skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past week I have spoken to coworkers about high housing costs (bunch of us are testing the market right now), property taxes, EV rebates, weed legalization, homeless/drug use problem on the streets. All of this is apparently a fireable offense at Basecamp?

> People are going to say "obviously stuff like this is okay", but to me that's even worse. The company can and will apply arbitrary rules to whatever they think is unacceptable political speech.

From reading this announcement, it seems like they are going with the former. The article specifically mentions "every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large." Of course, it remains to be seen how exactly they apply this rule. The announcement doesn't mention how they will go about enforcing this prohibition, but to me it's very clear that the examples you mentioned obviously fall under this prohibition, as well as many other topics I would expect to be discussed at work, like vacation and holiday policies.
They didn’t want to risk going after it, it’s not written differently in the books.

It was done so the audience can understand what happens easily without having to drag it out over a few episodes.

The shows main strength is that they know rather well when physics are important for the plot and when it isn’t and they execute on this very well.
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Random conspiracy theories.. this isn't reddit.
What is a good book to read to learn about graph theory?
I use roku simply because its not connected to a big tech company. Same reason I use spotify. I wonder how many others there are like me
Clearly you haven't dealt with many schools. Only when the stakes are so low can people afford to be so petty.

Some school faculty and administration are incredibly petty and vindictive. Certainly not all but a lot. Grown adults absolutely pick favorites, bully students, talk down to them, and carry out petty beefs for any reason or no reason at all. Sometimes they hurt the children to get back at parents they don't like. Sometimes they (for whatever reason) seek validation from students and will participate in bullying of unpopular students. These can be trivial things, like accepting late work from some students but no others or grading one student's work more harshly. Other times they believe they are doing a student good by "teaching them a lesson" or expressing their disapproval of the student or family's lifestyle.

I have absolutely no problem believing the school administration and coach were offended and rather than discussing it with the 14 year old they decided to prove who was boss by punishing her.
Your comment may sound unrelated - but it's exactly at the heart of the problem.

Both climate change and viral growth increase exponentially. Not only do we release more CO2 into the atmosphere every year, but also the growth rate accelerates.
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Can you explain more? How is "We'll be streaming channels in VP9 and your client needs to support it to continue working?" a "threat"?

Is Apple dropping support for older iMacs / MacBooks / iPhones also a threat to all the companies using them?
If it is just happening with a specific record (especially a picture disc) it's likely not your stylus and just the pressing. You can give cleaning your record and stylus a shot and see if that helps.

If records are playing slow make sure if your table is belt driven your belts are still in good condition. Also make sure your tonearm height and anti-skate are properly adjusted.

Cleaning your records before you play them (even brand new records) is important.
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> If it's better to hoard currency so you can buy 10% more things next year, everyone starts hoarding currency

But they don't. Not if it's things they need now, like food, or want now: electronics have been deflationary for the last 70 years or so -- when you bought the device you typed your comment on, you knew full well that a year later you would get a better one for cheaper, and yet you didn't hoard your currency. Trade in electronics doesn't seem to be grinding to a halt.

Useless crap people don't actually need? Sure, that might suffer from deflation. But ideally the world economy wouldn't be founded on useless crap that people don't actually need.

Stake: Held some Bitcoin ca. 2011-2021, just enough to buy a nice (not fancy) apartment slightly below market price. Divested now. Miniscule amounts of Monero and Tezos, basically written off.
Off topic, and I know we're in the middle of an Apple-bashing thread, but the portrait mode on iPhone 12 is amazing.

Portrait mode is Apple-speak for pseudo-depth-of-field, which is the effect that real cameras do that make the subject in focus but the background blurry.

It makes photos look way more professional.
>Where do you derive the moral obligation for facebook or google have to act as neutral carriers of information?

It's interesting that you mention restaurants. Restaurants have standards that go beyond the casual cook in a home kitchen because the restaurant, owing to its scale, can multiply the effect of a problem with food safety and injure/kill very many people very easily.

To briefly answer your question: Big scale means errors are magnified means different rules apply.

Facebook by itself is the single largest website in the world outside of China. I find it outrageous to suggest that a company in that position (Google too) should get to just do whatever they please regarding the information input of a massive chunk of the global population.

Pretending that power doesn't exist does not nullify its effects or its abuse potential.

>because so far as I'm aware the only people at present negatively effected by google and facebook are all in the latter basket.

Your unwarranted personal attack aside, this is precisely what I meant about those handwaving the establishment of an abusable power structure simply because they're generally okay with the decisions that structure is making.

What about when you're not so okay with those decisions anymore? You mentioned the Capitol insurrection, I assume then, that you think Facebook should clamp down on such groups? Their answer to you is the same as their answer to me: "Our back yard, our rules."

I think we can do better than that. And to preempt the inevitable argument that the first amendment allows them to operate free of oversight in this way.. that's true. It would be a lot easier to tie their freedom from liability for the libelous, terroristic, etc. content their users post to some additional duties, transparency, and so forth.
A shareholder is more like the butcher or baker's brother than the butcher or baker. The incentives are different.
As Billy Crystal once said when he hosted: “Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s problems like watching millionaires present gold statues to each other.”
Same here - I had to reread the parent comment because I have a Roku too and that's the behavior so that's what I expect...?
I feel conflicted about upvoting. The "Facebook knew and failed to act" framing is ridiculous. So is complaining about casual access being closed off for a document that is clearly highly likely to leak. (And honestly it looks like something that should have been need to know from the start.)

But the leaked document itself is fascinating, both as a post mortem of sorts and as an example of high quality anti abuse work. It is an area where little gets published for obvious reasons, and every group needs to learn the same lessons from scratch. Great read.
Then you get different issues including more obscure and untested systems. I responded to someone asking why not use Java. I answered it. Please don't try to change the question after the fact when you don't like the answer.
I met a very good friend of mine in line at a restaurant. I'd argue it all comes down to your mindset - I'm not even that extraverted. At least in the midwest this is incredibly doable and common.
If you are a politician, performer, athlete, or CEO in the United States of a high profile company - yes absolutely this is different. Are you an IC in Finland or something? People here get very upset and judgmental as a rule.
Would you be willing to talk a bit more on how you get into that kind of conversation? I feel like bridging the gap between the necessary discussion of "Can you deposit this cheque please? Thanks." to the personal discussion of "Oh wow you went to Sycamore high and played on the hockey team? Don't suppose you know Johnny?" is a real art if you don't want to sound like a probing weirdo, and I have no idea how to do it.
Many still say no.
The labor cost per unit of produce is pretty small. Even doubling wages for harvest and weeding labor wouldn't add significantly to the retail cost of produce. Additionally farming is heavily subsidized in the US. Modest wage increases could and would end up being covered by subsidies by getting them rolled into a Farm Bill.

You can bet that a farm that saved money weeding with robots wouldn't drop the price of produce reflecting their lower costs. Like prices if everything, it's more what the market will bear rather than some geometric relationship to labor/production costs.
are you in seriousness? woman with beard are exist only as freak circus sideshow. we are not needing any more than midget emoji. i guess it is maybe good way to quietly point out that some "she" is in actually a "he", so having some use in there?
Glad to see “hide self view” on this list - that’s made a huge difference for me in the last few months.

I’d suggest removing the need to click through the “read now” button - seems like if I’m on the page, I want to read the tips.
I just learned how to tie a bowline knot.

5 stars
> funded by debt

Or recently, government support packages.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9622552-if-it-flies-floats-...
I wonder if Face ID is still able to partially detect a masked user's face, just with a much lower confidence interval. Maybe the presence of the watch allows Face ID to lower the confidence threshold when it detects a mask blocking half of the face. This is just a guess, I have no idea how Face ID works.

If Face ID can't detect anything when a user wears a mask then I completely agree with you. It seems really silly to require the mask in order for the watch unlock to work. I don't understand the security model there.
When I first read that line I had an image of the cookie monster sitting in court as a defendant.
Actually one of the issues in the case was whether she waived her 1st Am rights by voluntarily joining the team.

https://casetext.com/case/us-v-levy-22
I don't see why power would be an issue. Why do you even assume there's a huge battery instead of a diesel engine and generator?

Having this thing be autonomous makes it more expensive to acquire, yes, but way cheaper to operate because the labor cost of pulling this thing with a non-autonomous tractor is quite large (even if the tractor were autonomous, having two autonomous robots doing different things is better than having one doing two different things that might halve its availability for each kind of task). This is a very big deal. If labor were a non-issue we'd have people weeding manually and we'd not use herbicides. Everything in farming is about labor, which is why we've gone from being agrarian societies to industrial and post-industrial ones: by bringing economies of scale to agriculture in order to greatly reduce labor costs in agriculture.
Right, lots of wins are good, but why does the coach need to get paid $100M? Why is $1M not good enough?

Let me guess: because being a coach is so hard, and requires so incredibly much smarts and talent that only a precious few people have?
I don't think you have to "turn a blind eye". It's not a zero-sum game. But it does mean you have to engage with people. Shunning would be the opposite of that.

The best modern-day example of how we should all live is probably Daryl Davis...

"It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence. If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy — it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything...you will find that you both have something in common."

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc...
Than I would rather use TeaVM with some wrappers.
Why does climate change increase exponentially? For reasons other than our collective output increasing exponentially?
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> As it sits today, speaking your mind can literally be a death sentence, if you happen to say something a mob doesn't agree with.

Exactly, this is a great reason to leave the USA, especially if you already have health issues. With AI taking hold and it getting harder to emigrate, the time to leave is now. Jobs with benefits for programmers are going to become more uncommon, with remote work being possible, as more contract work is going to be offered.

I am a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen, who is culturally American. I can legally live in about 30 countries (Freedom of Movement rights) as an EU citizen. I left the US over healthcare. For most people on here, Ireland is the place to go to get EU citizenship. Once you get EU citizenship, it levels the playing field and you can go to places with better healthcare than Ireland.
Some fun, interesting, true, and meh bits of wisdom here!

These 2 stuck out as ironic being back to back:

• I have never met a person I admired who did not read more books than I did.

• The greatest teacher is called “doing”.

Although without more context, its just a snap judgement. Admiring only people who are well read(assuming OP reads a lot) seems to leave a bit on the table.
That's a good point, actually.

If a dating site is so good at finding matches for people that there are tons of success stories, it's free advertising. Look at me, just coming out and talking about meeting my wife on OKCupid.

I think eHarmony's biggest problem was that they're too expensive. The article estimated that 96.25% of the profiles were dead, meaning less than 4% of their users were paying. I imagine they could have turned that way up by charging $10/month instead of a ridiculous $60/month. Less profit per user, but make up for it in volume.
Related case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick

>...the Court held, 5–4, that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from suppressing student speech that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use at or across the street from a school-supervised event.
Yeah. More than questioning the ethical implications of their decision I was simply struct with a... damn that must be a boring place to work at.
The flip side of this is what I would term standup-driven-development.

You work just enough to have something to say that day. Rinse and repeat for the next day. The incentive isn't to do more or better work. The incentive is to have something impressive to say at the next meeting.

The other issue with standups is if it's not "on the board" then developers are disincentivized from doing certain things (proper testing of code, code reviews, etc.) in favor of things that show up.
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Debian Manpages !debman

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MirBSD Manpages !mbsdman

Ubuntu Manpage !uman
God that's infuriating. If they're going to define essential that circularly, then it's meaningless. It reminds me of the uber/lyft AB5 laws, where they designed a test for independent contractor vs employee, and then exempted basically every industry from the test, one by one. Here, they defined essential workers vs unessential workers, and then exempted more and more industries, one by one, until it's meaningless.
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The parent isn't saying that Samsung's face unlock isn't still useful. Just that "a picture of your face is the password" does pass the bar for security by any reasonable definition. It's a convenience feature. Apple's FaceID comes with real, and strong, guarantees about its effectiveness. Just the same as Samsung's fingerprint scanner.
I have used 'graph dbs' (or stuff bolted onto something else exposing a graph and/or being called a graph-db), mostly commercial ones, for the past 20+ years because I have the same feeling as you have; every one of them was too slow (and not scalable but we didn't even get to that point). From absolutely unusable to useable as a toy; one of them was 50k$/server and it was a toy. But that was a long time ago; things moved on and I hear good things about Dgraph.

So I will try it again, see if it works this time around.
Embracing open source survey tools
Really cool review of how humanitarian orgs rely more and more on OSS
> FaceID surely won't ever work with webcams however -- it uses a custom-built depth sensor separate from the camera.

iMacs could absolutely have the entire camera module, depth sensor included. Things would be rather more complicated for the laptops, the cover is thinner than an iPhone. Though obviously not as bad as the protruding back cameras, the front cameras module is still rather deep and would likely require increasing the depth of the cover to fit flush.
I’m in New Zealand. Maybe my assumption that people wouldn’t particularly care is wrong, or my oddities are already factored into their behaviour towards me.
Believing in there being 2 sides is probably a good indicator that we've already failed.
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Thanks for the clarification. Always seemed a bit too quick and neat a causation.

But as you say the bigger picture is still worrying - and i am not sure that disregarding cloud formation there isn't still certain aerosols hanging around changing things for the worse after heavy air traffic - it's hard to gauge from the Abstracts of papers i just skimmed, but something seems to be happening : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006600107117
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279155481_Impact_of...
When will we finally get the robocop statue?
Yes, it is saying in announcement. She was given differing voice before in past, but it was needing configuration option for to enable some other. It is bad change though, now each person must make choice rather than having normal default.
Compare someone from Venezuela and North Korea. Millions of people managed to leave Venezuela and stay alive, unlike millions of people from North Korea who had died from hunger in 90s despite having neighbours ready to take care of them.

But if you think that there is nowhere to go, you need to support seasteading, because if it succeeds there will be many new countries that will be happy to take new citizens.
Gaetz is a US House representative. How is that local corruption or abuse of power? Did he actually use his position, or was it just that he committed a private crime while in power?

Also you mention a county tax collector. I wouldn't consider that a tight knit small town. I think there is a lot more corruption at a county level than a small town (from what I've seen).

I sort of get your point about more eyes watching someone the higher they go. Some of it is also the position of those watchers and their opportunities. In many small towns, people know a pot about you and you have plenty of nosy (for lack of a better term) neighbors. Arguably, they make for better watchers.
Youtube music was better until several months ago, when they made some changes that ruined it for me. I haven't used Youtube for an extended session of watching music videos since those changes happened. Overall I have watched many fewer music videos since the change. This is on Youtube as implemented on Android TV.

I definitely prefer music videos over plain audio streams.
Lobbying is a form of self-defense against the real corruption - a government that has assigned itself the power to interfere in our day-to-day lives. Most people today take it for granted that "regulations" must exist because they solve some actual problem.

Usually, the "problem" they exist to solve is that some government functionary wants to look like they're "doing something", which is itself a form of corruption. Regulations also commonly serve ideologically-motivated belief that some faction has managed to force on everyone else. Everything else that is "corrupt" about proscriptive regulations follows from the fact that the belief in proscriptive regulations is a corrupt belief (and illegal under the US Constitution as it was actually written).
I think some kind of error bars would have been very enlightening, yes.

I find it quite hard to evaluate what is being shown, when the total change in temperature over a century is smaller than the temperature difference between different parts of the room I'm currently sitting in.
Not a good look Google; especially when you've got a great, big target on your back from the antitrust/anticompetitive hawks.
I'm glad we have choice then.
Say you were pursuing independent projects or traveling.
> If you cut the politics then something else will keep our primordial animal minds busy.

I think it's fairly easy to make the argument that our minds are especially tuned to tribalism. Not only that, but what comes out of discussions focused on political/social tribalism is especially toxic. It's one thing to have a little banter about football teams, it's another when people are convinced their lives are at stake.
Consider that users don't want notifications. I turn this off on other devices and I'm sure many others also do so.
Oh, just wow for that simplicity. Yes, people are one-dimensional, or something. Really, dating is not like ELO-rating, do they really not think people can better be categorised in certain ways of thinking, instead of a one-dimensional ELO-rating? Like, how you view a relationship, just as one example.

Just today I started in the often advised book by Christian Rudder from 2015, from OkCupid. And yes, this one-dimensional thinking seems to be prevalent amongs this kind of people.

I very much prefer a dating website where I don't get the idea that I am an experiment. I want to meet someone with similar views on a relationship, views based on giving, trust, you know, the simple things. People who want other things, like traveling, will probably find similar minded matches.
"Fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything."

Wait, that's it?!
There are more than two in my country, I was just "translating"...