skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody understands that. But reach is taken from them. That's a extremely important effect. Way more important than the radicalisation, because if these people seek out new platforms to radicalize them self, they would likely have done so in every case. The danger of radicalizing a bigger part of the population is what is at stake here.
Even more insane is the idea that YouTube are "blocking content" and therefore treading on people's "freedom" to publish whatever they want.

Until platforms like YouTube even existed the only way to get anything seen or heard by people was to go through a big TV or radio network, who of course filtered what they would or would not air. Just because you filmed a video about a crackpot theory DOES NOT give you the right to air it to millions, and never in our history has a person been able to do so.

If you want to stand in Times Square holding a sign about your theory, you're free to do so. If you want to buy your own TV channel and air it, you're free to do so. If you DEMAND some TV network run it, you're gunna have a bad time.
So, if you really want to learn ROS, I recommend the classes at the Construct (no affiliation):
https://www.theconstructsim.com/robotigniteacademy_learnros/...
While not “free”, they have been the best I found to date.

That said, as said elsewhere, you should ask why you are trying to learn ROS. For research and academia, it’s great as you get a solid collection of tools/tooling that mostly works out of the box.

However, when looking at creating a product from it... think through the benefits. Much like any framework, even if there is no “cost”, there will always be a real cost in dealing with its complexity. So think through your use case, and design to that.
This is a very sad, though beautifully written, piece on a tragic character who, in all reality, is probably not as interesting as the post seems to suggest.

But I don't care. Some of the loves I've lost in my life in hindsight weren't what I thought they were at the time. And that's okay, because I need that memory to be there for me.
It's okay. I have been informed that the pay is good and the work is interesting.

The pending dystopia is of no concern to Google employees.

It sucks that Google employees are going to be responsible for the shit world my kids and grand kids will live in.

(This type of comment usually gets me slowed or suspended for picking on Google employees so I will sign off for the evening)
This is indeed a fair point.

Several of the lawsuits have been dismissed on the general basis that "election laws being broken is not evidence that fraud occurred".

It's logically a true statement, and I think it's a fair opinion to have.

But I do disagree with it: The laws regarding poll observers are designed to detect fraud. It is extremely hard to detect fraud when the poll observers aren't allowed to do their job, or when their challenges are ignored.

I get that the optics are bad: throwing out hundreds of thousands of ballots doesn't make anyone look good.

But what's the point of election laws if ultimately it doesn't matter when they are broken?

I'm not an expert in election laws, but I would be very curious if this standard of proving fraud has generally been applied for previous election cases in the same way.
GoT Dothraki subsistence vs. actual horse nomads
I am likely truly ignorant here, but I find it a bit staggering that Mozilla is able to spend the amount of money that they do on a pretty narrow set of mature products and services; all of which but one makes essentially zero dollars.

a few tips from from no one:

1. Rewrite the Mozilla mission statement. I read that and have no idea what your organization does. Mission statements seem like corporate naval gazing, but if it is honest and well written it keeps everyone focused on what you are working towards.

2. Refocus on Firefox R&D and core technologies - Firefox needs to be the best browser. It is the thing that makes the company money and makes it recognizable to the lay person. You will never be able to outspend Google, Microsoft, and Apple, but they are always going to have more competing priorities pulling their best engineers away and causing political infighting about what should be crammed into the browser. Mozilla does not have to have any of that.

3. Invest more in Thunderbird the application and develop Thunderbird the privacy focus email service for independent professionals and small businesses.

This comes across a bit negative, but it is because I love Firefox and have loved many other Mozilla products in the past. I very much would like to see Mozilla succeed and create more products that I can love.
I's not about changing the participants minds. It's about keeping them to radicalize more people by taking away reach.
Aiming for Correctness with Types (2020)
State of JavaScript 2020 Survey
There's your answer, fishbulb
They seemed wooly and commonly predicted to me. The article was interesting though.
Be careful. Your hot air may just blow over the straw man you’re arguing with.
Thank you! Put very precisely and, IMO, accurately.
I remember thinking that those headlines were crazy. I disagree with much of what Facebook does but they priced their IPO right.
The article is phrased confusingly, at one point saying there are 4 pipelines, and then saying it can do 4 FADDs and 4 FMULs(for a total of 8) per cycle.

So are there 4 or 8?? I believe what they meant to say was 4 FADDs OR 4 FMULs.

Then they say it has quadruple the throughput of Intel and older AMD chips, but that doesn't follow unless this does 8 floating point operations per cycle not 4.

The image of the pipeline only shows 4 so I think this is 4x128 wide, which is good but not going to compete with Zen3 with its wider registers. It is also not quadruple the throughput of Intel or AMD for SIMD..
The glaring difference between this situation and your analogy: There is no faction of “ban smoking in the bathtub” zealots getting ready to bully, intimidate, and otherwise coerce the people who want to smoke in the bathtub.

Like it or not, this is a political issue, and your choice has a political effect.
That's really not the point.

Regardless, for some rich people those treatments _are_ available. And that may well lead them to the completely rational choice of avoiding the risks associated with a vaccine.

Everyone is different, and can arrive at different decisions completely rationally.
I've been trying out something new this week: I'm running "Datasette Office Hours" where people can book a 20 minute Zoom call on a Friday to to talk to me about the project.

Today was the first day for calls, and it was fantastic. I spoke to five different people and got to see some wonderful applications of the tool - from analyzing hardware test results to exploring cemetery interment records.

If you're running an open source project and want to talk to people using your software this approach seems to work really well. I'm using Calendly for it: https://calendly.com/swillison/datasette-office-hours
Yeah, while I agree with the article overall Slack is a bad example to use. It sold not because it was on its last legs but because Salesforce made an absurd offer. There are plenty of smaller companies that die or get acquired because they have no other choice.
>Should you be free to make (acknowledged) sub-optimal decisions for yourself that adversely affect others?

Yes, this is what personal freedom is about. Optimal-ness of decisions does not matter.

There are some things we agreed as a society are not only suboptimal, but harmful enough to warrant restricting some of that freedom. Note the enough, we hold freedom above (or at least used to hold it) some consequences that may result from its existance. Ideally this standard of enough should be pretty high.

The argument against censorship is that censoring what people discuss is harmful to both that freedpm (fundamental - according to how we base our society) and to society as a whole, seeding dissent from these groups that are singled out.

EDIT: I also think your assumption is wrong in that it is dubious if there are people whose opinion is better. Just look at science's history, where most of the (now recognized) big breakthroughs were first seen as absolute stupidity from the established experts.

>Anticipating the "no - if it's illegal" argument, how would that be the philosophically consistent with freedom to choose free from having a group of people who are "smarter and better" choose for you?

As for this, society is hardly philosophically consistent. At some point a concensus has to be reached. Here practicality forces us to abandon philosphical perfection in order to preserve social order.
We often look nostalgically back to the past, but it’s a fair argument that for a lot of people things really weren’t all that great.

As a woman, as well as being in STEM, I see how tenuous my position still is. On my team I’m still the only female in an engineering role. I can’t imagine what life would have been like if I had been born 100 years ago.
Why are other high paid models who flaunt their sex appeal appropriate role models?

Let me be more specific: why is someone posing in a bikini or advertising Carl’s Jr. more appropriate than someone cooking dinner in a short skirt?

I’m sorry that your 7 year old is exposed to sexuality earlier than you feel comfortable with. That’s surely tough to navigate. But it’s not restricted to explicitly designated porn.
> However, if they do any of the above things, the rest of us have the right to be disappointed, to think YouTube sucks, and to tell everyone else about it.

> So, if they demonstrate that they have no respect for the principle of freedom of speech, we have the right to call them cowardly, un-American, probably unfair in their implementation, counterproductive even assuming their goals, etc.*

They aren't just saying it sucks, people and politicians are calling for a repeal of Section 230 of the CDA in a knee jerk reaction.

They want to fundamentally shift the liability for user created content online, effectively ensuring that hosting any speech becomes a massive liability for those without billions of dollars comb through user uploads for illegal content.

As a business owner, I don't want to be raided by the FBI in the middle of the night and then go to prison because someone thought it would be funny to upload illegal content to my servers.
I have a serious question I want to ask all of these supposedly serious men and women:

What if you get what you want and this comes to pass?

A purely political coup, in America, with no findings of fact in any court of law. The dog that caught the car.

How will we continue as a nation if this comes to pass? How will you, knowing in good conscience no legitimate fraud has occurred, claim to represent the people when you have discarded the votes of 80 million people?
This is great. I've added it to my phone as my default search engine to try out.

One thing I did notice because I mistyped the search string while adding it manually as a search engine in Firefox, is that if you hit a URL on http instead of HTTPS, you'll get a 403. Might be smoother just to redirect. I say that having seen someone affiliated with mojeek in the comments.
No Code Workflow Orchestrator for Building Batch and Streaming Pipelines
fine, black blanket then ?
This is a turning point for YouTube. YouTube was a medium of expression. In that sense your question is like "Why should the paper company allow ideas to be written on their paper that they disagree with?"

Of course YouTube does also take a editorial role. As both a platform and a publisher, we should allow them to stop giving recommendations for things that don't align politically.

By taking the more extreme step of taking down videos, they are balking on their self expressed purpose of being a platform for digital expression.

There are several people in my life who I completely disagree with politically. At the same time, I'm grateful that I can hear their perspective. YouTube is no longer supporting this dynamic.

I'm already seeing folks signing up for social networks that have less censorship, I think alternative video hosting platforms may increase too.
Just look early 2020 for an example.

Should Youtube have taken down videos saying face masks were effective given the CDC said they weren't?

Should Youtube have taken down videos about Li Wenliang. After all, there was no new SARS problem, according to china?
> Because YouTube has a practical monopoly on user-generated video in the US.

More specifically, YouTube has a practical monopoly on publishing and promoting user-generated video in the US.

Anybody can generate video and a great many do. Promoting your video to millions of viewers is a bit more challenging, though can clearly be done wihtout YouTube: https://www.lifewire.com/videos-that-went-viral-before-youtu...

This doesn't even get into the really early viral videos like the charcoal briquettes lit with liquid oxygen, or the massive viewership of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact way back in the day.
What is the standard deviation on these plots? It is such a pity that standard deviation is not shown, it could add so much more to the plots.
Electoral college is a quite fascinating subject. There are a lot of pros and cons for it. How each state choses electors has been explicitly given to the states. Each state tends to have slightly different criteria. How different can they be before there is an issue? There appears to be a huge divide between the states and the parties. There is a big different between given the entire electoral votes to the party that has a plurality, vs a state and its population passing a law to allow binky the clown to choose those electors. Somewhere in that continuum of possibility, you would get a majority that would deem it improper for the clown case, but if a state and its voters decided that was the best way, how does another state get to say no to those people? The supreme court has said over and over they shouldn't adjucate political questions, unfortunately the makeup of it is extremely politicized now, could you imagine a SC justice getting 80-90 votes now? The question then becomes is where does it stop? If you allow standing, every state will flood the SC with all manner of good bad or other. The only solution I see to this current problem is to have a constitutional amendment to change how electors are chosen, or change the system outright. That is a near impossibility.
I dunno if you have explored the wingnut parts of the internet... But a huge amount of it runs off youtube via embeds.

The youtube ban impacts the most wingnuttiest parts of the internet directly.
Installed it on android termux. Wasn't usable for hn. I like it on Linux and windows.
What I’d like is a “this recommendation sucks” button next to queries. I don’t care if it’s personalized or not, it’s just annoying to get 3 pages of lousy results on google because what you are looking for happened more than 3 months ago and have no way to say “what the heck is this?”
Is forcing Jeff Bezos to hire qualified black people and women un-American?

> that would be the basis for the US to stand up its own video publishing platform.

Why not just nationalize YouTube? As a corporation, Google already enjoys special privileges enshrined by law. Lets not pretend to be private property absolutists when the government already limits the liability of shareholders for the actions that bring them profit.
FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine
Have you seen any issues with UI lag? I've been testing an M1 Mini for the same reasons, and connected to a 27" 4K display it feels much less responsive than my Intel MBP with the same monitor.
>Trump will continue to bellyache about it because his supporters will send him money to defeat the “deep state,”

A good point. the Trump "Legal Defense Fund" fundraising effort[0] sends the vast majority of donations to the RNC and Trump's own PAC.

What's more, that fundraising effort has netted more than USD$200,000,000[1], yet the total monies spent on litigation by Trump and his campaign are less than USD$5,000,000.

The grift is on and it's working marvelously.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-trump-fundra...

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/03/trump-pac-fundraisi...
I still would like to know what the idea was with premium features... Emscripten and WebGL were already a thing, and Unity went and wrote their own plugin and canned the Flash export that (I imagine?) spooked Adobe in the first place. It screams of desperation.

The funny thing is, I don't even remember the premium features nonsense from back then. I only learned about it when looking up information on how Domain Memory works. That's how irrelevant Flash Player already was, and THEN they decided to start asking for more money beyond just how much Creative Suite cost.
Pseudo anonymity is probably fine, but web-of-trust solutions to help quarantine armies of sock puppets and manipulators would be really useful. Can't imagine why Twitter/FB won't implement. (Ok. I can imagine)
Whenever I've read material from the '60s or '70s, I've often noticed that phonetic misspellings were much more common in print in that time period than they are today. I always thought this was because it was much more tedious to check spelling before word processing software became common.

Typos on internet forums notwithstanding, I might even guess the age of auto-correct, spell check, and, even things like how some OSs put squiggles over misspelled words in every text field (I think Mac was the first place I noticed this -- though I'm running firefox on FreeBSD and it's doing that in this edit field right now ...), has made the average literate person a better speller than that era. We get so much realtime feedback on spelling when writing on our devices, these opportunities to learn to spell, notice and correct our mistakes would not have at all been so accessible in 1969.
> force YouTube to host content that their shareholders would prefer not to host.

youtube isn't the gov't. Public schools and roads are funded by taxation.

If youtube is to host content that their shareholders don't want hosted, then youtube needs to be paid a portion of gov't taxes.
That's great, thank you for that info! Very impressive performance specs for your indexing.
Back to the salt mines with you!
> That is parsed differently

It isn't parsed differently. Its semantic meaning depends on what B is, but not the parse.
I don't think most Western will mandate it. But there is a strong logical case for doing so, or at least denying access to certain public spaces and services if you refuse.

I don't think our politicians generally have the balls to do something that controversial though.
Fenix has reader mode now
I think YouTube should be applauded for protecting democracy. Why do you think they should be shamed for doing this?
All you can do is put it in your privacy policy and advertise to people exactly how private are you.

Here's what TorrentFreak asks all their providers of VPN services that claim good privacy or spy on user data.

1. Do you keep (or share with third parties) ANY data that would allow you to match an IP-address and a timestamp to a current or former user of your service? If so, exactly what information do you hold/share and for how long?

2. What is the name under which your company is incorporated (+ parent companies, if applicable) and under which jurisdiction does your company operate?

3. What tools are used to monitor and mitigate abuse of your service, including limits on concurrent connections if these are enforced?

4. Do you use any external email providers (e.g. Google Apps), analytics, or support tools ( e.g Live support, Zendesk) that hold information provided by users?

5. In the event you receive a DMCA takedown notice or a non-US equivalent, how are these handled?

6. What steps would be taken in the event a court orders your company to identify an active or former user of your service? How would your company respond to a court order that requires you to log activity for a user going forward? Have these scenarios ever played out in the past?

7. Is BitTorrent and other file-sharing traffic allowed on all servers? If not, why? Do you provide port forwarding services? Are any ports blocked?

8. Which payment systems/providers do you use? Do you take any measures to ensure that payment details can’t be linked to account usage or IP-assignments?

9. What is the most secure VPN connection and encryption algorithm you would recommend to your users?

10. Do you provide tools such as “kill switches” if a connection drops and DNS/IPv6 leak protection? Do you support Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 functionality?

11. Are any of your VPN servers hosted by third parties? If so, what measures do you take to prevent those partners from snooping on any inbound and/or outbound traffic? Do you use your own DNS servers?

12. In which countries are your servers physically located? Do you offer virtual locations?

Also, if you're really private you can offer a canary whereby you post a piece of text on your website and update it every month and if one month it isn't updated, we can assume you got a FISA warrant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
Luminar Makes Young Founder a Billionaire
Yes, but keep in mind that people are not retaining immunity as long as we'd like. I can remember the exact durations involved, but there was a post on HN a few months ago indicating that some early patients had already lost immunity. The vaccines don't suffer from this limitation.

Flu immunity, including natural immunity, tends to last a very long time.
Is there a (good) Vim mode to navigate?
They still happen, including a ‘Heat’-esque one in Brazil the other day [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55155377
"The Intel processor has nifty 256-bit SIMD instructions. The Apple chip has nothing of the sort as part of its main CPU. So I could easily come up with examples that make the M1 look bad."

The M1 has 128-bit NEON SIMD, and given its decode pipeline and cache efficiency it seems more likely to actually benefit entirely from it. AVX on Intel devices is often of limited value because it's either memory starved or gets throttled (many SKUs throttle once you start using AVX).

I've had cases where vectorizing ongoing sequential processing in the most optimal fashion available barely gave a single digital percentage increase. 9 times out of 10 it's snake oil.

But regardless, if there's an example that would make the M1 look bad, do it.
As a JS developer, still waiting for full Homebrew.

But then again, I might as well wait for the next iteration of Apple Silicon if that is the case.
I suspect there could be a frequency vs. intensity trade-off there. Fewer total radicalizations, but of the ones that remain, they may intensify on average. The "radicalization expected value" so to speak might go up even if the frequency goes down. (This obviously isn't to suggest banning is never a solution, but trade-offs do have to be considered.)
“If you want a population of people to stop thinking an election was stolen from them, it’s hard to think of a worse method than ordering a news blackout after it’s just been demonstrated that the last major blackout was a fraud.“

Great quote.
I totally forgot polls existed on HN. Wow.

Edit: It’s amazing what you forget after 10 years on a website.
i wish more sites had rss feeds
And the send-to-device feature doesn't crash it anymore!
That doesn't make any sense. Using an electron app isn't the same as someone accessing web sites with chrome.
I remember using lava lamps for SSH random number generation from the 90's. However, they may have yielded this entire area of security:

So-called "physically unclonable functions"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function

I am immensely skeptical of these, but they have some academic and other obscure traction.
FDA Approves Pfizer Covid Vaccine
I predict that public employees will wrangle their way to the front of the line, needs be damned. They are very powerful in CA.
Lynx works with gopher too.