skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does not tell us much. Where can we look at YouTube's balnce sheet? There is likely more to YouTube as a business than selling ads on YouTube. For one, YouTube under Google is like AC Nielson on steroids. The combination easily rivals any "smart" TV.
I had this issue as well and logging out (in my case, switching accounts) wiping Google app cache, and I think rebooting to make Pixel Launcher refresh, then logging back into the YT Premium subscribed account fixed it for me. Convoluted I know, but I think the issue was it wasn't picking up some profile variable or token denoting me as a subscriber. Hope that helps!
Like stitchfix, but for magazine articles, blog posts and books. I might be cynical, but I think humans do this much better than any algorithm I've ever seen. :)

For myself, I usually read in two "phases". I collect material from sources that are usually high quality for me, and do some superficial skimming to trim out the content I don't particularly care for.

Later, when I'm more "in the mood" or have a long period of time, I pop() and read(). The stack gets pretty large at times, but it only takes a couple days of vacation to blow through most of it. If I pass over something in the stack enough times, it gets free()'d.

I don't know if I'd trust an algorithm to do either of these stages for me. I'd trust an algorithm provide input to phase (1), but never to replace phase (1).
1. Maybe. I thought it was Israeli but maybe.

2. Provide a reference for this (and other) claims please.

3. "All the recent propaganda against Huawei seems to be very sabotage oriented" That might be economic warfare but I wouldn't call it sabotage.

> There was evidence that the United States had already stolen Huawei source code

yeah, yeah, back it up please. Don't throw out claims.

> But, whenever someone brings this up, the justification, is that it’s perfectly legal for the United States to do it to others, because it’s enshrined in our laws

Show me someone in the US government saying that.
They have not. The surcharges are the same as they always were. And depending on what you buy, the transaction fees might be as high, or higher (which is why you see the minimum credit card signs sometimes).

So I assume you have some evidence that the charges are "exploitative and abusive", right? And not that that's just what it costs to have human beings drive around and deliver food to you, plus some reasonable margin? These companies are losing money. Some portion of that is that they are aggressively growing and re-investing, but let's not pretend that they're basically printing money.

> It is “willingly and knowingly” entering an agreement in the same sense that I willingly gave the guy who robbed me my wallet to avoid getting stabbed.

This is just disingenuous. I don't see any equivalency between someone providing arguably overpriced last mile delivery for my restaurant, and someone literally holding a knife to me.

Restaurant owners have other options. You can raise prices on delivery orders to cover what delivery costs. You can set up your own delivery (which no one seems to be doing because it's not that simple). You can try to advertise enough to get your carry out orders high enough to survive. You can choose to shut down and hope the impact is short enough that your business savings will cover your expenses until business picks back up. You can shut down permanently.

This isn't any different than any other business when the market shifts underneath them. Circumstances have changed. You can adapt your business, you can pay someone that has a solution that adapts you to those new circumstances, or you can close.
There's a certain amount of sensationalization to get eyeballs with things like headlines, obviously, but I'd be surprised if you looked at the various news stories that caused public outrage over the course of a year, if more than a small percentage were actually mis-reported/factually incorrect when it came to mainstream news coverage by reputable organizations.
They don't even have to pay.

Chinese citizens are forced by law to spy when asked.

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...
Any how-to’s that explain a little more how one might accomplish this with emvi? Eg using it at a front end/cms for a blog?
It was a good game at launch. It was hard it was grindy you actually had to find tricky ways to advance further and beat the bosses, now it's just cuttie cutter bullshit.
Title isn't misleading at all.

"It happens all the time" doesn't make it misleading, or invalid. In fact that makes it far worse.

It needs to be declared. It doesn't matter if they're reading from Amazon's packet or the Pentagons, a declaration is appropriate and even vital to help maintain a healthy democracy.

What's odd is that if a YouTuber did this the FCC's regulations[0] require they disclose it, but not local TV stations evidently?

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
FWIW I just found this fascinating tangent: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-t...

> THE PERFECT IRONY THAT ‘THE WOLF OF WALL STREET’ FILM WAS ALSO A REAL-LIFE SCAM

(caps in original)

> How Leo got caught up in a money-laundering scheme that screwed the Malaysian people out of billions.
That's fun and cool.

Also reminds me of a happy time learning about Delaunay dual Voronoi triangulation while solving a StackOverflow question about Spatial Joins on Closest Point
To be clear: I do not think that the behavior shown by internet mobs is effective at causing businesses to behave better.

I’m not looking to debate whether or not you agree with my word choice for “the people on the internet who loudly protest companies who do stuff they disagree with, and stop using those companies’ services out of these disagreements”.
I would love to see a fad in California of small, lightweight, convertible electric cars. I'd love an electric 1957 Porsche Speedster style car to zip around town in. No luxuries needed - just enough to meet regulations. Take a $14,000 Chevy Spark, cut off the roof, swap the engine for an electric motor and I'd be happy as can be, even with only 100 miles range.
They are arbitrary.

They are a matter of taste.

Eval. Reading the source.

These are quines by some narrow technical definitions which skates along the surface, but misses all of the beauty.

Maybe the aren’t cheating. But they aren’t special. They might not be disqualified, but they score — at best — 2/10.
Not AI, though (or almost every computer program would be "AI"). Differentiation can be done with simple deterministic rule following.
South Park satirized it best:
https://youtu.be/z696bTiP8Ro
Lol, absolutely not.
Concurrency In Python For Network I/O
Storing the internet in a blockchain is maybe more trustworthy.
HN looks simple, but its under-the-surface table-based layout is ... actually something of a mess. Especially if you want to parse or reformat it readily (e.g., by parsing the structure, not just reskinning CSS).
>>> The ultimate problem is that Facebook doesn't want to show you good, enriching content from your friends and family. They want to show you ads. The good content is just a necessary evil to make you tolerate looking at ads.

>> That is how it is today. But does it have to be like that ? What is the minimum revenue per user required for service like FB to run.

> Minimum doesn't matter, the only question is if it's more profitable than the current approach.

Only if you think strictly inside the box.

The real problem here is one is a misalignment of incentives: Zuckerberg is managing Facebook to maximize the metric he's being evaluated on (profit and wealth), not the value provided to society.
I think it then needs an addendum on things that are the same dimension but expressed in different units.

Like, "students at table A" and "students at table B" are both of the same dimension as "students", but are different units. Like meters and miles. You can add them together, but only if you know the factors needed to convert them to a common unit. In this case, the conversion factors are, how many students are at table A and how many at table B.
Intent to Prototype: Client-side video editing (MediaBlob)
Urge to merge: Understanding how cells fuse
MasterClass is using celebrity and production value as an attractant, but accomplishment in a field does not necessarily equate to expertise and certainly doesn't imply any significant teaching ability.

MasterClass brings you close to recognized greats, but to an extent your learning will be more about _them_ and only tangentially about the field of interest. There are some MasterClass episodes conveying very practical knowledge - typically the cooking ones - but again I'd call this a different thing than really learning about cooking (theory, law, etc).

Systemically understanding a field of interest is a different endeavor requiring more rigor. The Great Courses product is probably the more rigorous (categorically similar) educational tool in comparison to MasterClass. It has less production value (though more than sufficient) and the lectures are from obscure though academically recognized authorities rather than curated celebrities.

_IF goal is to:_

Really learn a new field or skill during the pandemic = The Great Courses.

Watch autobiopic on recognized authority = MasterClass.

For the record, I have both and am affiliated with neither.
My main problem with diablo 3 was that it felt more like playing a slightly more complicated version of gauntlet than actual sequel to diablo 2. After having played a bit of path of exile, i feel they definitely got closer to an actual diablo 2 sequel than diablo 3 did. Though that game's got some aggravating issues itself.
Meander: Maps of rivers that never existed
I did an online food ordering startup a ways back, and it was very surprising how few of the restaurant owners we talked to had clearly thought through pricing strategy for things like this.

We had originally gone in with clever ways for owners to describe how different changes would affect the price of an item, but ended up landing on just a giant matrix where they could input the end result price for any combination. The owners couldn't articulate their own pricing well enough to model it well.
speedtest.net (and I expect quite a few other speed tests) will open many connections to overcome slowness caused by TCP (low max window sizes and slow scaling). This is likely where the download discrepancy is coming from.

Personally I prefer the single TCP connection results as these tell me what I'm likely to see in a real-world situation such as web browsing with HTTP/2 or a large download.
Microtransactions as an Alternative to Subscriptions
I guess I was implicitly focusing on outrages targeting specific named people. I wouldn't say the stories about delivery apps are misreported, and agree that news on that kind of thing is much less likely to be just completely false.
Yes, it's a fundamental result from Information Theory.

In the situation you describe the receiver has to know which distribution you're using.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
I believe in cultural relativity, but that ends at, for example, mass concentration camps. Your argument is basically "let any country do whatever they want within their borders" and I don't think that makes sense. Or, there are limits to that. I would also argue that the acceptance of totalitarian values as "cultural norms" isn't entirely correct. Historical Chinese culture has little to do with the social credit system and the CCP is not Chinese culture.
It's actually up for debate whether ego depletion is a real thing.

> Some meta analyses and studies have questioned the size and existence of the ego depletion effect.[3] The ultimate validity of those later studies is not universally agreed.[5] Martin Hagger and Nikos Chatzisrantis, whose 2010 meta-analysis seemed to support the existence of the ego depletion effect,[5] subsequently performed a pre-registered 23 lab replication study which found no ego-depletion effect.[6]

> ...

> In 2016, a major study (2141 participants) carried out at two dozen labs across the world using a single protocol failed to find any evidence for ego depletion.[3][31] In response, Baumeister argued that his original protocol was rejected by the project coordinators, and after discussion was stalled, he only reluctantly agreed to a task that differed to some degree from the original 1998 studies.[32] Replication difficulties have also emerged for 5 additional protocols (operationalizations) of the basic ego depletion effect.[33]

> A 2010 meta analysis of 198 independent tests found the effect significant with a moderate effect size (d = .6). Even after accounting for possible unpublished failed studies, the analysis concluded that it is extremely unlikely that the effect doesn't exist.[34]

> In 2015, a meta analysis of over 100 studies by Carter and McCullough argued that the 2010 meta-analysis failed to take publication bias into account. They showed statistical evidence for publication bias. When they statistically controlled for publication bias, the effect size estimate was small (d = .2) and not significantly different from zero.[35][36] Michael Inzlicht and colleagues praised Carter's meta analysis, but argued that bias-correction techniques are not precise enough to give a precise control size estimate.[5][37] In response, Cunningham and Baumeister argued that Carter and McCullough analysis contained errors in its data collection and in the various analyses used.[5]

> Ulrich Schimmack (2016) conducted a meta-analysis of published studies and found that most studies could produce significant results only with the help of random sampling error. Based on the low power of studies, one would expect a large number of non-significant results, but these results are missing from published articles. This finding confirms Carter and McCullough's meta-analysis that showed publication bias with a different statistical method. Schimmack's replicability report also identified a small set of studies with adequate power that provided evidence for ego-depletion. These studies are the most promising studies for a replication project to examine whether ego-depletion effects can be replicated consistently across several independent laboratories.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion

Beyond that, how would you be more selective about your outrage if you're skipping the news to begin with?
Specifically they need to pan the camera around since you cant show off the stereoscopic effect on a regular screen. Heres my favorite demo: https://youtu.be/E8pZlI2WM_Q
s/generally unable/not compliant with IP standards/
VimWiki – Personal Wiki for Vim – released 2.5
That's a beautiful UI for a car, I also love BMWs (E90-F30) models before the latest 2019 redesign. 2012-2019 BMW 3 series is a perfection in UI design IMO.
> Does anyone use their 3D glasses that used to ship with "3D TVs" circa 2013?

No, but I still do use them on my projector. It seems that 3D became pretty popular with the home theater market, who buys more expensive technology than average consumers. This is why most good projectors these days still support 3D, while almost all regular TV's do not.
ethernet: 860 \o/

wifi: 70 :'(
Australia is heavily economically dependent on China, so it's not really comparable.
> But that's only true if you look at it in an individual sense, of being productive in your own life. If you look at it being productive in aggregate, in society as a whole, the reasoning doesn't work anymore.

That's where we disagree and I think I see the root of our disagreement. Reading your last paragraph, you seem to link news consumption and actual actions like protests, riots and revolution. I don't think this link exists. Most of those are actually started by activists and stem from local engagement (unionism, political organizations). It is very removed from news consumption which is not the only way of being informed.
James Clear's book, Atomic Habits (https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0...), is exactly about this. Really small, continuous improvements snowball into something amazing over time. I got a lot of value out of reading it, so thought I'd mention it here.
Japan Ends Coronavirus Emergency with 850 Deaths and No Lockdown
Do voice over IP.
* Use a texteditor

* Hit save

* Let Hugo/Jekyll/Pelican/whatever compile

* FTP/SCP onto a server

* It's a blog, nobody needs a CDN for that
Can you unpack this, because there's much that may or may not be in what you said.
They're called "video news releases" (VNRs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_news_release.
Become a typography nerd in under 10 minutes
I'm more worried for my local ISP selling my browsing history, or exposing it due to incompetence, because something like that already happened and nowadays I'm worried they send that data to local authorities too.

The "cloud players" you're worried of are big targets and the law protects me, since we have the GDPR and the EU is trigger happy in giving fines to big companies. Also my data is not that useful right now to a US company.

Also the ad blockers for iOS Safari don't work well and I use iOS Firefox anyway, which can't use Safari's content blockers. So I'll take any help in blocking ads I can get.

This will also be valuable for doing some content filtering for my son, without installing anti-virus crap on his devices.

It really depends on your threat model.
Sounds like you just need a way to modify a remote filesystem, then trigger a build step when you're done with the modifications.

Assuming it was wrapped up in a nice UI, would that be missing any features you need?

EDIT: Put more concretely, if you had a site hosted on S3, all you need is a way to modify the source files of that site, either directly or by modifying files in another directory and running a transform step to produce the final result?
I appreciate your candor in pointing out that you don’t consider my perspective to be appropriate.

I suspect, in light of that, that we’ve bottomed out the utility of this thread.
Building the perfect squirrel-proof bird feeder [video]
Are there research papers you could link that prove users don’t want to exert more control? I’d be interested in reading more.

It always appears to me that the companies are making it difficult and users have no voice.
U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadband – SpaceNews.com
I really wanted to like and use NextDNS but my latency was ~200ms vs maybe 10-40ms for my ISP resolver. I'm fine with paying a bit of a latency price for the extra features and privacy, but not that much. And I'm located in Toronto, not somewhere remote.
> YouTube/Twitter/etc aren't doing enough to take down false/immoral/illegal content

This is so sneaky. Why link "false" and "immoral" and "illegal" together? I can agree that social media should take down illegal content, but "false" and "immoral" content should be left up. People who whine about "false" content really mean facts and truths they disagree with. As for immoral, do we really want to play this game? Immoral from which perspective?

> I feel like most of the time I see posts like this, the situation is resolved favorably and relatively quickly.

Only if you are a big youtuber.
Archive.is isn't very important yet. I don't believe they warrant much concern re such questions. It doesn't yet matter very much if they're super trustworthy or not.

At their present scale, going through and manually changing (tampering with) saved content for propaganda (or similar) purposes, would have very little impact. More realistically, it probably has close to zero potential consequential impact. It'd be quite the chore for very little return.

If they become important some day, with dramatically greater scale of usage, then getting answers to these questions might be important.

If they eventually betray trust, they're trivial to replace. Other competing variations of archive.is exist now. It's a relatively easy service to create. Someone should probably challenge them just on the basis of how bad their ui & ux are.

At scale, if they begin abusing their position, it would become well known, they would get a reputation and it'd kill their service. The barrier to competition extremely low.
I wonder if you can self-host the netlify-cms thing, though. That might be just what you wanted.
"for learning" + "to explore a concept"

-> to understand why things are (or were) done a certain way

-> to test the boundaries of what's possible

Surely no one thinks that current languages are the most efficient or effective possible way of doing things? That we've even come close to enumerating all useful methods of expressing program execution? (Take a look at what Racket is doing for example.)
Reminded me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336754
Thanks for sharing this. I haven't read this before.

Rest in peace Schwartz.
Early browsers were decidedly multi-protocol, handling HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and Gopher, possibly others.
Part of this is that Facebook makes the opinions of people you know but don't really care about highly visible, which I think leads to some of the animosity you see on the platform. When the person you're confronting is the uncle of someone you talked to once back in high school, there's little incentive to be kind.
All well and good, but look what it's doing to the family of the dead person.

The president's brand is his willingness to say obnoxious things to rile up his opponents and thrill his supporters, but while we could argue that comments about other players in the political arena are fair game, I think this case differs in that he's using a private individual (the dead woman, not the MSNBC journalist) as a prop in his politicking. I don't think much of him targeting the journalist on general principle (I'd like powerful public officials to exercise restraint and embody dignified disagreement) but I don't watch cable news and have no idea what the basis of their spat is, if any.

The basic reason I posted this is that the defense of 'he's a public figure, we need people to see so he's held accountable' is only effective to the degree that people are actually held accountable. The presidents' lawyers take the position that he's legally and politically unaccountable, to the point of having blanket immunity. Twitter is essentially saying the same thing.
Reporter tweets about Obama admin spying allegations, gets blue check revoked
Is Hacking Team Dead?
> JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(atob(TOKENHERE.split('.')[1])), null, 2);

Non-code version for mobile users.

My contribution: a bookmarklet I use to copy JWTs from my internal sites to the clipboard. Replace jwt_name with your name

javascript: (function() { var textArea = document.createElement("textarea"); textArea.value = window.sessionStorage.jwt_name; document.body.appendChild(textArea); textArea.select(); document.execCommand('copy'); document.body.removeChild(textArea); })();
Fair enough, but note that most of the people quoted are politicians and people who work at think tanks—pretty much the definition of manufactured consent.

Granted I am also worried about kids using youtube but I also don’t expect google to do anything about it—what could they do, manually vet all videos meant for kids? No, quality is not the google way, it’s automation.

My overall point is that google seems to be fine with just doing things there way and pissing off everyone rather than picking a customer base and meeting its needs.