skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its almost as if people are so distrusting of the MSM they are more interested in reading alternative sources, even if most of those sources are also flawed.

I don't blame them for turning their backs, I also have zero trust in MSM's ability to report the facts without unacceptable levels of political bias, although I'm not turning towards 'right wing' sources as my alternative.

This is a symptom of a greater schism in society and won't be fixed by tech censorship, fact checking, nor algorithm tweaks. This isn't some small minority of people who can simply be squelched.

The more they tighten their grip, the more people will slip through their fingers.. eventually to decentralized, uncensorable platforms. When that happens people will really start to regret these centralized platforms acting as the arbiters of truth and misinformation as these people will now be out of reach and even more prone to radicalization.

I predict the current approaches being used to censor and silence people on the internet will be viewed as one of this century's greatest mistakes.
However, note that some relatively modern versions of Safari (because of course) don't support this constraint.

This might be no problem for you, or, it might be a complete showstopper.
A company belongs to its shareholders. Commandeering it violates the shareholders' rights to their property.

All legal injunctions are predicated on the threat of imprisonment, even fines:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci...
Well, then all is going according to plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBxWtKKQiA

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the...
Twitter cares and is honest about fixing a very hard problem. He’s right for moving. Google only cares when people call them out on it
JS1024 – Shortest JavaScript/HTML Games Ever Made (Competition)
While I think Sega has effectively sold a gambling machine I'm not sure if they should be liable in these lawsuits. They sold a tool that could have been configured correctly to comply with local regulations.

The owners manual explains to the operator that they can configure this probability, which they could simply set to 1 to bypass the entire gambling mechanic.
There's no official numbers, but probably - it has gotten lots of new releases, including heavy hitters like Ubisoft and EA's catalogues, including their latest games. Coupled with the unavailability of some latest gen consoles ( PS5), the slow arrival and subpar experience on some competing cloud gaming platforms (Xcloud), it would make sense.

On the other hand, Google's recent changes for better revenue sharing imply that things aren't going that great / great enough.

In any case, Stadia is by far the best in terms of UX and lag among the competitors I've tried ( GeForce Now and Xcloud). If it weren't for Google's terrible reputation for abandoning stuff ( even if it isn't directly applicable here because Google rarely, if ever, kill paid services) they'd be doing much better IMHO.
I also noticed it is a recurring self-help philosophical aid, particularly among the tech crowd. Of course, the stoicism version that gets publicized here only keeps the "pragmatical" aspect of stoicism, but ignores all the metaphysical theory around it (which provides the justification for a particular practice, but oh well). In the end, it becomes an inconsistent catch it all term for "being resilient" in a Hemingway way, which is very removed from the actual Stoic philosophy. But I guess this is inevitable and it has happened to many traditions when they get publicized for self-help.
Isn't it amazing how easily people are controlled? Why force people to do something, when you can actually make money off whatever slave device or process you've got.

This comes down to education. We have been educated to follow and accept, rather than think critically and take the long term view on something, and act on it. Very few people are even able to consider just how much of how they view the world is on account of the way they have been taught. They think the values they have are their own, but it is not on a basis of truth, it is repetition and being told what is right. It is not their personality/individuality extending into the world - it is consensus thinking.

Frankly, its quite sad! And for some of us it is like living amongst the borg, with all these received opinions.
He worked on Gmail at one point.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2011/03/faces-of-gmail-manu-cor...
Pretty sure Google Gulp is an old april fools joke they kept up. Google Moon makes sense, unfortunately it looks like it hasn't been kept up to date and the resolution if you zoom in isn't the best.
> From the "never give up" point of view, I've changed my mind, thanks to books like The Lean Startup, Blitzscaling, and my own experience.

It depends on whether you're giving up on the process or the goal. Startups "give up" or pivot on their original and subsequent ideas so often that's it's considered a best practice. This is different from founders giving up on starting a business.

Like you mentioned, the habit is what matters.
Funny, I’ve found the most expensive toys are the wooden ones that are made in Denmark or something.
> After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology

We need a bingo for when and how people include 'right-wing' into things for likes.
> Routing in the Lightning network is an open problem in computer science

if you're trying to say that routing in lightning is an instance of traveling salesman, you're not only wrong - routing is actually shortest path problem, but even if you were right, your statement that TSP somehow makes the system unworkable is simply false in light of the fact that businesses like USPS and DHL and countless more delivery companies exist and are profitable.

> Payments aren't peer to peer, they have to be routed through intermediaries

by this metric nothing on the internet is peer to peer, because packets are routed through intermediaries.

> how to do that is basically impossible to figure out, except if you just have a handful of giant hubs you can route through

yes, there will be hubs, large and small and there will be clusters of interconnected local meshes and there will be users routing however they wish through the system instead of taking the cheapest most connected path.

if you say something is impossible to figure out - you need to back up that claim with something, anything.

what if i told you, you were lied to by skeptics and scammers, trying to sell their shitcoins, and you need to put away your biases for just a minute and invest a little time to see, if what they were saying is actually true?
The paragraph you quoted references (but does not cite) studies about the effect of excessive iron consumption, not evidence for a causal link from blood donation to reduced cardiovascular risks.

It seems that there is some correlation between cardiovascular risk and blood donation, but this might just be due to a confounding factor: healthy people tend to donate blood more.

E.g. this study [1]:

Despite the significant difference in QRISK2 parameters between study groups, none of these parameters was correlated to the extent of donation when controlling for age, BMI and smoking status.

Or this one [2]:

No significant associations were found between blood donation and the risk of myocardial infarction in analyses restricted to men with hypercholesterolemia or those who never used antioxidant supplements or aspirin.
The study results do not support the hypothesis that reduced body iron stores lower CHD risk.

Ironically this other Dutch study [3], shows an association (not causal) between frequent blood donation and cardiovascular health in women but not in men.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28797569/
[2]: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.cir.103.1.52
[3]: https://heart.bmj.com/content/105/16/1260
> To offer a more pessimistic case this was true for Google, whose Stadia product flopped

Has it now? Their locations and games only keep growing, and the service is still their. Flopped is a bit harsh.
In practice the mean temperature is pretty meaningless to how comfortable you feel in a country. Hot developed countries have AC everywhere so you don't have to be exposed and Germany is nice for maybe 3 months in spring and 3 in autumn, but during summer you have to sit in flats or cafes that are 32C because nowhere are ACs.
Why not use QT with Python? Why include Typescript or ESLint if they're a Python dev getting used to the ecosystem? Why choose a boilerplate with a bunch of things you don't seem to want or need?
>it was easy to get CAs to issue EV certs for company names that misled the user into thinking the phishing site was secure

The other way was an issue as well. We could only get an EV cert for our real/primary company name, but not the subordinate name we had registered for our B2C business. That would mean that our customers would see the correct URL, but the EV would show the name of a company they didn't know.
Maybe, but probably not as fast as Google was aiming for. There don’t seem to be any direct numbers from Google, but some sources have reported that they missed active user targets by “hundreds of thousands”.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/320366-report-stadia-miss...
> But, when was the last time you needed that?

Sunday, thanks to a broken middlebox
That's quite different to taking notes in for e.g. a lecture on something though, which was the sort of environment I was talking about.
Google is an ad company, but search is their foremost product, unlike social media.
Yes, but my original claim was:

A big part of the argument for getting vaccinated is that vaccines in general are "perfectly safe"

I was describing the scientific establishment's description of all vaccines, not just for C19.

You're right about [2], it may be an interpolation by journalists. Still, it's ascribed to them and I doubt any of those officials complained about this characterisation.

At any rate, this is a bit of an odd thing to be debating. "Perfectly safe" is a common turn of phrase in English. I doubt anyone who says it means it literally, and I didn't intend it to be read as such. It can be taken as a synonym for "so safe it's not worth anyone worrying about it".
To be fair to stoicism, it’s been around for ~2300 years already, so it’s probably got a bit more staying power than your typical selfhelp fad. I found the backlash against it to be quite interesting though.
That's the tension Google is facing internally right now. Having traded on "Don't Be Evil" for over a decade, Google has already established a culture.

It's not the employees that are a bad culture fit; the employees are the culture. It's these projects.

This problem will resolve itself over time though. If Google continues to lean into these projects, it will self-select for people who have no ethical qualms with them. But for over a decade, such selection was unnecessary.
Yeah. Flagged this story for politics.
Philosopher makes bad politician.

Stockdale was Ross Perot's VP candidate in 1992. He acted humbly and was not cashing in his war hero background. He had hearing loss from beatings in prison, so he was portrayed as senile and he became a joke for the public.

Running for a position is a fight for power by seducing the public, not an discussion. He refused to use the ammo he had and fight.
8. Bonus misuse: The term "science words" is not really used in academic literature

You can't be a scientific american if you keep using the science words bad.

It's like cargo culting science: Use these words correctly if you want to seem to know what you're talking about!

But anyone who actually knows what they are talking about would use these words correctly, or at least not be mistaken about their meaning.

So this article is teaching people that have no idea what they're talking about, how to sound like they do.

Maybe it's time we start using another language for science. Clearly it's confusing the Scientific Americans.
Show HN: We wrote a book about Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs
The idea of the book is to provide a list of mistakes, tradeoffs and decisions that every software engineer needs to make in their day-to-day job.

There are 13 chapters - each chapter focuses on real-world problems you may encounter in your production systems. It tries to analyze every situation in a variety of contexts and consider all its tradeoffs. It also presents some non-obvious mistakes that may significantly impact your systems from various perspectives (not only correctness).

I wrote this book together with Jon Skeet.

We have been involved in and observed many software decisions and learned what tradeoffs they impose throughout our professional careers.

Along the way, I’ve started writing a personal decision log of the circumstances where a specific decision was made. What was the context of it? What were the alternatives? How did we evaluate a particular solution, and finally, how it ends up.

Did we anticipate all possible tradeoffs of a specific solution? Or were we surprised by something? It turns out that this personal list of lesson-learned is quite generic because those problems and decisions need to be tackled by many engineers out there.

At this point, I decided that this is an excellent time to share that knowledge with the world. This is how the idea for this book was born.

If you have any input or feedback for us, it would be highly appreciated!
Perhaps because it allows people to use the app remotely and perhaps collaboratively without changing much code. Once you go down the path of a native app, it's difficult to go back.
It really feels like Python devs are casting stones from glass houses whenever they complain about the boilerplate required to setup a modern JS development environment. In Python, the correct way to setup a new project seems to change every six months. And the most future proof package manager seems to be Poetry, which is directly inspired by Yarn.
Is there a reason that the main board is a feather and the daughter boards are wings?

I would have expected 1 wing to have many feathers, not the other way around.
From an ethical point of few, twitter doesn't matter and didn't add anything real to our socieity.

Google did: Maps, Android, gmail (yes gmail gave free https email accounts when others not even enforced https), skin cancer research, Alphafold, co2 neutral datacenters, pushing now for 24/7 reneweable.

Google literally changed the world.

In my personal opinion, Google would be worth to stay and try to change google 'back' or whatever is going wrong.

What has twitter changed for anyone? Srsly? The reacted when Trump became president they didn't forsee or work on mechanism to fix sharing and multiplying fake news. Other companies like Facebook for example are a global net negative as well. I'm seeing much more fakenewes and uneducated people on facebook commenting as antivaxer than anything else.

I can't understand why you would go to twitter and rant about ethical and moral workplace questions.
> There are plenty of investors that beaver away every day and do not get his returns.

There are very few investors who consistently manage to exceed average market returns. It doesn't negate the importance of consistently investing.
The problem is many get hooked and duped by manipulators of the platforms. That's self-destructive.
Mikeyman here has a point, in fact
He comics seem to criticize giant wasteful stupid evil bureaucracies... But he worked for google for years and now moved to twitter.. If he's genuinely critical why does he continue working for mega-corporations?
The HN response here is a pretty good demo with regards to why large scale companies have a hard time trying out new things, IMO. And why smaller companies are able to bubble to the top on occasion.

This is clearly a pet project of some sort, and yet there are dozens of feature requests and bug reports on HN, as if it should be a fully fleshed out Google product.

Why can't an employee from some Big-N company make something for fun on the company domain? If it becomes popular, maybe the company would put real resources to it. And if it doesn't, why care so much?

The answer is clear with the HN response. If HN, a group that should particularly appreciate it, can't handle it, the public certainly can't.
Twitter is actually under-rated, IMO. It’s public, popular, and all the data is for sale for custom analytics. So journalists are in there amplifying tweets into other media. Companies (many/most of the medium and big ones) are desperately monitoring Twitter (Reddit is gaining) because it’s the only window they have into what people say about them. Government agencies are doing the same, for reasons ranging from vaccine disinformation research to protecting senior politicians (and post offices).
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What about

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Your statement frames this, as if there wasn't extensive studies done precisely on these questions. It is a very comforting believe that we just can make our energy systems greener, our houses/machines more efficient, spend energy however we like and we somehow manage to maintain a liveable planet or reach our (quite unambitious) climate goals, but it is also wrong. And I really wish it wouldn't be.

Sorry for not having the time to cite some studies here, but I assure you that your statement sounds overly optimistic or maybe even naive to anybody who has insight into current climate science.
Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
The instigator's agenda was to aspire to Reichstag burning though.
I would agree if we were just talking about accidental, spontaneous misinformation.

But on twitter you've got bad actors pushing propaganda that can be very hard to differentiate from honest opinion.

And I think you underestimate how gullible a lot of people really are.
Many people will believe the self-professed 43 year old mom of 4 from Idaho is really just that -- even though the profile picture is copied from an Australian cooking blog and there's cyrillic replies early in the account's history.
No other system currently built will get human to Mars even non-self supporting.
He's a comedic genius too!
While I don't disagree that Twitter has plenty of work to do, I think if you stack YouTube up against Twitter, it's pretty clear that the former has done more to drag people down the rabbit hole. Does Twitter help keep them there once they've gone down? Sure, yeah it does. Should Twitter have dealt with this all better in 2015-2017? Of course, yes. But still, it seems to me that YouTube (and, while we're at it, Facebook) has done far more damage to the information zeitgeist.
Both Twitch and YouTube are user generated content. This comes with a whole lot of baggage that they probably do not want to deal with. Games fit them better from a business perspective.
No, people living like to live on the coast is the reason.
HAHAHAHA, no goddamned way.

After Microsoft's attempt to ram their asinine online accounts down your throat when all you want to do is run Windows or an office application, they can keep their "thin client" retread.
How about:

pip install mypackage

No? it's too 2010?

I've been a developer for some time now. All I know is a lot of developers love unnecessary complexity. It's even more true in the JS world to be honest.

Javascript modules were supposed to make everything easier yet some people still manage to write insane boilerplates and tools on top of that and bring back complexity where it is not needed.
Yeah but Google made some stunningly poor decisions and have a very lacking game library compared to pretty much every single other streaming platform/console/steam/epic/gog/whatever.

With their existing tech chops I don't think Netflix would have to try very hard to put out a significantly better service than Google did. "Pay $X a month for this not garbage library of games, play on any device capable of handling the video stream and a gamepad". (Yes I know Stadia have fixed a lot of these issues now, but they didn't for a long time, and it's too far past the initial hype unless they get no new competition for a long time).

They also have a huge existing install base, stick the Gaming thing on the menu, advertise a trial, bam people are hooked.

The crucial thing is to make sure there's some sort of connection quality test that pops up a "hey, your internet doesn't seem so hot - your experience might not be great, but hey have a go anyway it might be okay" message. Otherwise a huge chunk of the market is just going to assume the service is terrible and then talk on social media about how the service is terrible, and tank the product.
They pay well?
Fitbit might surveil you, but the data that the apple watch collects can stay just with yourself, not uploaded to any central cloud. And if you decide to sync healthkit data, it is end to end encrypted.

It's about as surveilled as you writing in your own private journal.
If took them years to figure that out, perhaps they weren't interested in finding it out in the first place. A good paycheck, plenty of perks and the thrill of working on products with hundreds of millions of customers at global scale can go a long way towards suppressing moral qualms.

But one can't dismiss the fact that Twitter and Google are cut from the same mass surveillance cloth, with the former just being smaller.
My recollection is that the inference that men should donate blood to protect their heart health is based at least in part on the fact that women see an increase in heart disease around the time they stop menstruating:

Once women reach the age of 50, about the age of natural menopause, their risk for heart disease increases dramatically.

https://www.webmd.com/menopause/guide/menopause-heart-diseas...
You're supposed to be able to do this with Remote Desktop; but as usual with MS products these days, it's an absolute shitshow.
Neat! I'll make sure to do it this way. That makes me wonder, what else on the websites I (not a web dev) maintain might need special treatment for accessibility. Pity the Chrome dev tools don't seem to help with that.
Vulnerabilities once you have access to the machine are not really worth spending time on because servers should rely on shell hardening and clients should not be trusted anyway.

What we need is ways to avoid the kernel for networking memory, I figured Oracle would have realized this for Java by now but they are dragging their feet!
>It seems to me that this guy has spent years thinking about ethical and moral workplace questions and that you have spent a whole two seconds coming up with a sappy zinger.

Ironically, these are the exact same objections I have with the Goomics. They take complicated issues and reduces them to "DAE think corporations evil?"
There was enough 3D content (aka movies) for me to watch in weekends. No need for the news to be in 3D. And I was using the polarized glasses which were pretty fine for a relaxing (and low expectations) evening.
Mostly nonsense. First of all Tesla has no sued the people that made false claim and its mostly about social media not the government.

A few bureaucrats from specific regions made some comments but nothing series.

Also, about the 'spying thing' this was reasonably thing by the government not to allow Tesla in military bases in China, this is no different then things like IPhones not being allowed there.

There was never concern that they would 'shutdown' Tesla.

Tesla has great support from the city and location they are in and pretty good relationship with the central government.

If anything, Tesla has most problems with German environmental (anti progress) groups and the bureaucracy there.
I am afraid that JS/CSS/HTML/Node/Electron will survive anything just like cockroaches :(.
1/6 of corona virus patients are vaccinates is very different from 1/6 of vaccinated people getting corona. Also your use of "patients" is problematic, since 100% of corona virus patients have corona.