skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are supposing that there exists a peaceful YouTuber who's (a) dedicated to the peaceful advocacy of their interests, (b) banned from YouTube, and (c) unwilling to advocate their interests on any other platform except through the use of violence.

No, I'm not. First, the people driven to violence are not necessarily going to be the content producers. The audience can also be driven to violence by seeing the message they agree with censored. Second, the point is that there are no other equivalent platforms to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, in terms of their reach.

>It is not.

What are the other platforms where people can meaningfully participate in the public political debate?

>You could even return to YouTube with moderated content.

It's up to YouTube to decide what counts as "moderated content". They are currently under no obligation to act in good faith.
Do you mean a mechanism that could be used to maintain quantum coherence?
But I don’t actually care about these things and I don’t care about succeeding or failing. I just care about having sexy projects associated with my name so I can get promoted.

(Not actually me, but that’s how people at big companies think)
I clicked around curious how it works behind the scenes. Here is how they explain it:

https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically?

(you have to copy-paste the link because HN won't auto-link a URL with a trailing question mark)
I have said this more than once here, and hate how much it defines my life so imagine people might be annoyed by seeing it again, but I have been suicidal for a long time because of medical errors and the ensuing heath/life issues. I don't want to be. Nobody who is wants to be. Some people SAY they want more than anything to be gone but at the end of the thread, if you pull hard enough, they just want the suffering, whatever it is, to end. I have been in and out of discussion forums on the topic and I have met countless people like this young woman who are desperate and in pain and cannot get enough help that actually makes a difference to go either direction, into or out of life. Many of them have tried everything they can access and have no realistic chance for improvement, but society has decided its not your right to stop if it becomes too much. These people often end up using desperate and dangerous methods and fail/end up worse off. I've also seen the aftermath where their families react in anger to those who discuss the topic freely and blame them for their loss, as if the person wouldn't have ended their life were it not spoken aloud, when the truth is being able to and being understood is the only peace most of them have had for a long time.

I know all the arguments, and even used some of them when I was younger and more naive. Now that I am here I see things differently. Someone I cared very deeply about reached the end of their rope this past winter and nothing and nobody short of locking them in a box was going to stop them, and even then they probably would have found a way. I keep thinking I should have realized how imminent it was and done "something", but for the life of me I can't think what, as they had tried the things available and nothing helped. What they needed was more than society was willing to give and that's the case for the majority of people I have seen go. Very few are lost no matter what with no conceivable way to survive...its just not available to them. Yet that same society tells them they cannot opt out. At what point do we stop trying to make people stay alive and suffering and give them safe and sure ways out? It's not an easy question. One that isn't as simple as "legalize suicide" and done. But there is a cultural idea in the West that it's NEVER the answer, that it always gets better, and those things are not true either. As I feel the day creeping closer for me I know I will have to deal with it alone and afraid, secretly, and with my best homemade effort, since there is no other way out of this life, and I cannot seem to solve the problems that would allow me to stay in it. I'd just ask people to put themselves in the shoes of people in such a situation, and think about how it would feel if you were at the literal end of your rope and people fought to keep you here and suffering. Nobody would want that...but like so much in life we don't extend such truths to others.
Your Tinder comment made me think of Barry Schwartz and his "paradox of choice" where too much choice ultimately leads to more unhappiness because it sets the expectation that, will all these options, we should expect to find 'perfect'

https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_c...
Yes, pretty sure everyone will understand you perfectly irrespective of whether you say sabzi or sabji.
> This is why I'm so skeptical of the "free college" rhetoric from Elizabeth Warren and the like...

ITT! American discovers something else almost all of the rich world is doing, claims it can't be done.
I would hope that an adult would have the maturity to make the decision not to use ad supported apps if they didn't want to.
This is going to kill all social network startups. It’s almost impossible to go viral without Facebook invite feature.
> Are you suggesting that their impressionable young minds are uninfluenced by what they see on YouTube?

They will be influenced by hundreds of factors, YouTube perhaps among them, but YouTube is not of any particular our outsized importance.

> OK, but there is still a whole lot of political content on there.

And? Political content exists on the bathroom stall as well, that doesn't mean it's important.

> The second to most subscribed channel is not political as its main function, but there is most definitely political content on there.

PewDiePie is not a political channel and is completely irrelevant with regard to politics.

> Do you have any evidence to support the idea that people speaking on soapboxes are so important to politics that the government should step in to prevent municipalities from regulating their messages?

What?
Comments would be better if there was a enforced delay in the conversation, and you would have to sign off on what you wrote. 24h laters, the rage of the past would be seen indignified by many.
I get your point - my issue was with the long history of cultures being called 'civilized' or 'advanced'. These terms are still too commonly used and mostly out of ignorance of their origins.

Just to throw it out there - I don't live there, I'm not a citizen of their community - why does my values judgement matter? Why am I judging what is acceptable for them to do in their neighborhoods and communities?

I'm a white american, married into an Cameroonian family, spend my time 90-10 split between US and Cameroon. If Cameroon was having a crisis over 'X', I'd ask my family and our friends what they think should be done in their cities about 'X.' I might ask questions or offer critiques but at the end of the day, they are the only ones that understand their communities, can solve their problems and judge a situation. Similarly, if my city was having an issue, I might be curious what they thought or how they solved similar issues, but I wouldn't expect them to dictate solutions or make a values judgement on my community.
Writing a check for $0 is not an instruction to pay. Paying $0 is equivalent to not paying.
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Thanks, upvoted. :)
I had similar results with "Police 911" in the arcade in the early 2000s. Fun times!
I think there is a wee bit of sensationalism in the headlines.

Bay Area news outlets are more precise in the reporting.

1. It is still a felony.
2. It is still not legal.
3. Magic mushrooms, peyote and ayahuasca possession and usage has been decriminalized.

I assume that this means that solicitation for purposes of selling/buying is still a felony/illegal/criminal.
If you're saying that it's terrible because government haven't stepped in to legislate rather than relying on corporate entities like Apple to protect privacy, I agree.
Literally, it means "not more further", i.e. it is the peak, there is nothing better, this is the ultimate thing compared to others (like, you could say "my Model X is the non plus ultra of electric SUVs", just for example).
I guess it is not a common expression but I like the phrase. ;-)
Very true. That’s why I also think that you could easily classify an anthill as a single living being.
In case the product gets popular you are 100% getting a copyright notice from Google, so may as well change it now rather than after the brand is established
Apps intended for ANYONE must not include third-party advertising or analytics.
I continue to debate if my Masters (MEng) was a good idea in hindsight. My University's program was targeted at an "accelerated" MEng rather than a BS with grad and undergrad classes overlapped, so finish the MEng was a lot of momentum from when I signed up for undergrad. I was pretty certain I'd never have finished a Masters if I didn't finish straight through like I did.

On the one hand, I learned a lot from graduate classes and also used graduate school lifestyle/loans/insurance situation as an excuse/umbrella to explore a startup opportunity (that didn't succeed).

On the other hand, I sometimes regret the opportunity cost of not seeking paid employment sooner, especially given the non-success of that startup attempt versus how much I loved the last employer I interned with in undergrad versus graduating in a major recession I likely couldn't have predicted. The majority of my student loans have been from the graduate semesters and it does often leave me wondering if it was worth even the financial cost.
The pricing link doesn't work on my iPhone/mobile safari.

Now the site is down...which makes me think this cdn doesn't work so well.

I currently pay ~500/mo for a cdn so I am a real potential customer.
Agree,not sure what kind of logic they apply. My 2 years old often finds herself watching some creepy monster ad,while the video she just watched before was Peppa Pig or something.
I'm aware of that history.

The word "baggage" has negative connotations (to burdens and impediments); so my question really is by speaking English, as an Indian-born national, what burden or impediment does the speaker experience?

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Responding inline due to lame moderation caps.

> I interpreted the OP's use of the word "baggage" not to mean a burden or impediment

But that's exactly what the word means! :-P

bag·gage
/ˈbaɡij/
past experiences or long-held ideas regarded as burdens and impediments.
"the emotional baggage I'm hauling around"

> but instead a cultural and political reason why some Indians might hesitate to consider English their national language.

And why would they hesitate if not due to feeling the burdens and impediments of their country's history?
I haven't used the others but Stan is great.
One of the many reasons I'll be setting up a NAS and the only video streaming my kid will be allowed to use before ~10 will be a personally curated collection of youtube-dl'ed videos, on a device that's connected only to the house LAN (directly or via VPN when roaming).
They most likely pay competitive rates if you ask for them. They can't really lose anything by having a document with compensation rules for the gullible folk that fall for the "rules apply to everyone" spiel.
Kudos for interrogating your values and seeing your way to something you feel good about!
No third-party ads.
It’s explained in the linked blog post in the chain you’re replying to, but:

- Set all password hashes to Bcrypt(existing SHA-1 Hash)

- Create a new flag column to track whether the password is upgraded to straight Bcrypt.

- If flag is false, compare stored hash with Bcrypt(SHA-1(user input)). If it matches, log user in and replace stored hash with Bcrypt(user input). Set flag true.

- If flag is true, compare stored hash with Bcrypt(user input)
I just it but don’t recall where he predicted this. Do you remember what he said?
My guess, that no one had dived into water. They probably took bridge down in winter, when river was covered by ice. And got track with crane there. Then just drove away by the river. It explains why they preferred bridge over rails. Rails hard to move to a place where track could go. You'd need some type of cart that moves by the rails. While frozen river is like a road. There could be a lot of snow on the ice, but I believe it could be managed somehow.
This is actually an excellent strategy. Doing grunt work in the trenches is good for business but very bad for the worker.
Same here. Took-up Argentine Tango at 45 and met more women than I could have imagimed. Finally met my life partner at 52.
As a parent of 3 children and owner of multiple iPads and Android devices (including a kids edition Fire Tablet) this really strikes a chord with me. We buy the Toca Boca and Sago Mini games and the occasional game from other providers that strike the kids fancy.

But this is a huge development. Big enough that I'll be dropping the Android devices and switching my kids over to Apple ones completely. As it is I have lots of conversations with them regarding why some games they see will never be bought by us (like those awful Thomas and Friends ones that you have to buy then still have ads and IAP to put up with).

Thank you Apple. But also, shame on you industry for making this something that I need to specifically look out for.
Scratching my head a bit but ... isn't this old news (the underlying issue, not the github doc)?

The modelines issue (this exact issue) was widely publicised well over a decade ago (long enough that I don't remember when).

I vaguely recall it showing up in an early gentoo security alert (pre-2005?) which is how I became aware of it.

How does this become a new security issue now?
I think you're asking two somewhat entwined but not-same questions: Consider the case of a mushroom that is actually mycelium and fungi network underground. The actual mushroom top that has spores is at the very very end of the lifecycle. The mushroom fungal network of mycelium actually spans months, years, or even decades before the final "fruiting" part of the mycelium takes place. It's likely that these quantum leaps are much like the fruiting event of a long-time-growing networked-body of sorts. In which case, frequency of fruiting and time it takes to occur would be different for different types of mushroom, or different types of plants, and therefore it's likely that there are probably different "types" of quantic networks that are direct precursors to quantum jerks that only appear instantaneous when your equipment is frame-rated. This, of course, only incurs more questions, like what the heck is this pre-leap quantum body like, and how can back can we actually trace a quantum event, and if everything is broken down into quantum events how can we meaningfully measure development and duration of something seemingly induratable? It'd be like trying to trace back fully grown corn to the seed. Of course, it's likely covered in kernels that will inspire and directly create other corn-phenomena, but the original kernel cracking open is information long gone. Quantum entanglement therefore actually means you're inextricably linking two quantum streams, not quantum events. Using that sort of process, it may be possible to find out where quanta are "produced" if I may use such coarse terminology that harkens back to the natural plowshare of the most simple kind of field.
With all due respect, this is the kind of self-evident truth that I find it weird people use as "yeah, is that what you REALLY want?" Yes, that is what I want. I think society would be much better off without this kind of rubbish, and stuff the financial backers of this amoral race to the optimised bottom.
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> Apps intended for ANYONE must not include third-party advertising or analytics.

At the very least, the software should be required to clearly delcare that users will be subjected to include third-party advertising or analytics and given the choice to opt out.
I was under the impression that no body has unilateral authority to create law (besides the creation of law through court precedent), so I'm not sure what value this distinction adds. That's like saying Congress doesn't make laws, they only propose them. Well, of course that's true but we tend to say that Congress makes the laws as a matter of course. I mean, we even call them "lawmakers", not "lawproposers".
Academy of Art is a real estate company with an education problem. They have countless illegally modified buildings around SF (https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Academy-o...), with a ton of diesel buses spewing pollution to cart around wanna-be artists from all over the world. Note that these students didn't have to show any portfolio to get in, they just needed to come up with the $$$$$ somehow. The owners have a showroom for their classic car collection which isn't generally accessible to even the transportation design students (https://thebolditalic.com/just-how-much-is-academy-of-art-s-...).
That is not entirely correct either. Hindi and English are official languages of the Republic of India. If you watched the swearing-in ceremony of the recent Modi government some cabinet members chose to be sworn-in in English.
Especially that it's really you vs. a whole industry of well-paid professionals weaponizing psychological research.
Yes, and slowly upgrade from bcrypt(sha1(password)) to just bcrypt(password) as uses reenter their password. Do the same when you finally upgrade from bcrypt to whatever is next. No harm in specifying the encryption 'state' in your database for each user.
I don't understand why people think comparing something to the 360 is ever an insult.
> And don't be a cubicle farm. Yes, if you think the alternative to remote work is an anonymous grey cubicle on the 5th floor of an anonymous office block (or just as bad, the 'trendy' exposed ducts open plan office), then remote work will look like nirvana.

What is the alternative to "not a cubicle farm and not and open office"?
What are the practical applications? Are there FOSS replacements for PSP? Can you disable it, and what happens if you do?
That's pretty cool! I knew tech reviewers/writers get free stuff all the time but didn't know sysadmins do to. Thanks for sharing.
Chromebooks for education don't use the information for advertising, right?
>They will be influenced by hundreds of factors, YouTube perhaps among them, but YouTube is not of any particular our outsized importance.

Outsized in comparison with what?

>And? Political content exists on the bathroom stall as well, that doesn't mean it's important.

Political videos on youtube have billions of views.

>PewDiePie is not a political channel and is completely irrelevant with regard to politics.

Like I said, not the main function of the channel, but there is certainly politically oriented content. Do you think his politically oriented content has no impact on the politics of his ~100 million audience?

I believe you're either acting in bad faith on this topic, or are unaware of https://www.newsweek.com/pewdiepie-christchurch-shooting-mos...
If you have other options and Gitlab wants you bad enough, it's just boils down to regular negotiations.
This along with the "sign in with apple" feature really makes it a good time to be a bit of an apple fanboy.
"If you want to get paid, then create proprietary software and sell it, if you can. Nothing wrong with doig it.
But if you are developing something you call open source software and you use GNU/Linux for it, then how much money should GNU and Linus get for you doing that? You could go with Windows insteand and pay the licensing fee."

The problem with these discussions is they always set up this false comparison. Then, what's going on looks hypocritical. Here's what actually happened:

1. Linus et al released Linux with a license that says, "Pay us nothing. Just give back any changes in code you distribute." That's their goal. Those with permissive licenses said "Use it and don't share anything unless you want to." That's their goal per the license agreement.

2. Cockroach Labs started with a goal of making a huge pile of profit on a database whose core they keep as free and OSS as possible. The profit takes priority due to VC funding. That's their goals.

Cockroach making profit on Linus et al's work without paying them isn't hypocritical since their license's actual goal was to do that. Whereas, the SaaS vendors are posing a challenge for Cockroach achieving their goals which require making money off their activities. Balancing giving code out as OSS and profit-seeking, they lightly-modified a license that starts as proprietary but goes Apache after 3 years. Personally, I think they're being way, way, too altruistic given what rate of return they're expected to come up with.

If anything, people that wrote their dependencies using freeloader-loving licenses are either achieving their goal of commercial uptake or need to pick a license that incentivizes their goals (or just blocks things they hate). If contributors, probably should contribute to software with strongest copyleft available. AGPL and Parity come to mind. Folks using licenses that don't require payment shouldn't expect payment. If folks want payment, then they should sell the software somehow with licenses worded to bring in revenue.
Kinda off topic, but I always feel like this is an opportunity for databases to fix a leaky abstraction. I mean databases are basically an abstraction over the storage mechanism, so why does the choice of json/column as an api have to be so tied to the storage?
I find the idea of any ad reccomending me to talk to a doctor extremely creepy - in what world would you want ad providers acting as doctors..
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This is the problem, its just convenient and free. People are not thinking about the costs to the end consumer - which in this case is our children. I don't really fault PBS, but I do fault the advertising companies for our general lack of privacy and control over our own data. I also fault the politicians for turning a blind eye to it. I hope Apple's new strategy to go after privacy pays off in a big way and more companies fall in line with it. Or at very least more people begin to think about the trade-offs before blindly injecting google analytics into everything. Self-hosted analytics that does not feed into an advertising giant is not unobtainable goal.
I see your opinion is that it's literally impossible for such a union to exist. Sorry for judging and writing up a comment personally targeted at you but I also sense some level of prejudice in your comments. May be (and I hope) I misjudged.