skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't see how this different from a 'relatively small protest' in front of a company HQ getting into the traditional press.

Social media makes it different. Social media turns intensity of belief into the appearance of large numbers. Networks of like-minded individuals are mobilized to present a consistent message to some entity. This gives the appearance of high motivation and a large representative sample, when in reality it is neither. Social media protests incur zero cost to participate and are non-representative. The engagement algorithms and the built-in network dynamics eliminates traditional barriers to protesting and do much of the work of creating these frequent uproars.

I used the term manipulation because the dynamic brought out through social media is fundamentally dependent on social media.

>Furthermore, if it's enough to cause a company to act, it's 100% because it's large enough to register on their financials in some form.

Being fearful of financial backlash doesn't entail that the actual real-world backlash would be significant. The fact that social media eliminates the cost to participate in these "protests" suggests that when participation has actual costs it will be greatly reduced.
I agree. The idiomatic thing here would be to simply declare `var err error` in the surrounding scope, especially since this example is a small function where this wouldn't matter.

But "idiomatic" always takes a backseat compared to technical necessity. If there is a requirement, for some reason, to limit the scope of `err` and still allow `result` to be changed in the if's pre-assignment, then this is the way to do it.
Absolutely yes. This Citroën Ami has flames on the side, man:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/citroen-shows-cu...
The way TV always had a censor to filter out what was deemed bad, now for no reason at all the same is happening on tech. They assume everyone is a child and they have to be the parent. At the very least they could put an EXPLICIT filter on like they do with songs, because we should all assume once you are 18 you can do a half decent job of deciding what is bullshit for yourself.
I hear this argument all the time. What I never hear is anything that actually helps to judge the trade-off. How often is a flag incorrect? How often is a legitimate user able to recover from the flag and how much effort does it take? I notice you say your flags have only been often temporary, i.e. sometimes permanent.

Are we really ok with throwing away due process because it might help the criminals? Sure nobody needs that game but access to money services is a bit different. And what you also never hear about is being refunded for all the content paid for in the blocked account.
Yeah, I thought I had laid it on pretty thick… Poe’s law strikes again
> gauging their general experience and answers to some technical questions

This plus a very easy coding question (think fizzbuzz) works really well at a small enough company that you can ensure that all interviewers:

1. Are far enough above the hiring bar that they can comfortably tell when other people are (people near the bar have a harder time distinguishing whether someone is a bit above or below the bar)

2. Are invested enough in the company to want to do a good job interviewing

3. Are thoughtful enough to gauge the competencies the company needs for the role. Those needs are not universal, I know developers who thrive in super technical no-nonsense roles who flounder in product-y work.

If a company is very large or growing rapidly it is nearly impossible to guarantee these things. My experience is that companies that don't adopt something like the industry norms lose control of their hiring bar. In some cases this is fine (sometimes you need quantity, not quality) but if the business relied on that high technical bar there's generally a cascading effect of initiatives failing, good engineers leaving, and more initiatives failing because of it. I've seen this tank a few startups in the 50-100 engineer rage.
This is funny. My LinkedIn is usually great. I opened it to demonstrate and it was full of my friends announcing their ProductHunt stuff, their new startup, etc.

So I closed it to come here and talk about that, and when I opened the front page again, it was all full of posts from a week ago with friends posting about awards their companies won and press releases and stuff.

Why did it get so boring on the second try? Weird...
I question whether you actually realize the size of metaphorical gun barrel that company would be potentially looking down given the public's attitude on tech companies at the moment.

Government is one of those things where even the appearance of impropriety is as nad as the actual thing. That crossed the line into blatant quid-pro-quo.
Rolling over isn't the solution to every confrontation or breach of contract.
LinkedIn is the social platform on which people express themselves in the least authentic manner, because they are the most fearful of the consequences of honesty, and the inverse - are most aware of the benefits of duplicity. Even those of us who feel positive about the trajectory of human development, know that human society is a horrifying shit-show. However as a precondition of employment, we are expected to demonstrate that we can pretend that the companies we staff are not rapacious monstrosities. Even the more fervent capitalist will acknowledge in private opinions that are unacceptable in public e.g. capitalism works better than other systems only because we have repeatedly failed to organise our society around any principles other than fear any greed. But we don't say anything like that, because most of us on linkedin have found ourselves in a better than random spot within a violently unfair society.

If any one of us posted our true inner thoughts on linkedIn we would dramatically reduce our employment options in any industry other than the approved shamanic avenues - filmmaker, writer, comedian, and might find ourselves and our children descending to a less favourable spot in our grossly unfair societies

What we post on LinkedIn is a bloodless, pureed and filtered version of ourselves, a formal terrified curtsy before the mighty power of the employment market.

Fight club made 100 million at the box office, and you wouldn't know it from the positive motivational tripe we post, but I'd bet $20 'fight club is my favourite movie' is a damn good proxy for 'who pays for linked in premium?'
The stack ranking has another really bad effect for Amazon.

I have been in teams where I was doing the best work of my career, yet I was surrounded by the best engineers and hence wasnt able to get into Top Tier for my level. I changed teams and found that I was working on much simpler problems yet I was so easily Top Tier. So much so, my promotion was being discussed as I was challenging technical tradeoffs, decision making of technical ICs from above my level & proving myself right in the new org.

This made me think of the stack ranking structure. It incentivizes engineers to either move to an org where they're consistently smartest in the room and not being challenged but get top of the market compensation or stay in an org where they learn a lot but be fine with not getting the compensation they deserve.

This is recently forcing a lot of talented engineers to move to other companies where they can get both.
Sure -- that's fair enough, very few real world tasks are actually irreducible.

(When I first wrote my comment, I wrote just "moving bricks" but then realized that Deming was right after all: you could move bricks with tools =).)
I’m going to assume you can’t refute his ideas since you went straight for the ad hominem attack.
Good on him for getting people access to the goods they want. Good on him for living the life. Makes him even more of a hero in my book.
So how deeply informed by experts do you gauge that you are if the majority of what you read or hear is short-form? Do you think there's a cost to that that I guess you've decuded or defaulted to being an acceptable level?
The marketing hype has overtaken reality. The current AI technology is not ready for real world deployment and it will not be ready for the foreseeable future: https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/.
Someone can demand your money at the street and if you don't follow instructions then eventually your money will be removed by force. What else would you expect them to do?
This article is interesting but is basically plagiarism of The Flight of Dragons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book) there's unfortunately no comments at ThoughtCo so I couldn't say it there, and although it isn't rntn's fault obviously not sure if it should be flagged for being plagiarism.

Makes me mad because that was a really great book and now it's sort of an ok article.
It seems the incident did lead to a change. DoT rules now prohibit airlines from forcefully removing people after boarding to make room on overbooked flights.

So after boarding their only recourse is to offer increasing compensation until someone gets off.
How does document processing work with multiple languages?
It’s only a matter of time till it gets ripped and hosted on another ad filled website like all the fake stack overflow websites these days. So at least the material is not lost.
I bought it for metroid prime 4 and it still isn't out
The no fly list shouldn't be a thing. Even for suspected terrorists. If you are guilty, you get arrested. If you are suspicious, you get extra scrutiny at security.

Travel is as fundamental a right as speech and propery ownership. You don't put convicted road ragers and drunk drivers on a no-drive list. Either a person has liberty and the presumption of innocence or they don't. Eithet they are punished once and for good by the law or they are not. This tongue-in-cheek betrayal of every fundamental binding principle of a democratic society has gone out of hand.

No double jeopardy, no unequal treatment before the law, no presumption of guilt, no extrajudicial punishment.

Or let's just get rid of the facade and let the oligarchs appoint a dictator to do their bidding.
This post has class action liability written all over it. :(
A "lawful [...] request" can be denied. Otherwise it's not a request.
Literally just talking to people is becoming a problem? He's done nothing but talk and you will see through this thread all of a sudden people who have problem never listened telling all sorts of lies. We are in a literal book burning era, and it is self imposed. Insane.
Love your beautiful “No Man’s Land Insights” – What lies below science
A separate `select` with empty `default` is about as simple and clean as it gets. It is easy to read, easy to reason about, and, most importantly, conveys the intention of the code perfectly.
Is this studied in “business anthropology”? Can anyone recommend related research.
Both joysticks on my Lite (the one where you can't just buy new JoyCons) developed severe drift after three and five months after purchase. After replacing the second one I realized I hate the thing for multiple reasons (low FPS in AAA ports, expensive games, bad ergonomy) and tossed it into a drawer.

I wouldn't recommend the Switch to anyone, especially because Nintendo is very well aware of the stick drift and they keep using that same part.
Statement on Publishing Error
Listen to yourself. Government back loans inflate price of degrees? Is that some sort of unescapable physics here or do the corporate parasites increase the price of degrees because their friends in government are backing up the loans? Dont distort reallity

Also, the current form of government is in no shape or form "central planning".
Drunk drivers can lose their license?
I did the same when they censored Alex Jones.
Do contracts mean nothing to you?
Actually, you do have a right to fly on a private service once they've let you board. This wasn't the case yet in 2017, but the TICKETS Act clearly states:

> if the gate agent accepts a passenger for boarding after collecting or scanning the passenger’s boarding pass, the carrier is prohibited from removing the passenger from the flight thereafter.
>We prepare headlines for many scenarios and the headline “Russia Invades Ukraine” was inadvertently published around 4 p.m. ET today on our website. We deeply regret the error. The headline has been removed and we are investigating the cause.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-04/statement...
I agree. I was struggling with this many years ago. And I was concerned about the security and privacy of VPN providers.

Eventually, I ended up spinning my own VPN with Algo [0] like four years ago and it worked really well for me for these years. I use VMs in Hong Kong for connection speed, and use VMs in California for country specific stuff (ADs and news for Hong Kong are super annoying XD).

[0] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
> Lots of gongs/bells/claxons, always followed by _so_ many high-fives and a round of applause.

I've seen exactly this in the Technology department at one of my employers... When the sprints ended the teams that shipped an increment would gather around the bell and each take a turn ringing it while everyone cheered them on. Sprint symposiums happened the following week.

I worked on a project with them that impacted our "shadow IT" team and received an email marked as mandatory attendance required at a meeting. It turns out the meeting involved all 1000 people in the office clapping and cheering for the teams that were involved in the project.

I have no idea what they are doing now it's all remote.
The staff didn't. They called the police. It doesn't matter how poorly the decision was made, but once decided to remove a passenger than that passenger needs to comply or be removed.

It's no different than you deciding that you no longer want a guest in your house (for whatever reason) and calling the police when they refuse to leave.
I don't understand people getting upset about fan projects being shut down. What do you expect to happen? You can create an earthbound-like game without calling it earthbound.
Whatever happened to "the solution to bad speech is more speech"?
Ask HN: Why don’t governments offer bounties for pharma/medical device research?
It’s not that hard to figure out what kind of illnesses impact the most people or have the largest impacts. We don’t really need the market to “decide” where resources should be allocated.

Governments could issue bounties for drugs that treat diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Rewards would be based on effectiveness, side effects, how many people are effected, and how severe the illness is. Patents go into the open domain. And while a lot of money might flow to new treatments for big killers like heart disease early on, in later years, other “orphan diseases” would get attention once the higher priorities are better dealt with. Publishing failed research could be incentivized too.

Is there something I’m missing here? Has any nation considered doing this?
There's less people from China and say, Russia, on this site than Minnesota. I think it's a bit weird but the detail works.
This is not technically correct. I am pretty sure that you are not allowed to immediately order someone off your property if they have been living there for a while.
Needs a bar graph or simply a sorted table. That should be sufficient.
United (!) Kingdom: Yorkshire
Fake it until you make it. The best executives are not the most experienced ones, but the most CAN-DOers
For a long time I've pondered building hybrid NEVs for dense cities, probably as rentals. The idea is to find a design that fits use cases that existing transportation doesn't provide for.

Think of a golf cart for 2 (1 front/1 rear, so about half as wide) made out of a tubular frame with a plastic accordion wind/rain guard that slides over the top. It has an e-bike drivetrain and a flat wide cushioned seat. Wheel base wide enough and frame low enough to prevent tipping. Cargo space behind the second seat, and panniers. It's small, so more of them can fit in a protected lane, and it's easier to pull off the road for storage/service/charging, and the e-bike parts would hopefully be easier and cheaper to maintain. You can go to the grocery store and pick up a week's worth of food while being sheltered from the elements. You would not use it to commute.

The majority of people in the inner city don't have much money and may currently spend 2-3 hours on a bus to pick up groceries. They may not be able to bike, and bikes would be inconvenient for errands. A $1000 used Honda Civic would be more feasible for them than a NEV. So maybe something closer in price to the Civic that met most of their needs (sans commuting) could be both economical and useful and better for the environment and city. If the city was strategic with roll-out, then neighborhoods in food deserts could be targeted with a protected lane created on a road leading to a grocery store or other conveniences.
It sounds like the Conjoined Triangles of Success.
The poll does prove that there's probably more people from Silicon Valley here than the rest of world.
This take doesn't have the same bite when a handful of private companies have become the de-facto "commons". It doesn't matter who is doing the censoring when your speech has zero reach because you've been deplatformed by the modern equivalent of the town square. It is not a sufficient response to this problem to simply point to the rights of private companies to do what they want.
You invoked "the public's will".

Last I checked, TSA was nearly universally despised, airlines in particular are dubiously popular, and aside from the ATF and FCC, I see more griping about the tyrannical tendencies of the FAA by those subject to it's capriciousness, no matter how well justified one may think it to be.

Point being, I'd refrain from making assimptions on the "Public's" behalf, when it's more "a bunch of bureaucrats" dictating things.
> Just create something that parallels it

... then see your new system get attacked from all angles by the existing establishment. Smears on TV, 'fact-checkers' in social networks, bans and cancellations, etc.

The stakeholders of the existing system you are trying to replace won't go quietly into the night.
I can’t agree more… I graduated from an average university with average GPA, so I decided to do some personal projects to make my portfolio stand out. I always wanted to be a mobile app developer so I picked up Flutter and made some apps using it, most recently I have made a Hacker News client - Hacki: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
I think it depends on your interests. Lots of new AAA games can't run on the switch, but most indies do.
Does paddle give you access to 1.8 bn installed devices though?
Where do you draw the line between free speech and for-profit propaganda?
That is extremely unlikely to be true. The guests don't own the copyright, so they can't leverage that. Also, some of the guests are protesting this on Twitter.
> My other two points, however, are still valid.

No, if you read the DOT website I linked to, you'll see your second point is not valid either.

The DOT explicitly states airlines are not allowed to deny you permission to board, or remove you from the flight if.... If you have already boarded the plan, or had your ticket scanned, and are not being unruly, airlines are literally not allowed to deplane you.
You either believe in free speech or you dont. It shouldn't matter who is infringing on it
Too bad. The Wii U is my all time favorite console.
Do things for yourself. Find things missing and improve upon them. Don't think about the "product", but think what you want.

Unless you're not talking about the self-improvement path outlined in the post, but rather a startup. In that case things get a little more difficult.
That's not the law. When someone "asks" you to leave a place you have a legal right to be, and you refuse their request, you do not automatically become guilty of trespassing or fair game for violence. Lots of confusion in this thread between a civil request and a lawful order.
> Then maybe one final step of, get super lucky and keep trying until you cant anymore.

I think one of the keys here is that you can manufacture a certain amount of luck. Perhaps you've heard of the micromort[0] a fascinating statistical tool many countries use to determine how they spend money in healthcare. The general idea is to measure all activities in their chance to add/remove the probability of death even by very tiny amounts, this is applicable to luck.

When you go to a some event that's a networking opportunity, chances are nothing will come of it. You might go to a dozen with no good outcome but your lifetime chances of a good outcome go up once you decide to try to network, it's conceptually useful to think of these events as giving you a few points of "microluck", attending while following the author's advice even more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
For anybody like me not 'getting it', the for me at least on my m1 pro macbook pro needed to use this in Safari, chrome unfortunately wasn't showing the white text.
Force is binary as a resolution.

I already answered your question about the degree of force in that I don't know, and that "people qualified and knowledgeable of all the factors" have already decided for this particular instance that it was excessive.
Nice of them to not automatically refund the donations but rather send them to “reputable charities”.
But it’s their plane. They can throw me off of it for literally any reason they want. If they do it can also be a breach of contract or violation of various laws depending on the why and I would be entitled to compensation or they face criminal charges. But like it’s not like the chair becomes my property once I get on the plane.
"Show off your half baked idea and get a high paying executive job"

Yeah, sure, I'll get right on that
Old Heathkits Never Die, They Just Get Restored
> programmers want to program and get paid more

The shocker.

(That said, yes, motivating developers is a thorny problem.)
why? “they set them up, you knock them down?”
So happy they kept on through COVID.
My 5ct https://www.radicalsimpli.city/
I call this the squeeze.

Google, even after all its attempts, is still a one trick pony. They have to grow at least 20% year over year to justify the market cap. They weren’t able to create a two pillar company like Amazon (AWS + Retail) so what do uncreative master executives naturally turn to? Of course their only cash cow.

“ Rabban! I place you in charge of Arrakis. It's yours to squeeze, as I promised. I want you to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze!” - Dune
Donations and hardware sales.
Thought this was a wonderful article. Thanks for sharing.

I figured to get in the spirit of sharing I'd share a little passion project I've been working on for sometime now:
https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker

It's an app that allows you to accurately track your commitments via hardware hooks(audio, mouse and keyboard). The UI can definitely use some work, but figured some people might find it as useful as I do.
Anything that can recurse or fall into an infinite loop is Turing complete. (It's not a very interesting property.)

Much more interesting is what we can compute without Turing completeness.

(Shameless plug: https://tkatchev.bitbucket.io/tab/index.html)
I agree, I don't think there is a compelling reason to use react instead of react.

Every time I migrated a client most engineers didn't even notice and you just saved shipping a heavy bundle.

Compatibility is really good, most third party components work and the few which don't are covered by alternative implementations.
Only if you’re Southwest Airlines and the year is before 1979 ;)
So, Apple was right about VR not being ready?