skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar problem with being seen as not attractive and being treated poorly for it (not fired, though that's a new one to me). And I've found it really comes down to a variety of factors. Obviously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes it gets really weird when someone can't work with you or trust you because you're not exactly well made (one eye is off, you're fat, or your voice doesn't fit your build, etc). It really gets to a point that working becomes unbearable. I don't even consider the termination aspect as a major issue. Just being able to not get brushed off while doing your work would be a huge boon for me. Luckily, I'm a software developer now but when I was younger and worked in many public facing jobs it really got annoying. But I guess my point is that societies worldwide really need to get over aesthetics when it comes to work. If I'm not applying to be a model then what I look like shouldn't matter all that much.
> It artificially inflates ticket prices

On the contrary, it naturally inflates the price.

Tickets that can be scalped were priced at below what you might naively consider "market" prices. The purchasers gain some value from this, and usually the sellers do too — often in the form of hype, perennially useful for promotional purposes. Someone who scored a hard-to-get ticket for a good price is likely quite excited about it.

But the difference means there is a strong incentive to turn the difference into cash, and even with inefficient processes in the middle, that incentive is substantial.

You can of course spend all day saying it's "wrong" and it's a position you are welcome to take; there are interesting questions we could ask about who should rightly "own" abstractions like the hype, and why, but it is not protected by normal property law, and if property rights don't exist or aren't enforced then you know that the necessary conditions for free-market efficiency do not exist.

But again, it's as natural as any other economic effect.
Key points from the article:

But Fox News argued that Carlson "cannot be understood to have been stating facts, but instead that he was delivering an opinion using hyperbole for effect," the ruling said.

US District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil agreed with Fox's premise, adding that the network "persuasively argues" that "given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statements he makes.""This 'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that he is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary,'" the ruling said

This was the same defense used in the rachel maddow lawsuit. Why not use a defense that is known to work?

https://www.reddit.com/r/neutralnews/comments/j04eqv/fox_new...

No they are not. You just want things to be simple. Left vs right, black vs white. Nuance is necessary and you appear to lack it.

"For her to exaggerate the facts and call OAN Russian propaganda was consistent with her tone up to that point, and the Court finds a reasonable viewer would not take the statement as factual given this context," Bashant added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/499294-judge-dismisses-on...
I didn't know thank you.
While I don’t necessarily agree with the GP, there’s a huge difference between humble incompetence and arrogant incompetence. Everyone starts out incompetent, but that’s fine as long as they don’t repeatedly shove it on other people. Incompetence, without the self-awareness or humility to avoid wasting other people’s time? Maybe getting a verbal slap on the wrist is exactly what’s needed…
we actually do this on get.catenabible.com - we get permission from the speakers then tag the video in our database by verse+timestamp. Would love your feedback :) God bless!
Announcing location-agnostic pay
It can uninstall. Version 1.0 is out and uninstall is no longer experimental.
A great overview of the pros and cons of different approaches is given in https://de.slideshare.net/billkarwin/models-for-hierarchical...
I also tend to mistrust social sciences studies, and I'd agree that they could be any of those things. Or, the person could be an otherwise perfectly well-kempt child of alcoholics, the victim of assault, or anything else divergent from the subjective preferences of whoever calls the shots.

If you are familiar with the old HotOrNot.com or today's swipe-judgement dating apps, you can imagine some pretty large, quantitative datasets about peoples opinions of attractiveness, so I see these as plausible, without having looked into them much.
- F# : I've learned basic concepts of functional programming through JavaScript/typescript, but have wanted to learn a more functional language. I do C# for work, so F# seems like a logical next step.

- Databases : in the past I feel that I've learned too heavily on ORMs, so lately I've been trying to learn how databases actually work. Things like how to interpret execution plans, the data structures used for indexes, etc. Found some really cool tools like Postgrest & Postgraphile that are making me more interested in database-centric apps.

- Math : as a self taught dev that studied English in college, I was never exposed to much math. But I love thinking about the underlying patterns and structures of anything, and math seems to be an invaluable tool in doing this. Not sure how I'm going to self-teach math (or where to begin), but the little bit of discrete math I've learned has been super fascinating.
I'd love feedback too. I tried my hand at using scipy.optimize to tune Blender lighting and materials to a reference image that didn't turn out how I expected. Would love to hear other about other ideas in this space.
If you're willing to share, I'd be interested in knowing who you work for...
There's no such thing as neoliberalism. "Neoliberalism" is a fake bogeyman that Latin American populists came up with when they needed something to blame for the failure of their policy choices.
Well if you want custom domain support and reliable mail, I can suggest purelymail, very cheap, only mail, reliable non bloat service. I switched from protonmail because I like using native mail clients and not paying as much.
Okay, so it's all indirect? I usually just ctrl-w, and beyond the browser native dialog that sites can use to ask if you want to confirm saving your work or something, I wasn't aware of any way to intercept that or do anything about it.
Places where where the police are there to ensure people vote the right way should be concerned. The US (and the other countries where readers of this likely live) doesn't have a history of forcing people to vote "the right way", which in turn means nobody worry's about it. Those (perhaps the majority of people on earth!) who live in a place where how you vote isn't actually something you are sure is your personal choice have reason to be concerned.
But the author indicated that it hasn't had an impact as of yet.
For some anecdata, I think a lot of it is that most of the tech crowd, myself included, was basically taught growing up that "burnout" didn't exist for non-physical labor.

My parents constantly refrained how I "wanted a good job indoors with air conditioning", with the rationale that I wouldn't have to worry about my body breaking down (hilarious after I experienced cubicle life prior to starting a regular workout routine). This was reinforced by that the large amount of extra-curriculars I was (mostly) pushed into during high school, under the assumption that I could just handle it on top of AP/honors schoolwork. "Taking a break" was something you did for 30 minutes, maybe an hour at most before getting back to whatever the task at hand was.

My "teenage rebellion" was fights with my parents over doing nothing but playing video games on Saturday after working the equivalent of 14 hour days Sunday-Friday, all in the name of the big college in the sky. The notion of "mental burnout" didn't even enter my lexicon until college, although I was almost certainly suffering from it for most of high school. I know a lot of my classmates had similar experiences.

On the professional front, a lot of managers and executives (though not all) also promote this "sleep is for the weak" mentality as an article of faith. Likewise I've heard multiple snide remarks from blue-collar workers who don't know any better about how "cushy" those tech jobs are, and how if they had one they'd totally just work 100 hour weeks because "how hard is it to sit at a computer all day?"

So there is a widespread notion out there, at least in the US, that intellectual labor isn't really laborious, and if you claim fatigue from it you're just weak. These posts are largely a (rightful IMO) rebellion against that notion. If everyone took your perspective then yeah, they'd be rather trite. Unfortunately it never ceases to amaze me the self-destructive things people tie their identities to, and then try to pull other people into the same habits just for the validation.
The obvious point here, is that Western people don't deserve to be generalized as imperialists anymore than the Maori do. The article reeks of ID politics. HN will most likely find your observation offensive.

If only the double standard in the permissible generalizations of the article were as easily observable.
I don’t get Hey.

I feel like it does too much magic with my inbox.

Much like social media, I don’t want some algorithm to selectively decide what messages I see and what I don’t. I want to be able to see All messages, in a chronological order.

Having concert tickets not arrive in my inbox that I need because some magic is happening due to the sender being a first time sender to me is just frustrating.
“ Ernst Dieffenbach, who visited the Chathams on a New Zealand Company ship in 1840, reported that the Moriori were the virtual slaves of Māori and were severely mistreated, with death being a blessing. By the time the slaves were released in 1863, only 160 remained, hardly 10% of the 1835 population”
We've had similar challenges with Catena, definitely a challenge in the fragmented denominational space, but I like your principle of indexing on broadly orthodox content. Excited you're thinking about this space :)
> In the time you are changing your lifestyle (a good option for helping treatment, I agree) and increasing monitoring you could already be progressing beyond treatability.

That's actually a very good argument for early testing.

And needlessly scaring a some people into eating better and exercising more is about as bad as not screening them at all to avoid needless anxiety.
The "ground level" ratings that you quote - can you please state your sources? I have given my sources clearly.

FYI, over 230 million people have been pushed into abject poverty in India because of Modi's inept handling of the Covid crisis. People around the world have seen the visuals of bodies floating down rivers, people dying on the streets etc.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/230...

About the quality of life, let me give you some more information:

1. India has dropped in the UN Human Development Index.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-slips-a-spot...

2. 50% of the manufacturing jobs have been lost in just 5 years
https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/make-in-india-half-...

3. India has slipped 26 spots in Economic Freedom index.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/ind...

4. India has slipped to the bottom in Emerging Markets - this is before the second wave hit and the carnage that followed.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-slips-to-bottom-of...

5 India has slipped in the corruption index:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-slips-in-glo...

6. India has dropped in the democracy index rankings

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-slips-two-po...

7. India has slipped 28 places in the WEF Gender Gap index showing rapid deterioration in the overall environment for women in India

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-slips-28-pla...

8. India has slipped in the Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-slips-two-spots-...

9. India has the lowest ranking level in the UN religious freedom index
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uscirf-downgrades-ind...
Another reminder that taxation is theft, and sometimes murder.
The structure already exists. It’s called your bug tracker. By building tools to gamify this process, it’s clearly incentivizing devs to put in more hours. I have no doubt that the global leaderboard will consist of devs that would’ve clocked 100s of hours above their regular hours. For very little benefit to the employee.

Let me put it you this way - would an engineer at Netflix ever “play this game” to win ? Would employees at Netflix even put up with something like this? If not, why would you think employees at random tech co should?
> In that sense any opt-in choice given to another is yet another privacy breach on their 'contacts' for example.

That is a non-sequitor, when we are discussing opting-in to social science research.

Rally is not a social network platform. It is a social science platform. There is no reason for it to be directly, as a platform, concerned with your contacts.

Per their FAQ:

> We abide by a series of principles known as Lean Data Practices. Lean Data means that we collect just the data we need, and do everything we can to protect what we collect. Studies only collect data that is essential to creating a broader understanding of a research topic.

Institutional Review Boards, privacy policies, and the various contractual agreements between parties operating and building the Rally research platform would be held to task by scientific principles of treating participants humanely and ethically.

If an IRB deemed that it was unethical to conduct a study due to the design implications indicating that data could be obtained that did not originate from informed consent, then that study would not be able to be conducted and the research design would have to be modified to correct itself or that specific research methodology would be considered to be generally unethical by the wider scientific community, just the same as the scientific community deems it unethical to do genetic experiments on unwilling human subjects.
Looking forward to the day when Rob Manuel has enough twitter bots to throw elections. Some (!) of his other ones:

https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1110141713979502592?lan...
Yeah, gmail hit the nail on the head. No folders (originally), liberal use of archive, and you can still delete for true garbage.

Spam controls work really well too. I would like to de-google (already use ddg mostly), but tbh Google ain't that bad in the sense that although they have alot about me they don't seem to sell it as nakedly as FB.
> Renting is pound-for-pound far more expensive than owning

This may very well be true for your scenario, so I'm not addressing that. I just want to poke at the myth that owning is always cheaper than renting. The real answer is: it depends on a lot of things.

There are costs associated with achieving a purchase (and later, a sale), there are costs associated with paying rent for extra cash (ie the mortgage), there are property taxes, and there are both time and money costs in maintenance work (that is obligatory for owners, a savings if you are renting).

If you move more often than once every 5 years, the math probably works out for it being cheaper to rent than to own. Committing to 5+ years decreases your flexibility to do things like: take higher-paying work, let go of real maintenance needs, move out of a bad neighborhood, etc.
They’re just mounted on the side of the house like this[1] in the US at least. Power and natural gas, at least. Not sure if I’ve seen water.

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/H4abfrAyw85FSogq6
> Also, the bug buster benefits if they get up high on the leaderboard

There is literally another story on the front page [1] about such "leaderboards" and what happens when people game them to move up.

I would not advise anyone to participate in such a contest, it sounds more like a race to the bottom while providing valuable training data to AWS for free.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27629366
this is not relevant
That design style is called "Corporate Memphis" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis) and you're right it is pervasive.

Here's a YouTube video about it if you're curious: Why do "Corporate Art styles" Feel Fake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb7BOI_QFc
Thats where I got this. I sense a fellow b3ta subscriber.
FM Synthesizer in the Browser via Rust and WebAssembly SIMD
Tiktok is cool, but not a technology advancement. It wasn't even the first with the idea.

HarmonyOS is just relabeled Android...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-h...
Yeah this is a weird meme. The Maori were incredible navigators and warriors, and what they did to maintain independence against overwhelming British power was truly impressive.

But... they were incredibly bloody and violent warriors. That's like, the most well-known impressive part of their culture. Superimposing some bizarre romanic notion of them as peaceful environmental stewards is crazy.
> At the end of they day class names like that solely come from the GOF design patterns.

The GOF design patterns are influential as boilerplate templates in certain language communities precisely because they solutions to commonly-encountered problems that are not easily reducible to generic, reusable components in those languages.

Design patterns — in the boilerplate template sense, though not the underlying concept — are a language smell, not a language-independent feature of the software industry.
I mean, that's on you. American bacon is meant to be flash-fried at high temperatures. Gets it nice and crispy without burning.
We have a more detailed exchange going on elsewhere in this thread, with my latest comment, addressing your more detailed points, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27630947
The very definition of hacking applied to gardening. I think we need more agricultural robotics. This is a useful beginning and its been iterating for few years. Good stuff.

Some of the complaints about linear garden beds is just not valid. Different crops can definitely be linear, even grid-like. This idea can be scaled up with increasing complexity as needed.

It will be interesting to see where this kind of idea goes as the projects themselves itself grow up.
Most people would be happier in offices with a door. Managers have decided that THEIR work is the only work that requires privacy and quiet.

Employees often equate their own job satisfaction by the differences between how their managers treat themselves versus how they treat the people under them. When you have your own office with a door and a white board and have a company card to expense your meals while your devs are working with their headphones on because of the noise level in their cubicles, you're going to have a problem.
Remains to be seen what "deeper" means for them. I'd say they reached deep enough.
I can't remember every saying or reading / hearing anything that involved a multitude of barks though, hence why, having lived in NRW, that association is still more prominent in my mind.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this but a 0.5% false positive rate and a 51% positive rate means that you still get a 50% TRUE positive rate instead of the current rate, which is 0%. And then after you can follow up with a test that is more accurate. Everything has an error rate, even pregnancy tests do, and nobody argues that we should not use pregnancy tests.
That's interesting! Something I noticed:

> During the first dotcom bubble, we had lots of startups run by MBAs that were getting trounced by the competition run by hackers. Today, the dotcoms run by guys who only hack are going to be trounced by the startups that also understand social systems.

Are we starting to see this in Google? Google+ was a complete failure, and they are eroding their PR with frequent shutdown of social tools. I am still bitter about the shutdown of Hangouts, which I used all the time.
It's not a symmetric need though. Your need requires other people to be around you to have your ideal lifestyle. The WFH need doesn't require other people to do anything different (we all use slack/email/etc regardless of where we physically are). Your need is wronging others (requiring them to spend time commuting and being in a distracting office) and their need (you aren't affected) is not wronging others.

It's insane that so many people are okay pathetically dragging other people into a shitty situation just to make themselves happy.
Yeah, seems to assume you're going to put protectors around the 'good' plants or something at first. Still, I could see some interesting swarm behavior opportunities for the right types of plants and growth stages...
Of course! It's on the internet it's true! Yay China!
It has in tech - in fact I’d wager approximately 100% of productivity gains since the 80s have been in the tech sector which in turn has probably captured nearly all of those gains for itself.
If you look into QALYs it does - at least in terms of policy over healthcare choices
Ulysses is literary viagra and should be consumed with care. The government acted responsibly in controlling its availability until its side effects on consumers became apparent. With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the strong moral fiber of our society is quite capable of withstanding subversive materials such as this.
GlobalFoundries moves headquarters from Silicon Valley to Malta, NY
> If Rally is transparent about how your data is used

If Rally was not transparent about this, then you would not have seen that and would not have gotten emotionally triggered by it.

But given that you’ve identified a visceral opposition to that, you should consider not opting-in to that particular study.
Ah yes, but which Computer Shopper magazine?
For a short while, in the beginning, AppStores provided some value allowing you to select top games in category, which were actually good. But then SEO guys took notice and all top ratings are now populated by pay 2 win garbage games which invest heavily in AppStore optimization. You just can't find anything these days on Google Play / AppStore other than by typing a full name of the app. This, of course, relegates these services to gatekeeper role only, void of any positive benefits for the developers.
>I don't want anybody tracking what websites I visit, articles I read or facebook videos I watch.

This whole thing is opt-in, is it not? If you don't want to share your information, you simply do not opt-in.
"Haha, look at how stupid these kids are for not knowing how to do things that we never taught them!"
It’s the meme of the “rise and grind guy”. They believe there’s some magical reward for “hard work” built into the universe. Tragic really is the word.
It is an obvious issue with simple solutions! Problem: disputed territory (I mean, duh). Solution: allocate the territory.

Of course, it gets a bit harder if you restrict yourself to ethical, viable solutions, but it can't be that hard. https://xkcd.com/793/
Microsoft's Web Development for Beginners Curriculum
I had heard great things about X3 for years, so I picked up X4 on release.

Major mistake. The game was buggy, and the worlds cold and lifeless. The fanboys excused it as "well, every Egosoft game is released like this... but it gets better after a few updates...."

Haven't played X4 in a long time. I've heard its better, but I would caution people interested in purchasing the game to do their research, and only buy it on sale.

And never buy an Egosoft product within 6 months of release, at a minimum.
YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative