skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Ironic given the above, because now you're saying it's worth killing a lot of old people for some economic gain, not to mention hospitals getting overloaded resulting in deaths of younger people from road accidents and other treatable illnesses etc.

It's not "...worth killing a lot of old people for some economic gain..." and it was never about that. The unintended consequences of this circus brought on by both parties has resulted in more death. We've allowed politicians and prominent figures to make negligent decisions that have resulted in deaths that could have been prevented.

People die from a wide range of things, some preventable and some not so much. Keeping everyone inside and preventing them from socializing has resulted in more deaths than a virus with a significantly low mortality rate. Why don't we shut the world down for other causes of death that have been happening in greater numbers? The sensible thing would have been to isolate populations with compromised immune systems and maybe make vitamin D supplementation a priority.
There is absolutely no reason behind it. Running arbitrary code in user space has absolutely no bearing on the actual hardware, if it can cause harm than it is a hardware bug (eg, a javascript engine vuln. than could brick the phone)

Why is it a bad thing for you that other’s get to use their phones have they see it fit after paying for it quite a bit, while the whole thing won’t case any difference to you?
Indonesia still have a bunch of CDMA towers listed, but IIRC the spectrum was auctioned off a while ago.
Do you also think that it should be optional to wear a seatbelt?
> Considering that most young people in tech have parents significantly wealthier than them

Citation needed. Thinking back, only 2-3 devs (out of 100-200?) I know come from families wealthy enough to have empty houses to spare. At least AFAIK.
welcome to hacker news, if you didn't want to see pedantry, you might be hanging out with the wrong crowd ;)
The whole point of government-funded research is to either remove perverse incentives or fund things with no direct/clear incentives at all.
Yes, it is particularly egregious that someone can go to Facebook, create a link to their own content, and then claim monetary compensation for use of their content from Facebook.
That economic theory is unfalsifiable. People do beat the markets for their entire lives.
Sounds nice. But in the real world all humans are both sinners and saints at the same time.

Good luck being the one with the power to decide what an upstanding citizen is. This is cancel culture in a nutshell.

There’s a reason “don’t meet your heroes” is a saying. The problem is not appreciating the good works of someone who has also done bad things —- the problem is when we assume prima facie that just because someone is celebrated for one thing, that they are an upstanding citizen in all other areas of their life.

There would be a lot less Harvey Weinstein’s in the world if our fallible human herd mentality didn’t elevate someone to sainthood because they were a bigshot in one aspect of their life.
Ask HN: Why do companies ghost right after requesting to schedule an interview?
First time was with Apple just before the New Year. At first, I was paranoid and thought Apple was reading my texts or reviewing my device service logs to determine if I was a good fit immediately after requesting to schedule a time to chat, but over the course of 2 months, it's happened 2 more times.

It's always "hey! thanks for applying! To kick off the interview process, we want to schedule a time for you to chat with the hiring manager! What times will you be available?" After I reply with a few timeslots, I don't hear back from them. Is there some sort of new-age algorithm that tries to detect if a potential candidate is "passionate" in his reply or something? I just don't understand.
Looked interesting but I couldn't understand how to get to something concrete with it.
Back when Android had very strict permission controls I think this argument was quite valid since there was a market competitor without a locked down store but with a similar level of control. Control of the phone can't only be achieved by curating a store - it can also be achieved by allowing clear user controls and a phone without the locked down store but with the controls doesn't exist... So I can't go anywhere.
> 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.

I appreciate this point. I think sometimes these waves of calls for cancellation play into larger movements that have more clearly defined goals, such as #metoo, which I think focused on shedding light on sexual violence/abuse/harassment and to get individuals and organizations to create more policies to prevent it from happening. Maybe when I think of "cancel culture" I think less of the underlying structural goals of it, but you've helped me step back to think of that.

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I think a lot with the call to "cancel" someone (I don't know why I feel compelled to put it in quotes but I keep doing it) is often to specifically tell the organization(s) to remove the individual from participating. E.g., wanting Netflix to fire Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (and other Hollywood production firms to no longer hire him), wanting radio stations to ban R Kelly's music, etc.

So I think it's the idea that for a person to be cancelled, someone has to do the cancelling.

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I guess for me, I wouldn't see that so much as how the phrase "cancel" is being used in the "cancel culture" idea. Yours seems to be you, the individual consumer, doing the cancellation, and also you being open to giving her a second chance through forgiveness.

I see a "cancel" of DojaKat in this instance being people demanding that her record company, her agent, TV stations, radio stations, and others agree to break relations with her and when she apologizes, to not forgive her and to not give her a second chance.

So in summary, I see "cancel culture" as more about trying to rally others, especially groups and institutions, to break off relations with that person (or sometimes a group) and to do so permanently.

I personally don't like it because I believe much more in restorative justice than I do retributive justice, and I also believe that by distancing ourselves from these people, through the power of the internet, they may find other people who feel alienated and cancelled and they could form into more and more radicalized groups.
Surprisingly fine compared to what? I probably only remember my own phone number at this point, people around me maybe 2-3 numbers that they most commonly use. Imagine having to remember everyone's number in order to write to them on whatsapp, I'd forget about 99% of my friends then.

Compared to the number of names I can remember, numbers basically enter and exit my brain while people names and domain names can stay in my head what feels like forever.
I think starlink is up and would provide the secondary line.
At the beginning of the space race automatic solutions were very limited, and manned spacecrafts were planned to be used for some routine operations, like reconnaissance.
> BetaFish now owns the trademark for "uBlock"

The international patents and trademarks database doesn't confirm this, because the trademark application of Betafish was cancelled.

The only thing that's actually registered is the uBlock "graphical trademark" (don't know the US term for it) so it's not the word itself that's registered, but only the combination of word and picture with its exact form that's protected.

This graphical trademark #017822487 is registered by uBlock, LLC, 30309, Atlanta, US and it was registered on 19.02.2018 - almost 4 years later.

So, technically, @gorhill could still register the term "uBlock" as a trademark and probably win a case against uBlock, LLC because their trademark is bound with its graphical representation and not the word itself.

(Also, I am not a lawyer - because I heard people assume this all the time on the internet for whatever reason.)
I think you took away what was the most important lesson:

"One year later, I have not dared to run it again."
Stopping at "a Linux dev" would still be meaningful. Coz we are (aliens), in the quantitative sense.
f=d(mv)/dt?
Interesting to see the different "styles" present in different parts of the world. Europe is dense with very wide coverage, Japan has regions of very dense coverage that quickly give way to large voids as you get into the countryside (sharp contrasts between urban and rural), and North America is somewhere in between.
You should need less people in a challenge trial - the reason 40,000 was so high is because only a small amount of those people was expected to be infected, e.g. maybe only a few hundred of those actually got infected even in the control group. (Eg in a control group of 20k maybe 1% got infected = 200 people).

In a challenge trial you can make people cough in each other’s faces, or literally inject them with Covid depending on the study, which raises your chance of getting people infected and seeing the impact. You would expect the control group to have a very high infection rate, and to see the difference in the study group much more easily.

I’m not saying 100 people would be enough, but you would need significantly fewer people fewer to get a good level of confidence.
US fast food workers hold Black History Month strikes to demand $15 an hour
Why so few Absentee Ballots were rejected in 2020
That link says wider hips don't slow down walking.

However, women need hip replacements at a far higher rate than men. Given men are typically heavier one would expect their joints to wear out faster, but as alluded in my comment upthread, widening the pelvis means walking exerts a higher peak force on the hip joint due to increased torque, which is a plausible mechanism for it wearing out faster.
That research is highly controversial within the modern scientific community. Many scientists reject its use on ethical grounds; others reject it over concerns about its scientific validity. (The Nazis weren't especially precise in their experimental methods.)
> It's also worth nothing that, in the real world, revealing someone's real name isn't the high crime of "doxxing," rather it's normal and expected. Journalists aren't typically creatures of pseudonymous web forums, and it's a category error to expect them to abide by the peculiar norms of them.

When i go to a foreign land, or even someone else's home, i try to abide by the rules and norms of the locals there, regardless of whether they are norms in my land or not. Its a basic part of being a guest.

I don't care if journalists typically use pseudonyms or not, its just basic human decency to respect the norms of a space you're a guest in. I don't see much reason why journalists should get a free pass on doxxing in a forum where pseudonomity/anonymity has been the norm for decades.

Even more so, the journo explicitly asked for consent to publish his name, didn't get it, and published it anyways. Like just doing whatever you like without the subjects consent is understandable only in a few rare cases of serious crime, definitely not for the modern "crime" of wrongthink on the internet.
Yet i hadn't seen their prices until the email i received and i didn't receive the message assuring me their prices were the lowest until i'd actually opened the email. Like within a half hour of opening the email.
> My point of reference is the success of Polish domestic "Allegro" ecommerce platform, which was able to out-fox EBay, and later on Amazon, and still maintains dominant position on the local market.

Were eBay and Amazon unable to translate their websites into Polish quickly enough for some reason? I just checked https://ebay.pl and http://www.amazon.pl , the latter of which redirects to amazon.de with language set to pl_PL, but nonetheless appears fully translated into Polish.

> There were no significant technological advantages, nor any notable political connections. The platform won purely on being local.

To be clear, I'm not saying that being local doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that localization (in the sense of translating and adapting the website to local preferences) is the least hurdle in becoming local. The much bigger hurdle is acquiring local customers who are already used to local services. Either you have an obviously superior product that local competitors can't match (unlikely for run-of-the-mill online stores) or you're fighting an uphill battle.

> In spite all the local success the platform could not expand to the west of Poland due to localization (language and partly culture). It did expand a little bit to Ukraine and Czech Republic.

My guess is that there are Czechs and Ukrainians in Poland who got familiar with Allegro there and spread it via word of mouth. (I could not find a Czech or Ukrainian version of allegro.pl, so are they using the Polish site?) On the other hand there are likely many more Poles in Germany than Germans in Poland, so Poles would be more familiar with German services than Germans with Polish services. (Case in point: the redirect from amazon.pl to .de)
> Is there any practical use for color ePaper yet though?

> 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.

This is still a big improvement over black and white if you're displaying, say, a math textbook.
I took that as a figurative statement. Hungry for success, or for a way out of a perceived poor future outlook, perhaps not literally hungry (for food).
I didn't read it like that. I think the author knows that that's impossible in a megacorp, but he wanted to continue thinking like that even though he'd become part of a megacorp. He seemed to understand the reality of megacorp politics - the whole spiel about "this is how you get promoted" - but didn't want that for himself, or his team (which I agree is unrealistic).

It's very difficult to change perspective once you've worked in one paradigm for a while (at least I find it so - I'm a terrible employee because I've been a freelancer and co-founder for so long). I agree, one is not objectively "better" or "more correct", but that can be a subjective opinion of a blog article author.
This particular thread has quite a few knee-jerk reactions. Vile villains aside, humans generally lack a coherence of beliefs - contantly contracting themselves.

Take for instance Adolf Hitler - whom we are told every waking minute was a vile scar on humanity. The most evil of evils. And yet King Leopold was arguably worse but not a single word about him. Anywhere. I doubt many nations outside Africa have even heard of him. Why is then hitler the worst of the lot? Because killing black people wasnt considered a bad, vile thing. Killing white people was and this dochotomy probably still exists. And yet, despite that - the companies and orgs that supported the Nazi's still exist, and celebrated. That's the human contradiction of which I speak.

Yes, pedophile are other things than pedophiles. If they happen to be good at those things, which dont happen to be pedophilia - there is no reason why we should deny them recognition for taking humanity two steps forward, one step back.
That's a really good postmortem.
> I'd be happy to do something different, but I never had some idea that I could sell in a meeting, and didn't really have the energy or clout to fight this.

Would the alternative I suggested here work? I think you might even be able to do it in tandem with submodules so you try out both and see what works for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165644
If someone said "I like The Pianist" I wouldn't judge them one way or the other, having never seen The Pianist myself. If someone said they liked Roman Polanski, I would have an opinion. I think extending honors or awards to him is more of the latter category.

I honestly would be fine with the award if Harrison Ford had simply continued on to explain that Polanski could not be there on account of being a child rapist on the run from justice. That would have put things nicely into perspective and, I think, clarified that they were awarding the accomplishment of the film and not honoring Polanski himself.
> Any site that doesn't want google to index a page...

They want to be indexed, they just also want to get paid.

The root issue is that media companies no longer make $$$ from ads, instead google does and they want that money back. This is "silly" law to accomplish that goal.
> Which is to say, I'm not super into this whole internet-connected-car thing. ;)

Likewise, similar reasons.

> What if I decide to carry around a Raspberry Pi, or wear a wire?

Smartphone-software-based attacks target a wide net of unknowing victims, wearing a wire (or knowingly running a sousveilence app, which I’m all in favour of) targets just those you choose to target.

For the same reason, I regard state-mandated encryption backdoors as a much bigger privacy risk than the state giving the police authority to target specific suspects with wiretaps or even authority to replace all the target’s lightbulbs with ones that have built-in webcams — dragnet or spearfishing.
There's the underlying issue and then there's the separate question of whether you posted a thoughtful comment or a flamewar comment about it. You posted a flamewar comment. We don't want those here.

Any substantive point you have to make can be made thoughtfully, and will have a better impact in favor of your argument. It's actually not in your interest to make a point like this snarkily and provocatively. People do that for a little temporary venting relief, but it harms their own view in other people's eyes, in addition to harming the commons. So please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Same reason the FDA doesn't want growers to list optional tests on the packaging: it implies the producer cares more about food safety than the FDA. The consumer should know better, but they don't.
When did it exist?
Instead of relying on ignorance to push your agenda, you could frame that paragraph against what search engines were doing at the time, how Google was doing something different, and what Google still is transparent about today [1][2].

Publishing "the algorithm" doesn't have value for most of the internet, it is impractical to use even if it was, and bad actors would use it to destroy search quality to the detriment of e-commerce everywhere.

[1] https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks

[2] https://research.google/pubs/
Sounds a lot like Linux's X32 ABI, but motivated by compatibility rather than memory bloat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
You can't measure immediate response. You'd have to wait 3-6 weeks to see if protection against transmission still works. It would be maybe a 2-3 weeks faster but not yield as useful of data.
Out in the field, the crops don't seem to mind a thing.

The dog doesn't either.
Cats, an empty room, same story.

Add anotger human to the equation, and my, how circumstances change.
I think there's a great argument to be made for Kruschev's downfall being the 'but for' cause of the abandonment of the program, but Korolev and technologies were the 'sine qua nons' of a moonshot.
The market cap of crypto is not large enough to accommodate a several-dozen trillion dollar an outflow from stocks/bonds into it.

Crypto would have to rise massively in value for that to happen. That's one of the bull cases for crypto.
Which officials are those?
Is it wrong to associate low energy consumption with environmentally friendly? I don't follow e-ink news much, but I feel I've seen at least that angle somewhere.
But aeronautics engineers can’t fly. However all humans possess the capacity to behave ethically.

We do generally expect a teacher to be able to explain a concept outside of their job, a writer to write a good note or letter, a photographer to take a good photograph when out casually with friends and family. Similarly we’d want people making moral judgement to demonstrate that capacity.
Nine joins is not a big deal, you simply filter data before joining. And that is only if tables are fully normalized, no one does that. For example, current avatar and user info maybe in same table. Post and permission will likely be in the same table.

Of course, you will use materialized views for even better performance.
In the late 90s Microsoft was IMO, pretty clearly a monopoly while Apple survived as a beacon of "See guys - we're not technically a monopoly" - having a competitor isn't enough to not be participating in an anti-competitive market, the manner in which Android and Apple have a complete dominance of the market is pretty insane and it makes both of their business decisions fair game for anti-trust arguments.
He continues to believe that it is undervalued, as per his witness testimony to the congressional committee:

https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?Event...

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20210218/111207/HHRG...
RSS being pull and not push is a great feature IMO.
You check up on your feeds when you want to, if you never do it might not really be worth your time or you might not enjoy it.
If you really want some kind of reminder then some readers like tt-rss can send daily digest.
People are giving too much credit to cryptocurrencies as the only vehicle for dodging inflation. Any asset that rises with inflation (most of them) is a sufficient vehicle for avoiding having your cash devalued.

People could simply exchange their domestic currencies for foreign currencies of more stable countries. That's what happens in countries with hyperinflation right now, despite access to cryptocurrency.

The only real advantage of cryptocurrency is that it could be transferred around hypothetical government controls. That's more of an extreme edge case scenario, though.

To be clear: The US inflation is too high, IMO, but it's nowhere near hyperinflation or government collapse. The average citizen is more likely to benefit from recent stimulus packages than to lose out from it. It's not like everyone keeps their 401K invested in pure cash.

That said, we're overdue for interest rates to start creeping up. COVID is coming to an end quickly and the unemployment never really got out of control in the first place. People aren't going to go bankrupt if their mortgages go back to 4-5% instead of 2-3%
honestly the worst moments of SF have nothing to do with app stores.

with today's operating systems 99.99℅ of the malware of the past would be detected before being downloaded.

truth is vulnerabilities are still being discovered and exploited, even with the app stores

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-fixes-another-three-ios-...
Ubisoft does this for games that are shared with Steam. You launch the game on Uplay which starts Steam which starts the game.
Related earlier discussion in why this may not be as exciting as it sounds:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
I have Moss Roberts' translation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms scanned to PDF. ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520224787/ )

The product page doesn't advertise it, but the books are huge. I can't actually read my PDFs because my kindle display is much smaller than that.

And yet the market for a reader with a bigger screen seems to be negligible. :(