skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Emacs user group

Why would you want to make friends with computer weirdos like you?

I want to be friends with real, normal people.
The first paragraphs in the app description[1]:

>YouTube Kids has tons of fun and educational videos that are just right for kids. There’s also a whole bunch of parental controls that let you create an experience that’s just right for your family.

>CONTENT ON YOUTUBE KIDS

>Our app is designed to filter out inappropriate videos for kids, but no system is perfect. If a video that’s inappropriate shows up, you have the power to block it, flag it, and bring it to our attention for fast review.

So, it attempts to be "right for kids" and "filter out inappropriate videos". Is that working? I'm not quite sure.

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Personally, it's the "Her mother is a lazy, dishonest bitch who bought a fake father rather than finding a real one for her daughter." part of the comment. It's very strong language that I don't think is deserved and it makes it sound like finding a new father would be easy.

There's a well documented reason why there are a lot of single men in Japan.
> Legislate that political news must be regulated.

In what way? Establishing fact-checking institutions or empowering the FCC to fine broadcasting of false political speech? Or with libel laws to allow people to sue for false allegations easier?

> Legislate that companies that exert social control over a population, like Facebook, must do so responsibly

In what way? Who what agency determines what is a responsible way to "exert social control over a population"?

Do we need to be reminded that these are opt-in services where you agree to a ream of terms before being allowed to use the service?

At which point does an online service go from being simply a place for people to interact to a company that needs regulating? Does HN qualify or do you need XXX million active users?

Legislation should be a last resort since it is so easily circumvented (see tax code) and unfairly applied (see criminal code, specifically the section on drugs).
Well, we have clues that it exists above the chemical layer, and above the cellular layer, since any individual person is capable of sensory processing at a fidelity measurable to auditory sample rates beyond tens of thousands of cycles per second, and visual frame rates above 30 before we notice flicker. That tells you that a continuous signal is captured and integrated across the organ (the brain) in real time.
Net neutrality rules should apply to ISPs and websites, senator says
Sure, but there's a huge perceptual leap between getting weed surreptitiously delivered by some dude with a backpack you contact on Signal with an entire illegal supply chain stretching down the corridor to Florida and ultimately funding god only knows what sorts of unsavory enterprise up the line and asking your coworker to pick up an eighth for you on his way in commuting on the NJ transit train.

Both routes are illegal, but in one you're clearly acting shifty.
It's for nothing as in, energy is consumed and nothing of value to society is produced. When a bank uses energy to run its services, those computers actually achieve something (like, for instance, managing to process more than a handful of transactions per second). Bitcoin's 'proof of work' is just a very complicated heating system. You are literally going through the whole rigmarole just to increase the entropy of the universe. Considering the effort we are putting in to squeeze more efficiency out of everything from washing machines to jumbo jets, this is kind of waste is pretty shocking.
A few years ago I would wholeheartedly agree with you, but for me things have changed unfortunately.

Working in a startup job each day leaves me exhausted - not exhausted in regards to meeting people, but to planning such meetings. Too often I will just end up stuck to the internet.

The people I used to do things with either moved away or don't respond to such suggestions anymore.

Social circles seem to fall apart quickly without some condensation nuclei.

I hope working hours are getting more predictable now, so I will try the Meetup route.
Already wondering if you could port a text game this procedurally sophisticated to a 1980s platform like Apple ][.
Let's say that C produces 100% of the performance available. How much does Go produce? Maybe 90%? How much does Python, say, produce? 25%? So going from Python to a compiled language produces a huge gain, and going from Go to C produces a little bit more.

But why not get all the gain? Well, sure, if performance is the only thing you care about. But it usually isn't. You might also care about networking, or multithreading. Would I rather write that code in C, or in Go? Is it enough better in Go to be worth that last 10% of performance? Arguably, yes.

When someone says "X matters", it doesn't mean that they are saying "X is the only thing that matters". It is not correct to conclude that they should, for consistency, be saying "turn the X knob as far as you can". Instead, interpret it as saying "given your other constraints, look for a sweet spot where X is somewhat toward this end of its range."
I'd rather have news be a free-for-all than have some group of people, or an algorithm, appointed to decide what is true and what is not.
"the fungus requires use of the ant's nervous system and sensory processing to figure out where a high up place is"
How do you know this?
Yes it was transferred from icb to affilias in July
This isn't the commercial sector, these kinds of things are incredibly sensitive to time.
"what is trauma" for 100, alex
I don't think you are familiar with the content. As a parent, I am. We've reported them to YT and they don't act. These are videos that pretend to be about spiderman or peppa pig but involve blood, violence, sexual themes, dismemberment, etc. I understand what you are asking but it's irrelevant here, this isn't an intellectual exercise where we decide "hey, this isn't so bad after all."
Can the initial check (diagnostic) be done with camera app and update the capture image(s) to the cloud and come back with "No problem" or "Check with your doctor soon" kind of message?

Anyone know what kind of potential regulatory/FDA issue will this kind of apps have?
Nope, ER visits involving marijuana use went up for 13- to 21. But, frankly so did usage and 18-21 is not exactly children plus people are less likely to seek treatment after illegal activity, so that's a non story.

Overall ER visits where unchanged.
Bitcoin: In, Stocks: Out, Close to One-Third of Millennials Say
A link to the paper, since it seems to be missing: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108...

The comparison with more basic edge detect algorithms, at the end, is interesting.
We're not really disagreeing. That anecdote is a couple decades after the radio era began and 75 years after the ivy league stuff. Football was already "big entertainment" eighty years ago.
Report back with your findings please if you try, please?
.com/net/org are also faster, especially internationally, because of more infrastructure. Algolia found the same during their testing [1].

Use the main TLDs for serving traffic and .io/* for corporate/marketing sites or webapps if the occasional outage isn't a major problem.

1. https://stories.algolia.com/algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwi...
Ink – inkle's narrative scripting language
va code extension, vin plugin, enacts mode all very functional. There’s aporia, written in Nim, but it is not as advanced.

Nim itself does not come with an IDE, but does include nimgrep and nimsuggest which underlie intelligence and other features in every IDE setup.
I have no hope as well. It's the status quo.
Yep, that's exactly what people take issue with. Just for extra kicks, because we're nice that way, we also made a huge swathe of the area a 'Marine Protected Area' in 2010, so it's now even less likely that the original inhabitants (most of whom are now, of course, aging and/or elderly) will ever get to move back.
> he lives in Japan.

And of course, the only person in this thread who knows what they’re talking about gets downvoted to oblivion.

Never change, HN.
Don Jayamanne, creator of Python extension for VS Code, joins Microsoft
Most tax deductions can be explained as rewards to various voting blocs for support. In his "Rules for Rulers" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs) CGP Grey draws an analogy from dictators needing to pay their generals to ensure continued support, to democratic politicians giving out tax deductions to businesses to ensure their support.
That's exactly it. The whole point of YTK was to protect our kids from the fire hose and provide a trusted safe space. About a year ago it was. Our son was watching Blippi and videos about banana slugs. We deleted the app once we saw the dark shit slipping in there and it was clear YouTube was not acting to address it.
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In the US, ID card policies were and still are often used to disenfranchise minorities from voting. The policies behind them are often inconsistently applied and sometimes require large bureaucratic efforts to rectify. Obtaining a copy of your birth certificate in the US often means going back to your home county and visiting some municipal office for hours on end. If you work a 9-5, there's no way in hell that's happening.

Voter suppression in the United States has had a long, sordid history. Blacks were given the right to vote after the civil war, prompting southern states to implement literacy tests, poll taxes, basically any legitimate-seeming test to de-facto turn away black people at the polls. This got so bad that we literally wrote an Amendment (24th) to state "yeah you can't do this either".

What's fucked up is that this sort of thing STILL happens. This past Tuesday, a number of voters in Virginia received calls telling them to go to a different polling station from the one they were assigned. See https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/virginia-voters-get-myst...

Stuff You Should Know did a really good episode on voter suppression in the US that I'd recommend.
> Is there any real need for controlling what a child can see and what he can not?

Yes, and any sane parent would agree. Physical safety is a prime consideration.

Here's a bunch of examples (query: fork in electrical outlet):

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fork+in+electri...
The second season also went completely off the rails with the mind reprogramming noise that can be broadcast over the radio or a phone line. They also glossed over the whole "Your body will have a police record thicker than the backup dancers in a rap video when we put your mind back in it, and also you will be wanted for treason." problem. Luckily they collapsed society before that problem came up.
Billionaire Sean Parker unloads on Zuckerberg and admits he helped build monster
This can’t be true.

Why would drug companies sell us over priced, dangerous drugs, when the over the counter drugs work almost better?
Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals to HN, especially not on known flamewar territory. Comments like this one degrade the site and add to the risk of serious damage.
Your post history would suggest you're a troll, so I'm downvoting this comment, but additionally, you're mingling a bunch of complicated ideas and prescribing a broad generalization.

We live in a market-driven society, people are free to choose to consume what they want to consume (as you point out) but that doesn't give carte blanche to the producers in the marketplace to do whatever they want in the name of ad revenue. When it does reach a tipping point, as I think we're seeing with this Medium article, regulation will start to come to a niche industry that had previously operated under the radar. Especially when human health consequences are involved, the government steps in to ensure protection to its citizens (and its most vulnerable members, children).

If you really are upset that you won't be able to view algorithmically generated children's cartoon videos stuffed with tropes and keywords that exist for no other purpose than to make money, I'm concerned for your wellbeing.
This obviously works, you can even use iTunes as the source of the RSS feeds, there's not really anything proprietary to how Apple did podcasts, its just a database of the RSS feeds - just right click the podcast search result in iTunes and click "Copy Podcast URL".

However, copying RSS feed links is a pretty terrible way to discover content. Most normal people want a search or recommendation engine of some kind (you liked x, you will probably love y), which is why virtually every podcast app offers access to searching some kind of RSS feed database of podcasts within the app.

If you were to go with your approach, I'd personally still consider using iTunes as the search engine for the RSS urls, most podcast app makers seem to agree Apple's database is pretty much the most complete out there, probably largely by dint of being the first to really focus on building a database of these feeds.

As to format: virtually every podcast feed in existence is constant bitrate MP3 (confirmed by several different podcast directory maintainers), so this isn't really a concern. There are various technical reasons why historically podcasts have had to avoid VBR/other audio formats. CBR MP3 is guaranteed to playback without issue on almost anything, including your car stereo from 10 years ago.
Right, because Seattle probably had lots of smaller neighborhood shops, whereas the "destination" shops in Vancouver were likely bigger and closer to the freeway.

Not that Vancouver doesn't have a decently-sized population in its own right, but it only stands to reason that the smaller city would have fewer, busier shops serving tourists from across the river.
There is no best beer. Pliny is great, but it's impossible to compare it to other styles even from the same brewery, Russian River.
How does one approach looking at a (large) codebase with intent to learn? Where do you begin?
Bitcoin is only increasing in value because nobody wants to sell, and the small amount that is mined daily is not enough to satisfy the speculators.

In a world where bitcoin is actually use as currency, its value would crash into the ground.
It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. Some TLDs are more flaky. Some aren't. There's a whole continuum there, with good TLDs on top and bad TLDs at the bottom. Make your own decision based on this information.
Marketing your product as kid-friendly and then demonstrably exposing children to abusive content, through “algorithmic negligence” or otherwise, should incur serious penalty.

It never ceases to amaze that the kind of psychological engineering these companies engage in is outside the bounds of any established ethics, but somehow they escape unscathed because money.
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there are clients for meego, webos, symbian, maemo, and a native client for osx, but no ios client ?

https://gpoddernet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/clients.htm...

nonetheless it looks like there are some possibly decent curation / search features, certainly better than the apple podcasts app / itunes.
Some sections are truly fascinating. Personally, I always loved the chapter on asbestos (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...) because I was surprised to learn that they had figured out its uses by that time in history.
NJ resident and I believe that's still the case. I'm planning on writing my assemblypeople and the governor's office come January.
Pressing and releasing the Windows-Key will open up the menu and then he types in "Chr" to search for Chrome.

Took me a moment, too...
Serious question: What kind of speech is being censored here? There is no conceivable message behind these videos, it's a cash grab, that is the point of the article.
Sessions made a ton of noise about cracking down on recreational AND medicinal cannabis, but so far has done absolutely nothing. And now that he's facing his own problems, likely the end result will be.. nothing.
>No, I really don't. I think a human driver would and should obviously be prosecuted for not using lights, wipers, brakes, or defrost in a situation that called for them (seatbelts have specific laws about them). It's not at all obvious to me that this would ever happen with the horn.

The point is that code that can't use those systems is no better than them not existing which is not something we're ok with.

Society accepts that it's not unreasonable for whoever calling the shots (human or not) to misjudge a situation and not use some system when they should and that this may result in a crash.

Society does not tolerate a vehicle that does not have those systems. Code that cannot use those systems is effectively the same as not having them.
Disney tried to hide the Millennium Falcon with shipping containers
This seems like a simplistic take, and I don't think it accurately reflects the view of many people who actually work at Facebook. In online games like League of Legends, we do not say that whales are the customers and the players are the product, even though it's true in much the same way — the whales wouldn't give you money to play with the other users if the other users didn't exist. In both cases, the product is the product, non-paying users bring value to the product, and paying users turn that value into money.
NHS breaching doctor-patient confidentiality: Home Office targeting foreigners
Grubby is an understatement. We "persuaded" people off the island by (for instance) not letting them back in when they returned from holidays, rationing their food and drink, and literally gassing their dogs in front of them.

Edit to add: just to be clear, the UK had bought these people's homeland something like five years previously. Bought.
The ICANN contract, which new TLDs have to sign and country codes do not, has very strict penalties for having DNS go down for any reason. They're just as reliable as com.

Disclaimer: I work for Donuts, owner of many new TLDs.
It's not my area, but it seems like if your application is deeply dependent on an API it might be a good idea to directly reference the IP address? Over 1000s of requests, wouldn't that save time?
Can't recommend PocketCasts enough, it's really all you need.

One of the nice things about it is it will sync episode progress across devices, so if you pause on one app, you can resume playback on another.
Funny, you ask for a body of evidence and so far have only received emotional responses.
You could always replace the bitcoins that you used...
The trouble with a comment like this is that, by merely venting and not teaching the reader anything, it's no better than what it's complaining about.

It's extra work, of course, to put substance behind what you're saying, and that isn't always an option. But refraining from posting is.
If I remember correctly, there was also a similar set of unethical decisions in Nazi Germany that generated a body of knowledge of how humans survive under "situations", like lack of oxygen, rapid-(de)pressurization, decompression, % body burned and live. Just a whole lot of horrible things.

The problem was, this was done scientifically. Controls, and all that. The problem was they were intentionally treating their subjects (Jewish) like lab rats.

But when WWII ended, we realized some of their data could be used for the space race. And the US used it.

The ethical issues here are all encompassing. Do you get rid of it and let them die in vain? Do you use it, and benefit on people executed over genocide conditions? There's no good way to answer this, as the converse has a valid argument as well.

I look back and say, well, I was born in the early 80's. It's about 60 years before my time (would have to be born in the 20's to serve in the 40's).
I think this is largely an issue with X rather than users wanting to show off, I think wayland (while not perfect) can really help with developing easy to use desktop enviroments.

Also not everybody who uses "complicated" setups care about "leetness", personally I use i3 (and alot of mods, customizations) because nothing compares to the ease of use + functionality for me.

I personally want more linux desktop adoption, Ive switched my parents over, trying to convert my brother.
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. This same debate has taken place with every medium so far and the same inane point - "it's up to the parents" - was raised for TV, video games, etc.

Yes, it's up to the parents. But unless you have time to pre-screen every minute of content your kids watch (hint: if you have a job, you don't have time to do this), at some point you have to trust a ratings agency like MPAA, ESRB, or a company like Google when they say - "this content here, it's safe for kids". The obvious problem is that YouTube Kids is utterly failing at this.

What's the realistic alternative? Watching hours upon hours of kids content on YouTube and creating your own playlists? How do you stop a child from going to a "recommended video" afterwards? What about ad content, how do you filter that?

Edit: The only realistic alternative is not letting kids watch YouTube. This is fine, but then maybe Google should not be advertising a section of YouTube as "for kids".
Sort of like complaining that romance novels provide an inaccurate model of human relationships...

Social media (even YouTube) is mostly intended to entertain. If it turns out to be bad at other stuff, well, that just means we have to create systems that are. Super popular web sites are not going to be any more socially constructive than the sort of magazines you find at the checkout aisle of a grocery store. Nothing has really changed here.
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Repo is from 2015. Its not that old.
The fact that 6 people tried and failed to get their way should imply the opposite, no?
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...procedural content is not for "lazy developers". It’s not there to free you from creating content. It’s there to let content react to the player. You still need a lot of it.

This is a very good lesson for game developers. Too many games rely on procedurally generated content, which can be boring to a player if it seems random instead of being a result of some interaction (see No Man's Sky).
All of those rules sound like the experiences I've had with US credit cards, at least recently. Statements have an area showing "If you only pay the minimum balance, it will take X years and end up totaling $Y." Almost all cards I have used have fraud protections built in, with many even having additional warranties for products purchased.
I am not sure you actually had just Cannabis if you had those symptoms. Was this at some legal location with a proven supply chain?

PS: Not to defend Cannabis, it can trigger Heart Attacks and is associated with a host of Lung issues. I just never heard of those symptoms.
.IO is historically terrible and seem to have no idea what they are doing. Being it downtime, security or general DNS policy.
What's the difference here between a "fake" and a "mock"?
I did some experimentation there - coded a turn based combat sistem and bolted on a real time combat. It's a magnitude easier than what proposed here, because you can code statefulness on the combat turns and that'll render quite fine and coherently. The only glitch that I had was at target switch (it's a 4x space themed coffee breaker) where you can see the ship smapping to the new target and that's it - but the nature if the turn sytem means I can easily code in a turn skip on target chane and tween the rotation.

but if you want a prime example, the dwarf fortress visualizers take that concept to an incredible heights.
Because if you "heavily tax" cannabis, it will expand or prop up the already existing black market. This is something that towns, eager to tax recreational cannabis shops exorbitant amounts, will soon realize.