skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "demonetization"? I've never heard of this before.

Does it mean YouTube stops inserting ads in your videos? As a viewer, that sounds pretty great to me. It sounds like they also stop suggesting your video to random viewers, which is understandable if they're not making money off it.

Surely the real problem is that ads are toxic, the ad-supported content model is toxic, and YouTube's automatic recommendations are horrible (see the recent article on terrifying race-to-the-bottom videos for kids: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...)

Edit to clarify: yes, of course I realize that content creators need the money. I'm just saying that this is a bad system that often rewards bad content and punishes important-but-uncomfortable content. Unfortunately it's almost the only system in town. I would love to see e.g. Patreon rivaling YouTube in revenue.

Edit edit: and ads aside, relying on YouTube (Facebook, etc) to tell us what to watch is terrible. We should instead do our own crowd-sourced curation, aka recommend good things to each other. And we need to defend ourselves against the likes of Facebook and Twitter insinuating their own filters between us and our friends.
Here, "The Man" refers to law enforcement, not the government in general.
I used last year to learn Elm really well and plan on using this year for F#. Go for it!

Elm served as a gentle intro to Haskell for me personally since it has easier to read errors and less overall complexity to grok at first go, but it sort of depends on your experience.
It's always sort of nuts to me how often that excuse comes out for nearly everything. Politics especially. We find out one government official is doing something bad and the response for those on that side of the party line is "everyone does it, don't single this person out!"

Perhaps I'm just being overly purist, but I always want to hang them (not literally) AND try to solve the problem. In this case, if it's true than we clearly need more oversight on startups/companies, and we also need to prosecute Uber.
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The article only uses that term in the abstract, and doesn't mention anything related to LGBT elsewhere. Hard to take that claim seriously.
What's your point? I basically say that in my posts.
I just checked and I'm not getting a real GPS signal where I am. My position is being calculated based on cell towers and wifi networks around me. Two of our meeting rooms seem to be (an unhappy accident, most likely) shielded so that no cell networks are reachable.

It's hard to fake cell towers, but wi-fi signal is rather easy.
Which they would determine using... an automated algorithm which decides which category a video should be in, and comparing it to the category chosen. At which point...
>Centralized institutions do provide a safety net, but is there anything necessarily wrong with a group of people saying they don't want or need that?

That depends on a case by case basis. If the actions of this group of people negatively and significantly affects others who are not part of the it then regulation becomes necessary. As an example if a group uses cryptocurrencies for money laundering, smuggling, or other similar activities then they can't claim they must be left alone because they don't want central control by choice. On the other hand if all people want to do is avoid mega banks, the PayPals etc. then all power to them.

That said, it is equally important for people to make sure that the central authority is a representative of society, at large, of their own choosing and not some dictatorial regime, corporation, party, or what have you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3H8D2LrLHc&feature=youtu.be

This a video from the author with some commentary.
In Canada (at least where I live), one can't sell bitcoins to an exchange without providing government-issued ID. I would never use bitcoin on the black market.
In what way is individuals being able to make illegal purchases of any social utility?
> If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd

Except we've been fighting tax evasion for as long as there have been taxes.
This sounds more like a vim versus emacs, dynamic versus static type argument to me. I see Bitcoin as a new form of gold that is more easily transferred and stored. Does he object to gold as well?
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The implicit goal of most YouTubers is to get views, as that's how they make money. Putting your video in a smaller category/in not the max amount of category reduces your exposure, reducing your potential views. The incentive of having a lesser chance of being flagged feels tiny compared to that
I think something americans often miss with this use of bitcoin is how much people in the world keep dollars in the mattress.

It is often said that the us doesnt have inflation because when more dollars are printed, global demand still captures them. That is, when people in other countries save in dollars, they fund the US and defund their own country. Not making a moral or economic case against allowing people to do that, but its the effect it has.

So now, what if the world stopped using dollars and started storing in bitcoin? Then the rise of bitcoin truly would be proportional to the demise of the dollar. In this way, I'm scared the bitcoin fanatics might actually have a point.
Added Coins Correlation Chart - http://dadamba.com/coins-correlation/
> Tracking categorization abuse seems straightforward in theory but good luck automating that reliably over millions of videos

Is Youtube (a) automating video categorization now, or (b) not automating video categorization?

> People will start using the "blood and violence" category exclusively if it means they're less likely to be demonetized, rendering it useless

No... it means that the advertisers can determine whether or not they want to monetize ads in that category.

So there would be no "demonetize EVERYTHING", just categories that advertisers can choose to place ads on, or not.

I think you're assuming that a different system would work exactly the same as the system works today. That isn't the point...
it's not a training set anymore, but a machine learning production task
Supposedly with the latest driver some websites (even popular ones like Reddit) have stopped working:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382358
https://bugs.gentoo.org/639250

The complexity of modern computing is truly terrifying.
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Does Google care about the quality of its search results? You don't need to bring rights into the discussion to see why "post on this forum and maybe somebody will read it" is a poor solution.
Correct. The most difficult part of trading/investing/betting (call it what you want) is often confronting your own tolerance for risk and uncertainty.
Not a game, but:

Intel Basic compiler (there used to be such things) got returned from QA, because it didn't meet the 600-lines-per-second spec. It was 10% too slow. This was the age of 8086 processors (no, not Pentium, the original 8086).

So the Engineer changed the 'lines per second' print at the end of compilation to add 10% to what it printed. Problem solved! Passed QA.
As Coinbase user I always assumed that all of my transactions are automatically reported to the IRS - I'm actually surprised that this didn't happen yet.
Moreover, if you take steps like laundering coins or meeting in person specifically to avoid paying taxes, you've handed the IRS evidence to prosecute you for willful evasion. You're trading money today for jail time tomorrow.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Pay your taxes.
Google Home can now do two things at the same time
Who has been "pwn3d" by exposing their user count?

It's less about direct "pwn3ge" than about business intelligence. The number of users could be sensitive information for some businesses, but it's not just users. Any item where your volume is valuable proprietary information, you better make sure you aren't exposing an auto-incrementing id. Number of accounts, number of daily orders, number of distribution centers, number of product models, these might be data points that a growing business would prefer not to expose to their competitors via, for example, URL query parameters. You should make competitors work harder for their intelligence.
The global risks for bitcoin far exceed its utility. Take a look at the work of the macroeconomic scholars and see just how risky it is for create more unknowns into our money supply. To date, Bitcoin is nothing more than a ponzu.
The report not only talks about that. It also talks about videos that, because of being demonetized, they also appear less in YT searches and related content.

In other words, if you video has ads, then the probability of appearing in searches and related content is higher, thus you, as used, are more exposed to ads.
This is a unique idea that I haven't heard before. Any idea what these 'banks' might use the Bitcoin for? With the upcoming Lightning Network additions, this might make an interesting use case where "decentralized banks" are able to help aid the network with payment channels and its members gain interest.

By the way, Bitcoin mixers are sorta like this in a way. If you have enough Bitcoin, some mixers look for investments and promise to return interest from it. This is another potential use case for "decentralized banks".
Definitely would to read more. You're touching several points that interest me and that don't seem a focus of more recent 'mainstream' directions.

+1 Cell is not a good choice of name, even apart from the fact it's already been used. Suggest asphalt/bitumen/blacktop.. ;);)
Rule of thumb: for every idiotic/draconian rule, there always was some asshole that abused the system and caused it to be created.
I agree, its a great name =)
Apparently the manager didn't really care about the device in the bag. They knew about it and let it go.

However, they did care that he was not working when he said he did. They probably simply used the subterfuge as damning evidence.

Most employers I worked for would let me infringe some of their policies, as long as I was an otherwise good employee worth my salary.

Some other places were just totalitarian about their rules and I left because of it. They were probably happy they got rid of a bad apple without having to fire me. It's give and take really.
Just tumble your coins, you'd need a super computer to find where they go. That's what things like Monero automatically do.
How do you get around the high transaction fees? Bitcoin seems too slow and expensive to use.
By saying "full-on regulation of their activities" do you suggest that it's some (which exactly?) government or committee is who would decide on search ranking algorithms and what shows up in the results and what doesn't? Or is it something else?
Doesn’t money taken out of circulation just increase the buying power of money still in circulation? People still need to eat, travel, etc. as much as they would otherwise.
far from true. the IRS passes on many enforcement actions because the cost-benefit calculus doesn't pencil out against wealthy and sophisticated parties who can afford to spend years in litigation.

The bulk of IRS enforcement is against low income people who cheat on child tax credits and earned income credit.

The nature of all predators is to attack the weak.
I've watched it 20 years ago so I don't remember seeing such scene. I do remember Gene Hackman explaining about cages when his hideout is shown though.
Other commenters speculate that there is a technical reason why YouTube doesn't allow content producers to choose their monetization categories but I bet it's more likely to be a business reason. I'm sure it would be technically challenging and possibly for not much reward (for Google), however, I bet it's even harder to sell advertisers on ad packages that include Google ads when any producer can opt out of any group of ads. It would make it much harder to tell advertisers how many eyes their ads would actually make it in front of.
1) The great firewall: None of the Google products would work. This means no access to important stuff like Google Docs, Gmail, etc.

When I'm in Beijing, I usually use my company vpn.

3) Language barrier - how do you manage? Google translate won't work as Google is blocked. Are there some recommendations?

Young people speak good English there, try to communicate with them.

5) Anything else I should be aware of?

no toilet paper in public restrooms. carry a roll of toilet paper all the time.
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Incredible!

Contrast that to Europe, where the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive will soon force all states to hold information on beneficial owners of legal entities in a central register, where it may be queried from by any lawyer, bank or other party with a legitimate interest...
Red herring. Focus on the antitrust question
This has become a buzzword after its use by John Oliver, but it really is another example of Whataboutism.
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>What is "demonetization"?

YouTube deciding your video is ineligible for earning ad revenue. So the creator gets nothing (or close to nothing, not sure). I'm not sure if it actually stops running ads on the videos since I've been using an ad blocker for ages.
Hah probably some VC :D, really think about it.
Capped overtime pay is something the airline demanded, for sure.

Probably, yes, but I could also imagine the union wanting a cap as well, to limit the airline's power to resolve situations like this without having to negotiate with the union. The union is clearly pissed off that the airline hasn't needed to involve them yet. If the airline can't unilaterally offer higher pay to the pilots to fix this problem, that gives the union a chance at benefiting from it.
I've generated addresses for all nul-terminated strings over 10 chars from a memory dump of my bitcoin node, and I'm scanning my blockchain to see if any of them have been used.

So far I've found nothing.
> To be upfront, I do not have access to a full Tanium install;
...
> The entire article will be speculative, based on logical reasoning imposed on information from their website.

I've seen security vendors fail far too often to think they're infallible, but I've also seen overzealous security 'researchers' make incorrect claims about vulnerability based on misconfiguration or lack of product knowledge. This however goes so far beyond... At least he/she had the chutzpa to say it upfront.
Same as with a bank. Transfer some bitcoin to someone and then pursue them when they don't transfer enough back.

Charge interest to cover the risk.
Perpetuating MANLY IDEALS as a biological truth is silly.
I am projecting we mostly will live to 100 or 110. That might mean some people have 30-40 years of retirement, and many will be unprepared.
I think the parent is surprised/upset at being asked to pay tax on a capital gain and to some degree I sympathize. It seems somehow unfair to tax what can feel like an existing possession. However, as I understand it a big reason for having capital gains tax is that without it rich people find ingenious ways to turn what is really income into capital gains and hence avoid taxes altogether. For this reason there are usually some thresholds and exceptions to allow some amount of capital gain to be tax free, and/or to tier the tax rate on gains.
Not in this context. We're talking about the IRS. An American agency.
FYI synergy is free and oss[1] but I would still recommend paying for it because it's priced fairly and I want to support the development behind it. I think synergy is text-book "how to make money with oss."

[1] https://github.com/symless/synergy-core
I am almost certain another factor is clickthrough from "undesirable" referral links. ReviewBrah [0] (The Report of The Week) is the most family friendly channel with high subscribers that I can think of. He reviews fast food and has a unique fashion style and personality. Very clean.

He has become a popular meme and is regularly linked to from 4chan. I struggle to find a single thing that could warrant demonetisation (having looked through the youtube guidance), yet a large chunk of his videos are automatically demonetised.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeR0n8d3ShTn_yrMhpwyE1Q
I don't think the update cadence will change, their yearly release numbers are a big marketing point that they're locked into. Press coverage from skipping one wouldn't be good, especially since people feel like that cadence is what they're paying for with the subscriptions.

That said, Autodesk has entire industries locked into subscription pricing with very little real competition. If they wanted to cut costs, they could slow the rate of development and get away with it (at least in the short term). Still yearly releases, but without as much in them. What are you going to do, cancel your AutoCAD and Revit licenses? Good luck working on any architecture projects!
I think I'm going release an Electron app called "shitty". Imagine all the free press I'll get on HN comments!
Look at the early investors of Bitcoin, they all invested because they saw it as a currency. When this didn't materialize, the hyped it as an investment.
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But your employer can easily sell that data to big data companies, now or at any point in the future, whether you're still working there or not.
Because in an efficient market, if one of the currencies is preferable that will already be reflected in the price. If, based on public information, you would rather hold currency X than currency Y, then so would your counterparty in the exchange, so the buying power of currency X would rise accordingly.

Gresham's law applies when a legally fixed exchange rate means that the price can't reflect the difference between the two currencies.
Yup, this is actually great news for Crypto in general. It means it will become more mainstream.
Spring is certainly crazy with DI too. It's just rough to follow Laravel internals the times I've had to do it.
> If the accelerated price of Bitcoin fails to outstrip the rise in cost, due to public perception, regulation or any other reason then the network will cease verification and exchange within the network will stop.

The mining “difficulty” automatically adjusts every 2 weeks to always target 10 minute blocks.

If the price drops dramatically it can temporarily slow block creation, especially if a different cryptocurrency (with the same mining algorithm) is more profitable to mine, but it will eventually adjust.
You can get a little safer than escrow via multisignature wallets; you need M-of-N signatures before bitcoins can be sent. You can tie the extra signatures to machine-interpretable signals like the state of a tracked package (when it hits delivered the funds are automatically released, etc.).

Still some trust involved, but the third party can't pocket your money directly.
I wish you could get bitcoin with the fraud prevention guarantees that come with credit cards
> This is speculation.

> The best way to profit from a bubble is to stay away as much as possible imho.

Well. Obviously you're wrong. Some of the richest people got there by speculating.

Speculation is one of the best way to profit... Just not on average. On average it's rather bad. It always shifts wealth from larger group of people to lower.

It's very good for very few, and rather bad for rather large amount of people.

Many people got rich on BTC it will be paid by those who will hold BTC when it crashes.
I'm not sure which is funnier, his comment or your deadpan response.
So now, we have neither competition nor regulated utilities. Instead, we have the worst of all worlds: unregulated monopolies.
ponzu?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ponzu
I can't say if this works in China, but Astrill VPN have a number of ip addresses that they label "China Optimized." I use them to access Netflix in the US from Ireland, but don't know if they work in China or not.
I thought a Faraday cage had to be grounded.
You can get a good idea of the signal path to the antenna mounts with the photo provided, especially the photo visible via the underlying link to dx.com. Trace width would be set to match desired impedance (e.g. 50Ohm), generous spacing from adjacent ground plane for isolation, and big radii on corners to minimize self-capacitance. The 45deg component mounting is unusual, especially since the equivalent (?) PCB on dx.com doesn't have it. Perhaps this board was fabbed in low enough volume that optimizing pick & place to only do multiples of 90deg wasn't needed.
I am guessing that your actually ideology isn't as hardline as the question you asked would imply. But just incase it is; consider a country like North Korea, certainly the black market there provides a lot of social utility.
You are comparing two different things. linux-firmware is composed of blob files used by kernel drivers when they do request_firmware(); for devices that load the firmware in RAM and work from that, and have (mostly) no permanent storage.

This project is for firmware blobs that 1/ are already on the device; 2/ for which the update method is traditionally a vendor-provided windows binary; the fwupdmgr incorporates plugins that implement all the different update methods for those devices.

There's nothing maliciously misleading here, and vendors do know the difference between those two.
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Ah, you are right:

> NOTE: This service should only be used to distribute firmware that is flashed onto non-volatile memory. It is not designed for firmware that has to be uploaded to devices every time the device is used.
There is an undercurrent of "This is completely unacceptable," but anyone who's been a pentester will tell you these are pretty standard enterprise blunders.

Rather than trying to expose malfeasance, try to write with a spirit of helping others correct problems. Everyone screws up security, even HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/security.html

Also, 21 exclamation points are a bit much.

If you're looking for a model for good technical writing, NCC Group makes some of their audit reports available publicly, e.g. https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/ricochet-security...
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Definitely not claiming "scientific rigor" nor do I think it would be worth it to even try.

The argument-after-work scenario, however, has been around for a long time and is well known by marriage counselors.

https://hbr.org/2016/04/how-to-not-fight-with-your-spouse-wh...
>Which grad student had the logbook was potluck.

I mean, sure, but that doesn't mean any grad student would have looked at the logs and found the pulsar patterns. Bell did. If she hadn't said anything the data may have been overlooked for years. What matter is her position on the project?
I've used www.simplenote.com in the past.
Sales clerks sometimes comment how heavy my Amazon prime cc is. It doesn't have the cc numbers on the front which gives it more of a mystic to it. My son thinks it is really cool. Psychologically, I admit this card, and my used Lexus with leather seats makes me feel like I have more money than I truly have.
It's in the scene in the hotel lift - Hackman gets Smith to remove various things, and stuffs the trackers in a foil crisp (aka chip) packet, and the techs lose tracking on them.