skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manipulating chess pieces is trivial for e.g. a pick and place robot, which are quite widely used for industrial activities that are quite close to moving chess or go pieces.

In particular, far from being "just 5 years out", robot hands that execute chess moves have been already demoed many times, including by hobbyists with very limited resources. Reliable computer vision was a bit more trickier a decade ago, but that's not a problem now; Having a robot beat grandmasters at "real chess" (i.e. the same thing as "virtual chess" but also manipulating the physical pieces) would not be considered a hard problem nor a valuable achievement, it's a nifty parlor trick that could make a cute demo 10 years ago, and could be used as a homework project for engineering students nowadays - however that's likely to be two separate projects, as the mechanical manipulation and visual recognition is likely to be different skillsets and thus different students.

Here's a random article from 2010 https://newatlas.com/chess-terminator-robot-takes-on-kramnik...

Here's a hobbyist project from 2013 https://www.robotshop.com/community/blog/show/a-chess-playin...

Here's a tutorial from 2017 on how to make the chess piece manipulation yourself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NefiXZ7BCsE

Here's a student project, replacing the vision with sensors - https://www.instructables.com/id/Chess-Robot/
I like the conclusions they come to in their letter to social media, where they are requesting allowing researchers more insight and control, essentially enabling them to sample/simulate the recommendation engine and get more insight into how it clusters or relates contents. Furthermore they want to reduce limits on API keys so that more comprehensive academic research can be performed.

They know the issue isn't so much the algorithm as those that are gaming it to empty extraction of peoples attention (== money), extreme, or harmful ends. In doing so we might better understand the problem and then provide tools or recommendation to social media and the public on the topic.
Sometimes the crime is pointing out that the police are violent thugs, or that your government is interring people in "reeducation" camps.

It's true that anonymity is a double-edged sword, but it's better than having no blade when one is wielded against you.
You can click "Not interested" on each of the videos recommended to you and you will get fewer videos of that kind or from that channel. Half of those stories are about helpless people or people having mental health issues, in which case unrestricted internet access will always be a problem. I personally don't get the point or suggested solution of the article, could anyone explain what their suggested solution is?
> That's what someone who does this kind of thing would say.

Speaking of cynicism, this argument is known as an Ad Hominem Circumstantial:

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
Yes it's like a debit card, and ATM card, and helpful reminder of your bank account details, all in one. And it's supported by Mastercard and Visa, so you can use it anywhere you can use a creditcard, even though it's not a creditcard.
I guess we can assume by this that TransferWise is patio11 approved :D
Well, for one thing, in order for the hideous crime to have real world impact it needs to by definition exist somewhere beyond just the onion site.

Otherwise it literally just is information.
What do you mean by not 100% there?
If you have a DB migration challenge then take a look at www.compilerworks.com
Can you put WPF code in .NET Standard 2.0 libraries somehow?
We need a Department Of Game Theory to advise our enforcement agencies on cheaters like this who game the system (and then to go meta when ex-DOGT employees try to cash in on their insider info).

If 99/100 times the fine is less than the profit and there is no jail time, we should be surprised that there's not even more fraud happening.
I don’t see how. Popular videos show ads what feels like every other minute. I find myself zoning out staring at the bottom right where the Skip Ad button shows up and I can’t even recall a single ad I’ve ever seen on YouTube.
I was hoping something would come out during the bankruptcy proceedings. But it seems that Lambert's buyout bid didn't result in any challengers putting forth specific and substantive self-dealing claims, at least none that would persuade a court to reject Lambert's offer.

Note: I can't read the WSJ article. I have subscriptions to NYT, FT, Bloomberg, and The Atlantic, but not WSJ.
I seem to be running across an increasing number of buttons that simply don't register clicks in Firefox. It's probably not FF's fault -- my money would be on webdevs leaning on chrome-only features -- but it does bring my Firefox session to a screeching halt and sends me back to chrome, usually after filling a form and trying to hit submit. It happens about once a week.

That's probably way too vague to be helpful unless someone else knows what I'm talking about, but if nobody does, I suppose knowing that could help motivate me to isolate and reproduce the issue next time it happens.
I think the issue is they may not want to go to ANY other website - they want the widget. What do they do then?
But Apple has taken some responsibility for this by knocking out third party MDM apps that served this purpose (like OurPact) and then replacing it with a half-finished piece of work that suffers from multiple usability problems.

As a parent, I'm taking responsibility for my kids' time and development by making sure the Skinner box is turned off until homework and chores are completed. I don't feel that's outsourcing my work as a parent - it's just one more tool in my toolbox among many.

You may disagree and you're raising your own kids differently, and that's just fine.
FB's solution to unsolicited messages and spam was basically to make messages from non-friends totally invisible. I wouldn't really call it a dark pattern, but they have broken the ability to send messages to anyone who is not your friend. It's pretty much a spam filter with with one binary parameter. It's just lazy.
If the TOS said you were only allowed to view while wearing a top hat, it wouldn't suddenly be piracy if you watched it hatless. A TOS doesn't define the general usage of the term piracy.
Aweomse OSS for static site contact form validation to avoid spams
why does AI have to go to college
My 7 and 9yo kids start school at 8:50am, and don't get off the bus until 4:30pm. It's ridiculous. They're young and need time off but because the district moved everyone back to make room for the High Schools now elementary kids aren't home until half past 4.

Not enough time for them to play in the afternoons now.
We bet you $10K that we will outperform your pricing strategy
Be all that as it may, in a world where people use their Wi-Fi SSIDs to say nasty things to their neighbours, I totally buy that this story is plausible.
A while ago, there was a fashion of making lost wallet studies around the world. It looks like every factor is more relevant than country (time of day, wallet stile, place, phone number being available, anything), except for those countries where people absolutely do not let things out of place and those where people think everything is a bomb.
These are a couple of high level problems...

A large global problem is still starvation, millions of people dying every year. Work on helping countries feed themselves.

Majority of the world does not have access to internet, decentralised peer to peer networks could help here.
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So probably closer to $30k/yr
From looking at job markets vs cost recently, Nashville came out near the top for me on the list of worst job markets with most expensive housing.
Certainly the networking is beneficial. For those not coming from a finance/consulting background, it's probably also useful to learn financial modeling techniques.
You can clear your watch history:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?co=GENIE.Pla...

You can also configure it to automatically clear anything older than 3 or 18 months.

Or follow this link to go straight there: https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols/youtube
Off topic: is the intro animation designed for trackpads or something? It's advanced by you scrolling, and since I'm using my scrollwheel and it's a stuttery mess. This design seems to be pretty widespread as well. Are all these designers assuming that everyone uses touchpads for scrolling?
> "content I don't like exists on YouTube"

"... and YouTube irresponsibly recommends that content to people who are likely to be negatively affected by it".
I agree. People have shown that the content that gets watch time and appeals to the widest demographic is "low quality".

The author of this appears to have allowed their child to freely browse the collection of videos, regrets it, and is now passing blame. In the case of his father, the author is blaming YouTube for not curating proper content. Why didn't the author curate content for his father or spend more time with them to see what they were watching? It sounds like the premise of these points is that the author didn't appreciate the bubbles their family members fell into, and instead wanted them to be in different bubbles.
I've done reading where my varying enjoyment of different parts was essentially intermittent rewards.
yup, and further, the effects of the mba degree are washed out by larger order movements in the culture and the polity. like the cultural backlash that led to reagan and trickle-down economics. the lessening importance of agriculture, and labor migrating to cities. the emboldenment of the military-industrial complex. the export of manufacturing with the rise of globalization. the financialization of mortgage and insurance (especially health). these have all been driven (at least in part) by the chase for wealth, without regard to academic pedigree (or lack thereof).

you'd be closer to the target if you pointed your finger at large financial institutions like goldman sachs and the world bank/IMF. but even these can't singularly explain the business and economic trends we've seen in the past 50 years, much less the "rise of the MBA".
I've written like one C++ program in my life and I had no problems figuring it out. Although I write C somewhat frequently and have done a lot of Haskell stuff. I think experience with any statically typed language is going to make it easier to learn another one.
From a micro perspective, the cost of consumer goods seems to be steady but the cost of housing, education, and healthcare is increasing faster than inflation.
Why not use Startpage for that?
On the shortest days of the year in Los Angeles[1], there is civil twilight around 6:30am and full daylight before 7am. Maybe the writers, who even have children, live close to the schools they attend.

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/los-angeles
It probably changed with the Obama administration but when I was on H1b it was said that we had to leave as soon as possible. Maybe you are right because we could never find a legal source of truth for this info. The point is, we have to leave everything. If you have kids, car, school for kids, house everything goes out.
That is a very big price to pay. It’s not just your social network that is affected, but your children’s also.
I gotta say this is terrifying. Not because Mozilla is trying to hold YouTube responsible for not doing a better job fine-tuning their addiction-machine (who hasn't found themselves sucked into the one-more-video vortex) but because we're now happy to blame some algorithm for our shortcomings and take no personal responsibility for our actions.

I personally went through a 3-month journey starting from travel videos to getting sucked into the "look how awesome mirrorless cameras are and all the beautiful content I can create with them" and ended up spending about 15k on camera gear (body, lenses, gimbals, lights, etc). I eventually managed to reign myself in but I didn't think I can now turn around and blame Google or some algorithm for spending far more than I should have. Shouldn't I be accountable for my own actions and lack of impulse control instead of expecting a corporation with an ad-revenue business-model to do it for me?
#1 yes, but explain #2.
I don’t get how this is supposed to work with sports and other activities. In high school I had water polo/swimming practice mornings at 6:15. Is that now illegal?
One time I clicked on a silly animated music video about how Mussolini screwed up invading Greece, and watching this whole 60 second clip flipped my entire youtube into alt-right mode. It was like night and day and it happened immediately.

I started getting suggested things like "Biggest Hillary Fails" and "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS WHOEVER" over and over and over, and it got quickly got darker with things about how problematic immigration was and weird fan "documentaries" about senior SS leaders.

I'm way too suspicious (to a fault) of everything I take in, but I can imagine other people going down real holes if they were served the same terrible suggestions.
Software company in accordance with the theory of constraints
In a van down by the river?
On the other hand, I like the explicitness of it instead of automatically converting to a different type. At least you know exactly what it's doing.

The python version of it would be calling `list()` on things all the time, which you might not always want to do.
At first glance (by the name) I thought this was something that analyzed your AWS usage based on API logs and created an "ideal" policy for to use (or recommend permissions to remove/add).
> I routinely see devtools of both Chrome and Firefox bog down if you preserve transactions or stay ona page with a log or background requests for a while or the console and load a few pages with a lot of ajax and/or js or that log a lot.

Fun thing is - there is no real reason for that to happen. It's just that both devtools are written using HTML and JavaScript, and it's not trivial to handle big sets of data there.
Exactly. I started and run the largest crypto meetup in Aus (~3300 members). I've been very conscious about this problem for a few years and have been wading through trauma/drama to steer the ship back to basic pub meetups with no sponsors and no speakers.

Another huge problem are co-organisers. You bring them onboard because they're happy to take turns organising events and it takes the load off.

I never start meetups with the intention of getting a job or business opportunities, but that's often why co-organisers join. You think, sure, everyone's a volunteer so it's fine if they get something out of it.

Then years pass and those co-orgs are deeply involved to the point where their livelihoods depend on the subject matter (Ethereum in this case). And they want to keep the sales pitch lecture model, since they almost always slot themselves in as speaker when it's their turn to organise.

You suggest changing the meetup name to be less tribalistic and to change the format to drop speakers and sponsors. HUGE drama. You put it to a vote, 5-3 agree to the change. The other 3 decide to clone the meetup under the same old name, email all members telling them to join, steal the Facebook and Twitter accounts, harass me everyday for a week over Telegram until I snap, then screenshot my response and spread it through the community.

Communities man.
Wtf?

It _is_ a dark pattern. It prevents you from _knowing_ someone has messaged you. In 99,9% of cases you want to know someone sent you a message.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines we will ban you. We've asked you many times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What they did has nothing to do with democracy or "putting a choice". They tried to abuse their position to force their personal point of view on a whole country.
Same. I have been able to completely depersonalize Youtube for myself. I don't remember the exact steps I took in Google's privacy dashboard—turning off history and removing all liked and disliked videos were among them—but it absolutely worked.

I don't think this discounts the larger problem though...

P.S. I'm quite frustrated that I can't "depersonalize" Amazon.
A bank card has the sort code and account number of the account on. Those let you transfer money into the account. They don't let you take over the account. They're like an area code and phone number, which don't let you take over someone's house.
Because double-voting is a very rare thing, while disenfranchising 50k voters in a single purge could easily swing an election in a competitive race.
I know the government was, meaning I'm not sure if they still are now, without getting too specific. I'm not sure if that included the police, though.
Does IPFS even try to provide anonymity? Even if it would be technically "censorship-resistant", what good is it when everyone can see who hosts the content, track them down, and subpoena/arrest them?
I don't. I assume you're talking about privacy but it's basically the same as for your phone.
The pioneers of cultural anthropology who created “cultural relativism”
Reflexive cynicism is a simple, easy way of asserting intellectual superiority over others without directly insulting them. Super common in internet comments, including, arguably, this one.

It's vastly less complicated to just assume and assert that everything is bullshit everywhere, all the time, than to actually try to discern where cynicism and optimism are each warranted.
> YouTube is merely a mirror of our societies.

Youtube hasn’t affected the world? That seems like an extraordinary claim to me.
Despite what seems like quite a lot of political overlap with the author I have to disagree with basically the entire article.

It approaches the problem from entirely the wrong end. Code is code and we shouldn't be adding ever more licenses and conditions to it.

Besides the definition of 'evil' is a purely political one. While ICE is a good example, what about Cuba? Many people would claim Cuba is a despotic terrible regime (I wouldn't agree) and US sanctions already stop certain goods and services being provided to Cuba. What about a research department in Iran using code to predict earthquakes? What about here in the UK, the department of work and pensions (DWP) is undergoing a huge IT overhaul, my belief is their current incarnation is borderline fascist and anyone working with them is committing social murder, but it's not clear cut.

But these aren't code's problems to solve. They're ours,they're for politics to solve and that's a messy process that shouldn't interfere with a movement to build a commons of knowledge in the form of code. The same with Amazon or whoever profiting without giving back. I believe, as do many others, that the wealth of people like Jeff Bezos is obscene and unjustifiable (many others, especially here feel opposite). But trying to thrash out these issues through code licenses is just absurd.

While I'm all for things like codes of conduct to improve conditions on open source projects the reasons given here for putting up fences around the 'commons' of open source just seem wrongheaded.

As a final example take decentralised technologies. A lot of actual usage is by people who don't want to be monitored for more nefarious reasons (human trafficking, csa etc) (alongside/counter-to genuinely positive usages like whistle blowing, evading censorship, etc) but that's not a flaw with the technology, we have social structures to deal with that sort of thing.
> Now my recommendations are trash because they're too generic, which is precisely how I like them.

Do one better: Consider NewPipe [0] instead, if you're on Android.

[0] https://newpipe.schabi.org/
Article does nothing to debunk any of the "myths" just offers suggestions as to why you might not trust any scientific study.
It's not unreasonable when the party they're a part of has a long history of disenfranchising voters to gain an electoral edge.
Ugh.. this is so true. When I bought my house I used a rudimentary linear regression to decouple land price from home price. My realtor thought of that as unworkable black magic. I was like well, if I know the build quality and know the cost of construction, why wouldn't this work?

I think the answer was "pride of ownership, location, location, location!"
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Episode 6 – Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution
Really excited to see this. We have an Ionic Angular app that is running in production and being actively developed.

We probably won't get the chance to use Ionic React soon but really hoping this gets more people excited about Ionic. Being able to deploy to iOS, Android, and web with a single codebase is incredible for starting with a MVP and transforming it into a great product.
Another kind of YT regret is finding a great video that YT then removed, which you will never see again. No chance of contacting the channel author (deleted).

A YT user must develop the habit of downloading anything that appears valuable.
I suspect the start time is meant only for classes, not extra-curriculars.
We've asked you repeatedly not to break the site guidelines by taking HN threads into flamewar. If you keep doing it, we will have to ban you. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You know there's something weird. You could prove your little hypothesis here wrong in less time than it took you to write it. So why state something that's wrong?

I tested this by choosing to search for something completely random that would return unusual results and give a decent indicator of whether or not DDG was just copy-pasting results, so to speak. I searched for "extent space taco secure", no quotations. Bing seems to have exploded when I searched for this. The results are completely nonsensical and seem to have nothing to do with what I searched for. The first two hits are to Google, the first about webhp (apparently some virus?) and the other to their chrome page. Other links include things like links to fidelity.com, americanexpress.com, and the huffington post front page.

DDG's results are [mostly] reasonable and populated mostly by things like some recent event where the head of NASA mentioned space security. Though it does have a link to the SF bay area craigslist alongside a couple of other really weird ones. In any case, you can see for yourself. Suffice to say they're definitely not just replicating results, at least not from Bing.
There is a lot of good documentation available
Good point. So where do we draw the line between good advertising (i.e. new products, new movie trailers) and bad advertising (i.e. “beauty” product manipulations, sugary drink commercials)?
There is a meaningful difference between Buies Creek, NC and Coulee City, WA.

Its less about population size and more about distance from the urban center. Coulee City is a 2-hour drive from a major city (Spokane), while Buies Creek is maybe a 40-minute drive from a major city (Raleigh).

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From MY perspective, both Buies Creek and Coulee City are rural.

But from the perspective of someone who lives in Coulee City, they probably think Buies Creek is suburban (since it is commute-distance from a city).
2018. One year ago today.
Ok got it - yeah looks like it's around 4% with a $4k standard deduction.
Nothing cheap about being way ahead of C++ in metaprogramming and compile-time programming.
Is there any way to block the creation of policies containing specific permissions or resources? I know this can be trivially circumvented but if this tool is used in ci/cd it can be a good gate.