skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google uses many things. Search for IBS where I live, and the company called IBS here is among the top result. There are also quite different companies called IBS in several neighbouring cities, but those aren't shown on the first page. We both know why: One of Google's factors is geography.

Perhaps IBS is also a relevant abbreviation to your work, and Google can tell that you often search for that, so it'll also boost results that pertain to that sense of IBS if you search.

None of this is about what you like. One is about where you are, the other is about your work. Perhaps your work interests you, perhaps one may say that your work necessarily interests you, in a compelled sense of "interest". But it's not about preferences or opinions.

So you could say, fairly and honestly, that your interests as indicated by search history influences how Google interprets the search term. Returning to the "IBS" example, your search history hints to Google which IBS you have in mind. This is good, not bad, as long as there are more senses of IBS than will fit on the search results page.
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Make it 8 so you can knock it over and have it be infinity
THis is likely a consideration. From my decidely non-lawyer viewpoint the RIAA is using a terrible law, but still a law and they have grounds under this law for their claims. GH and MS have deep pockets and if they tried to initially fight this I'm confident they would settle. If you're the RIAA who would you rather go after - someone who will pay after a little bit of fighting, or a huge group who will immediately roll over but have nothing to give you?
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Yeah it's not intuitive, but there isn't really another way to do it, right? Every concrete iterator is specific to what it returns and what it iterates over.

I think it's documented under something like "How to implement Iterator" but if that's not where people will go looking when they need it, then it should be somewhere else.
The crux is in the expectation: they expect that they will make X in a given day, but an expectation is not a guarantee or a right. They also could have made X in a given day, but sometimes that just doesn't happen due to various factors.

I'm not sure to whom you are referring when you say "thief", but I was under the impression that we were talking about a person watching, but not re-uploading, a Youtube video without viewing ads. This person does not have Y dollars in his account as a result of copyright infringement since they simply watched the video and did not put it up for further distribution.
US gas stations frequently give prices in fractions of a cent.

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/11/why-do-gas-prices-end...
I suspect this is going to end up as one of the most expensive GDPR fines ever (edit: as a max-fine case, not neccesarily in sheer numbers). Furthermore, many individuals have had extremely sensitive data leaked publicly, and they could sue individually for damages.

In other words: It could end up being insanely expensive.
Do those laws apply if you sign a consent waiver? Like terms of service: agree to X or we won’t give you service.
>On 1 May 2018 the IAEA reiterated its 2015 report, saying it had found no credible evidence of nuclear weapons activity in Iran after 2009
> Wonder how many other folks are in the same boat?

In the same vain. The time saved from my commute, I've been able to use those 2 hrs a day bootstrappig a low risk business opportunity at night. It's honestly worked well for me personally.
Where are all the FP competitors for fast programs then?
If you could control for desire you would get very different data. The Unabomber was extremely smart and extremely interested in not making a lot of money.
Musk,Gates,Jobs,Bezos are extremely smart and extremely interested in changing the world through capitalist endeavors.
Suspect op meant ‘enlightenment’ rather than ‘renaissance’
Yes, so my idea would be to make youtube-dl a tool for viewing content without annoying ads and it could be extended to be a download tool (in another project, operating in a more gray legal area).

This means that most developers in the project could contribute in a completely legal way.
> The concrete idea of a tree owning itself is dumb.

What about a corporation being a person?
Regulations could encourage/entice/require big insurance companies to take on infosec contracts.
Well in the case of authoritarian regimes, I would imagine trying to pump more information from the free world into it would be a more effective "punishment" that restricting information. In practice though that's hard. Most authoritarian regimes have state censors/firewalls to filter only information that is advantageous for the state.
Sure but you could consider the cost to the actual individual in the price of depressed wages, deteriorated personal relationships ect. They wont get a penny of it unless outlined by law.
Why is Javascript in the top 2 of techempower?
in the current world, you host your code on github and you can only submit prs to github with a github account. anyone without a github account cannot submit a pr. github hosts all the code.

in a federated world, while github may still host all the code, you could potentially submit prs with and have metadata about a repository, such as issues, spread across multiple different providers. Instead of needing a github account to contribute, you just need an account that github could federate with.

This would mean that if Github did start doing something you didn't like, you would be able to change code host without losing the metadata.

Potentially, anyway.

Federation doesn't prevent centralisation if the service is good enough; it just makes it less painful to decentralise if better competition exists. It also diversifies ownership of data, which is in general a good thing for consumers - and a bad thing for big tech companies that wish to make money off of analytics, which is why we will never see current social media platforms allow federation with other social networks, even if would be better for the world and consumers.
TL, DR; is the Nth time I read the same story, someone losing access to something they think they owned.
I don't want to sound too heinous or else ..but please don't be so naive to trust github, operated by microsoft,an usa company, with your life work. You own what you can defend. Your github account is not yours. Sober up. Using any service inside USA is a priviledge not a right.
Gates isn't getting richer because the poor are getting sicker - on the contrary. Socialist bait.
The best thing you can do for your health is get a dog. They're like a workout buddy who never bails on you.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884347
So does wealth. Yet I'd hope that people would shudder at school admissions and hiring pipelines that explicitly separate people based on wealth and choose the richest ones.
We should change the rules so that anything that's provided, for free, to the entire world can also be given to sanctioned countries and individuals.
Maybe they are not as interested in actual business use cases?

The primary goal seems to be the extra levers CBDC will give them in regards to monetary policy. Micropayments might not be visible from where they stand.
"That list of tasks is handed off to employees who will repeat a similar process within their areas at a more granular level.

Good reporting up and down the chain allows people at all levels of the organization to adjust course when needed, with a level of autonomy suited to whatever level you're in within the organization."

Yeah this is the part that is missing at shopify from my experience. And it has caused all sorts of brutal problems and mental health issues for people.
This is Gitlab not Github.
There are tens of thousands of companies in the US which actively provide web-services, and which do not actively go fishing for accounts that may possibly be Iranian. Are they all possibly facing jail time?

Is there a requirement to actively monitor the service for possible Iranians? What kind of actions are required specifically to be safe from jail? Is it a requirement to actively block IPs? Spoiler: These things are not specified.

Maybe we should be angry with the US government for the lack of legal certainty provided to its citizens.

However, given that no one in a situation like Gitlab has been prosecuted, maybe their hands are bound after all.
I greatly fear the day these devices become Mainstream. The have completely non-standardized hardware which makes it impossible to run linux on it in a sane manner.
Copyright is an attack on property rights...

Suddenly, what other people might have done similarly, restricts what you can do with your rightfully owned property.

Can someone explain why government
-granted monopolies on human cultural output is a good idea?
Better? Probably, but everything in life is about incentives. If they have no incentive to protect the data to begin with then the "best" thing for them to do is invest most of the money.
>If we go by that logic, the U.S. would get on that list.

I put an AND in my statement for a reason, please don't cherry pick parts of sentences.

>The list would by these metrics include well over half the world.

That's like saying that if you don't want to die you should live in a cocoon and never leave the house, rather than just making sure to avoid the most dangerous activities. GitLab is blocking the countries it sees as the most risky and carry the least cost in blocking. I'm sure their lawyers would love to block half the world but that would cost them too much.
https://mudita.com/products/pure/sar/

Is that all FUD?
Indeed, Differential Privacy is very useful, and it's an incredible step in the right direction for some problems, but it's no silver bullet. Even Homomorphic database encryption is only useful for some use cases.

Ultimately there is no escaping understanding the statistical consequences of data.
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>> not every argument can be won with science.

Is this even a science argument though? The law and its enforcement may occasionally use science to illustrate specific cases (the implementation) but it's more the documentation of a giant, waterfall-based architecture project. Why are we suprised when we see specific cases that seem like failures despite agreeing with the fundamental premise?
That's a very specific condition though. My best friend from university suffers from IBS so I completely understand where you are coming from.
> But you know what? You, personally, can solve this problem. You have the power to build The Next Thing. The thing that doesn't suffer this same fate.
> The tech can exist. I urge you to (a) think about a long-term solution, and then (b) devote years of your life to making it a reality.

The way you've described it, this isn't a problem with a technical solution. Discouraging or eliminating the ability of an organization to deplatform a software community requires a social/legal solution. Presumably, someone hoped to reignite interest in the social solution yesterday by pointing at [0] gittorrent. Ultimately, I affirm your general sentiment that this can only be an occasional flower in the desert and tall weeds get cut. Any network I can find, RIAA can find.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874994
That's the point with GDPR; you can't just start using personal data unless the person has given explicit permission for that data being used for that specific purpose. That applies to data from outside sources as well.
Honestly, X forwarding doesn't work that well in my experience, unless you have a very stable connection, with quite a bit of bandwidth (~1Mbps at the very least). I've had more success using xpra for forwarding, as I'm often connecting over Wi-Fi (hostel, campus rooms...).

It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).

waypipe, on the other hand, was a breeze to use, even though it's very young. I tried with Firefox and 500Mbps of upload capacity, it worked fine as long as the window wasn't too large.
If only we all had the Party to show the way!

While the Party is running concentration camps (first-hand account here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24879870), the NYT fanatics are praising the place.

The most disgusting North American newspaper of 2020.
> You're still structuring logic and procedures for a machine. Knowing how to do that is still important for these systems.

I've known people who set up IFTTT and Zapier for production without too much trouble.

"No code" doesn't mean "no logic". It's just a different UI for writing code, specifically one that is accessible to people who don't know how to write code.

If there were no value in that, we wouldn't see widespread use of things like Zapier or Tableau.
Brad has submitted generic POSIX support to libuv for fallback support (I forget which platforms exactly were in consideration at the time). We even have a tracking issue for HP-UX support which tracks the status:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/17137

Part of it is HP saying they'd have a C++11 compiler and then not, some is modern GCC being a problem to compile as well.

C++11 and libuv have vastly improved the situation in CMake's codebase itself and letting HPE hold everyone else hostage for that would not have been worth it (and it takes a lot for us to drop platforms). IRIX was dropped because its owner killed it off and we're looking at dropping support for macOS 10.9 and older (in premade binaries; feel free to compile yourself) because we don't actually have tests running on those older releases.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/20825

Full disclosure: CMake developer here.
> Blocking Iranian IPs, as opposed to accounts, is almost certainly over-compliance.

Do you have a source for this being over-compliance? Gitlab and Github are both actively sharing technology. It's not like Gitlab randomly decided "Hey let's block Iran today", obviously they have in house legal council who advised this course of action.

With regards to your second point, everyone knows there are sanctions on Iran, it's been all over the news, and besides it's not like Gitlab is a random US citizen. They are a big company that is doing business overseas. It stands to reason that they should be aware of all laws and restrictions on international trade.

I think it's the other way around, companies like Google and Facebook should grow some responsibility, it is not unreasonable to ask a company to "fish" for any accounts that conflict with any laws. Google and Facebook might give the impression that it's hard, but it's really not, it's only hard if you expect to make hundreds of dollars for every dollar that you invest acquiring your user base.
As far as I can see, the analysis presented in the article doesn't account for differences in wealth, education, neonatal care etc. Aside from the (obvious to me) fact that IQ is a very limited measure of intelligence, I don't see any investigation of whether IQ can be altered through nurture (which I think it can).

Taleb's original medium post deals with other issues aside from correlation with on-job performance and wealth. Specifically the purported correlation between IQ and race. Therefore, the claim that 'Taleb is wrong about IQ' doesn't seem to follow from the limited analysis provided.
Did Barbara Streisand achieve the results she wanted by attempting to suppress photos of her estate?

In the same way, did the RIAA remove youtube-dl from visibility and awareness? just watch.
The upside is probably very limited. A private psychotherapy provider in Finland doesn’t have millions in their bank account.

They’re effectively bankrupted by this news already, as business grinds to a halt. By the time a class action suit awards something to the victims, the company will be long gone.
State, federal antitrust charges against Facebook could come as soon as November
> US based cloud provider

Huh, I thought it was GitLab B.V. and that still exists[1], but Wikipedia says they're headquartered in the USA as of 2018[2] and the official "About" page[3] mentions Amsterdam, the Netherlands nor B.V., but does mention a "GitLab Inc.". The history on Wikipedia doesn't mention them having moved and still has the "Tech companies from the Netherlands" category (not sure if that's because they're still originally from there, or because the category was never removed).

Not sure blocking Iran would have happened if they hadn't opened a corp overseas.

[1] https://www.kvk.nl/orderstraat/product-kiezen/?kvknummer=600...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GitLab&diff=82685...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/company/

Edit: slightly older, 2017 reference of USA headquarters https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6J-gitlab-s-secret-to-ma...

Editv2: the TOS still says that the intellectual property is with GitLab B.V. but the branding page says the trademark is held by GitLab Inc. The privacy policy is not GDPR-complaint (on multiple counts and I haven't even read it, just spotted some things like implicit+non-opt-outable consent while looking for who is the data controller) and doesn't mention who the data controller is. It does make clear that all data goes to the USA and you better suck it up. Looks like they fully embraced all of the USA's freedoms including censorship and privacy violations under their home country's law. I'm giving up searching for more info about the move at this point: there is no news article in HN search, the blog search requires me to accept more tracking which (after seeing the illegal-in-the-EU privacy policy) I'm not sure I'm willing to engage in, and the website seems to have had mixed mentions of B.V. and Inc. as of 2016.
So the consens is that many companies are doing this because of sanctions by the US.

What about cloudflare? They are responsible for more and more of the internet‘s traffic. And even if you are a non-us company and have servers not in the US many people use cloudflare because of its ddos protection. Does cloudflare block these countries too as they are an american company despite you not being a us company.
I would still choose the same stack I was using 5 or more years ago. Python (Django or Flask) or Rails with either Postgres or MySQL - whichever your organization is most familiar with. Avoid NoSQL unless you have a very good reason for it but even then Postgres should serve you just fine.

Note that YMMV with the above if adopting serverless.
No one wants? XOrg developers started Wayland, they don't want to work on XOrg anymore. Red Hat does not need anymore.
> An http server serves files independent of the client/user-agent–that's how the web works. If a work is published this way then that's the expectation. If YouTube and the RIAA want it to work another way, then use a different protocol/medium and put the content behind a login and limit access.

They don't use HTTP. HTTP is used to bootstrap the player, not to feed the content. The content itself is served over another protocol such as RTMP and that protocol is a streaming protocol (it sends chunked data) and it wasn't intended for downloading files and writing them to disk as a singular binary blob. Obviously it can be used that way but it's fair to say services like youtube-dl are using the protocol in ways it wasn't originally intended to be used rather than content owners serving content on a protocol that was always designed for distributing files.

It's a bit like recording something on VCR from an RF signal; there's nothing technically stopping you from doing that as recording a TV show is technically equivalent to watching it. But equally you can't blame TV networks for using RF to air their broadcasts knowing that risk is there.

The problem is any delivery system you can dream up for enabling consumers to view a recording will have some unintended method for copying said content. Even if it is as low tech as someone physically sat in a cinema with a handheld camcorder (how many movies have been leaked online that way?!)

This is why I keep coming back to the point that you can't use science to argue a legal issue; they ultimately serve different purposes. Science can prove something can be possible, the law is there to argue if something should be allowed to happen (putting aside for one moment the variety of differing opinions about morality et al). So if you have an issue with the youtube-dl take down then you need to treat it as a legal problem rather than a misunderstanding of a technical solution.
I'm talking about something like keeping a fork on a git hosting website in a country where it's accessible by anyone. No individual open source developer is going to be prosecuted for doing that.
streaming through your browser from the YT site is clearly an allowed and promoted use - it's explicitly in the T&S.
Imperialism always attacks innocent citizens.
Awesome, congratulations! What kind of business is it -- micro-SaaS or something different?
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Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Alec and Sajan here, co-founders of Laylo (cal.laylo.com), a platform for content creators to offer one-click reminders to their upcoming content, events and merchandise.

To give some backstory, over the last year we were building a data startup to help musicians understand who their biggest fans are online. We partnered with Sony Music and have over 600,000 artists accessing their fan data through our API. One thing we constantly noticed was that artists were posting on Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc. about their upcoming releases. The problem was that since their releases weren’t out yet, they didn’t have any destination to send fans.

Posts like “new merch dropping next Tuesday at 3 PST” assumes that fans will actually remember. It also uses up valuable social media real estate and doesn’t give the artist any usable data.

That’s why we built Laylo Drops. Drops lets you create a landing page for your upcoming releases, captures your fan data (emails and phone numbers), and automatically reminds them at the time of the drop.

Drops links are sharable anywhere that you can put a link: IG Stories, Twitter, etc. Fans don’t even need to create an account to RSVP. We also provide social media templates, custom messaging tools and more to make the marketing simple.

We set our sights on the music industry (because that’s where we started) but ultimately our goal is to help creators of all kinds connect directly with their audience and make announcements with ease.

We would love to hear your feedback and your experiences as creators or working with creators. We’re very excited to be sharing this with HN, and we’ll be here to answer any and all questions you want to throw our way!

Thanks,

Alec
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> To actually prove to me that IQ is a thing, you would have to show me that what you call IQ is innate.

"Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73% with the most recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
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I've been where you are and on this guys exact team. Give up and move on. Saw everyone who came in like you as a crafter leave or be fired after around a year.