skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't agree with anything Alex Jones says, but I do think he should be allowed to say his own perspectives on things. Just used him as an example.

I never really watched his full shows which is a few hours daily I think. Don't really have the attention span to listen to all the people who call in and stuff. I seen just clips and hilights here and there. He recently built a new website which is sorta like his own little private YouTube.

I'd imagine YouTube would be covered under Section 230 immunity would cover them.

Personally I think as long as something isn't illegal, let them publish it... However I bet if you had that policy your hosting company would shut you down unless you owned your own datacenter and peering agreements...

But I heard on YouTube you can't even say the C word right now without the algorithm messing with your videos... Like some travel vlogger was talking about how it disrupted his travel plans, so he called it the current unicorn instead. Not some conspiracy theory video either, just telling his true story. So I think YouTube is going overboard right now with their censorship... and more and more censorship, people start censoring themselves and are scared to speak out about things... I think this is a dangerous and dark path we're going down - regardless if people think there's some conspiracy with a global elite or deep state or whatever you want to call it is apart of it or not...
Understanding and Circumventing Network Censorship
Random facts I found googling around:

Site redesign completed by Numiko (agency) for £146,593. Uses drupal, elasticsearch on the backend.

https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/digital-outcom...

https://twitter.com/numiko/status/1255102332704096264
> When you're using a private network v4 address exhaustion doesn't matter much

Until you start trying to connect to enterprise networks...

This is seriously ridiculous. It's 2020, and Google and now DO have no IPv6 in their cloud networks.
The simple textbook is impossible because of companies like pearson looking to monetize every character of every page through licensing of online textbooks.

They could implement this tomorrow but choose not to.
Youtube has actually been censoring content it does not agree with for quite a while, and unless it hurts us in some personal way, we have been ok with it getting away.

eg., Youtube has been censoring a lot of conservative content. They won in court[1]

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.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-google-censor-court-...
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We know how much more 'Distance Education' costs to run than normal schooling.

Yet on a few weeks notice we somehow imagined it would work to move every student over? Even if you increased the budget to match Distance Education it takes years to train the teachers/staff and train the students.

And we believe this because we fetishize 'remote' anything and just want it to work?

This also being the worst of remote, it's remote from home.

It's no wonder the world can't move forward.
I think `\relax` is a better no-op than `\null`, right?
The code in the OP are images, e.g., cannot be cut and pasted.
There’s a pretty significant difference in price, though.
House is house
I share your concern about journalists inserting their own bias. A good journalist would investigate the factuality of claims by all parties in a story, not just the ones they agree with. Of course, bias does happen even with the best intentions, and that is why it is a good idea to read multiple news sources with good journalistic ethics (https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp).

Lazy “he said, she said” journalism, sometimes called “bothesidesism”, is dangerous to a free society because it enables propaganda and disinformation. Lay public do not have time or resources to debunk lies and find out which side in a public debate is telling the truth (if any). That is the sacred duty of a free press.
I don't think anyone's arguing we shouldn't try.

I think the grandparent post is wondering why everyone is so confident we'll _succeed_.

There are people who think we should lock down everything for 12 months because a vaccine will be done by then. Really. There are. That point of view just completely boggles my mind.

But we still have to try.
Thanks for that! I'll check out the Google learning series.
Then they are a publisher
*sensitive
> one should be willing to incur small costs

Only in time and convenience, and even then, when it becomes egregious it could be a legal problem. The Supreme Court ruled almost a century ago that poll taxes on voter registration were unconstitutional.

If it were actually about fraud, then I think it is an easy problem to solve. But since it has nothing to do with fraud, I expect the debate to continue indefinitely.
What do you expect out of a woke monopoly? If there were an alternative that valued free-speech I’d ditch YouTube.
> They aren't stopping them voicing their opinions or views... they're just stopping them posting it on THEIR service.

It's certainly their right under ownership laws to censor on their platform. But just because it's your right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. The question isn't "do social media platforms have the right to censor?". The question is, "given social media platforms have the right to censor, should they censor?".

Like it or not, these platforms make up a significant portion of how our society communicates, and if you believe that free speech is a human right that's important for a free society, I don't see how you can say that it suddenly doesn't matter because we put a corporation in charge of a huge portion of our communications.

I don't think that social media platforms should allow free speech because they're obligated to, I think that social media platforms should allow free speech because free speech has importance and inherent value.

> Newspapers do that all the time, TV and Radio does it all the time. Why is this different?

Newspapers, TV, and radio didn't sell themselves as platforms for conversation. They've always created their content (or paid someone else to create it) and curated it. Op/eds and viewer/listener calls are only a small fraction of the service these media channels provide, and frankly, these are usually more valuable for the producers of the media than the consumers in most cases. And even op/eds and viewer/listener calls are curated, with no pretense of anything else.

Social media initially gained traction on the false idea that they were platforms where anyone could have a conversation. Many people (myself included) warned that we shouldn't be giving up so much of our communications to corporations, but here we are decades later and everyone is using these as communications platforms.
It basically did, except the other way around: punctuation was originally used where we would use spaces now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#Western_Antiquity
>> Why should the user always be made to feel like the majority view is the "best" or "most accurate" view of things?

er may be because of ... markets,democracy :). The majority have been trained to believe that the majority view is good.
Ha, the tweets I remember are from years and years ago. Maybe 2015? Really funny that the invoice thing has been such a consistent part of the Pinboard Experience for so long.

Since this predates threads, I can’t find all the tweets but this is one of them:

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/558313726844358656
> Another way of looking at it is as an additional, backdoor tax.

Yep. And it's got a name, too. Poll tax. Unconstitutional.
Tarek Mehanna might benefit.
> partisan tabloids ... major media outlets

Don't buy into the propaganda. Most major media outlets are partisan as well.

Sometimes the party is simply the 'increase state authority and support war' party, they simply color it red or blue for your personal preferences.
What would really be interesting is a library that uses the browser for only the UI, and is otherwise basically language-independent. So like Qt or GTK except let the browser do all the gnarly platform-specific parts.

Then the UI is compiled to javascript, which means it's portable and looks the same on every platform, but you can actually write your program in a less brain-damaged language like Rust or Python (or C or whatever you like).
Well the flu deaths are all counted as probable deaths, what you call "confirmed cases" for flu deaths is at least an order of magnitude lower (in Germany in the 2017/18 flu outbreak it was a couple of hundred, while the outbreak is typically blamed for around 25000 deaths in that year, based on statistics).

To highlight the spike in deaths being significantly higher than even the worst flu over the last years look at the data from Euromono https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
It's even worse if one considers that so far the deaths have been quite localised compared to e.g. the flu.
> I kind of feel like that's going to have to be the outcome at some point in the near future -- in fact, as soon as really convincing yet nasty deepfakes of senators and representatives start making the rounds and spreading on Facebook, I suspect a new law will get passed incredibly quickly.

Ugh, that is the type of free-speech infringement that people should be worried about, not all this stuff about how YouTube taking down videos is government censorship.

A really good deepfake is still fiction. Really good writing is fiction. Really poorly-written fake "news" blogs "reporting" lies as truth is fiction. These are all allowed to exist (in the USA) because of the 1st Amendment. It is the price that we pay for living in a free society, that the government cannot tell you "your fiction is not allowed."

Textual accounts of real events, and lies about real events, have existed for ages. Sometimes the lies are more convincing than the truth. Audio recording and doctored audio has existed for ages. Photography and doctored photos have existed for ages. Video recording and doctored video has existed for ages. We'll survive another flavor of doctoring just fine without the government's help.
> which makes my bosses roll their eyes

I think it is fair to explain the importance of getting hiring right to such bosses. It will increase profit for the following reasons:

Software is a brain game: Having the right people with the right attitudes and smarts can make a multiplier difference. All the marketing and sales in the world won't help if the product sucks and nothing can get done due to drowning in tech debt and bugs. Such a problem leads to the death of the product, and if the company IS that product, the death of the company. It may take 5-10 years but the death will come. And the growth will not.

Therefore you need to hire the best people you can.

Therefore you need to treat the interview process as being as important (maybe more so) than the sales process.

The goal is to hire the best people you can afford.

If a good candidate can be sold on the company this increases the outcome of the final candidate you hire, because from the pool of people you can make an offer to, more would accept so you can be more fussy.

Reading a CV prior to the interview will help you know that person and tailor the interview to their strengths, know what makes them tick and come up with examples of "we do this here".

Also if you prepare or not it is apparent to the candidate in their impression and evaluation of your company.

If you prepare you can also weed out liars or those with shallow experience, by digging into their CV with the right questions.

Any boss that rolls their eyes doesn't know what their doing really.
Whether or not a deepfake is used for a parody is far less important than whether content using deepfakes identifies its artificial nature. Deepfake content masquerading as real content is actually dangerous and should be regulated as such.

But no, Jay-Z should not be able to take down parodies on YouTube that make it clear to the viewer that they are using deepfakes.
I'm almost there...it's impossible to have two full time working parents also homeschooling + meals.

Technology isn't anywhere good enough yet that you can just give a kid a computer, no matter what the curriculum or the other side is doing (zoom, altitude etc...) and let them go.

I'm really of the mind that this is a unique period and that I'm not going to stress all to death that they didn't get their SOLs in for a few months.
People are very opinionated about this topic, and I’m sure that’s because there’s not really an answer to “does homeschooling have negative impacts on social development?”, beyond “It depends.”

I’m saying this as an unschooler, who was entirely without a mandated curriculum from 2nd grade until adulthood.

A lot of it depends on the reasons for home schooling. My mum was just hippie-crunchy enough that when 6 year old me said I didn’t want to go to school, she just let me leave at the end of the year.

I’ve met incredibly awkward homeschoolers who were not in school due to religious parents. I’ve met families who just travel so much, it was easier on everybody to just homeschool their kids - these kids tend to be more socially developed than average IMO - May be because that lifestyle rewards kids for being outgoing. I’ve noticed many more trends, but there is ALWAYS an exception to the rule.

I should note that “successful” homeschooling does seem correlated with economic and social privilege; for me this was the case - I had the privilege of being raised in the greater Boston area, near enough public transport I could go into the city whenever I want. Personally, I can’t imagine raising kids in a rural environment where they can’t take bus anywhere, and don’t have easy access to other kids their own raise. But, of course, I know several people who were raised like that and are way more mature adults than most. I think this point is obvious, but traditional homeschooling also requires the privilege of having a parent who is not working, or the money to hire tutors (unschooling and co-op based homeschooling obviously has less of a dependency here).
I taught master's courses in a mathematical topic for five years, running in-person and online courses in parallel. Online learners in my course were highly motivated, paying a sh&*-ton of money for a degree that could vault them into a higher-paying job. They all had a bachelors degree in a STEM subject. Online learners still performed measurably worse in the course than in-person learners.

We have the "best" teachers already providing materials: they're in books. You can go read Kolmogorov's probability books, you can read the Feynman lectures on physics. You can even listen to the Great Courses and learn whatever the bleep you want there. And do you? Do even adults have, as a group, the discipline, attention, and stamina to self-teach like this? No.

I call it self-teaching for a reason. When I taught, I looked into students' eyes and on their papers. I walked around the room. I had them present on the board. I prodded them to discuss ideas and argue with each other. I made mistakes writing proofs or calculations on the board and made students catch them, even -- yes, this is a skill math profs practice, because it's inevitable and recovering from the fall with grace is a learned skill! Every class in person was an interactive intellectual wrestling match. Video is just not the same. Interrupting others with your questions and discussion is vital to learning.

I'm so glad I'm no longer in the classroom, frankly. Sigh.
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> Until YouTube joins the Senate, I think they’re fine doing whatever they want.

I think it's reasonable to assume that the American government contains the same kind of people that are in governments the world over and throughout history. And governments have always attempted to suppress speech: that's why the First Amendment was written.

Given Snowden's revelations, can you be sure that Youtube's censoring is simply a business decision by executives and not a result of government influence? How would things be different if the government were pressuring the big platforms to squelch speech?
Flu season is only a few months. What would the numbers be if it were the entire year?

Flu season is vaccinated against.

Also it has been known that cv has a larger multiple death rate.
The lack of transparent PNG support was awful for a while. I believe IE8, maybe even IE7 supported it, but IE6 was still everywhere in the wild at the time, and your site could look strange without transparent PNG support.

I’m honestly grateful for where we are at right now with major browsers and web standards.
The problem with all of these online workouts is that most of the value of working with a PT is having someone there in person, not just having a routine put together. A video can't check your form, or spot you on a heavy lift, or see that you're tiring more than usual after 75% of a run and encourage you or suggest a change of pace so you can still make it to the end, or partner you for better stretching.

The people I feel most sorry for are the trainers and the trainees, who are both losing out for obvious reasons. Not far behind might be the makers of decent home gym equipment, who have just had the equivalent experience of hitting the front page of HN, PH and Reddit simultaneously with their new SaaS only to realise they only have one server running and it's already down. If they'd had enough volume in their warehouses and supply chains, they could have taken a huge part of the market away from the commercial gym industry overnight (literally; in the UK, basically all beginner to intermediate home gym gear sold out everywhere within hours of the government announcing that gyms would be included in the lockdown measures). I guess they didn't anticipate what was about to happen early enough to ramp up production and logistics accordingly, which must be horrible to realise if you could have had your business making more revenue in a week than it normally makes in a year.
Also a security nightmare with Active X OCX malware.
If you wanna go that route, then actually, the Spanish flu is what led to the WW2. ;-)

US President Woodrom Wilson cam down with flu, had a stroke and early retirement from public life. So he couldn't persuade US govt to join the newly formed League of Nations or ratify the Treaty of Versailles. He didn't support punitive measure against German state. Since US was no longer part of process, German paid hard. Hyper inflation took hold, 4marks to a dollar ended up 4 billion marks for a dollar. That hardship and resentment is the environment the fueled Hitler and brought him support. Interesting reading, "The Spanish Flu epidemic and it's influence on history"
Solder can become brittle/flake and break connections

Putting it the oven softens it and allows it to reflow a bit, which can reconnect broken connectors
Daaamn, thank you.. never knew this was an option.
If only government services stopped calling from unknown numbers too, then my life would be so much easier!
There are other formats. Here's one that my wife (who is originally from China) got:

This guy calls claiming to be from the Beijing police. They claim that after she left China, someone stole her identity and tried to make some transactions in her name. They managed to stop him, but now they're investigating and they need to gather evidence. And so they need to get her id and bank account details, etc.

For a while they completely had both of us, and we believed everything they said up until they were asking for her details. She asked for a name and id number, and said she'd call them back. When she looked up the real Beijing police phone number and called them, they said they had no idea what she was talking about.
Thanks I’m aware that aws hacked the shit out of their inflexible legacy design to support this (as well as hid docs on github and continue to charge you for those ENIs). What else is new?
Did you watch the video or are you just basing this on out of context quotes? What you're quoting was a brief anecdote about what those doctors were seeing on the ground. Their extrapolations are based on state-level aggregates in New York and California. Sample sizes of 300-650K patients.
can't tell if you're stupid or just shitty at something you don't like~
Keeping a plane in the air requires extremely expensive amounts of fuel. These planes would otherwise be active on routes, at airport gates, on the ramp temporarily, in maintenance, or stored at a base owned or partnered with by the airline (in the worst case). A big part of running an airline is making sure you are using your fleet to make money since planes are expensive to own, maintain, insure, and fly. These airlines may be switching over to freight for supply runs but don't have their own storage capacity for the planes that would normally be flying now-closed passenger routes and can't be repurposed for freight.
And in case anyone's interested, the relative locations the API gives are relative to https://media.britishmuseum.org/media
I used to work for a company that made POS and Self Checkouts. Walmart was a big customer and we had to make sure the stack didn’t have any AWS. Same with Target.
Whether that's beneficial or not is open to interpretation.
Luckily I wrote down those deets before it went dark. Best water I ever drank. My frogs are loving it too.
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This is interesting. I'm a little confused though. Life expectancy has been on a consistent decline for the last few years, particularly in the US. On top of the declining life expectancy, there should presumably be more people dying as a result of a growing population. In the graphs, they show multiple years. Why do weekly deaths from the last several years, broken out by year, basically look the same?
I don't know, I can just tell you it was night and day for my company.

We were really trying to use different solutions, because of all of the problems Zoom has. We just had constant quality issues that made it really hard to hear people.

Then we tried Zoom one day and it was incredible how good it was in comparison.
It's YOUtube, not CNN. Or maybe that's what they ultimately want to become?
Government services in Australia have been implementing this technology as well. I hope it won't become mandatory ️
Apparently, they own a private Urgent Care center.
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their experts conclude they overacted with how they dealt with SARS
I'm quite puzzled as well. As far as I can tell (not a lawyer) copyright law shouldn't apply at all in this case. According to the article the actual works performed were an excerpt from Hamlet (public domain) and a song by Billy Joel (so someone likely has a valid copyright claim, but probably not Jay-Z).

On the other hand, it seems like it might well be an infringement of his likeness (ie a trademark violation). I'm not sure about the nuances surrounding trademark law though - does it have to make money, do intentions matter, how obvious does it need to be that this is an impersonation, etc.
> WHO was saying there's no human to human transmission

This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.