skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy in theory: you create a competitor that differentiates through the quality of its content-provider service quality and how much money is spent on dispute resolution.

But I am skeptical it would be successful. It might be, but it would probably require a much larger percentage take of video revenues, which would discourage most YT content creators from going there because in fact, relative to overall YT volumes, these suspensions are rare. That's why we're discussing individual cases instead of studies with percentage figures in them.

It feels a bit weird to be playing the devil's advocate in this case because frankly the state of modern Google saddens me. It seems not much like the firm we built back in the day. They obviously shouldn't be doing this kind of thing and in the past they didn't, which is why I place the finger of blame not on AI (which may not even be at fault here, and is a general tool anyway) but rather on bad ideologies and ideas permeating the management classes in America.

In this case I blame favouritism and feminism. YouTube content moderation is run by Wojcicki, a woman who got in to Google by renting Larry and Sergey a garage, by being the sister of Sergey's wife. She's not an engineer. Thanks to the prevailing ideology an ambitious feminist woman in an executive position at a west coast tech firm is utterly untouchable, and must be given whatever she wants. So despite being the exec in charge of Google Video when it was utterly beaten by YouTube, she has ended up running YouTube. A clearer case of failing upwards can't be imagined. It's her personality that dictates the post-2016 swing towards promoting woke "authoritative content" on YT and the general culture of unaccountability for women that prevents anyone else pushing back, even as the bad PR racks up.
Yikes, talk about bad PR.
I am sorry that this happened to you, but thank you for sharing this, you are not the first one, nor the last one by the looks of it.

I intend to avoid Twilio in a wide range, don't need that kind of a "business partner" in my life.
Probability is the reflection of the state of your knowledge. If you know someone might become the next Hitler, but you don't know who that might be, or if they're even on the tracks right now, then this is reflected by assigning the same probability of "hitlerism" to all the people on tracks.

And even if you had some suspicions, once you honestly factor in your certainty about predictive value of your suspicions, it multiplies down to nothing - so in practice, an uniform prior is a pretty good choice.

Yes, it's true that all this stuff is not computable in practice, that it's too complex - but it's not really an obstacle! Everything in life is like that. When you're cooking and a recipe calls for 200g of an ingredient, you're fine with anything between 180g or 220g, and don't care how much of it is water. A restaurant may need to do 200g ± 5g. A chemical plant may want to do 200g ± 0.5g, after first demoisturizing. Nobody tries to hit 200g to ± 1 dalton, because that would be ridiculously complex to do, and require to control for phenomena that most people don't even know exist.

We've been trading precision for compute time ever since humans first figured out that things can be measured. The solution is what it's always been: calculating using heuristics and approximations, while keeping tracks of the bounds of those heuristics and approximations.
and setup another system to back this one up immediately because whatever algorithm brought down your account will do so again! If you spread the load across two platforms it would be a lot of work but you would be half-alive instead all-dead.
> The court ruling found that since the federal government had already made a law regulating rents, a state government could not impose its own law that infringed upon that

That's somewhat inaccurate, because "infringing" doesn't come into play.

The German Constitution clearly delineates things that the federal government may regulate, things that the state governments may regulate, and things that both may regulate.

In the latter case, the state governments may only regulate when the federal government hasn't done so.

Here the federal government did, by way of amending the civil code, so Berlin isn't allowed to.

The court did not rule on the material issue whether such a rent cap would be constitutional, if enacted in a procedurally proper way.
Agreed. While talking to companies about a new role last year, I'd only unblock the phone at the specific time I was expecting a call.

I did miss a few calls when recruiters called me without scheduling it first. I made it clear they needed to email me first with a call time, or I wouldn't be reachable. Sad, but that's how terrible the spam problem is on phones these days.
My grandma did this back in the 80s here in the US. Back then if you wanted to call someone more than about 10 miles away, it cost money. She lived in downtown LA and we were in a suburb, so it was a toll call.

If she wanted to talk to us, she would call and hang up after one ring. That was our signal to call her. There was no call-ID at the time, so we had to guess if it was her. It still cost us money to call, but she was fine with that!
In my experience the collectors and 'gear junkie' crowd are the people buying the vintage stuff now (and obsessing which of the dozens of 303 clones sounds most like the original) while the pro's just make music with whatever equipment they have and like...
Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
Twitter will study ‘unintentional harms’ caused by its algorithms
This bring me tears to my eyes. Nostalgia. Thank you!
[historical citation needed]

It's not for nothing that Torquemada was a synonym for cruelty long before Eco was even born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada

It's also inextricable from the "holy wars" between the Catholic Spanish monarchy, the Muslim states of Spain, and the Jewish population of Spain. The expulsion and forced conversion of Jews was a foreshadow of the Holocaust.

(oh hey, we can find Bernard Gui source material on the Internet! https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/bernardgui-inq.asp )
There are some incredibly creative mini games and training scenarios. Very impressive stuff.
uBlockOrigin already blocks FLoC in their privacy list and there are ideas to integrate it further as I understand [1]. So for all of us using that extension, there's no need to install DDG as well.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1553
As the article says, that's reminiscent of how bad old IPO allocations work.
>So even if he was more lenient then some other guys, if you are around the situation where he is torturing, he will come across as cruel, cause that is what he does.

That is applying our modern standards to historical figures more or less. We should view history through a contemporary lens for a better picture of the different driving factors and their effects.
Types of NoSQL Databases
I'm honestly ok with ads, I am not ok with "personalised" ads
Here's a photo of the two cut halves: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210414041423-perle-sa...
> I think he gave a reasonably accurate description of effective altruism, what in the description do you believe is wrong?

I disagree that this article give an accurate impression of the EA. The main point of effective altruism is that people should use evidence in choosing which charitable causes to devote their time to. I don't feel like the author sufficiently engages with this point; instead he attacks Singer for not coming up with a satisfactory standard for what percentage of one's wealth to donate, and laments that EA isn't political enough.

EA arose based partially based on the observation that people do most of their giving to, for example, local churches and schools than to truly desperate people in other parts of the world. People also tend donate their effort to local and relatable causes. The argument isn't that buying Malaria nets is going to eliminate all the evil in the world, the argument is it's a better use of money than other charities, and that we should use evidence to determine how to expend our resources.
Led Street Lamp
I was going to say, not the onion.
Funny thing is that a bunch of human activities are pyramid schemes. From academia, pension funds, real estate or whatever.
> No, the reason I mentioned "they sucked" is that for an experienced politician killing his less dangerous opponent is a very stupid move. It wouldn't give any profit but will definitely harm the reputation. Сui bono tells us to search for another beneficiar.

Yet he spends 0 effort on finding the guilty parties when journalists/political opponents die. That you actually attempt mental gymnastics trying to explain it in more convoluted ways tells me that the Kremlin propaganda machine works.
This story reminded me of a project my father did with two 1965 Mercedes sedans; one was hit in the front, the other in the back. He cut them both in half where the roof meets the rear window, and welded and reassembled the two good halves into a perfectly functional car that we drove for years. Not the scale of the French submarine project, but the same kind of ingenuity -- it was still a big project to get everything rewired and all put back together, including bodywork and paint!
Are you based in the US? I found them really bad for localized results outside of the US, even when local mode is enabled (although that's annoying to do manually). In the end I used !g for so many search queries that I switched back again.
Every other week on the old phone numbers. On the new phone# it is relentless all day, I stopped tracking and just block everything except known family numbers.
What would IPFS solve that is still a problem today? The only disadvantage of bittorrent is that it doesn't handle mutable content, but 1) videos never change and 2) any mutation of content implies a fixed identity, and that is what Peertube is here for.

The biggest problem to solve is diacoverability, a thin shell is not enough if you want to solve the general problem
Could this be productised somehow? Would an investor be willing to invest in my startup which effectively un-blocks small companies from larger ones? It would do the leg work to compile the necessary information before contacting a real human.

I'll call it Support As A Service.
Fair enough! Mars would have been great though.
The problem Datalog tries to solve is complexity: SQL "pulls" data (what's a query after all) to a calling application. Datalog builds up data relationships through declarations. That means that: a) that entities can be inferred from these relationships as opposed to large complex queries, b) that some of these relationships can be built up by code/robots as opposed to humans declaring them.

The end result is (you hope) a very complex database where the smaller blocks/relationships can be audited and verified quickly, and where parallelization more or less comes for free.

The reality is that Datalog systems end up being massive hairballs of declarations that are hard to unravel for mere humans (well, regular developers) and that query-based solutions are 10x faster to develop for 80% of the application use cases.

The closest parallel is functional-vs-procedural programming (don't flame me); it's a niche solution for niche problems.

Source: former Datalog developer for ERP systems.
We don't know whackadoodle brain chemistry from Adam; it's a massive assumption to attribute depression towards something so misunderstood as our neurochemistry. You might as well say it's due to the phlogiston in our heads.
I think there is a high chance we will see an innovation 'boom'.

After and during the space race, a lot of side technologies were invented. There was a sense of purpose and urgency that set a lot of industries forward and created innovation.

I think we might see something similar in medicine in the coming 5 years.

But comparing Covid to the black death is a bit of a stretch, imo.
Who knows about this particular burial ground, but large chunks of Europe did go through a 'rough spot' (cities depopulating, total population declining, industries collapsing, ...) in late aniquity/the early middle ages that took centuries to recover from.

Sadly, there's this unfortunate tendency to over-correct in the opposite direction when trying to clear up popular misconceptions...
Democrats to introduce bill to expand Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices
> An activist investor is a kind of value investor. "These assets are worth more than the market says - [...]

Isn't any investor who's not just buying an index fund a value investor by that broad definition?

(Even shortsellers just say: this stuff is worth less than the market says.)
I think is a good start to define what should and what should not allowed to protect privacy and data of the citizen. Especially after what happened in ex EU country UK with Cambridge Analytica.

Social scoring systems, biometric data surveillance, data aggregation for behavior predictions are actual problem with the management of our data. But citizens are not informed enough on whats is happening really fast with AI, smart cities, and always-connected devices.

Ps
> Eric Schmidt, Google's former chief and chair of the U.S. National Security Commission

Fortunately we're not countries that are so money-run that nominated into Security Commission of A.I. a chief of the largest data company in the world.

> Europe's strategy won't be successful, as it is "simply not big enough" to compete.

Compete with who? Is about preserving the privacy of citizens and not let big corps steal and aggregate all your data for profit without any control
The IntelliJ HCL plugin has full refactoring support, auto completion etc. It’s a shame it’s not open source, since there must be a Kotlin implementation of an HCL2 parser underpinning it.
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That it's merely psychological, not biological.

I'm not depressed. I'm a brunette for the first time in a decade or more. I live without a car and the sun typically keeps my hair bleached out to a shade of blonde.

But I have a serious medical condition and already did remote work and germ control is my life.

I had a longstanding issue resolve about six months. For the first time in decades, I'm mostly not suicidal anymore.

To whatever degree depression is biological in origin, drugs may be a reasonable treatment.

Granted, curing sick building syndrome and other root causes may be better in the long run. But it can take ages to confidently identify such things, educate people, find solutions, etc.

In the mean time, a new drug option for a biologically based ailment may do wonders for people in the here and now.

I routinely treat somatopsychic issues with diet and exercise. I also routinely get dismissed by internet strangers as a nutter.

So I'm confident that the answer you want both exists and will take an excessively long time to distribute to a meaningful portion of the human population.
Let me try to summarise. Tell me if I've got this roughly right.

A journalist has waffled about someone tweeting that an out-of-date 80-page draft from January of ... something ... the journalist can't be bothered to tell us its proper title ... has been "leaked" but not actually published for us to read. However, an up-to-date version of whatever it is will be officially published next week.

So perhaps I'll just wait till then before trying to form an opinion.
>strings aren’t actually simple arrays of characters in Rust like they are in C, but there is an underlying array on the heap

Not a Rust expert, but to my understanding, 'string' is an array of characters, not necessarily living in the heap.

The object 'String' (with capital S) might be, but with &str I can have a constant array of characters that is not in the heap and not even in the stack: it's in the code (.text code segment[1]?, or EEPROM or flash, for embedded folks).

If I understood it correctly, &str is a slice with a pointer to that piece of code. Of course being const, it cannot be changed. I can copy it into a String and manipulate it (append, insert, etc.), and that's where the heap is used.

&str, as an hypothetical struct, it may be in the stack, initialized in-scope with (probably) a pointer to somewhere in .text plus some bytes for length or other information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_segment
It's not just about tech people. A laissez faire approach to tech regulation is great for transferring wealth to tech entrepreneurs from everyone else. Of course if you are on the winning side of that equation you would be happy to stay inside that system, but that doesn't mean it's not a net drain on society.
His argument is that effective altruism (EA) is unable to eliminate poverty and therefore it is ineffective? I mean it's an pretty empty criticism, and can be used for any sort of altruistic philosophy given that poverty is a quite an intractable problem. Eg. "Your altruism is not effective unless you work to eliminate world poverty."

Effective altruism boiled down, is getting the most value out of altruistic work as I understand it. Obviously if every child in malaria endemic areas had a net, donating to malaria foundations would not be the most effective thing to do. If we discovered an asteroid that would destroy 20% of the population, EA would probably dictate channeling of all resources to that cause.
When I went to sleep away camp one summer when I was 11, it required me to take an airplane by myself. To let my parents know I had arrived, they told me to call collect, use my regular name, and they would reject the call.

If it was an actual emergency, I was to immediately call back again and then they would accept the call. It was a great way to get free messages.
Maybe. I agree that's a strong argument, but I think for both accountancy and law the standards are in both cases defined by governments, as the professions are largely about ensuring compliance with what governments require. The professional certifications can thus be just checking your knowledge of what the rules say, without getting into the question of whether the rules are correct.

In software it's not like that. There are very few laws on the book about how to write software, so there's no single authority that defines the right answer or the scope of reasonable questions. It's far more open. Even just picking a set of programming concepts would immediately cause controversy. Like, should monads and type-classes be a part of the professional qualifications? Most programmer would say no, because Haskell isn't widely used in industry. But CS degrees do sometimes test people on that sort of thing!
You're right but the higher the denomination, the smaller the chance it'll serve as change.
Show HN: Building search engines with open source tech for $99
Wow. That's a lot of words for Twilio to say "we won't help you mitigate toll fraud".
Ask HN: Which Has Better Usability? AG Cloud Express vs. Neo4j Sandbox
Upon researching some cloud based graph database, I came across fairly old, but fancy neo4j sandbox and brand new AG cloud express.

Neo4j Sandbox(https://neo4j.com/sandbox/) provides user-friendly tutorial (the 'sometimes annoying' pop up guide) and fun datasets to play around with within the cloud service. Downside is since there seem to be a lot of data, the loading of project and node dragging is a bit laggy.

AG Cloud Express (https://bitnine.net/blog-agens-solution/ag-cloud/tutorial-ag-cloud-express-movies/) seems recently developed and its interface is rather simple, but really easy to use for first time user. Not a lot of datasets though, simple seems to be the key here, which is also better in this situation since this service seems faster compared to Neo4j sandbox.

In terms of usability, which of the two cloud services do you all think is better? Are easy/fast/simple one of the traits you look for in a cloud service?
> COVID fatality rate 0.2%

In the United States, as of the time of this posting, 564,000 people have died to COVID, and we've had 31,400,000 cases, which puts the case fatality rate at 1.8%.
Any psychadelics (and I think cannabis as well, but much more rarely) can cause a psychotic break, which can’t always be recovered from. It seems to be more prevalent if there is a family history of psychosis.

No source, just anecdata, the circles I run in.
Yeah it’s not supposed to be allowed. I’ve been told by a T-Mobile employee on Reddit and discord (big community for T-Mobile lol) that they aren’t going to do anything usually.

My cousin in HS runs her family’s tablet SIM card in an old iPhone and runs ads to make a dollar a day. They end up using close to 100 GB a month.

The other carriers could be stricter.

Maybe something to check up on a bit. But not a big deal regardlsss hah.

I get you about the bad luck
> inside of Google, they are using databases to store filesystems.

I'm struggling to picture this, do you have any links I could read?
Effectiveness of charities has exactly the same problems as efficient market hypothesis: markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Or in other words, charities can remain full of shit for longer than you have money for.
Out of curiosity, how did you know whether they got the call or not? Or would the operator tell you that it was rejected?
> less war and more food
It's really frustrating. I've been trying for months to get access to a suspended twitter account that was suspended without informing me or giving a reason. The tickets get ignored and their support doesn't respond on Twitter. They also ignore GDPR (which would give me the right to have my data deleted). I have no idea what to do. The account isn't important but it shows up prominently on Google as a suspended account which isn't great.

Any small company ignoring privacy laws would get into trouble. If you're as big as Twitter or Facebook you can just ignore laws and get away with it..
What or how are adult sites distributing successfully? I think the biggest paid sites have apps. But I’ve never personally heard of any one using any porn tube site app or anything. Browsers are used.

I’m genuinely curious. I have no clue.
My life experience falls pretty far outside the Overton Window. Suffice it to say: I don't agree.
1. You can run Postgres locally using the same ZFS for storage you'd use for the sqlite database. This should come with the same backup properties as sqlite.

2. I doubt that the git part of your setup can be snapshotted correctly while an operation is in progress, since git doesn't use transactions.
Google is a different beast entirely. Complaining on social media doesn't generally work.
Is the solution really to look for people that are doing worse than so you can feel better?
Using ec2_instance_info to check if the instance exists filtering by name (eg: selectattr('tags.Name', 'defined') | selectattr('tags.Name', 'equalto', server_name) ) and then standard ec2_instance module, same for lb.
I agree about styles, thanks. Did not think of 99Design. Good idea! Much easier than me doing it :) Far better too, haha :)

2 years development in total so far. Not totally full time since roughly end of 2018

It's very resource lightweight for what it is. This is mainly due to how node and chrome work. When they don't do anything, they literally don't do anything. And chrome headless is normally pretty low CPU for everything. The node servers are very simple, there's not much that's thread blocking.

It's a commercial service, but a couple of components are open-source. The browser you use in this demo and in the paid service is based on the ViewFinderJS open-source project, but it's more advanced, and is like the "pro" version of that.
One problem with politics is that it's adversarial: if a political cause has opponents, spending resources on that cause can turn into a war of attrition (e.g. the amount spent on US election campaigns)
But you can't do that for pattern matching either.
This trick was so well known that a famous ad was made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs