skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was this story recently about Youtube maker Naomi Wu who first got had her Adsense blocked on Youtube, moved to Patreon, got blocked there, moved to subscribestar and it got nuked. She has her own site but because she is a Chinese resident it makes, according to her, payment services scared and difficult to work with. In the end she returned to doing programming work for hire to pay the bills, and making/video creation as a hobby, even if she has a large enough community that could support her creative work.

It is a hard problem to solve. I would not know what for example Jim Sterling would do if he got blocked on patreon, as all his videos has multiple false copyright claims to them. I know Linus tech tips (an other large youtube creator) has created their own platform as a massive Plan B, but that relies on payment services which could at any time destroy that option.
Out of context. Why can't I read techcrunch articles on HN app? They load for the first few seconds and disappear. My Firefox app has ublock origin. Does that effect viewing on HN app as well?
Exactly. If more people's reaction, instead of searching an app store for a privacy respecting screen light, was to sit down and write:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<script>let on true;</script>
<body onclick="on = !on; this.style.background = on ? 'white' : 'black'">

and were able to easily upload it somewhere on a phone and run it locally from a shortcut on the screen. We'd have hacker culture encouraged right there.
There’s a ton of things we have no explanation for — superconductors, how protons collide, a ton of things about material science, we’re still not great at non-local effects, etc. That’s setting aside the doozy of “gravity and particle physics say wildly incompatible things, and we’re not sure how to fix that”.

And when I say “how protons collide”, I mean numbers from existing accelerators don’t match predictions and they’re having to change models — and all the fixes they can come up with (eg, elaborate swarms of virtual quarks) still don’t fix the collision numbers.

There’s still a pretty poor understanding of 4D topology, and the effects and possible knotting states play in non-local interactions. Microsoft for instance theorizes that you can have 4D anyons, but no one is sure how to build them. And it comes into play in more mundane ways when talking about plasma physics or fluid dynamics, since the same mathematics governs stability there.

You seem to be wildly overstating the success of science.
Ask HN: Longer sleep during the weekend compensates short sleep during weekdays?
On top, if one is constrained to sleep less during the week (6-5 hours per night) how can he/she increase the stamina/energy levels without having to sleep 12 hours during the weekend ?
Telling someone to “piss off” is neither threatening nor intimidating.
Google had a stellar reputation during the first decade of their existence. Their were the paragon of all the geeks around the world: promoting freedom and openess, hacking and innovating.

And when they bought youtube, they were very, very nice with content creators first. Bot were not banned. No detecting of your white noise video as a copyright material.

The danger with you narative is to forget the evolution from underdog to leader. Because people need to learn this happens all the time, and they need to learn what it looks like.
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I think the guidance (if not the law) to the police is that they have to tell the potential offender not to use those words, or "don't swear at me" first, and if they still continue then they can be nicked. So they have to know that what they are doing is abusive first.

In other words you can swear at the police but only once!
There is considerable debate over the question of “sleep debt”, with current thinking tending towards the idea that it doesn’t exist.

As to sleeping less during the week, the three major ideas are polyphasic sleep (doesn’t work), cocaine (works, may kill you), and “rethinking your priorities”.
@yardie it entirely depends on the intonation and any body language. If you shout "piss off" at someone whilst acting aggressively then I would argue that it's intimidating
This reads like a Marxist analysis. Let's focus on the biggest flaws in the reasoning

> Labour competes with other labour

And consequently, capital competes with other capital. And in this day and age, it's not expensive to create a website.

Assuming she's a world genius at making quizzes, all she needs in a domain name + some viral marketing, then slap ads on top on that. Some extra content would help, to drive visitors. But considering how people thrive on just doing quizzes, her MVP may not even need anything besides the quizzes.

> labour isn't very mobile, while capital is global

The $ I spend on mechanical turk and the online contractors I hire when I need them say otherwise.

> capital captures the difference in the cost of labour and the value created by labour.

No, factors of production are paid at their marginal productivity. Capital without labor usually can't produce much. When labor is scarce and highly productive (software engineering), it commends high prices.

I agree with you that writing quizzes seems simple, and a skill that could easily be learned by anyone. However, she has written thousands of them. The article says she was #5 of BF. There are not many people who do that.

Let's take another example: anyone can play basketball. But it takes some special skills to score while a team of highly motivated, trained and paid professionals try to prevent you from scoring. If you keep succeeding, this is what commends a high wage - even if anyone can play basketball.
Level 3 autonomy works much better and level 4 becomes possible and scales faster earlier, if all carmakers cooperate and lobby for the same geofencing infrastructure and protocols in those roads where it's possible.

Level 5 is far away pipedream and research project that would boost global productivity and car sales for everyone. Cooperating in basic research is good.
Computer "engineering" is the only unregulated engineer I am aware of because of the damage they can do to society.

It is time we started doing that
Can you share a link? People reading your comment have no way to know how to learn more about your project, or even whether it is relevant to the topic at hand.

The most relevant result I could find for "linux on the web" was https://linuxontheweb.appspot.com/ which doesn't seem to be relevant at all.
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There is absolutely no requirement for adoption of any ideology in an at-will employment environment.
But the bastion - as in the HESCO Bastion - has made a comeback:

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

Thanks to the wars in Afghanistan the founder got rich enough to buy Segway. Then he drove off a cliff in his Segway ending his life.

Camp Bastion in Afghanistan is a big base that is named after the HESCO Bastions it is made of:

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

There is a surprising amount of money to be made in making containers for rocks, making black plastic bags for refuse and other things where you would not imagine a fortune could be made. As per the HESCO example it is a gruff Northerner with a 'where there is muck there is brass' attitude that inevitably exploits the potential. Shame about the Segway incident though.
> The definition of enumeration commonly used in computability does not require that you know when you are done enumerating.

Sorry, but this is a non-sequitur. In order to find (by enumeration) the shortest program producing a certain output, you absolutely do need to know when you're done, and thus you do need to solve the halting problem.
Less development setup required (you can make a PWA with literally just a text editor and a place to upload files), very easy to distribute, free to distribute, cross-platform (although here progress is still being made).

Lower barrier means it's easier to just publish something small you made for yourself, since it can be free without consideration to loosing money from it.
I've had a few, and that's not how I use Youtube.

I did wonder if it was an experiemnt to see just how far they could push ad-tolerant people like me.
Yeah OP is wrong about the AI part but of course YouTube is responsible: they have allowed bad actors to keep gaming their strike system for years.
Yeah, but there's no way that can be the final syntax, because it's absolutely horrible (TS could always have a Rust/C# 8 one on top though).
The GPU comparison is common and I think it hits the main problem: Intel/HP needed to solve two hard problems to succeed. GPU computing had only one because gamers provided a reliable market for the chips in the meantime.

I’m also curious how this could have gone a generation later: Itanium performance was critically dependent on compilers in an era where they were expensive and every vendor made their own, and the open source movement was just taking off. It seems like things could have gone much better if that’d been, say, LLVM backend & tools and higher level libraries where someone could get updates without licensing costs and wouldn’t be in the common 90s situation of needing to choose between the faster compiler and the more correct one.
That might have been true at some point in history but is no longer possible in a ZIRP environment.
I'm at Fosdem, it's HUGE. I'm watching Scott Hanselman getting ready for his talk at 1500CET
And then I'd claim you wildly understating the success, of course. Superconductivity is not an effect that involves any "new physics" in the sense of the necessity of changing the underlying theories: it's the typical "emergent" property, and we know that modeling many of the "emergent" properties is far away from our possibilities. Ditto with the material science, or any other observations where "too many of the stuff known to us interacts at the same time." It's not "we don't know" in the sense that the basics will have to change it's "we don't know because there's too much to model at once" like we can't reliably predict the weather 2 weeks in advance, even if we understand the nature of the particles that produce the weather.

Edit: to answer your response below this post:

It's a [Citation needed] for you that the fundamentally "new physics" is needed instead of reaching the limits of our instruments or the modeling capability.

The second you mention is not something that contradicts what we measure, it just that naively trying to combine the provably successful models that match our measurements to produce "something more" outside of their domain really doesn't work: and that of course doesn't have to work to claim that the models do work for the things that they actually model, and which independently correspond to the things we can "observe" (where "observe" includes using our best measuring devices).
Do you mean, appart from the 3 points I just mentioned ?
>I think React is a big deal because we can finally think of UIs as pure functions of data.

A bit like a decade ago and earlier when we still used server-side rendering:

request parameters + backend state = some html
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With Safari coming around, I think all mainstream browsers except IE11 do support them.
Both major mobile platforms do. That's more that you can say for the native solutions each platform provides.
The “privileges” you earn on there are comical. I can moderate your site more now? Thanks!!!
Can you point specifically to a racial issue related to the presidential election? I think the news you read are only repeating the slogans of his opponents.
You left out Oracle's free option:

http://jdk.java.net/
This is a great way to simplify the question.
Yes, but that will only work on one platform.
Are you sure you can't get fined or detained or whatever for not showing ID? Cops would find that really really suspicious. I thought you were legally obliged to show ID when asked anyway, at least in the UK. Is it not the case? I would say that the act of not showing ID would be "reasonable suspicion" by itself. Maybe not, but curious how it plays out in practice, and what the law has to say about it.
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Not really possible to 'catch up'. Matthew Walker's book 'Why We Sleep' goes in depth on this. It really made me re-think my life and ensure I'm getting enough sleep daily.

I can't do it justice, but sleeping 8 hours > sleeping 6 and napping 2 later.

So sleeping 5 hours 5 days a week and 12 hours on the weekends just doesn't cut it.
Ah well if we're arguing that kind of point, I'd say that in my line of work (Security tester) I'm seeing faaar more open source software than I did 10-15 years ago even in traditionally enterprise software friendly environments (e.g. banks/public sector)

The demise of proprietary unix in favour of Linux is one striking example.

another is the rise of open source products like Docker and Kubernetes. They are being heavily deployed in organizations that might once have considered more proprietary software options instead.
I'm amazed there's a jurisdiction in a developed nation where driving a car with dead dashboard is legal.
Ask HN: Which tech companies employ architects or interior designers?
On the point of mental illness, Foucault is well known for his view on it (quoting from SEP):

>But, according to Foucault, the new idea that the mad were merely sick (“mentally” ill) and in need of medical treatment was not at all a clear improvement on earlier conceptions (e.g., the Renaissance idea that the mad were in contact with the mysterious forces of cosmic tragedy or the seventeenth-eighteenth-century view of madness as a renouncing of reason). Moreover, he argued that the alleged scientific neutrality of modern medical treatments of insanity are in fact covers for controlling challenges to conventional bourgeois morality. In short, Foucault argued that what was presented as an objective, incontrovertible scientific discovery (that madness is mental illness) was in fact the product of eminently questionable social and ethical commitments.
Oracle has now fully open sourced the JDK[1] (more than Sun ever did), not to mention all the resources invested into Java now.

[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/oracle-jdk-rele...
The question is not whether people can choose; people can always choose. The issue is what choices you give to people and in what prominence they're placed. Burying a show in the archives is different from featuring it on the front page. Under what criteria should it appear on the front page? If it's only popularity, that'll bias in favour of American shows, since the US has 10x the population of Canada.

If Canadian shows are on the front page, they have a much better chance of getting views and thus surviving, so that people have a choice to keep watching. Canadians can and will find out about the most popular American shows through other media channels, so why do those shows also need to be on the front page?
> Malenfant says that five to ten years from now, CAPTCHA challenges likely won’t be viable at all. Instead, much of the web will have a constant, secret Turing test running in the background.

I wonder how tracking-based captchas can be compatible with privacy regulations like the GDPR. Do you have to positively opt-in to a website seeing whether or not you're a robot?

We're basically moving towards a world where the venn diagram for the web and privacy no longer intersect.
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My wife’s uncle became a social recluse after his wife passed away. Everyone in the family sees him as just this odd person, but I’m pretty sure he is either depressed, mentally ill or both. After his wife passed he would not go out of the house for long stretches. He is retired and collects a good pension so money is not an issue. Despite living maybe 20 feet across the street from us, we hardly ever see him. He goes to his mother’s for dinner every day but to catch a glimpse of him is a rare sight. I’d say I’ve seen him maybe twice a year these past few years. It’s unknown what he does at home and how much technology plays a role in his behavior, but I suspect he is a gamer or has some sort of addiction.

I have personally struggled with gaming addiction for years, leaving at times and then getting sucked right back in without any self-control. Just recently I got hooked on Elder scrolls online and it took some struggling to let go. I can say for certain that gaming deepens whatever emotional state of isolation one can experience. Despite having fun, the feeling of loneliness gets stronger. I think if I didn’t have my wife and kid I would probably spend my life hunched over a screen dying while I play an mmo. I would get so depressed I’d probably let go of any form of self-care and fade into a blob of flesh and bodily fluids.

For all the bringing together that technology is supposed to do, I feel like it had a complete opposite effect. Sure, for some it’s awesome to stay in touch with people you wouldn’t have stayed in touch with otherwise, but in general it has made society more closed and people isolated from one another.
It would be awesome to get pijul support as well!

I have started using sr.ht a bit and the interface is sweet but I want to use pijul for some stuff and it's the future imo (maybe it'll be assimilated into git like servo into firefox but future nevertheless)
I'd never advocate showing anything but the upmost respect to the police.

But as a matter of policy, who is really the one being threatening here? The man bristling at the government collecting personal data or the police officer with backup and (presumably) violent means of arresting the man?
In Austria it's also illegal to cover your face in public.

The only exceptions are cold weather, job, traditional costumes. Here is a great infographic about it. As can be seen, the law was originally against muslim women. But if it works equally well to support facial recognition – awesome.

https://media.diepresse.com/images/uploads_1152/6/3/6/528952...

(edit: forgot some exceptions)
Why not though? It's just language, which you can decide to ignore. Being annoying by repetitively saying something, or shouting in someone's face or ears, is of course different, but not because of the content of what has been said.
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>There's zero risk to us consumers for stolen credit card numbers, so why would I care about that?

Because doing charge backs, getting a new CC and updating everything which is using the old CC is an annoying use of time.
I watched the video. It shows a Chinese site manager having a confusing interaction with several African workers. He then expresses somewhat racist views to the camera, eg: all Africans are well built because it is a survival of the fittest environment. But I could not follow what you meant by the Chinese perspective. Could you elaborate?
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People are idealistic about their children. The studies consistently show that passive screen time is bad and active screentime can be good or neutral. It applies for anyone past the age of five where it becomes a net benefit to have active screen time.
> it would be cheaper

Also easier. Even corporations have finite resources to work with.
Your belief is somewhat misplaced. ;) I just mean I leave the video with the claimant monetising it. It is very rare that they would chose to block the audio (except for some that are blocked only in Germany which has really insane copyright laws). So I just leave them as they are, without taking them down.

But you are right in that because I do it for love rather than money, I am in a much more comfortable position.

As I mentioned in the comments below, there is the option to appeal it to a point they would have to sue you. If you are sure that you own the copyright that is an option. This may be of limited comfort if you happen to live in a jurisdiction with a f’d-up legal system (e.g. the US) but that’s not Google’s fault.

That said, there is apparently some sort of underhand agreement between Google and some major music publishers that Google will just take down the content privately with no appeal. That sucks, but it’s not what is happening here, I don’t think.
OP is correct, the React render loop is very much inspired by 3D game engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY#t=1196
Africans are not racist and the rwandan massacres and centuries of tribal wars were a mirage. It's only when Europeans or Chinese land in the continent that the racial harmony is broken.
I wouldn't trust that it doesn't have some onerous terms buried in the license.

Anything oracle is tainted. And that's putting it lightly.
YouTube is personally liable if they reject valid DMCA notices. The only way to keep the safe harbor and guarantee immunity is to follow the DMCA process. You're suggesting they voluntarily give up protections to hurt bad actors.
Usage of “M$” is very juvenile in 2019, but this is the same point I was going to make. Microsoft hasn’t been as extortionist as oracle, at least not yet.
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At the begining youtube didn't have monopoly on monetization either, since it didn't have any. People went to youtube to lure you on their own sites.
To me, this looks like a solution looking for a problem, especially when the author talks about all the workarounds that become necessary just to get back to square one.

It also switches up the pyriamid of reliability[1].

[1]:

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/ CSS \
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/JS\
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/ HTML \
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From Lou Cixin’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ the “Shooter and Farmer” metaphor seems relevant here.

“In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the result of the marksman’s momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: “Every morning at eleven, food arrives.” On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn’t arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.”

A counterpoint to such an observation is that ideally, scientists understand that they’re working with imperfect and incomplete information. It’s still hard to see the universe from a perspective you don’t inhabit though.
This is wrong. NP-hard problems can be solved, they just appear to hard to solve efficiently. NP-hard problems are always decidable, like everything in polynomial hierarchy (P, NP, co-NP, and higher classes that have oracle access to lower classes).

Undecidable problems e.g. the Halting problem cannot generally be solved using an algorithm (so it has to be solved on a case-by-case basis and requires "creativity").
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There is no national ID card in the UK so it would be impossible to enforce. There is no law saying you have to produce ID on request and "reasonable suspicion" only applies to a specific crime. The police can't just say that they have "reasonable suspicion" that you are committing an unspecified crime.
It’s more common to pay for licenses in the .net ecosystem in my experience.
pretty sure that was Joker's mother