skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, ambitious! Your sheer nerve is enough to click on the link and check it out. :)

As a potential early adopter that has seen countless would-be world-changing technology efforts come and go, in order to personally get me on the bandwagon, it would help to know a few things that didn't stand out to me at first, even after visiting the https://bloom.sh website.

(1) When I think Google I think "search" first and foremost, and I didn't see a search demo or anything. I think your average visitor is going to be thinking the same. If you're not involved in search, then branding yourself up as a Google alternative seems a bit off.

(2) How do you intend to sustain the project? Funding, grants, donations, paid plans, etc. More light on the team behind it as well perhaps, their incentives, skills, etc. I want to know that you have a reasonable chance of existing long enough to grind Google to the ground. :)

(3) A past version of myself would like to know more about "What's in it for me, like right now"? Saving the planet is all well and good, but I was a selfish short-term thinker.

(4) A future version of myself would like to know (assuming points (2) and (3) are answered to satisfaction) more about what I can do for you, but just in small ways, i.e. I don't/won't have the time to help with an iOS app. Practically speaking, this may just mean placing your donation links or "Subscribe for updates" buttons somewhere more prominent. I know some of this is included in your peer comment here on HN, so speaking about the websites only.

Anyway, good on you for releasing, and good luck! I'll be following the project!
It's always a problem when people shoe-horn a non-idiomatic approach from one language into another.

It makes me wish the language creators wrote a single none-trivial 'this is how we intended it to look' project.

When learning a new language I find as many big projects written in it as I can and spend time exploring them.

It helps but there is often no guarantee those projects are doing it idiomatically either.
It looks like the writer used the first name where the last name is more appropriate. He's introduced as "Carnival CEO Arnold Donald", and at the next mention, it's "'I sincerely regret these mistakes. I do take responsibility for the problems we had,' Arnold told the judge."
Bitcoin Abuse Database. Tracking addresses used by ransomware, blackmailers etc.
Let's be clear here. The left is hoping that anything that doesn't conform to their worldview of identity politics, socialism, climate change will be banned. In other words, they're hoping that conservatives, libertarians, and others that don't conform to the leftist hive-mind will be banned.

If I were Google I'd be very careful here with the DOJ knocking on their door.
Could be wrong but I believe it depends on the state.
If you like zsh, you should check out the "oh-my-zsh" addon, which features 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool:

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
I've believed for about 20 years now that the law still has never fully grappled with the concept of something that is both an expression of some sort and yet also a machine. Computer code is the real-world example of that, but genetics are fairly similar.

I think it's why decisions about things like the copyrightability of APIs have been so complicated; the law has still never deeply grappled with the question of how to harmonize the several deeply different legal regimes that "executable expressions" can be affected by. What is the set-intersection of patents and copyrights? That's a really thorny question if you sit down and try to take it seriously.
That it is not proven that you could replace all energy sources with renewable energy. Also the CO2 impact of "renewables" seems to be significant as well. So it is not a given that even with renewables, you would become CO2 neutral.

Not even mentioning other side effects (destruction of nature).
Several years ago my friend did that to learn about cryptocurrency. He bought a bunch of GPUs off CL that were being dumped by people in favor of FPGAs (or whatever was the new hotness at the time for bitcoin). He had a bunch of server racks that he got for free when AMEX dumped 'em here locally. Also bought the mobos and ram off CL.

Then ran extension cords from all over his house into his garage to power the things, networked everything together, and played with it for 6 months, mostly over the winter.

He said he was able to break even (that is, mined enough coins - mainly other alt-coins, not bitcoin) to offset his costs in both electricity and what he spent on the hardware. Kept his garage closed and the door to his house open, and it heated things fairly well from what I recall.

In the end, though, he shut it down, because it was starting to go upside-down for him; I don't know what he did with the hardware (he ended up giving me one of the GPUs - so maybe he parted it out for friends to upgrade their systems?)...
> Our cops are criminals

I spent a year working as a cop and I can assure you that cops are in fact normal people. Like any organization or group there is a tribal aspect to it and they will certainly close ranks and attempt to protect their own; however, that is organizational not individual. There is a larger cultural issue involved that drives such misguided organizational behavior.
Twisting words?

"For many products, it takes nobody at all to produce them. "

Nobody at all is quite different from "not many"
I added it, although the it's on the NYT website.
And here we go. As usual the "racist" pretext is being used to censor videos.

I have no doubt that there are some terrible awful racist videos in that lot but you have to wonder how many times this is ALSO used as a mean to censor pretty much any video that the youtube execs don't like. Censorship is getting worse

Edit: Replacing "Censorship is coming back" with "Censorship is getting worse"
Texts maybe. Video conferencing and chats tend to be more tedious than human to human conversations from my experience.
YouTube gets to decide what a "bigoted ideology" is. That's a sweeping term that can be used as a catch-all for videos they don't like.

I think that this will be bad for the platform overall -- an increase in censorship is never good.
> Australia does have an implied constitutional right to freedom of political communication

Yes, I am aware of that but it's simply not sufficient. While there are the 1992 interpretations, there has been significant evidence that the High Court is handcuffed by the lack of language in the constitution about individual freedom. There are also many subsequent cases where the protection was not granted.

But lets not forget that "freedom of political communication" comes from the fact that any Australian has the right to run as a political candidate and discuss political ideas. It's already an incredibly stretched usage of the intentuon of the preamble of the constitution.

Lets also not forget that the Liberal government tried to make it a crime (punishable with 5 years imprisonment) to post YouTube videos that have government logos in them -- unless they constituted "genuine satire". The fact that "freedom of political communication" didn't kill the idea from the outset tells you how weak the protection really is.
> "The environment needs to be a core value, and I hope and pray it becomes your daily anthem."

Strong words from the judge on a fine that's less than 1% of the company's annual profits and about 0.1% of the company's annual revenue.

These fines need to be a percentage of revenue (with a large floor). Not some random number that's a drop in the bucket for most corporations committing these crimes in the first place. As it stands, these fines are (in many instances) less expensive than correcting the issue that caused the fines in the first place.
The game is unplayable.
To be pedantic a F-15 is an Air Force plane and not designed for a carrier. A F-14 is what you are looking for (think Top Gun).
Indirection, pointer casting, and the C standard library actually make things quite opaque in practice. Do you sbrk your own memory or use malloc? Malloc may not be as mysterious as GC, but it’s still a runtime-managed resource.
I know people who love spin classes. They're not just buying an exercise bike. They're buying a really nice bike, and membership in a global community of people who also love spin. It really does seem like getting to go to a spin class any time you want, in the privacy of your own home.

I have way more than $2k in outdoor gear, because my favorite exercise is trail running and climbing mountains. If riding an indoor bike was my thing, I would seriously consider a Peloton.
‘Should let them’ as in ‘leave it to them’ not ‘should permit them.’
I would've said that 20 years ago saying "Censorship Bad" wouldn't have been constructive, but these days with all these people against free speech, I would say it's a very constructive comment.
Would highly suggest listening to the "How I built This" podcast[1] with the peleton founder John Foley, really great story with usual tech themes like doing things that don't scale and finding a niche but loyal customer base and expanding organically.

[1] https://play.google.com/music/m/Dmjr6m5i4h3j6gaysgjd47ryhci?...
Compensation is based on supply and demand, not some arbitrary rules you made up. In a tech hub there are a lot of high paying employers competing for workers and employers have to offer higher salaries to lure candidates away from other companies. In a cheap area all the local companies pay garbage so you don’t have to pay as much to beat all the other offers.
I believe that is a great point.

I have a feeling that we don't have more work-from-home-first jobs because (middle-)managers wouldn't know how to deal with that. They are not quite there for such change.

And I'm talking about the "simplest" things. Like properly defining a task. Tracking it. Signaling when it's complete. Managing risks, changes. Communication. And so on. To have as most as people at an arms reach is just too convenient to workaround any shortcomings on the managerial side.

If in the general case, i.e., working at offices, all together, we're nowhere near[1] excelling on those "simple" management stuff, things would collapse in a work-from-home situation pretty easy.

I also don't see, in general, (middle-)managers changing their stance in favor of working from home either. Don't see them getting ready for such change. Prepping to work with virtual teams in any future and such.

Perhaps, those who believe are ready for such change could (myself included), somehow[2], show theirs capability. Slowly pushing the changes bottom-up by improving his/her own communication skills, reporting, risk and change management, displaying availability, to such an extent that the concerns of those (middle-)managers are barely noticeable or reasonable?

If we could show that we can organize ourselves and coordinate our efforts towards a goal, effectively, while working remotely, those concerns about remote work could start to fade.

I believe the point I'm trying to make is that we could show better that remote work works! We could be better sellers of this paradigm. Show how we can actually help those worried (middle-)managers. Like safely climbing a ladder, one step at a time :-)

Would be this a good opportunity to create a work-from-home manifesto, in the same way we have an Agile manifesto? I don't know. But that would be something interesting to collaborate on for sure. I might put some thoughts on paper about this subject for starters.

PS: I was an IT project manager for many years, working both on-site and remotely. Now I'm a software developer working on-premises for a big company in my country not friend to the idea of remote working at all; so I could contribute my experiences and views on this subject from both ends, I believe.

PS2: non-native English writer here. So if you find something that needs clarification or correction, please let me know, I'd be grateful to accommodate those kind of feedback. Would be more grateful if you share your thoughts too, though :-)

[1] yeah, I'm aware that there are famous cases of success, but I believe those doesn't account for the majority of offices.
[2] not sure how right now.
The instructors aren't real people?
Why do some people think they're entitled to say what they want on youtube?
Interesting, thanks for linking the story. I also had the same experience with Apollo.

Its frustrating since I never signed up for their services, and I have no control over who my data is sold to... Its getting to the point where I just assume all my data is pwned, and change passwords frequently
I wonder how I can send them my GDPR request. Any ideas?
This is about making is easier to attack a particular person, but privacy concern. Breaks the anonymity on internet.
I used to be like that too. For what it's worth, people probably think a lot better of you than you think they do.
The problem with this is that mediums like facebook and youtube have completely monopolized the attention of the masses. You basically have to use them. So either play along or be irrelevant. No alternative.
I remember writing a blog post years ago about how I enjoyed C and Clojure, apparently two extremes, equally.

My current conclusion is that we just enjoy problem solving within mental frameworks, and each language family gives unique mental frameworks that come with different challenges.

Now that I've slowed down life and am planning in years instead of weeks, I think I would absolutely enjoy (and I think my kids would too) making a new video game from scratch with SDL in C.

The only difficulty is, every time I try this, I keep running into weird issues that only I seem to be having and can't find a solution to online. For example, the last time I tried making a lemmings style game in C with SDL, I ran into weird framerate issues where for apparently no reason or pattern, it would go incredibly slow sometimes.
talks about the instructors like they are real people

That’s because they are real people! Working people who are doing a job, not actual friends of course. But still: real living, breathing, actual human beings.

Although I do wonder if buried somewhere in the business plan is the expectation of replacing them with AI-equivalents that don’t cost as much & don’t require pesky things like holidays or sick pay.
Germany does fine not allowing for nazi ideology to be espoused. Commoditizing the spread of bad ideas is not, in fact, a public good.
Well, not surprising

> The tension was evident on Tuesday, when YouTube said that a prominent right-wing creator who used racial language and homophobic slurs to harass a journalist in videos on YouTube did not violate its policies. The decision set off a firestorm online, including accusations that YouTube was giving a free pass to some of its popular creators.

For context: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18653088/youtube-steven-cr...
Since when do they need a pretext? Countless videos from LGBTQ+ people and people of color got wiped out due to mass reporting and inaccurate automated removals. All the people who usually cry censorship were silent.
Thousands of years is a lot of scrubs and a lot of disk replacements, though. And a solution like ZFS, properly monitored, should help make those detections and repairs happen early, with lower odds of loss.

Although honestly in a thousand year timeframe I very much doubt humanity will preserve ZFS, gzip, tar, jpeg, PNG, ASCII, today's spoken and written languages in current form, etc. Just as written material from 1000 years ago is not very accessible to most people; with the original material you need intense study before you even know what you're looking at.
Then they can build their own YouTube so you don't have to watch their bile.
It's also eat to pick on people who literally do things like roll coal, block hybrid charging stations, routinely practice racism, and cling to preconceived notions regardless of what they are shown in evidence. I've lived in rural areas. I've lived in cities. Neither are perfect but they make fun of each other pretty equally, I've never been run off the road by a truck in the city, had motorcycles swerve at my family riding bikes in the city (cars are about problem), and never had to explain that it's inappropriate to fly the stars and bars in a town parade in the Northeast to anyone in the city. There are plenty of nice people in rural towns, but many of them work hard to earn their reputations, just like smug city dwellers who think they are better. They are all just annoying, prejudiced humans in their own ways.
If I'm not mistaken, the reason the YouTube app ads can't be blocked even with something like Pi-hole, is that they do exactly what you're talking about.
That sounds more like a lack of self-esteem than shyness. It would be good for you to look for a psychologist who introduces into your head the right ideas to overcome it.

I know because I've been there; even if self-esteem reinforcement looks like simple and obvious ideas, it helps if someone tells them aloud to you. Irrational behaviors are not solved by reasoning them away, you have to practice how to fix them.
The actual rules is very impartial (btw, [1] should be the actual link):

> Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.

If they apply this rule to every instance of allegation of superiority (regardless of age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status) it is a very sensible rule and not censorship at all.

The problem is when there is some "asymmetry" in what kind of (otherwise identical) behaviour is allowed and what is forbidden based on the exact characteristics they outlined above. Then it just becomes "picking favourites" and, yes, full blown censorship (which, to preempt the usual retort, can yes be practiced by private corporations, as opposed to "violations of first amendment rights" that, yes, can only be done by US jurisdictional governments)

[1] https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/06/our-ongoing-work-to-t...
No censorship. You are still free to create your own YouTube clone and publish your extreme political views there. Maybe call it "GabTube"?
To the OP: On the page with the pigpen cipher and knights templar code, the code at the top is the same as braille and morse.

I really like this! Great way to introduce codes and make your own secret language. Also a good way to lead into how to decode them with pattern recognition.
Are you sure? I've seen quite a few "censorship is good if it censors bad things" comments upvoted while free speech absolutists generally get downvoted into the ground.
Yes this stood out to me too. I don't really understand why a warrant would enable alteration. Copying I can wrap my head around, but alteration without oversight seems awful. Hopefully the warrant has more fine print than the journalist implied.
Apologies for being obtuse. It was me, not you, that failed at communication. :)

The type of work, though, and skills required are quite different, regardless of that they technically both develop and involve 'technology'. Semiconductor lithography requires a pretty exciting mix of skills starting with plain physics (classical and by now a bit of quantum optics), materials science, mechanical engineering, data analysis/science, software engineering (both for simulation and analysis of production of lensing systems), and I'm sure I'm missing half. It is quite different from "writes software for a software company", which is the framing I had interpreted from the comment I originally responded to.
Exactly. The phrasing used in their press release allows them to take down any video they deem offensive.

Censorship is bad for the platform as a whole.
The ambulance cost should be negligable. An ambulance should cost roughly 30-50c a mile. i don't see why it would cost more than that. And the wages for a paramedic and driver should be less than 100$/hour, right?

If the hospital is charging 200$/hour or more for administration or more then they should eat that cost
'“Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don’t violate our policies, they’ll remain on our site,” YouTube said in a statement about its decision on Mr. Crowder.'

I'm sure those policies will shift stealthily until everything except Baby Shark videos is banned.

Left, right or center politically? But a little too spicy for your average 8-year-old? Banned. Gotta keep the Coca-Cola ad execs happy.

It's a curious hyper-puritanical yet simultaneously secular social order we find ourselves in today. I'm sure this won't lead to any social unrest or civilization-wrecking upheaval.
Index of Munzner's scholarly work:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=%22Tamara%20Munzner...
Freedom of speech is not entitlement to an audience. People can always make a sign and shout in the park.
Interesting, good to know. Or, well, it would be if I applied for one of the Mozilla jobs in Portland I periodically see. Just saw Staff Engineer pop up and it looks appealing, but even with 20 years of experience I don't know that I'd feel qualified applying.
Bottom line for me is - I know the BBC have already made up their mind that this is an attack on press freedoms rather than a legitimate investigation, so I’m now not going to be holding my breath for them to report any developments that are contrary to that view.

That’s why it’s a shame they choose to do this.
Xeons are usually a generation behind on process and sometimes other technology as well.
Because some people view free speech as more than a legal requirement. Its a philosophy of individual rights.
Our addiction to big beef ended up ruining the planet
More accurately, these are leases, not locks in the traditional sense. The lease expires when the corresponding client session ends, which is detected by the absence of a heartbeat from the client.
Part of the problem is that we don't build enough of anything. Roads, trains, housing, anything.
It's very widely covered;

NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/us/california-san-francis...

WaPO: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/14/how-police-...

(Each have written more than 15 pieces that I can ID, I just posted a few examples)
Youtube is the most popular video website on the internet. This makes it a fundamental human right. I am being sarcastic.
"Whites have disproportionate power."

Yes, yes. Say it louder.

"Jews have disproportionate power."

We need censorship, now!
Maybe I’m under a rock, but I don’t know anyone that argues for that.
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

A free society has costs, including tolerating speech you find deplorable. To support censorship because it aligns with your current political leanings makes you no different than the politics you take issue with.

Will you complain if Google mass fires left leaning employees? It's entirely within their right to do. You could even start a competitor to hire those people!
at best, social media sites will be declared public squares, at worst they'll be utilized. Either one is probably better than the current setup
I think the point in the Guardian drive-drilling episode is that they weren't destroying the data. The data was already in numerous copies in other places, and everyone involved knew it, including the people doing the drilling and the people who had ordered it.
I agree. Even if within the same building, I find it more ergonomic to screen share / voice chat than awkwardly try to share the same monitor, etc.
Will YouTube also remove their algos that send people down rabbit holes of “extreme views” and encapsulate individuals in information bubbles that seem to validate and fail to challenge their views?

The platform should shoulder as much or more blame than the content in this case. Free speech man. This is not ok.