skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be honest with what the situation is. This is completely about whether he used language that some people found offensive. They have the right to be offended, have the right to ask for an apology, and have the right to ask the university to demand an apology. No one is threatening death or bodily harm. It’s not a witch hunt.

shadowgovt phrased it well lower in the comment section:

> Honestly, Yale's administration is trying to help.

> This individual's major risk surface isn't what Yale will do to him... It's that his peers have filed his name away in their personal Rolodex-analog as "Someone very, very clueless about tone and reading a room." i.e. "Someone I don't want as partner in my law firm."
> If you look at the set of VPs, Governors, notable Senators, and people who've previously run for president, you get a pretty good list of candidates.

Interesting, then that of your list:

> Future presidents might be someone like, Paul Ryan, AOC, Gretchen Whitmer, Chris Christie, Antony Blinken.

3/5 are not covered by ”VPs, Governors, notable Senators, and people who've previously run for president”.
IMO that's an even worse rating system.

'drunk hieroglyphics' should be at best equal weight to reacting at all with an up ( or down, but I disagree about that being useful ) vote. If such vote buttons exist, flag for moderation should also be a button, maybe something symbolic for calling the cops (flashing light icon?).

Maximum points should be awarded for long, well phrased replies in discussion / engagement with the content.

To better society, the goal must be to encourage critical thinking.
The article states:

>"The average post got a score of a few hundred, according to the documents. But in 2019, a Facebook data scientist discovered there was no limit to how high the ranking scores could go."

Might someone be able to say how the fact that scores could be unlimited was only discovery well after this system was implemented? Wouldn't the upper and lower bounds for scoring be part of the algorithm design?
There is a YC W22 company hoping to do just that: https://ozone.tech/
It really depends on the college attended. I transferred to Berkeley and majored in Philosophy, with the intent of going to law school after.

I was interested in tech stuff and got a campus job doing linux administration which led me to my current career.

Even though I didn't enjoy the major _that_ much, attending a top ranked school was absolutely worth it for both the connections and opportunities. Transferring made it absolutely worth, would most likely not be the case if I had to take out lots of loans.
I am still able to run my copy of CS6 without problems thank God... I had to do some tweaks to get it to run on Windows 10 though. Not upgrading to Windows 11 until I have to because I hear that is even more designed to force users into mandatory software updates by creating new incompatibility with older apps.

It's really future OS updates that threaten that.

There have been no major advancements in PhotoShop for my needs that really warrant an upgrade. No added value. I paid for CS6 long ago, and it should run properly without artificial disruptions indefinitely, because that is how it was marketed to me.
The thing is, all of the other benefits you list are luxury items. There are myriad ways of improving yourself. Taking out massive loans to do so with everything we have access to now only makes sense if the loans have a lower interest rate than your investment returns, or if the end result is a degree that opens doors to a higher income bracket.

There are other funding mechanisms possible, but after decades of free flowing money from government backed loans to students, university budgets are extremely inflated and should be substantially cut back if we expect someone else (I.e. taxes) to be paying the tuition.
There's IBM's Cloudant services if you need that. And you can build your own cluster and connect as many servers as you want.

But DO doesn't have any pre-configured droplets to start off with. Be nice if they did.
I see it more as Stockholm Syndrome to the web’s client server model. People are willing to abandon privacy to a web server out of convenience but that doesn’t sound emotionally appealing so they give up and pretend what they have is good enough.
> Kids or coworkers are not going to make fake fingerprints to mess with me.

I know a few kids and coworkers who absolutely would, if it would get a laugh.
That's a lot of sig-figs.
An offline-first web version of AE/Prem is what we're working on @ Vidbase. Internally, it works today better than the desktop apps imo. Others are working on similar tools as well.
Bitters pills are hard to swallow, indeed. These are all facts.

Fundraiser for an MRI in the economic hub of Canada, Greater Toronto Area:

https://hospitalnews.com/second-mri-offers-flexibility-at-ma...
"In April 2012, the hospital leased a second temporary MRI, offering more flexibility."
"Mackenzie Health Foundation has launched “Picture This,” a fundraising initiative for the second, permanent MRI. The campaign has reached $3.9M toward the $5M goal."

This particular hospital is located in an affluent area with home valuations north of 1M, within GTA, the largest economic hub in Canada. Basically as far as you can imagine from a "rural area".

Canada ranks second to last in high income countries: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-health-system-ranked-...

Drug prices second-highest in the world: https://www.benefitscanada.com/news/bencan/canada-second-hig...

200-300k Canadians seek healthcare in the US every year:

"A policy brief — titled Flight of the Sick , by the Calgary-based think tank secondstreet.org — says 217,500 Canadians left the country for health care in 2017, according to Statistics Canada. If those travelling with the patients are included in the count, the total rises to 369,700 people."
https://torontosun.com/news/national/canadians-continue-to-l...

Price in Canada:

"Out of Ontario's total budget for 2021, health-care spending comprises about 37.5 per cent. Spread among the province's 14,755,211 residents, it works out to approximately $4,730 per person." Ok, close to 40%, not 50%. My bad. 40% of provincial budget is healthcare. Add disability benefits and it's over 50%.

so ~400 a month?
https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10359211-budget-2021-onta...

Price in the US:
"Obamacare promises you won't pay more than 9.78% of your income a year, or $4,647.46, for the second-lowest Silver plan."

https://www.thebalance.com/how-much-will-obamacare-cost-me-3...
https://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-health-insurance-premiu...

Roughly just as expensive as the US.

GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/s?q=canada%20surgery

3440 results.

Let's summarize:
1) drug prices almost as bad as the US
2) ranks second last in high income countries
3) needs donations for a permanent MRI, in a hospital that's right in the middle of a fairly affluent area in a large metro area.
4) 200k Canadians travel to get help outside the country every year. Apparently, no US citizens travel to Canada.
5) Costs roughly the same as the US, or maybe only slightly cheaper.
6) 3400 Canadians are raising money for healthcare, in a supposedly "universal healthcare" country.

It's really quite an impressive stunt to combine high US prices with much longer wait times and worse outcomes.

Congratulations Canada, someone must be making a killing.
> while making their own equivalent data collection opt-out (vs their competitors' opt-in). Even then, Apple frames their data collection option as "Personalize your experience" while forcing other apps to use the phrase "Allow this app to track you." Apple's own ads product has tripled its market share since this launched.

If that is true, Apple is an exterminator, who wants to exterminate the current residents so they can take up residence themselves.
Ask HN: Where does the attention economy end?
I can see how one's attention is valuable but hits a point of diminishing returns. At the extreme, one's attention is not valuable if that person spends his or her entire day consuming apps and not creating value (or working). His or her ad revenue will be worth less than someone with a job, if it is worth anything at all. This person will also use a lot of the organization's resources and have a high amount of "engagement" with the application.

This makes Facebook's shift to young adults [1] seem more clear - that group can spend as much time as they want on Facebook and consumption, and they can then spend their parents' income. It's a constant fresh source of income with buying power.

I roughly equate attention to time and energy - once it is spent, it is gone. On the whole, as billions of people spend their time and energy scrolling through ad-supported applications, their attention becomes less valuable over time. Do you think that the time and energy spent on ad-supported applications is pulling from users' productivity? Or just transferring it from other forms of recreation?

I don't quite think I'm hitting the mark here, but I'd like to know your thoughts on if the attention economy is sustainable in its current state. Have we hit peak "attention" and the only new users left are kids in middle school and high school? I think this would make for interesting discussion with recent headlines and revelations about the major companies in the space [2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/25/22745622/facebook-young-adults-refocusing-teams

[2] Impact from Apple on SNAP, Facebook revelations, HN headlines recently involving Google... it goes on.
> It just sux when you have to, you know, input Chinese or open a PDF.

Don't know about PDFs, but for Chinese IBus works just fine with XTerm.
Open source and free software and SBOM attestation service for the community
Biden makes FCC nominations that will give Democrats a 3-2 majority
I'm still fond of offline desktop apps (non-expiring ones) and much prefer them over browser-based equalivents.

The debate about the browser replacing desktop applications stretches back to the early 2000s. I was sceptical the browser could complete with desktop apps back then.

Fast forward today and how wrong I was.

I used to believe design and graphics apps would never work in the browser unless extremely limited in features. But even design and graphics apps have found success in the browser (e.g. Figma, WebFlow, Canva).

Figma in particular is enjoying huge success and poses a challenge to desktop apps Sketch (Mac-only) and Adobe XD (Mac and Windows).
I use a combination of autocorrect and dictation on my Mac. My fingers aren't as accurate as they could be and I can't remember spelling to save my life. It's made writing easier because I don't need to worry about that.
People available to communicate with is a key metric of a communications platform. All of these services lack a large number of regular people. For better or for worse, Signal is the one with the most.
So if you have eye surgery or an eye injury you lose access to your coins?
Then I expect you will lose more customers who object to that practice.
This was not at an airport. I saw them definitely at least once just in the street, and also at some tourist attractions.
Thank you for emerging from lurk mode for me :) I will try those things.
> If my thesis on bitcoin is right, it’s hard to say how long it will take for the market to reflect it.

There's a lot of talk about value here, but I'm glad the author also specifically mentions one of the value-trader's biggest blind spots: Time, or as another has put it, "how long the market can stay irrational."

It's really too bad there are no specifics noted as to the author's timing strategy and options dating. It would be really easy to screw that up and learn some hard lessons about subjective valuation, however deep and concerning such a perspective may be.
Would you please stop taking HN threads into ideological flamewar? We've asked you a ton of times and you keep doing it. This is not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28418940 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23794930 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22780928 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22529248 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22230998 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231732 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20538835 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330767 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20290159 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20171389 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989223 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831107 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18801821 (Jan 2019)

We've cut you a ton of slack because you also post good comments but if you continue to blow off these moderation requests, that's not going to continue.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996501.
Thanks, looks like it was set to auto-install security updates and prompt for the others.
The Google maps pictures if they place certainly look pretty, but you need to be pretty rich just to be able to live so far from where most of the work is.

The land in a town or city is more expensive because of all the positive things such places bring outweighing all the negatives, even in the relatively cheap suburbs. Electricity (etc.) supply is part of that, sure, but far from the only thing.
MIT had a course called Physics for Future Presidents. Which is basically a primer of the major topics in science.
My impression is that the reMarkable has pretty poor hardware, and a rather exotic software (for a tablet). Which means they are limited in what they can do on the device, and the support they can harvest from community. Which also means, outsourcing stuff to the cloud is a natural effect, which means demanding money for running the cloud is also natural.

For similar reasons the device is expensive and still has a rather poor situation because it's quite special, with a relative small market. Which means it's trapped in a situation where it needs more supporting customers to deliver a good device, but to gain more customers it needs to deliver a good experience.
Nice, a completely new attack-vector: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12#url-imports Documentation still not there, so can't check if they actually compare any checksums or anything.

They also introduce their own `next.lock` which supposedly new tooling have to built around as well. Versioning management? What, we don't need that for where we're going.

Finally it's fun to see it ending with:

> We set out to build a zero-configuration React framework that simplifies your developer experience.

And if you read the beginning, you'd see:

> Middleware enables you to use code over configuration

I guess replacing configuration with code is one way of achieving "zero-configuration".

Feels like all tooling starts out with "We're simple, no config or code needed!" and eventually ends up so extensible that it's hard to figure out how to even use it. Then another competitor appears and shouts "We're so simple compared to X, no config or code needed!", and the cycle repeats.
this is extremely not true. federal authorities can compel the bridge operators to log messages sent over the bridges and disclose them on receipt of a national security letter or other sealed warrant. this is just not the case right now - messages sent between parties on signal cannot be intercepted. that the communication endpoints are vulnerable is and remains true but this creates a new vulnerability in the interlink.

worse:

> currently bridged conversations are not stored end-to-end encrypted in Matrix (they will be in the future)

suggests some kind of re-encryption for storage which appears to resolve the issue but does literally nothing to solve the problem. if the bridges have your keys and can decrypt your messages, you're exposing yourself to attacks on the bridges themselves.
> spot much worse dealers than those selling online

It's possible to combat both online and offline drug trafficking. What do you think will happen when word spreads that darknet trading is way safer than offline?
> Giving up on expecting copyleft licenses to be enforceable seems reasonable.

No, it seems horrible. We need more free software, not less.
I don't use either - and that's not relevant either - the topic was conservatives unable to have a good online space to themselves because of bigots. :)
Apple is choosing to artificially limit the potential of web image work in Safari anyway.

> Safari 15 has a canvas memory limit of 4096 × 4096 pixels where Safari 14 could deal with resolutions up to 16384 x 16384.

https://twitter.com/rikschennink/status/1442443774748082185

I'm definitely not one to advocate web apps that only work in one browser, but Apple is certainly going out of their way to make lives harder for developers who do want to support their browser and we all know why that is.
So, giving up liberty for security? I think there's a government model like that...
I don't think they can leak biometric data. Even if they figure out the hashing algo that doesn't mean they can invert someone's hash.
That day is already here and has been around for quite a while. Even before the proliferation of Electron applications there has been a push away from UI consistency in desktop environments. I believe the reasons are a combination of the following factors:

- Easier cross-platform support easier for developers

- "Branding" concerns

- A philosophy that the app, not the operating system, is central to the user experience; one consequence is there's a strong emphasis on having that app behave as similar as possible across platforms even when the app's behavior violates the platform's UI guidelines.

I lament the decline of the idea of a native desktop with an ecosystem of conformant applications. However, I see the economic incentives for writing cross-platform applications that emphasize consistency across platforms instead of consistency with each platform's UI standards. As long as we have app-centered desktop environments, the only way I see native applications that are conformant to that platform's UI standards being promoted is through market demand. Historically Mac users have shunned software that doesn't conform to the Mac's UI guidelines, though this may be changing in recent years thanks to the rise of Electron and Catalyst.
Billionaires [Hoffman, Soros] back new media firm to combat disinformation
It's almost like it's set in a desert.
I'm in the same boat. I use the rM extensively for meeting notes, but I have never been able to give up on having a paper notebook as well. The problem is mostly the ease of page-flicking; skipping forward and backward on an e-ink device is an O(N) operation, while in a physical book it is O(1). The same problem has basically forced me towards using a Kindle only for fiction where the content is linear - for technical material, I still buy physical books.
> OSX + iTerm2 is so damn laggy vs. Linux even on worse hardware

This is one of those things you notice in a jarring way as a Linux user coming to other platforms, but people kinda look at you sideways and don't believe you when you tell them.

What I tend to notice, especially as someone who prefers to use a full screen terminal tiled with tmux, is (1) poor availability of Quake-style dropdown terminals on macOS and Windows and (2) extremely slow rendering on most terminal emulators for those platforms. On the other hand, I think I've heard some Mac users say they detect some input lag on Linux terminals.
That reminds me of money generating mechanic in Transport Tycoon Deluxe, where the further away goods production and consumption are, the higher is price for delivering. Even if there is a much closer source for the customer you just send the train from a factory on the other side of the map and charge for distance.
> Now the same shell script live inside container 'sidecars' and do 'pip install' from them and instead of manually altered configs we have k8s annotations with unpredictable 'far reaching' inter-references.

This sounds really wrong - installation of all of your dependencies should be run as a part of building the container for a particular version of your application, say, as a directive within the Dockerfile.

That should also be done before any unit tests and integration tests are run against that container, well before it is deployed to any environment. The end result of doing that properly is a container that will work correctly until the end of time (or at least any vulnerabilities become apparent and a new version needs to be built, or for other reasons, such as bug fixes or added functionality).

Furthermore, all of your IAC should be treated just like regular code, which means full descriptions and comments for any non-trivial parts, or even explaining why the trivial parts are there to begin with (the greater circumstances, links to change requests etc. that the actual code doesn't otherwise contain). If you can't look at any single piece of your code and understand both what it does as well as why it's attempting to do it, then clearly there is still more work to be done. Whether that's refactoring or documentation, however, depends on the circumstances.

IAC doesn't absolve you from the need of having documentation. It simply allows you to lower the degree to which PEBKAC is a problem in manual deployments and allows you to document the actual code that does things, rather than creating .docx descriptions that no one will read.
More people would sell and buy online which will reduce the number of problematic irl interactions.
It's a long way from being a usable gaming interface. There's too much "convenience UI" baked into browsers that trips up gaming. Pressed the wrong button? It was a browser hotkey for history-back and you just unloaded the game. Have add-ons enabled? Whoops they are messing up the controls.
> how they could expect any other reactions than doubt, fear, and reject, out of this solution,

It looks to me like they're targeting people who are not as concerned or thoughtful about such issues.
Good luck trying to get Sequoia to accept common shares from employees in exchange for diluting their own capital, when they already get preferred shares in a different class through their investments in individual companies.
Amazon is the biggest and Bezos has too fancy yacht, thats why they get all the attention. Fair assumption is that amazon is not that different, maybe it is even a bit above average because they get so much attention.
There are cheaper ways to learn 'non-academic things' and 'break out of your shell' than by paying 20k a year.
I am wondering the same. Did WhatsApp ok this or will it get shut down the moment it gets any traction?

Their terms of service [1] clearly state:

> You must not (or assist others to) directly, indirectly, through automated or other means, access, use [..] our Services in impermissible or unauthorized manners [...] including that you must not directly or through automated means: [...]

> (g) sell, resell, rent, or charge for our Services or data obtained from us or our Services in an unauthorized manner;

> (h) distribute or make our Services available over a network where they could be used by multiple devices at the same time, except as authorized through tools we have expressly provided via our Services;

> (i) create software or APIs that function substantially the same as our Services and offer them for use by third parties in an unauthorized manner

[1]: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service
It really depends on the place you work, I don't need to take my vacation during the summer for instance.
Humans and eyeballs are just machines. Anything they check for liveness can be simulated if there's enough incentive to do it.
So many people claim Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay no taxes yet the leaks from the irs show that Musk paid $455 million from 2014-18 and Bezos paid 973 million in the same time.