skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I actually watched the video. Jen Gennai said that if Google is broken up the pieces won't be as effective at thwarting the next "Trump Situation". The frauds a Veritas interpret this as preventing the free and fair election of their favored candidate. Mrs. Gennai said she used imprecise words in a bar conversation when she didn't know she was being recorded. She likely meant that are making an attempt to reduce the spread of fake news, information silo-ing in their news aggregation and still keep user engagement up. Automating the identification of truth is certainly hard, and maybe harder without the resources of a unified Google.
yes, often. This comes up all the time in tissue mechanics, because continuum mechanics turns out to be quite useful for studying the mechanical properties of soft tissue.
How to Guarantee Traction for Your Product?
Building an audience or community is the most important way you can put yourself in a position for success. The days of building a product and hoping people will come are gone.

If you focus on building an audience, I can guarantee you some sort of traction. Getting “Sign ups” before launch has been replaced by building community before launch.

Communities are so important because there is no way to have a fake community. Instead, communities have to be authentic. These early community members will be your early adopters and product evangelists. They will do most of the early marketing for you.

Some examples of people that have built communities from day one:

One of the best examples of someone who build community before they even had a product would be Glossier. The founder started off with a blog called “Into the Gloss” years before launching Glossier. The community she built with her blog helped her to build Glossier. By the time she launched Glossier, the large audience was already there. She was able to engage with her community and learn what was important to her audience. This helped to inform her product decisions.

Need more proof?

Kylie Jenner built a billion dollar brand on the back of her community. She hasn’t paid a dime on marketing because she has a community of 100m+ Instagram followers. She, like the founder of Glossier, uses her audience to get feedback and to update them on new product drops.

It is no surprise why celebrities and influencers are creating companies that are seeing real traction. They have a community and aren’t starting from scratch. They get to skip the part that most founders have trouble with, which is finding their users.

If you are having trouble finding ways to build a community, shoot me an email at hello@pulsemetrics.io and I’ll help you come up with some ideas.

‘Till next time.
I've got a 5 year old server with 2x8 core sandy bridge xeons, 32GB ram (I had 128GB total but went down to 32GB since it wasn't being used), an SSD for the OS, and 8 hard drives from 2-8TB each (~30TB total).

I idle at 100W +/- 10W, which is ~$10/month. Sure, I could get a VPS for $5/month (with much lower specs), but the massive amount of local storage plus the ability to easily host multiple VMs really outweighs the extra $5/month cost to have everything local.

I run a handful of VMs and docker containers, such as pfSense, emby (similar to plex), HAProxy, samba shares, snapraid+mergerfs for storage, etc. Worth it to me, might not be for others unless they're interested in server administration.

When this dies I'll probably downgrade to something smaller and shoot for <50 watts, but it's not worth it until it actually fails.
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Distributed Randomness Beacon client

Gathers entropy from multiple drand ( https://github.com/dedis/drand ) instances, securely mixes responses and outputs to kernel entropy pool or stdout. Suitable for use with League of Entropy servers ( https://www.cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy/ ).

drb-client can be used as a standalone source of high-quality random number, or as additional source for entropy pool in Linux kernel. Produced amount of entropy should be sufficient to derail attacks based on RNG predictability.
> At the end of the day YouTube is a private company

I can’t argue that it isn’t, and I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with somebody saying “you have to host whatever is uploaded”… on the other hand, AT&T and Comcast are “private companies” that host the backbone of the internet and could at any time start refusing to route traffic for, say, a YouTube competitor. Some banks are already refusing to do business with vendors that also sell guns… there is a point where censorship become discriminatory.
Lack of RAM? Make an array of pointers or ints or whatever corresponding to the current order of songs, then lookup each new song as the current song ends. Maybe 1kB RAM...
I believe you're mistaken. They would need your password to boot up the computer or unlock your screen. I think the cookies on Chrome are encrypted using the same mechanism as node-keytar. I didn't say anything about stealing a laptop while it's logged in. I just mean physically stealing the laptop.

You could argue that the number of people who protect their computer by password but don't encrypt their disks is too small or isn't worth worrying about. But I know that there is a significant portion of users that has it set up this way.
> the point is that they’re creating misinformation with incorrect statements about MySQL

Which statements are incorrect? Someone from the team responded directly to all points above here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344575 If you want to debate the reasons why, maybe respond to that thread? I don't, but I assume they're competent and telling the truth. The claims here about the reasons being wrong and the team not being competent appear to be incorrect and emotionally based. I can understand people being upset about losing support for something they use, but the assumptions and accusations seem misplaced, and fwiw, two years late.

> It’s not clear why they had to publish a blog post in the first place

Why shouldn't they? What's the functional difference between a blog post and a FAQ anyway? I don't understand your complaint - are you asking why they published anything or asking why it's not on a different web page? Your critique, like the one above it, is still not making any case for why they should continue to support MySQL.

I would assume that having announced this move two years ago, they've had a few customers ask why. I would assume that a company that cares about it's users but needs to drop support for something some of them still use, they would take some time to elaborate on their reasons, precisely because they care.
Every other HN discussion I've seen about YouTube banning content lately has been full of people insisting that because Google moderates their content at all, they are morally obliged to use their powers to police the politics of the nation. That's not so much a slippery slope as it is a slippery cliff face. Probably the only reason this one is different is because they're going after something HN regulars care about.
I'm sorry, this just flew over my head. What is this analogy about? Is Google DoS'ing third party websites? Deranking them? Suing for patent infringement? Who's W?
You will also find recent ccc conferences on peertube nodes.
> I don't think anyone is stopping you from putting your hacking video on your own website

Yet.
Well, yes. It was unmitigated praise for men like Jefferson for a lot of years, which sent the message that those flaws you mentioned were nonexistent or unimportant. Now our society is attempting to demonstrate to people of color that those flaws as you say, which constitute extremely egregious crimes against humanity no matter how commonplace they were amongst the aristocracy of the time, were in fact real and were in fact important. The country remains rather divided on the subject but it sounds like these city officials are trying to say that black lives do, in fact, matter.
Cloudflare's already stated that their outage yesterday was their own mistake: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/
If you frequent small (generally Asian) restaurants, it's quite common to see signs saying they only accept cash in Vancouver. Otherwise, if they take credit, they may attempt to incentivize paying with cash via discounts.
You may have missed other parts of this conversation where people point out how corporate interests have had great success in getting the government to promote and subsidize unhealthy foods (see: corn subsidies, the food pyramid, subpar food labelling, cheap junk food in public schools).

The government (at various levels) should certainly have a role in ensuring a healthy population. But if nothing else, the government (at all levels) should be sure not to promote and fund profoundly unhealthy habits over healthy ones.
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My motto for “grass” is: square, level, & trim. If it’s green, bonus points.
We don't really understand what consciousness is, so no one can say that plants have no consciousness. For me , everything has consciousness, but in varied degrees, or frequencies in a spectrum of existence.
The key part is on an encrypted disk. That makes a big difference.

node-keytar has support for encryption on an unencrypted disk. Lose the password and you're locked out.
I also suspect this is the case. I also feel like it's part of the reason Spotify has aggressively wiped out easy discovery of user-curated playlists in favor of their own playlists. Just about every playlist you see when browsing around is one authored by Spotify. It used to be that you could find lost of community-made content in the Browse tab. If you want a good, user-maintained playlist now, you have to know its exact name in order to find it. There is no community behind the platform anymore, only an algorithm that maximizes margin for the company.
> if the goal is to let scientists spend less time writing formulas

People with a few weeks of consistent practice writing LaTeX can run circles around anyone using a graphical equation editor.

I knew students in college who could type LaTeX twice as fast as I could write formulas with pen and paper.
I think it is actually prevalent in a lot of industry. They don't make a lot of money off academia with those ~$30 student licenses.
Safe harbor laws make it generally legal for a platform to host such content until certain notification provisions are met. There's a specific process for handling child porn in the US, which you can easily find if you want that in your search history.

Advocating violence against specific people is not illegal in the US unless it is likely to produce imminent lawless action. Saying "[racial slur] should be exterminated" doesn't rise to that standard. A live video saying "everybody get your guns and meet me at [location] - we're gonna slaughter those [racial slur]" probably does, but would be subject to safe harbor protections for the platform.

Libel also falls under safe harbor. The platform could eventually be ordered by a court to remove the content, but not until many people have had the opportunity to see it.
I mean, nobody uses sqlite for rails in production (except when they do because their load is genuinely low.) It's mostly there for when you're just running something for yourself on your own dev machine, most often for testing purposes. For something like this it makes a lot of sense to use sqlite. Avoid that in production though obviously.
Shouldn't this apply to lock picking videos too?
Being Poor Affects Creativity and Decision Making
All those outages are strange, I wasn't able to access my personal server for few hours today, I was not even capable to ping ip). When I was able to reconnect, everything seem to be ok. Maybe there is some routing/BGP issues/attack (again). Sadly, I didn't try to traceroute the serveur IP.
Years ago, Bill Kristol accused the lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees of being anti-American for doing so. Up until that point, Bill Kristol has been a pundit I read semi-regularly as a reasonable voice I disagreed with. From that point on, I have never read anything else he had to say. Ever. If an article mentions him, I stop reading. If I accidentally end up on a column of his, I immediately hit the back button. If I happen to be watching TV (very rare) and he appears, I change the channel. By trampling over a foundational precept of justice to get his rhetorical points du jour, he forever forfeited his right to my time.

You may say that is extreme. I say: anything worth saying has dozens of people saying it already. If I want diverse points of view, the internet has them in abundance. So I lose nothing and, in a small way, I can try to make things better.

The point is: Project Veritas is comically partisan. Literally nothing has been too underhanded for them: taking things out of context, outright lying about what they found, splicing video to make it look like people said things they didn’t, you name it and they’ve done it.

So no, they don’t get to be listened to. Ever. No one who worked there gets listened to. Ever. Someone else will speak whatever truths they speak, and meanwhile we need not listen to their lies.
Think about it from the artist's point of view. What financial incentive does an unknown artist have to clear samples?

On one end of the spectrum, you create a song using an uncleared sample and it goes nowhere. Nine Inch Nails never hears about your song, and neither does the public.

On the other end of the spectrum, your song goes viral and makes you one of the most popular artists in the country.

Even if Nine Inch Nails claims every cent you make from the song, you have already accomplished your goal. You're a popular artist and now have a platform.You can sell merch, sign sponsorship deals, and get paid to advertise for brands on social media. You can put out new music with all your ducks in a row and go on to have a very successful career.

Why go through the trouble of clearing your sample when the chances of your song becoming popular are very slim, and even if it does become a hit, the reward far outweighs the risk?

Outside of ethics, there is no reason for an unknown artist to clear samples when they are trying to make it in the music industry.

It should also be noted that both the creator of Old Town Road(Lil Nas X) and Nine Inch Nails are currently under Columbia records.
There is a difference however between demonetizing clips (ie not showing ads associated with certain content) and outright banning them. I feel the latter should be reserved for very few types of contents (mostly contents that is illegal to host).
1) you make some good points.
2) I think you could make them without jumping to conclusions about what I believe, and without assigning intent that isn't there.

But let me try to clarify my point.

I'm not saying that YouTube doesn't scale, or doesn't have a ton of value. Obviously both are true.

I'm saying that laissez faire freedom of speech doesn't scale on platforms like YouTube. There needs to be some set of standards for acceptable behavior.

I think a lot of subreddit's do a good job of this with their moderators and rules. I think HN does a good job with it's down voting, etc. (I suspect my unpopular opinions here will get me some down-votes though....)

But YouTube, Twitter, etc, don't seem have the same community enforcement mechanisms, but something is needed. It's unfortunate that it ends up being a kind of arbitrarily enforced set of rules through an opaque process... But I feel like that's better than just letting anything go.

Also, to be clear. I don't think I do actually agree with the YouTube policy of blocking hacking videos. But I'm trying to make a larger point that I think there does need to be some standard of what is ok or not to be broadcast.
So he wasn't directing anybody to commit a crime? It's a deplorable scenario, but free exchange of ideas and beliefs still requires protection. The consequences of losing it are in the long-term far greater than personal grief.
Oh come on, YouTube isn't banning content "showing users how to bypass secure computer systems or steal user credentials and personal data" because it somehow offends their moral sensibilities.

They're doing it because they know that if there was a major hack and whoever did it learned from YouTube videos, there would be widespread outrage.

The headlines would be "YouTube teaches hackers how to steal your private data", and there would be calls for more regulation on what YouTube can and cannot do, which is something that they probably want to avoid at all costs.

So we end up with rules like these. You and I might disagree with them, but they come about because it's what we (collectively as a society) have demanded.
Yeah this is the wrong take, buddy.
FTA: ”In July of 2017 GitLab documented that we would be deprecating support for MySQL”

According to Wikipedia, MySQL 8 was released about a year later, in April 2018 (there was also “MySQL Server 8.0.0-dmr (Milestone Release)”, in September 2016, but scanning https://lists.mysql.com/announce/1106 and the two other parts, that didn’t seem to have CTE’s)
Optional, but one that 70%+ accept because it's free gov't money. The ones that don't have their own health care coverage on the side.

Or are you suggesting when people say "Medicare for all", it wouldn't include prescription coverage?
The folder needs to be +x. So that the user can actually enter it in order to... upload.
What about the premium series they produced, Mindfield? A good number of the episodes are about Michael Stevens (Vsauce) taking hallucinogens and describing the experience.

On second thought, I guess most of those aren't addictive. It still seems like a really odd line to draw.
Many of the of the same pundits supporting censorship on Google search and Youtube used to be extremely critical of Walmart's business practices. This isn't about principles.
>So the recorded Google employees were deepfakes?

Nobody said he used deepfakes. I'm sure that the interviews with Googlers whose faces/voices were on camera were legitimate, and selectively edited just like every single one of his videos. Contrary to other media outlets whose track records of honesty can lend credence to their anonymous sources, O'Keefe's extensive track record of dishonesty and deception casts a long shadow of doubt on his shadowy, voice-modified interviewee that provides additional context to the unbiased documents PV leaked.

>Or are you saying that autocomplete results for "men can " in Google search are totally natural and not at all political engineering done by Google?

Machine learning-based search suggestions are probably going to be a little weird for a while. That's literally all that is.
There’s another dimension... the playback mechanism. I think that some of these solutions actually make some sort of hidden playlist to accommodate garbage Bluetooth integrations in cars.

I’ve definitely seen scenarios where I’ve heard the same random play order due to some fuckery with a car Bluetooth connection.
I don't blame poor people for their plight. I didn't bootstrap myself to high executive function, the universe just gave it to me. Those affected by environmental lead are no more in charge.

But we have to get to the root cause of inequality to begin talking about a solution.

Most people have poor health because they make poor decisions. So either we disallow them agency and act as their perpetual nanny, or accept the world isn't perfect and that distributions will be unequal.

Throwing money at the problem won't help. You can spend unlimited healthcare dollars for no measurable benefit.
If your disk is unencrypted, all I need to do is mount your disk on my computer and point my Chrome user disk to /mnt/stolen_drive/home/users/James/chrome_data and I have all your cookies.

I'm not sure about Linux, but on Windows this is trivial. If you are concerned about this attack vector, then encrypt this drive. If you are hit by an RCE, then your Trello keys are the least of your problems.

Physical access is game over.
Google Bans Hyperlinks (2015)
1) Public can mean relocating, if you want a good district, and higher housing costs. So that sucks. Even the good ones are usually just OK, really, with some exceptions. Whole exercise is kinda horrifying, even if you have a very normal considered-good experience of it—personally I'm very uncomfortable with the basic structure of public schools. Free buses are very nice.

2) Private's often as bad or worse—just being private doesn't mean it's an improvement. Private schools often pay worse than public (total comp) so consider what sort of employee pool they're drawing from. The exceptions tend to be the "prep" variety which are less common and are eye-wateringly expensive unless you're fairly poor (most have generous scholarships) but nonetheless capable of raising a kid who the admissions folks (for whatever reason) like. If you can't afford even-more-expensive boarding schools you're probably looking at just a couple quality private schools in a given city in most cases, if any, and they may not be close to your house. Exceptions include some (only some, you gotta do your homework) Catholic schools, though you may have trouble getting in and will likely pay more if your family's not Catholic—there's a process, and you can probably fake your way in, but it'll take time and commitment and planning in advance by at least a year, I'd say, plus you gotta be comfortable, you know, repeatedly lying to clergy. If you want something that breaks out of the typical mold[1] you're either talking seminar-type classes (so, prep, expensive, and not available everywhere) or hippy-dippy might-work-for-your-kids-hard-to-say-until-you-try unschool-alike stuff (still not cheap).

3) Homeschool's wicked-expensive too if you're losing a salary for it, especially with just one or two kids. Not every parent's cut out for being home alone with the kiddos every day, all year, too. Some are, some aren't, may not figure it out until you try. Also not everyone's great at teaching though if your kids are above-average in the intelligence department it's not hard to at least do better than your average public school, given the pace they move at and the much worse instructor-to-student ratio. It's real work, though, regardless.

Exceptions all over for the above I'm sure, but that's the gist. We're doing public. I kinda hate it but the other options are out of reach for one reason or another.

[1 EDIT] by "typical mold" I mean isn't structured more or less the same as public school.
Sounds like a sucker's game to me.
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I acknowledge that it's a pretty misleading title, but from what I've seen here, the rules are the rules.
What I was trying to paint was a slippery slope of cases -- start with something illegal and move towards things which are grey to legal.

The question is every such business would need to face, including youtube, is where to draw the line. Child porn clearly is illegal and very few people would object to such a ban. But legal/not legal isn't always so clear, eg, what statement constitutes libel and is a given person enough of a public figure that less stringent standards apply.

Say I create a video saying "zcid lives at 123 Merry Lane in Westchester, MA. I'm not advocating violence happen to him, I'm just stating a fact." Is that legal? (Note: not only is the address made up, I double checked that no such address actually exists)

If there was a bright line then I don't think there would be as much controversy around the issue as there is. Pretending there is a simple solution (just ban illegal things and allow legal things) doesn't mean the distinction really is clear.
Shouldn’t we expect this to become normalized the moment AR becomes somewhat ubiquitous? People will happily pay for always-on augmentations to make themselves look more beautiful, younger, stronger, etc.