skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does not logically follow if the general public does not have the expertise to evaluate public health policy discussions and decisions.
Amazon needs to die not affiliated. Would be great to see something like this based on data from OEMs other than Dell Acer HP and Lenovo.
Author here. I believe all the added-blurs in the post were done via our app, not the first-party camera. It is indeed modeled after real bokeh.

Both the 11 and SE were blurred by the same code. It's possible that since the SE's data is worse, making it less exaggerated.
Links:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936818
- https://stripe.com/au/blog/advanced-fraud-detection-updates
Living on a Self-Sufficient Sailboat for 10 Years [video]
How to define the flow of a chatbot-type conversation?
I've written a telegram bot, used exclusively by me, that lets me log information in a very concise shorthand, and to do simple queries on the data. I hacked it together with the python Telegram bot library, with a bunch of nasty, cascading regular expressions. ()

I've been using it for eighteen months, and it's useful, but I'd like to make a more robust version of it. Right now it's pretty brittle and not amenable to expanding functionality.

What tools/techniques are there to specify the flow of a chatbot conversation, defining all the valid branches? Presumably with a more formal specification, it would be easier to either automatically generate the parsing logic, or at least pass it off to a smarter developer to implement.

It seems like a melange of flowchart and state and grammar to me. Alas, I don't have a CS degree, so I've never messed with 'grammars' before, and what I read online was fairly dry/formal and it wasn't super obvious how to apply that to the practical conversation flow I'm need to make concrete.

(): I far prefer interacting with an app via telegram or whatsapp than adding yet another custom app to my phone. I already spend so much time using instant messaging to communicate, it's naturally a preferable UI without the added burden of a new app.
I feel like you've replied to the wrong comment - I'm not defending copyright infringement, misuse of celebrity likeness, or the content of this video.

I'm specifically addressing the notion that the government would carve out a free-speech exception for "deepfakes", like "deep fakes of Politicians / Celebrities are illegal." Which would be clearly unconstitutional, because you are forbidding creation of a creative, expressive work.

Whether the works that you are free to create, regardless of format (photoshopped image, deepfaked video), violate some other law - libel/slander - is separate as well. Yes, they certainly could, just like a photoshopped image today could be libelous.
> would cause no end of problems down the line

That's just how badly the system is designed.
Write a script to delete all relevant data and the user and it would be a simple op.

> forget to put "where not is_deleted"

Use views.
But relative age is not what makes the difference. Interacting with 20 year olds as a 20 year old is much more like interacting with 20 year olds as a 10 year old than it is like interacting with 10 year olds as a 10 year old.
You are apparently unaware of how anti-vaccination videos are promoted as legitimate on social media platforms.
Similar stories and even worse have been happening for years. I'm not sure why this sort of thing registers as news anymore. I'd expect more ink if YouTube actually said no to a copyright claim.
De-Googling: My Progress
Parent poster sounds more credible. Maybe tone down a bit this is a forum for discussion not a lan party.
Small Business and the Price of Oil
Either way, you’re not “free”.

At least with state censorship, there’s a formal hierarchy of authority. There’s the law, and some semblance of duty to the public.

With corporate censorship, it’s ethereal, anarchic, and less accountable. The rules are opaque, the deciders are unknown, and the only duty is maximizing shareholder profit.

As a serf, I’d be happier knowing who to blame.
Out of curiosity, has there ever been a case where a government has demanded that Youtube remove a video and it has not done so? I may be wrong, but I actually believe that they are fully responsible for the content that they are carrying. They do actually go to considerable lengths to remove content that they think is in violation of their terms of service as promptly as they can. I don't believe they are required by any law to review every submission for possible problems; only to remove content that they are aware is not compliant. I believe they do that. If they don't, I'm sure some enterprising lawyer could fashion a lucrative class action suit. It's not like they aren't sitting on a mountain of cash.

Just to be clear, they are not a common carrier and I have never seen any evidence that they claim to be one. I don't think they have to both ways. I understand (and have sympathy with the idea) that it would be nice if they were, but I really don't think they are.
For me, one big competitive advantage of Amazon is that i know that they will probably give me my money back if there is an issue (without me spending a ton of time wrangling customer support, and without me paying return shipping).

For example, recently i had some items missing from Amazon and some items missing from Instacart. Refund from Amazon took a few minutes. By contrast, i've spent a very long time dealing with Instacart (and more hours sitting on hold, and weeks waiting for promised followups that never came) and no refund yet. Instacart is just an example; there are many other merchants with poor return policies (or poor execution of return policies), and many others with good return policies. The competitive advantage of Amazon here is that it's hard to quickly find out whether a merchant that you haven't used before has good customer support, which pushes you towards sticking with a merchant you know.
Honest question - what longtime value is there to youtube comments? The way these are structured seems to inherently make them useless.
Per a comment above, looks like 800 of their 3800 developers may get laid off. Do you feel that number is on the higher end?
State media, which was mostly a reference to non-free countries with state controlled television, largely broadcasts what the state deems suitable for broadcasting. If they don’t think you need to know something, it’s hidden from you.

Youtube thinks I don’t need to know anything about this video.

Replace WHO with CDC, what’s the difference? Now you officially have the US censoring Youtube. The pattern is not good.
Since this had to run in kernel mode on Windows to power our HTTP stack, C was the language of choice. There exist other open source implementations of QUIC in C++ and Rust etc.
Near the bottom of the UK bid site is public Q&A with some interesting technical tidbits, such as integrating with a Magento web shop, etc.
lmao
well out of curiosity why have you folks never open sourced hn?

even if its just the fronend?

wouldn't it help if your community of hackers decided to contribute? it seems like a good majority of people are willing to work on it

im assuming that since a lot of people are playing with the hn api
This has happened before. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 north american airspace was closed. All those international flights from europe were not allowed into US airspace. So they started piling up on canadian tarmac. Small towns like Gander Newfoundland saw their populations double in a matter of hours as transatlantic flights landed on their tiny airport. We don't have drone footage, but I've heard stories about aircraft being parked on grass ... something everyone is loathed to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Ey5ph4wW8
You don’t have to ‘let’ someone else share a screen with Zoom - any attendee in a regular meeting can do so. Unless your IT dept went out of their way to really screw up your default preferences, you might be thinking of another web meeting client.
Haha, keep on being flexible! I appreciate your mindset infinitely more than the uncritical like their status quo.
> It's their platform

But the real question is at what level of censorship to the cease to be a platform and become a publisher?
> I've been thinking this for years now, that the free-for-all for 3rd party sellers would eventually erode trust and make Amazon less appealing. But it hasn't collapsed yet and they still keep growing.

I think this has more to do with a lack of meaningful competition than anything else. I'd happily go back to 1-2 week shipping if I could order from a more trustworthy source. I've only had a few total duds from amazon and they were all under $50 and not worth even returning, but I accept that I'm basically rolling the dice with every amazon purchase at this point.

> I do appreciate that the low-trust, 3rd party world exists. It gives me more choice as a consumer, and the alternative is that most of these items wouldn't be available on Amazon at all.

I'm largely fine with it 100, assuming that amazon is wiling to refund or replace anything I buy that turns out to be crap. That gives them an economic incentive to do at least the most basic policing of people selling on their site.
I'm glad they plugged their outbound network transfer fees compared to the others[1]. I was shocked and horrified when my AWS bill (which I pay myself) quadrupled due to outgoing network transfer fees. It's truly outrageous what they charge. I use Digital Ocean a lot now simply to avoid nasty surprises like that. I hope AWS and Google change that.

[1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-wh...
Curious that this video gets removed given that YouTube is chuck full of COVID19 videos that are wrong, dangerous, racist (often at the same time), some with millions of views, all fully covered in random advertisement.
What plan/provider requires you to pay for incoming texts?
One disadvantage of remote learning is there is no feedback for pupil attention.

Its very easy for the student to be browsing, chatting or gaming with the class going on.

The best way to learn will always be a focussed, distraction free, peer supported classroom.
I believe once upon a time we used to just call this ‘blaming the man’.

Edit:
Anyway, I’ll add to your point. As a company, Google has no issue censoring it’s product in China as opposed to other countries. It sounds almost trite to bring up, but Google censors the Tiananmen Square massacre for the CCP.

With this in mind, what sincere values does Google hold on censorship?

So ya, you’re right, corporate accountability on censorship is basically non existent (and you can trace it back to the fact that they probably don’t have values to even hold accountable).
The idea a private company should be forced to use their resources to host content they deem harmful to humanity seems obviously wrong. Of course they should have the right.

YouTube is not a public service.

"Free speech" does not mean you also are entitled to a platform and an audience.
So logistically, how does this work. The pilots fly the planes there, and have to catch a bus home? Of they have a small plane to take them back? They have special pilots that they fly out just to take them here?

And when they go back to work, the pilots all travel out to pick up their plane and start their routes?

Where these planes are stored, I imagine they must have constant maintenance on them. Or do they need to fly them back and get checked over by the airline?

This is such a huge undertaking that is mostly hidden from us.
Exactly! I loved Microsoft money, BTW, I wish it was still a thing.
Thanks, marked off my todo list.
I do a lot of stuff with audio, and I can definitely hear the difference. And while I am absolutely crazy about the sound of analog tape, at the same time, I can think of brutally clean, digital recordings that just completely blow my mind. Horses for courses, I guess.
If you were to pick one option, stick with BetterC.
The first self-driving tractors were used in research environments in 1996(!)

[1] Automatic steering of farm vehicles using GPS.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2134/1996.precisi...

[2] First results in vision-based crop line tracking
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/503895
Chess-related: FICS, ICC, US Chess Live, World Chess Network.
In popular usage of the term, anything above linear is “exponential” unfortunately.
Article does not compare costs with DaaS offerings like Amazon’s RDS, instead comparing EC2 hosting costs for a database. For me, that made the read pointless.
To be fair I was planning on getting a haircut before the world shut down a few months ago. Things aren't looking great up there haha. Now, I plan on getting a haircut in the same way a startup founder plans on achieving profitability: ideally, at some point, before it falls out.
That number can't be right, though. They have a billion in revenue per month. You wouldn't describe a 1% decline as plummeting.
It's kind of annoying that the OS X Mountain Lion update that I paid for is no longer available from the App Store…
This is exactly the problem with C++. Let's fix ugly syntax by providing yet another way to write something that accomplishes the same thing.

Over-evolution isn't a good thing.
Just ask WeWork and Enron and Luckin Coffee investors!
Part of it is software is so valuable energy and hardware costs often don't matter.

On the other side, my business has fairly narrow margins. When we find a performance improvement it's a near 1:1 cost reduction, so our code has gotten very efficient.

All about the economics.
Probably a good thing in the long run, this industry needs to come back down to earth it's ruining a lot of peoples lives

And pretty much a waste of american talent
The feature I most want in a new network protocol is multipath to enable seamless and automatic connection migration between wifi and cellular. I haven't been following QUIC standardization, is that feature in now or postponed to the future?
> Youtube cannot have it both ways. Either they are a publisher and if so, must be fully responsible for the content they host. Or they are a platform, and they need to be neutral.

As demonstrated by the court case you mention, that is false. I am surprised how tightly people cling to this notion, which has no basis in reality.
This doesn't work for a young child on their own (think grade school) but it might (intriguing model that I haven't seen yet) work with smaller groups of kids learning together - say, all the first graders on your block at somebody's house with limited exposure to others.

That said, all of this still requires a fully engaged adult in the room to monitor interactions and help things stay on track and answer questions. My wife plans a full curriculum for all our kids together each day with breakout sessions for grade-appropriate subjects. This has been basically interrupted by the current official video curriculum of our school system - and our system is doing better than most on this subject. I have the luxury of an adult available to teach most of the day. Many do not. But I still want to yank my kids out of official "school" and get homeschooling certified until this ends. It burns you out. I'd welcome the schools closing officially now, and offering optional assignments to pass the time for parents that want to use them but that's not really equitable, it just works best for me.

A video conference is great but it can't help keep a virtual classroom engaged and flow with the kids' questions as well as an in-person room. There just isn't enough bandwidth.

Experience: currently three gradeschool and younger in my house.
Manditory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2014/

I still think that 2026 remains a reasonable estimate.
Yuck. Why is there so much discussion about this cretin?
Desktop Infrastructure for NetBSD
Man, these old machines. Tape speed, tape formula, the humidity, you name it. Not to mention the skill of the "tape whisperer" that knows how to calibrate the machine properly.
Depends on type of data and other laws. If you are a paying customer you can assume your data will be stay in database, until it is no longer required for audits. GDPR allows for anything that is 'absolutely totally required for providing service'.
This "problem" has been there in C++ like forever, it's not new.
D's version of Ownership/Borrowing adheres to the notion:

"only one mutable reference to a mutable object OR many const references to an object"

and that's where the similarity to Rust begins and ends. The realization of that principle is quite different.
This endless pearl clutching over releasing an additional N grams of carbon is driving me crazy. Internalize the externalities and let’s move on with our lives. This is not a productive thing to spend so much brain power worrying about.
That's kind of incompatible with the critique 2 posts up. They asked if we could have "false positive" deaths because dead people with covid-like symptoms are labeled as covid deaths even when they are not tested (e.g. after dying at home). The people on ventilators were ones in hospitals that were treated as covid patients, those were likely to be tested - and the problem that people on ventilators have a low chance to make it is specific to covid (which is why we are seeing this, ventilators have existed for a long time, usually they don't kill people which is why it became standard operating procedure, unfortunately with covid they seem to trigger something bad ...)
Reading that takes me back to the mid-80s, when I encountered a port of emacs for the Amiga and I was just bewildered by it - in the age of GUIs, something developed before microcomputers and mice seemed like an pointless atavism.
Joe Rogan Interview with Cmdr. David Fravor – Tic-Tac Unidentified UAP
That was a great glimpse into the ag-at-scale world. Thanks for sharing!
Indeed. The situation's a little bit different - the alleged crimes happened somewhat more recently, and he was a couple years older than Patton was when he traveled to Yemen - but I'd be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Unfortunately, I'm just a random citizen with effectively no power to help, so that's probably cold comfort for him.
I look forward to a world where platforms are less afraid to kick off the voices they don’t like. The world would be better with 50 YouTubes rather than just one.
But why should we believe you? Why can't we watch and make our own judgements?
Nothing that goes into the field or on a tractor is going to be that cheap if you expect it to last more than a few days.
Philips heads camming out is a feature in certain contexts, apparently.
Author here. ARKit takes several seconds, and that's with comparatively sparse feature extraction. Can you speak from a different experience?
Pop stars on YouTube ? Fair use & freedom of speech ? Deepfakes will be used to cause a war in the near future where people are killed and who are we going to point our DMCA take down requests at then ? What will the third world victims of some hate story stirred up by AI doctored footage care about first amendment protections in America ? Deepfakes are a clear and present existential danger to ourselves and others and at this point I'm afraid you are correct, there is no good solution. God help us all once we can't even believe what we see anymore.
Yet if you look at the comment sections for this video, there isn't anyone tearing it to shreds.

This isn't something I have been able to confidently form an opinion on; it's a hard topic. I think we will be strugging with how to balance bias, deliberate misinformation and freedom of speech for a long time.

But I think at the very least, YouTube needed to put up prominent disclaimers and links to limit the harm that this content can cause.
Join a large company and inspect the engineering org structure, and you will have the answer. Or ask someone that works at one :)
Rebinding tmux to make it more like a window manager?

Two problems with this.
1) tmux is slower than a window manager like dwm
2) Why not just use dwm

Personally feel rebinding a tool like tmux will bite you down the road.
So this worked for me, but I hadn't tried since a couple weeks ago (maybe the all-caps thing was fixed by yesterday?). What's funny is that the subsequent step (verifying tax info) had a couple of other old-school slightly bad practices:

- Blocking copy-paste of my bank account information

- Input value for income can't contain commas or a dollar sign

- Obscuring input field of SSN as if it were a password (I suppose this might not seem wrong to some folks, but technically SSN isn't a password and most other sites I've used don't treat it like a password)
Angular Communities
>> Is this what they did to bring us the high resolution picture of a black hole? If not could that method be used by these hypothetical hubbles?

That was using radio waves, something that can be measured in each telescope, saved as data, and then combined in a computer. At optical wavelengths we cannot record the data as accurately/quickly and so must instead use extraordinarily precise mirrors and fiber optics to join the light from each telescope in real time. These links must be accurate in distance to within a wavelength.
I’ll say that old school television had a real scheduling and demographic constraint, they really had to hone in on their programming.

Our modern internet media landscape doesn’t have these constraints, so we really are curating on certain criteria where the overwhelming deciding factor isn’t just ‘do we have enough time for this’ and ‘is this what most of our viewers want’.

Youtube can get content to exactly the right demo, and scheduling is a non factor. So, what is editorial control in this landscape?
There isn’t any reason to believe the virus kills a resident of NYC any easier than it kills a resident of Kansas if either is infected with it.

NYC is an excellent example to look at precisely because of what you said - it’s a dense population center and international travel hub, so it was seeded with quite a few coronavirus cases early on and unfortunately the virus seems to have infected up to 20% of the residents of the city (as shown by a new serology survey), despite social distancing having begun mid-March.

Other regions outside NYC weren’t as affected in terms of mortality, and we have no indication that’s because of anything other than that not as many people outside NYC fell ill with the virus.

The drop in deaths after the spike is because of data reporting (deaths are commonly revised upward as the data trickles in) and also because 6 weeks of social distancing and school closures would have greatly reduced the spread of the virus, this is just common sense as we know the virus spreads through physical proximity of an infected person with non-infected persons, and social distancing has greatly reduced the number of those situations.
An Indian firm starts mass-producing an unproven Covid-19 vaccine
Anger Management
I can't honestly believe how many smart, empathetic and otherwise responsible people continue to defend the man.