skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, the editing has progressed from (legitimately) weeding out violent and often clearly illegal material (e.g., child porn), to material that some people find objectionable, in this case corporate sponsors.

They are now unquestionably editing the content on their site. Soon (as mentioned by others), it is likely to be 'how to repair' videos and the like that end up on the proverbial cutting room floor.

It is far past the time for YouTube, FaceBook, etc. to be stripped of their now demonstrably farcical "platform" status and recognized as publishers of content, and reqauired to operate with that set of rights & responsibilities.

It won't solve all problems, partly because this has gone on for far too long, but at least they'll need to take on some responsibility for their decisions. It is obvious why they've worked so mightily for so long to avoid exactly this responsibility.
> Why not formalize it by saying one should lose citizenship automatically under these circumstances?

For practical reasons. It's hard to formalize and having people be stripped of any citizenship is shit. I don't mind the idea of losing your previous citizenship once you acquire a new one, that's fine.

I'd much prefer a system where education etc is fundamentally free but is converted into a loan if you emigrate. Society X invests into you, you want to jump ship to Y so you pay back what X invested into you, possibly in multiple installments or an additional income tax.
This isn't an actual contribution, it's trolling.

Future executive function is highly correlated with high socio-economic status of childhood.
This doesn't really make sense to me at all.

The friends I have who are 'poor' have free or subsidized health care and get more to spend on groceries a month than what I can afford.

They go see the Dr. on the drop of a dime for any little thing. We are not talking 1 or 2 people here either. I have several that are this way.

What gives? They don't seem in bad heath really, but do kinda eat like crap. They will load their pantry up with mostly junk.
Using "we" was a bad choice by me.

I was trying to say that this is not the natural end of a "slippery slope" of removing hateful/violent videos from YouTube.

I don't think this was an inevitability of moderation. It is possible to have a "YouTube" that left educational material up. It was a choice by a powerful corporation acting in the interest of other powerful forces. If they had a real competitor they might be under pressure to leave useful videos like this up.

YouTube is definitely in the wrong, distributed alternatives are a good way of providing access to this important information.
In climates that get rain every day, it doesn't take a lot to have a suitable pool of standing water for mosquitoes. A dead leaf curled up that holds 1 mL of water (and shaded by the taller vegetation) is sufficient as a breeding ground.
> "wait, you want to pay dues and be subject to HOA rules?"

I live in a town with a bylaw which says if you have a shared driveway, you're required to have an HOA. So, my deed and my neighbors' deeds all have an HOA built into them. It doesn't do anything, it isn't funded, but it exists on paper. When we were discussing one year the snow plowing of the shared driveway, I suggested perhaps we could have the HOA buy a truck and a plow and we could share it. My neighbors just looked at me sideways and said, "You actually want to bring an HOA to life?" I said, "yeah, good point," and that was the end of that.
Nothing to see here, cat videos are safe. /s

edit: what I'm trying to say is: people don't care about freedom; they won't care until stupid, useless things like cat videos are threatened
You can make it a PR issue. Go through reporting and if the videos clearly violate TOS and aren't taken down, point out the double standard to the activist press.
Twitter Bans Porn
Either your application requires an in-memory-only decryption password at each start, or it requires a plaintext cached-on-disk decryption password for headless startup, or it requires a hardware security module (HSM) through which all encrypted storage requests are routed for decryption.

Encrypted filesystems are necessary for #2 to be safe, but merely move the problem of #1 up one step in the chain to OS boot rather than app boot. #3 isn't necessarily safe as the HSM could be used to decrypt data when an attacker has gained access and is undiscovered, unless you use it to issue a temporary decryption key at OS/app boot, at which point you're effectively back to #1 again.

In practice, if you're a server application author, either use the secure credentials storage service offered by your cloud provider or store your secure tokens encrypted on-disk with the decryption key either stored in a local config file elsewhere or entered at app startup.
Probably a good opportunity for more people to realize that all three services belong to the same company.
Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
asdf21 is implying that your strategy probably won't be effective because YouTube may only enforce this policy selectively (i.e. not on their own parent's content or other powerful entities).
Certainly! And yeah - I'm sure there's a whole range of perspectives. Probably the idea that plants might be defined as "conscious" bothers some people, but I just can't understand that frame of mind. What are you going to do about it... starve?
So the recorded Google employees were deepfakes?

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?
Fungi accumulate radiation by nature, so seems logical they can repair themselves. Remember the chernobyl warning to not collect them in hot areas in the forrests for years..

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ef/b2/b2/efb2b21b116aa6ff7e9c...

Mold also grows in wet spots, that are likely to correlate with natural higher radiation (radon) - meaning cavesystems etc.
From the article "Rarely during the late 1770s and 1780s was the Declaration publicly read or celebrated. Instead, most Americans celebrated their state constitutions and the promise of liberty contained within them. Or they celebrated their local declarations from 1776."

Though it doesn't say when those state constitutions were enacted, it sounds like the states were already separate things. That would explain the lack of interest in the declaration of independence at the time.

"But Wilson thought its significance lay elsewhere: in confirming that the United States was born a nation rather than a series of independent states."

If there were state constitutions prior to that, I'd say who cares what Wilson thought - facts are facts. Besides, how can you have someone sign from every state if those states are not already meaningful entities? I think a better stance is to say the nation was formed over a period of time, based on a set of principles and ideas (most importantly "we are separate from the old world"). Documents only served to formalize what was happening and agree on how to settle some differences.
It loads for me on Android with Firefox.
When you "report" videos of large companies, they will likely simply ignore those reports, rendering your outlined tactic futile.

Policies like these are almost always selectively enforced.
Copying random formulas out of a textbook is only a tiny part of writing programs, at least for me. Making this have slightly less friction just isn’t that big a practical improvement for me. YMMV.

In general I see code or explanations relying on Greek letters as no better than ones with English words for names.
He was accusing the parents of aiding a conspiracy to stage a fake shooting. I can imagine being a parent who has just lost a child, only to be told that I was lying, and that my child either never existed or was still alive. It's a real ideological litmus test - exactly how turned can your stomach get before you call for an exception to free speech?
The real question is - how do you handle this in any electron app? Anyone who can access your laptop/computer will be able to retrieve that token because the token needs to be stored somewhere! Has anyone implemented this before and how did you implement it?
Saw this the other day:

Why Everyone's Leaving YouTube[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQuE0wfjzf0

EDIT: I've submitted a separate post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347870
Apple Music seems to be having issues too
So you are saying parents are at the mercy of the whims of their children when it comes to buying food?
Try using R's data.table and then use pandas. Pandas is just awful to use in comparison.
I bet that this new policy incorrectly flagged this video, it will be restored, and none of the apocalyptic descriptions in the other comments will come to fruition.
I asked for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12165812

:)
Why Everyone's Leaving YouTube
IMO the point is that they’re creating misinformation with incorrect statements about MySQL. It’s not clear why they had to publish a blog post in the first place, to excuse themselves or to prove a point? Put that info in a FAQ and be ready to address incorrect info. I understand that MySQL doesn’t fit their use case and I wouldn’t try to smartass them out, but it’s wrong of them publishing incorrect data. If they thought this would help them and their conversation with existing and potential customers, it’s actually damaging their reputation, because it feels like their engineers don’t know what they’re doing.
They are using mysql innodb as a NoSQL store with fast replication instead of as a conventional database. They even call it "Schemaless".
Boeing announces $100M fund for families of 737 Max crash victims
LiveOverflow is great also
Really hope they feel the heat for this -- upvote the OP. YouTube is now tumbling down a slippery slope. Tell them you hate this.
Yes, this is basically the idea. However, there are different solutions for training and inference. For training, I would recommend that you add automatic checkpoint, and even consider model migration. For inference (which I think is the original concern), over provisioning is the key (simply because the fact that it would take a long time to load the model. Also, you also want to diversify your node types, etc.
If I'm not mistaken virtually all of the ones in the list above were caused by networking problems. Given how much Chinese parts are in those interfaces, it does make you wonder.

It could also be just a really strange coincidence.
Damn, of course ! It's a Stranger Things marketing ploy !
Past thought about free speech seems to be based on the assumption that people can communicate without having some third party approve the sender/receiver/message. Now we mostly use a communication medium that involves a lot of third parties. How many private companies carried this comment to your screen? The bakery whose WiFi I'm using now, their ISP, some unknown backbone carrier, YCombinator, your ISP. Maybe a CDN provider and some others I can't think of.

We already have an answer about a government-operated communication medium: the government (including those acting on its behalf) must uphold our rights. That implies an obligation to keep storing/hosting/delivering things we say. It costs money, but society is more or less ok with the idea of a government having a legal obligation to spend resources on something. But what do we do with a private entity which spends a lot of money to operate and maintain a communication medium?
I highly recommend ComponentSpace SAML SSO. There is a cost, but well worth it, imo. It's well maintained, support and forum available, fast responses, etc. I tried a few OSS, but they had some limitations that I couldn't get around in a short timeframe.
I have a few friends on the poverty line. They all live in houses and apartments without access to a working kitchen. Many rented rooms don't come with kitchen "privileges." In addition they work 60+ hours a week making time consuming food preparation less practical.

The result is a lot of cheap pre-packaged food and fast food.
I guess the thing is similar to a “right of way”. You cannot create and facilitate a common behaviour and suddendly prevent it.
From what I remember, Pandora did that really well. It's been a while since I've used it, but their classification system was really cool.
An NSL can only be used to subpoena metadata from a provider without the provider being allowed to inform anyone. It can’t be used to compel a company or person to do much else.
The best way to get out of an HOA is through a property tax auction. The government usually gets property free and clear of all obligations, and sells it in that state.

It's difficult and risky to push your property into a tax auction just to clear the HOA though. :)
These "attack maps" tend to just be a map of population centers cross-referenced against where it's daytime. They're worthless for actually assessing anything about potential threats.
Neither TV nor radio quite fits the analogy... because these are broadcast 1:many mediums.

And the idea that no one has a right to have their message amplified to millions is sort of insidious and evil.

Because the consumers choose what to watch on YouTube. And the users produce the content. So this more like a virtual community with billions of micro-interactions.

Of course it scales. The internet is a testiment to that. What's different today is only sentimental.
Yep -- I remember reading a review of "Plant-Thinking" around the time it was published that said something like "The critics who deride [the notion of plant-consciousness as expressed in the book] do so in language that demonstrates exactly the hierarchical, essentialist attitudes that the book looks to expose and dismantle"
I'm not sure the distinction is relevant. The fact is, Amazon can and will remove your books at any time and there is nothing you can do about it.
It’s still relevant today for external drives.
I'm more concerned that if a migration happened to Vimeo, you'd end up in the same spot. Speech doesn't presume an easy to reach audience. I'm fine with YouTube and its ilk not surfacing things organically if they don't want to or even de-monetizing- but I do object to total de-platforming based on non-illegal content. People have to have /somewhere/ to go.
This is a very important argument. It may sound stupid. But the point is the recent censorship efforts had even lower levels of pseudo logic.

They censored away voices that were fully covered under free speech. To be honest I can sympathize with your 'crime tutorial' argument even slightly more than banning hate mongers. Hate is not a crime.
I don't care much about his history. But the video is pretty damning. Unless it's "deceptively edited" in the sense of cutting up her speech and merging it together to form completely different sentences (which seems unlikely, as the video is smooth) or she was just kidding (sure, Trump is "just kidding" all the time!) or deepfakes (possible, but so far noone alleges that)...
It seems intern season has begun.
Property is no less a social construct than law is. That decision draws a spectrum between individual property and public property that is modulated by use; if you allow public use of your property, it will be regulated by the public, proportional to the degree at which you open the property to public use.

Without doing this, the government only has the authority to guarantee your rights on government property, which would effectively be no different from granting complete sovereignty to private entities.
> Isn't that how most home door locks work, though?

Not at all. Short of building a fortress, you won't stop someone determined to get inside, but you can make it sufficiently difficult that they're more likely to be noticed, or more likely to seek out an easier alternative.

> it's pretty helpful to have legal deterrents to amoral actions...

Nobody is suggesting otherwise; rather, the issue is that legislating against something doesn't stop it from happening, and therefore you do still need to secure against it as part of your threat model.

Furthermore, laws tend to paint with a very broad brush; changing a number in a URL isn't "hacking", for instance. Laws should work with technical measures. Climbing a fence makes it much more obvious that you're trespassing.
Plant conscience and plant lives matter arguments are usually used as a futility fallacy argument against the reduction of animal products consumption.

Something like: See, even plants are conscious, there is no point so let's just continue eating steaks and pork chops every day.
I have pretty much embraced containerization... as long as the source is out there, and data is well backed up, I'm relatively safe. To me, if it isn't a scripted deployment, it's not really exercised.

Aside: One thing I've done a few times is setup a queue and service to replicate data in an rdbms to elasticsearch or mongo as completely denormalized records for searching against. When I did that, it became very easy to store a .json.gz of these same records in s3/blob storage as a secondary backup.
I also found Bézier curve drawing more straightforward in CorelDRAW! than in Illustrator. I made the shift so long ago that I can’t remember the specifics, but the main difference was that Corel let you more easily switch among the modes for a point: cusp vs. smooth, split handles vs. symmetric, move mode vs. draw mode, etc.

There’s a learning curve you can get past that makes this difference go away, and it’s mainly down to grooving the modifier keys into finger memory. Once you stop consciously thinking “hold Command to switch from pen to white arrow mode” and such, you can work just as fast in Illustrator.

Illustrator helps teach you the modifier keys by changing the cursor as you hold down the modifiers. So, the next time you get stuck, just press them down one at a time until you get a cursor that looks like it should do what you want and see if it helps.
Our ad team couldn't upload any images to ads this afternoon, so I'd say it did do -some- damage.
I suppose the reason this token is not encrypted is because supporting offline data access would mean there's some private key on the computer -- and the same read access that exposed this token would expose that key.

Is the Trello offline data at rest encrypted in any way?
Hey , it lowers their security costs, that s very reasonable. Next they ll ban videos that teach how to install an ad blocker. It lowers their advertising loss, thats reasonable.
I agree, I feel like they should host pretty much anything. But they are absolutely responsible for what they promote, since their algorithms select what to recommend. This makes it impossible to remain "neutral". And they are also responsible for effects their algorithms have on society. At the very least will less people want to work for a company who caused the next civil war by spreading divisive content.
As a fellow artist I disagree :)

I’d totally use this. Spotify and Apple Music are 99% of my plays. The other services don’t matter.

(Youtube and Soundcloud are uploaded separate from Distrokid / CD Baby.)
Those two songs were concatenated and released as a single.

Unless you specifically want to play the album versions, Apple is likely to give you the single.
They do, but that is a large amount of stolen devices in a 6 month period compared to other countries.

The inner cynic in me asks - Maybe that was the template they used for such requests.
What is and is not an evolutionarily stable strategy will always be defined by the environment in which populations exist. A change in environment will disrupt any equilibrium. Capitalism as it exists now, for instance, might seem to be an ESS, but a change in conditions could change that. Similarly, on a long enough timeline, the vast, vast majority of strategies (so far) have proven non-viable. Doesn't mean they don't work for some groups, or for a time.

(I suspect your downvotes are from mudslinging with 'adolescent' and 'utopian', which sort of clash with/give the lie to your air of dispassionate analysis)
Intel and Baidu Partner on Nervana Neural Network AI Training Processor
For anything that isn't illegal -- offer user controls to block unwanted content.
How's Your Posture?
Your definition of "free speech" includes not taking action against truly malicious and slanderous and manipulative people like Alex Jones?

And there is no "who draws the line‽" argument here, Jones exists miles beyond what is ever ok.
Yeah, past a certain age almost all the problem kids have parents enabling them and/or causing tons of problems for them at home. You can't fix that in school, certainly not as long as parents are allowed to have any say in what happens there (which seems like something we should maybe not just get rid of), and if teachers start having to regularly go on home visits with the very parents who are accusing them (the teachers) of all kinds of nastiness because they sent precious little Timmy to the office for calling a fellow student the C-word and using their phone in class to post same on Insta, say goodbye to most of your teachers. They didn't sign up for that.

[EDIT] incidentally I'm baffled that so many schools allow phones in the building at all, let alone students to carry them to class as they're every bit as disruptive as one would think, but I gather that's another "pressure from loud, shitty parents" decision.
> vmd is cool tech, for sure, but it isn’t that useful to me. It is best if you want to run OpenBSD virtual machines or gimped Linux virtual machines.

The use of "gimped" is poor choice of words. It would be better if the author described specifically what fell short for them.
Reporting their own content doesn't matter, because the rules don't apply to them. Ergo, selective enforcement.
I always got the feeling that the original iPod Shuffle would randomize your songs ONCE, and that's why people where complaining. So when you loaded up your Shuffle, the software would order the songs randomly, on a playlist, for that set of songs. The Shuffle would then reshuffle the songs, when new one where added or removed, but only then.

That theory also explained the disconnect between the complaints and Apples response. Apple would indeed be right that the music was randomized, but not continuously, as consumers expected.

It was never clear to me what the issue actually was, perhaps we really don't understand randomness.
A previous employer of mine explicitly requested this behaviour in their app. The app showed a map, and could align map north with compass north; to save battery, it would drop to an incredibly low frame rate (1fps?) about one second after your finger left the screen. It achieves the power goal, and has a high rating in the App Store, so I learned something about user requirements and being humble from this experience.
you call it hunger games, i call it healthy competition...
Though they are part of Schengen which abolishes border control with the EU and makes things confusing for visitors.
> > Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country.

> They are the same country

> edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana

Maybe the downvotes (not from me) were because your post initially appears to be correcting your parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737), but is actually agreeing with it?
When Java finally got generics, it didn't add any support for generic sum types of checked exceptions.

stream.map(f).collect(…)

should obviously be able to throw anything f could throw. But instead f is forced to wrap every checked exception, and so pretty much everyone has given up and started declaring new exceptions as unchecked.