skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Divide and conquer is a strategy as old as they get. The US government has also been outed engaging in such in the past to help stabilize themselves. COINTELPRO is probably the most well known example of this - a program that lasted through 4 political administrations. Faced with the rising political influence of groups ranging from civil rights protesters, to the Communist Party of the USA, the FBI engaged in an extensive and far reaching program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections". The Wiki entry [1] gives a decent intro. The program was only revealed after a number of activists burgled an FBI field office and hit the jackpot.

So, our system is already absolutely a product of exactly what I'm describing. Now let's zoom forward to today. Congressional approval in the US ranges from the low teens to the single digits. [2] Think about that for a minute. That means upwards of 90% of people are dissatisfied with the most basic functioning of our government. If we weren't so divided among one another, our government would be replaced in short order by democratic consensus. But with what..? That question even gives politicians a sort of cognitive dissonance to put themselves as the 'good guys.' It's entirely possible we could, in retribution, elect individuals that could cause immense harm to this nation.

So you're a politician. What to do when you want to help ensure you and your fellow party members continue to get elected, even when 90% of people think you're doing a bad job. What do you do? You could do a better job, but that's tough - you need and rely on "donations" to get into and stay in office and the unspoken promises of those "donations" are a large part of the reason people think you're doing such an awful job. Making people despise and distrust the other group so much that they are willing to vote against their own self interest is one very obvious solution. Let's go back to COINTELPRO and look at some of its intended effects:

- 1. Create a negative public image of activists by publicly smearing their character

- 2. Break down organization by spark internal conflicts and exasperating racial tension.

- 3. Restrict the ability to groups to protest by using infiltrated agents who promote violence and lawless behavior at protests.

- 4. Restrict the ability of individuals to participate by engaging in surveillance, false arrests, and character assassination.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

[2] - https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job...
that sweet, sweet koolaid
A big problem with automatic demonetization is that what frequently happens is that (let's assume that you are a popular Youtuber):

You spend a lot of time and money to make a video.

You upload it to youtube.

It trips some random check and is flagged and de-monetized, you appeal.

People come and watch your video, with this type of content the vast majority of views is in the few first days since publishing.

Your appeal finally gets through, you can now monetize the video. However it is too late because 80% of the views the video will ever have have been without ads.

You are not entitled to revenue, however if you make your living off Youtube, you may expect that it will not randomly shoot you in the foot for no reason.
I want to see what the reaction here would look like if instead AWS we dropping a bunch of customers with no warning.
It's relatively straightforward for self modifying code to manually flush instruction caches when necessary and JIT compilers that target other architectures already satisfy this requirement. Only backwards compatibility with existing
x86 software requires a coherent instruction cache.
I don't think this woman went through a rational process of "deciding" that she was upset with YouTube because they are alleged to have cut off the income on her videos.

She snapped, identified the target of her rage, and took violent revenge.
If they actually are receiving their income from Youtube why are they delusional?
> I'm not going to defend shooting anyone, obviously.

And then you proceed to defend that anyway.

Any webserver will be happy to serve up .mp4 content. There are free players (JWPlayer for instance) and you are entirely free to serve up whatever you want from your own hosted service.

That capricious decision can be appealed, you can take Youtube to court if you feel they have wronged you.

> Why would you be surprised that someone would be upset about a capricious decision, which cannot be appealed, suddenly taking away the money?

Because it never was theirs in the first place. The contract which you engage in when you sign up with Youtube or any other user created content service is pretty clear in that respect: the service can be withheld at the discretion of the company. If you can't live with those terms don't host your content there.
i3, i5, i7, and i9 have really just come to mean Good, Better, Great, and Best within each respective line of Intel CPU. Usually while the i7 and i9 models have higher clock speeds, they are also better binned processors (meaning they can achieve those clock speeds without spending much energy over their i5 counterparts).

The notebook i9 is still an i9 relative to their notebook processors. It's still a 45W TDP processor, just like the other i7 6 core mobile chips.

It may run a bit hotter if you run it at sustained load, but mostly you're paying extra for the higher-efficiency chip that can handle the extra clock speed.

An i7 from the 15W TDP series can still perform slower and use less power than an i5 from the 45W TDP series.
A simple Google search suggests otherwise. How you managed to find that Wikipedia link and not do a Google search is beyond me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hakan+yalincak
I agree with this view, platforms like Youtube (and Reddit) can't be allowed to hide behind this veil of being "private". As major platforms, they're important channels for speech. I think once a private company has amassed this level of the public attention their influence needs to be kept in check. The profits will stay private, but there needs to be limits on what they can "limit". I think it's a similar argument to why a diner can't choose to not serve a person only on their ethnicity.

I think all speech should be protected (the good, the bad, and the weird). Ideas should die on their own merits.
First time heard about openipc, checked its github, it is still just binary format though, thought 'open' means some source code...
"by solving language optimization problems" <= can you please explain?
AppGratis.
Hi sah2ed! Thinkwire is built with React + TypeScript + Node on the front end and Go + PostgreSQL on the backend.
As someone implementing GDPR right now on a news website, its going to come down to this...

We detect that traffic is coming from the EU so we treat you differently and ask for consent etc. If you are Non-EU its business as usual.

There are weird edge cases: If you are in the EU and use a VPN to appear to be in Virginia then we will not know you are really in the EU and you will get the non-GDPR treatment. Again, technically we can only do so much.
On a completely separate note, what was the deal with the need for transparent aluminum in Star Trek IV?

Looking at the footage, they easily could have made the tank bigger if they just used all of the space available and didn't need to be able to "see" them from outside their tank. All they would have needed the aluminum for is to keep water out of where water shouldn't go and regular aluminum (or other material) would have worked just as well.
Defamation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation

> ... communication of a false statement that harms the reputation ...

Treated very differently from country to country, but universally considered an illegitimate use of speech.
Yes naming is weirdly close to next. Nest is basically an architecture core, think of it as a way to "angularize" (2+) your express app. You can use what library better suits you for any purpose you'd need, e.g., nuxt or pug, for SSR.
I'm not saying that they would deserve it.

If a company algorithmically fired portions of their workforce every day without even talking to those employees or giving them a chance to appeal, then I would expect something terrible to eventually happen. I would expect that eventually an employee would snap under the injustice of the situation and commit a mass shooting, just like eventually an employee would commit suicide.

Firings/layoffs are stressful and those edge cases happen already. When you add in a feeling of "injustice", then I postulate that those edge cases become a little bit more common.
Youtube specifically states they dictate how much you will earn, and you have no negotiating power.
Exactly. It's surprisingly well thought through. Literally the best of both worlds: it's not some entirely separate "new way" that's incompatible with the old way and adds significant implementation baggage, but still makes the most common in-the-wild use of prototypes shorter, while also being intuitive for non-Javascripters, and still allowing experienced old-school Javascripters access to the same prototype chain they're used to.
This might sound callous, but most of us are not going to master advanced mathematics or theoretical computer science.

If you want to self-study, all the material you could ever hope to need is available in a mulitude of books targeted to various levels of prior experience and with many different styles of exposition. If you want to study with others, this is precisely what college is for. People who don’t want to study in a college setting basically don’t want to study in a group setting in general, because the college setting actually is the most efficient group setting.

I think most people underestimate the sheer vastness of the material you have to learn and the requisite time you need to learn it. Reading isn’t enough, you have to do it - over and over. It’s frankly a slog, and there’s no more efficient way than being immersed in coursework.

The entire benefit of a course structure is the instructor. The community forum helps, but really it’s an extension of the instructor. A qualified instuctor can quickly resolve a complex question that might take you hours or days to (maybe incorrectly) answer yourself. If you’re capable of learning genuinely unfamiliar math without an instructor, that means you have sufficient mathematical maturity that you don’t need a group forum. At that point it’s actually more efficient to self-study.

I get the sense people believe mathematicians are pretentious when they say things like this, but I think that’s uncharitable. They typically give advice like this because they have a significant amount of personal experience and know very well what tends to work (and how efficiently it works).
Indeed, I copy-pasted in emacs but not in vim, my bad...
Business disputes are not normally resolved with weapons. If you treat your Youtube presence as a business you are doing it wrong to begin with, and your conflict resolution venue will be the courts, not shooting at random employees.
I don't think the previous poster is being an apologist, but just pointing out that sudden changes in income can trigger people. My wife lost her shit when one fine morning she was laid off without any prior warning. 99% of people don't act out, but 1% do.
Maybe its stronger than regular
I'm not surprised. While I love YouTube, most of the YouTube personalitys seem to be emotionally unhealthy and making videos for people drawn to that sort of psychic disorder.
Yes they are given reasons, volunteers tend to fight better that way. They are supposed to obey but they, in the USA anyways, swore to protect the constitution.

"They suffered and they did their duty so a sheltered homeland can enjoy the peace that was purchased at such a high cost." Eugene Sledge
It's not red anymore, but I remember having seen it before https://imgur.com/a/n7g9V (link goes here: https://policies.google.com/faq)

Google also does this in response to DMCA requests, the difference being that for the right-to-be-forgotten thing, there is no way to see what was removed. For DMCA takedowns, google hosts and links to the specific DMCA request, wich contains the URLs that were removed, rendering the while process somewhat moot.
Attacking an FTP Client: MGETting more than you bargained for
> do people violently oppose vegans

I doubt being vegan is the key here.

Though there is a fair amount of bullying, through ad-homenim attacks or idiots just trying to wind people up for shits & giggles. There are also some with a persecution complex that seem to take even the slightest criticism as a violent attack. This is not constrained to veganism though: there are similarly unhinged people in many walks of life.

> or animal rights activists?

I expect this is the more important factor. Being a vegan is likely a consequence of her strong feelings in this area (the fact that some are highlighting the vegan thing is an example of the bullying I mention above). Animal rights is a very emotive area and some people (a few, but a very active and vocal few) get dangerously passionate about it to the point of losing all view of any other logic or moral sensibility (like not killing human animals).

> a workout video being age-gated: who would oppose that video?

I've not seen the video in question so I can't make specific guesses, but there are a couple of possibilities that spring to mind:

* Some people are very puritan about the showing of skin and so forth, perhaps there was a complaint about that sort of thing?

* Was anything potentially divisive said during the workout clip, even in passing? Given her apparent anger at the world that is not unlikely.

* It could just be someone that disagrees with her views on something else. Down-voting and reporting entirely unrelated content in response to something else is an immature but very common reaction.
I'm sorry, the market can and should solve this problem.

I don't want a federally run YouTube, and I don't want to rob publishers of the right to choose what to publish.

There's nothing preventing a company from selling hardware and software to enable you to publish yourself. It won't be free, it shouldn't be free.

The only "platform" that should be a public space is TCP on the Internet.

There is one problem with two solutions.

Social media giants aren't public spaces.

You can either force them to be public spaces through strict and probably ridiculous regulation or you can create fundamentally different ways to publish on the existing public space of the Internet as a whole.

Except it's not fundamentally different. Much more towards the beginning of the Internet the way you shared information with people was by setting up a web server and an email server. They were yours so there was nobody to censor you.

That creating things yourself action hasn't really moved into the 21st century. It is still possible but ever more the realm of experts.
I was R*ped at 17, Married My R*pist at 18 and Divorced Him 6 Years Later
When comparing ES2015 and how it was before. I usually take the babel playground [1] and see what the closest alternative would be.

For a simple es2015 it looks a bit more complicated than the prototype extension [2].

class Dog {
bark() { console.log( "Bark!" ); }
}

Compiles to :

"use strict";

var _createClass = (function() {
function defineProperties(target, props) {
for (var i = 0; i < props.length; i++) {
var descriptor = props[i];
descriptor.enumerable = descriptor.enumerable || false;
descriptor.configurable = true;
if ("value" in descriptor) descriptor.writable = true;
Object.defineProperty(target, descriptor.key, descriptor);
}
}
return function(Constructor, protoProps, staticProps) {
if (protoProps) defineProperties(Constructor.prototype, protoProps);
if (staticProps) defineProperties(Constructor, staticProps);
return Constructor;
};
})();

function _classCallCheck(instance, Constructor) {
if (!(instance instanceof Constructor)) {
throw new TypeError("Cannot call a class as a function");
}
}

var Dog = (function() {
function Dog() {
_classCallCheck(this, Dog);
}

_createClass(Dog, [
{
key: "bark",
value: function bark() {
console.log("Bark!");
}
}
]);

return Dog;
})();

1 : https://babeljs.io/repl/

2 : https://babeljs.io/repl/#?babili=false&browsers=&build=&buil...
I currently run a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 17.10) on Apple hardware. The list of problems:

The camera fails to work consistently (the driver does not always load)

Audio fails to work consistently (restarting pulse fixes this)

Closing the laptop lid initially sleeps, but then the laptop wakes up a few minutes later for no reason (so I wrote a script to disable all the events that can wake the laptop up, but this in turn causes it to not wake up at all sometimes when I actually want it to)

kde plasmashell will crash if I try to use ffplay, and doesn't reliably recover so I end up needing to restart my session which loses any work I hadn't saved since I can't switch windows

These are all problems I have never experienced with my Windows laptop, nor macOS.

Anecdotes obviously, but I've been trying to go only Linux for the past decade and never felt like I could reliably do so.
But why? I understand that the content creators whose videos I enjoy need to earn a living. I understand that in video advertisements offer more stable income. I'm not expecting a free lunch when it comes to these videos that require lots of time, money, and skills. Sure, people used to make and still do make videos out of a passion for the subject but there is far more content now than there used to be. Some creators use Patreon, and I support the ones I really like using that platform but I can't do that for everyone. I think listening to an ad for a VPN service or for the new Intel products is reasonable to access the content I'm not otherwise paying for.
This is a market I wish was a bit more served. Moderately powered PCs in nice small enclosures. Think of square blade servers you could chuck behind your TV and forget it.

I've seen a couple, but often they were expensive and a bit beefier than what I wanted to pay for.
do you know where the video lectures are uploaded to?

edit: i asked and i shall receive: https://archive.org/details/fun_ocaml_mooc
So what exactly is the difference between a disgruntled youtuber and a coal miner fighting Pinkertons trying to break their strike? While I'm being facetious, the attitude of 'Oh well, they took away your livelihood sucks to be you' in this thread is kind of how US labor rights have been eroded for the last 40 years.
National boundaries are kaput on the World Wide Web.
And yet Google does want accurate information to show up higher, in general. It's a hard problem.
This is a weird event, a tragedy even that perhaps could have been averted if someone had spoken to her and calmed her down.

But perhaps even then the outcome would have been the same. We can't know. And so must put this down to an individual failing and resist the temptation to seek answers in something larger.

No one can deny there is anger and frustration but the sheer scale and volume of content being uploaded hourly means it's simply not viable or even possible for humans to vet with proper support mechanisms, and automated systems are a big hammer that will inevitably leave people feeling helpless and dehumanized.
But then, we will have virtual beauty, with some human imperfections added here and there.
And over time, our economic model is to squeeze more and more profit out of a service. The downside of receiving an income from Youtube, as a subcontractor of Youtube, is that they'll want to make more money from you...or the next person to come along to create content for slightly less money.
Well, no, I don't think recognizing the validity of someone's grievance means you necessarily have to also support a mass shooting as a way of redressing said grievance.
To give you some idea, GDR was seen as almost totally west from USSR. Anything "made in GDR" was immediately seen as super high quality. Getting visa to visit GDR was next-to-west hard.

USSR had much worse conditions as a starting point. On top of that, it was an empire that had assimilation as one of it's goals as well as military targets to meet. Thus playing field for citizens was far from level. For example, even whole "strategic" cities were much nicer to live in that a regular cities. Better food, more exotic food options, better housing, more entertainment... You name it.

The whole approach of state-owned housing is not catastrophic. If you can build reasonably fast. USSR couldn't. After all, catastrophic productivity is what brought the red empire to it's knees. Why it was so bad is another topic though.
Calling the critics of YouTube's whims 'apologists for the shooter' even in the context of this thread is a dirty rhetorical trick. Nobody is saying the shooter was justified.
> at some decision that could inconvenience them?

Losing one's job is not just an "inconvenience". It is an inconvenience in a country with a social safety net. In a country like the US where job loss often enough means direct loss of health insurance and a place to live, losing a job can (and will) lead to homelessness and eventual death.
It's not similar to being fired. [REDACTED: It's similar to a store owner allowing you to panhandle outside their business, and then later telling you you can't panhandle there anymore (but loiter all you want!).] It is not reasonable for adults to look at internet ad revenue as a reliable source of income. It's unfortunate if/when they fall on hard times because they made the mistake of relying on something so volatile. I really wish people this confused on the issue would google (heh) AdWords certification study guide and "Google Penguin"/"Google Panda"/"Google Hummingbird"/etc.

EDIT: many people are upset by the panhandling comparison. I just meant that as a juxtaposition to those saying "it's like being fired". It was meant as an analogy - no intent to insult anyone (YouTubers and beggars alike). A better analogy would be a musician who was paid to perform in a bar, and the bar owner tells them "you can still play here all you want, but we're no longer going to pay you." (mind you - they are not saying "you have to continue playing here and do it for free")
You said the magic word: customers. People uploading videos to YouTube aren't customers and don't generally have a contract guaranteeing that they'll receive anything – ad revenue or even the ability to continue uploading.

Even AWS customers who don't have a contract (like reserved instances or an Enterprise Agreement) may not have any claim to receive ongoing service.
During the early days of the App Store the guidelines prohibited duplicating system functionality, but that hasn’t been the case in a long time, wasn’t retroactive, didn’t apply to non-system Apple software and I’m not sure how strictly it was enforced in the first place anyway.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress next week
Until/unless we do the latter, it's entirely reasonable to do the former, which an individual can implement on their own immediately.
Her site's still up.

http://nasimesabz.com/
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Because the current 9 people, who are not at all in touch with either the original writers or the current population, get total say in what the Constitution actually says. It is just like the rulings that allowed obscenity exception to the first amendment, a fully automatic exception to the second amendment, or for the commerce clause to apply to a person growing food for their own animals to eat,

Now, maybe in this case the 9 will claim it does require an amendment, but so many current exceptions and weird interpretations have been allowed that I can't have faith in the decisions of the 9.
> Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

not on topic, but did not know that the hospital changed name after Zuckerberg made a donation.