skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A blue collar factory worker, a harvard grad management consultant, and a business researcher who are all white males try to reduce car part inventory through logistical innovation.

A black woman, a white man, and Asian woman who all graduated from Harvard and worked for McKinsey try to reduce car part inventory through logistical innovation.

I wouldn't be surprised if the more diverse group came up with a better solution.

To take your contrived example regional diversity will have a much larger impact on making sure someone has encountered a swamp than racial diversity.

I think it's easy to overestimate the effect of racial diversity and underestimate the effect of other types of diversities on problem solving style because one is so easy to see.
Not a big deal, but it's generally "Tcl" these days, not TCL.
Many would agree that communication platforms are essentially becoming public utilities, and should be treated as such. Twitter may only have the ability to control speech on the "platform they own", but the shockwaves caused by calculated censorship impact very far outside the walls of the platform itself.

When a platform with this type of power starts abusing it immediately before a major election, it's time to rethink the governmental protections afforded to them in order to feasibly exist.
not really. every time I build a city I start with the concrete tile.
Twitter is a platform with a editorial slant.

The NYPost is a platform with a (large) editorial slant.

Why should one be obligated to amplify the other? The NYPost gets to have an absolutely massive editorial slant (endorsing presidential candidates, etc) but Twitter can't? Should the NYPost be forced to amplify the NYTimes? What about other heavily user-driven platforms like HN and StackOverflow? Should HN be forbidden from curating its front page stories as well?

Keep in mind that HN itself is heavily curated. Should HN be allowed to do that?

(Browse HN with showdead on sometime to see what you're missing...)
The Need for Touch
No doubt. It clearly seems that I'm not communicating well enough. But just to be clear: is not in Wasmer intent to own the Wasm trademarks (as stated in the Github issue).

And to answer your question: yes, I deleted the comment because I thought it was going to start a non-productive discussion (it had 1 point at the moment of deletion). Then I realized deleting could provoke some other issues, and decided to repost again.

Yeah, I know there is a spectrum of people that downvote my comments... and it's ok!
Because the RIAA has shown that this specific tool can't be 'public'.

If we have to play by those rules, LEO should too. Boo hoo if it's harder.
True, it is a city builder.
Well, the rest will become immune the natural way fairly quickly: By contracting the virus.

Once a vaccine is available and a large share of the population either has been vaccinated or has the opportunity to be vaccinated maintaining the current measures can't be justified anymore.
What even is the relevance of this? So host a youtube-dl repo and reject DMCA requests then. Github, as it so happens, is American so it has to listen to America.
No Barbarians Necessary
Most aquihires are "take it" or "you're all unemployed." Since some money > no money the aquihire is inherently a benefit to the employee. You still have the option of not taking it and being unemployed. Or taking it and then looking for a new job. But you have more options and more income than if it didn't happen.
I do that for the background scraping. (via userscript that parses the data out of the page I visit and stores info to database in the background)

So for example if I buy some electronics module on aliexpress, my scrapper automatically saves all the product description and images to the database right from the browser as I'm making the order.

These details usually contain vital info to use the module, so it's important to me to have an easily searchable reference for all this information. I really don't trust myself to collect all the necessary info manually.
https://archive.is/s2MDD
> It doesn't matter. This strawman is presented every time this topic comes up. It's not about the quality of the Post's journalism. It's about whether Twitter should restrict it.

Twitter is a private company. They constantly, if unevenly, exercise their right to ban hate speech and what causes it.

> But it is a newspaper. A newspaper with a better reputation for reporting the news than Twitter.

Twitter is not a newspaper. Or a news organization. It's a social network.

> But people on HN try to falsely characterize it as the equivalent of the National Enquirer.

That's debatable. You admit it's a rag, that publishes some of the lowest quality journalism. It's also very politically biased, in a way that damages the very fabric of society. Restricting its reach is the responsible thing to do in their case.

As for the National Enquirer, nobody takes them seriously or call it a legitimate newspaper. That's why it's important to hold the NY Post to a higher standard.
I have some office space I am willing to lease to you, however I wont take any equity I need hard cash.
What Programming Language Would Jesus Use? [2012]
I love pen and paper. My arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome, however, do not. I miss writing by hand.
Nice! May I suggest making the right click on a tile to erase the tile? Played with it for a while and I think that would add to a better flow.
As far as I'm aware, the NYPost isn't a customer of Twitter. They don't have a transactional relationship. So this isn't even the case of a business refusing service.
Annoying to say the least
The former text of this comment:

The headline on the article should reflect the fact that Microsoft/Github pulled youtube-dl offline by choosing to respond to a DMCA takedown order that is not procedurally valid. The privatization of law enforcement through DMCA takedown orders does not extend to alleged circumvention tools; it includes only copyrighted material that is allegedly 'pirated.'
The RIAA is engaging in an abuse of process that Microsoft has no obligation to cooperate with. The fact that Microsoft didn't tell the RIAA to go Disney themselves means that 100% of the blame lies at Microsoft's feet. No exceptions.

. .

That said, the youtube-dl maintainers should file a bar association complaint against the RIAA lawyer(s) who wrote the DMCA takedown. Filing invalid motions is an ethical violation that should result in sanctions.
I'd say the NY Post is free to post on the Gab network or on Parler. Twitter, a private company, is under no obligation to provide them a platform.
by the way, if you read the source code you'll notice that I was design this to be used with multiple textures (when creating a new brush you still have to specify the tile size). I totally gave up on that by now.
You could make that argument without needing a vaccine.
The point is that if now abacus is the most photographed thing in the World, it doesn't mean cameras main purpose is to take pictures of abacus(es? I guess being a Latin word it has no plural)

In the same way youtube-dl is a tool used to download videos from hundreds of website and there is nothing inherently illegal in it even if the majority of users used it to download illegal material from YouTube.
Python includes a Tcl, you should be able to use Tcl inside your Python projects just fine technically. Socially, might not work out.
Labor unions (and any other similar member-driven organizations) become powerful by concentrating people, not money. And more people translating to more political power is the quintessence of democracy.
Sweden and Belarus handled pandemic by not doing lockdowns. In Sweden for the last 3 months only 0-3 people a day die with covid-19. There is no second wave like in other European countries.
https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/se
You are prolific in your hatred of go
Minor point about rowing back on the need for constant news updates - I happily rely on checking high quality news outlets morning evening and watching Channel 4 News at 7pm. I don’t watch 24 hour news channels, and it works just fine. It’s certainly possible for a person to go back to considered coverage.
>That problem will solve itself then.

At a considerable cost. There's a large number of people for whom the vaccine won't work when it has been taken correctly or who cannot take the vaccine because it will react very badly with their chemotherapy or whatever.

This "let Darwin deal with the anti-vaxers" solution, though initially attractive, ends up being sociopathic when you dig into it.
> Let the people decide for themselves what is true and false.

They can't. They simply aren't capable.

I don't even have to use a fallacy, this is literally happening:

The US has a growing population of people who sincerely believe devil-worshiping democrats are drinking the blood of stolen children. 15 are running for US congress.

We no longer need to even "slippery slope it", the worst-case scenario is happening: disinformation is usurping facts at an alarming rate with very real consequences.
Ask HN: Why don’t we treat cyber warfare as an act of war?
It seems like nation states hacking US electoral systems could be interpreted as an act of war. Why doesn’t the US respond militarily? Not advocating for this, but curious how we arrived at this precedent.
Not to discount your feelings completely, but I’m always a little skeptical when someone says a place “feels” safe or unsafe. Do you have reason to believe you actually were less safe in San Francisco compared to London?
> RIAA has shown

They haven't shown anything. They made a claim. We'll know what rules we have to play by if it comes to a court ruling.
Please let me add as well more specific complexity like depth of the pages (of a site), length of parameters of dynamically generated links (which can potentially be infinite if there is a circular perpetually "adding" mechanism in the website's code), upper/lowercase characters in links (irrelevant for the protocol & domain but relevant for the rest like path and parameters), etc... .

I just started with this theme and I'm having a lot of unexpected "fun" :)
Running the [arbitrary] scripts not written by me is what I usually try to avoid and fear when scraping.
Like any other performance issue limited to a month each year. If it's mild and they're otherwise a great employee probably just ignore it. If it's large drop in performance that is having a material impact on the team, document the performance impact, take any steps necessary to mitigate the impact of the drop in performance and ask if there is anything you can do to help them improve their performance.
No, we need to just cut our losses with reddit altogether. Each year, it just gets more political and more authoritarian. Even if you find a good subreddit, its only a matter of time before it gets usurped by the usual powermods that each control 300+ subreddits and bans anyone who disagrees. The admins will never do anything about them since it's hundreds of people willing to perform free labor for them.
Chinese AI Surveillance Technology Spreads Around the World
Yes but a tool is not illegal just because it can sometimes be used illegally. If some are OK with it and some are not, then it suggests it has legitimate purpose (though you need to go a lot deeper).

Note, I'm not arguing copying small-label stuff is OK, I'm rather more OK with copying RIAA stuff.

AFAICT, if a DRM prohibits fair use, breaking it is legal. In some jurisdictions. Or at least it should be. That should be enough of a reason for youtube-dl to exist.
Why was my first though here "I bet Palantir have their own fork of youtube-dl which they rent out to cops in a SaaS thing for the low low price of $ASTRONOMICAL-SUM-COMPARED-TO-ALL-THE-DONATIONS-THE-PROJECT-HAS-EVER-RECIEVED ???:
If anyone can help. I am looking for note taking application that can fulfill the following requirements:

- Plain-as-in-Plain Text - meaning I don't have to export my notes as JSON or XML or something else. Each note is a single .md or .txt file.

- Full-text search

- No Markup Lock-in - Meaning, for example, that I can use any flavor of Markdown (in my case MultiMarkdown) that I'd like and export/preview/build the file elsewhere.

- Preferably Mac native...or anything not Electron if necessary

- Wikilinks, please

The Archive fills these needs but after looking at their Roadmap, I've realized that I have no intentions of paying for an upgrade when V2 is released and I do not want to risk V1 slowly becoming a mess to operate somewhere down the line if I can find an alternative. The Archive is great because it's simple and it's core but can be extendable if necessary.

Obsidian is nice...but has too much going on for my liking. Same with Org-Roam.

I'm really considering Emacs w/ Zetteldeft.
Not certain about the credibility of this domain, having not seen it often before - but either way, the trend appears genuine.

On this topic, see also:

[1] https://grist.org/article/let-it-go-the-arctic-will-never-be... (plus HN discussion[3])

[2] https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/past-evidence-supports-comp...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468943
Any actual evidence that this has happened/is happening/will happen?
Wait, you have an above average teacher and do well, then have an average one and do average (worse).
#1 is an activity protected by fair use, and something fairly important. Imagine a world where you can't reference images or clips in your journalism or reviews, forever having to rely on only licensed material and descriptions.
When people talk about eliminating the electoral college, I always wonder what impact that might have on voter turnout. I can only imagine that democrats in Texas and republicans in California just stay home because they don’t think their vote matters.
I'm guessing they didn't like you saying "I know". You should have said "I hope".
you can use the paint bucket tool to make a layer of grass
Ask HN: Any good open source webxr video players for web-based 360 video?
>Twitter is a platform with a editorial slant

Except that Twitter claims to be a neutral platform in order to benefit from Section 230. I agree with you that it's just another media outlet with a slant, but the government needs to start treating them like it.

Edit: I'm not going to risk posting another comment in this thread because I'm getting negative votes. I keep seeing this more and more and I'm baffled. I haven't called names or even been combative. Is this place reddit now, where you just downvote anyone you disagree with?
Sorry for being behind on this discussion, but how can there possibly be a legal basis for taking down open-source software on the basis that it might be used for infringing someone's copyright?

Can they takedown my web browser and operating system too? These are general purpose tools.

It's sad that the conversation is all about justifying its use - I think the takedown is absolutely unjustified.

GitHub should have let it go to court.
The cynic in me wants to know if they discussed sea level rise in those villages, and if so, how did it go?

That said, I am always interested in "sunken" civilizations. Whether they are submerged in the jungle (such as the Inca and Olmec), under sand such as the Egyptian, or under the seas (Norse, Greek, Arabian). In many ways it seems that this will inevitably Manhattan's fate as well.

What sorts of things might one do prior to submerging that would be interesting/useful to explorers who came later?
In order to have a meaningful discussion, let me expand on what I mean by "boring".

To me, a boring language is one that is easy to learn, easy to read and which encourages somewhat homogenous code - through coding style and common idioms. It has few surprises and few dark corners.

If a language still has major aspects that practitioners struggle with after 2-3 years, it isn't "boring". If you have to expect every codebase in the same language to have different coding standards, it isn't boring.

A boring language is one where what you've learnt on one project has a high probability of being usable in a completely different company or on a project that does something entirely different from what you've done before. It is a language that disappears because you spend more time talking about how to solve problems and less time talking about how to express those solutions in a language.

Now I can understand that some people like the excitement of exploring new languages. And you should. On average you should try to learn at least one new language each year. Even if it is on your own time if your employer is stingy.

However, asking your employer to let you use some language on a project because you find it "exciting" is a big ask. Projects tend to have deadlines, they have quality targets, many projects are built by teams, so entire teams have to be conversant in the language. What if you need to scale up with more developers? How easy is it to recruit programmers in a given language and at a given level of proficiency? How about maintenance after you have left the company or grown tired of whatever language you were once very excited about? And what happens when a language goes out of fashion but the company running the code still depends on it?

People with responsibilities are not scared of talent. Rather the opposite. They depend on talent.

They may, however, be somewhat scared of "specialists" (in the sense of programmers who will insist on niche languages or niche technologies) because if you pay someone to write code, you don't want to have to search for "specialists" to maintain it or limit the size of your recruiting pool. You have an investment to manage.

As for mediocrity: I think you would need to back that argument up with something. Do you really think the choice of language is what makes a programmer brilliant or mediocre? Then why doesn't reality agree with that view? If that were true then for every Donald Knuth, Fabrice Bellard, Jeff Dean and John Carmack there should be lots of even better programmers that do all their work in "exciting" languages. Where are they? They should be far easier to enumerate than the people who use "boring" languages?

If you think caring about the long term value of code is "boring": try to start your own company and bet your own money. If you are that convinced of how "exciting" languages lead to brilliance it shouldn't be a tough choice to make.
I feel like this is widely desired and could be implemented as a language server and then used in the text editor of your choice.
I'm figuring it out as a I go along, those aren't official terms.

Say you run a discord channel and you own a chain of flower shops. You've just discovered a new technique of cutting flowers that gives you competitive edge and has far reaching implications across all your franchisees. Valuable information. You lay out how to do the cutting in immaculate detail, with your staff in discord. You go to sleep and wake up the next day.

Discord has found you've broken some rule, banned you and banned any mention of the technique. You lose your account. You & your staff can no longer talk about flower cutting on discord. Discord did not delete the data, it still has the details of this technique laid out on their servers.

Your staff work remote so you contact them primarily through social media. You find that your communications about this topic are not getting through.

That's the black-hole, they retain the information, you can't access it or discuss it. On their arbitrary whim. What recourse do we have to make discord delete a trade secret, or any secret? My flowershop competitors suddenly starts implementing the technique I discussed therefore is Discord ever liable for a data leak?

Writing on a bright website like HN is enough to make sure I can probably see what I type later on, at archive.org. Anything you put into certain cloud services is going down with the ship, when it wants to blackhole your data.

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Disruptive language is that game we saw a few years ago. You endlessly drill down and analyze the definitions of individual words to establish a new meaning that changes the game. One or two words carry the weight of the future, currently it's 'hierarchy' across all the intellectuals. They just then endlessly debate their worldview and how they relate to one-another whilst silently agreeing on the all the implications of a single word someone else defined for them.

So sure, regulate language. The definitions of words have already been disrupted, the only thing left to do is get everyone pointing in the same direction and frankly it's like watching paint dry. Inevitable and speeds up with more hot air. It's amazing how much of the world is basically talk-radio writ large at the moment and so little novel information is being said.
How’s this work with things that aren’t websites? Do you have to throw a proxy in front of e.g., your database server that keeps track of which IPs have already authenticated over the web?
They could certainly bake ads into their videos if they wanted to.
"It's _hard word_ doing policing right! Why don't we just chokehold this black guy till he confesses to a crime?"

:sigh:
That was a fun diversion. I managed to hit 268!
this is all about static html page scraping which is really basic, there are many sites are SPA or has lots of Javascript code these days, your best bet is using puppeteer etc though they're much slower.

as mentioned here apify is the scrapy-in-python version with javascript.
If the NYT's reporting were obviously a falsification, yes. Twitter would probably block them as well.

At the time it wasn't obvious. In those days information traveled much more slowly, with many more intermediaries than today and was, therefore, much less reliable.
Asking the range that the role offers solves this problem nicely without compromising your negotiating position as a prospective employee.
Hello, thanks for open sourcing this terrific project. I like the idea but am a little confused about usage. How do you recommend monitoring existing pipelines, with an additional pipeline or by modifying the existing one?
I'd disagree on the fact alone that the President of the United States essentially needs to use Twitter in order to communicate with the general public without his words being twisted by an EXTREMELY biased media. (Fox news isn't even 100% on his side)
The article appears to be one sentence long and doesn't make an argument in that sentence, so criticizing the platform for not actually displaying the article is basically the only thing I can say about it.
I don't believe you. I think it's only Trump and the US doing a poor job and you're misrepresenting or overreacting. Or perhaps you don't realize it's actually Trump's fault for your country's poor handling of the situation? Happy to help you understand the situation better, take care + be well.
yep. I live in a very small city (<80k) that is being abused as a test case for hyper-surveillance, including geofencing and cctv tuned to phone activity.
Right, and government officials were in charge of the Flint Water crisis. And government officials have abused the 4th amendment vis-a-vis the Patriot act. And governments have lied about WMDs to spend trillions on war. I guess the only difference between the private and public sector is that when a private company fucks up and gets caught, people actually lose money and go to jail.
https://hledger.org
I'm well aware that there are many types of property. And property taxes don't apply only to land. But copyright and patents, at least, are more similar to real estate than any other kind.
Fair use does not override the TOS which YouTube-DP violates
Blue Origin BE-4 engines sorts out turbopump issues
As a non-conservative, I’m with you. A large part of the left, including the media, have declined into total dishonesty and hypocrisy. They don’t even seem to realize it.