skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hate speech is generally understood as sexist/racist/homophobic speech

No it's not. Here you have Google removing anti-communist speech which is not sexist, not racist and not homophobic. And communists aren't even a minority in China (though thankfully a minority in most of other countries). But "I hate Nazis" is also hate speech, obviously - should Google ban anybody who hates Nazis? Maybe not, you say? So there's some hate that is allowed, but some is verboten. And who decides which is which? Ah, now we are getting to the point of "hate speech" term - "hate speech" is hate I disapprove of. If I approve of it, it's a vigorous and righteous indignation against the evils of this world and should be lauded, but if I disapprove - it's "hate speech" and should be banned. Now we need only do figure out who holds the power to decide these questions... but wait, we already did, Google decides that. All hail Google, the bastion of free speech and protector from the hate speech! I, for one, welcome our new speech overlords.
Wouldn't the first ones maternity be over by the time the second one took maternity?
Only in the US does such a case need to be made.
If you're opening up and messing with the hardware, why not remove the write protect and flash the firmware instead?
I'm not sure this is accurate. The US H2-A seasonal farm worker visa program allows almost 200000 workers (mostly from Mexico) work in the US without needing to be illegal.

My understanding of illegal immigrant jobs was that they were centered more in the restaurant and construction/landscaping fields (and many others, I'm sure).

source: https://cis.org/Report/Unlimited-Cheap-Farm-Labor-Evaluating...
Another F-Droid based store app is G-Droid. It is possible to write comments and apps are rated with a mix of user ratings, update intervals and github ratings.
And if it weren’t for all that rest of the OS, the small fraction wouldn’t get the funding to survive to today.
I completely understand that it's an eternal issue. That does not automatically mean that it does not merit a yet another discussion. Downvote hell is real. Targeted censorship by (possibly coordinated) flagging is real (I presume so). I would love to read HN users' opinion on Bill Gates driving the world into a nightmarish dystopia, but can't do so, because some of the users think, that it's conspiracy bullshit (even if backed up by facts to some degree)? Might very well be so, but the fact, that we can't have such a discussion at all, has far-reaching implications, given the status of HN in the eye of the Internet crowd. It would be different, if all politics related subjects were outlawed here, but that is not the case. Rather, only some subjects are selectively and very opaquely (for the majority of users, who don't even get to see, that such a subject has been brought into their attention) dismissed as flamebait/propaganda/conspiracy/whatever. Why is that necessary?
Most of the successful abnormals have deep motivation to do things differently. They may even seem like rebels. If we are fearless & ready to take risks in life, we may be coined as abnormals & there is a chance of success as well.
Doordash charges $16 for a $24 pizza, so the pizzeria bought its own pizzas
Yes, But a manned aircraft can not hover outside my bedroom window in my backyard
The why is because, without a lock down app store windows machines were known to be an easy target for viruses, malwares and fake software. Advanced users can still jailbreak and install other apps.

Unfortunately, the vetting process has issues and I think even though the quality will improve over time due to more/better usage of ML/AI techniques but that will make the process more opaque.
Economics, especially Behavioral economics, is Descriptive, not prescriptive.
Lack of "acceptable high end" Zen 2 laptops is my gripe too. From what I understand, it is following 2 reasons;

1. Intel/nVidia Contracts have OEMs their hands tied (which explains capped GPU in most Zen 2 laptops).

2. Lack of widespread Thunderbolt 3 support on AMD.

While I'm fully bought on reason 1., reason 2. is still hard to digest as one can still ship laptop with USB-C port supporting PD and DisplayPort (w/ alternate mode) and call it a day, and most users won't mind. I hope Zen 3 causes the power shift on laptops.
The total cost of the pandemic to this country could plausibly be approaching the trillions of pounds scale by the time we're through the worst of it. I think the government could have sprung for a few software developers who knew what they were doing back at the start of the year. Apparently they'd already had plenty of time to establish a relatively large group of privileged expert advisors, including some who worked on these kinds of models. Perhaps if they'd been more open about that process, the gap in their capabilities could have been pointed out soon enough to do something useful about it.

You write as if you think what I'm describing is somehow unusual. It is not. I have probably worked with at least 30-40 well-qualified people just in my own career from whom any well-mixed team of say 3-5 developers could have done what we're talking about here within a relevant time frame. We are not talking about rocket science, just good software development practices being employed by experienced programmers with technical backgrounds who are used to implementing the models of subject matter experts. This isn't some magical unicorn skill set.
> many browsers would send "en-US" by default, and so it wasn't a reliable indication of the user's actual language

Indicating that "the user's actual language" and "en-US" are different. Yes, I extrapolated this to both the browser and the operating system having a different language, maybe it was just one or the other.

> What do the different language browsers on your system

From the parent comment:

> Google has been doing this for almost 20 years. [...] The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was [...]

I don't have any 20 years old browsers to test with, I'm afraid.
This has to be one of my most-hated "tricks."

"I don't believe this long video I just posted. But it does make you think." No, I'm pretty sure you believe and are promoting said video.

"I'm just asking questions here." No, you clearly have an agenda and opinion and want to bait others who are unsure into a discussion with you.

For the rare folks with honest questions, we can have a real explanation. For honest people who want to discuss, we can have a discussion.

But being coy and "asking" when you already have a position you won't actually change seems extremely disingenuous.
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>I'd recommend Fabien Sanglards's Wolfenstein and Doom books (https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/). These go into WAY TOO MUCH technical info (in a great way!), but don't cover any of the hilarious rock-star antics.

The Doom book does mention Romero getting locked into his office one day and Carmack cutting down the door with a battleaxe, but I didn't mind knowing that detail. (There's a picture too)
Really hope the decentralized tech stack will get there over time. Fingers crossed.
> Also, honest question; What do you actually 'use' the latest specs for?

Browsing, chatting, navigating and some smaller task. Don't get me wrong, the hardware specs aren't _bad_ and 3G are okay now, but this phone costs as much as all three smartphones I've owned combined and I don't think this will be enough 5+ years in the future, which would by my expected lifespan of this device. Adding to that are the singular speaker and, by todays standard, rather weak camera offering.

Again, don't get me wrong: I'd love to buy one of those and support their (absolutely great!) cause. It's simply hard to justify the investment, when 700$ are a lot to me.
> All your examples are from defence.

Half of those examples have nothing to do with the DOD. One of them (Ahmad Arbury) has nothing to do with the federal government at all. Where did you get this idea from?
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The same happens with the delivery companies here in the UK like Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats.

That is not a mistake or technical error either, someone intentionally wrote code to do "if no driver is assigned for > 5 mins, pretend like it is and update the web UI to say the driver is there".

I wrote about my experiences with these services (relying on them daily as I can't be bothered to cook) in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23096601
> and now also including clothing

Who included clothing?

I've kept to one, rather precise, definition. You keep trying to change it. I keep asking you not to.
So just go to Europe? Pretty sure the GDPR prevents these kind of recognitions.

So I looked up the privacy policy of Holland Casinos and there is no mention of facial recognition, only mention of CCTV for security purposes (under which I wouldn't expect prevention of adverse losses to fall) and a seven day storage period of camera footage. They are not explicit but suggest they do not use camera data for profiling purposes.
FWIW, Innolitics has a better data dictionary (information object definitions) for DICOM than the official standards website. https://dicom.innolitics.com/ciods

DICOM has its issues, but it’s much better than HL7.
Well that's why we need more choices.

...so that they have to compete to levy the most reasonable, well articulated, and transparent policies.
Hong Kong's population is less than a third of that. Somehow they've given Beijing a bloody nose for nearly a year now. That's not surprising, because mainland China's population is irrelevant to this question. What are they going to do? Give a bunch of farmers hukou to Kowloon and Taipei? ...actually, that's a fun idea, but it's unlikely to decrease public unrest.
It's certainly not mainstream if that is what you mean.
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Balmer still says he was right to call it a cancer in 2000, and that they made a ton of money in that fight. Just his position has now shifted Smith just says they were on the wrong side of history.

To me, both sound like "now we can make money with free software."
You really don't see the difference between an editor selecting one person to speak, versus a forum where almost everyone gets to speak?
> I just googled the average as being less than twenty dollars, which can't possibly be right,

It's right. You don't go to Tesla to make tons of money or have a good work-Life balance, you're there to contribute to a passion project with like minded individuals with certain known sunk opportunity-costs: this includes salary. (The engineering and software people are paid well, or so I'm told, but most of the bulk is on the factory side.)

In terms of compensation its not great, but at least they're honest about it; you do get somewhat generous stock options if you stay/last there for over a year, really good health care plans, and depending on the department all the hours you could possibly want or handle. I knew going in my schedule would be 60+ hours, I just didn't see it happening within a swing-shift model so had to decline the offer.

Job security, however, is not exactly a given either. Mass layoffs have been a regular occurrence, one occured right after my first interview process and many have sought to unionize so its a contentious affair even to this day, as Germany ended up getting a Union due to strict EU/DE Auto Union pressure.

> The thought that they might pay even less in Texas is depressing.

Why? Cost of living differs quite a bit in the US. While in Texas in February for my SpaceX interview I knew I was going to have to go down in salary in relation to my current role, but I was assured by several locals that my salary estimates could net a 2-3 bedroom in town with no problem, whereas I have roommates back home.

Besides, where else would I want to be than at the Factory where feeling bad about salary figures feels entirely moot and misses the entire point of why you go to these places?

> I get the feeling this was already planned. Freemont doesn't have much spare land to increase manufacturing capacity.

It was, in February Elon was already teasing about where the new Giga factory was to be located, with Texas being mentioned. Fremont factory has been over capacity even before 3's assembly line change(s) and optimization. I don't if you can find it anymore but there were pictures of Employee parking being the most chaotic thing ever, cars taking every square inch.

The supply chain guys were all pretty sore about those days, but Tesla started bussing people in from the Woodland Park building and many people just commuted that way.

As 3's numbers started to get rolling things got more and more creative, and they ended up getting more parking/staging space near the area. That much was documented [1], and people even commissioned drone pilots to do regular fly-overs over the Factory as more and more progress was being made. I haven't looked, but I wonder if people are that excited about Y.

1: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/found-a-lot-of-model...
You're right. I just haven't been able to bring myself to invest like this. Also, I hate the idea of supporting companies who behave like leeches, but it's pretty hard to avoid that.
The "essentialness" of an service it a pretty bad concept. Uber is definitely non essential as sole means, but it starts to be pretty essential when you feel sick and want to go to hospital (not on ambulance level tho).
They are paid for via enormous effort by the athletes. As I wrote: blood, sweat and tears.
Thanks, ordered it immediately. Technical "history" books are fantastic, and knowing it's by Fabien Sanglard...
If you’ve spoken to so many owners that all want to ditch the platforms mentioned for their own systems, do you feel there is enough interested to justify a venture/product to sell to the owners that gives them the control they are after without having to figure out how to develop an application. Seems like a great opportunity
I agree with you and the commenter who replied with the market share stats that the numbers are worrisome, but literally no one laid a gun to the commenters’ heads and asked them to leave a YouTube comment. They could embed the video (or link to it) and offer a comment on their blogs.

There was an article about RSS on HN recently — in the end, people voted with their feet away from a decentralised web to the YouTubes and Twitters and Facebooks of today.

Maybe we need more actions like these to remind ourselves of the perils of lease-holding.
I hadn't considered it but I think I'll give it a try. Very low cost to try it out and if I don't like it I could repurpose it for exercise.

Thanks!
I came here to say this as well. Me exactly.
> I'm quite the Musk fanboy

Still? I can understand still being a fan of Tesla or SpaceX, but I'm suspicious of anyone that's followed Musk's behavior recently and is still like "that's my guy!"
I feel like you could be equally dismissive to the statement "There is no remotely plausible alternative to a godless universe."

And yet, I think that statement stands pretty strong on the basis of what we do and what we can know.
Debian Stable is king when it comes to the "just works" POV. They only release a new stable version after every known update bug has been ironed out, so the process is consistently flawless. Recent versions will even install security updates for you, with no user interaction required.
Does it capture the web content I view? Or just index it to retrieve the web at it's original URL later?
Something I noticed when I use "Read Later" style applications to save pages is that I will, most of the time, forget about how I arrived at a certain page. This is important to me because it gives me the context to decide a perspective on the page.

If I was able to save pages while also knowing where I found them and maybe make a comment about why I found it interesting, then I would be able to organize my knowledge in a way that mirrors my train of thought.

Are there any tools capable of doing this?
discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23214548
The issue is the harmful actions and the people who commit them. That's why there's an exception for speech that incites violence.

Outside of that, rhetoric that you consider hateful is not a direct cause of any harm. That is a dangerous road to go down and it's far better to counter with your own speech instead.
It kind of bugs me that I understand PID quite well and I've coded quite a few for of them. But trying to dive deeper into control systems, I always hit a wall caused by my weak mastery or mathematics.

I've heard someone say that PID is the deepest you can get without in control systems without advanced mathematics and I think hey might be right.
I(and pretty much anyone that pays taxes) pay into all sorts of programs the indivudual will never use, so I don't really see how fairness of payment comes into play.
It's not "We're a private company" as much as "Google cannot practically force you".

Google also doesn't have anywhere near a monopoly position in consumer markets. YouTube isn't an absolute majority of online video and strong alternatives are right in front of you - Twitter and Facebook offer free video hosting. You could even build a private one, or rent space from Vimeo or Dailymotion.

The Founding Fathers can go &&*k themselves. Invoking their name is literally appeal to authority.
Where the hell is AR shopping?
Today is May 18, 2020, and where the hell is AR shopping? It was supposed to be here by now. Everybody I know has an iPhone that can do AR, but where the hell are the AR shopping experiences we were promised?

I run a Shopify business and they’ve been talking about AR for 3 years and it still doesn’t work. What the hell is going on? They just announced a size.link feature where it shows the size of the product as a purple box, but that’s ugly as hell. Why would I show my customers a stupid ass purple box?

What the hell is going on and where is the goddamned AR shopping we were promised? If coronavirus doesn’t make this happen, what the hell can?
The article is about broken supply chains as the cause of waste, and covid outbreaks at processing plants is one example of problems in the supply chain. Pigs, for example, have a fairly short window during which they can be slaughtered for food sale. If there's a glitch in the supply chain, those pigs have to be killed as waste because the next batch is already coming into that window and it's too expensive to keep feeding the last batch for an unknown period into the future.

Here's another interesting example with flour.

King Arthur flour sales increased by 2,000% in March.
> https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/king-arthur-flour-sal...
leading to problems like retail flour manufacturers running out of packaging to put flour in.
https://www.businessinsider.com/flour-shortage-baking-quaran...
In the Seattle area, there is a municipal composting program. We have weekly pickup of trash, recycling, and compost.
I'm sure there are many companies offering them to build put their systems, it's still not that easy. My friend's small company is failing at helping small companies have their own system as we speak. They can always go back to paying some local dude belowe minimim wage to deliver with their own naive paper system
So a Shopify-like Doordash?
We 100% see where you're coming from. Would it be crazy to request that HN create a publicly available list of "marked off topic / down-weighted / removed / flagged as duplicate" actions? I feel like HN could squash 90% of these concerns with that simple feature.

The troubling issue here seems to be HN asking users to "keep it quiet" by sending an email rather than commenting publicly about valid concerns. But I get your point that those concerns are technically "off-topic" from the underlying thread itself.
I had a similar experience with LSD except it was other consciouses waking up in my body.
That sounds like a very qute name for 'employees'.
Yes, that is what is happening because most states are not given enough power to impose their beliefs on entities like Google.

Even more in reality than your example, YouTube is censoring content the US or China or maybe Russia doesn't like everywhere, and it is not censoring content that Thailand or Uzbekistan or wherever else doesn't like even in those countries.

But if the US were to impose a no-censorship policy on YouTube (or at least a no-censorship-except-our-censorship policy), you would probably see some fragmentation to appease both the US and Chinese governments. And if a few dozen other countries did the same, with true force behind their decisions, you would either see YouTube retreating from those countries (perhaps opening the way for local alternatives), or many more YouTube front faces. Either way, there may be some advantages compared to the current system.
Well, I don't want to broaden the scope, but what about public communication platforms necessitates that governments cannot adequately protect free-speech as well as provide a fair/balanced service? NPR seems to do it quite well, so does PBS. Not saying they're perfect because nothing is, but the government is quite capable in this regard.
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Just recently since I've been working from home all the time, I realized I don't actually need an alarm to get up, since I don't need to leave the house at a predetermined time to beat traffic and get to the office at a reasonable time. Getting up at the same time in the morning was just habit.

Instead now I have an alarm to go bed, and I get up when I feel rested.
Are there countries that force people to take leave with their children?
It would be an interesting test case
Somebody sounds disappointed that their rally got criticized.

Its easy to 'hit at' folks who are making big mistakes. Attending a crowded rally during a pandemic? For god's sake, its shooting fish in a barrel to find fault with that.

The evidence was given in the article. Perhaps reading it would be informative.
For me, stability means uptime and infrequency of application crashes. Unfortunately, OpenBSD didn't meet that requirement on my (standard desktop) machine--it would frequently kernel panic on resume.

On the other hand, I found that OpenBSD has absolutely outstanding reliability and stability on hardware like my ThinkPad X220.
Because biology? It’s hard to save when you’re 20-24 and that’s the best time to have a child. It’s completely insane that 30 is considered early for a firstborn.
A rooted Android will probably still be able to run termux and most other software. But fair point.
It also kills the entire Wardriving community as well as amateur network coverage work by putting a continually-increasing delay on how often an app can scan for wifi signals.
OpenBSD 6.7 is going to be released tomorrow https://www.openbsd.org/67.html

Their release engineering is awesome!
> There is always still the _subjective experience_ of paying attention to whatever I'm paying attention to, of "being the one that sees my visual field", and so on.

"Being me" is an experience or feeling. We have lots of other feelings both from within and outside our bodies. Could it be that consciousness is simply how it feels to have a focus of thoughts and attention in our brains?
Interesting idea, but if everyone between the ages of 17 and 35 goes out and gets sick it doesn't matter how isolated your 90 year old grandma tries to be, she's probably going to get sick too.

The point of having society, and of having governments, is that cooperation allows us all to lead longer, healthier, more fulfilling lives. You can't just discard the necessity of cooperation in specific instances where the benefit you personally receive is lower than the amount of effort you need to put in.
They knew where the front line was, they were trying to learn where the Ukrainian forces were positioned along that front line.