skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different ways to 'do something' about it. One option could be to remove the thing that (some) people are performatively hating today.

Another option could be to release a statement like: "We understand your concern, however we are pursuing what we believe to be a greater good, etc. To help you avoid content you don't like, we will improve our labeling."
I dunno, Dave Chappelle's Netflix special is still up; I think if the Spotify CEO commits to not pulling Rogan from the platform, he can outlast the outrage.

Besides, why would Rogan actually care, other than possibly the money, of which a great deal of it has already been paid? Joe Rogan doesn't need Spotify to remain the most popular podcast in the world by far, he just needs:

* A CDN willing to host the audio files and an RSS and/or Atom feed.

* Advertisers willing to pay him to play commercials during his podcast.

There are plenty of both, so Joe Rogan will be perfectly fine, he will not in any way be "silenced" by any action Spotify decides to pursue.

The "value" of all of this is that it sends a message to other podcasters, who are not even remotely as popular, that not everything is okay on Spotify's platform.

That's also probably fine. If you want to say racist things, don't go to Spotify. Podcasters won't get censored and Spotify doesn't have to send racism to its users. Everybody wins.

This situation, of all recent "cancellation" situations seems the least consequential, given how democratized podcasting actually is. The Internet is doing its thing w/r/t censorship, which is how it was built.
Are you sure you really need to quit? You mention the money you're spending on it as a downside but if you can afford it and don't plan on using that money for something else then that's not much of an argument. The "feeling of dependency" is not great but we're all dependent on many things. As long as they don't come with additional down sides then ... ignore it?

I quit cold turkey after decades of daily use when I was going to become a father. It gave me real brain fog and robbed me of the desire to do anything but go to bed. So the upside for me is a clearer head, better mood, less anxiety.

Don't feel bad for having this habit if there's no downsides to it. Maybe stay sober for a as long as you need to be able to compare the "stoned you" to the "sober you" and then decide what you prefer.

I envy people who can keep enjoying the positives sides of cannabis without suffering from the negatives!
I totally agree, it seems that intent means absolutely nothing when using words. Talking about a word is exactly the same as using it against someone in a derogatory way. This same thing happened to the Papa Johns pizza guy. He was talking about how we've made a lot of progress when it comes to racist speech and when talking about it, used the n-word to talk about the n-word, and was canceled as a result.

Honestly I don't get it, I'd love if someone would spell that out for me why someone using the word with extremely obvious lack of malicious intent is vehemently shouted down with the same intensity that actual white supremacists receive.
I live without car my entire life and I am sick of it. I've had so many times when I thought "gosh, I wish I just had a car so I don't have to beg someone or pay someone".

For the reference, I live in London. Yes, it has stores within 5-10min radius. Normally I don't mind going there every other day. However, in March 2020 everybody was going fucking crazy and, you know, the government told me to not go out unless it is necessary.

Before that, I lived in French Alps. It was splendid, I commuted by bike. However, every single weekend I was facing a choice: either I beg someone to drive me to mountains or I pray that there is a bus going where I want to go and I can calculate my hike well enough to catch one of 3-5 buses a day to come back home.

Not having a car sucks balls. I really can't see how anyone can argue the opposite. I think what you mean is "you don't need a car every single day".
Tibet has always been part of China.
I doubt this has anything to do with "customers voting with their wallets".

I suspect it's due to investors realizing the fragility of Spotify's business model - thanks to some (high profile? ish?) artists abandoning them at the drop of the hat - and selling their stocks, resulting in a huge drop in market value. The company has already been steadily and significantly loosing value for the last year, so it probably didn't take much to convince a lot of investors to bail.
Oh, I'm surprised, after a decade stating that phone numbers were great for ID.
American puritanism strikes again, just the old bible values have replaced with something more modern and hip.
I have to admit, for a long time I thought that Barbicide is what you call it when a barber is murdered.
I don't think we actually disagree here; I totally think that racist remarks and casual use of the N-word is pretty bad, more than just a cringy thing to hate in a month.

I was trying to say that, using the parent comment's framework, even if it was the {popular thing to hate of the month} (which it isn't), if it is sufficiently bad, something should be done about it regardless.
On behalf of all Europeans, can I express the sentiment:

LEGO is a brand,
LEGO Bricks, or LEGO pieces are the individual bricks/tiles/plates, etc.
'Legos' looks very wrong to us.
Interestingly, when I look at the top 5 richest people on the planet, I don't think any are optimizing for wealth.
>Since I care about memorable stories that emerge through play, convenience is not king.

As an example, I think the biggest mistake Blizzard made with World of Warcraft is a) adding flight, and b) making flying so easy.

a) devalues the hard work developers and artists put into gorgeous scenery, because those flying high overhead will miss much of it. b) destroys much of the gameplay when outdoors (where most flying occurs), because it's far too easy to (say) hover straight down near some item that needs collecting, grab it, then take off again VTOL-style.
I'm in exactly the same boat. Currently trying HERE WeGo, it's okay. I think it's going to come down to reminding myself that Google Maps is not always as polished as it appears.
replying just to emphasize that relative risks always sound huge until you find out they're relative to a very small baseline.
AFAIK, all the other ui.* preference affect the Firefox UI, not websites, so it's a misleading name. And I have already disabled web page animations in userContent.css[0], which is the correct place for modifying CSS. I shouldn't have to choose between allowing annoying UI animations and allowing fingerprinting.

[0]To disable web page animations, in Chrome/userContent.css in your Firefox profile directory:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
*, :before, :after {
transition: none !important;
animation-delay: 0ms !important;
animation-duration: 0ms !important;
}

This also requires setting toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config
Do you really think Greylock, A16Z or Azure Capital has no interest in BOD seats and no experience forming a Compensation Committee?

As CEO, the Board is your boss. If you instruct payroll to bump your salary up without proper approval you will probably be looking for another job.

These investors have a basic fiduciary duty to their LPs to make sure there is no blatant fraud, and you don't get to billions under management and not understanding this.
>People are still sitting at home? That is not my experience even a little bit.

In a company I work for not a single person came back to our local office, in fact, many people decided to move further away from the city and we said publicly that forced coming back to the office will mean changing jobs for us. That's coming from ~150 developers and testers. Even my neighbour who works in a call centre works 4 of 5 days from home... Like is anyone coming back to your fancy cubicles or dirty openspaces?
The United States utterly failed to see the consequences of not having valid, imprinted, barcoded and other security features on COVID-19 cards to be able to validate who is vaccinated and who is not. In Europe and other locals they took this much more seriously and issued cards that were coded more like an identification card and with much more verifiable information.

Yet, it is still illegal to sell fake COVID-19 cards in the US and the mass selling of them on social media, the dark web, etc is extremely widespread and there have been many instances of people committing these actions have been prosecuted.
Not sure why you need a phone number? besides government and/or ad tracking.

This is why I use Matrix/Element
> I'm 100% confident Joe Rogan will be removed from their platform

Really? I'm 90% confident Joe Rogan will not be removed from their platform. They spent 100M to get exclusive rights to his podcast, and their market cap subsequently went up 1B. The best future for Spotify is in aggregating podcasts, not music, and Joe Rogan is the number one podcaster in the world.

This isn't some minor player on their platform -- Joe Rogan represents Spotify's best chance at a future where they aren't just competing away profits against Apple Music. They aren't going to give that up lightly. Not to mention, they knew what they were getting into when they brought him on.
>However, what they can't lose is employees.

Please, everyone is replaceable. These folks won't even cause a ripple. Everyone has got a price, everyone....

This whole event is driven by the Wokism and the Progressive/Liberal Media. Rogan is killing them and making them all irrelevant. They have to virtue siganl and project in an effort to save themselves.

I'll quit Spotify if they get rid of Rogan, so will a lot of other folks.
What about Ctrl + A, Del? I'm only half-joking. How many emails older than 3 months in a mailbox growing beyond GBs are really worth saving? I don't want to sound harsh - that's just how my mailbox looks like.
Yep! The police unions hold massive sway over cities, media (especially local media) and politicians by threatening to simply stop enforcing laws if they don't get their way. They can then use the media and scare tactics to drive up "crime is out of control" narratives (see: 500 stories about shoplifting, "organized robberies" sweeping cities, etc), argue they need more funding by creating work stoppages and then wait for public opinion to come back around to their side.
HN guidelines forbid changing the title. I proposed changing this once, but the post didn't get traction. There was more traction for that years ago though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300126
I think that's his "thing", promoting his own viewpoints through selection of guests and asking them certain questions. I don't mind that though.
What I mind is that he himself is (apparently) quite gullible. In his ig video he promised to "balance" opinions. So, what is the balance between facts and utter bullshit?
That's an effect, not a cause.

After the American Civil War, slavery became illegal. After WWII, antisemitism became verboten. After the Civil Rights movement, open racism had to be suppressed. After the AIDS epidemic, homosexuality entered the public sphere. Each of those steps represented a loss to conservatism. But they were not caused by some liberal conspiracy, rather the "better natures" of people (most people really do believe in things like fairness and justice, at least in the abstract) were forced to confront behaviors that were just conservatively accepted.

Showing law enforcement using firehoses, batons, and dogs on people seeking to register to vote is not inherently liberal or conservative. The response, however, was liberal.
This website has an extremely awkward policy about titles that makes it so if you don't use the original title people get angry. The policy though just doesn't make sense, sadly, as the concept of titles is audience-specific (and even movies or books, which might feel more organized, sometimes have different audiences in different markets). FWIW, I did connect it together as I saw "(signal.org)" and that was sufficient for me in this specific case.
Where does it stop, though? At this rate, another 20 years down the line someone is going to be digging up our social media posts and canceling us for saying "the N word" directly instead of more indirectly saying "vicious racial epithets"
That honestly might be more appropriate. A machine learning AI drawing a cover and a machine learning AI writing a book.

The singularity might come sooner than I thought.
If the book were a paragraph, you wouldn’t be exposing yourself to the idea during the X hours that it takes to read the book.
Yeah, I think this is really what it comes down to. I'm in the same boat. I joined Spotify to stream music, not podcasts. Spotify has fully shown that they're going to put podcasts ahead of music at this point (probably because they can stuff in ads). This was the final straw for me. I've switched to a platform that focuses on music and pays artists more.

I don't care about Rogan, and I don't think many people who are upset with Spotify do. They care that music doesn't seem to be Spotify's top priority.
> I suspect that those people would argue with you that racial issues in this country are hardly a settled matter or history,

I agree but as brown person who is a first generation immigrant and dealt with racism myself, Banning the utterance of a word used in a fairly clinical context draws attention away from actual systematic racism that exists today.

I hate to quote right wingers but this is very much virtue signaling and its dangerous for all te precedents it sets without doing anything that would actually benefit marginalized people.
Found the updated list as of 2021[0]. Facebook is still in top 10, but the list in general seems extremely arbitrary. Amazon is in top 5 somehow? And Nintendo is in top 10, above FB? I can maaaaaybe see Amazon, but Nintendo makes zero sense to me on that list. CIA, FBI, and IBM ranked higher than Twitter? Also doesn't make much sense to me.

0. https://www.businessinsider.com/most-attractive-companies-fo...
No. Of course you can question things. Just be completely open about your position and where you're coming from and not hide behind "I'm just asking questions bro".
That is an interesting question. One difference I can think of is that (US) Politics is courting the military vote.
If you did intelligence tests on 1000 American centi-millionaires and 1000 randomly selected Americans, do you think the difference in scores would be undetectable?
I think it stems from a rise in marxist thinking. Marx was obsessed with socioeconomic class and, in his mind, we should restructure society to eliminate classes because classes are oppressive. In this philosophy anything is acceptable if it means eliminating or reducing some form of oppression. So censorship is totally valid under this philosophy.

Today, people don't talk much about "class" but the same ideas have been adapted to race, gender, and other areas that could be viewed as oppressive.
Oh yes, slavery sucks regardless of time and place. And we haven't even touched the fate of non-household slaves.

Agricultural slaves, much more numerous than household slaves, had back-breaking work, but at least somewhat survivable.

Slaves sent to the mines or to the galleys (rowing ships) rarely survived for more than three years. It was basically a delayed death sentence.
I took dvt’s comment to refer to the wider phenomenon of unpopular opinions getting deplatformed. And although JRE is still on the air, didn’t Spotify remove like 70 episodes?
> The idea behind protests is not just to move out of some conceptual territory, but also to stop movement into such territory if we're headed in that direction.

No, the reason for these protests is a bunch of grown adults are scared of a safe and effective vaccine in a global pandemic, and are now terrorizing downtown Ottawa.

> When have citizens ever had to carry papers around to enjoy the benefits of full citizenship? Let's not pretend that the scenario we find ourselves in falls well within the boundaries of precedent.

Agreed. The scale of impact of this pandemic is without precedent. Thus the response is obviously without precedent as well. I don't know why you're surprised at that.
But also why switch? Just because some dude on some show said a bad word? George Carlin's stuff is on Spotify and he famously used 7 bad words.
Yeah but when I interviewed on site in Seattle for the S3 DevOps team, they kept bringing up how they all use cheap doors on concrete blocks for their desks to remind themselves of that “frugality” and that was just the first red flag of how weird their top-down corporate culture was at the time. This was in 2010.
That's the problem with our new app-based web, isn't it? No control to the user at all. To web companies you're just an imprinting machine for their corporate overlords trying new cool techniques of psychological manipulation and social control. Is it any wonder society is so fucked up?
The map() function is already lazy (in python 3 it returns a generator, and not a materialized list).

You can also have a look at "generator expressions", which are the lazy counterpart to a list comprehension (hint: use " ()" instead of "[]").
If you’re not familiar with Matt Might, look into his work on the rare genetic disease that his son has. His story is really quite inspiring, and maybe there will be a strategy that you can apply.

Here’s a good post, he’s a prolific blogger: https://matt.might.net/articles/rare-disease-internet-matchm...

(Edit: this is a bigger picture post detailing the whole process: https://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/)

Depending on the kind of research you are looking to get funding for, you might also look into an NIH SBIR grant or something. https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/tips/pages/124/
I don't think this is the case. Sinclair Media, NewsCorp, and iHeartMedia (formally ClearChannel) are heavily conservative, very open about it, and dominate their respective fields: broadcast local television, cable television, and local radio. They are the largest, and most mainstream of all media companies. And there's plenty of crossover. Plenty of Fox News personalities have syndicated radio programs aired on iHeartMedia stations.

Yeah, NPR and CNN exist, but none of them draw near the audience of their conservative counterparts do.

It would be more accurate to say that conservative media is highly concentrated while liberal media tends to be much more diverse, but draws far fewer people.
As a general point for SaaS business this is a very fair point. However...

Honestly, so what if Spotify doesn't have the top talent? All of their investments are in content, not R&D. The application itself is very stable and globally ready. I won't trivialize the SRE required to do that, but most of the operational components are already there. Spotify's moat is its content and its network effect, which is why a company like Tidal can't compete no matter how much money they throw at R&D talent.

So I think I disagree...content is everything in this specific space.
But this and the previous comment is true for all jobs. How can you compare a job where it takes years and years of dedicated study and very special set of skills and aptitude to match the remuneration of a job that is less valuable and only requires certification?

Can we expect school teachers to be paid as much as a project manager or surgeon? It is not an easy job or an unskilled one, but it is not at par with the more you well paid jobs as well.

Cities want to have a mixed housing and diversity and all kinds of income earning citizens. But then the low wage earning populace start complaining that pay isn’t good enough and wages need to be increased. You can’t have the cake and eat it too. We can create subsidized affordable homes in expensive Ca zip codes but we can’t bring down cost of living…because it’s the high cost of living that supports the rest of the pyramid by way of high cost of goods and services. And taxes. From gas to utilities to restaurants, everything costs more. So those on the lower wages who are subsidized will always have a lag in cost of living no matter what.

It’s all relative. The govt should make infrastructure and basic support systems equal to ALL cities with diverse cost of living index. That’s all we can do in terms of equality.

Completely random google search and this about rural schools : https://hechingerreport.org/rural-schools-have-a-teacher-sho.... [..] “People arrive here, and they can’t deal,” said Kohl of the many teachers who come for a few years but don’t stay. “Yeah, the mountains are beautiful, but they’re nine hours away. If you want to fly anywhere, you drive 325 miles to Billings.”[..] For many reasons, including low pay, isolation and scarcity of housing, hanging on to local talent is an especially acute problem in Montana.[…] you can’t fix isolation and lack of housing with higher pay. This is a govt failing.

How much does tutoring cost? It costs 10-12k per student per annum according to most schools budgets. And most school districts have 10-15k students.

Schools are for social reasons as well as educational. So children can learn from their peers..but consider what is happening in schools. There is violence, guns, bullying and drugs in school. They are becoming political and it’s like rounding up all the impressionables for any kind of indoctrination. Education has become secondary to politics in American schools.

Private school teachers don’t have benefits nor are they unionized..and they are paid less. In the UK, it seems to be more hours for extra pay(https://amp.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/201...)

This dated article says it’s because of working conditions: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/why-ar...

Union negotiated working conditions are worse but pay is higher. Something is utterly rotten with American public education and it’s been this way for the past two decades. It has gotten worse in the last ten years. It might be beyond repair at this point and needs to be dismantled and rebuilt.
Yeah, I wish we had some research about this. Somehow everybody on internet believes that covid will be always, literally always worse than vaccine side effects.
Right, and GMOs are much more targeted engineering. It's the same bs of "we don't know the future side effects in 30 years" scaremongering of anti vaxxers.

Just like with vaccines having plenty of resistant food so people don't starve far overvalue whatever little side effects you might get.
I build profiles of HN users.
The key is to mortally wound a few of these robbers, to discourage the theft.
> What I care about is that, as a paying customer who has no interest in podcasts at all, I have a podcast section front and center at the top of my home page with no way of removing it. I'm annoyed that many of these podcasts have pictures that are not safe for work when I try to use Spotify to listen to music at work.

This plus threatening to kill the podcast open ecosystem by creating walled gardens is why I can't help but chuckle at the mess Spotify have gotten themselves into. How did no one at Spotify see this coming? By buying an exclusive deal, they are going to be seen as a publisher of content, and not just as a mere platform. Of course people are going to hold them responsible for that content.
It shows they have an open mind I guess
> Organising the Olympics hasn't been worth it for a long time

Isn't that the entire point to show off a country's wealth: look how much money we can afford to waste, because we're so well-off? That would explain why China has hosted Olympics twice in the last few years.
The Big Short of Streaming
When the commitment is triggered by Rogan's controversy, you'd expect this apology to include commitment for more. But maybe that's just me.