skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be really interested to see statistics about this. I hypothesize that the prevalence of "violent lunatics" is a bigger factor than availability of weapons, i.e. that the US just has more of these people than other places due to something in the media and culture.

In other words, if availability of guns were really the most important factor, then wouldn't we expect Europe to have a similar number of attacks but conducted with knives, cars, etc? Do you think there are a number of europeans out there with the desire to commit these acts, and would do so if they only could get a gun more easily? I'm skeptical.

That isn't to say I think gun control would hurt, just that I see a deeper problem it wouldn't solve.
Why bother when you could have normal people too? I mean I guess the main thing why you'd want a virtual model is to give them an unnatural appearance, like the Miquela character mentioned in the article, or err, the one with the huge eyes in a recent or upcoming movie.
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Sure, Intel realized this was a great opportunity to force older CPU users to upgrade and spend more money on their poorly designed CPU's which are susceptible to hackers
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I disagree with the premise of your post. There are not "correct" ways to "start a discourse" about censorship, because there are no ways to start a discourse about censorship.

There are a bunch of people doing the media dance around a topic, all within the confines of the status quo. The disagreements are loud, but the questions at stake are fixed. In appearing to debate conclusions, everyone is tricked into accepting the form of the argument.

The outcome of censorship arguments will be exactly the same as the outcome of privacy arguments: whatever benefits the system. Eich was run out of town on a rail after the status quo moved beyond thing he gave minor support to, while Zuckerberg is only experiencing a momentary PR blip until they can get everyone back on track of unironically defending his contract of adhesion as if it's not on-the-face abusive to end users.
You are clearly an example of what I was talking about.

You judge the utility (or lack thereof) of these positions while never having had one yourself. Luckily, it's the top management of a company that choses who these are and not engineers.

It's clear from claims like "if 80% of those people disappeared you would see absolutely no change" that you have no idea what their role is.

When you say "most suits had no clue where source code existed" you just fail to realize that that's good. It's not their job to know this, it's an engineer's job.

You talk about their "known contribution" as if it's a general sentiment, but show no proof of it being other than your personal opinion.

In fact, it's clear from statements like " Another of their contribution was to do meetings with other suits at customers/partners" that you have no idea about how valuable talking to customers is for a company.

And tell me, in case you had to "make hard decisions" like "throwing 10% of team under the bus in form of layoffs" what would you do instead? That's exactly one of the cases where the skills of an engineer are the last a company needs.
"They do this for free" in return for something. Google/Youtube is not doing this for free. They are a corporation in it for the profit
Study: Exposure to opposing views on Twitter might increase polarization
> Who is sociopathic enough to follow through on an idea like this?

On one hand, you are bound to find at least a few individuals that were born lacking the sufficient amount of human morality and/or empathy, among the 7 billion humans on this planet.

However, it's much easier to find examples if you look at organisms that by their very nature are incapable of relating to humans in that way. Such as cats or spiders or lizards. However they usually aren't in a position to follow through on the idea. But this lack of power also holds for most of the humans in the previous paragraph (even considering sociopaths are said to hold many positions of power).

So that basically leaves corporations as the answer to your question.
Or you'll end up with small business that don't make their money taking a garden rake across your personal data and bagging it up for the world to see.
I'm all for the idea of cash being accepted and remaining. But as a swede I'm also completely over cash. I haven't even seen the latest incarnation of our bills. I haven't touched cash even for buying a flea market hockey stick or a hotdog in a stand, for years. And it's damn comfortable (The mobile payments is used a LOT, so is at least as big as cards for small transactions and individual-to-individual transactions).

But the questoin is: if we just want cash to "be around" because in times of crisis it would be handy - who will pay for maintaining it? If you mandate it by law, chances are that businesses will just have some appearance of cash handling, but no idea how to do it in an actual crisis. Likewise, people who only need to use cash once in a crisis, aren't going to have cash on them, if there is a crisis

One of the reasons I don't have cash is because we are also hellbent on expiring our banknotes - the validity period of banknotes here is probably around 20 years on average. So unlike the US where you might be allowed to pay with a 50 year old green one, in Sweden you can't put a few thousand Kronor in a box in the basement for a crisis. It won't be accepted if that crisis is too far away - and I fear forgetting where I put the money and realize it's no longer valid. (Note that money can always be exchanged at the central bank for modern notes after they are expired - they aren't turned worthless - but that is probably not an option in times of crisis).

So while I agree with the idea of cash being a vital infrastructure in society - how to you encourage it enough to actually be a working system when it's needed, if it's not always needed? There is no way you'll convince the swedes to use a more cumbersome payment system than the least cumbersome one, because "it's good to support it". Mandating that everyone accept cash also seems like pretty bad idea (It will cost consumers a LOT).
I doubt it. If it's not called "Wolfenstein", "Doom", "Half-Life", or "Call of Duty", he probably hasn't heard of it.
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This seems... curious. It might be an appealing simplification of a terrifyingly complex world to operate on the basis of the binary attribution of responsibility; but I really think it's a bias that we should fight to overcome.
That's an obvious cartoon character though, these are models trying to look like real people - and having fooled people already.
This is basically how I see it, and it's probably going to be worse the more we get into whatever this "gig job" world we are entering is. Uber reduces payouts to enough drivers, or goes all in on self-driving cars? One of them is probably going to be an extremely unwell gun-owner that's suddenly broke and hopeless. This is part of humanity that can't be explained away with "You should have known it wasn't a REAL job (but please make content for us / drive for us anyway)!"
If you start threatening people with your weapons, you should have them confiscated, or rather more likely to have them confiscated. This is one of the few instances where this could have been completely prevented.
Since I work with Typescript, I do the same with the TS playground, it's really usefull to learn that kind of stuff.
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Is Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond the book you were thinking of?

(Thanks for the recommendation in any case.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Col...
The bad actors are only on one side of the political debate?
I'm not sure about GDR, but in Lithuania Soviet housing is piss-poor. Apartments are tiny and dark, planning is crappy, heat insulation is shitty (at least renovation can somewhat fix it).. And nobody did anything for decades - just kept building same standard apartments. And even if they were shitty, they weren't building nowhere near enough of them.

On top of that, a lot of people, even families with young kids, got "dorm" apartments with shared kitchens/bathrooms/etc.

So yes, housing quality between USSR and modern housing is quite big.
Then how would you enter a ZWNJ - for example to correctly indicate that the ligatures should not cross the morpheme boundaries?
Hate to break it to you, but no one is dead outside of the shooter currently.

You might want to take some of your individual responsibility and correct your statement.
Except that the titular character in that one was actually a real actor, :p
I thought the name was weird and found this:

The name was chosen in 2012, two years before the open source project was started. I had just gotten done with an exhausting and ultimately frustrating survey of OSS database products for the backend of a new private photo sharing service called Viewfinder. I'd tried and found wanting MySQL, Postgres, AWS SimpleDB, Hbase, Cassandra, and Riak.

I was annoyed. Why wasn't there a scalable, survivable, consistent database with transactions? I was even willing to drop transactions as a requirement – a terrible sacrifice. The frustration led me to write a manifesto. What would the "right" database look like?

I imagined it would be composed of symmetric nodes, require no external dependencies, spread itself naturally across availability zones for survival. Each node would autonomously replicate and repair data. These were the capabilities that led me to the name "cockroach", because they'll colonize the available resources and are nearly impossible to kill.

- Spencer Kimball
This doesn't sound like a technical problem. More like a government is being defunded, half the vans need repair, lack of senior management, no direction, other priorities, shortage of techs, hiring freeze, the remaining people only work from 9-5 and we don't pay overtime, type of problem.
> Being fired in many countries actually does come with a whole pile of assurances about your continued income

What insurances that are not part of earning nothing from youtube?

> And to take that anger out on the employees of Youtube is utterly ridiculous

So? The same is true for any sort of anger from between partners to countries. Even if someone has been laid off. If a person can literally shoot someone, then this advice won't have the ears.
Youtube doesn't have 'whims', it's a company. If you have beef with a company you either take it to court or you take your lumps.

You do not go and shoot at the company employees who are just like you dependent on that company for their income, the difference is that they have an employment contract with certain rights and you chose to go for the fame and the glory.

There are people here who write that "It was only a matter of time until one of those furious victims took up a gun to get revenge." and that's well into apologist territory.
Part of her psychological (and business) troubles was her inability to silently tolerate widespread torture of dogs and other animals. She hurt 4 people and killed herself, while YouTube suppressed information that exposed chronic dog torture.
That was really satisfying to watch. The difference in tone and articulation between the prat and the mature, thoughtful, and seemingly genuine MP is striking.
What a great game! It worked so smoothly over dial up. I put a lot of hours into this back in the day. The balance in the ship types and the teamwork required is brilliant. And then all of the mods for different game types and maps... just so much fun.
This reminds me of the moment in the earlier years of YT when I realized that production of a lot of the content there I would not even care to scoff at is a real job for those people and "youtuber" is actually their full time job. Now it is a given obviously.
Not sure about apple but it did happen with Twitter and third party clients.
You can use wood to generate heat but no one would plant a tree and call it a campfire.
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Well, it's not exactly panhandling, but more like a venue providing free spaces for artists. The venue is funded through advertissement and some of this money is given to the artists, taking into account the number of people looking at them. Because in that case, there's a content produced, which is used to bring people to the venue.

But I agree on the rest of your point, relying on advertising and third-party services is unreasonable.
Migrating off of AWS is a difficult, drawn-out process which can take months, if you've got a lot of stuff there or are using a lot of AWS-specific features. That's part of why I chose that example. A lot of businesses a lot of people here work for would be in quite difficult straits if that happened.
Was f.lux ever available on the Mac App Store? I downloaded it for free from their website... It wasn't allowed on the iOS App Store because it needs access to private APIs.
Sometimes I get the feeling that the supply of frontend toolings is outpacing the demand.
You can't be serious.

Youtube is not infrastructure; if you don't like their policies, use a different service. Start a competitor. You pay the server time.
Without prejudice to the fact that it's not ok to shoot people:

Youtube set out to "own video", and they've been very successful at it. There are a few alleged alternatives out there like vimeo, but come on, how many smart TV's do you know that have a vimeo app pre-installed? Google favors youtube content over other video sites in its search results, and youtube is on-again-off-again zero rated with ISP's all around the globe. Youtube is dominant.

As a result, cutting someone off from youtube is actually a pretty big deal. It's a critical platform for all modern charities, and most modern companies. It's very hard for a marketing department to compete with other companies if they can't use youtube to distribute tutorials, promo content, key announcements and other errata. In most countries, youtube could swing an election by cutting off one party without warning mid-campaign.

And yeah, it's a platform for people to make independent income. Youtube channels are modern busking. I personally would consider income from youtube too tenuous to be willing to commit to a rent contract on the back of that income, but some people are more adventurous.

Youtube wanted a near-total monopoly on internet video, and now they have it. Good for them, but it's not consequence free in my opinion. If they could legitimately tell this person "go use one of our competitors, we don't care", then I'd consider them in the clear. But youtube has successfully suppressed any serious competition, and as a result I consider them to have the same responsibilities as a public utility. They're the USPS of video now. If they're going to have no competitors, they also shouldn't be allowed to arbitrarily cut anyone off from their service.
Sorry for the naivety, I am not an expert of quantum computing, therefore I asked. I am quite interested in the topic, might you give me some references, please?
I'm a die-hard Linux user, but I completely disagree. Wifi is still terrible, video-card support is still terrible, audio is still terrible, we still can't get sleep to properly function, etc.

I really want Linux to be the go-to OS that people install, but the criticisms of it tend to be pretty valid, IME.
Agree that this isn't as surprising or impactful as others are reporting and strongly second your audio recommendations.

For the oral arguments, check out Oyez (https://www.oyez.org). I like it much better because it:

* has argument audio from cases going back 50+ years (as compared to 8 yrs on scotus.gov), so you can listen to big cases from before 2010 (e.g. Citizens United), and when modern cases draw heavily on prior decisions, you can go back and listen to the reasoning in the previous case (e.g. Vieth for Gill/Benisek, Bakke for Fisher).

* has the audio synced to the court transcript, which helps identify voices and follow when there's poor audio quality.

* has audio of opinion announcements when they're given (so you know the outcome and reasoning of the decision without looking it up)

* lets you sort by popularity, which makes it easier to find the cases that are important and interesting rather than merely politically charged.
Well writing code is much simplier this, but devs that are familiar with 'classical' OOP languages will do a lot of mistakes because of what is in the article.
I think you're confusing the first amendment, which is about protecting free speech from government power, from free speech in general [1][2]. Free speech, in Enlightenment philosophy, is a natural right. It exists apart from whether the first amendment even exists. And natural rights can certainly be violated by governments, corporations, or private organizations.

> ...your "bullying" line is again an attack on free speech.

I think here you acknowledge that free speech is broader than just the first amendment. If it were only about that, I literally couldn't attack free speech by posting some text in a comment on the internet.

> Bullying bad actors is free speech, too.

So the question is "what speech isn't free?" I'd argue speech that moves beyond advocating a better idea. Examples include fraud and threats of violence. Applying social pressure to corporations that give NRA discounts is clearly neither of these. Arguably, a platform for speech (YouTube, HN) can and should use its freedom of association (removing content) to restrict freedom of speech (maybe to prevent doxxing).

> I have no problem with identifying anti-social speech and using social force to reprimand and demand conformity.

I can tell. There's an argument for that, but it's not free speech. You can argue that it's good nonetheless, I suppose.

[1] See the wiki article about "Freedom of Speech". It's certainly broader than just being about laws and regulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

[2] https://www.quora.com/Does-freedom-of-speech-only-apply-to-U...
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Ask HN: GDPR and gaming analytics
We are working on a small smartphone game, to be released later this year. The game has RPG elements, so getting the game design right means balancing a lot of numbers. Now I'm wondering how we can collect this data while being GDPR compliant.

We need to answer questions like:

- How many enemies has the player defeated when he reached level 5?
- What's the win/loss ratio for his fights?
- In which cities are the most players?

The game doesn't have user accounts, there is no registration. I plan to collect the data by sending events like "Player $X has found 250 gold" where X is a randomly generated ID that is stored only on the device and cannot be seen by the user. The server that receives these events can tie the string of events together to answer the questions above.

Here's the challenge:

Is this personal data? I think so, as the ID of the user uniquely identifies the user.

What if a user requests a copy of the data collected about him? I'd like to say that we cannot provide it, as it has been anonymized. However, in theory it would be possible to "de-anonymize" the data by retrieving the ID from the installed app.

So are we forced offer the option to retrieve the ID from the installed app, just to make it possible to de-anonymize the data, so that a user can retrieve a copy?

Technically it looks like the collected events are personal data. But in reality, it's nothing "personal" like names, payment details, whatever online shops and social networks collect, just a log of game events. If we send this data back to the user, we would leak implementation details of the game, which we'd rather keep hidden from competitors and users.

Must the data collection be opt-in? Or can we require it? Just hoping that enough players share the game data doesn't seem viable. Without enough data, we cannot balance the game.

Is anyone else here in a similar situation? What do you do?

(Shortened cross post from reddit.com/r/gamedev)
App discovery services.
This sort of thing is not reported. Ask yourself: if you had a business disagreement, could you reach out to a good friend and get the other side thrown in prison for years? You have no particular reason to believe me, but I have seen a similar situation play out for a friend of the family. This is a person of spotless ethics, who had never done anything untoward in business, but who nonetheless was entrapped into a federal conviction and loss of career.

If the word "Yalincak" doesn't appear on the page "List of Ponzi schemes", it seems problematic to redirect his name to that page. This implies something while offering no evidence for that implication. The discussion you link seems to imply that the oft-cited New York Magazine article was retracted, but I can find no proof of that.
> Which is all true even if the company was within its rights to fire you.

What point are you trying to make then? People get angry because they feel it's unfair, so...?
It seems to follow the 4th year/masters course of the same name taught by one of the authors (Dr Marc Deisenroth) at Imperial College London: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/current-students/courses...

The course requires a 1st year linear algebra course and a 2nd year statistics course, which might explain why this book doesn't cover some of the basic concepts
when I change back, next time I come back to reddit it shows the new design... how do I get the old design permanently?
Gonna need a citation on this, and a definition of 'very good'.
Literally no one has said she was justified in shooting anyone.
> go and buy another gun

Presumably having the first gun confiscated would prevent that in the background check.
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I agree with everything you said. Have you considered that the Keynesian model might be a failure since it does not account for human nature? I don't believe a government will ever reliably cut spending in good times and spend more in bad times. I am starting to sound like socialists saying "it's never been properly implemented!" Well, maybe the core idea works on paper but ignores human nature, maybe it simply can't be implemented properly.
As long as you maintain that the argument is about whether violence is an appropriate or in any way justified response to YouTube's conduct, you're arguing against a strawman. Again, nobody is saying that, and they aren't really implying it either, unless you believe that any statement that weakens a good case must be false or regarded as support for the opposing case - again, more of a rhetorical concern than a concern about what is true.