skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only is that old information as another user posted, but it’s all literally funded by Joyce Foundation and later Michael Bloomberg directly.

The Harvard School Of Public Health is without any exaggeration a paid-for propaganda wing. No one actually takes them seriously.

You clearly don’t know gun control history, but see how many references are by Hemenway, David? He is probably the #1 junk science producer in the field.

You know how the CDC was banned from studying gun control? (They weren’t actually, they or banned from recommending policy, which meant that suddenly no one wanted them to study gun control anymore) Well, it was Bill Clinton in 90 to the direct to the CDC to fund a bunch of junk science in order to drum up support for his assault weapons ban and 93/94.

Millions of dollars went to Hemenway, Who produced garbage studies, small sample size, never released the data, everything he published has been fully discredited.

This guy’s “work” was the reason the Dickey amendment passed. Absolute garbage from the 90s.

Still alive and kicking today. they posted up on their site, it says Harvard, here you are happy to post it. Same plan they had in 1992.

EDIT: To add on to the other user’s correct comments about the junk science. Hemenway is “famous” for his bad methodology, like the phone surveys, and looking at incidents where a gun was used in the home but not who the gun owner was, meaning every drug shooting was counted, hardly representative of most people’s lives.

EDIT2: I asked for evidence of these fantastic claims, and you posted classic trade-A nonsense that everyone who knows anything on the topic has seen for 20 some years. Probably the first search result you found. Do you really consider yourself to know anything on this topic? Why is it you think you do?
>Sure, but I can't imagine you'd plan for being fired for being locked out of your work area

The reason of being fired is beside the point.

Employer should be able to fire anyone for any reason.

Likewise employee should be able to quit for any reason.
Cruel, but legal.

Because the algorithm just bases its decisions on performance, without respect to context, you don't hear any meaningful accusations of bias.

When you give supervisors agency to make decisions you get accusations (real or imagined) about various biased actions, or get accusations that the non-binary pregnant Pacific Islanders are under-represented, or do not represent some other constituency. It's bullshit 80% of the time and generates alot of wasted time, cost and bad PR.

It's a policy decision made because it is better for the company and isn't unlike how supervisors in industrial settings operate. If you've ever seen a very physical factory workplace (where the employees are at-will), they tend to eject broken people with chronic injuries as they age out. When I worked at a mall food vendor in high school in the 90s, it was routine for employees to be terminated for being 5 minutes late or too slow. The bigger lesson is go to school and avoid working in some shitty job where your welfare is a lower priority than the machines you serve.
I can't wait for this to accidentally become a vector for an RCE... :)
I can't think of any country in which the employee has to justify why they quit.
> According to a report by Bloomberg, Flex drivers, who are Amazon contract workers and not granted the protections reserved for full-time employees, are being hired and fired via an app. A software program monitors each worker to determine whether they are working quickly enough, whether they are driving safely enough, and whether they are efficiently meeting their delivery quotas. That this program is rife with errors and punishes workers for things that are not their fault, from traffic problems to incorrect delivery directions, does not seem to concern Amazon. Workers have often complained about the unfair monitoring and lack of human oversight, but Amazon has maintained its system.

Three reactions:

1. The Bloomberg piece[1] interviews one of the drivers (63-year old Army vet), who had this to say:

> “I’m an old-school kind of guy, and I give every job 110%,” he said. “This really upset me because we're talking about my reputation. They say I didn’t do the job when I know damn well I did.”

I'm not sure we're ready for the kind of society that results when the Amazon way is universally adopted.

2. There's a fascinating and chilling exploration of how far something like Amazon's policy can go in the audio series The Program:

https://www.programaudioseries.com

3. Marshall Brain was right[2]. Automation doesn't spell the end of the low-level worker. It spells the end of the middle manager.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-...

[2] https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Also, the patent taken by the author on the Manna system has expired.
Nobody has ever praised me. I have nothing thanks to my state school degree and its apparent I'll never amount to anything because of it.

I'm still not sure why I should even keep going on given my life is basically already over now because I went to "any college" because I only got a 1500/1600 on my SAT.
Apple OS pre OS-X, and Windows 3.1/95, used to crash all the time. A big part of the improvements in crashes (talking to people in the companies) is automatic submission of errors.

Also, Apple was selling Apple IIs for the modern equivalent of $5,000. I'm sure Audacity could achieve some great in-person UI studies is people were willing to pay that kind of money.
Do you really need an AI to measure the performance(i.e require training as you said) ? I thibk a dumb counter would do the job.
This was part of the v3 fight - he wanted software free, but also so you were free to use it. Didn't mind that you could use it with locked down hardware (TiVo / cars / phones / med devices / security etc)- still had to release source
Another similar story, I remember reading about an AI that simply paused the game when it was about to die. I can actually remember doing something similar as a child.
Remember the RSS reader that was posted recently which generated new feeds by scraping websites?

I was thinking of making something similar for Fandom pages to remove all of the page bloat. The content is CC-licensed so I think it should work. The idea is that you'd have a website which acts as a proxy for every Wikia/Fandom site and forwards the content to a MediaWiki instance with a minimalist theme and renders it there.

The main issue I came across was that it turns out the wikitext format is highly implementation-depdendent and you'd basically need a full installation of MediaWiki to convert it to HTML.

I don't know about Medium's terms for its content, but maybe having a self-hosted proxy for personal use would work. I'm surprised the proxy idea hasn't come up much for taking control of content from websites with dark patterns.
Yeah the author deleted the tweet moments after I asked the question... I thought I messed up the link but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I just found it rather scary how these 4chan trolls are able to find his pinephone number despite it not being on his website or any of his social media.
> in film, you start with the best and make your way down to the worst. With literature, you grow as a reader and work your way up to the greatest works

To me this is an endorsement of literature over film. There is so much more that can be done in a book that takes dozen of hours compared to film which is only a few. By comparison all film is essentially short stories.
No, it doesn't give you right of way in any state in the US. But it doesn't stop drivers in the Bay Area from thinking it does.
>Why is this comment being flagged - is asking for evidence bad now?
Seems so.

The author, cookieguy when challenged about these claims starts deleting tweets/comments they have made.

It seems an awful lot to me that the cookieguy is drumming all this up on purpose to get peoples attention or sympathy, etc like you suggest may be the case. Some of the screenshots I've seen where he goes on huge rants that make little sense tell me the guy may have some mental issues.
That line says "if any", it looks like they had to add it for legal purposes, but IANAL.
Thanks a lot for the advice! I misused “radical” before but actually meant components, not the one arbitrary radical. Remembering characters as a block of components definitely helps. I think that would fall under the idea of “chunking” that memory experts talk about. Sometimes I remember a character on the first go because it’s a combination of components I’m very familiar with. I haven’t checked out the Outlier dictionary but I’m going to now. I often go looking at the character components to help me remember them, but better composition that Unicode data would but great.

I use Pleco flashcards to do spaced repetition. Not sure how it compares to Anki, but it takes almost no effort to create new cards, and that’s good for me because I can easily get sucked into fiddling with tools instead of using them.
can you not just use a usb to ethernet adapter with the old dock?
<plug>
...or share that board with ShareTheBoard (and let everyone save it themselves) :)
</plug>
The jury is still out on "less driving" (though my intuition agrees with you).

Here are some things that they are doing to "softly drive" people to newer phones:

- Emoji

- iMessage features (like Memoji stickers)

- Non-resource-intensive privacy features (such as choosing individual photos for an app to access)

- Pushing app developers to newer SDKs (which makes them change code and put in more work to support older iOS versions even if they can after making use of a new API)

- Extra RAM usage for the iOS versions due to additional background tasks that cannot be disabled

There are more (as a long-time device user I regularly see examples), but I'm limiting myself to 15min on this reply.
"Read this story with a free account."

I'll pass thanks.
May I ask why you perceive a cryptocurrency as an 'investment'?
> biased human judgement

This is the problem, the software is just trained by human decisions. So in many cases they are set up to become even worse.
Generally it is bias cast into software.

The worst part is that they manage to give the false impression of neutrality.

And that doesn't even include all the other problems (cases being ignored/overlooked, false analysis and errors etc.).

Also who guarantees that neutral/fair treatment is ever the actual goal?
Being familiar with this situation, I can tell you that this type of manager is only viable/typical in the outsourcing business.
I guess people just liked it better that way.
Migrating from github: Sure, lots of reasons why you might want to do that. Just being sure you can has value.

Migrating to Bitbucket: Uh....

I don't really see any way in which Bitbucket is better than Github. Or, frankly, any other alternative. It exists due to inertia and/or to serve people irrevocably emeshed in the Atlassian ecosystem. I can understand why you might not have switched away yet, but switching to it?
Allow employers to fire their employees without giving a cause for the first few months, giving them time to evaluate them. Problem solved.
One of the most typical scenarios studied in those wolf/sheep models (like http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu... ) is to find the best conditions for "balance" between sheep and wolf: Too many wolves and the sheep go extint and later the wolf starve. Too many sheep and then the sheep don't get enough food and also die, taking the wolves with them..
My experience is third party products/add-ins (specifically McAfee Enterprise Suite) cause most of the crashes I have with Office products. Most OS blue scrrens are non-microsoft hardware drivers.
>” trained on past data (which by definition includes all the "isms")”

Is that necessarily so?

Can’t they measure more objective data points like deliveries per hour, missdeliveries, mishandled/broken items (controlled for traffic, pop density, data from deliveries to similar areas, etc) rather than other things like “doesn’t get along with boss:peers, has bad breath, does cat-calls, etc?

Now, I admit this has too much Taylorism in it. To much of squeezing the last drop out of people, but I don’t think it has more soft bias.
"At least as good"???

Gimp only gained a reasonable amount of dynamic range sometime in the past few years. Photoshop had it close to _thirty years ago_. And the GUI is ... hostile, to put it lightly. I'd love for Gimp to be a contender but I don't see it happening any time soon. Though I can finally use it for some stuff, the Photoshop envy is strong.

And LibreOffice? Oy. It's "ok....ish" for solo work (in that it doesn't actively set my computer on fire) but every time I've attempted to use it in a group setting (coworkers, friends, lawyers) I've had to apologize and fire up MSOffice. I HATE being beholden to evil cloud lock-in but at least Google Docs works. LibreOffice just mutilates formatting and brings shame. :/ Perhaps a mercy killing of Star.. no.. Open... no... LibreOffice would free the shackled developers for more fruitful pursuits.

(I really like Abiword for solo stuff, when I need more than plain text. Limited scope and it actually achieves what it tries to do.)

I think you're immensely right about infrastructure tho -- the "war" is over, F/OSS won. And that pipeline for new developers is a great point too! Plus the fact that F/OSS development is now often funded by for-profit companies who hire employees to do what they need done, and we all benefit. I get to have LLVM, BoringSSL and who knows how many thousands of security fixes for free, yay.

I can't speak to Blender and Krita, I have no experience with them. Maybe they're great and the industry standard in their field.
The new Audacity owners are claiming they will only "hash" user IPs and throw away the salt after 24 hours.

So clearly they think they need them for some reason.
"how much usage does a feature have" is a wrong question. It is unqualified.

In an audio program one often uses a set of filter by default, which aren't that important.

Important is the filter I use once in a while and in that specific situation is making a huge difference.

Unqualified usage counters lead t wrong conclusions.
> niche cultures as significant.

Partially related and about the 888 thing, former Sevilla footballer Frédéric Kanouté [1] told the club's manager that he would refuse to play for the club anymore as long as the "888" logo was still on the team's shirts as a sponsor. Kanouté happens to be a Muslim and 888 is a betting company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Kanout%C3%A...
Mine is:

- terraform to setup the VPS from the command line

- Ansible to provision the VPS

Ansible's model is quite simple and you don't require an agent running in each VPS to provision it.

I don't use containers (each VPS is on charge of one thing only. Example: 1 VPS for nginx, 1 for my Go/Python/whatever server, 1 for DB, 1 as a bastion host, etc.)
I’m not suggesting that there are no issues with algorithmic HR operations.

I’m suggesting that the abuses of such a system will only be solved in the courts, and that those courts decide the rules based on legislation that outlines worker protections.

Corporations exist to make a profit and you can’t expect them to act against the profit motive out of the kindness of their own hearts, you must compel them.
Your mistake is in assuming uniform treatment is actually the goal. People have mostly publicly given up that pretense, and now there are plenty of explanations for why fairness isn’t enough and we need to actually have a preference for <group> to <do moral thing>. And even that is just a pretense at some level; most of this stuff is actually politics that has little to do with its stated or even first-order-revealed preference.
I took a 6 month leave of absence to go and study abroad. The subject of study was not technical at all, and I did zero programming while I was away. However, I didn't have any trouble getting back to work when it ended, and in some ways it helped as work felt fun and exciting again.
Show HN: Hacker News API Wrapper
(2016)

It's funny because I'm trying to solve this issue for TV (https://couchmate.com), which is pretty underserved when you look at current solutions for discourse about linear TV content.
I was certainly more excited by math drills more than attempts to make math "fun."
Aha! I had totally forgotten about that. Solid point, thank you.
Which is what is the norm in most European countries (length depends on country and usually duration of the contract).
Show HN: Gosh – a program for writing Go code at the command line
This gets you started and gives some hints on how to use gosh.
I'm pretty certain Ardour and Reaper don't have any telemetry, and they have UX a million times better. Audacity can be muuuuch better with having to stoop to telemetry.
As a person who's done that (3x ~1 year, 3x ~3-6 months "gaps" with total 20+ years experience as well), my simple answer is- yes, do it. Every other day you're only thinking on it is a loss for you!

As for me- I travelled quite a bit, completed a game project 5 years in a making, read some books, watched lot of movies, after last one of these "vacations" moved from permanent employment to freelance, to be able to have more time "in between". Not too positive on returning "pemanent" anymore. :D

I'd say- plan for it. Leave place for unexpected, but build a list of things you want to accomplish (for yourself, for your family, for people around you, ...), this way it'll feel more meaningful afterwards.

ps. afterwards You'll be same, but different, so it doesn't make much sense trying to hypothesize about that. Just do it! :D

ps. in CV you can always list it as a "gap year" & add some projects / hackatons you did during that time.
I am dumbfounded why people who don't contribute anything to Audacity but merely use it act as if they have governance over the project. Maybe build your own?
I am tired of this mob/herd justice mentality.
Only properly fitted n95 masks, which require professional training to use properly.
In contrast people are being forced to move now without UBI. Take Portugal for example. Lots of the younger generation can't afford to stay in Lisbon or Porto due to rising costs and low pay.
Many people think he still is. Even more people think he should be. There is a decent chance he will be again.

Even if none of that were true, his election revealed a lot about this country. He may be gone, but the people who voted for him are still there, and they are divided from those who didn't in a way much deeper than we're accustomed to. If you want to understand how that rift occurred and what you might do about it, you need to look at what they're thinking.
1995 was a quarter of a century ago, the traditional console model is long gone, as are Nintendo's biggest rivals at the time, Sega.

Sony and Microsoft have greatly pushed the capabilities of consoles over the past 20 years. Nintendo for its part has been happy to stay out of the specs race and focus its console offerings around staples like Mario and Zelda.
Doesn't having someone who doesn't speak like you, doesn't share your culture, etc make working together worse and therefore not as good of a match? If I went to China and tried to get a job I wouldn't fault them for choosing someone or equal qualification who's also Chinese since by that very fact they'd be a better team fit. Does that make sense?
Quantitative (ie telemetry) data gives us the what, not the why.

Qualitative (usability testing and other observation methods up to and including ethnography) can give us the why (users seem to do what we didn't expect).

Modern UX design can make use of both modes of user research such that they support each other. I.e discover the what via quant and understand it better via qual, to land at a solution.

Or discover both why and what via qual, and then determine severity (how many users get stuck in a given way) via quant.

But of course, there needs to be explicit consent such that trust is not breached, no matter how inconsequential the data collected is considered to be. The decision belongs to users.

Apparently there wasn't consent.

Edit: Ideally, should anonymised usage data in OSS projects be public? Such that we can see the data and design decisions made based on it? Perhaps this would generate more of the trust that was desired here.
Clearly not a perspective born out of much empathy. Very few people have the requirements to even attempt to start a company and out of that limited pool, most fail within the first year, with luck playing a large role in which companies survive the first 3 years.

It's also bullshit - they do not want anyone to take that advice because employers cannot achieve anything without their employees so if even 20% of their workforce took that advice, their company would implode.
Speaking of tech catching up, please try this out: https://sharetheboard.com -- closest thing to remote white boarding I've seen, especially after the digital annotations come online
Sure, the consumer does have some degree of influence here, but they're still picking from the menu of options the studio makes available.

If someone likes movies as recreation, even if they would prefer something different than the action blockbusters, their choices are "don't enjoy yourself to send a message to the studios" or "watch a movie you might enjoy less than something from another genre"... most people who enjoy watching movies are probably gonna chose the route that still lets them enjoy watching a movie.

The incentives don't line up. Its like buying McDonalds at an isolated highway rest stop - I don't particularly love McDonalds, but if my choices are a hot meal or whatever I can get from a vending machine or pack with me, I'll take the hot meal every time. Its not an enthusiastic endorsement of globalized fast food chains despite my paying for it.
For years I've been maintaining my course materials in org-mode and exporting to HTML each semester. I'm in the middle of consolidating the materials into a PDF book via LaTeX export for students to print out if they want. I really like the typeset look of the resulting PDF, even though there are no equations or formulas (I'm a part-time law professor). I'm doing just-in-time learning of the necessary LaTeX via Stack Exchange; it's crude, but effective.

To be sure, the Emacs dependency is something of an entry barrier for org-mode. It helps that I've been using Emacs and various text formatters — Scribe, Final Word, and now pandoc — going back some 40 years.
When Will China Rule the World? Maybe Never
I mostly agree, and you're spot on about the outrage cycle. Well put.

However, I don't think the outrage cycle is really contained within Twitter, or within social media in general. It also spills over to traditional media, at least to some extent. Since it gets a lot of attention, including sometimes from influential people, it can actually affect the kinds of content that people dare make, especially if financial risks are involved.

What you're "allowed" to do is a bit of an imprecise expression unless you go right down to law, but it would be a little disingenuous to pretend that social pressure doesn't affect what people expect others to find permissible. Getting outrage thrown at you can certainly make people feel something is socially forbidden. (That of course serves a pro-social role as well. But I don't think we're used to the idea that it's normal to have outrage or other strong emotional condemnation towards something we do from random people we don't know unless we've done something totally unacceptable. We're wired to think of social acceptance as important and outrage as something that requires our attention. The way social media works throws us off because of that. But I digress.)