skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, please don't copy and paste on Hacker News. We're trying for thoughtful discussion here. Imagine what would happen if everyone did that!

HN is an internet forum where we're trying to find and talk about interesting things. Once something has been repeated enough times it ceases to be interesting. This is incompatible with the intellectual curiosity HN exists for (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

What makes this so difficult is that repetition is its own form of pleasure and doubly so when indignation is excited. My dream is to get all of us on HN to be aware of this dynamic so we can focus on curiosity—which has quite a different texture—and steer clear of the tedious.

The points you're repeating about Bitcoin have been commonplace for a long time now, and the jokey format dilutes quality further. You're not the only one doing this, but the copy-pasting thing is bad. As if these threads weren't repetitive enough already!
Well, unfortunately that doesn't help in the current US legal climate with how class action lawsuits work.

Even if we as developers put down our pitchforks, a class action firm will jump on any perceived liability.
I'd agree, although maybe it's not that simple. For insurance to work, actuaries need to be able to determine the risk with reasonable accuracy. For car crashes and medical malpractice there's a lot of statistics, for newly discovered hardware vulnerabilities, less so.
I guess we will wait to find out. If all they do is execute and get to slow growth, cash flow is still worth a lot of money, just at a lower multiple than fast growing cash flow.

IMO, experiences, business travel and even hotel booking are all viable growth models going forward.
To have any chance of success they should fix the corruption first, otherwise it will become yet another way to waste taxpayers' money.
Ask HN: Anyone else having YouTube remove private videos?
I upload home videos to YouTube as a backup to my local storage. They are marked as private videos.

In the last week, YouTube has flagged for deletion 2 of the videos as being against their community guidelines. Since they have my children in the videos, I assume this is fallout from elsagate.

I appealed the first flagging since I couldn't tell what was wrong with it. It seems this is an automated process since none of my questions in the appeal were answered.

The removals do not cause a negative effect on your account.

A couple of questions:

1) Has anyone else had private videos removed from YouTube?

2) Is there a way to contact support at YouTube for a specific reason as to why the video was removed?

Thanks.
All of my friends are set to follow. Seems like a default option.
What I really find interesting. The really big podcasts in Germany are all ad free. Maybe patreon maybe donations via sepa bank transfer but no ads at all.
There are exceptions yes. And that is ok. But what I find worse are platforms which try to hog the listeners to themselves. Spotify or Google play music podcast. The joy of using podcasts is the same as the internet you just need a podcatcher instead of a browser and can listen to anything you want anywhere anywhen. And also with apps with great user interfaces. How come someone would even want to listen to Spotify podcasts without 30 second skips, chapter marks and most importantly resumable playback where you stopped.
Way to pick out a non-central point. But the answer is that cash and bitcoins are intrinsically self-authenticating but not owner-identified and do not rely upon a credit card / bank-account facility which can be shut down by authorities if it is being misused.
There is a product called Novamin that can help remineralize teeth, currently owned by GSK. They took the competition out of the marketplace, and AFAIK only put it in certain "Sensodyne Repair & Protect" toothpastes, which also contain fluoride; unfortunately it isn't available in USA, but is available in Canada, Thailand, and China (and probably other places also, that's just where I've purchased it). Another source is SHY-NM toothpaste which is sold only in India. One can brush with these toothpastes, or use a dental tray to soak the teeth in Novamin.

Above age 35 or so, rather than direct dental caries, the bigger risk for many people is receding gums (gingival recession), which also leads to tooth decay, hot/cold sensitivity, tooth loss, infection, and so on. To try and prevent this, people go to their dentist for scaling and root planing ("conventional periodontal therapy"), which are fancy terms for what is, to me, medieval treatment -- scraping the teeth with metal instruments that readily damage the enamel and dentin. I believe Periogen is a far superior alternative, which is administered using a waterpik and is able to reach significantly below the gumline. Periogen dissolves dental calculus chemically, without the risk of damage that comes with the instruments used in conventional periodontal therapy.

Another treatment that promotes healthy gums and discourages tooth decay are probiotic lozenges; the exact formulation differs from brand to brand, but in general the idea is to replenish the microbial colonies in the mouth with species that are helpful rather than harmful.

As far as I can tell, the simplest and most effective preventative measure against cavities is to vigorously wash the mouth out with water after eating or drinking anything, every time, no exceptions.
Controversial opinion incoming, but I've found their writings less valuable over time and see them more as opinions with an elitist tone. This is coming from someone who owns a copy of Rework and might just go over it again for it's unique quality of life advice.

Lately I've really noticed that you don't just get advice anymore, you also get a little bit of commentary on how the rest of the tech industry is dumb or insane or both because those fools are doing it the old way and we're doing it our own progressive and enlightened way that we figured out on our own after we sat down, put on our critical thinking caps, and tried something different, and lo and behold it worked.

This latest exercise stands out as particularly offensive because there really isn't any advice or wisdom worth sharing. They're just telling us that Basecamp had the best year ever and they don't feel like improving on it so they're not hiring at the moment. Correction, it's actually a hiring freeze. Same thing, except the phrase "hiring freeze" is normally used in the context of something bad. They're going to use it in a different context to, you know, get more claps on Medium. On top of all this they felt the need to do a little compare and contrast between what they're doing vs what the rest of those unenlightened fools in the tech industry are doing, i.e. reinvest profits into new ways to grow.

Whatever. There are plenty of businesses that are happy with where they're at and settle-in, Basecamp is different because they're a tech company and they feel the need to blog about it. As for those companies that are growing, well, I think it's perfectly fine to keep growing, just don't turn your company into the equivalent of foie gras.

It's just disappointing. I looked up to them, still kinda do, but this is just marketing spin designed to make something boring and innocuous look radical.
So, to carry your argument to a slightly (but only slightly) more extreme version, doesn't that mean that postal mail could be held liable if someone coordinated a terrorist attack by letter?

Think about what you're suggesting.
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This is very interesting - thank you for sharing. I am looking into the possibility of a dental implant and I am very uncomfortable with the idea of a titanium screw in my jaw bone. I think a trip to Vienna will be on the cards later this year.
Old games forums like BluesNews and TheShack.
What.CD - not because of the free music but because of the community, recommendations by friends and discovering new music on a daily basis.

Right now I’m just listening to the “For You” section of Apple Music and very rarely discover something new. I also don’t really have a way to keep things that I like around as there’s no nice way to put things in your library if you don’t use iCloud Music library. Streaming services also miss a lot of editions or different recordings and their meta tags are usually very bad.
> but we refuse to acknowledge that our CPU's are critical to safety because we don't pay much attention to how pervasively they are used

What kind of safety are we talking about? Nuclear power plants? Airplanes? Self-driving cars? If so, why would you be running untrusted, remote code on the CPUs of the critical components?

Sure, there occasionally are CPU bugs where the CPUs just randomly lock up, but we can defend against that with redundancy. The meltdown bug on the other hand requires malicious activity on the same chip, i.e. you need to offer an attacker a sandbox to run code on and then hope the sandbox holds and is properly resource-limited to not DoS your safety-critical system. It's a risk you shouldn't be taking in the first place.

And if we're just talking about credit card data well, we can easily compensate by moving to dedicated instances once such a problem becomes known, it's no worse than hypervisor escapes which become known every now and then.
I find it odd that I can't find any sort of videos about that product. Usually people review stuff like this on youtube.
Same as developers and salesman and managers.
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I have a copy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers master plan for the SF Bay Area, 1960-2020. It's a slip case of documents and maps.

Highlights:

- Five freeways up the Peninsula - US 101, I-280, Skyline (CA 25), Pacific (CA 1), and one out in the bay on stilts.

- Another Bay Bridge at Candlestick

- Possible second bridge to Marin - Alcatraz-Angel Island-Tiburon route.

- Fill in everything south of the Dumbarton Bridge to make new land.

- The north bay was to be for heavy industry. To support the Mare Island shipyards, Marin County to get steel mills.

- The peninsula was for "business machines". They got that right.
I've never had a cavity or major repair procedure for my teeth, and I don't understand why. I'm not particularly obsessive about my teeth. Are cavity resistant teeth some kind of genetic trait? Does drinking milk regularly maintain healthy teeth?
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As per my reply to the parent comment, thank you for sharing!

Here's one paper I found while reading around about the technology (no idea what sort of credibility JOADMS has):

http://www.joadms.org/download/article/149/19102016_27/14762...
Care to elaborate on how cryptocurrency is an alternative to engaging in the present economic arrangement?
You can't not play. Not playing just means losing faster because you don't know/don't care about the rules.
Economy to grow at 5.4%, Atlanta Fed
Forums in general.

I'd just check them daily(ish) and participate in various conversations. These days this kind of communication is either in chat groups on Telegram or ephemeral threads on HN and reddit. Rarely are those threads referred back to, unlike topics were. I still do things online that last, such as blogging, pushing to Github and writing stackexchange answers, but none of those are very informal and include joking around sometimes, like we did on forums.
Yeah, I do like Slashdot's time-linear format better than HN's fluid ranking, in that you can catch up from where you left off. However, the discussion in /. has gotten really old and bitter. HN has its own pervasive negative community aspects from the other direction, but certainly has more meaningful content in the discussions overall.

The two sites still share a large percentage of links, though, and I read stories on /. that I didn't happen to catch on HN's ephemeral front page.
While I'm not religious, I don't understand what specifically in that paragraph warrants dismissing a person's perspective on the matter. Could you elaborate?
What did you try?

I used Inoreader and it's now better than Google Reader ever was.
Sounds neat, I'll check this out.
> Can you please unpack "really flimsy supports" in ELI5 language?

Modern CPUs rely upon "speculative execution" for speed, i.e. running code that they guess will be run. This usually works, but relies upon the CPU getting rid of the results of its incorrect guesses. Intel CPUs failed to do this in a very obvious way, which was recently exploited. As a result, they broke software security checks.

EDIT: Let's say your code is

if (security_check()) {
secure_stuff();
} else {
error();
}

The Intel CPU may guess that security_check() will return true, and run secure_stuff(). When security_check() actually returns false, it doesn't clean up all of the results of running secure_stuff(), so error() can spy on what it would have done if security_check() returned true.
Echoing the other sentiments here for you and your wife—this is the club nobody wants to join, but we all want to give you a big hug. Its a shitty, scary fight, but some of the therapies coming out now are truly amazing in their potential. My own wife was diagnosed with an immune-mediated cancer a few years ago, and I went pretty deep into the research when that happened. 10 years ago, her diagnosis (melanoma IIIa) had a pretty discouraging prognosis based purely on stats. Today, they're going to have to rewrite a lot of textbooks around those stats.

Hang in there, and don't forget to take care of yourself too. Being in the role of caregiver is fucking exhausting at times. If you're like me, it falls to us to be the shield against well-meaning but poorly informed acquaintances shilling this herbal remedy or that metabolic supplement or this fantastic ketogenic diet backed by the research of some doctor nobody's heard of because Big Pharma... Just nod and smile and say you'll look into that and give them the middle finger in your minds eye. Try and find some support system, whether its a caregivers group or friends who have been through it, or even friends who haven't that you can still vent to. There's a lot coming at you, and more to come. Its ok to take some time for yourself some too.

Best wishes, man—I'll be thinking about your family.
IDK, I think there's a way to have your cake and eat it too WRT chip level optimizations.

For instance brushing off rings 1 and 2 from the dust bin of history could give user and kernel code ways to describe multiple levels of memory protection in a way that the chip can understand. That way, the same way that AMD was protected from Meltdown ("I can tell from the TLB that address is outside of what this code is supposed to touch, so I'm not going to speculate past that") could be expanded to a more general form.
Any backup evidence or material to support your claim that the newyorker has low journalistic/editorial standards?
Plus all the existing difficulty of running a highly available, highly performant SAN at scale before you even get to counting the added complexity of virtualization. That alone is a task of a difficulty level that many have forgotten, what with AWS et al handling most of it for us for the last decade.
fuckedcompany.com - it was full of brilliant stories about the crazy things dotcom companies were up to. I'm sure a version for current startups would be equally fun.
This would require them admitting their estimates are baloney, which will never happen
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The documentation seems to claim[1] otherwise:

It also allows the direct binding of events to:

* A handler method in the same or another object.
* An ordinary function like a static method or a global function.
* An arbitrary callable object.

If it works for arbitrary callable objects it should certainly work for closures.

[1] https://docs.wxpython.org/events_overview.html
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Oink.me was the same but so, so much more in every way
If you are optimistic about AirBnB as a business, outside of its ability to exploit legal loopholes:

The same kind of growth that any new, deep pocketed entrant in the hospitality industry might have - it would just have to come at the expense of incumbents.

In 30 years, an investor like that may hope that AirBnB might look more like Hilton Worldwide, then what it is today.
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That's pretty much what the military and satellite operators buy. Older, simpler CPUs manufactured on larger nodes, radiation-hardened to boot and with years of proven track record and bug fixes.

And then they buy two or three per system for redundancy.
In my opinion your top priority should be to make every message e2e encrypted between sender and recipient. Else your idea is just as useless as telegram
That's what I figured. Thanks for responding. : )
> which is costly in terms of time and money.

Yes; to you. The insurance company just has to figure out if it's cheaper to see you in court, or to pay for your medical claim.
Fair enough. But the inherent complexity of a modern Intel hardware design surely puts at least a lower bound on the probability of bugs.
Those are always welcome, thank you. I know of (1), (5) and (6) but haven't started them yet.

I've dabbled a bit in the "History of Japan" podcast but since I encountered some episodes that weren't accurate (although they weren't strictly about history), I've lost trust and stopped listening. Apart from that, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" podcast is ok, albeit a bit too comedic at times for my taste.
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* Personal websites from before blogging become commonplace - often part of web rings where you could visit one after another page.

* My own and my friends silly pages.

* Not a page but a feature: referrers weren't blocked so we could check who sent us traffic and visit their pages.

* searching with the old google.com before SEO became popular.