skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is typical of people self-labeling as, and seeking pity for, being 'cancelled' in my experience...

What happened is quickly glossed over in vague terms with a half hearted apology and treated as a mere unimportant sideshow to the real problem: I faced consequences. Ignoring the pushback or saying 'well I could have provided more detail about what I learned as a person' isn't actually explaining what you did wrong. There is a big gap between 'acting like an asshole' (to use your language) and 'being a sexual predator' (to use another headline). Those details matter - because they frame the rest of the description of what happened. It's the head nod to 'I'm sorry if anyone was offended' so we can get to the real topic...

The real topic is claiming victimhood when the consequences of one's behavior come out. No challenge of facts, of what others are saying, simply an acclimation that you are put upon based on your evaluation of the consequences. By bypassing all of that, you are starting from the idea that you (and your wife) are really the victim here and building that narrative very intentionally. These types of articles are basically an argument by assertion that accountability is not important.

Cancel culture is not real - the term 'cancel culture' is an attempt to recuperate[0] the language of equal rights and justice to protect people from the consequences of their actions. You're sitting here writing a blog post about this. It's on the front page of HN, you posted about it on your twitter. Please...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)
Ah, so those are actors!
What about the Insane Juggalo Nation? They seem fairly active still.
One harm is in draining peoples limited energy for political action.
Gold is a ponzi scheme according to your definition.

The only way to argue that it isn't but Doge is is based on your subjective opinion of "creating value" but if you take your subjective opinion out of it, they fit the exact same criteria you listed.
> better to stay away entirely from certain sensitive topics

Yeah... but the world would be a better place if we didn't have to.
> A growth stock is engaged in an ongoing value creation process.

It's popular on HN to complain that companies like Facebook or Amazon destroy value. Or do you mean, create value for shareholders? Facebook and Amazon have never paid a dividend. If you buy stock and hold it all the way to bankruptcy (all companies die, eventually), you will have received no value.

> public disclosure requirements

Dogecoin, stupid as it is, is far more transparent than the machinations of any corporation.
How do countries that are "not the US" produce swimmers or track and field athletes?
What a pointless project! U hope you were paid well, at least.
The best approach I can suggest is "If you're going to get cancelled, get cancelled for something you really believe in, not some shitty thing you tripped and fell into."

In short, don't have the crowd be the first thing that tells you you're someone you don't want to be.
Does what happened fall into any of the categories of 'preying on women', 'ceaselessly hitting on women', or 'pressuring women into sex'?
Buried lede: “pragmatism” is a bad thing.

The idea that actually useful information should be excluded to maintain ideological purity is both stupid and surprisingly prevalent.
Distributed prediction markets (in the post you replied to) already exist, it's not theoretical
"I think Doge could still be correctly branded a ponzi scheme"

No, the essential element of deception is absent. A Ponzi scheme involves deceiving investors. Doge isn't deceiving anyone. It's upsetting people, especially celebrity establishment types looking to make headlines, but that's not deception.

Naturally when the bubble pops the losers will claim they were deceived. They'll be fools and their claims will be specious but in a world where most 'problems' are self-inflicted they'll find an ample number of said celebrity establishment types to indulge that narrative and invent new regulators and criminalize more things...

Dreary is the word that comes to mind.
Accidentally exponential behavior in Spark
Doing or saying nothing only helps if you're innocent until proven guilty. An apology just helps to clarify the situation once the issue cannot be ignored. It will not make the mobs change their minds.
What I find interesting about work from home and flexible working schedules is that it seems like we are no closer to understanding optimal policy now than 10 years ago. I've seen this discussed on HN over and over and over in the 13 years I've been registered here. A year of WFH transformation under COVID seems to not have broadened our understanding of it, but rather simply exposed more people to the overall debate.

Last week I watched the movie 'Nine to Five', which was released in 1980. In it, the characters were working toward equal pay and flexible work schedules. It was depressing to realize that for many people, what was considered radical in 1980 seems just as radical in 2021.
I just looked at Rotary Club dues, $36 for 6 months (6 bucks a month). Doesn't seem too bad.

For interest-based groups, I'm constantly seeing large bicycle groups cruising around, so such groups do exist (at least that is one that is openly visible). I periodically will jump in on Linux user group (or similar) meetings in my area too. But they typically have about half a dozen people that show up. I know that hackerspaces were popular in some areas for a while, they may pick up again post-pandemic.
I did miss that, there was only so much self-pity I could take.
> Noah Bradley fucking sucks. I have had him blocked for years and greatly dislike his online persona.

What a fucking psycho. Imagine hating someone so much as to spend multiple years connecting dots to ruin their life. It's as if A Beautiful Mind was about some neckbeard living in his basement.
...according to someone.
Getting a large shitstorm on the internet out of something is a global phenomenon, however, getting fired and blacklisted from future jobs because of an internet shitstorm (which to me is the key part that distinguishes 'cancel culture' from perfectly reasonable outrage or criticism) is not universal, companies reacting like that is much more pronounced in USA than elsewhere. In many parts of the world the exact same actions of an artist and internet reactions to them would not result in anywhere close to the consequences described in this article.
> where you don't need to actually sign your binary cache, but rather just sign a mapping between input hashes and content hashes.

Though you can and should sign the mapping!
Does anyone think it's any coincidence that the woke mob began cancelling people, and almost immediately it seems like every corporate entity in existence is "woke"?

Intimidation sadly works.
In the same exact sense the death penalty is murder. Kind of, but excused by state power.
This is great. I made something with similar bristles, but without the fluidity, alongside soem other brushes. https://react-artboard.netlify.app/
My 8-Step Fundraising Process: Investor Targets, Reach Out, & Organization
In addition to what others have said my advice would be to shift focus from individuals (component-level) to teams and the broader organization (system-level).
I would argue that software is too complex to be created by non-experts. This is why so much of the software ever created is garbage. There is no magic wand or process that will ever turn an average team into a unit that can produce great software.

The real answer of course is to pay more to hire better developers. You may even need to pay “hazard pay” if your software is boring enough.
Institutions, like public schools, usually start out with the best of intentions. As the institution ages though, corruption sets in.

Administrators multiply like rabbits and obtain higher salaries, teachers unions prevent the firing of bad teachers, and politicians just go along with whatever items powerful special interests demand.

We should dissolve all public schools in their current form at a specific predetermined time, and have new educational institutions built. Then we should set up a recurring mechanism to dissolve completely the existing institution to allow for new innovations.
Haven't used Everything but I am very happy with locate32 https://locate32.cogit.net/
The bankruptcy rates of lottery winners seem to suggest that knowing how to have money is important to retaining money.
But who gets to decide what counts as "dickish" behavior?
Your point well taken, but my issue is not so much that these companies decided to terminate his employment. I think that was cowardly and in essence caving to an imaginary mob, but let's leave that aside.

My contention is that this whole spiraled up from discovery of some bad behavior from the past, that seems to have been inflated into an exaggerated character assassination.

My contention with the grandparent comment is that "just don't be x" is not really an option if we are seeking redemption for past sins.
This isn't news, but what they don't mention is managers will set up their own "private" PIPs to frighten workers into doing what they want.

It's not news that the big-A wants its software engineers working 60 hours per week. I interviewed for a principle engineer role and everything seemed to be going well. But when the offer came it said "Software Engineer II." I asked about that and they said... "Oh, don't worry. We have to hire you in at a lower grade 'cause we can only hire so many principal engineers per quarter. you'll get automatically promoted at the end of the next quarter." The money was still pretty good so I didn't think anything about it.

Eventually I figured out that they had stiffed me on typical stock options. The whole bait-and-switch thing was their way to try and hire Sr. people for Jr. engineer's option grants.

Of course I wasn't automatically promoted and my boss mentioned, "oh yeah, you have to do a Dev III project to get promoted to Software Developer III first." And they expected me to do that project on my own time. sigh

Then in the middle of doing a software project for Amazon on my own fucking time I get moved under a different manager. The first thing he does is say I've been underperforming and he was going to put me on a PIP (I had perfect reviews the year before.) How the hell can you review my work two weeks after I start working for you?

About this time I bumped into a former-coworker who mentioned how happy he was after leaving Amazon. So I say to myself "f** this sh*" and quit in a couple weeks after getting a decent offer from another company to do consulting.

About two months later our HR rep returns from vacation and calls me up asking why I quit and I tell her it was clear I wasn't Amazon material, having had perfect reviews for a year and then being put on a PIP. She then asks "you were on a PIP? that's news to me," and another friend I knew in HR tells me managers will do this slimy thing to get more performance out of people during the holidays where they tell them they're on a PIP, but they really aren't. If you're on a PIP, HR will be involved.

Amateur ass-clowns. Everyone talks about how much dosh you'll bank at AMZN. Not really. I now make about the same amount in salary, but have a significantly higher equity stake in a smaller company.

It might be okay for your first or second job (it's not all negative, there's plenty of opportunity to learn about computing at scale.) But you're going to be working 55-60 hours per week to be promoted and told you're on a PIP just before Thanksgiving.
If you're talking about a company that produces no revenue and has no assets, and exists only as a tradeable stock, then I agree that it's close to doge.
howdy,

if you would like to have a similar website, feel free to fork https://github.com/clumsycomputer/website and fill-in/extend where needed
In the classical music world, there is a recent example of a composer getting canceled for a complete misinterpretation of an Instagram post. His publisher demanded he apologize, in fact, it provided a pre-written apology for him to just sign. He refused to do so, and his publisher dropped him entirely, which basically ended his career, at least for the time being. So, some people are compelled by employment reasons to apologize, and the apology does work in terms of keeping one’s job.
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Time constants on innovation rarely translate across domains.

Look at adoption times for bank notes to central bank (i.e. federally-backed) fiat. Or adoption and discontinuation of the gold standard. TLDR: I would expect the time constant for money to be longer than the www.
Mounted with a desk clamp at the back of the desk, takes up no space really (but its a bit further away you might need a bright lamp).
But the people who work poorly when others are regularly distracting them with office chit-chat don't deserve respect?

I can guess which type of person you are...
Dash is really the go-to library if you want to build some complex, flexible dashboards. I found for highly customized dashboards it's a lot easier just to program your own instead of squeezing Tableau's rules.
Why wouldn't "no jobs lol" dissuade you though? Unless you already have money or a connection to it you're probably going to need a job so getting an education that doesn't help with that seems like a huge problem.

When I was in school I took a triple major so I could study two unemployable things I liked and computer science so I could get a job. I had the benefit of wealthy parents paying my way so it didn't matter that I took extra time to complete my triple major. Still, in my unemployable studies I'd often meet people saying things like "I'm studying English, so going to be unemployed, ha ha" like it was a joke. I always wanted to grab them by the shoulders and shake them and scream "This is real life. You really will be unemployed!"
So it is better to kowtow to the mob and let them burn the village down? I agree that it is best to avoid it but that does not mean that this one-sided parade of outrage should be tolerated.
May I ask which distro?
Yes. If you could clone the same person working on the same task it would be trivial for anyone to see which one is working hard and which isn't.

The problem is that you can't do that so now you're left with having to measure their performance in some other way. That is very hard and noisy.
Thanks for the specific details
I agree; I should've added I've experienced most modes of work over my career - fully office (rare), some ratio of hybrid (most of my career, e.g. one week home one week traveling to client site), and even spells of up to a year doing remote-only work.

As I mentioned in another follow-up, it's those who prefer either full-time-office or full-time-remote, that I am least alike. Clearly, there are people who hate working from home at all, ever; and those who don't want to spend any time in the office, ever.
I hope the entire patent system is simply dissolved. Patents are an artificial restriction on free trade that prevents competition and put profits in the pockets of the greedy undeserving.
I'm sorry, but I have to call em as I see em and it seems to me that you're the person who's out of line here. cbsmith obviously didn't mean the comment the way you took it (nor do I believe most people would read it that way), and then tried extra hard to apologize and all you've done is pile on.

I understand how random things on the internet can be triggering but it's each of our responsibility to process those reactions in ourselves and not just vent them into the commons. Please stop posting like this.

You're the commenter that I warned because, as I explained in the warning (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524628), you have a history of breaking the site guidelines. I mean, I had to tell you this 8 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24594431) and you've just kept doing it and we've had to warn you several times since then. This is not cool.

I do not think you're a bad HN user (otherwise we'd have banned you a long time ago). The problem is that you have a history of overreacting and then taking it out on other users. That's not cool and needs to stop.

You've responded to this latest request to stop posting flamewar comments by posting a whole flurry more of them. I'm not going to ban you for that because, like I said, I know how things can be activating, and everyone goes on tilt sometimes. But please fix this going forward. I don't want to ban you but we can't have accounts making a habit of breaking the rules here.
Twitter as in the company/software platform, not the group of people who respond to a particular tweet.

Twitter's database could show how many people were shown the tweet. It could guess at how many of their users would react in this way. And you could do some surveys to find out what fraction of our cultural spectrum/Overton window Twitter users occupy.
If it’s decentralised, it’s not a Ponzi scheme, by definition.
Where are the guaranteed returns? Where’s the person taking money from one, giving it to the “last” investors?
Where’s the fraud?

Doge is a joke, and that’s not a secret.
Yeah Twitter is very toxic. I got on a few lists as well.

I tried to talk to the NZ civil liberties association about freedom of speech. As it turns out they are against free speech and pro hate speech laws. I didn't know that going in. Then some people put me on a hate speech list. After that I was blocked by a large group of people I'd never encountered.

It's a weird place and I'm glad to be off the platform.
What he's supposed to have done: “I was terrible to women. I preyed on them. I ceaselessly hit on them. I pressured them into sex. I got too drunk and did all manner of dumb things.”

None of which is illegal. It's not even a matter for civil litigation. He was not accused of doing this as a boss in an organization. Or in a workplace context. There were apparently no criminal charges. No EEOC complaints filed.[1] No abusive workplace charges.[2]

So he acted like a jerk in social situations. It's grounds for being, say, thrown out of a nightclub. But not fired.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment

[2] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-sexual-ha...
I'm a native Dutch (of the Belgian variety) speaker and my proposal was called FUIF (which means "party" in Dutch, but it's also a backronym for Free Universal Image Format).

I am very happy the result of combining PIK and FUIF was not called PIKFUIF (or FUIFPIK). Some say JPEG XL is a bad name, but it could have been so much worse...
No. The important distinction is that in a Ponzi scheme, the central administrator lies about the underlying product. Like all scams, it's based on maximizing information asymmetry between the seller and buyers. Cryptocurrencies are open-source and 100% verifiable, and thus no one is lying about them. Because of this, it's on the buyer if they don't understand what they are buying.
I recognize the context of this response, but Twitter can be really great.

I follow a lot of interesting people - as a result my information on Covid was more accurate and months earlier than anything in the main stream press. Sometimes not just 'more accurate', but the main stream press was actively and entirely wrong and a handful of smart people on Twitter were right. [0]

You also can interact with other interesting people, make friends that you can meet in real life (many live in the bay area), learn new things, etc. You can get an accurate sense of where some trends are going.

It can be a great place, but requires a lot of manual curation. Don't engage in culture war, block people often and immediately if they comment in bad faith, curate your feed with friendly people. Don't get drawn into petty emotional arguments. Try to be nice.

[0]: For a recent high quality example: https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1404151502864883713
I asked you what that means to you, not what it means to him.

I don't think hitting on woman or convincing them to have sex is sexual predation. 'pressuring woman for sex' can mean many things. People under attack by a mob do many stupid things, including thinking that 'admitting and apologizing' will somehow stop that abuse.

You accused him of being a sexual predator. What does that mean to you? how do you know what happened meets any definition of that word to you? Don't take these pressured confessions of wrongdoing as credible - they're people desperate to save their life. They may say anything to do so.
That is still fraudulent behavior. If said stockbroker has made millions by lying to investors into making bad deals, that stockbroker needs to go to jail.
> The stock market is pumped up by dollar printing, but nobody calls the S&P a Ponzi scheme, because again, nobody lied.

That's not really how the financial system works. Money enters circulation when someone takes out a loan. It leaves circulation when that loan is repaid. It is low interest rates that cause an increase in asset values.

> Would you please elaborate on the connection between Doge and Tether?

Tether is 65% of the liquidity in the entire crypto space. Check out the chart for Bitcoin, I think it's even higher for alts but the DOGE coinlib chart isn't right today. [1]

> I can get Doge without ever using Tether. Not that I have any Doge.

That's my point, USDT is printed - unbacked - pushing the price of Doge up, which drives retail enthusiasm, and retailers then purchase Doge with real dollars.

There's other schemes too, I mean, at one point in 2017 99% of all of the world's Litecoin trading volume was two bots at Coinbase trading back and forth between eachother. [2]

[1] https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin

[2] https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-enforcement/cftc-f...
A non-technical manager who can somehow do his tech job unburdened by having to understand technology to me sounds just like a non-administrative programmer who can somehow do his tech job unburdened by any administrative tasks such as issue tracking or planning.

How does that even work? How can one be 'non-technical' when they are managing people who produce technical output? Is it not key to managing this situation that one understands what is being done to at least some degree? And if one understands to some degree then one is not 'non-technical' I would say. If understanding is lacking; it can be learned.

It's not like it's magic!
By what measure of productivity?
LOL! No, the HDD never was reasonably fast. Our expectations changed.

I booted up an old Windows XP box about two years ago before recycling it. It took almost TWO MINUTES to finish booting to the desktop. Some kind of fairly standard 500 GB Western Digital Blue drive. No, I don't know if it had ever been defragmented or had its TEMP files cleared or had old driver modules removed... It was just slow.
The deal with cancel culture is power, if you're canceling Joe Schmo, or if you keep canceling someone well after they've lost everything, well then that's just bullying.
No. Nothing is keeping you from having a shared workspace. If you can convince your coworkers to share it with you, nothing is stopping that. Social time at your discretion!

This is very different than daily forced containment.
Hmm..

"tumblr is waaay better since the NSFW ban" and "It may be fewer users (and fewer $$)"

These don't seem to add up.
This is just a huge amount of labour, and it proves that home cooking is fundamentally inefficient (unless you have a large extended family).

We should be able to eat healthy sprouted foods like this centrally, at communal kitchens. There is too much waste, inefficiency, and cost associated with current restaurants for them to fulfill that purpose.

An admiral thing about Indian society is the food, and extended family support. Its not surprising that this author is of Indian heritage.