skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disappointing to see this downvoted. I've taken the time to watch hours of videos from people on both sides of this fence. Richard Carrier takes the most sober approach to analyzing the evidence without bias by giving an actual probability to each argument/element.
Surely it depends which site - the big sites have serious scale and engineering challenges which will outweigh the seediness aspect while the vast majority of sites are just a CMS paired with a payment processor integration.
Since most smartphones today work at least with GPS and GLONASS, what does happen, if just one signal for ex. the GPS signal is spoofed / faked?
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EU residency makes things a lot easier for us, but for the right person we could probably organize a visa.

Thanks HN
It's the myth of "Community Standards" or, to be more precise "Contemporary Community Standards", which is a concept in American law and, I'm sure, the laws of other countries, which states that:

> Jurors are the judges of contemporary community standards, based upon their knowledge of the norms of the community from which they may come. The juror must also decide whether the "average person" in applying such standards would find that the disputed material appeals to "prurient interest" or is "patently offensive." Experts testimony may be used to testify about the nature of the contemporary community standards,' but such testimony is not constitutionally required.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/c/contemporary-community-sta...

Back in the Dark Twentieth, you could maintain the polite fiction that even broadcast media was bound by these standards, as the FCC would go after local affiliate stations, not the mothership, for violating broadcast regulations. In theory, and, to some extent, in practice, local stations could regulate what got shown, so as to prevent what you mention: Distant townies trying to impose their standards on the locals.

This breaks down in the Internet Era, of course, because, while a website may claim to have Community Standards, a website is not a community. A website cannot have Community Standards, Contemporary or otherwise, because the people it has contributing to it are a pseudo-random mix of some vaguely-defined demographic, and, as you yourself show, can and will differ sharply on precisely the kinds of things Community Standards presume a strong majority in a community can agree on.

The Liberalization of the world has ripped a lot of veils off the cultural standards we used to abide by, and turned polite fictions, the kinds of things all the adults in the room could admit privately were not laws of nature but laws of local social norms, into, at long last, simple fictions, as might be found in a storybook. "Community Standards" is one such polite fiction, and it's been replaced by the standards of the platform owners.

We can remove the platform owners by federating and decentralizing, but "Community Standards", as-was, isn't coming back. Communication is far too important to allow the previous geographic segregation to reassert itself.
There was a time where all "credible" scholars believed the earth was flat. Consensus changes.
I have no idea what this article is explaining
The problem is often that most startups don't have success.

So either they celebrate banalities or they don't celebrate at all...
Yes this seems strange, I can only assume that it means the devices will still function accurately despite any US GPS degradation (eg around military installations, sensitive events etc), ie they will no longer be under US control.

But that would apply whether they are multi-system capable, or just that they can read the other systems, and are not entirely dependent on GPS.
That satelite is a huge waste of money, very little scientific value, a vanity project.
> Second, we have a couple of references to a single person (Josephus, Tacitus).

These references have been largely debunked.

1. Josephus: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/7437

"The evidence that the Testimonium Flavianum (or TF) is entirely a late Christian forgery is now as overwhelming as such evidence could ever get."

2. Tacitus: https://www.quora.com/Was-Tacitus-a-Christian

"With ultra-violet examination of the Second Medicean manuscript 'the alteration was conclusively shown', even though it wasn't possible to say 'who altered the letter e into an i'. The examination was made by Dr. Ida Giovanna Rao of the Laurentian library in Florence, in 2008. The alteration is also visible in an ultra-violet photograph."
Why American cities are weirdly shaped
Elevation by Stephen King. I'd count King among my favorite authors. I regularly go back to reread classics like Salem's Lot and The Stand. But I've fallen out of the habit of reading him lately because his output is so prodigious, and his books have taken on a sameness that I find wearying. In that context, Elevation, which is sweet-natured and short, is a refreshing change of pace and probably my favorite King book of the last 20 years.

And another vote for the Murderbot Diaries. Not groundbreaking, but fast and fun with an interesting POV character.
Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials
Sometimes I'm thinking about working for decent porn site like pornhub or anything else from their network. It seems in this day and age it is the last thing that brings pure joy and happiness to its customers. If you know what I mean ;-)
You are stealing our future (Greta Thunberg)
Apparently Kids Doing ASMR Was a Problem: YouTube Deletes Video [video]
If you use CI you can add such things there so any commits that didn't run them fail CI. I do the same with the `pre-commit` utility, it's very very handy for running checks repeatably.
I don't think Cannabis would be as big a market as nicotine. Cannabis slows you down and makes you tired. That's great for recreation, but it's not something most people would want to consume every day.

Nicotine is different. It feels good, but you can still go to work after you had your dose.
She's just standing there... naked. That is not the norm for a statue of Aphrodite. It derives from the tradition of the nude Aphrodite of Knidos, which... made huge waves for titillation value:

> According to an account by Pliny the Elder, Praxiteles sculpted both a nude statue and a draped statue of Aphrodite. The city of Kos purchased the draped statue, because they felt the nude version was indecent and reflected poorly on their city, while the city of Knidos purchased the nude statue.

> The statue [...] was so lifelike that it even aroused men sexually, as witnessed by the tradition that a young man broke into the temple at night and attempted to copulate with the statue, leaving a stain on it.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite_of_Knidos )

Just how strongly can we connect the Venus de Milo to the Aphrodite of Knidos? Well, it's a naked Aphrodite in a similar pose. Similar enough that it was originally attributed to Praxiteles. Aphrodite of Knidos is just standing there too, about to take a bath.

Imagine me posting a photo to Facebook showing a woman caught in the act of getting into her bathtub. She's not engaging in sex! Then again, videos of this exact subject matter are common on porn sites.

Imagine arguing that a still of Marilyn Monroe's dress getting blown up around her hips is about art, and not about sexual titillation.
The general idea you're missing here is that it's very hard -- perhaps impossible -- to develop a clear, bright-line method for distinguishing between fields that deal with concepts we can't empirically test, in such a way that it will put mathematics into the "good, useful, keep doing it" side and metaphysics into the "bad, silly, stop doing it" side.

And in fact mathematics is a great place to dive in, because one very important question -- namely, whether mathematical realism is true¹ -- is really a metaphysical question, and one which can never be answered by empirical observations about the world.

I'd also caution against too much scorn on philosophers going "beyond the reaches of their knowledge base"; historically, philosophy's successes have spun off into entire fields whose origins we now like to forget or at least overlook.

(and, well, I've had a successful career in programming, and also hold a degree in philosophy, and I think the basic observation that lots of people do metaphysics who we don't normally think of as doing metaphysics is a sound one, regardless of how you feel about the paper's specific examples)

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¹"Mathematical realism" asserts that truths of mathematics are necessary and discovered, rather than contingent and created, and thus have some sort of existence independently of human minds and human culture. The exact sense in which these mathematical truth-entities would exist is, of course, a metaphysical question, as is the question of what mathematics really is, if mathematical realism is false.
It's because I have been putting nicotine in your peanut butter.
Do ranges and iterators and comparators even have conflicting requirements? I feel like an object could be all three, in which case it'd be ambiguous what was intended.
That is bullshit. ~7 yeras ago I worked at a company, which designed and manufactured GNSS receivers capable of receiving gps,glonass,gallileo,qzss and blend the signals to get more accurate solution. Receivers started at $5000 a pop though.

The company had no problems selling in the US abd Russia. And even had multiple competitors.

Hence, expert/import laws are not a problem. At least for professional equipment.
>>>> I think what they would say is that the statue was not created nor are photos provided with an aim to ‘appeal to a prurient interest’.

>>> It would be hard to defend that claim as to the creation of the statue.

On the other hand, I feel fairly confident in claiming that women wearing nothing but a sheet that doesn't quite cover their butt are considered sexy in the modern day too.

Would you believe that, say, souvenir postcards of nude Aphrodites sell better than souvenir postcards of Zeus? Why do you think that might be?

If you want to argue that the Venus de Milo is "nonsexual" nudity because it's historical art, you need to deal with its historical significance, which is as a tawdry sex icon.

If you want to argue that the way the Greeks viewed the statue doesn't matter, you need to deal with the way a statue of a naked woman failing to cover herself with a sheet would be viewed in the modern day, which is... as a tawdry sex icon.
Show HN: One on One Meeting note-taking for attentive leaders
And how will they include ads? API users can just not display those.
The article emphasizes that the content creation choices are driven by the tiny minority of paying customers, not the millions of tube viewers.
You can't rely on single studies to come up with conclusions, if you want to play that game you can literally prove or disprove anything you want to.

The whole picture can and does look very different than any single study. Studies vary a lot in quality, and there are tricks that are done to fudge with the conclusions. See:

https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg

He very clearly points out exactly how people screw with the data on a large number of studies. That's why I listed all those sources from credible organizations from conclusions drawn by actual dietitians, not me or you or joe 'nutritionist' randomly trying to come up with our own conclusions.

Also, any reasonably intelligent random person can attack any studies pretty easily and make it look credible. Example: The first one is a meta-analysis of observational studies, one of the weakest forms of evidence, and other meta-analyses came up with the exact opposite conclusion. The second one's conclusion is obviously flawed, since salt without a shadow of a doubt increases blood pressure, so salt intake definitely does matter for older populations which almost always have a compromised cardiovascular system, so it definitely matters to them. The third isn't really saying anything except that they aren't successful at reducing salt consumption.

I'd rather trust experts to do their work, but you can do what you want it's your health. I bought all this crap for a few years until I suffered health problems from eating tons of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat with theoretical benefits. I could literally see my intake of saturated fat and cholesterol turning my blood cholesterol (total and LDL) and triglycerides on and off like a light switch. I did this several times. It was SO cut and dry. I kept all other variables the same. And I've always eaten tons of really health foods, a ton of plants, I just bought into the hype that butter and eggs are suddenly 'healthy', according to magazines and 'nutritionists'. Even blood work doesn't stop some people -- I remember reading a HN post of someone who started eating tons of eggs and had absurdly high levels of blood cholesterol, but his conclusion was that it's 'not a concern' and he 'feels fine' -- The doubt that was introduced already got to him and he just doesn't care anymore.

Cigarette companies played this exact same game for years btw, introducing doubt as to whether cigarettes caused cancer and lung disease. All you have to do is introduce doubt. It doesn't even have to be a strong argument towards experts, as in experts don't think there is any doubt. It's targeted towards just the lay person who doesn't understand the science
Strongly reminds me of UML: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux
"How drug dealers are getting rich"
One by one, the Chrome engineers continue to chip away at the techniques in The Annoying Site https://theannoyingsite.com (warning: open in a secondary browser).

Darn, this thing is nasty. And I'm surprised that all the huge sites in https://theannoyingsite.com/index.js L107 ff have XSRF/replay protection in their logout URLs...
Implement a framework where YT and/or copyright holder issuing the takedown needs to pay damages for each mistaken takedown notice.

At this point the copyright holders keep the advertising revenue (!) for period of demonetization even if the takedown was completely fraudulent. They actually have a financial incentive to just issue as much Content ID takedowns as possible because they earn money from them.
Do you have a reference for this block list rumor? Sounds worrying.
I followed your link but it did not lead to a discussion of Longitude. It lead to a discussion that mentioned Longitude and had a link to a longer discussion, which however was dead for me. If you could fix that, I for one would be interested in more.
I don't buy this on timing grounds; there will have been people posting child abuse and moderators deleting it from day 1 of Tumblr. What changed now? It has to have been FOSTA/SESTA fallout or pressure from their payment processor. Or the cost/benefit of the moderation got out of hand.
I thought this book was quite good.

I also used to enjoy Scott Adam's blog and ideas, that's why it was quite shocking to me when I revisited his site and found out what he has turned into. I can't take him seriously anymore.
P.S.: the tech was around at least a decade ago. Nowadays you can have at least alternating mode in cheap consumer devices.
I do my best to avoid messaging apps, for people willing to contact me I have mail (with proper tons of aliases and filtering) otherwise plain SMS.
Emailing While You’re on Vacation Is a Quick Way to Ruin Company Culture
Hacker News loves its iron-fisted rulers.
Some very annoying features there, logging you out of all major websites and taking over a referrer window.

It seems like a good candidate for the new Windows Sandbox feature in Windows 10 (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...).
Deepwater Horizon Blowout Animation
Turbo Boost Your Development Career by Starting a Blog
I might not end up reading this one due to the comments about bragging, but I wanted to ask: what's with the title? Why would you never split the difference?
I could perfectly believe that this is part of a campaign to promote flutter. I don't think that's a bad thing. Building community for open source projects (which is what it is - not a product) is important for success.

As someone who has bought in and has hopes for a platform where I can share can share UI and logic across Web, mobile and desktop, I'm glad it's being promoted.
>I believe many scholars in China didn’t say things directly because they were brainwashed or cowards. They know their priorities.

What I meant was “many scholars in China didn’t say things directly not because they were brainwashed or cowards.” Say if I do AI or biology research or whatever, I’d rather spend my time doing those things instead of arguing with people about whether a particular person really was good or bad. It’s like how we see the Trump administration now: everyone already made up their mind. I don’t go out to the street to protest Trump everyday, and I don’t share CNN news about how bad he is on my Facebook feed.

Not that I can freely do it in those countries, but the idea is that we have limited time in this world. Asking people to express/assert their views on shit they have little interest in and saying that they’re cowards when they don’t say what you want to hear is simplifying it a bit much.
Not tobacco, nicotine
I've quit smoking a couple of times. The hardest part is the first few days: I get really irritated and angry, and I know that I would just need one cigarette to feel alright again. After a few days, the effect wears off, and I feel normal again.

In the long run, the hard part is resisting the urge to start smoking again. There is always some situation where it's so tempting to light a cigarette...
I enjoyed Lake Success a lot.
In the same way that most actual games won't let a player declare victory by fiat whenever they want, people in a social system (like "journalism" or "politics" or an open-source software project) can't always do the right thing, even if they want to. Economic constraints, or opportunity costs, or the time required to establish consensus all put limits on what people can do, and often require people to do nothing, or even negative things (like writing clickbait articles or supporting unpopular policies) so they'll have more resources to pour into the positive things they really care about later.

"blaming the game" in this context means understanding that such constraints exist, and as for "then what": work to change the economics of that situation. Give money to support organisations doing proper investigative journalism, educate yourself on political issues and educate your friends so fewer voters will be swayed by populist rhetoric, volunteer to do some menial task so resources can be put towards longer-term goals.
The new Block III GPS sats have a new civilian signal that will improve the quality of a fix as the ionosphere can be directly measured. Jury is still out on how well the extra signal will improve accuracy as there isn’t a full set of sats that broadcast it yet.
I've not tried Libby yet, but I always find the popular books on LibGen.
This is true. Nicotine itself isn’t that problematic. The issue is tobacco.
Ask HN: Have I lost my skills in programming?
I am getting really angry. What is happening to me?

I am literally getting worst at programming. When I was a beginner I could solve any problem those "coding challenge" websites, but now I simply can't. I haven't stopped coding since then, I was doing it every single day and I still got worse. Maybe I am just overcomplicating things when programming.

I feel like the thousands of free (not good quality) tutorials that I watched online are now showing their flaws. I just have piles of trash "programming knowledge" in my head that I don't know how to clean or replace.

How do I relearn programming? Relearn it in a way that I don't have to watch or read tutorials with the stuff I already know. Cuz I seriously can't watch another video of someone explaining what a variable or function is.

Do I just have to go heads first and it will all just "fit in place"? I will finally become a good and confident programmer one day?

I wanted to share this because I don't want someone wasting two years learning programming and get to the state that I am in. :(

If someone had this problem before or has advice to get back on track please reply.
My money is on the patronising defensive presentation of the book:

> Do you think you hate Capitalism? Do you not understand why so many people love Capitalism? Have you based your opinion of Ayn Rand on second-hand commentary instead of actually reading her works? Then read this book.

All of this could easily be reversed to mandate reading all three volumes of Marx's Das Capital.
Most ISPs use the "Internet Watch Foundation" blacklist. I'm not convinced that there was any real risk of Tumblr being added to it en masse.

(I believe there was an incident a few years ago where an image of an Iron Maiden album cover on wikipedia got flagged, though)
Eh. Not quite the same. And it wasn't marketed to children. Apparently there's just something about blowing smoke and age restriction that is cool to teens. It is almost as if Juul was sought after by them.

Also, it isn't tobacco that is the big driver of juul sales. Weed is. And we've had a multi-decade marketing campaign about how weed carries no negative side-effects by large swaths of the population. I got shellacked on this forum when I tried to argue that it isn't normal for kids to smoke weed (apparently it is perfectly normal for kids to 'experiment'). Juul didn't do that.
He was an crisis negotiator focused on situation where hostages are taken. You don’t go around asking for half an hostage.
> I don’t love paying for people picking up smoking / vaping since the dangers were known

Are the dangers of vaping known tho? Is there any study that shows it causes physical damage like inhaling smoke from a burning cigarette? Is seems fairly obvious to me that inhaling vegetable glycerin and nicotine does not cause any harm. The only "problem" is the nicotine addiction, but that one does not cause any physical harm, it just costs money to buy refills.
A front-end micro service framework
Quite controversial but basically the blueprint of how I want to build the company I work for: "Why employees are always a bad idea"
This project was written in 2016 too.
I use a lower end phone (250ish dollars) that has (at least) both GPS and glonass.
But an article I read on the internet said it was true!
A Courting Peacock Can Shake Its Partner’s Head From Afar
Yes, but if getting around app store blocks is the only reason to use such a channel, the only apps that will be delivered this way are those that would be blocked in the app store. That's a tough crowd to support.
If we look at Quora as a marketplace connecting users in need of information and experts, then paying for questions means oversupply of experts. This is a bad sign: if a lot of people are ready to work for free, there is another incentive behind. I believe it is either marketing or vain. If so, it seems irrational to me to seek any kind of information anything on Quora.
I can picture a future android release scanning the galleries on phones and deleting photos that violate Googles ToS.
Failure of Anti-Drone Tests Exposes U.S. Airport Vulnerability
Well, you can't statically link bunch of python scripts. With this one you can do it easily (relatively).
Indeed. A lot of work has been put into degrading the mobile experience with banners and prompts and delays to force users onto the app. Sensible people use BaconReader, but I wonder how long that will be allowed to continue.
Fdroid is the only 3rd party source of APKs I trust.
In the US there's the Case-Schiller index which is the underlying for several classes of derivatives.