skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said in a different subthread, YouTube is in no way responsible for the actions Ms. Nasim took.

However, it could be helpful to understand Ms. Nasim's motivations insofar as they stem from losing a source of revenue to which she had no entitlement.

To that end, our collective social good might be promoted by platform owners like YouTube giving content-generators greater say over the monetization of their content.

This is not an apology and I accord no blame for Ms. Nasim's actions to YouTube. Mine is just a suggestion that Ms. Nasim had an unjustified grievance which might have been alleviated by giving more agency to the content-generators upon whom platforms such as YouTube depend.

EDIT: add "insofar"
> Are you seriously framing the discussion as "people who think ill of Youtube's monetization scheme are shooter apologists"?

No, but there are such 'shooter apologists' in this thread.

Read the whole of it, at least one person writes that they feel that it was only a matter of time before someone brought a gun to a dispute like this.
> If you treat your Youtube presence as a business you are doing it wrong to begin with

Why? If you are aware of the risks, have alternate monetization scheme, back-ups and mirrors of your videos, what's the problem of relying on a company who can distribute videos way better than what one person can do?
you sir have some serious issues to solve. good luck with that. your content is not even worth commenting on
Which countries do you have in mind here? Is it not the case that most of them have either less access to guns or better social programs for the unemployed (or both)?
Advertising intermixed with content is also the only type of advertising YouTubers actually have control of. It may be annoying or inconvenient but it's a hell of a lot better than them complaining about the site that hosts their content not doing the work for them.
How much did this save you in energy and hosting fees?
Fun – Debunk this thought (containers are anti-future)
We don't have enough interesting, future looking debates on HN. I had this one at work today, and want to have someone succinctly debunk it.

I believe we will eventually go 'anti-container' as the future. We will remove OS and have application compiled interfaces. Why? In my opinion, containers add a layer of cruft (OS + apps) on top of a layer of cruft (OS + apps). Edge cloud devices and distributed applications running on blockchain I think will lead the way with 'anti-container'. It wouldn’t be feasible to spin up IPFS style containers, but could potentially with pre-compiled binaries.

This would help with security: For instance with Docker, one can compromise a security compiled language left on a container, root into docker, and use flaws to root into the host OS.
I was on ARPNET back in the 70's, when the only conversations were c programming and absurd humor.
> It trips some random check and is flagged and de-monetized

this is the problem i think a lot of youtubers have. If only youtube can clearly say what they are checking or set guidelines for monetizations to follow. Of course, the issue they must have is that guidelines are often skirted around - youtubers (and internet in general) is known for attempting to edge towards the limits...
Sorry to ask, but is it open source?
Pretty much if you could get Adobe on Linux, it would be a clincher for me. I would move, endure whatever drama I have to endure with configuration etc, and just live happily ever after.
Even change distro every now and then.
Here's the rationale:

The advertisement pays for the video. Without the ads to provide money for a given type of video, there will be less of them and they will be less sophisticated. Thus, whether an advertiser likes it or not, they are supporting the video content, albeit indirectly.

Also, I don't think advertisers care at all to engage in moralistic or political policing of content. They just want to sell stuff. Being associated with controversial content offends people, which drives away what could otherwise be good paying customers. So they just want to avoid it.
I spent many many hours logged into Realms. A few years ago I had a sudden attack of nostalgic and created a new character, but just wasn't able to get back into it.
Another is that AWS customers tend to be businesses with full-time workers and not one person trying to eke out a living.
Jacques, you are smarter than that.

WWII Allies killed Nazis to save humans. They weren't shocked to realize that Nazis were humans.
Any conversation sits on the premise of quality interaction between the parties involved. This quality assumes competence and good will, each having to be over a certain minimal level depending on the subject discussed. When any of the involved parties determines that there is not or can not be enough competence or good will, then normally the discussion should either cease or switch to another level. (At most, you may explain your decision ...if you have that minimal level of respect towards any of the parties involved in discussion, that is.)
Well...

My opinion is going to be unpopular, but...frankly I empathize with the woman. YouTube controls the entire streaming market and there are no legal controls in place to treat their streamers like employees - they're contractors so YouTube can skirt employment laws. Same way Silicon Valley has been making money for years with things like Task Rabbit and Uber - they're not being innovative they're breaking the social contract for profit.

And what's the alternative here, other than violence? SV has successfully shown that they can make products that find loopholes in laws faster than laws can be made, and frankly, our political system is broken. I'm not saying the woman was rational in what she did...probably she was acting out of sadness and despair. However, it's not like there exists a rational way of fixing the kinds of problems she has. Like, what is she going to do, sue for lost income? Appeal to the labor relations board? This is what happens when we don't look out for the despairing - they shoot up schools and workplaces.
What about libhydrogen's NORX construction with the Gimli permutation for AEAD and hashing? Seems like it checks a lot of boxes (from a layman's perspective.)
Googling for "quantum chemistry computers" yields a number of interesting results, e.g.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/quantum-chemistry-on-...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603794/chemists-are-first...

Or if you like something by Feynman:

http://doc.cat-v.org/feynman/simulating-physics/simulating-p...
Once corporations start deciding it's cheaper to just provide their own healthcare to its workers rather than going through the broken American system, watch out. Corporate fascism is the new feudalism.
Gil Strang's books are probably even better for an adult with little math background.

Intro to Linear Algebra:
http://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/

Strang does a GREAT job explaining the intuition behind linear algebra. The book is targeted at first-year undergrads and an adult with just high-school math could work through it.

Bonus: if you're interested in machine learning, you must learn linear algebra.

More advanced is this Strang masterpiece: Intro to Applied Mathematics.
http://bookstore.siam.org/wc02/
It covers a lot of the applied math that we focused on pre-AI and pre-cloud computing. Diff eqs, diffusion equations, Fourier analysis, numerical methods, phase plane analysis, optimization, complex anlaysis.
I mean sure, that's what we saw with retouched playboy centerfolds a couple decades back, right?

/s
Do you have examples of mass acid attacks, mass stabbing attacks in Europe? Maybe we can do a quick sanity check for the hypothesis about lunatics using knives and acids when guns are not available?

Sure, there were some jihadist attacks but these are institutional attacks, I can't really recall having any angry person going on a rampage. In Europe, the act of an angry or crazy person will probably result in a break down in tears...

I'm not anti-gun, in fact when I was a kid I loved shooting with airguns and I bet it's a great hobby to shoot real guns but the European approach seems to be working.

Anyway, can you prove that my perception is wrong and in reality, people use knives and acid when guns are not readily available?
The CEO mentioned in an another comment that a .eu location by the end of 2018 is a goal.
Changed it, though "trying to kill 3 people" rather than "killed 3 people" are morally equivalent.
Yes, but Facebook is an American company. Because they have users all over the world (in EU too) they should serve all people with the same policies. It might be better for their image and they will get happy users too.
> emulating a mouse and keyboard and typing into the other application's terminal window

There was a "talk"-like application for BBC Micro Econet called `*NOTIFY` which worked like that (minus the mouse, no mice in those days). You could message people, but also type commands as them. Happy days ...
I'd agree that the games do indeed run, but I have a big problem with the 'as fast as on windows' part - I have a beefy gaming rig (i7, 1080Ti, 144+ fps is a must), and most games run at 20% lower FPS compared to W10, while maxing both CPU/GPU to 100% utilization.
There's also a lot of collateral problems, like borderless window support when running under i3, OBS and other streaming tools are rather quirky etc. I have tried 5 different distros and eventually went back with W10.
Steam was _reviled_ when it came out...simpler times!
Graphics support is only a part of the puzzle. Many devs have never used Linux and know nothing about it. And they hate to learn a new operating system just to support 1% of the players. Building a game for Linux is easy if you already know your way around, but otherwise it can be quite complicated. Valve does offer the compatibility layer (set of system libs like SDL, C++ libraries, etc., that are deployed with the Steam client which your game can use) but this means having to build your game in a chroot environment. Once they see all that, many Windows-only devs just run away.

And then, there are runtime considerations like where you store the player data, cache files, and the case-sensitiveness of the filesystems which many Windows developers are completely unaware of.

So no, Vulcan doesn't give you "zero effort" Linux ports.
Evil Annotations (2016)
Animal rights activists are fighting back against animal exploiters' chronic lack of moral sensibility.
I used Wegmans as an example specifically because Wegmans is known for doing a lot of their own R&D to improve their operations. I don't know if they write some of their own software, but it wouldn't surprise me if they do.
+100 to Andrew NGs machine learning. Inspired me enough about the potential of online education to start a (now reasonably successful edtech) company!
Are there any Linux exclusives?

It's been a long while since I launched a game on Steam; I was under the impression that a Windows binary is required.
I wouldn't use it because I just don't want to see and write its name daily.
How does the law work in Germany? If youtube pulls ads from a German's videos, they can demand to get paid anyway?
China Strikes Back at the U.S. With Plans for Its Own Tariffs
This ecosystem is ripe for software based innovation. There's a lot of great hardware out there but the API's are often closed and the existing software lackluster. After some research I recently purchased a Wifi camera, and am planning on using it to track my 6mo old's sleep habits (using some custom scripts / classification / etc). Guide's like this are great because they help make these things possible. I hope over time as more people publish hacks and cool projects based on them, some of these companies will start to open up their platform / API's. There's so many potentially cool projects that will hatch out of these.
One thing that didn't really connect for me was the article seeming to indicate that he created a business to help others deal with the difficult process of getting information removed from the likes of Google, but then the business website seems to be about school issues.
It's commoditization of human beauty.

It's not commoditization of beauty.
That sounds like an endorsement, based on my experiences.
Yes they are wrong. "Victims"? The only victims in this story were the people that she shot.
I haven't thought about this before, but there is something about shooting someone with a gun that's more impersonal than stabbing someone.

I am pretty sure I would never do something like this woman did, but if I was really angry at an organization I would see myself more likely to go to their headquarters and shoot everyone than go to stab everyone there.
Those who make a huge point of abstracting all their decisions so that no specific point of human accountability can be defined, yes.

If you get your plans and (faltering) livelihood ruined by some Big Boss Man, you absolutely could be filled with rage, but the chances that you will direct that rage at some random secretary in a wholly other division is nil. You can identify the boss that fired you, you are enraged, maybe you try to revenge yourself and maybe not, and maybe you feel that just telling the world how rotten that guy is, will suffice.

If you're not allowed any focus for your rage because the organization is completely abstracted, those are the conditions under which 'just any employee' might seem like just as valid a target: there is literally nobody available who would seem more to blame.

So, lay off people in person if you want to minimize (a) the chances of an attacker mass murdering just employees, and (b) the chances of that person being completely deprived of any other outlet for their rage. I mean, if they knew who you were they could make a doll of you and stick pins in it. How are you going to make a voodoo doll of 'Youtube'? How are you going to let people go 'My monetization got taken away, and I'm down $30 a month I was using to feed my kid, and it's THAT GUY's fault!'

If you expose only the blameless as a target, you take away the chance for people to vent more productively, just for your own personal comfort. You're a cog in the Google machine, but you've got human shields.
Anyone could make your argument about any Supreme Court that has ever existed or will exist, when they don't agree with the decisions being made. What are you proposing exactly?
For this same reason, we pay our kids allowance in cash and when they buy toys or other things with it, we make sure they are the one to take the cash out of the little cash purse, carry it in their pocket to the store, and they are the one to physically hand the cash over the cashier.

I don't care if it would be 10x easier and I'd get 1.5% cashback on the purchase with the credit card; I want them to have the experience and understand that they are trading away a limited resource that took time and effort to acquire, not just mindless swipe/stick/tap.
Is community edition build capable of Multi DC ?
She didn't think she was being specifically targeted. In one of her rants she specifically stated that she knew of many other content creators having their videos censored, age restricted, and demonetized.

Her methods are nuts, obviously, but her beef with Youtube is entirely justified.

The end result, unfortunately, isn't going to be Google/Amazon/Facebook/etc... realizing the error of their ways - it's going to be them over-reacting to protect themselves.

I expect Silicon Valley campuses will get locked down. I expect any content that even slightly might maybe insinuate violence will get taken down.

tldr; The problem is going to get worse before it gets better.
3 Powerful Ways to Make Your Employees Treat Your Company as Their Own
Hugged to death. Wonder what they use for backend errors.
I doubt it.

Characters don't need to be lifelike and indistinguishable from reality to be huge celebrities as is. Animated cartoon characters can already do everything you just said, and are sometimes even more popular than humans.

There is no reason to believe a character indistinguishable from a real human would be capable of achieving more popularity than a similar human.
> You aren't entitled to that cash just because you uploaded a video and people saw it.

I dunno, why should all the ad revenue go to YouTube for a user's content?
Do not think Google mhas anything to worry about. They can just tie ads to the content instead of the person. Plus search does not require other data as ads are associated with what you are searching.
Well, it is open source, you can just fork it and rename it to, say, ButterflyDB. ;-)
>If you search her name on twitter, around 40% of what you see is right wing conspiracy theorists who assert, without evidence, that she was a member of ISIS. I also noticed a smaller percentage of people asserting, again without evidence, that she was an NRA member. And neither appear to be true.
>How do these get spread on Twitter? Are partisans mindlessly voting them up? Are bots behind this?

Propaganda is part of the standard far right response to any outbreak of violence, I wouldn’t put too much stock in it. They’ll usually link the shooter to which ever group is closest to their skin color (isis, antifa, or blm) and probably doctor some photos if any evidence surfaces which could otherwise generate cognitive dissonance (e.g., Nicolas Cruz wearing his MAGA hat). The NRA angle is interesting though, I wonder if those are just more right wingers trying to muddy the waters or if the far left is adopting propaganda tactics of their own.
Well if we're trying to lump the word "mass" into it then it gets to be tougher, here is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Square_stabbing

Acid attacks aren't broken down into how many victims so I can't find out if there were multiple injuries: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/europe/london-acid-attacks-20...

My point is that crazy finds a way. : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-crime-murder/lond...
Whenever I paste, I use ctrl-shift-v. It solves this problem and a multitude of other pasting problems.
What brand are they? I wear Etymotic ER20XS earplugs (also cheap, about $20) now and don't notice any lack of "sound presence". I completely forget I'm wearing them after 20 minutes or so.
lol you didn't even give anyone a chance. I saw someone asking about this in the comments from the article this morning.
Well that's silly.
You can blame everything on a lunatic and that is right thing, but it won't change anything.
They didn't create anything, streamers and "Youtubers" would have existed with or without Youtube. They'd exist on twitch and other services if Youtube went down. Youtube was just at the right place at the right time and there's a lot more to youtube than e-celebs.

>It was only a matter of time until one of those furious victims took up a gun to get revenge.

Damn, that's a pretty fatalist viewpoint and an odd way to state that. "We updated the ToS, somebody went and shot a few of our employees, oh well, what can we do?". It's very tempting to let the discussion stray into "Americans and gun violence" at this point but I guess I'll stop there.
Only if the Game requires it; that's an API call.

Many games you get from Steam can be run without the client.
VB.NET is more like VB6 than C#. The problems with the vocal minority in the VB6 community not moving to VB.NET had mostly nothing directly to do with the CLR.

(The break in backwards compatibility, and inability to just "upgrade" old code, in a language that hadn't a major break since VB3 was more impactful, I think. That was more due to the VB team trying to clean house and remove anti-patterns than the CLR's fault.)

The CLR has just as many languages, including dynamic languages, supported as the JVM.
Tone is a big factor, but the frustration with centrist politics has led some people to actively pursue aggressive tones - "tone policing" is a seen as a diversion tactic - so you're unlikely to see views opposing to yours presented in a way you can acknowledge them.

The opposing views are presented roughly as "this is What's Right, if you think differently, you're Part of The Problem", where "part of the problem" is on the more euphemistic side of the spectrum, with "evil", non-human, deserving of human rights violations etc also in this spectrum.

* * *

> Read: any attempt to reason with a conservative on Twitter is only going to make that person more conservative. And likely vice-versa with a liberal (though perhaps to a lesser extent).

"Though perhaps to a lesser extent" (on my side) is the motto of non-extremists pondering extremism in current politics everywhere, forever. (For avowed extremists, the pretense is dropped and the other side must be eliminated because it is obviously Evil and must be quashed.)
I have been once in such point of frustration when I had not received prize for what I won in the competition and the person whom I was in contact with did not said that they can't pay me but just ignored my mail. And it was not even a huge amount, but it could be used for a semester in college.

Edit: I was emphasizing that I became irrationally frustrated, not that I didn't kill someone.
Exactly. Google has the perfect setup as do not need personal data for their ads. Search gives ads based on what you search.
I find it very interesting that although CockroachDB itself is stable and production ready, all of the client drivers are still 'beta'.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/install-client-dri...

That being said, I am really excited to try this out. 2.0 adding JSON support is what converted me to try this out for a project.
>YouTube is so popular that it’s indirectly censoring private content by getting all the traffic.

forgot your /s
Interview with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
DeusExMachina speaks the truth.

Bad leaders can ruin great teams and great leaders can turn around weak teams. I've seen/done it myself. Without fail, when I switch out a weak manager for a better one, the team improves. When groups have no manager they might produce, but usually not well or as well as they could.

Management isn't around because some conspiracy made by managers to perpetuate themselves, but because it works. No effective group of people is truly leaderless.
Yeah Mark's getting older, and we all know young people are just smarter. Time to shake things up. /s
Ghz range != performance. Among other differences, the i7-8700T only has turbo on one core.
> But is it one that a new interface could fix? I believe that it's possible, but it's not obvious to me how it would be improved.

A new interface could fix a lot of the issues, but I think the jury is still out on whether or not the current redesign is fixing those issues.

In my opinion, the higher level concepts of subreddits and subreddit discoverability are one of the main hurdles that brand new users have to understand and overcome. Most people that don't know anything about Reddit just assume it's a massive forum of people posting random shit - and don't bother going much further than that.

I think the new sidebar and the overhauled search are a great start at making the browsing experience much more intuitive - but the new profiles and messenger are all questionable design decisions that feel a lot less "Reddit" and a lot more "Facebook".
In a society you can’t live without depending on another entity, person or corporation.

We don’t have time for everything, at some point we have to outsorce work.

Did you write the OS used to start up your browser/app to type this comment?

Just because we agreed to depend on others doesn’t mean they can shit on us.
I want to know what happens in the public sphere. I don't want some bureaucrat deciding what is and is not "too dangerous to public safety" to allow to to be broadcasted because some copycat MIGHT get inspired. To quote Charlton Heston's response in "Touch of Evil" when the corrupt cop played by Orson Wells complains how effective policing isn't easy, "your job isn't supposed to be easy. The only job where policing is easy is in a police state."
I didn't use the article title in the submission because it seemed like click-bait.