skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a bit moot though. Even if you’re ra-ra wild about jury duty, the chance that you actually get selected isn’t especially high.

I think most people know this and figure they’re just going to have to waste a few hours only to be sent home (or worse, get selected and then sent home after settlement).
Despite arrests in Spain, FluBot operations explode across Europe and Japan
They could have passed on it.

If it wasn't feasible most likely Oxford would change it's terms.
That’s a revelation as mind blowing as noticing people against drugs tend not to consume them. Only crypto folks seem to think skin in the game is a prerequisite for criticism and objective discussion.

Do you need to own other humans to form an opinion on slavery? Do you need to eat meat to form an opinion on being a vegetarian? Do you need to be in Congress to opine on its dealings? Why is cryptocurrency any different?

I’m responding to your very clear subtext, by the way.
because unlike cannibis, bitcoin has a limited supply and cannot be created outside of the rules of the system. If the government banned crypto, prosecuted those who it could find and confiscated the crypto it would only succeed in tightening the supply and increasing it's price.
Colour or B&W?
this is the problem with any leadership position in general, congress, president.... etc

I think the best way to address this is to provide standardize kpi monitoring.
This is such a clickbait title of the highest order. Two large local exchanges collapsed recently in what are most definitely exit scams. Cryptocurrency is still legal. You can not use cryptocurrency for local payments online and offline. There was only one place that had announced that would accept crypto (Bitcoin) as payment the week it was made illegal by the central bank. It was the local Rolls Royce and Lotus car dealership. The reasoning of the ban that goes into effect April 30 was for KYC and AML reasons.
Not an insult, bud. Just encouraging a bit more groundedness. Good for everyone.
Making a Lego Domino Machine
Integration - IFTTT, Zapier, Boomi, Jitterbit, Workato, and on and on.

Marketing Automation - Marketo, Klaviyo, Mailchimp as a few examples.

Airtable is another that has low-code automation built in
Right, even trivial with a 6 vertex path. Or a 6 single vertex forest
iOS app!
The discussion is a bit all over the place. The main points are that EU failed vaccination, and US failed covid testing (Statista disagrees https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104645/covid19-testing-...) , as well as having a decline of innovation and movement (disagrees here, people moved everywhere during covid, and US came up with tons of effective vaccines)

It's pretty hilarious both ignored discussing the current failing government: China.

- Came up with a 50% effective vaccine sinovac, and forces its citizens to take it

- Wolf warrior politics has infuriated almost every democratic countries on Earth, and alienated China. When Merkel steps down in Sept, the Green party candidate is most likely to succeed. And the newcomer will act tough against China and Russia

- Ballooning debt (they don't own global currency, unlike US), declining marriage/birth rate, middle income trap, unrest in many provinces

- The CCP is so insecure that they banned broadcast of oscars because of Chloe Zhao, because she mentioned CCP as failing one time in 2013
Yea, I do agree that that access to your friends has replaced some of the celebrity worship.

However, some have always taken celebrity concept and equate it to having “a friend“, an emotional attachment to the concept of a person. Fantasy that “if we ever met in real life we’d probably be great friends”. Ignoring ”never meet your heroes”, and that these people pay $2500 a night at places to specifically never come in contact with you.

To me, one of the best things that have come out of Covid has been that celebrities are not essential.

Perhaps we can also contribute the shift to other things? Woke Politics, Oppression Olympics, and generally divisive things now talked about openly in favor of silence with a concern of not knowing who you will offend? Surely some celebrity fans have been put off by statements they can’t agree with? As media, and politics become more divisive, so have opinions put out by businesses which include celebrity identities. We used to not talk about religion or politics because “you didn’t know who you would offend“.

Maybe it’s just that Hollywood has become ”too much“, and this an expected implosion where people just don’t care about the people that clearly wall themselves away and employ armed body guards (while arguing against both those things for lesser people)? Disparity in legal, tax, whatever effects. Lobbying groups that protect them. In people who care about equality, perhaps celebrities are too obviously classes of nobility?

IDK. Just happy to see agreement with my long held apathy.
That's true in a sense, but there have been times when the popular culture was more relaxed, and was a closer fit to the median of the country.

Part of the problem of course is that there is not really a common, popular culture any longer. And so it's much easier for most people to feel estranged from Hollywood. Everyone's estranged, and no one has much in common.

But, it's also the case that the modern moralism that's permeating everything is particularly catastrophic and melodramatic. For sure, there have been times in history when things were worse, but that's hardly cause to celebrate.

Media can certainly become "less political" in a normal sense that anyone would recognize without making your comment untrue at all.
"they’re directly one of the most common causes of ... lowered quality of life" - what is the basis of this statement? It seems like a manifest absurdity.
Sorry, I thought hackers do not have nationalism.
The cost of running my startup on Google Cloud
They do thoroughly clean each record before it is played.
Is it a problem when a government fails? Is it an ultimate goal to have "good" government that doesn't fail? What if "failed" government is sometimes a feature and not a bug?

We have some examples of "failed states" where the average people still live better than in many of the states with "good and responsible" government.

Some examples from Europe, which may have been controversial:

- Italy & Greece - big country debt, corrupt government, but average people still own more property ("richer") than people in north European countries like Germany with "better" and "more competent" governments.

- Russia, Belorusia, Serbia - corrupt government that tends to suppress human rights of its citizens, but still during the covid pandemic the restrictions of basic human freedoms were much less than in countries where human rights are most important, without significant impact on the corona casualties.
I see. I'm skeptical that a government can close off internet connectivity sufficiently well to block cryptocurrency packets. Do we have evidence that this can be done?
The keys to wild success are getting in early and being lucky.

I'm entirely sure a lot of the early people at Amazon were in fact quite bright and hard working, and many good decisions were made, but plenty of other people knew selling stuff online was going to happen but couldn't get the stars to align on funding, or had a key member suffer a personal setback early on, etc.
I'm not saying that there isn't -- but another common fallacy you'll see is conflation of rote work automation with decision automation. Rote work automation is very doable and quite helpful, but it helps create a force multiplier for the human who is at the end of the day doing the job.

Decision automation is not easy at all -- whether for executives or for legal. There's a lot of root cause analysis, presumption unpacking, and other complex problem definition that's intrinsic to the nature of the role.

But that's a crucial distinction -- if you can't automate the decisioning, you're not necessarily going to make CEOs (or lawyers) less expensive; on the contrary, you may rather just increase the scope of what they're capable of doing (because there were all these other things they would've done had they had the resources and tools to do).

I think of that the same way I think of the "Software engineers are expensive -- why not automate them?" question. Maybe some of it can be automated, but some of it is just plain human problem solving. Not all human problems can be solved with automation. Especially if/when faulty automation is what created those problems in the first place!
"If clients don’t request a specific version, should they get the earliest supported version, or the latest?" (in reference to MIME versioning)

This one feels like the "right" answer to me, doesn't it? If the header isn't supplied, reject and demand one!
Sure. Quite. But why not try developing an AI to replace them that can make you a >5x return?
Wait, no investment in Miami ? Reading tech twitter, folks already claimed Miami to be the next tech hub
Their comments matter, but they aren't well informed.

Hacker news is full of bright ambitious folks who think they are very smart, or they can change the world, or they can make a lot of money. It's all about their personal impact.

HN celebrates individual contribution. Which is fine and good.

That said, I'd argue that many folks here would benefit from spending time on how to be better leaders, or gasp, managers and executives.

Most people, by definition, aren't going to be 10x or 100x engineers. But a good manager, supervisor, executive will make everyone around them better.
This comment touches a personal nerve with me. I am not against it, but I have seen it so many times traveling in developing countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia. When (South) Korean and Japanese companies invest in a developing economy, it is with head, heart, and wallet. They go 100%. How many times have a seen Korean or Japanese business people on a local flight study local language from a book or try to practice local language with staff? Too many to count! I makes me proud, and I am neither Korea nor Japanese. This is how it should be. And, (for the most part), they are welcomed by communities. To be fair: I feel the same about Volkswagon's recent commitment to Rwanda to build their first plant in Africa. I am suspicious of UK/US/AUS/China firms that show up with the "resource extraction" mindset. Five or ten years later, there are terrible environment consequences or social unrest. Almost never, do I see that with (South) Korean or Japanese firms. (Yes, I have seen it first hand in SA/SEA developing nations.)
> Bitcoins and NFT works even if you are ignorant of its inner workings

but not without huge amounts of electricity, while cash money does.
Is the implication here that sitting to watch the entire award show would be... _more_ productive and _less_ lazy?
But why would they be voluntary? You still have corporations that have to file annual reports. They pay salaries to their employees, which would be reported. The sales they make would still be subject to VAT/sales tax.
I'm annoyed that it is necessary though, as the official institution who is tasked with preserving recorded works is failing to do their job.
Apple already has a large campus in Austin that dwarfs a lot of companies and a second under construction. They might not be quite Spaceship in terms of unique design but they exist.

Being solely located in one of the most expensive areas in the United States does seem a bit absurd if you can avoid it. Based on Cook's statements about returning to the office, it seems like they value being physically proximate more than the immense savings that moving the workers who could be remote to remote.
But wait!

Yes, aspiring monogamists will fit your bill of people who "want to be off the site in 12 months" or sooner. That's one segment of your users, but it really isn't everyone by a long shot.

Plenty of users are signing up for the chance to meet ("get to know") a steady stream of people. We don't stigmatize people who subscribe to Netflix for many years so that they can keep watching different movies and shows. There's some segment of the dating-site world that has more of a Netflix model in mind.
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Even in a ring of six 3 have never met. :)
Yes they are. They're stored in the replicated database hosted by the current network of mining nodes. If there isn't state in that database representing your possession of coins, then you can't spend them.
Update: We're talkiing
> I’m hoping the outcome of this case can be used as a litmus test for related bannings/cancellations when people express an opinion “off-campus”

Additionally, I hope this can also apply to the workplace.
It would help if the article included at least one real world application in layman's terms.
Are you playing logical fallacy bingo?

You managed to turn OPs argument into a strawman, while also making an appeal to emotion and poisoning the well.
> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.

That's the behavior I would expect from a full screen app. ie, if I issue a command in a full screen app for the command to be interpreted in the context of that app.
Only Ricky Gervais can save the oscars now. But seriously, hollywood had a brilliant idea to throw themselves an awesome annual party and make fans pays for it. Worked for a while but oh well
Exactly because it is unregulated it is prone to collapse. Its pure 1:1 demand / supply is responsible for that, and there are no bounds to speculation. If there are any crypto advocates here : Change my mind.
People love famous people on Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram.

They just have a different pipeline to fame than TV/Film does.
It's been happening since before 2010, but sure.
Walmart's annual profit is ~$130B so what I'm seeing is that yes in fact it's perfectly feasible for 1.6M Walmart employees to get a $40K/yr raise.
3 people who know each other = T

3 people who don't know each other = F

T || F = T

Isn't that just True by default?

Maybe I'm missing the context.
I think most criticism of buybacks would go away if we eliminated the capital gains tax and treated income equally regardless of where it comes from.
Cryptopixels
I find it pretty weird whenever I read about company news on one of these corporate blogs. The writing and layout feels like they're hoping people will think it's a third party source and not notice the URL
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4975

> Covid-19: Russia admits to understating deaths by more than two thirds

> Russia’s true death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic is not about 57 000, as official figures claim, but more than 180 000, the country’s deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova, conceded at a press conference.

> The figures mean Russia ranks third in the world in terms of deaths from covid-19, behind only the US and Brazil. It would also give Russia the fourth highest per capita death rate, about 1273 deaths per million population, behind only San Marino, Belgium, and Slovenia.

Maybe good government matters more than you thought.
The problem is that nobody cares about corruption, or the so-called "lobbying". Big companies get their way at the expense of regular citizens meanwhile police and other agencies are busy enforcing big pharma monopoly on drugs. Most governments run until they are exposed and people are mad enough to march on the streets, or they simply run out of "their" monopoly money.
To improve that we need a ruthless agency that will remove corruption from politics once and for all.
Its a Ponzi scheme that uses as much energy as Argentina, has insignificant market cap $1T, on top of that btc is useless small gimmick that governments are trying to ban because how unthreatening it is.

This is a gist of all anti-btc posts. Make up you mind people.

Or maybe BTC is a Schrödinger's new cat.
Imagine you opened the folder and made a Xerox copy of the documents, but the words or dates in the copies never match the original documents.

The crazy thing about this attack, is the person making the copy may never know until its presented in court and challenged. Then everything from the folder has to be thrown out.
This made me remember what happened with what.cd.
Never had an account myself, but I feel like we truly have failed to a common, lasting, platform for storing arbitrary data.

bittorrent was ahead of it's time, the tech is IMO really cool. It is just too bad that it does not really make anyone rich and thus cannot be accepted.
‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation without censorship
That was mentioned in the article. Spraying weeds happens quite quickly. This vehicle maxes at 5mph so presumably hauling it around would take a lot longer.
Indeed, and the majority of a CEO’s direction and decisions are fundamentally different from those that the other employees make. As a software engineer I’m simply not privy to the kinds of choices the CEO is making and “no news is good news” is often the case with C-Suite decisions. But, if they are making some bad choices it really shows.
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Persuasive Techniques to Improve Your Ads
I use Microsoft research’s Lens. It’s amazing for taking pics of whiteboards and drawings and making it look much better than a photo of paper.
Peter Singer Is Committed to Controversial Ideas
Is being on the cheerleading squad a natural right?
> Why do you think this is happening? I've noticed a recent decline, but people have been saying this place isn't what it used to be for years. I've been attributing it to a change in myself.

I would say users likes anon_tor_12345 are more of an exception on the HN but they are they rule on reddit.

> I wonder if you could do some analytics on comments and measure whether things have actually gotten worse.

HN is really good at flagging bad actors. Curious to see what % of posts get flagged and compared to historical trends to see if things are really declining.
Captain America is generally about the conflict between patriotism and government loyalty. For a superhero movie, I'd say it's more thematically interesting than most. Government != political though.
They don't have to be. Everyone just chooses to do it that way because its easier to make loads of money.
Give me access to a machine that isn't blocked from Google, and I will.
I think of social media as "filler". It's similar to how empty calories trick our bodies into feeling full despite not providing any real nutrition.
No definitely not productive and just as much waste of time. But the avenue for wasting time is limited to that 1 or 2 hours. But now, its 24/7

Basically, the distractions 10 years prior were limited. Now the distractions are in your face all the time, tempting and calling all the time.
And judging by the issue for secret chats have been closed since 2016, they have no interest in implementing it either.

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871
There's a whole world of outsourcing shouting angrily at people over the phone. That's what call centres are. And their workers normally cost a lot less than CEOs.
> From my reading it looks like the "developing world" use case is pure propaganda.

From my perspective, it is not propaganda but it is my opinion. I didn’t come to the conclusion through any scientific rigor, but rather through observation. I have seen a spike in crypto discussion over the past year or two by, my obviously small sample, of thought leaders and entrepreneurs in primarily in Africa. The talk isn’t ever of get rich quick schemes, but instead focuses on generating long-term family wealth. It’s pretty inspiring to be honest. Investing in general moves your focus (or should) away from the now and to the future. For a lot of folks, myself included, a “future” never seemed possible. Maybe it’s silly but I started taking better care of myself once I started investing recently. I’m lucky, I live in the USA, I make decent money and have easy access via apps like Robinhood. What if I only had access to brokers who aren’t regulated or require deposits well exceeding anything I’ve ever saved? Truly, it pains me to say, but crypto markets are maturing and while they may not be stable compared to traditional 1st word financial markets they’re a lot better than many other alternatives.

Lastly please don’t see this as a recommendation to buy crypto. I wouldn’t unless you just wanna show off your diamond hands. Fwiw, I have to date ever owned exactly zero Bitcoin and only have a few lite coins mined years back (all of which have still not paid back the costs, but are close... Amazon or Tesla would’ve returned better in my case). I might not find it useful myself but it’s pretty hard to deny a lot of other people do find it useful.
It's not just that it was expressed off campus. It was expressed privately. Her speech on its own never reached the school. It was deliberately recorded and rebroadcast. The disruptive speech was the replaying of what she said, not her saying it. There is a huge difference.

If everything private is fair game, then I expect we should be able to depose all parties involved for any disparaging statements they have ever made. Then we can proceed with either cancelling the large majority of everyone, and prosecuting the rest for perjury. I suppose there is as third group who just don't say anything at all, and we should just go ahead and nail them for thoughtcrime.

Sure, there is a blurred line with posting something on a forum which is read in school, but this case clearly isn't that. The speech wasn't public and wasn't available at large.
I don’t know. I agree that people are addicted to their phones. But if people still remotely cared about these sorts of things, they would watch and live tweet about it on their phone like they do for everything else. This show was on a Sunday evening when most people are home and relaxing. I think it’s more that Hollywood is not hiding it’s partisanship at all and is instead pushing their partisanship to the forefront which turns off half the country. As such, viewership has declined by roughly 50%.
There's definitely a wobble in the first example, no need for the attitude.
I generally agree with you, but I would say that something like "donglegate" also fits in the cancel culture spectrum. Would you agree? Should there be a different term for it? (maybe just twitter shaming, followed by the modern rule that if you get too much attention on twitter you will be fired?)
> My wife said such a thing would NEVER happen in New York, there’s just too many people.

You're not talking to a random sample of people, so it's not actually thaaat unlikely to be someone who knows someone you do
Let's flip this on it's head and posit a counterfactual. Let's say that Greg does nothing and re-extend trust. Then vulnerabilities are exploited that exist due to additional bad patches submitted by this researcher. Greg would be rightly held to account for failing to his due diligence when he had clear evidence of malicious commits.

So even if all the the commits are good and even if Greg believes that, he has still been forced into these actions by the violations of trust committed by the researchers.

You are correct that the line as to what patches is a bit arbitrary, but it was always going to be. The research was conducted by the University so it seem the most reasonable place to draw the line to me.

I have still yet to see any explanation from the researchers as to why that "bad patch" happened, didn't include a reference to the automated tool as required, or what tool it even was.

I do think Greg is angry, but I don't think your insistence asscribing Greg's anger as his primary motivation is fair to him or consistent with HN guidelines on comments. I think you could make points about reverting commits without what seem to me like unnecessary personal attacks.