skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand the apparent moral disparity but from a "rule-administering" POV it may just be case of

* Action A occurs which is widely agreed to be misguided and reprehensible by YC and other forum members. However, Action A was not explicitly against any existing rule at the time, it was just super-dickish. Action A was probably immediately widely (if not universally) condemned by community members and YC. YC tells the person, don't do that ever again because now it's against the rules. Maybe they spanked that person in other ways, I don't know. I'm confident the idiot was the recipient of overwhelmingly negative social consequences from members of the private community.

* Another person is very angry about Action A and commits Action B by taking private forum events onto public social media. Action B is clearly, explicitly against an existing, very simple rule. Perhaps others have already been banned for violating this rule.

Despite our intuitions to the contrary, the stupidity and gross awfulness of Action A doesn't somehow offset the fact Action B is against an existing rule and Action A wasn't at the time it was committed. It's not wrong that YC enforced the clear rule against Action B. YC may even have had very mixed feelings about it.

To me, in the absence of further factual context, it seems uncharitable to reflexively pillory YC - even though I admit I feel tempted to do exactly that.
Yeah this is kind of semantics but by definition this is misinformation, but definitely not disinformation (which requires active manipulation). This post is to me pretty squarely a false rumor made to elicit suspicion and fear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation
The submitted title was "Y Combinator kicks out Paul Biggar over a tweet". That is inaccurate, so in keeping with the HN guidelines ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), I've replaced the title with the tweet text. That's the standard thing we do with titles, when people post Twitter links.

Much as I'd love to, it's not my place to say why the original title was inaccurate, so I'll just remind you all that there are two or more sides to every story and not everything on Twitter is true.

In keeping with the rule that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), I'm not doing anything else to the submission. Normally, of course, we'd downweight this sort of petty drama.
> This seems to be a mostly inflammatory

This seems to be a constant theme in the .NET community - or more specifically, only seems to exist within Twitter and on the topic of OSS within .NET. At this point from what I've seen this whole thing is basically a cyclic meme.

Every couple of months, sometimes seemingly out of nowhere, a spate of angry tweets with even angier replies and retweets will be posted or someone will write a long screed of a blog post.

Many of the people involved who criticise Microsoft/.NET Foundation/OSS seem to be suffering from cognitive dissonance. One moment they will say they want OSS and demand that Microsoft contribute more to OSS. The next moment, they complain that Microsoft/.NET Foundation is "damaging" OSS by... contributing to OSS?

There doesn't seem to be any sound arguments from these critics and I just don't know what will make them happy. One thing I know for sure though that as a member of the .NET community, it is absolutely exhausting seeing yet more of this entitled drama. I really feel for the .NET team because it seems that some of their users (including some of the so called Microsoft MVP's) fuel this drama.
For those who've made it this far down into the thread but not yet seen dang's reply, it's further upthread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397230
Could you explain why you are prejudicing Warren Buffet?
The tax rate for $100,000USD/yr is roughly the same between California and British Columbia. But you only get healthcare in one of those.
What’s 4:1:1? What people call 4:2:0 is actually 4 pixels of Y and 1 each of Cb and Cr.
Yeah, and in principle I agree. It's just tough to imagine how exactly you'd regulate that in practice without doing a lot of unintended harm along the way, especially to (potential) small vendors.
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The latter group "young, affluent" in the Bay Area, typically do not work jobs with extensive human contact. Most jobs with extensive human contact were prioritized in the Bay by March, so skipping ahead implies people whose jobs did not require human contact.

The only point I'm trying to make is that it was morally wrong to lie to skip ahead in the eligibility lines in March.
Glad to see ycombinator shut down these outrage trolls.

I drove someone to what I suppose was one of these clinics. Was pouring rain. They had shots left over. Clinic staff said please get a shot. The one problem - their form didn't have a spot for leftover shots, so they had to lie about my eligibility.
One trick for depression is to go out and find someone in a worse situation than you and help them. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, they surely need a hand. Maybe it won't make you happy but you could potentially improve someone else's life before you go.

And some suggested reading: "Man's search for meaning", by Viktor Frankl. Also a great title on Audible.
Anytime China shows up on hacker news I get the distinct impression that two well funded troll farms are slugging it out, downvoting and flagging the enemy and upvoting their own side. It’s like watching 2 AIs playing civilization with each other, mindlessly sending forth wave after wave of clubmen in an endless war of attrition that goes nowhere.

Poor saps who try to express a nuanced view get attacked by both sides. But we know that the Chinese government does this, and we know that certain organizations like turning point USA do this, although of course I don’t know if either of those groups are active on HN.

But it’s the impression I get.
Also the opposite of the "lab leak" theory(which is very overloaded) is probably the "species jump" theory and not the "wet market" theory.
The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades
Per the Wikipedia article, MD-11 required active stabilization.
They're not. To be honest I'm kind of baffled why people keep equating the two in their heads. I don't want to be "that guy", but use your imagination.

Example 1: Low-risk person forges papers to claim they're high risk or in a situation that justifies getting a vaccine Right The Fuck Now, subsequently jumping through a bunch of hoops to get a spot in a highly crowded queue.

Example 2: Person shows up at the end of the day in a vax center that is throwing away 50 doses if they can't get them in arms before people go home.

Example 1 is someone being trashy and selfish, stealing a vaccine from someone who might be able to get it today, result mostly negative. Example 2 is not stealing anything, but rather preventing a vaccine from being wasted and thus a net positive result.
Looks like this prompted another founder to post that they were kicked out 2 weeks ago for a different incident:

https://twitter.com/ekadamer/status/1400956227501318146
That's really incredible ! Still, for a total beginner like I am, 589 lines of C++ don't seem enough to cover it all, so what's the fuss? Where are the assets? What should I look for? Agreed, feel free to post on show HN to level up the debate
that site was well known locally at the time to accept anyone who walked up
> Alameda County wasted more doses than any other county in California,

Not true if you look at per capita numbers. Alameda had 0.39% spoiled.
on the other hand they made PCs being common and enabled billions of people to use them
Just a special distaste for the crypto crowd. Who somehow manage to moralize all day about "authoritarian capitalism" while skimming off everyone in society with their tax avoidance scam.

I'm inclined to say Jeff Bezos is no better. But then I remember he and his companies have actually produced some innovations that are legitimately beneficial.
Their interior could use a better design. However, the vast majority of people are working class. Their problems aren't shoppers' opinions of other shoppers. An upscale version might attract other customers of a higher socioeconomic status, but there's lots of competition in that market as well, and it's not a core competency of Walmart, making it a longshot bet.

Based on what the article says from the memo, a lot if their issues stem from changing shopping behaviors and a desire for more convenience-- such as curbside pickup-- that Walmart has had difficulty scaling up fast enough to meet demand.
Yes, there are employers in both US and EU that will attempt to low-ball remote developers in generally lower-cost regions.

One time I got two simultaneous offers from two EU companies, one of them was like 35% larger (they did not make their offers based on a region), even though I stressed that I am generally earning EU-like salary for my experience. They quickly raised the lower offer to match.

I know people who've worked at very senior/tech lead positions at US/Canadian companies for significantly less than $30/h. It all depends on the type of the company: are they hiring remotely to save on costs, or to open up the pool of talent to the entire world (basically, get better talent for the money they've got available)? Of course, it's never black and white, but where they sit closer ultimately affects what they offer.
Please stop using twitter John.

It's the 21st century and brilliant minds are posting thoughts in broken unreadable parts on websites that completely don't work unless you're a religious "the modern web requires javascript REEEEEEE" zealot.
I'm currently doing both of these with success:

- Limit to 1 creative thing per month (music one month, programming the next, etc.) I find it helps to get deep into 1 thing for a while rather than skimming the surface on multiple

- Waking up early, and doing the creative things first (less interruptions in the morning, you have your energy)
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'The EU' only receives a tiny amount of your tax money.

The taxes you pay nationally is why (at least in North+West EU) we don't have crumbling infrastructure or education like America is experiencing.

You sound like someone who wants the benefits of a country with strong taxation without paying into that pot. Not okay.
It’s not beside the point. MFA substantially raises the effort required of the attacker.

Malware on a workstation with VPN access is a far higher bar than just being able to log directly in to a VPN with stolen/guessed creds.
Then do them first?

The truly prolific creative people I know do that work at non-traditional times if they have a full time job. Practicing music late at night, painting at 6am, etc. Even scheduling their creative work during low points in their work day.

I am also not good at this, so take this advice as an observation rather than a personal experience.
>Sorry. I meant nobody respectable is suggesting that. Not even the respectable Palestinians.

BDS is doing so precisely in the guise of

>A single-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians share the same rights and live under the same democratic government [and gerrymandered borders and immigration policy to create a Palestinian majority]
>The accusation is that both told other people how to skip the line. My assumption is that the both founders told other people how they could get the vaccine. A more charitable observation would be that the second founder told people how they could get it without waiting in line or lying.

You're being charitable in the wrong direction, because you're not interpreting the allegations in good faith. What would be the point of taking to Twitter if all the second founder did was instruct people how to get a vaccine, without the component of lying to bypass the queue?

Since there would be no point to such an outrage, it's uncharitable to pre-emptively dismiss the contents of the allegations. Whether or not they are eventually shown to be true, they should still be interpreted in the most serious and direct way.
Exactly, although healthcare and taxes aside, the market ratio of gross salary (as measured in USD) for a certain position relative to cost of real estate and cost of living is a lot higher in many places in California than in BC. The same job might pay the equivalent of $130k USD/year in a big city in CA but would be $105k CAD/year (equivalent to $87k USD/year) in Vancouver.

Not that housing costs in many big cities in CA aren't also ridiculous - but BC seems to be setting new records in unaffordability.
But example 2 wouldn't be skipping the queue, which is what the tweet is discussing.

Plenty of people were doing the showing up at end of day thing, it wasn't frowned on at all back in March.
Ah right. I am not familiar with the Bay area in these regards. Makes sense though. For example here in The Netherlands, only the elder, disabled (certain disabilities), and the medical employees got ahead. Then the police wanted to get ahead of line, which is IMO justified (but I get that its fuel for people who are against vaccins or the Covid regulations in general). Btw, I edited my post while you replied to it, sorry. I added a parallel I see with responsible disclosure.
Biggar was clearly the instigator. Trying to cancel / internet mob the other dude… by actually lying himself now we find out.
Switch to part-time work. Obviously not everyone can, and the quality of roles tends to be lower. But if you care a lot about your creativity and other projects this option is powerful.

https://4dayweek.io/
Thanks, apprciated.
>There are some countries where being gay is a criminal offense;

So that is the actual problem, not the privacy.
The US dollar has lost 99% of its purchasing power since moving off the gold standard in 1933.

Wonderfully stable if you consider $1 in 1933 = $1 in 2021, inflation is hidden taxation and disproportionately affects widows and orphans.
Well, first of all no one said it should be 100% secure but by far the most attacks are against systems so insecure and outdated that Windows 7 might be an upgrade. It takes minutes to find US water plants or the likes running Windows XP with internet access. That's not comparable to a house. That is a used plastic bag full of cash being blown down the street. Besides you house is secure exactly because your money isn't in you house but in a bank. Your argument should be "banks aren't fortresses because...." but that is what they are and so should important software.
Doesn’t Okta solve this problem?
Yes, which is precisely the rationale for the State of Israel.
Simplify react state management with a variable. var myState = {};
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I think this is an 'occasionally cooking' problem.

If you cook frequently enough then it's just not an issue; there's always something with not much good life left, sure, but that's what you use next.

If course if you don't cook it's not a problem either, so it's probably unfortunately the cause of some reluctance. Maybe kits help that.
Prosecutors could paint hit counters on the side of their cars like fight pilots do their planes (in the movies anyways).
Tether as an organization operates with no transparency, and has a toxic symbiotic relationship with exchanges. I'm certain that Tether has backroom relationships with major exchanges - Tether provides liquidity to exchanges in the form of short term USDT loans. So Tether can claim their issues are backed by real reserves https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/tether-march-31..., omitting the convenient fact that much of the debt they own is itself denominated in USDT.

Tether uses this scheme to issue loans and collect interest without the pesky step of actually having cash reserves to loan out.
Hydro has historically been doing that pretty reliably. Most grid markets have access to some of it and the capacity can be conserved during day hours thanks to renewables. Add offshore wind, insulate buildings, and make utilities hand out more LEDs, those might just get us there.
"We will no longer cuck to the left by appointing token negroes as our leaders. We will no longer allow homosexuals or other 'undesirables' into our ranks. We will confront the Zionist criminals who wish to destroy our civilization.

"We recognize that the West was built by the White Race alone and we owe nothing to any other race."

https://www.newsweek.com/proud-boys-based-stickman-enrique-t...
From the 'ransom note' [0] the original attacker seems to be rather immature.

The current attempt to monetize this data by launching a platform for leaks also seems to be similarly immature.

I remember reading a comment addressing the co-founder of a startup attempting to sell code from a defunct business that said code by itself is more or less worthless. Most people who buy code are either getting something bespoke or actually buying something else (talent, service, contacts, customers, etc.).

> Interestingly, the note the hackers left alongside this announcement said that some of the other more sensitive data, such as company reports, NDAs, HR documents and such “are shared with the media”, but won’t be publicly leaked.

This seems to be something meatier. I wonder what they plan to do with it...perhaps it's a bluff?

[0] https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1359048125403590660/...
Sounds like Biggar was being a massive drama queen and no one wanted to have that kind of toxicity around.
Twitter is Internet rage defined.
Yes, the CPU is weak, suspend-to-RAM hasn't yet been added to the mainline Linux driver for the i.MX 8M, camera auto-focus doesn't yet work, and lot of work is needed for full functionality of the Megapixels camera app and use of an OpenPGP smartcard, but you are ignoring all the progress that has been made. Purism started with a new chip that didn't yet have good mainline Linux support and had to make several hundred commits to mainline Linux to support half a dozen new chips. Purism created a new mobile environment for Linux, which 65% of PinePhone users say in a poll is their favorite interface. Purism created the first free/open hardware phone since the Golden Delicious GTA04 in 2014 and manufactured the first phone in the US since the Motorola Moto X in 2013. The Librem 5 contains 6 innovations in the mobile phone industry, which is more innovations than any phone since the Samsung Galaxy S5 released in 2014. This is the first phone ever produced where the manufacturer promises lifetime software updates and the processor will be produced by the manufacturer (NXP) until at least Jan. 2033.

All of this info is on the FAQ: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
Good example but there so much information a person can keep up with so surprise can still possible.
Fauci is probably funding a smallpox revival too. Shhh!
Is bitcoin really going to enable billions of people to send money over the internet? Or is it going to enable a very few people to send money over the internet?

This isn't a question about whether people want to use it. The question is, does bitcoin scale to that many users?
Why is it we need to discuss this more? It’s not technical, or interesting. Just a bunch of people gossiping and trying to judge!!
As usual, the solution proposed by those indicting any effort to squash misinformation is allowing anyone, regardless of expertise, to have their opinion receive equal weight on the world stage. We’ve seen just the beginning of where that gets us. There will never be a world where all published claims will be true and all false claims correctly identified, but the solution is not to open the algorithmic gates wide to those who most want to debase the idea of truth in service of factual relativism. Freedom of speech =/ freedom of reach. Expertise, and a history of truth, has to matter to how content is algorithmically distributed.
Given the borderline compliance with JPMorgan Chase that the DoJ engaged in[1], I'm not hopeful that this is going to go anywhere.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-9-bi...
Which would destroy any 360p video so they should have known better than that. Transcoding is pretty bad stuff.
That is not a good analogy because most people's employment is "at will", meaning that they can be fired at any time for any reason other than discrimination against a protected class or retaliation for some protected activity (e.g., being a government whistleblower). If an employer wants to fire an employee who got arrested for drunk driving outside of work, that's usually not a problem.
And bitcoin lost 30% of its value in the last month. So yes, the dollar is in fact wonderfully stable by comparison.
Yeah, you need YUV to emulate NTSC or PAL.
Facebook suspends former U.S. president Donald Trump's accounts for 2 years
The eBooks on archive.org are probably the most well-known example. They take noticeably longer to display too, which was what lead me to discover that fact.
It almost feel like the only sane moderation system is to expose as much information as possible to all users? as much as the moderators have?
Wouldn't we see the increase in broken bones over the last 100 years if this was the case in humans? Also it seems to affect bone size. Wouldn't this result in the population getting shorter but we're getting taller. Not that eating hamburgers every day is healthy and increases diabetes and heart disease. i don't see study results manifesting in on our population.
Yes, sure. But the point is that, under certain circumstances, the use of the key can exceed your level of authorization. Possession of the key isn't a get out of jail free card.
I think the retirement thing is a stretch. A 16 year old might see a retirement age of 2070 using a retirement age of 65.
Honest question, since I’ve seen the situation come up before: Would you be willing to modify the title of any post to be ‘accurate’ based on non-public information, without making that information public?

If so, how does one make that request, and what would the process look like?

There have been a few titles I knew to be extremely misleading or false, but never thought there was a way to rectify it without publicly providing information I wasn’t able to share openly.
So the actual crimes are far better enforced by more accurate legislation. Not swept up by an overly broad, and borderlom irrational interpretation of the CFAA.

For ex: the accused is still authorized to access the computer. A cashier at a grocery store is authorized to open/close the til all day long.

These may present opportunities but shouldn't be the focus of any crime. The theft itself is already firmly in the criminal code as being illegal.

The fact it was computers doesn't change things.
All I've been hearing on HN for the last 6 years is how so many things are inherently political, that to not act is to condone, and that organizations should be made to take a stand by their employees/students/passers-by. Why does YC get an exception?