 - "Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law", 2021-01-22, 18 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789773 - "Google looks at pulling all or part of its search engine from Australia", 2021-01-15, 71 comments

Others?
From the article energy usage is around 77 Twh according to article ( actual number can be around 100 TWh now) Which 75% is from renewables. That leaves us around 20 Twh, 8k tons of CO2 (10k for 100Twh)

Tampa has population around 400k each emitting 15 tons, 6.2k tons.

As I said emission of bitcoin is big, but in total it is very small percentage.
That was some T7-9 whining right there. Do you think it's easier to get unplanned compute capacity at some other company?
I remember I was maybe 13 or 14. I had my first bass guitar, and I was a huge Rush (the band) fan. I somehow came across these "Rush Is Right" bumper stickers and put it on the instrument case. I was too young to know about the man.

While I have no respect for his words, or his work, I respect him as a human. RIP
In fairness, Nintendo consoles were always designed around couch co-op, and that is a big failing of the biggest PC platforms.
That's the FBSD kernel with GNU Userland...no thanks. It's like crippling a real unix with linux-distro philosophy, no plus's, just minus's.
> I also believe any algorithm that isn't human-readable should be banned. If it can't be understood, nobody can validate that it isn't racist, sexist, or slanted towards encouraging violence and harm.

I'm not sure a human-readable algorithm exists for ranking all the web pages in the world based on natural language input. In fact, I'm pretty sure such an algorithm does not, and potentially cannot, exist given the absolute failure of all approaches towards NLP that weren't based on absolute masses of text data and complex models.

Are you willing to make Google 10% as effective to achieve your goal of a human-readable algorithm?
I was concerned because the blog post said that the sanitized the input before sending it, and looking at the network requests agreed!

However while you can submit HTML directly it is displayed as text on the client anyways. So I am wondering why they even bother to "sanitize" it. It just munges the comments for no reason.
Very few people have the ability to influence the success or failure of every business on the planet. Those that do are heavily scrutinized for racist or sexist behavior. (Sometimes they also don't get convicted anyways, but that's another matter.)
The Australian vaccine candidate in trials was giving HIV false positives. Imagine that but at scale
An OS doesn't ship with internet access. You may get internet as a separate service later and connect it to your computer which has an OS.

I'm not sure you understand the market. If saving to the cloud is a must have feature your game will provide it. Ditto for multiplayer. No one is refusing to play a game because the platform you purchased the game on doesn't have an easy help button.
I'm not saying one necessarily implies the other. That was reductio ad absurdum precisely to demonstrate that any argument of this type, no matter how sensible or true, can be considered dismissible by someone.

I'm speaking to the idea of in-groups vs out-groups. For example, think about veganism and how their activism generally falls on deaf ears outside of their own circles. Bringing supply chain arguments to this discussion is very similar in the sense that they are strictly true but easily dismissible by someone who doesn't share the same set of values/priorities.

The line of argument might potentially even be self-defeating, for example, if the takeaway is that electronic catalogs > paper catalogs, never mind the rare earth mines and sweatshops in china and that drawers in ikea furniture still invite further consumerism. That's a very very different takeaway than "geez I should buy less stuff".
Universal Basic Income Could Be Coming for Kids
Are these less informed people numerous enough to cause a problem to others, perhaps by voting badly? How would you know?

Are you one of them? How would you know? If you are, then aren't any opinions you share on the internet just making things worse?

I ask these questions because I keep seeing the news exaggerating some bogeyman and people believing that it's more significant than it really is. For example, you expressed concern for democracy in your post here, which seems like a pretty big danger! Is that really at risk for Australia or are you misinformed about the significance of this particular bogeyman?

I also see people complaining about misinformation while never identifying themselves as victims of it. Why aren't the victims complaining? Because part of being a victim of misinformation includes not knowing that you are. So maybe it's yourself, in which case, better to address that problem before trying to "correct" others. Also, this idea of there being a huge underclass of misinformed people damaging democracy is divisive. It classifies people into good (always ourselves) and bad (always someone else), giving moral justification to the self-declared "good" people to correct the "bad" people.
What if it's killing 3 people, vs waiting for 3,000 to die?

What if it's having a small but non-zero probability of killing 1 person, who understands and accepts the risk, vs waiting for thousands to die who really don't want to?
There is a very simple solution - no App Store at all! I can download and install anything I want on my computer. I can use Google or bing or DuckDuckGo or whatever to find it. Why do you need App Store in the first place?
> Are you willing to make Google 10% as effective to achieve your goal of a human-readable algorithm?

Absolutely. If it can't be done responsibly and ethically, perhaps it should not be done.
Is there any practical use for color ePaper yet though?

From my understanding, the technology is still limited to extremely low-saturation colors with extremely low contrast as well, see [1] for example photos and how the tech works.

It's certainly not ready for advertising -- instead of a vibrant color image, it looks like something printed on newspaper and left to fade in the sun for 5 years.

And color e-readers have significantly worse contrast than black & white ones, which already aren't great.

So if you truly need usable color, it seems like you're still always going to choose a traditional LCD/OLED display. Based on the fundamental limitations of the color filters used with eInk, I don't really see a future for it. At least not unless a new technology emerges that doesn't rely on using color filters on top of traditional black-and-white eInk?

[1] https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/color-e-pape...
The Lesson to Unlearn http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html (I think)
Not individual personas, but the media organizations themselves. These aren't scrappy publications living in damp, ill-lit rooms exposing the evil villains of Gotham, these are multi billion dollar corporations with political ambitions.

The job of modern "journalism" is no longer to inform - it's to influence. The individual players just tow the party line.
Thanks for sharing this. It correlates with what I've (subjectively) experienced from the outside, i.e. my user experience across Google's products has steadily deteriorated over the last decade.

This quote really hit home:

at the end of every day, I always ask myself "what did I do for our users today". This simple exercise helps keep priorities straight. When I found myself avoiding this question because I was embarrassed by the answer, I knew my time was up.
Siskind is very thoughtful and reads a lot. If, after weighing the evidence, he concluded that some of the white/black difference on IQ tests is probably genetic, that does not make him a bad person or a "white supremacist", unless he has advocated denying civil rights to blacks. He has not done so.

There is much current discussion of how to deal with racial disparities in outcomes in employment and education. What to do about them depends on what factors cause them, which should be studied objectively.