skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is a completely valid question. In this specific case: Do you think it's bad for YouTube to be active in reducing the spread of this information? Because to me it's almost self evident it shouldn't be entertained as a valid idea.

I might also ask why you aren't protesting Hacker News having moderators? Content is deleted from this platform all the time.
You didn't used to be able to find communities of like-minded David Icke fans, either. My father was a big David Icke fan, and he talked to my brother and me about it all the time; I can't even imagine how all-consuming it would have been for him if he'd ever have been able to get on a forum and talk to people about it.
> But the lockdown is without doubt the greatest interference with personal liberty in our history.

Previous crises in British history included forced conscription and dropping you over Nazi Germany on a 1940s parachute. That would seem to interfere with personal liberty at least as much as being asked to avoid orgies and the suffering that is no football on TV.

> To say that life is priceless and nothing else counts is just empty rhetoric.

Which is why nobody is saying that.

> Life is a family celebration with children and grandchildren. Life is companionship, an arm around one's back, laughter or tears shared at less than two metres. These things are not just optional extras. They are life itself.

Now who's engaging in empty rhetorical flourishes?
Looks dead. The guy's website [i] expired and his github [ii] hasn't seen activity in 9mos. Too bad, that did look like a very slick project!

[i] https://www.gabrael.io/

[ii] https://github.com/G-Levine
> What evidence do you have for this? I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it.

There is a significant amount of evidence for it. For example, one could measure the effects of showing people fact-checks, and it has been demonstrated that it does indeed work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking#Effects

And there are countless ideas that have died out when more people learn. It's easy to forget about them, precisely because they do die off. A few big ones that were held by the majority but died out:

- flat earth (before Galileo)

- pro-slavery views

- human sacrifice

- caning children

- hanging

- smoking is good for you

- communism

- laws against gay marriage

> In fact, social pressure is one of the most effective tools against hate and ignorance like this

It can be used to enforce hate and ignorance as well. It's naive to think that the way you propose enforcing it would be different to all other times in history when it was used.
Don't resort to acusations of ignorance just because you aren't making your point effectively. I have hands-on experience with every tool I've mentioned except for k8s, which isn't being discussed in detail. I am under no illusions that the security profile of Salt vs Ansible is different. If that's all you're getting at, then fine, I concede, do your little victory lap.

My point is and has been much broader: these tools solve the same class of problems which are symptoms of a broken culture, and solve them poorly. It's no surprise to me that any and all of them have problems, have had problems, and will have more problems - because they're broken by design, and they "solve" problems that we shouldn't have.
I have always believed in half-jest/half-seriousness that the big mistake the US made in the first Gulf war was to attack Saddam instead of sending him a TomTom GPS with directions to Riyadh from Kuwait. Imagine, no 9/11, no ISIS.

The Saudi regime is one of the worst things to happen in the history of the world to Muslims and the rest of the world. Middle Eastern culture threw up people like Averroes (father or modern rationalism), Avicenna and Ibn Khaldun. I speculate but pretty sure that the Middle East produce less scientific literature than Taiwan. Saudi Regime driven Wahabism has turned Islam back by centuries aspiring to a regressive state of the 6th century with about 20% of the population radicalized. Women recently got the right to drive in SA, we can just imagine the state of other rights. Wahabism other effect is on radicalization of other regimes like Turkey and Iran. The Turks were relatively progressive people but to compete with the Saudis for global leadership of all Muslims, Ergodan has pushed further and further towards conservative political Islam. The Islamic population of Indonesia and Malyasia was once moderate, tolerant and dynamic. Now after 20 years of Wahabi indoctrination they are bombing churches.

For all of Elon's bizarre views, repugnant and quixotic, his contribution to the electrification of transport alone warrants a Nobel Peace Prize (and any other prize we can give him).

The Al-Sauds are probably too entrenched in the political and economic fabric of the world to go anywhere for a couple of decades. The US establishment has enough of their skin in its own game to shield them and also in fear of what comes next. Oil Prices permanently collapsing to a sub $20 level will not end the Saudi regime but reduce its appetite for extra-curricular activities.
This usually only applies to certain categories and depends on the pricing model of the supermarket (and the supplier/purchaser power dynamics that depend mostly on the size of the retailer). Soda, chips, crackers and cookies are the most prominent categories that have any significant amount of placement power, and that's mostly because the big players use a direct store delivery model that helps alleviate labor costs at the store level.
If the developer’s opinion is actually what matters most to you, then you may find it interesting that the developers of Animal Crossing seem to have a rather tepid view on time traveling. Many have interpreted them as having said time traveling is not cheating, although I am not sure exactly what that is concluded from; still, it does seem as though they acknowledge it as valid, if still unintended, a way to play the game:

>“Adding all the seasonal events by updates wasn’t our way to shun away time travel by any means,” Kyogoku said. “But Animal Crossing is a game that users are able to play and enjoy throughout the year.”

Of course though, this worldview is pretty hard to really get behind because it’s even more arbitrary than usual. Some of the developers may dislike time travel and others might endorse it.

Moreover, opinions of the developers may even shift. On the topic of Wavedashing, Sakurai expresses discontent for it:

> While Sakurai noted that wavedashing was widespread in an interview with Nintendo Power, he disliked the technique, as he felt it had led to a significant degree of separation between beginning and advanced players.

All in all, even trying to be very generous and non-presumptive, I am having trouble seeing the argument as having a rational basis. It seems like one born and mostly justified only from emotional response.
Let's have a word about gay rights then. Once upon a time a pride parade full of rainbow hair dye and BDSM leather and face paint and drag queens and hairy-chested shirtless men would have been right next to your "spittle-flecked rants" in the proper gentleman's book of ways not to get your message out, but I wouldn't want to be the one to say that they should have been censored over it.

Not everybody is a traditional upperclass gentleman and not everybody who isn't is wrong.
We don't know that he's right, and the Navy has officially verified the videos belong to them just last week -- these aren't a product of the organization that released them. However, the Go Fast video was not the interesting one from a witness testimony standpoint. See the Nimitz incident [0], in which the object was observed by dozens of witnesses from several vantage points, including three fighters (at two different times), the passive radar on the Nimitz (intermittently for over a week), and an AWACS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident
Or you just don’t expose these services externally. Even with Ansible, why open up sshd to publicly facing interfaces. Use a jumpbox or VPN. Why increase your threat surface?
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Nobody competent? I think I'd be quite competent, thank you very much.
Some people enjoy doing useful things (my wife is one), others enjoy useless things (me - mostly video games, reading random trivia online, or trying new recipes which is nice but doesn't pay the bills).

So if I were to take your advice (and honestly, I mostly do run like that) it means a lot of time spent doing something ephemeral with no real lasting benefit. I think your last point applies to me. I wish I could summon enthusiasm for projects rather than hobbies.
At least Top Ramen's still $0.49.
Yes they are definitely overstepping their bounds. It feels less and less like an OS a power user can rely on. Unfortunately Mac OS is so opinionated it might be worse. But Linux doesn’t have the same ecosystem for games and streaming doesn’t work for some services. It seems there is no harbor from the storm these days...
It is always only the people that I dont agree with. If you censor other people is totalitarianism and a scandal. That is why I laugh when techies criticize politicians. As abysmal and corrupt as the politicians are I would prefer 100 times to live in this world compared to one ruled by "benevolent" techies. Can you imagine, Facebook, Google, the Ycombinator partners, Thiel and company setting the rules and managing the government? Shudders!
There's some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23061881
This is so frustrating to hear.

I have a bin full of ARM single board computers, and while the hardware on all of them is pretty much up to the task, the software support from all the vendors has been terrible. I'm in the process of switching to Nvidia hoping it would be the exception.

If anyone from Nvidia is reading this, please do everything you can to convince the bosses to allocate the resources required to support a linux machine properly. It takes much more than it seems.

These devices are designed to be in production for a long time, so heavy investments now on the software support are going to give value for a long time. Rather than dragging the feet and slowly getting it right over time and devaluing the product in the process.

Fingers crossed!!
Google Chrome runs antivirus scans on personal files
Just wait till the year 3000 when we all live under water.
I watched hours of gardening and cooking videos on YouTube yesterday and learned a lot of useful information. Unfortunately that probably won't help me with my next job interview :(
This doesn't seem right to me.

Zürich was the most expensive place I've ever lived, and I've also lived in New York and London.
I was doing some work for a bank last month. It’s a reasonably small bank, and you likely haven’t heard of it. They have thousands of servers. They had over 100 logstash instances alone. All their desktops were virtualized, and that was a couple thousand servers at least.
The go fast parallax explanation exposes just how impressive the Navy tech is, whereas we’re asked to believe Mark 1 eyeballs with very fuzzy videos or radar claims.

Same group claims USAF officers showed up demanding the E-2 Hawkeye tapes before they could even be secured. Did they use teleports or HALO to board a carrier that quick?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and these aren’t it. Tell me where the AF or VQ (Navy) ELINT aircraft were or what direction the antennas on St. Nicholas island were pointed.
This attitude is what turns a relatively minor breach into 100,000 credit cards being sold to the highest bidder. Ever heard of "lateral movement"?
Actually wouldn't a userspace ARM "emulator" be faster than an x86 one on an ARM device? Or are you so far removed from running actual CPU instructions that it doesn't matter?
If work from home ends up really sticking around, I'm sure plenty of cost-cutting employers will expect everyone to buy their own computers, but expect employees to all install keyloggers and monitoring software in order to work.

And people will accept it, because they'll be fired if they refuse and someone more desperate will deal with it so long as they get paid at some point.
I've yet to find a blog I read that doesn't actually have an RSS feed.
Wasn’t the debian vote stacked by a bunch of Canonical employees that voted on party lines, since Ubuntu had already decided on systemd?
Is giving a speech a crime? Which speeches are crimes? Who is going to determine that? You? More importantly, who would you like to put in charge of determining whether your speech is a crime?

Contrary to what is expressed above, Hitler did much more than give speeches. He also gave orders which is a different thing entirely.

Saying "Gee I wish so-and-so were dead" is not a crime in any reasonable democracy. Telling your subordinate "I order you to go and kill so-and-so" is. Do you see the difference? The person following and the person giving the order are both responsible.

Are you arguing that the people who physically pulled the triggers or shoved prisoners into gas chamber do not bear any responsibility? At any point, all that was necessary to stop Hitler was for people to not listen to him. What would help that is providing an environment of healthy dissent, not stifling it.

I also mentioned above specifically that we should hold people accountable for the actual consequences of their speech. How you get from that to "Hitler did nothing wrong" is completely beyond me. Actual consequences mean real things that occur in reality. Not "I think something might possibly happen because of this" or "You dared to contradict an authority so you must be silenced".
The DoI did not release slaves, which is fairly explicit statement that slaves are people. Of course Deciding that slaves were 3/5th of a person, and slavery was legal is an explicit statement the “all men are created equal” was not something believed by the signatories of the DoI.

That said the “State power” argument in this case has always been the justification for the treason committed by the confederacy. When faced with a legally elected president, making a legal change that they didn’t like, the confederate states mutinied.

They have retroactively tried to call it the “war of northern aggression” (hint, you committed treason, so it’s not). Then they’ve claimed it was about states rights - if it was, then the Supreme Court would have ruled it unconstitutional, they’ve also never mutinied over anything else.
You're playing a game about a cigar-smoking soldier set in 1964 and you think the gender politics are not keeping with the times?
They have thousands of servers, but should they? I'm sure they must, banks are, after all, world-famous for their technical accumen. It's good to know that my money is as safe as I always suspected it was.
Even in big cities, Costco is a restaurant and convenience store supplier. In remote areas the warehouse part is more emphasized.
Back-annotation and library management are the two places where KiCad really falls down for me (the user interface is janky but works once you get used to the warts) so this looks really interesting.

How tightly integrated are the schematic editor and layout editor? Are they two separate programs like KiCad or can you eg. delete a component from the schematic and have it automatically removed from the PCB (but without nuking ALL non-schematic components from the PCB).

Definitely gonna give this one a try.
A business decision to avoid risk of costly litigation is not at all the same as actual harm. If you have any information on actual harm, please share it. Otherwise, please leave your FUD at the door.
But I do have it both ways. Youtube is a large provider, which is why I'm glad it's kicking off bullshit. But it's far from the only provider: without Youtube you still have print, radio, TV, going outside with a megaphone, going door to door with pamphlets, and the entire rest of the internet.
You can't "correct" and price in a future where there is no certainty whatsoever.

There is no current model, no ability to predict or reason about to a sufficient degree of certainty, about the situation in the airline industry. You can't even talk about risk when the only thing you have here is essentially a gamble.

This is being reasonable when looking at long-term investments; there is no useful information to work with.
We have had to scale up our AWS spend! And any gee-whiz solutions to improving efficiency and scalability are very welcome right now.
The problem with a sudden nuclear scale explosion is that it could trigger a nuclear exchange.
Likely no. I think most people here would rather go through the effort of setting up a static page on Netlify or otherwise. Even if your service is top notch, the features you're describing would definitely eventually require an increase in pricing.
> It's just a 10 hour one way trip

Spoken like a true Canadian. (Edit: Oops!)
He can still say what he wants. Constitutional law is pretty clear that you can say what you want, but you do not necessarily have a right to how you get to say it.

Newspapers are not required to publish every single letter they get. In the same vein, Youtube has no legal obligations to anybody to let them on their platform.
Discussion of Horizon on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062174
Most of those ideas didn't die out because one day people found out about them, and then we put an end to them.

Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, why didn't this "sunlight" disinfect them?
I can understand your negative perception on such situations but do you honestly believe that wind mills will come to a screeching halt with such outage? No, I’m not implying that they will power the entire nation but I have a hard time believing that those small sunsets of folks will also not have power.
That's interesting!

I would have thought Croatia to be small enough to not need such a system; i.e. supermarkets not further than half an hour drive away.

Or is it just a matter of convenience?
Short of including a full Python installation in the base OS, what Microsoft is doing is a great idea. However, it seems like in some cases your PATH might get in the wrong order which can cause scripts to fail. I haven't encountered this personally and I've used Python on several different Windows 10 machines, each with the full version of Python installed from the website. Bugs happen, and path issues are easily fixed.
We bought 40lb of flour and 20lb of sugar in early March; it was one of our last “preps” going into all this. We don’t normally go through either in any quantity - my wife and are both usually on keto. We’ve used all the flour (and have bought more), and most of the sugar.

We got both at our local Walmart.
> I can only assume that I'm somehow outside of Microsoft's target market and just don't realize it.

If you care about stuff like this you are not inside the target group.

> But is there really a sizable fraction of computer users that want an OS to unavoidable behave like this?

Nobody wants telemetry specifically, but it indirectly (provided somebody smart is receiving it, which is arguable in MS's case) benefits the average user by detecting their preferences and issues.

Updates are easy to argue for. Barely anobody will update their system on their own because they just don't understand the security implications. The people who understand them will probably all agree that getting people up to date quickly is important (you could argue better education could make a difference here, but that is so much effort, would hassle the user more and wouldn't reach everyone).

Ads are harder to argue for, but you could argue for them as a valid method of financing an otherwise free system (it was always a relatively transparent MS strategy to do this).

... But even without ads Windows is something I have a hard time tolerating in general. The version I use at work has most of the explicitly user-hostile things disabled and is still plenty infuriating.
Damn, I finished MGS1 but never the second nor the third one... (but finished MGS2 demo multiple times). You made me want to try again. Are MGS2/3 available on PS4?

Also, I tried MGS4 and it was just too cheesy to me. The intro of MGS5 was just too long and boring so I just gave up... so I'm not sure if I grew out of these types of games or if I should have tried harder.
I know that there is a separate command that can be used to tell systemd to allow a program to live. I know that there are systemd libraries that an executable can link against in order to opt out of the new behavior. These do not matter, because they shows that systemd is willing to break existing programs, and to break specified conventions. Systemd developers cannot be trusted to provide a foundation to build upon.
This attitude is toxic and worse, incorrect. The majority of Americans did not vote for our President. I live in Austin, and my state district in TX includes a tiny slice of a city hundreds of miles away, Houston. Many state districts are like this, gerrymandered to prevent my vote from counting. Some places have it worse, DC, the capital, has no representation at all (fun trivia: Google the DC license plate).

The voters didn't ask nor vote for our government. The government picked the voters...
Looking at the picture of the worker disinfecting the street, I'm reminded of seeing such pictures from many articles but we don't seem to be doing this in the USA. Does it help? Is it just security theater?
Anymore than five or ten servers are risky to manage manually. This isn't a problem you hit suddenly at 2000 servers when at 1800 its fine.

Anyone whose properly managed more than a few servers realizes and understands this.
Tell that to companies doing extremely large-scale machine learning. Or any cloud infrastructure provider. Or CDNs. Or literally any video production company that owns a render farm. Or any company doing large-scale media transcoding/streaming.

Maybe "don't have thousands of servers" is just a bad take :)
On the contrary, there are rare but real phenomena that have no good videos. Meteors aren't that rare, try ball lightning instead. The only videos we have are blurry unclear blobs of pixels, totally unconvincing. Here's the "highest quality" video ever made of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXm3zDM_v80
Agreed. They need to figure out how to put an x86 chip in there to make them truly useful. Also 700 bucks is a bit steep for a raspberry pi with a low powered gpu, just saying...
So you are OK if tomorrow Youtube, Twitter and Facebook decide tomorrow to erase any mention of Snowden,Chomsky and Assange because it is "bullshit". Because if so, that would be a nasty world. I do not want to live in that world. Give me Icke on Youtube any time of the day. I wont watch it and I wont be arrogant enough to believe it will "wash the brains" of other adults.