skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why would a business pay 2x to someone when they can get the same output from a local at 1x pay?

In the Netherlands it's 2x of median salary across all job market, not 2x of the same position that could be filled by local. The idea of this policy is to prevent foreigners (which EU citizens are not) from outbidding locals and lowering the living standard in the country.

So if knowledge workers are a scarce resource which you can't find at home, you are naturally paying more.
As long as the public square is privately owned we're going to have problems.

I think it's great these companies have stopped supporting Parler. The problem is that so much power has devolved to these entirely unaccountable organizations that it feels like an infringement of free speech.

We are going to need a stable place for important discourse and that will require carefully designed governance structures, transparency, and independence that no ad supported company can possibly provide.
Sad that you're going to get no reply here, but not surprising.
Also a screenshot doesn't mean anything. I am sure you can take millions of screenshots of people saying bad things on facebook. It doesn't mean that the platform is not moderated, just that the moderation didn't catch those specific examples. If we apply that standard, twitter and facebook must be closed immediately, no remedy.
> Most content creators need to be compensated to continue making content.

That's the problem right there. "Content creators". Protein factories churning out videos for money.

Not every platform needs "content creators" - sometimes people with interesting things to share are enough, and these tend to use side revenue to fund their sharing.
Those outside the AOM will face the combined power of AOM if they attack. In other cases it depends on who defends the codec.

H.265 is an anti-example, because there patents were pooled for offensive purposes to begin with, while AOM pooled resources for defense. I.e. something like MPEG-LA exists to extort money, not to defend anyone. That's also why you got two separate pools there. Patent aggressors don't want to share, each of them wants to get all the loot for themselves.
Thanks, acidburnNSA, for existing :)

We need (more) people like you.
That sounds really low, even for Russia. Could you share a bit more about your location, and perhaps how junior/senior you are?
Ah yes, think about the children.
People who are already on H1B do not fall into this quota. Their visas can be extended up to 3+3 years or their employer should apply for a green card so they can stay beyond the 6 year limit.
Libel is not a crime, it is a tort. You may be sued by someone you defame, but no government entity or agent may imprison or fine you.
What's an AI sceptic?

It's apparently typified by some unnamed person who thought that incremental progress in natural language work would not be made?

Was this person's guess worth while in any way? Were they an eminent researcher in an adjacent field or something?
Earth and Mars are practically stationary, and Occam's razor would say to assume that light travels at the same speed in all directions, even if we can't prove it. So the time of events on Mars has an "obvious", if technically not unique, solution.
> The ecosystem is vibrant, healthy, and will keep growing.
>
> in my mind there will eventually be a tipping point,

Why do so many people insist on Growth and Largest, as metrics for 'success'?

My local pub is a success. They are not worlds' largest pub. My Mom and Granny don't go there. They don't have parties with millions of people crammed in the place. Etc.

Why can't Linux be called 'a success', the very moment that it helps one person? Why don't we call Mastodon or Peertube a success the very moment a tiny group of people uses and likes it?
Why do we insist that Peertube is only successful when my mom and my Granny use it?
Why do we insist on huge market shares to call open source successful?
Because what you call "in-group" is just a bunch of professionals that are working hard on making thier lives easier. One of the results of this collective effort is a consensus (more or sometimes less established, depending on the term) on the pronounciation. It usually doesn't make sense to disturb this for every single person that has a different "intuition" about how words should be pronounced.
That’s surprisingly not true! People did know about it but didn’t really want to challenge the chairman of the NASDAQ (that was Madoff, to be clear). Just ask the persistently ignored whistleblower Harry Markopolos.
Are you saying people with "right-leaning view" need to be "re-integrated" into society? What are they, crazy serial killers or something?

Here's a crazy thought. How about we do nothing and just arrest anyone that breaks laws, right or left.
Then you can't get the news out because Google blocks you from search, nobody can tweet about your site, you can't find it on the app stores, Facebook won't let you put ads, and/or Cloudflare won't give you DDoS protection, so I guess you just make your own parallel universe?
Or even simpler. Just scan all domains for MX records... That information is not even secret, but openly advertised.
Go look at SCBTC daily.
> This is how society progresses.

Well, yes. That's why holding people accountable for the consequences of their speech is considered by many countries to be the right course of action...

Not all progress is positive.

I'm not going to have the argument that people have been having for hundreds of years about where to draw the line, but I will point at this QAnon nonsense, and suggest that it highlights how malleable downtrodden people are, and how dangerous allowing it might be.
> letting Taiwan get nukes in the 70s-80s

Giving Taiwan nukes would’ve been a casus belli situation.

This would’ve caused China to invade. Damned be the consequences or cost of lives.

The same is true today. If America arms Taiwan with too many advanced weapons, then it will also trigger a casus belli event on China’s part.

If America couldn’t beat China in North Korea in 1950, when the Chinese were literally fighting with bows and arrows, and America had air power and carpet bombing, then do you really think America can beat China in 2021? Or 2030? Or 2050?
I remember there was definitely a lot more vandalism back then, it just so happened that the number of volunteers started to outweigh the abusers by quite a bit.

I think moderation tooling got better over the years: being able to revert edits quickly, tracking users/IPs known for vandalism, locking articles, reporting someone etc.
Your 90 year old frail grandmother is also not here writing essays about U.S. presidential history. I also find it difficult to believe someone so knowledgeable about such a subject has no opinion whatsoever on Donald Trump
This reminds me that last week I was joking with a friend... someone should make an AI that solves leetcode problems. Instant hire!
Exploitation, easier disposal, less accountability, more access to higher qualifications, etc.
> I know that Wikipedia editors lean left. I'd be interested to see examples of this bias in Wiki entries though.

The removal of the website link to 8kun.top - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan (I have read the talk page, don't need it repeated)

It's trivial to find left wing bias, the question is, is it getting worse?

Two articles I would normally mention have recently removed their left wing bias -

Split-Sleep has had it's page removed (Good)

The Lucky iron fish now states it doesn't work (Good)

Gell-Mann Amnesia has lost it's page (bad), to prove this is left wing bias you'd have to find equivalent articles. I'm not sure on this one.....

> least as objective as any news outlet

The internet is getting swamped with (two) decades of archived news and information and now it's splitting into camps. This is a weakness.
Am I the only one that can't download the examples, it just gets stuck. Also the dapp example throws me a json saying that skynet is blocked.
Not true. We can hijack the banking system using Bisq.

https://bisq.network/

Suppored payment methods:

Advanced Cash
AliPay
Cash Deposit
Chase QuickPay
Face to face (in-person)
Faster Payments
HalCash
Interac e-Transfer
Japan Zengin Furikomi
MoneyBeam (N26)
MoneyGram
National bank transfer
Perfect Money
Popmoney
PromptPay
Revolut
SEPA
SEPA Instant
Swish
Transfer with same bank
Transfer with specific banks
Uphold
US Postal Money Order
WeChat Pay
Western Union
Zelle

And no, I don't think they asked permission.

It's so funny. Whenever people say you can't do X with crypto, there is always something they don't know about that proves them wrong.
>I will add that even with regards to the government, there are limits to free speech — falsely shouting “fire” in a crowded theater is the archetypal example.

Also see the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v Ohio (1969), which excluded from protection speech "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action"
Death to the Document
I think some of the whales could make the price tank, at least temporarily. They include some governments who seized thousands of BTC from criminal operations.

But I think the same applies to many stocks. If Musk of Bezos would sell off a majority of their shares in their own companies, it would perhaps also move the price.

At the moment, crashes in Bitcoin can also be seen as a good thing because it helps give more people access to Bitcoin. It's even possible that some of the stakeholders (whales with thousands of BTC) occasionally deliberately induce crashes for exactly that purpose.
hello, can your service handle live streams (HLS/DASH) or is it just for static streams? many thanks
I always think about publishing in these circumstances.

In the UK you can't just write anything you want and publish it in a book. I can't just make something up about someone in a book. There are also laws I can't break about inciting violence. Etctera.

I don't see this as much about the individual's right to free speech as about the platform's ability to monetise published content, which is what Twitter and Facebook are doing. When you view things through this prism, I think it's simpler.

Either the platforms conform to the law as a book publisher must, which makes it hard for a real-time _broadcast_ platform to exist, or the platform does not exist at all.

This exposes the social media platforms as another instance of the same pattern as Uber or Airbnb, in that they are publishing platforms that simply ignore the law.

Before you shoot me down here: I agree that being able to share with your friends is not the same as publishing. It's the features that turn the medium from sharing with friends into a broadcast medium that have made the social media companies (reckless) publishers.

I'd like to see an end to the broadcast features, as companies are unlikely to change.
If that is the extent of effort you went to understand the other side then you never understood it. Can you give a reasoned, principled argument against open borders, transsexualism, liberalism itself? if you cant, you dont understand. You went to Trump supporters like to an ATM expecting a full service withdrawal. Life doesn't work that way, people dont either
https://bonfiretabletop.com
A virtual tabletop for RPGs, because I was just not satisfied with the current offering.

It's very not supposed to be available to a lot of people right now, there are a lot of bugs and it's still light-years away from what I want. But hey, you can register an account and play a few sessions, I see it more like an advanced POC than a MVP, which I'm currently working on. Feel free to join our Discord server to chat about it!
I suggest reading this presentation and blog post:

"What can you learn from an IP?" https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/slides-anrw19-final44.pdf

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/08/23/what-can-you-learn-from-an...
Wikipedia is especially great for elderly as contributors IMHO: lots of experience, knowledge and time. Often they even are bored or lack a "sense of purpose" and community (social connections are the rarer the older we get). Wikipedia adds all that. If Wikipedia would tech-ipo as the likes of WeWork, it would probably be "The Purpose Company". Thank you.

I'm from Germany (2nd biggest Wikipedia) and proud to say 50%+ of my school and university education would not have been possible with excellent articles in BOTH english and german language. Often the english one was great, but the german one better (think WWII topics, german cars, ...) and vice versa (most of the cases hehe). And: it might be a good pointer for learning a language as well, reading about stuff you deeply care about.
It's also incredibly disingenious to equate the App Store with the local Starbucks.
Holding a press conference that will be broadcast how?

Over the air? But the youth don't have TVs. They use Twitter and YouTube. But those platforms have banned you.

See the problem?
I'm sorry to disappoint you. We had something like this in Germany around August [0]. We call them "querdenker" and they are basically a group of neonazis, esoteric people, covid is a hoax people and right wingers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUIH3GqGdQ
Do you also call /lib 'libe'? Or are you okay with 'lib' as it's not conflicting with other meanings?
I gave you an up vote for your honesty (and do appreciate it).

I've been suggesting this since before all this went down: many left of center folks don't actually believe in free speech; only "correct" speech.

What makes me really nervous is historically, leftist governments have much higher body counts than right wing governments. These types of governments have the commonality that they tightly control speech and thought.

This is all personal as a relative in my wife's side of the family spent half his life in the gulag for having the audacity to suggest Stalin was not a good guy to his drinking buddies (who turns out are the ones that reported him).

If you're on the left (or right), please do some soul searching on this topic. Also consider that it might not be your guy/gal/party who decides what speech is appropriate (and it's a constantly moving target). And in the age of the internet archive, anything you've written in the past is/will be open season. That's pretty scary, at least for me.
Oh please, I was illustrating a point. The wide majority of people/"civilians" aren't capable to tell the difference between actual information and propaganda, and since the propaganda is designed to be more appealing, guess which one wins out - the fair player or the one that agitates? This isn't rocket science, you're just turning a blind eye to the consequences as if that helps your case.
Nope, sure don't.
Well quite. You'd think for all the screeching of "incitement" the news coverage would be able to find one 5 second clip or tweet or something where he'd actually done it. It beggars belief how low journalistic standards have fallen.
It could cause other problems for other people, like gentrification of entire cities.
> If Silicon Valley continues to drift into ideological activism

Just to be clear (and pedantic): Peertube is French.

One could see these fediversed projects as counter-SV, actually. Not 'coming from SV', but attacking the SV status quo.
The CCP heartily welcomes the emergence of the USSA in a bloodless war. They had no role to play in this.
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True, if you are on the right (political spectrum) you do not want to encourage higher education, it shifts people to the left, as analytical thinking starts undoing idealism. US is a good example of this, with most universities having more left communities around them.

Perhaps it is an intentional long play by the Right in Australia to pursue this kind of minimisation of education
>likely many other bee species

I don't know specifically about Britain, but most bee species are solitary, and without a hive, they're not as vulnerable to disease, or poison transferred back to their home. Other types of bees accidentally exposed would likely only die themselves, not quickly spread it to and kill other populations.
All of this from millions of miles away. Absolutely astonishing. And it’s still running. NASA deserves so much more respect... and money.
> ...a regulation to replace the lottery-based allocation system for the controversial H-1B visa with a wage-based process

So, it seems that the deal is to switch from a "random" assignment, to one based on proposed wage, favoring - I presume - higher wages.

This might actually be an interesting idea. Let me explain.

I'm not up to date, but a few years ago the issue with H1-B was that the big Indian consulting firms (Wipro, Tata (TCS), HCL, Infosys, Tech Mahindra) [0] were used to submit a VERY large amount of H1-B applications, knowing that about 1/3rd to 1/4th of these would "win" the lottery and be accepted. As a result, most of the H1-B granted are theirs (top 3 in this list [1]).

At least, if it's wage-based instead of random, they would be forced to review the wages offered to Indians moving to the US to work for them.

I am not sure if there are other implications (did I miss something important in my little analysis?), but I think it would be something worth exploring more.

[0]: https://www.deccanherald.com/business/economy-business/india...

[1]: https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2020-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...
Well maybe they are forced to bark every time the ring bells or have Google money pulled from them.
Just like you need water, you need to participate in society. For instance you need to know that there's a virus out there that experts think is quite serious, and you need to know what everyone else thinks the right response is.
I the same thought process underlies cooking for yourself, as doing your own home improvement, fixing your own car, etc. - If you want to do it right, then do it for yourself.
Maybe the assumption is that they can't be integrated or valuable in any way, goal is to neutralise them. I'm a bit split on this but it doesn't sound all to wrong to me.

In any case, mass democracy is on the way out, everywhere. It is just not compatible with the post-industrial society and will be progressively less so in the future. Question is about a particular way in which it will happen (anything from outright dictatorship to some form of democracy with prequalification)...
The radical left is a problem in Seattle as they are terrorizing the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Don't take my word for it. Listen to community activist Victoria Beach explain how she is upset for them terrorizing the area and hijacking the Black Lives Matter movement.

https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1345184414016278528

https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1345192831602679809
The first battle of the Second american civil war has happened. Every tech company has to choose a side.

Instead of a war over slavery, this is a war over shared reality or personal echo chambers, and most of the tech companies have been fighting against shared reality.

Please choose wisely and soon. Unified reality or seperate ones.

People are planning to overthrow the government of the country you live in, "in your house".
I didn't intend to present Colbert's entertaining quote as a "foundation". More of a humorous aside. I apologize if my intent was unclear. :)
The secret artists creating miniature buildings for street mice [video]
Peeriodical: A lightweight virtual journal with you as the Editor-in-chief
How to Be a Thought Leader in Your Industry
Trump incited sedition and insurrection, leading to an attempt by the mob to take over the seat of US government, with members of that mob stating publicly that they had every intention to take prisoners and execute the two individuals next in line to the Presidency.

How is that not an attempted coup d'etat?
It’s an encyclopedia. For facts, it can by definition only touch the surface. For subjective debates and subjects (like politics) it can by definition only give a high level overview of the different points of view.

Saying it’s “extremely flawed” is like saying Superman is weak because he’s vulnerable to Kryptonite.
How Taiwan Is Using Technology to Foster Democracy
A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.
No, they are making rapid progress on ETH2. The beacon chain is the root chain for the other 63 shards that will be launched. That is the chain that is currently running in parallel with the ETH1 chain.

See Vitalik's blog on rollups: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html
For that to happen you need to address what happened, why and hold the leaders accountable.
"Remember the case where someone got millions for spilling hot coffee on himself? Hot coffee is hot and it's the drinkers responsibility to not spill it. We can't blindly follow what we read or see. If we do that, there won't be any issue."

I think you pwned yourself here, repeating blindly a very distorted presentation of the actual incident. Go read up more on it, you might change your mind. There is a good reason why McD lost the case despite lawyering up.
Yes, you are wrong and any video of the event will show you that they were chanting "Hang Mike Pence", that they built hanging knots that they left for everyone to see, that they ran after senators and that they trampled police officers.
A thing I realized recently is that the first 10-15 minutes of exercise per day are not for fitness, but for health. If you don't even do that, you're just getting less and less healthy.

This also explains the different advice we see here on cardio vs weights. For those first 10 minutes or so you're probably better off with cardio - you want a systemic exercise. After that, resistance training all the way.

Also if you do enough resistance training (say 20-30 minutes per day or more), you can skip cardio altogether.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement
How Big Is Dalian Wanda?
Links back to HN comments are here - https://airtable.com/shrUzWALiO0ydDbMF
I think, it's an interesting model, and would probably work all else being equal. But in that case, I believe he misses one critical variable. We are much less violent than 50 years ago because kid beating largely went out of fashion.
https://airtable.com/shrUzWALiO0ydDbMF
Because they can't get the work done by locals? Isn't that half if not the entire point of bringing people in through H1-B visas?
There’s no overall rule that says people fighting governments is always good. Trump is trying to overturn democracy and create a bad government. The difference is that in one case the people are rising up against their dictator, and the other is a multimillionaire who is angry he lost.
I'm trying to collect a list evidence on the criminal Trump to have something you can quickly point when refuting confused idiot relatives who support him, but I have not been able to follow everything that has been happening for the past few days, for various reasons.

Would you please provide a link to ex-president Trump inciting violence like ISIS? Lesser forms of agitation for violence is fine too.