skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as they agree to enforce whatever the copyright regime wants things can only get worse.

If the regime had to pay for false-positives then there could be balance. Who has the power to pressure youtube to be better?

In a world where distribution is free and frictionless the only thing to create and manage is scarcity.
This is probably the most astute comment on the current media landscape I've ever seen. Just as Moore says, much of our world is trapped in the 20th century. The media, the philosophy, the people in charge...

I once read Baby Boomer culture described as an ugly toad squatting on the rest of society, holding it back. The truth turned out to be a bit different though. Even the younger generations still willingly embrace 20th century life (probably more than they realize).

I think social media will finally tip things over into a new era though. The narcissism that is its core feature is also an outgrowth of 20th century individualism and a quest for self actualization. Pushed to its limits, it destroys its participants and society at large.

For anyone interested in these topics, I highly recommend The Century Of The Self. It talks about the intersection of psychology, marketing, technology and the generation that grew up with them in the 20th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
I guess there can be a lot of influence in a discussion based on how comments are upvoted, how algorithms will favour one type of content over another? (especially when advertising is guiding it all, and lobbies are big advertisers)

I enjoyed this article: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a9335/upvote...

I also rarely visit Reddit, but for Facebook and Twitter, I guess there has been plenty of research on how people can manipulate public opinion by sharing/voting, and also the impact of their respective algorithms for promoting content?

Of course, Tik Tok is no different, and we should be worried. They do the same thing, only it's not 'our' lobbies and we have little control on them.
I love the current superhero movies. I'd be worried about this backlash from people like Moore and Scorsese if it wasn't for the fact that these movies are pulling in around a billion dollars on average. Disney is in it for the money and as long as the movies are pulling in the $ they will keep making them.
I love accidentally discovered cures for issues. This might be like penicillin for ears and hopefully it will relieve the suffering of thousands of people.

Let's hope it turns out to be true and can be developed rapidly into a medical device.
Reading between the lines of what Moore said I don't see the problem as simply watching superhero movies. It's watching too much TV at all. It's spending too much time on Facebook. It's buying a new [insert product here] that we can't afford because the short-term hit makes us feel better. It's drinking a little more alcohol than we know we should. It's telling our primary car doc that we want that pill because it's too scary and expensive to visit a therapist.

My point is that there are more ways to escape now than there probably has ever been. Most of them in isolation and used moderately are harmless but far too may people don't use them in isolation or in moderation.
> This is the first time that I said that...

many have done before you, and still doing it.

So, please stop.

It never happened.

> Yes, just because having consensual sex with a 17 and 364 days years old is illegal in some places and the law there calls it rape it does not make it rape in reality

Stallman was arguing exactly on the opposite: just because it is of legal age in some country, it doesn't make rape any less rape.

He was talking about Minsky, who he was not defending.

> can you show me your source where she says that he raped her?

Here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190502114026/https://www.aklag...
> What is hard is coming up with better solutions that could actually be implemented in whatever YouTube could potentially be replaced with.

Anonymous, encrypted, censorship-resistant peer-to-peer networks.
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Or just a clever marketing campaign by the pork industry...
Until recently they were using old TomTom data for Hawaii. Really old crappy data c. 2006-2011. Hawaii was done early because they wanted their own data.
Right, because the Jewish creators of many of the most famous super heroes were all about the White Christian supremacists.
Classic example of a social media dissenting opinion. "I don't agree with TFA, so clearly they're lying. It's okay, I don't need anything more than my gut instinct to disagree."
Saints? What has replaced the genre of hagiography in the modern world anyway?
Have you checked out the Xbox plus subscription, it includes PC games now.
This has nothing to do with late stage capitalism. I wish people would stop using that term without understanding what it means.
Because to run the service you have to pay for that 50% utilized computer and associated infrastructure where you don't when its someone else's?
That's a valid concern, but given that this is a process where an adult has to stand outside the door to observe a child who is typically in severe distress, it seems like mandating adherence to documentation requirements is both important and something they can make time for. There's an upper limit to how much paperwork it will generate.
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Game developers would have more to gain from a streaming-only model:

1. It's expensive to develop for multiple platforms. If you can get people to buy into streaming, you theoretically have only one hardware target.

2. Streaming is more effective at enforcing DRM for games. You can make a recording of a movie you're playing on Netflix, but games would require remote execution which can't be copied.
I would suspect two very different demographics.
> But at the same time, it would effect every company in that industry equally, so I don't think the end result would be that much of a problem.

It would be a problem if it meant that an entire category of product suddenly became completely impossible to profitably produce in the country—particularly if it was one that had been produced in significant quantity there for some time.
Yes, you can edit out the audio from the file on youtube, but it's my understanding that it removes ALL the audio from the segment you delete so any voiceovers will be lost.
I don’t understand.

He stayed in the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid arrest. His conditions are self-imposed.
You certainly did drink the Kool-aid.

The only problem is that if everything you say is actually true (it might only haven been true for you, or for a subset of folks working there), there is strictly no guarantee that it will last, especially now that all the people who did make Google into what is is culture-wise are long gone enjoying their [B|M]illions.

The next wave of leaders that are taking over have far less scruples and inherited a no-string-attached treasure chest (actually, a better analogy would be a amazingly well stocked armory) and will do with it whatever they damn please.
I've had the Pixel 1 for almost three years now. Solid phone. But I always knew it had a manufacturer-installed backdoor. Does anyone know on the progress on GNU/Linux, privacy-focused phones?
Thank you, appreciate it!

Yes we are planning on partnering with aftermarket wheel manufacturers to either make their rims available to buy from the app or provide a white-label version of this app for them!
Co-opting Thor as a superhero was a clear commentary by the writers on how superheros and theism are intertwined. The most popular supers of our cultural imagination are Jehovah, Muhammad, Buddha, et al. So this is no sort of new phenomenon, but a secular reinvention of an ancient one. Apparently there is a deep psychological need for the great Father or Mother, and superheros are a way that modern markets attempt to fulfill it. Or to sedate it.
I remember reading this on reddit as well and all of the comments were saying the same as the article.

It works momentarily, but that's it. Not enough to provide any actual relief and does nothing for the situation long term.

It's more or less a party trick for people who are suffering from this.
For free you can try a (scientifically?) based tinnitus modulator at mynoise.net, it works a little bit for me.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera...
Because reality is increasingly depressing.
You don't need to develop for HTML/JS directly to target the browser as a platform. (Not to say it's not an option worth considering, just that you can get the delivery benefits from other stacks.) Many current engines can build for the browser as well as native applications: Unity, Godot, GameMaker, OpenFL come to mind.
The plan was to get him to the US all along, unless you want to believe it was a coincidence that Sweden kept up the request for ten years but dropped it the minute it got in the way of extradition to the US.

As to why Sweden, who knows why they thought that would be preferable. Maybe just to smear his reputation a bit, to soften the protest at the treatment they want to give him? Very successful if so.

But either way, you're talking about the people who forced down the Bolivian president's plane because they thought Snowden might be hiding in it. When they say "the law only matters when the outcome doesn't", this would be an example of a case where the outcome (stop Wikileaks) mattered.
To be clear, the "Safety Review" was particularly about ensuring that both companies had a drug-free workplace. One company's CEO smoked weed on camera and the other's did not, so you can imagine why one might get a different level of examination.
I've always tried to sit with better posture but I found that if you don't have strength in the right places, a conscious attempt at better posture can sometimes make things worse. In my case, I tried to follow the advice of "sit up straight" by curving my spine back to make up for inwardly rotated shoulders.

The "face pull" exercises in this routine improved my default sitting posture, and I never have to think about it or try to change it. My shoulders and upper back feel a lot better throughout the day after doing these for about two weeks.
As I said, Manning is still alive, and she's spent an inordinate amount of time under US custody. She's under US custody right now. If the government had "assassination of visible targets" as standard black-ops policy, why is she not dead?

Conspiracy theories suffer on lack of consistency.
Yea, I second this. I had my hearing tested and the results came out "very good."

I talked with the doctor and she basically said that what is most likely happening with me is that I have "better" hearing than most and this is what is making it difficult to hear. She said what is probably happening is that I hear a lot of ranges outside the test window and/or I just hear the lower background noises better than I hear human vocal range.

She talked about how she would like to do an experiment that allowed testing to be expanded but didn't have the resources or time to try it.
> To my mind, there's little true creativity to movies anymore.

It's important to specify in mainstream cinema, if one wants to make this critique.

Although it's a different context, one hears with some frequence the same about videogames, but always omitting the fact that the creative product of modern indepedent studios is evergreen (very simply, due to the considerably lower entry barriers than 20/30 years ago).
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Wait. If someone consents to sex with a condom, then the condom is tampered with, that violates the consent.

If I, a man, agree to have sex with a woman after we both agree to use a condom, but I find out that she knowingly punctured the condom, I didn't consent to that.
> Now it’s stealing, but not your card, but your money has been stolen.

If you copy a secret document you steal the informations in it.

What's the difference?
It works for about a minute, then the tinnitus gradually creeps back. The brief experience of being tinnitus-free is refreshing, but it's not a quality of life improvement for which I would constantly perform this exercise or wear a vibrating headband
> Surely this is different from a stateless pipeline of functions where data is put into the front of the pipe And a new value pops out of the other end of the pipe.

By no means I want to sound inquisitive, but, if it is different, how is it? Is one of these models (OOP and functional) a subset of the other? If so, do they represent levels in a given hierarchy? If not, do they even intersect? Are dissimilar properties complementary?
The "free country" that has the highest incarceration rate, and one of the worst prison systems in the western world?
Thanks for the feedback! It's a great idea, I'll definitely implement some Named Entity Recognition or other contextual model in the future to be able to distinguish from common words.

As for the subreddit, it's already on my next features list :)
No, it was split out from the main app: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/7/11629664/facebook-messenger-spl...

> The move allows Facebook developers to focus more exclusively on features and improvements for each individual app. Of course, it also requires users to download another Facebook property onto their smartphones, a not-so-subtle way for the company to increase app downloads.

I found this on Beluga, but it smells of an acquihire and rewrite, and predates the split by a few years: https://www.adweek.com/digital/beluga-facebook-messenger/
I have children, all the children are using it. The other day two famous TikTokers we're spotted in a Northern VA mall and it was a pretty big deal. It's not fake.
Wow. Thank you for linking to this. As an army brat I can relate to the transitions in the post-Vietnam Army to first Gulf War ( when dad finished his 20 ). He always felt that we should have kept some level of conscription, if only to ensure that folks from all walks of life ( including our political leaders ) were exposed and could influence military culture.
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And it worked so well for immersion, and is the most natural and comfortable way to tell a story in VR.
That's a much better title.
I have had it for 20+ years from DJing + performing. They ring 247, you get used to it.

The ringing is caused by damaged nerves in your ears turning audio signal into white noise. It's hearing damage. Any cure that doesn't fix the damaged nerves causing the problem, is bs.
All so that each one can have their own branding. Ugh.

Just put a huge sticker on top instead.
I’m glad you are questioning your views on taxation and concentration.

These things don’t happen in a vacuum and the non-participant’s view is highly distorted and intentionally manipulated.

Exhibit A is the IRS’ role. For most people the IRS is viewed as an adversary that retroactively attacks them and unilaterally decides how much that person will pay them. For perceptive people the IRS can preemptively approve your plan of how much you won’t pay them, and most of these multinational tax saving schemes are signed off by the IRS in advance.

This reality always escapes the populist furor that results in changing a tax rate or two, primarily because the people are not exposed to it and can only imagine some arbitrary loophole and an adversarial IRS that is limited by an interpretation of a passed law. When the reality is very different and not adversarial at all.
A lot of prominent Rust people, in fact, aren't using it in production. The Rust community is large and not everyone works for Mozilla or Cloudflare. I'm not going to call these people out by name because that would be a mean and pointless thing to do. I'll just point at that the community size to known production-uses ratio is not encouraging, to me at least.
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We use Ansible to orchestrate our infrastructure and application deployment. Only in one particular stack are we using ansible how it is "supposed" to be used (SSH:ing into a machine and updating/installing Prometheus).

The infrastructure is provisioned using 90% CloudFormation and the other 10% is Ansible commands for when CF is not enough or when AWS CLI commands allows for better flexibility (i.e. generating SSH keys for EC2 machines and storing the private key in a central store). We make heavy use of the `cloudformation` Ansible-module.
> I’ve never understood how some people believe that the problem of too much noise could be solved by adding more noise.

They probably believe it because it works for them. Because it works for me.
My daughter and her friends are using Tiktok and Snapchat. It seems these two are mostly popular for teenagers. That was also the user base of Instagram in the first years. To be honest I'm trying to get her off both of these services and instead rely on texting/hangouts/email/etc to communicate with her friends.
Nothing does.
I've made this observation too.

We spend a lot of time trying to achieve consensus with our neighbor parasites about the status of a transaction (slice the pie n ways, perhaps your database says that m of those n got paid, but mine says that m-1 got paid...), but if it were on a public blockchain there would be nothing to dispute.
The biggest headline should be this:

Essentially, TikTok is the only app in the top five that isn't owned by Facebook.

Do you trust Facebook to influence your children with toxic content and propaganda in the top 5 app downloads all owned by Facebook? I don't.
a) There were no heroes in "Watchmen"
b) If there were, they certainly didn't win in the end.
Nintendo is well known for making some games like this too. It's a bunch of cool tech and physical controllers generating new interaction models, and game designers stretching that as far as they can, sometimes cohesively as a full game sometimes a collage of mini-games.
Also - the music in Watchmen is incredible and really sets the tone.
Experiencing tinnitus while having no discernible hearing loss on a standard audiogram could possibly be due to hidden hearing loss [1].

That said, I have read (anecdotally) that many people claim to hear a slight high-pitched tone in a quiet environment, so it could be quite a bit more common than one would imagine.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21940438
The problem is that a lawsuit takes time and money. MegaCorp Inc. has plenty of both of those, whereas Bob Youtuber probably doesn't want to (or can't!) fight a protracted court battle against an adversary with effectively infinite resources about getting paid for their videos.
It seems crazy to me that we allow Tik Tok to operate in America without restriction and no US entity does anything about it other than the current investigation.

The Chinese Communist Party has already designated Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Instagram, Youtube, etc as foreign intelligence threats even though a company like Snapchat has never been proven to work with the US government before, yet ByteDance has CCP party members working for it to ensure the company tows the party line.

Given that ByteDance is profitable, it can keep running Tik Tok at a loss to keep acquiring new users even when the retention rate is lower than any American platform by far. With the backing of ByteDance, Tik Tok does not need to be run as a startup, but rather it can be leveraged by the CCP the same way the CCP leverages every other major company: to advance the goals of China via propaganda, selective censorship, and economic mercantilism.

The biggest lie told by Tik Tok is that it cannot be influenced by the CCP. ByteDance's HQ is in Beijing and the company has various CCP members working in it. It sounds just like when Facebook said that it couldn't merge the backends of WhatsApp and Facebook.

I'm considering making a Youtube channel focused on this because it seems like no one in America realizes the threat that a totalitarian regime can impose once it gains a share of cultural primacy. Already the CCP is threatening the US congress and Swedish government with vague "consequences" for standing up against Chinese mafia tactics.
> The platform says it will never sell user data and relies on "the generosity of individual donors" rather than ads.

Yay, so yearly half-site banners at the top of the page asking for an individual contribution while sitting on a multi-million dollar stack of money? Nice. Facebook is done! \s
As an another anecdote, I recently built 70618 Destiny's Bounty with my 5 year old. It was great to build, fun to play and amazing to look at.

Compare this to my brother's 6274, Caribbean Clipper. The price, inflation adjusted, was in the same ballpark.

That set did look great 30 years ago, but the new one not only has more details, the hull is almost completely brick built instead of begin made of 3 big pieces. It is also bigger as far as I can remember.
Competition in this space is clearly possible, or we wouldn't be discussing TikTok.

New to the Internet and young people have less qualms about trying things and are often able to spread things with word of mouth.

Google plus got mired down in the real name policy and the account consolidation and the usually problems associated with Google (which includes an association with Google).
Unfortunately, even if that law existed, how many creators have the financial resources to go to court with someone like YouTube (i.e. Google). I don't think this is the only case where even if you are technically right, you will go bankrupt before you prove that in court. Case in point: the whole existence of patent trolls.
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If Google starts renting games it's competition for other mass market paradigms. Buying digital downloads will be niche. I have a balls to the wall gaming PC and plenty of consoles, however, I don't want to spend 90$ every other week to see the hot new game everyone is talking about. $5 for a weekend rental is great for me (matches blockbusters old $4.75 weekend rental fee). A little lag won't be an issues especially considering most new games are story driven cakewalks anyway.
Basic concepts like "sense percept" (eg. color, shape) and emotion (sadness) are mixed here. Emotions affect perception in general.
It'll definitely be good for some Let's Play views for a few youtubers.
Divulge information on the atrocities she was aware of personally. The vast bulk of the State Department cables were completely unrelated to the atrocities she was aware of.