skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is really that easy. Space-junk in low-earth orbit is not really a concern, and alarmist articles about space-junk in connection with projects like Starlink are just click-bait that rely on the general public's ignorance of orbital mechanics and space.

Medium and high orbits are a different story. Space junk is absolutely a real concern here.
Wait till you hear about the Singapore government suing the current prime minister's estranged [1] nephew for a private Facebook post [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Oxley_Road#Dispute_over_the...

[2] https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/li-shengwu-fined-s1500...
I don't think so; I read that $250 was created by the exchange using a formulaic process.
Why wouldn't we assume they are lying? Interacting with their dispute process doesn't have any human qualities, so what would make us think that humans are involved?

They are a massive monopoly and just the other day it was reported that they manipulated their own ad markets for their own profit. They constantly inaccurately accuse people of malicious intent and copyright infringement, often massively hindering peoples' careers and generally providing zero recourse. To not assume lying and at best self-serving intent given Alphabet/Google's position in the world would be foolish.

On top of that, is it really that different to use inaccurate AI or to use humans who are intentionally not given the time or tools to do human-quality work?

The problem is obviously with the overall quality of moderation, and the level of power exerted by platforms over users. Whether a non-skilled human reviewer or an AI is handling the broken process hardly matters given the results.
Interesting idea, never considered that angle. Perhaps I should clarify that like my goo to obey commands written in ACGT, and not some future kind using C
The link you provided literally has one option, "Connect", outside of the GDPR cookie banner.

I can't even see what this website is doing and you expect people to just trust their money with these types of actors? I think that says more about you than "the mainstream".
> we've seen ways AI can allow discrimination through the back door.

Do you have any concrete examples of these, in particular where the use of statistics or AI enables more discrimination than using human decisions?
That's because there's no such thing as a majority on the internet. It's the purest form of the marketplace of ideas. And like any such marketplace, fads and ideas, behemoths or not, come and go. That's why it's important not to dive in with expectations that you're getting a true or definitive reading on issue. Outside of the most brilliant scholarly papers, one rarely does. Even in the most viewpoint-neutral and factually correct conversations, pieces and snippets are all you get.
Is the Stock Market About to Crash?
> should a simple universe-rule correspond with our own, it is more likely to be correct than any single complex universe-rule.

Occam's razor does not apply to evolutionary systems because it would require analyzing every step of the chain like every mutation that increased the probability of survival in the environment it occurred in. The path from archae to amphibians, for example, was very convoluted, complex, and nonsensical, let alone specific examples like amphibians that became hooved mammals that crawled back into the ocean to become marine mammals. The simple explanation would be a fish that evolves lungs to outcompete gills, not an auroch that learns to swim!

Fact is, we don't even know if the universe is an evolutionary system or not. We don't know whether our universe just happened or if we exist in a universe that is the conclusion of a bunch of previous universes that fizzled out of existing or didn't support life and evolved into this one or if we exist in an infinity of universes with an infinite permutation of the laws of nature. We don't even know what "simple" really means in this context.

We just don't know. O(explanation) = ??? and P(explanation) = ??? for every value of `explanation`.
You know, upon seeing your comment, the kneejerk joke I came up with internally was:

How long until websites have to apply to get onto Google/Apple's whitelist-from-scratch for Chrome/Safari to allow browsing to them?

I just realized I'd be less than surprised if something not unlike this to come to be.

On a separate note, so much for all the third-party clients that Discord has rained down on. I otherwise would have figured a lot of the void could be immediately backfilled via the Discord API.
Or make a donation 1GVR2qbKgT4uVUQMYVgPhQxFcKRJBVYMo4

I actually wonder what would happen to me, if I suddenly received some of that stolen bitcoin.
>How is this not authoritarian

Authoritatian can mean so many things, could you define it further. Cause how I read your comment I could call seatbelt laws authoritatian, and I guess you didn't mean that.
Yes, in "proper" spanish they sound different. That said, except when exaggerating, I know noone who makes the distinction in day to day conversations!
Unions are an emblem of the need for one's share of the wealth and for meaningful work in the world. The industrial age may have made us productive, but at the cost of creative exploration that is vital now.
> A business can't lock you in a prison cell

Perhaps not, but companies can deny you access to fundamental electronic infrastructure, use of which is increasingly essential in a cashless society where services are online or non-existent. With no right of appeal.
You might be surprised: https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...

There's been a couple of blog posts from the SE staff trying to move the needle on how close/downvote happy the community is.
At least not where I live, that's it!
Yes, if you start from roughly circular orbit, and the impulse is in the opposite direction to the direction of travel, it will slow you down and then the location of impulse is now the new highest point on orbit, and the lowest point after the impulse is even lower than before it.
> Umm...this is utterly wrong, and has been since Gemini 10 in 1966, not to mention Skylab, Mir, ISS

There's a big difference between docking with a spacecraft that is designed to be docked with and capturing a satellite that was not designed to be captured.

People are making good progress on this - Northrup Grumman just had a successful life extension satellite mission very recently. But it's far from a mature technology.
Ask HN: Facebook ad restriction because of angry response to d** pics. Now what?
My girlfriend has a line of handcrafted women's clothes which she advertised on FB Marketplace.

The ads ran for a few day without a problem. Then a couple of random men sent some d*k pics in response to the ad and she responded a bit harshly (fair enough if you ask me) and also reported them. Soon after her account has was restricted from running ads. She thinks this could be related (maybe an algorithm detects profanity?)

There was a thirty day period to respond, but the response page didn't accept some uploads. Now the thirty day period is over and her account is "permanently restricted" from posting ads. ("Our decision is final".)

Any pointers on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.
If you've run out of letters in the alphabet, you have diacritical marks at your disposal.
It seems you're defining "human in the loop" as "Google makes what I consider to be the correct decision in this case." I believe the point that thu2111 is trying to make is that there _are_ humans in the loop, and having them is no insurance against unilateral decisions that you disagree with or even just plain stupid decisions.

The point is that involving more humans in the moderation decisions at YouTube does not guarantee nor is there any evidence to suggest, that it would result in better moderation.

Somebody with the technical and industry knowledge to know that talking about security vulnerabilities like this shouldn't be removed can probably find a better job that YouTube video moderation.
> Where do self-employed people (freelancers) get taxed as if they are employees?

In France, for example.

There's no actual concept of "Freelance" here [0]. Legally you're either an employee or you have some form of "company". An "independent" is basically someone running a company of one. But it's legally still a company.

If it's an "individual enterprise," you pay income tax and social security just like an employee. That's basically your revenue minus an allowance (40% I think but I'm not sure).

If you're a regular company, you'll either pay yourself a salary, in which case you pay almost all the taxes as a salaried person does (except for unemployment, which you don't get if your business falls through) or you pay yourself through dividends, in which case you pay a corporate tax (on the company's profits) + income tax (on your dividends). Even though there's a social security part levied on the dividends, you don't actually get anything in return. You're basically considered as someone who doesn't contribute to social security (no retirement and only basic health care — basically emergency). However, for any program that has an upper limit on income, your dividends are taken into account. So no social housing for you.

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[0] There's no such thing as "freelance" in France. There are some jobs that are more or less close, but they're related to show-business. For the purpose of the IT sector, there's no such thing as "freelance".
I've seen some crazy / frothy valuations, but $49 pre looking to raise 2.2, pre-rev, pre-launch is "not normal". Next to that, $350k seems very normal.

However, for SV-style tech startups, if you're a first time founder, just out of school or close to it, it's very high. However, if you have experience and a family, the right salary is a number that allows you to maintain your lifestyle, without financial stress and focus on the business. $350k seems high, but could be market now... somewhere for someone. In a capital rich market, it's possible.

I sounds more reasonable if you were paying a seasoned executive around series B or later.

But, in frothy times, there is a lot of dumb money around and they just might get it.
> Hollywood is in decline, if you'll notice, good movies are harder to come by nowadays.

Are you sure about that? It sounds like a deeply biased statement.
This is just plain incorrect. Every cryptocurrency's rules can be changed via hard fork. Bitcoin doesn't have any magic property that guarantees there won't be a hard fork affecting the emission schedule.
At a certain point people want to stop being billionaires on paper and to become billionaires with actual liquidity.

And the timing seems right -- Bitcoin is sky-high and could crash tomorrow. (I'm presuming here that Coinbase and BTC will be highly correlated, but who knows.)
As a peer-to-peer service, its existence depends on uptake, and as a video service, uptake of PeerTube is a challenge to YouTube.
While the treshold for downvoting has increased since 2009, the threshold hasn't increased to the same level that the number of active users (and therefore votes) have, so I would guess proportionally way more of the community has access to downvotes today than in 2009.

Also, I think in those days you did see vote numbers, but you didn't see the big obvious greying out of downvoted comments that exists today.
>1GVR2qbKgT4uVUQMYVgPhQxFcKRJBVYMo4

A 1xxx addie?

In 2021?

Come on dude.
I don’t believe in BDUF:ing even regulations too much, better to get a toothless first version out in the wild and then tweak it when in place.
Mental numbers.
Yep. I always wanted to buy bitcoin way back in the day, it's just every time I almost joined an exchange (like Mt. Gox) they always made me feel really nervous and like I was going to lose my money (didn't help that several of them got hacked and did lose everyone's money).

Coinbase was the first company that made the whole process feel pretty safe and reliable.
Along that line i'd be interested to hear insight here from a stat person or someone who does these studies.

At those low %s what are the chances the actual clot rate say doubles, quadruples as we keep getting larger audiences.

With such low numbers random chance would not likely show up in small studies.

So what are for instance the statistical chances of seeing a 10x increase in clotting going to 250mm population?
>just a scandal that happened at one time in history.

I really hope that's true, but it might also be that it was only convicted for once in history while it happens more often.
Somehow, 'Medieval Tinder' makes Crusader Kings 3 feel more believable
> That the authors are more concerned with this or that isn't the point.

It is the point of the article. Author of the article didn't object to rejecting Stallman, and neither did I. They objected to doing it on the grounds of his beliefs and gave a wider perspective of the problem. If it was the first time something like that happened, I could say that it sets a dangerous precedent. Alas, we're long past precedent, we're just going deeper.

To be clear, there were other letters calling for Stallman's removal, such as the one from Debian, which don't have that flaw.

This article isn't about Stallman. It is about bigotry.
and if both are caught and two different trials are set - most juries, most judges, prosecutors are more likely to believe an operative of the state vs you.. as compared to random citizen vs same. In many cases, laws of qualified immunity takes care of it for them regardless of what 'truth' is discerned from he said she said.

It was only just recently they finally made it not-legal for NYPD to rape people they detain. I've got several saved articles showing many people who have suffered such treatment - you don't see that many with non-state folks.

similar with beating, killing etc.

I understand this varies a bit on which town or city you may be in across the states, however in most places the feds still help the men in blue take your cash at gun point with further threats of violence, loss of freedom and more.. and if you want your money back you can't get someone to arrest them and prosecute them - you have to hire counsel and go to court against state to try to prove your money innocent.

About the non-banana - fair trial - sure it's a right, and I am glad that we have it. However most people will not be able afford a fair trial in the US.

This is one reason so many cases are turned into plea-bargains. Many people can not afford to take days off work and pay for parking at the courthouse, much less a competent lawyer that would be affordable for a 'fair trial'.

Robert Kraft was able to afford the legal team for a truly 'fair trial' and was able to essentially put the state on trial for their actions, which got his handjob dismissed - but most people don't have that kind of money to spend and instead get railroaded by the state at all levels doj.

And if you are super rich you still have to contend with bad PR through the news when dealing with the state's people with guns - which can affect jobs, family, friends - even if you are innocent - even if you afford you days in court and get out of jail proven so.

fair trials are more fair for those people who are paid to be there opposed to those who are paying imho - ymmv.
This took me literally ten seconds to find:

https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/ca-podcaster-gets-visit-from-p...

[EDIT:]

I couldn't find anything similar about Cruz in a couple of minutes, mostly because the search term "Cruz critics" is massively dominated by stuff about his ill-advised Cancun trip.
Here’s an interesting question — if you receive BTC from one of these addresses as payment for something, do you refuse it? You know it’s stolen and you might worry someone else who you might pay in the future would be able to track down that it’s stolen, so do you ask for “clean” BTC that isn’t linked to known theft?

I don’t necessarily know the answer here. This is something that you can’t do with paper bills
Is it just me or the wordings of the article sound too generic/unspecific to someone else?
Wikipedia has an article on lofi_girl/chilledcow channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofi_Girl

> Dimitri chose the character of Shizuku Tsukishima from the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart as the face of the channel, with footage of her studying or writing used in the streams. When the popularity of the streams ultimately led to some getting taken down for copyright violations, Dimitri decided to maintain the Ghibli-esque aesthetic but with an original character and put out a call for artists.
CMU Database Group YouTube Channel
I have an account from early on when they first launched. Got some small BTC in it and never touched it again. Still there. Odd why some got closed. I log into it once every couple of years.
What's the plan for in a year or two when no one is wearing a mask anymore? Seems like an overly complicated solution to a simple problem.
Ask HN: Who uses Gene pool engineering for their startups?
Vinod Khosla has a blog about first hires and gene pool engineering.

https://www.khoslaventures.com/gene-pool-engineering-for-entrepreneurs

Curious, has anyone "actively" tried this in their startups? What was it like?
Webamp: Winamp 2 in the browser
I think if people want the next level of quality on technical discussion, there needs to be a gatekeeping mechanism which is concerned with technical competency.

I would also expect such a place to have a magnitude or two fewer people.
> this or any other legendary DB book.

What are the other legendary DB books?
Right now Coinbase is trading around 350 making it worth about 100B, the total value of bitcoin is about 1.000B and all cryptocurrencies that are tradeable on Coinbase is maybe 1.500B.

So the ratio between the value of the exchange is about 1/10 - 1/15 of the total value of the market it trades. (For comparison take say Interactive Broker's market value to the market value of the total stock market.)

And Coinbase far from the only exchange out there. With this valuation I bet the value of the exchanges is higher than the value of the total cryptocurrency market.
If my tone comes off as "acerbic", I guess I'm a little surprised. I love Teenage Engineering (and own a few Pocket Operators too), but I gotta call them out on the pricing issue here. When the price of the OP-1 did start to skyrocket in 2012, Teenage Engineering said absolutely nothing, and then discontinued it in 2013, sending the secondhand market soaring again. Of course, their response is to put it back into production at a higher cost, for more customers. You can slice this any way you want, but there's not really an excuse for an all-digital synth to increase in price like that. I have no doubts that a simple redesign could bring the BOM down to sub-$200, even in 2015. Failing that, they could have taken the re-release as an opportunity to fix some of the issues in the original model: give it a sensible charging port, improve the microphone quality, or even improving the sample transfer software. None of these issues were ever addressed. The insult added to injury is the OP-Z, a "successor" that was designed to be inferior to it's predecessor, as not to cannibalize it's market.

Maybe I am hateful, but Teenage Engineering has definitely had a fall from grace. Even their recent modular kits left a bad taste in my mouth...
> Instead of fingerprinting out of millions of browser users a company now just has to have a rather small set (Floc) + old school finger printing to 100% uniquely identify a user.

A company can already fingerprint you with 100% certainty with a third party cookie. The idea is to replace those with FLoC. It's at worst a lateral move, and usually an improvement.
Serbia has long had laws how any income not tied to employment is taxed.

It was always an obligation for the recipient of the income, if the payer is not a company in Serbia, to self report those taxes.

The rates were similar to how employees are taxed.

Does not matter how other countries do it, Serbia always had clear laws governing how taxes should be paid. I know that because I paid those myself in 2011 before registering as a self-employed entity (agency) and later a ltd (doo) company in order to reduce my tax burden.

FWIW, all countries tax all income for their residents, at similar or higher rates. Serbia is not too bad, and the proposed taxation rate for back taxes is actually quite low.

"Freelancers" are not some magical fairies, they are simply people earning money without a registered company being involved. Again, if a freelancer had a Serbian company as a client, that Serbian company would have the obligation to pay the taxes on their behalf. Otherwise, it is their duty to self-report any income using a PP OPO for since at least 2001.

One can also be regularly employed and have some side gigs which they would also have to self report to the Tax Office. The only benefit then is that social insurance taxes are added up and one needs not pay a total social insurance taxes larger than what it'd be for 5 times an average Serbian salary.

Any Serbian accountant would have shared as much.

For freelancers who have that as their main source of income, Serbia has had (and still does) extremely low tax rate with self employment entities (agency) unless you are actually in what amounts to an employee relationship. When I looked, I could not find any country in the world that had <10% taxes on gross income up to 4500 eur a month that included social insurance (health, pension and unemployment insurance).
Platforms are typically garbage. This is garbage.

Love this quote by the way.

"With Encore you write your apps using Go, a modern programming language developed by Google to make backend development simpler. Rapidly growing and designed to be easy to learn,
Go is the language of the cloud."

I think the irony of Go is that it is easier to "script" things in Go than in NodeJS for instance. This makes it the right tool for infrastructure programming. I always use Go for these kind of things.

Writing enterprise apps in Go is a bad idea with or without Encore. One lib can't simply make up for the large ecosystem in the more modern technologies.
Because every little detail in WhatsApp is geared towards getting a certain result, it's meant to influence your behavior in a way. In the case of messaging apps, the aim is to make you use them longer/more frequently. The privacy of the user has zero importance here.
Getting it wrong for 12 years now:

The Value of Downvoting, Or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633668 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

10 Years In, Was He Right? “Value of Downvoting; How HN Gets It Wrong” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23409231 - June 2020 (1 comment)

The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13325726 - Jan 2017 (12 comments)

The Value of Downvoting or How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875619 - Jan 2016 (36 comments)

Reddit's Discussion about HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508801 - March 2009 (24 comments)

The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507948 - March 2009 (114 comments)
And also to measure the other potential long term effects on liver, kidney. I'm not sure if i've been tested for 'bones' not sure how to do that. My doc says it's important to monitor.
It is already down to $330...
They are probably waiting for the Statute of Limitations to expire. For wire fraud that is 10 years.