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>a preponderance of HN

is exactly the bias I'm talking about: https://i.imgur.com/Si183zE.jpg

HN is basically just reddit with slightly more dissent with the prevailing bias to be found in the [flagged] [dead] section. When the hivemind encounters data that causes cognitive dissonance it downvotes and flags it.

I was replying to this statement, "They made it up."

They didn't make it up, proof was provided that they didn't make it up.

HN doesn't like it because it doesn't support their obvious biases.
I don't know how you leapt from the only group with a negative in-group bias to wanting to expand the in-group. Hating yourself isn't intrinsically inclusivity.
It's hardly widespread, but it's absolutely happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moWe3rk7LzQ
White liberals are the only demographic with an out-group bias, and women rate higher in negative emotion, so this makes perfect sense to me.

out-group bias: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1074524252638982144.html

DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
Serious question: Did you play the Diablo IV open beta weekend? (It's live for 4 more hours).

I did, on my Windows 10 box. The issue isn't random games that no one would ever have optimized, the issue is bleeding edge games that most people want to play, and play right now.

If you didn't, can you? If (the royal) you can't, get started in the time remaining, download speeds allowing, the year of the Linux desktop isn't here.

Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:36PM (#35304316)
At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.
Thanks for conceding I was correct.
The smug sanctimony in this comment reeks of "reality has a liberal bias".

To everyone (the majority) outside of your filter bubble, what you're pretending isn't there is obvious.

You're fooling no one.

I mean does it mean it's accurate information? Could be a repurposed copy of some other document. Maybe they wanted it to be written by DV-3 and it didn't pan out, but they continued using the draft document anyway.

I know from personal experience that I've had draft documents that were WILDLY wrong before I published to anyone but myself. Whole sections I just went back and completely deleted. In fact my senior project paper (LaTeX) in college had a whole section with big ASCII bull taking a shit on a paragraph because it was some work I'd done that didn't pan out at all. I left it in the source because I found it funny. lol, I found it: https://i.imgur.com/6Oj64AV.png

This was before I'd ever heard of a VCS system. Subversion 1.0 was released 6 months after I graduated, it turns out. So commented out code and multiple copies was all I had.

I'm talking about the headline being misleading, not whether he's in the right or not.
HN is exactly as wildly biased as all the other big tech sites.

It pretends to be unbiased but it's not.

You'll be flagged/banned for pointing this out.

They're not suing him over the footage. They're suing him for publishing it all over the place in an attempt to monetize it.

You don't have to be on the cops' side to see that the headline is ridiculously misleading.

>The complaint says Foreman also “created dozens of videos and images of Plaintiffs’ personas and posted them on various social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, TicTok and Instagram.”

HN title is wildly misleading.

Re:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers” on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:36PM (#35279318)
Homework: No Proven Benefits: https://www.edutopia.org/no-proven-benefits
Workout Anytime
It used to be called excommunication for heresy, but the behavior is identical.
I forget which gym but I sent them an email cancellation ("in writing") and they told me I had to come in. So I cancelled the card. They had some bullshit agreement with my bank where the subscription followed to my new card. So I cancelled the bank account.

Bank accounts don't need to be some terminal relationship. If they don't treat you right, leave.

Re: on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:21PM (#35277151)
Link goes to where the channel should be.

I just found out this morning and there's not a lot of information other than there was a Tesla logo, with livestreams of Musk pushing crypto.

The channel had 15M subscribers.

Cancel culture is just excommunication for heresy with better PR.
>Corporations, especially banks, have been co-opted by the government and used for enforcing their whims. This is one example of that.

I think it's the opposite way around really. Banks aren't allowed to fail thanks to their pet government since 2008 at least.

Pretty much all the payment processors cut off Wikileaks without even the government asking them to. And all they did is publish evidence of war crimes.
The reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251387 was posted 12 minutes after the 25,228 word article I linked. They didn't read it.
>We somehow crossed over an invisible line that separates "cheeky hyperbole" from "outright deceit and lies" and nobody noticed.

Oh people noticed. And they were labelled Russian bots for it. Taibbi covered this in significant depth in the twitter files, and in testimony to Congress. Ordinary Americans were labelled Russian bots by groups funded by Pierre Omidyar, by state funded private companies, and by Hamilton 68, and then the stories repeated without research (journalism) by most major "news" outlets.

The whole entire "Russiagate" thing was straight up just a hoax: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p... and yet people got awards for the fraud. And they never so much as retracted it, let alone apologized for the farce.

Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:52PM (#35250740)
Too late!
Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:51PM (#35250738)
>You're probably not good at interviewing.

It does seem to be the common factor. Then again the industrialized interview processes some companies (some of which have since had bulk layoffs) suggests another possibility.

I hate having to develop interviewing as a skill. I'd rather develop my development skills.

>Have a BS in Comp Sci and work on backend/distributed systems with several years of experience? You'll have no problem finding a gig.

This is me. But I had at least one round of phone interviews with about 40 companies before I landed one. Maybe I'm bad at interviewing. A couple of places put me through ~8 hours of interviews all for nothing. I will also add that 3-4 of the places I interviewed with have since had a chunk of layoffs right up to discussions here about them. Maybe I actually got lucky? It sure didn't feel like it after that many failures in a row. Luckily I landed a new role that I'm finding I like.

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