skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is a person in his position can only say one thing. "I downweight posts in the interest of the community not in the interest of YC." Whether this statement is true or not is irrelevant as it is the only thing he will say.

It is unreasonable to think he will say the opposite of the above. He will not say "HN regularly censors posts that are against the interests of YC." This will never be said because both versions of HN the one benevolent to the community and the one serving the interests of YC will NOT say this. Thus he can only say basically one thing. That is the purpose of what I mean when I use the word "only."

I'm not saying there is evidence for censorship I am not saying that this is what is happening. I am saying there is motive and a conflict of interest and motive and conflict of interest is enough for this to be suspicious.

>You're basically wrong.

How can I be wrong when all I am saying is that there is a conflict of interest. Can you legitimately say there isn't?
Mission: Thunderbolt: Won (With Summary and Rating)
Costco, Sams Club and the like have you sign a contract for membership that requires you to show the receipt upon exit. Walmart, Target, etc. are governed by the state, county, and city laws. Most states allow you to ignore them and keep walking unless the theft prevention is activated.
Really probably just means he's undercounting.
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> I believe GP means that they are not checked at runtime.

Haskell types aren't checked at runtime either, so that can't be it.

Python has runtime type checks that do happen at runtime, so maybe it's Haskell that doesn't have types.
2019 HN discussion about the initial plan announcement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20524867
> The great thing about markets is that when a company does bad things, the public usually can switch providers, thus punishing bad behavior. There are notable counter examples where there isn’t consumer choice, but those organizations get dragged in the media and are forced to change in the court of public opinion.

Err yeah, like Amazon and Google and Disney and Comcast and $INSERT_MEGACORP_HERE totally don't buy out competitors, or use dominance in one field to buy dominance in another field.
Who will do it?

Russia won't, because they're quite happy with the situation.

The EU won't, because Russia would intervene with any sign of Belarusian leaders getting 'sick'.
I haven’t noticed a difference in most things. Some things are cheaper at Walmart, but they also often have companies make worse versions of products for them just so they can sell them cheaper.
This is why you need a trusted compiler. Basically it's "insecure by design" since the whole point of this optimization is to avoid any asynchronous exception so there's no need to implement that in the pipeline. The machine code must be forced somehow to implement these checks.

There have been architectures which have required a trusted compiler (eg. the Burroughs mainframes) or a trusted verifier (the JVM, NaCl). But it certainly brings along a set of problems.

It's unclear from here whether this is even an optimization. It looked a lot more compelling back in the mid 90s.
That’s true. California has projects that have true timelines like that but there are usually lies about completion dates.
The funniest thing about this article is what it says about worker alienation in Marxist theory. It says worker alienation depends on how well workers are treated by their bosses. But that’s simply not what the theory says. Marxist theory as best as I understand refers to worker alienation from the products of their own labor due to capitalist ownership of the means of production. It is the lack of worker ownership of the means of production that produces alienation, not how well they are treated. There are of course other meanings of of the word alienation, but the article states in one paragraph that Graeber was right about worker alienation as an aspect of Marxist theory, and then in the very next sentence says worker alienation depends on how workers are treated by their bosses. From my understanding of one of the basics of Marxist theory, that’s not what the theory says.
As I understand it, Android, the underlying system doesn’t provide support for shadows beyond setting elevation. https://developer.android.com/training/material/shadows-clip...

React Native’s first principle is meeting user’s expectations of the platform. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2020/07/17/react-native-princip...

Since the platform doesn’t provide shadow support, React Native can’t provide that support on Android either. React Native’s shadow API works for the platforms that do support it, like iOS, Windows, and macOS.

Disclaimer: I work on React Native.
It has a bad track record, and will definitely see counter-intervetion by Russia.

What sort of intervention did you have in mind? And what's the "then what" plan for the subsequent twenty years?
Today (June 4th) is also the anniversary of the Tiananmen protest. In China most people who knew about the incident would often refer to it as liùsì (or lo-sik), which is 'Six Four' in Mandarin/Cantonese (六四).

Glad to see it gaining traction on HN. Appearantly this year CCP is working hard to erase the past too.

- https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002772735/china-forbids-publ...

- https://news.yahoo.com/arrests-made-hong-kong-during-2139547...

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/hong-kong-bans...
> That being said, have you heard of long covid?

The number of people with long COVID symptoms is a tiny tiny fraction of those exposed to SARS-CoV2. If it's a designed feature of SARS-CoV2, it's very poorly implemented, unless it's actually very specifically targeting some as-of-yet unidentified demographic. (This seems very unlikely.)
But than you have the famous office manager, who decides to shutdown all ops because his windows PC is virus infected.

All critical infrastructure depends on one overly stupid manager.
On that note, if you are interested in the complexities of building a multi-generational structure, I really recommend Kafka’s short story, The Great Wall of China. It is not about the actual historical wall, as far as I know, but it uses it as an example to make some genius insights about human society and psychology.

http://www.kafka-online.info/the-great-wall-of-china.html
You really should be performing your own risk assessment so you can convert this notional context-free severity rating to your own context-related impact and likelihood to give you your own company risk rating. Ratings over a certain number (to be agree with at board level - in effect your risk appetite) should be treated (risk remediated, removed, transferred to a third party etc etc).

We also do this with pen test reports which suffer the same kinds of issues.

Usually find that sometimes a medium is a critical for us and some times a high is a low for us - based on performing this kind of assessment.
I was once asked to automate a task at a job. There was a webpage that had a dozen iframes. My task was to add a js that refreshes each iframe a minute after it fully loaded. It was a wonky type of health checker.

When I finished, I went to see the person who used the product in person. Turns out, his job was to sit in front of the webpage and refresh it every minute or so, then report it if any of the pages in the iframes failed to load. After my update, he wouldn't have to refresh the page anymore. He would just sit and watch.

I thought that his job was bullshit, and that his manager was just keeping him busy. But it turns out, I was the one who was misemployed[1].

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/the-40-million-dollar-job
You're thinking of industrialization.

Capitalism systematically creates poverty both between countries (by extracting wealth from poorer countries) and within countries (by systematically depriving low income earners of adequate resources).
Ah yes, the ACEI scale: ASAP, Critical, Emergency, and In progress. In Progress being the only thing that actually gets done. The rest is conjecture. ASAP will never get done.
There is apparently an entire branch of research called Reviewer Reliability. Someone on HN pointed that out to me a couple of years back, when we were discussing the problem with fake/bought/manipulated/blackhat product reviews.

In a hilarious twist of fate, searching for that term brings up papers on either medical research or peer-review reliability problems in general[0]. You try to find data on a potentially abstract, complex societal issue, and come up with what can only be described as attention grabbing HN-catnip.

0: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...
From what other people who saw your original post have said, it sounds like you got significant pushback at the time, and that you knew that you were skirting the eligibility criteria as you understood it.

As I’m sure you are aware, the brunt of COVID infections and deaths in the Bay Area were borne mostly by our Black and Latinx neighbors, especially those who continued to work during the pandemic, serving those of us who were able to work from home in our underwear all year. And I’m also sure you’re aware that the relaxed eligibility criteria that allowed you to get vaccinated early was meant to reach them, not you.

You can dismiss your critics as “moral crusaders.” You cannot dismiss the fact that the people public health officials were trying to reach with the vaccine you took died at a much higher rate from COVID than, for example, the community of Y Combinator alumni.

How you feel about any of that is up to you, but I hope you’re at least willing to be honest about what happened.
One of the reasons why the yields are higher for stable coins is they are not bound by central banks‘ interest rates. This is especially true for purely synthetic stable coins (DAI, sUSD, sEUR) because they don’t even need to be backed by the underlying asset.

The other reason is they cut the middle man between a creditor and debtor i.e. banks.

If banks started to sell financial products based on liquidity pools, they had a hard time to compete with places like compound or aave. However, they would set themselves free of the federal fund rate and therefore they could actually provide higher rates to their customers.

So basically, rates would be rising everywhere.
From my own experience, it's not so much about keeping people in employment and more about manager maintaining oversized teams because the size of your team is a status symbol.
I just saw a banner outside mine in a very low cost of living area advertising starting at $14 an hour.
Or perhaps they know for a fact someone read the article using Tor or a VPN, and want to go after the server next. Still seems pretty far out there.
> In fact, it’s so religious that it’s caused me to question my own religious beliefs now that I’ve seen an actual religion assembled in front of my eyes. It’s so much like what I see in my own religion that all religion is starting to frighten me.

Don't worry about it if some members of a group you self-identify with are assholes. It's a problem when most of them do, and then you have to disassociate yourself with a different label.

Hell, I'm atheist, and I still call out other "atheists" who tell others "your god doesn't exist", or who refuse to wish others "Merry Christmas", etc.

If too many atheists are militant about others' belief system, I'm going to stop calling myself atheist and identify as something else ("Member of the religion of 'We don't care who is up there or if they exist'", although that's quite a mouthful).
Re: the part about using your own home-grown leader replication on top of Postgres: it seems it focuses on electing a new leader if it fails: do I understand that all database traffic gets routed to the leader? Do you serve read-only queries from the local replica?

The described setup looks like something that cockroachdb would be able to handle nicely, which perhaps is a little more battle-tested than what you wrote.
> You seem to assume a bio-weapon has to cause mass death to be effective and meet the deployer's objectives...you are wrong in the case of economic attacks.

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/morbidity
I'd actually be less worried about that to be honest. That type of mobilization puts out signals we're already well equipped to catch.

The entire reason the pipeline hack is such a noteworthy event is that (and I truly believe this), someone was dumb enough to take a job bigger than their head. I don't think a nation state would have burned that opportunity by signaling their technical capability that way.

Funnily enough, the pipeline hack and ransom wouldn't even be feasible without the advent of cryptocurrencies making the AML bypass feasible. As much as I despise those regulations in particular, I cannot argue with their efficacy.
You think all qualitative research is pointless?
India should not be compared to China due to https://archive.is/YXDP8 and https://archive.is/mPsqz
This is too specific. Look for the Trinity and you'll see it plainly. What lives in everyone's heart, created the world we live in and gives society its structure, according to them? That's what they worship.
I knew of a person who quit their company over a scandal, only to have their new company have a similar one a few months later.

Employees should not be playing musical chairs with employers as a form of protest. If you’re willing to quit, better to stay until you get fired striving for real change instead of hoping that quitting will make management realize they were in the wrong. It rarely works.
Walmart can do anything to tacle this threat as they are now creating their own ecosystem of devices like laptop, smartphone, smart tvs and will sell in their stores to maximize profit...

Reference - Walmart's first Android TVs will be officially released next week - https://techplanet.today/post/walmarts-first-android-tvs-wil...
It's easy to predict any submission related to China will turn into a shitshow because you have the usual suspects like justicezyx resorting to whataboutism, cry racism, flagging, etc.

Want to censor a thread on HN? Flag it with a few different users, or turn the thread into a shitshow so that the "flamewar" tools will be triggered, or moderators will be forced push the thread off the frontpage.
I agree with your speculation, this looks like a timing attack regarding a Tor or VPN server.

That said, while catching pedos is a good thing, their methods are still concerning for regular law abiding citizens. The road to hell is paved with good intentions…
Any kind of working moderation system is going to have a certain level of "we have to play it by ear" or else it gets overrun by rules lawyers playing to the word and not the spirit of imposed rules.
Check this one out as well, from last month. Excellent post on the subject: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
What alternative doesn’t add failure opportunities and require additional work by the developer where they will crop up?

Both defer (and more generally scope guards) and context managers certainly do, to say nothing of try/finally.
A click and collect / in person delivery has benefits too though:

* It’s cheaper for Walmart as it can ride on the back of an existing trunk from a logistics perspective.

* Dependent on how confident you are on stock, Walmart could offer “instant” click and collect on any range in stock in store. This does depend on inventory policies and is more complicated than it initially seems though.

* It gets someone in your store which has an umbrella effect as they are likely to purchase something else.

Most are benefits for Walmart, but the lower delivery cost can be passed on to customers and instant pickup is great for customers when it happens. Furthermore, click and collect is great for people in flats or where leaving a parcel isn’t practical.
Latin[ao] sounds like Spanish slang for "latinized"... I could actually imagine this catching on more than latinx.
> no company is going to assign budget to something that's clearly useless

The only way somebody can say this is if they haven't actually worked for any real company.
The large number of people I know who use that term, though, are [that word you will apparently be annoyed that I use ;P] and not white allies or something. Also: I feel like maybe you are mixing up Latino and Hispanic? Someone can be Latino/a and simultaneously Anglophonic. It doesn't surprise me that people who are Hispanic don't care as much or even find the construction annoying, as it doesn't work well in their language... but why, exactly, does that matter?
Ask HN: What are the truly independent search engines out there?
As the Tank Man debacle showed, the critical key asset of the web: the search engine, could fail us is subtle or not so subtle way. It also made some of us realize that most of the search engines out there are actually just frontends for bing (Yahoo, Qwantz, Ecosia, ...).

Cliqz seemed promising but went bust a year ago.

What are the truly independent search engines out there?

Additional question: What are the inter dependencies between search engines. Do we have a clear view of where our search results are coming from?

Google -> DDG
Bing -> DDG
Yahoo -> DDG
Wolfram Alpha -> DDG
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results)

Bing -> Yahoo
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search)

Bing -> Qwantz
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant)

Bing -> Ecosia
(source: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where-do-Ecosia-s-search-results-come-from-)
> with the forum behind TOR

TOR users clicking on a news link will take him to the news site through the TOR network. Thus rendering his IP useless.
Some people work best under pressure. Effectively no one works best under constant pressure - they burn out[1]. Amazon is trying to promote the latter.

[1] There are a very small few that continue to be effective under pressure. They are worth much more than Amazon is willing to pay.
OneTrust is very commonly used for the legally required cookie banners for EU readers.
The point seems to be that using the key isn’t the crime.
> But I think an anthropologist would see a difference. At the heart of the experience of being a Mormon (and presumably other religions, though I'm most familiar with this one) is belief in a Prophet (capital P) and a collection of scripture. If you ask any Mormon who the Prophet is, they'll tell you, and they'll all give the same answer. So, who is the prophet of Woke, and what are the scriptures?

I don't think the heart of a religion is a belief in a Prophet. Hindiusm is a religion, no one will dispute that, but that Hindus don't have the concept of a Prophet (big 'P'). Same goes for many other commonly accepted religions.

The only thing that all religions have in common is "A core set of beliefs, agreed upon among their followers".
Ask HN: Is it allowed to discuss ivermectin on HN?
I usually use HN to research controversial topics, but i'm seeing little here about ivermectin and I've noticed a few ivermectin posts have been flagged.
I don't understand how this isn't accurate. Even with your definition:

A. Not a person.

B. Not courageous because they have no idea what they are doing.

C. Noble qualities aren't in evidence because all the rats know is that the sniff a field and get treats.
> Seems like the only real way to counter these unfalsifiable arguments is to call the person a fucking clown and tell them what a kafkatrap is.

I think a better strategy is to avoid engaging them in the first place.
When reason fails, use fear or violence eh?

The US is in a bad state today because people have forgotten how to speak to each other respectfully, they don't agree to disagree, they violently disagree. Fear mongering and labeling will only make things worse.

Both sides need to stop explaining, justifying and funding their bad apples by pointing to the other.

In medical terms, stop tying to cure an infection with another infection of your own.
Distal radius. Also a fracture in the ulna, but it’s less serious. I’m now recovering in a hospital ward in Bulgaria post internal fixation surgery feeling very sorry for myself indeed.
The solution is not for elite schools to take in more students from deprived backgrounds. The solution is to make state schools good enough to compete with the elite schools.

Teaching at state schools (I’m from the UK) is utterly crap and 30 years of continuous reform has merely ensured that it keeps getting worse even as grade inflation is encouraged to make it seem like it’s getting better.
The absolutely worst thing a human being can do to nature is move into it XD
Wow, you explained that incredibly well, thanks! I knew nothing about what Carmack was talking about here, but your explanation makes it pretty clear.
I’m also wondering how this got public so easily if there was a gag order, but it sounds like the court made it public initially and USA Today just responded to that news.
All of these meaningless labels were given to us by the so-called "elites" to keep us distracted... that same distraction is what allows of the continued manufacturing of consent.
Nine principles to break your internet addiction
summerhamster is one of a billion of those shitty "adblock detecting!!!" "dont lose money!!!" malicious JS domains.
That hasn't worked well for... decades?

Considering how a few of those countries ended up after forced/aided regime change, like Iraq, Lybia, Syria, why would anyone still think it's a good idea to be taken lightly?
Yep, I made a mistake it's actually 68.
Not if you also have ISP records. Look up “timing attack.”
not that big of an assumption given that, as we have seen, the person in question had no reason to make that up and a lot to lose.
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Yeah, the alternative was for the Feds to let them fail, then take them into receivership similar to the S&L crisis back in the 80s. But after decades of dismantling Glass Steagal and consolidating into megabanks, they had enough political power this time to orchestrate a bailout.

I'm not sure any technology can solve the fundamental problem, but the post-Great Depression regulatory regime did for decades until it was dismantled in the 80s and 90s. It's no surprise that less than a decade after Graham-Leach-Bliley dismantled the last bits of Glass-Steagal in 1999, that we get another financial crisis similar to the Great Depression. Glass-Steagal mostly worked, and served to decentralize the banking/investment banking/insurance industry.
Rock on Greg / Dom / John / all!

Awesome seeing behind the scenes on all this.
> As a POC, I appreciate these woke people, even though some of their actions may be heavy handed. I wish there were more of them when I was growing up and being bullied by real bigots.

Counterpoint: As a non-white, oppressed person who grew up in Apartheid South Africa, these 'Woke' people resemble the Apartheid rulers way too much for my liking[1].

As bad as the situation is, as presented by BLM for blacks in America now and in the recent past, it's nowhere near as bad as having laws on the books, that courts had to enforce, that made you less of a human than white people.

[1] The animals looked from Pig to Man, and Man to Pig, and they could not tell the difference, roughly paraphrased from Orwell.
Has it ever worked out, if we want to take it as far as believing any of such things have ever been done in good faith? I can't recall any occurrences where an overthrown regime did not snowball into an irrepairable shift of power with the result of countless civilian deaths from the struggling parties involved. Especially so considering the proximity of Russia, I imagine it'd be opportunity to cause extreme ostracization. This is one of the courses of action I think EU is staying away the most from and for good reason.