skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Youtube was liable for mistakes/wrongfully enforce their guidelines, this would be way less stressful.

This guy would go to a website and file a claim on a legal authority that would put Youtube's balls in a wheel that would squeeze them gradually the longer Youtube would take to present the case with facts that support the take down, and I'm pretty sure you'd start to receive less auto-replies and you'd get more humans typing.

Youtube is fucking over people's livelihoods because of a system that doesn't work properly, so they should pay for that. Shouldn't be the other way around.

If Youtube gives the tools for people to make money on it, then Youtube should be responsible for such people - not only advertisers.
I think the heart of the matter is "not necessary for the performance of that contract".

Privacy advocates argue that it's not necessary to track people to perform the purpose of a site (like, displaying news items).

Publishers argue that it's necessary to track and display ads in order for the business to be sustainable, without which they cannot continue serving news (+ ads).

I guess we'll have to wait and see what the courts have to say about this.

Maybe publishers have will have to show how much their revenue suffers if they stop tracking.

Another consideration is the demand for "privacy by design and default" (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-25-gdpr/). It might be hard to argue that business built on tracking users fulfills the criteria for that.
I'm guessing GP was clearly referencing that phrase, not unaware of it.
I think the underlying issue here is that IC design is one or two orders of magnitude more complex than software. In my experience, the bar for entry into actual IC design is generally a masters or PhD in electrical engineering. There is a lot that goes into the design of an IC. Everything from the design itself to simulation, emulation, and validation. Then, depending on just how complex your IC is, you have to also think about integration with firmware and everything that involves as well.
Investing in Robotics with YC Founder Trevor Blackwell [video]
Yes it does work for everything- a website can label its content with keywords and advertisers can choose to advertise on sites with specific types of content. So IGN signs up for an ad network and says that their content is about "video games." Then Rockstar says to the ad network, "run my ads on sites about video games." A person reading IGN is clearly interested in video games and we don't have to do any tracking to figure that out. They could even go so far as to show Playstation ads on articles about Playstation games and Xbox ads on articles about Xbox games. The ad can be targeted by the content a person is looking at, not where they've been in the past. If anything, a video game ad on a video game website is more effective than showing me a cosmetics ad on a video game website.

So companies can still have effective ads on relevant sites, ad networks can still facilitate the in-between, and users don't have to be tracked. Advertisers already use Google AdWords to show ads to people searching for specific keywords, this is just an extension to show ads to websites with specific keywords. Websites are already working with keywords for SEO, it's not even extra work for them.
Yes, connectivity is a huge difference. On the other hand, as there's more and more data-intensive activity happening outside the data center, we're actually seeing a general trend away from everything happening "in the cloud" as was being promoted in the late 2000s. See e.g. Nick Carr's The Big Switch.
I'm on the React and Rust servers.
It's a reasonable concern, but a look at the report indicates they seem to have attempted to take into account the effects on the EU's main global trading partners. You can get the report here.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/economic-per...
It was the UAE or Saudis most likely (my bet is on UAE, they’ve been ahead of the curve with their phone hacking and dis-information operations)
It's interesting the only case the territories have been involved with was a singular one against Iowa of all states, which Puerto Rico won. It's a bit of a spicy one too, involving extradition and civil war law.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/111940/puerto-rico-v-b...
We need to fend off the hijackers and reclaim OUR religion. Hiloniism is rather the coward’s way.
My pet conspiracy theory, with absolutely zero evidence, is that Rick Astley is behind the rickrolling meme. Other people might get a laugh out of it, but he stands to gain financially every time it happens. Follow the money!
Same, very interested. Cool intro to NLP, but those are easy to come by. Some implementation details and perhaps some code to reproduce would be amazing.
With respect, when I hear FANG employees putting forward scale as a reason why "moderation is a super hard problem" I'm bemused.

If this was a hardware or software issue it would be obvious that you're trying to scale systems that do not scale.

In technical terms, social "algorithms" are O(k^n), exponential.

You're trying to do the impossible, eh?

(Really, the argument could be made that FANG et. al. are becoming a new de facto world government. From that POV you're attempting to solve the hardest human problem, eh?)

- - - -

No one is forcing you to be that big. At the end of the day, scraping away all the bright-eyed rhetoric about "connecting all the people, places, and things for great good", you're doing it for money. Building a moderated social network isn't impossible (maybe) but it's woefully expensive.

The existing systems are, arguably, harming people and messing up society, tech companies notoriously have a lot of money already, but are unwilling to prioritize and pay for the moderation that could (arguably) improve things.

So... what? I don't have any answers, I just want to point out that from my POV the problem is clearly hubris and basic cheapness.
> I think beginners to programming are the people who'll find most value out of this

Well, yes. I guess I meant more about age / education demographics.
This approach has issues with discovery. The hardest prt about producing content these days is getting people to watch it.
That is not really true of most Orthodox Jews. Keeping the laws is about following the word of God, and the afterlife does play a fairly big part in our worldview. There are a handful of laws which are identified in the literature as being about community but those tend to be ones added later by the early rabbis (miderabannan), rather than straight from the Torah i.e. God (mideoraisa).

That being said, what you described in your second paragraph does happen, yes. Though not everyone who engages in it has the motives you ascribe to them. Some are sincerely trying to do the will of God as best they can.

> It's not a sin to fail to keep kosher

Well, it is for a Jew, but not for a non-Jew. We don't say that non-Jews need to keep our laws, other than a few very very basic ones likes not to murder. Non-Jews can still have an afterlife without keeping kosher.
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Read/listen to https://www.manager-tools.com/ they posit that all good managers do these four things in abundance:

1. 1 on 1's (which are for the benefit of the direct report not the boss) weekly for 30 minutes - 15 minutes for you, 15 minutes for the direct report.

2. Giving feedback both good and bad in a constructive way

3. Providing coaching and context to the reports work

4. Tactical delegation of tasks both that you know they can do so they feel good about their work, and also some difficult tasks to stretch them (with coaching)

This plus understanding the different types of role power within an oganization, and knowing which type of power to use when and with who.(hint it's often never the right answer to user your role power to say ''do this because I am the boss'' use role power sparingly)
I recently was curious about the relative performance of the classic CPUs, so I made this table to compare their memcpy performance:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/classic-...
How come? Me phoning or talking with a customer/co-worker directly is also "suitable for business".
I expected to see use of DeviceCheck.[0]

[0]https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck
But do you think they would work on those "trivial tickets" :-)
This was a fun interview, thanks Trevor!

There are a few controverial bits that I'd love to hear what HN thinks.

1. Boston Dynamics Spot, where you have a technical achievement without a clear application

2. What it takes to win in self driving. At one point Musk said "If you have accurate vector space representation, then you're kind of like a video game." That's just not true.
> Ensuring that the network also always has available an unpopular 6-hour video someone uploaded last year of some birds in their backyard is a lot harder. If users can't use your video platform without some basic guarantee that the video will even exist or have peers, this would likely be a much bigger problem than most people have with YouTube (though perhaps not philosophically).

I'm not sure I follow. Peertube works without peers. I maintain an instance for my personal videos, most of them have maybe 5-6 views total, and they'll still work fine whenever anyone visits the server. The peers are only there to handle bandwidth spikes and scaling.

And if you're worried that my server will go down, other instances can just mirror it.

Of course, if I stop hosting the content and nobody else mirrors it, it will disappear. But from my understanding of VideoCoin, nothing seems to be different there at first glance. If I stop paying for people to host my video on VideoCoin, are random nodes just going to keep storing it for free?

I'm trying to think of any distributed storage system that actually solves the problem of unknown content disappearing. Filecoin & IPFS don't remove the need to pay for storage, torrents still need to be seeded. The point isn't to make it impossible for content to vanish, the point is to make it easy for people who do care to archive and share the content that they care about.
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Two absolute must reads:

Peopleware

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software

Both are scientifical approaches to what makes effective teams.
Palantir Files Confidential Plans for Public Listing
Another recommended book out of the military is Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal.
I don’t remember last time I implemented sorting, search or trees, these are available in all languages and runtimes.

Skill, I implement a lot of my own algorithms. Following reasons.

1. Performance. Custom algorithms and data structures is often a requirement to write performant code, because SIMD, memory hierarchy, and other modern hardware-related shenanigans largely ignored by authors of standard libraries.

2. GPGPU. Due to their massively parallel nature they need completely different algorithms, a naïve implementation is often by an order of magnitude slower than purposely built one, due to things like memory access coalescing and group shared memory.

3. Licensing. In my area of work (CAD/CAM/CAE) some good quality libraries are only available as GPL or even AGPL. Apparently, the commercial licenses are targeted towards companies like GM or Airbus, way too expensive.
> Ok, this requires Rust's "rich enum type" (whatever that's called), and some sort of generics, both of which Go doesn't have.

This is one of the reasons so many people are calling for Go to get generics.

> or as "safe" (because one can access the value even when an error is returned)

Which is one of the key things one wants from an error handling mechanism: the inability to misuse it.
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Growth expected to return by 2022 then? European oil providers supplies were supposed to be contracting by 2028 according to data from Rystad, before the pandemic, mostly because of below ground issues (and with very, VERY optimistic previsions concerning above ground issues imo). So anyway, Covid or not, European industrial production will peak this decade.

Times will be harder and harder for a lot of people.
Slashdot was user-moderated, so you just needed enough people to find something +1 Funny or +1 Interesting. And rick rolls were always +5 Funny. The fun really started with the meta-moderation though. I’m still not sure how that experiment turned out.

It’s strange to think how changes in moderation and up-voting have led us from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit (and HN).
Yeah, instead of interstate conflicts, it might be more interesting to just visualize win/loss rates for cases originating in a particular state. They probably would all come out neutral, but if not, that might tell you which states are most likely to run afoul of the constitution.
Have any US-based health authorities deployed contact tracing apps? Back in May, they were going to be coming soon, and I've not heard anything since.
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It is mildly upsetting that it says "These tweaks can compromise the security of your account" when the reason for the bans is clearly so that it is more difficult for you to save images you receive.

https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/a/jailbroken-iphone
I wonder if this could be solved by grouping you with other academically advanced children of the same age. I agree it doesn’t seem right to put children in social environments with adults and expect them to succeed socially.
That's not a problem as I see it so I don't need a better source telling me it is a problem. And you know just as well as I do that it's not, "things it doesn't like."
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Skimming through the pages on the video, it shows vividly how far away academia is from real life problems.
What would be the left-wing analogy to President Trump rallying against the attacks on Confederate symbols (e.g. flag ban at NASCAR, taking down of statues) and using it as a purported example of liberal hypocrisy regarding tolerance and freedom of speech?

edit: This is a genuine question, not whataboutism. The letter is obviously very keyed to the current situation, rather than just a broad defense of free expression. Many of the signatories are presumably worried that backlash to perceived unchecked movements on the left will lead to the Trump administration retaining power. The parent commenter suggests that this kind of letter would be written in a vacuum, and I disagree.
And the cost for failure is a lot, lot higher... it’s a different model of development because there are many different challenges involved.
When I try to visit that page, I get an error saying "504 - this request was canceled", which is darkly amusing in its appropriateness.
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Mastering jq: XML (and any other data format)
I'd say that's perhaps too broad of an interpretation of 'syntax sugar' though.
I really hope universities can find a loophole around this. Three days of in-class lecture per semester, but allow for three unexcused absences for any reason.
Nicely timed to deport HK students back there.
>While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture

The "radical right" enclaves on the internet are literally the only places where you won't be banned for not falling in line.

We need to have this discussion in more than one dimension. Left/right and authoritarian/anarchist are orthogonal metrics.
I admit that I struggled with regular languages, I didn't fail the class or anything, but as soon as I was done with it, never looked back.

I thought about doing a Turing machine in JavaScript but I never actually did it.

I wonder if people that retains all that information use it everyday, that's why they retain it. Thing I don't use in real life, like propositional logic, regular languages, automatas... I can barely remember. It's kinda sad thought, but I fill I cannot dedicate time and resources to keep this things fresh in my head.
That's... actually an interesting thought experiment.

Let's say the US "bans" TikTok. Younger users around the country then install various VPN clients and learn a bit about security. This in turns leads to an overall more environment for US security services to perform mass surveillance.
Did the non-TDD team do regular testing, or no testing at all? It doesn't say, and it seems rather important to judge the results..

I think the debate is not whether testing in general reduces defects (which is rather obvious), but if adhering to a stringent Test-Driven Development (TDD) process is better than regular testing (typically adding the tests after writing the code, instead of before).
The idea is that for bugs you don't even need a try-catch (or maybe one around your entire program). And pattern matching and functions like `map` make the second case much nicer.
Pretty sure they are ironic.
"Making of" landing gear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77oRSCxGmYA

"Gear Stats:

•3 months' work between design and build (early June - early
September). About a month per side.

•Over 200 hours of work total (design+build).

•Over 1,000 parts per side (not including the wheels), for a
total well over 2,000.

Video Stats:

•Over 600GB of raw footage/130 hours.

•Editing took 2 weeks.

•Video was sped up 100-200x.

•Produced in Final Cut and Motion."
Yes you can implement it yourself – given how bad available cookie consent tools are, you're more likely to be compliant that way.

However, consent under the GDPR must be specific. That means the user should be able to consent to or withhold consent for individual processing purposes. Analytics would be one purpose, personalized ads another.

Note that under EU cookie laws you don't need consent for cookies that are strictly necessary for the service requested by the user. E.g. using a cookie for dark mode preference, for a shopping cart, or for the consent status itself is perfectly fine without consent.
Our government has explicitly said we won't have any hope of returning to our economic status quo ante until such time as the rest of the world is ready to import our exports.

So I selfishly ask you all to wash your hands and keep your distances, please.
When you give someone money to do a thing you have responsibility about that thing. If someone is running a clearly illegal business (trafficing illegal drugs, humans) and you are aware of this and invest in their business then you become an accessory you are not immune to liability for crimes you were aware of before investing - you are immune to liability for actions taken without your knowledge (which is what we assume the great deal of actions taken by investees are).

Causing another massive shock to the stock market is the correct response here because nearly everyone is engaged in behavior that harms society and should be stopped. Also, the market will recover and really isn't that important. If a small proportion of actors were engaged in this activity then getting an industry compact or other token gesture might be good enough to correct it.
What's with Oklahoma and Texas?
Everything comes down to UX. If you don't have a strong UX, you aren't going to be able to accumulate users. A webpage pointing to a list of torrent files is mechanically sufficient, but isn't going to be able to accumulate users.
It is also not clear cut that other than the incandescent bulb use of electricity is actually prohibited. The Hazon Ish ruled that the completion of a circuit is considered ‘makke bapatish’ or ‘boneh’. But one can argue reasonably that it is not so.
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