skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube is always facing creator backlash. I don't see anything new in this article.

For example, I'm not a fan of how the algorithm seems to prioritize clickbait (clickbait is the cancer of the internet) and longer videos. This leads people to load up their videos with filler to hit that 10 minutes length, and then sensationalize their titles, often into "questions" that the video will then fail to subsequently answer. I've had a video get a false copyright claim - it sucked, and it steered me away from making the kind of political videos that use news clips.

But there are no viable competitors, I guess because hosting video content is expensive and network effects. Facebook is probably the closest competitor, but there's too much noise and it's not really much of a search engine for videos. Tik-Tok is not a competitor - it serves an entirely different market (the one formerly served by Vine and Music.ly) of short mobile clips.

Until Youtube starts shadowbanning channels and playing a "Big Brother" censorship role, I'll continue to post there. (I've heard rumours of Youtube shadowbanning channels, but I'm not convinced that they're legitimate, though I haven't really looked into it)
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No, two rounds max; both parties lose (suspect's video deleted and claimant gets a strike) it is not resolved in two rounds.
I can still not see the sense in programming cheap underpowered phones with HTML5/JS/CSS instead of writing native software for them.
Hmm, if only there was a company who could help balance demand. https://www.tesla.com/megapack
Excerpt from Thom1218's comments on YouTube:

"The lasers in these machines HAVE to be pulsed, using a method called Q-switching to obtain high peak-power pulses that can couple their energy into otherwise transparent material. These pulses, incidentally, are in the megawatt range and over a very short time span, usually a number of nano seconds. These lasers use several IR diode lasers to "pump" a Nd:YAG laser crystal, which is frequency doubled from 1024nm to 532nm (green) in order to be able to pass into the glass target object. Interestingly, this laser technique is used in tattoo removal machines to penetrate skin and oblate sub dermal ink . CO2 lasers can do a continuous etch on glass because glass is opaque to the near IR long wavelength of CO2 lasers, and therefore they can only etch the surface. Also, because glass is opaque to CO2, more energy is transferred directly to the glass, rather than passing through it, which allows the CO2 laser to remain in CW operation (continuous wave, i.e. not Q-switched). So, the operators of these bubblegram machines do not have the option to do a "continuous blast". However, using fewer dots/bubblegram will shorten processing time and wear on the laser components."

My thoughts: Absolutely fascinating!

Also, I wonder if it would be possible to condition glass in some way to act as a transistor, whether optical, electrical, or for some other particle/wave phenomena. Like maybe lead glass, or other glass which contains metal particles in it -- would change its waveguide properties at points where a laser etched it... thus, maybe it might be possible to etch some kind of transistor (for a specific wavelength/wave phenomena) into it...
I'd usually use a queue + worker for this purpose.
You will have to work out how to deal with old requests, backlogs, etc.. But then, if you are considering effectively forcibly making requests time out to internal servers, you will also need a strategy for handling that, retries, etc.
R is going away??!?!?
The tidyverse, Rstudio, and modern ecosystems like bioconductor have led to a huge boom in the use of R in life sciences, to the point that I teach more Python than R. I reckon R is now the language of choice if you are starting out in the life sciences/biology. RLadies chapters are sprouting up like nobody's business all over the world!

And they don't even know about the big projects that connect R and Python, like Rstudio's reticulate.
good point. but my comment can be extended to that group. do they really want a more expensive phone or do they want their problems solved?

no matter which though, speculating from the sidelines isn't going to help.

unfortunately i fear that a big drive to more expensive phones is because they are being used as a status symbol.

but that too is a sideline comment and is not nice to the people we talk about
Smart phones grew out of feature phones. Marketers needed a new name to differentiate them.
I mean, they’re not terrible. I think I prefer them to other Pizza chains. And they have a dope app.
Reflecting on it, it is completely crazy that these devices are available for 25$. Somewhere along the line of production the exploitation chain must really work out.

Just ordered a pack of µC the other day for under 1$ per unit. These come with powerful computation cores, floating point units, analog-digital converters, countless integrated serial interfaces... You don't even get a coke for that price. Completely insane world...
An answer there would likely be smaller teams. For context, when I was at Pivotal (on the consulting side, years ago) a team of 4-5 pairs would be considered quite large.

Also a problem that's solved by the combination of pairing and frequent communication. You don't need full context on anything yourself, as long as the combination of you, your pair, and anyone you can grab within arms reach can fill in the blanks.
Martin Thompson talks about this in several of his talks. The same queuing theory that applies to software should also apply to dev teams - that service response time (or I guess delivery of features) slows down exponentially, not linearly, as utilization increases beyond a critical threshold (70% ?). He explains this at around 5m25s in this talk [1] - another point relevant to this thread at 9m30s. Some dev teams could be better at applying back pressure in their processes to avoid inundating themselves with too-high utilization and falling into exponential team slow down.

[1] https://youtu.be/03GsLxVdVzU

[2] https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2012/05/apply-back-...
Isn't that stretching "social"? The money I hold is not tied to the yet unknown individual or group with with whom I will exchange it for goods or services, the person might not even be born yet.
Archaic ancestors, by definition, died a very long time ago. Modern "races" are all equally modern.
Cheaper because the skills are ubiquitous. I'm also assuming the apps are simple so the web triad can cover most use cases.
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Humans are communal creatures who have particularist ties to people in their own society. If we want to speak about the intentional beliefs of the rich, I think we need to take an intra-societal view rather than a cosmopolitan one.

Five reasons why the rich tend to be worse people:

1) Humans only need some modest necessities to live and a stable income to be secure, and beyond this, our desires are largely manufactured and driven by status

2) Unlike in the past, today, the higher our income the longer hours we are likely to work

3) There are many people who are poor and destitute and need money orders of magnitude more than the rich

4) People have a tendency to search for legitimations for their actions, and so the rich try and justify their wealth as a result of merit, natural inequality, work ethic, etc.

The rich are disproportionately driven by status, spend less time with their friends and family - and indeed their lives are absorbed in instrumental gain - hoard wealth at the grave expense of others, and are given to excessive pride and covetousness.
Getting the list of endpoints is easy. Doing something with that list of endpoints is the hard part.
> representations of social relations

What Nick Szabo would call reciprocity, or the delay thereof.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
Question is would the Neanderthals have also shared traits with other hominids? I find that religion and politics kind of muddies the science with human evolution
New Vegas was actually developed by Obsidian (some of the original Fallout 1 and 2 guys), not Bethesda.

Explains why it was better than Fallout 3 and 4.
Nuclear energy is used a lot less than coal and kills a lot less than coal. Let's see how it goes when reactors replace power generation in third world with poor safety record and in upcoming warzones.

We nerds love technology and this is really the main reason for strong pro-nuclear sentiment in places like HN. Health effects or emissions footprint have little to do with it.
Can't agree with that - many early androids, the original and current android Blackberry (key2?) are all smartphones, but have or had a keyboard. There's also a selection of crazy expensive Far East smart flip phones with Motorola Razr form factor.

All deserve to be called smart phones.
G, H, L, N, O, U, W and Y are the remaining letters for programming languages, grab one fast.
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> deployless may make a good headline, but there are many more-exciting features. There's visual programming, a concise OCaml-style language, a unique pub-sub mechanism baked right in, and integrated database support.

So, everything that is currently delivered in the real world by technologies like OutSystems, which have an enterprise customer base, 1-click deploys, and that you can actually try for free.
Development time. Time to market is more important than performance even on slow phones.
Maybe, sorry. I understood "clear choice means easy to understand (and notice)" to mean that a simple banner would be enough to count as "choice", even if it didn't have an explicit action.
I don't think that's true, python had no concept of strong vs. weak equality and ordering. cmp returned either -1, 0, or 1 (or at least, it was treated that way). There was no way to describe "unequal, but not orderable".

That's the flaw which cpp avoids, although it remains to be seen if implementing complex spaceships is worth it.

Or I guess, python is now in the pre-cpp20 state, but was never in the post-cpp20 state, so it didn't revert. Python's cmp was broken.
I wonder if there is a compromise that would look something like Gopher - very lightweight, limited UI etc.

NB I'm not literally recommending Gopher but a modern day equivalent.
>I wonder if they ever factor in societial factors like these.

Radioactive releases like this are endemic to every coal-burning power station, which while a problem for public health certainly isn't publicized like this is.

Remember, carbon emissions will also destroy the planet if the current projections are anything to go by; I think the chance (certainly less likely with modern reactor designs) that a few local areas are rendered uninhabitable is a tradeoff society will need to be willing to make when the alternative is that the entire planet be rendered uninhabitable over a significantly longer timeframe.

Any other answer just isn't taking climate change seriously enough. Reactors are ready (with the proper funding) for construction today; solar/wind designs capable of supplying the quantity of baseload power nuclear can do not currently exist and neither does power storage- and they aren't nearly as scalable as building another reactor is (mainly due to land and raw materials usage) when power demands jump because everyone needs an air conditioning to survive the summer and a local desalinization plant (or water pipeline) because the rivers and aquifers no longer provide enough water. Additionally, if an energy-intensive carbon capture technology becomes available, the only energy source capable of powering such a device at the scale required is nuclear.

We've already offloaded our waste onto future generations. Might as well use the most effective technology we know how to create to stem the bleeding a bit.
good point. i was almost going to add cpu and memory capabilities into the differences a web developer should be able to handle, but unfortunately those are exactly among the issues that are hard if not impossible to test for. i can easily emulate a different screensize and maybe resolution. but i can't emulate the different cpu and ram of any other device.
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There is wind at night. It's extremely unlikely that all renewables produce no power at all for a whole day. Batteries are perfectly fine to smooth over a 50% dip in power generation over a few hours. For longer periods (i.e. winter) you want power-to-gas and gas plants.

Also, 21 billion is actually not that much. Coal power costs about $2k per kW (or more[1]), so having enough coal plants to satisfy that demand would cost about 18 billion.

[1] https://www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/SynapsePa...
Wait, you guys get pension funds?
IANAL, but I believe part of the issue is that breaching a hundred million records is one data breach, but exfiltrating a few thousand journals is one infringement per journal.

In point of fact, the prosecutor on Swartz case (Stephen Heymann) had previous authored an article describing how the Internet age allowed crime to scale, enabling hackers to commit thousands of criminal acts per second. It's my personal belief that Heymann wanted to use Swartz' case as a validation of this belief.

(Source: The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, ISBN 978-1476767727)
>almost completely broken

That seems like a gross exaggeration, almost to the degree of willful ignorance.

The amount of premature death as well as increase in morbidity caused by the entire nuclear energy industry in the US is significantly lower than any other source of power. Simply the steel and concrete alone required for solar power pushes it's morality rate higher.

While our current secretary of energy, Rick Perry, might have had no clue what the department of energy did when he wanted to abolish it as a presidential candidate. Nonetheless, it and other regulatory bodies are quite effective an ensuring we have safe nuclear facilities.
The APL family of languages makes very limited use of delimiters. They are a bit more common in k and q, but in Dyalog APL and J, the use of adverbs makes almost always possible to write expressions without using any parens or with a very low number of them.

Concatenative languages such as (or derived from) Forth also use a very low number of delimiters, since they can usually be replaced by stack manipulation words.

I am not sure this is what you were asking, but if you do not know APL and/or Forth, I recommend you to have a look. It's a funny rabbit hole in which to get lost.
Depending on how you approach it, it can be completely automated: https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh
Keep in mind, however, that this is not reciprocal: The Federal government can lie to you with impunity.
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If it breaks a certain threshold, then you can be certain it will be the global reserve currency again. People often forget how stable the world economy was under Bretton Woods.
In my sibling response I mentioned that just 5 articles have been truly valuable. In no particular order:

DOI: 10.1109/MC.2003.1204375 ; "Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History"

DOI: 10.1109/AGILE.2013.17 ; "Continuous Delivery? Easy! Just Change Everything (Well, Maybe It Is Not That Easy)"

DOI (with link): https://doi.org/10.1002/spip.344 ; "The agile professional culture: A source of agile quality" [the article itself is pretty light on useful material but it contains some of the strongest individual arguments I've seen, all in one package]

Direct PDF link: https://www.futureworksconsulting.com/perch/resources/pdfs/t... [the valuable material is on the first page]

DOI: 10.1.1.428.5843 ; "Evaluation of Quality AssuranceFactorsinAgile Methodologies"

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There are plenty of other reports and papers on the topics, but they bring very little to the table on their own. These five have provided me with a decent starting point. The references to findings and reports from 1950's are in the first one, btw.
Dominos has out performed the S&P 500 by like 200% in 5 years. In the last year it returned -2%, so that’s not good, but still a positive story overall.
I use pgcli for most of my day to day stuff in Pg, but recently been getting lazier and running pgadmin from docker and mapping volumes to store connections/SSH tunnels/server groups etc. Makes writing and tweaking longer queries a lot easier.
I use outline.com to avoid that: https://outline.com/q7MMgC
Their nuclear rocket is a development effort, not an operational weapon, and they haven’t claimed to have achieved the central technical goal of making a reactor small enough to put in a missile.
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Can anyone recommend me a well written book on distributed systems? I've finished reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications last year and enjoyed it a lot.
Birds evolved from dinosaurs, certainly those are extinct, yet they share a large portion of DNA.
Get him into VR. My parents are a bit younger (~70) but they are amazed at the valve index and the experiences that it provides. They use it more than me.
> I wonder if they ever factor in societial factors like these.

This is either egregious intellectual laziness or a passive-aggressive attack, neither of which I'd like to see on HN. In any case, the answer is that we do, and fission is still orders of magnitude safer than coal.
We are a sum of all our ancestors so they kind of live on through us
> i can't emulate the different cpu and ram of any other device.

Of course you can: run a virtual machine, give it e.g. 500 MB, don't allow the guest OS to have the swap file, install there your favorite browsers and try (and weep).

It will be hard and unpleasant for you, but that's exactly what the users with less money are faced with. To ease your initial pain (or make the installation of the browsers or the OS even possible?), you can first install the OS and the browsers with more virtual RAM on the guest and only then reduce it.

And of course, you'd have to clear the browser cache every time before you try your pages. Also ideally, limit the network speed and increase the request latency!

Also to get the "realistic" CPU speed, run that all on some less powered CPU, like: https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Compute-Computer-Processor-BOXS... with Atom processor.

The question is more the will and not the technical aspect. And explaining all that to the managers, if you are in a company which doesn't have awareness of the potential users around the world.

To give you an idea: I can read still HN site on the underpowered devices, but there are enough sites today which just don't load or crash (i.e. I can't read the linked articles). It's that bad.
There's no consensus in the literature about the role of genetic factors in Kenyan dominance. For any X you can find journal articles arguing that X is genetically determined. See e.g. https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/7/2/a... for a more balanced perspective.

>That's precisely why someone raised in a high-altitude Ethiopian community but whose ancestors are from, say, the Netherlands would not be expected to be as well-adapted to altitude (or long-distance running) compared to their historically Ethiopian neighbours, all else being equal

You say "would not be expected to be" because, of course, no-one has actually done this experiment and no-one knows what would actually happen. Nor indeed would we be able to verify that any given individual from the Netherlands does in fact lack the putatively relevant genes, since we don't know what they are.
> Additionally, it wasn't uncommon to have Tigers killed, back then, due to danger to human lives. And the Tiger hunters were celebrated heroes.

But then why do you say in your previous comment that there is an overwhelming sense of guilt in the public psyche? There is no such guilt; people are largely indifferent.
I don't expect anybody to do anything, more suggesting that a good way to tap into this market would be to develop native apps that don't suck.

A bit of Google-fu shows that a lot of these phones run something called KaiOS, and it looks like native apps are actually build using HTML/CSS/JS anyway - https://developer.kaiostech.com/
I think you imagine that a nuclear power plant would explode like a nuclear bomb, that is not the case. The fuel used is not the same as in the one in bombs either so you can't put some masks on and rob the nuclear plant.
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Pretty sure PwC used to run television commercials for branding / brand awareness.
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And that is exactly what is happening in Paris, for instance. There are a ton of different apps there. Kapten is one of them. They simply cut their commission by 15% compared to Uber, pay the drivers 7.5% more and make the rides 7.5% cheaper, basically. Since they don't have as much legal costs and marketing costs as Uber, it seems to work out for now. I really don't see how Uber will be able to prevent this in other places too...
What would their business motive be for pivoting to mainstream content? Doesn't that eliminate the one thing that differentiates them?
Ethipoia, and Africa as a whole, is not Band Aid. Addis Ababa gets more rainfall each year than Washington state.
Time to market for what? Do you think those users won't use apps that are built for hundreds of millions of users (i.e. same/similar chat, payments etc apps as everyone else uses)
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The most trending repository on GitHub: "Do not ban Iranian users!"

View these URLs:

https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us

https://github.com/trending
If the regulation worked we probably wouldn't need nuclear reactors. If the trillions spent on oil subsidies due to regulatory capture (which incurs the cost of warfare) went to renewable energy, we'd likely be close to non-dependent on oil and nuclear.
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The tweet is supposed to say:

If 95% of things fail, you'll be correct 95% of the time by calling each thing a failure.

But you'll never be in the 5% yourself. (sure, an exaggeration to say you'll never be successful, but such is 140 characters)

(Agree with your points re audience. I'd hope people can differentiate between things they don't use and things that are useless)
If you're able to could you interview him on video about the work he used to do?

I would find those videos fascinating. You might be able to set up an AMA-style thing where people ask questions about what he did, how he did it, why things were done in that way.

Do you have anything similar to U3A where he is? It's a nice way to meet other people and keep your brain ticking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Third_Age
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As someone spending a lot of time on the command line SSH'd into various servers I use vim for editing alot, and a language with easy editing (everything is line-based) seems like a cool idea, it reverses the trend of building more and more sophisticated (and complicated) IDE integrations for code formatting, splitting etc., instead favoring simple editing along newlines.