skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is all mental illnesses are real, we are finding more and more underlying evidence of the neurological underpinnings of mental disorders (including with FND) using functional neuro-imaging techniques.

And yet these debilitating illnesses are too often stigmatized because their effects are often invisible to the outside observer. This person was let go because they talked about their mental illness with their employers, which is, I believe, not even legal.

People should treat those with mental illness with compassion and consideration, just like how they'd want to be treated if something like this happened to them. And if you think it couldn't, remember you might crack your head on the pavement tomorrow when someone knocks you down and get brain damage.

The truth is that just as we wouldn't want people to work in ways likely to injure their bodies or damage their health, and expect good employers to consider worker's physical well being, we must also have workplaces in which people's mental being is considered.

I consider how this person's employers behaved to be problematic to say the least.
And in other news: Some people are less productive in the office than others.
Even the marketing you mentioned isn't really necessary. That's what happened when you're a monopoly, bad reputation doesn't really hurt the bottom line.
Along the same lines, I was publishing church services each Sunday between May and December of last year, with three English hymns in each, mostly old ones well-known across denominations. In total, I got 23 Content ID claims (about 20% of the hymns), claiming ownership of the melody. Every single one was for a work in the public domain. I disputed each, providing the name and date of death of the composer.

Two were released (one after three days, the other after 27), the rest were allowed to lapse in my favour (which happens after 30 days).

A few of these claims were duplicates (same claimer, same hymn). This showed that even though I had successfully disputed their claim in the past in the grounds of the work being in the public domain, YouTube had not revoked their ability to claim the melody in question.

If any of the liars claiming they owned these works had rejected my dispute, it could have become a strike, &c. and there would of course be no recourse, because Google generally refuses to arbitrate.

Also, an insidious aspect of the claims system was that YouTube basically didn’t tell you about the copyright claim at all when publishing; you had to close the edit page for the video and return to the list, and see if the Restrictions column for the video said “Copyright claim”. If you didn’t do that, the video would probably be being monetised by the claimer in at least some of the world (and if you disputed it, I guess Google would happily take the lot for the period while they had monetised it—though now that they’re putting ads on everything, this lot isn’t so different from the usual situation; depends on whether you hate the balance of the ad money going to the copyright liars or Google more).

(There was also one amusing case where some music being played at a nearby temple was audible during a quiet time in the service, and so I found out the name of the music being played. I claimed fair use on that one, because I didn’t even want that music in it, and it was quiet. That claim was released after ten days.)
So true. I remember being on the Gili Islands in Indonesia. They are a set of tiny islands with no cars or even police, but also no real way of disposing trash. Yet they attract hundreds of tourists every day. Usually as a tourist you'd go around these islands on the coast line but if you cross them through the middle you'd see a huge pile of garbage being burnt.
Transforming dead earbuds into POWERFUL wireless speakers [video]
Data, please.

The definition of "mass shooting" varies, but let's start with this list, and please let me know how it is incorrect in its scope so I can understand your exact point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

I would hate for you to be a victim of definitional retreat if you are able to create a well-reasoned argument and back it up with reliable and objective data.
The oxygen supply shortage is due to demand and whilst does not explain the increase demand and certainly would play into the deaths, it wouldn't be at the scale we are seeing as it is the increase in cases and the oxygen supply shortage is a product of the knock on demand and not a causality in that demand. Yes it is a factor in increased deaths, but not the major factor, which is increased numbers of infected.
Susan Wojcicki on the case again. The freedom of expression pillar would crumble without her support.
It isn't my intention to doubt Tinker, only to continue discourse here, but I was going to say something similar. I have reactive hypoglycemia and it is very, very obvious when my blood sugars are too low - it really is an absolutely horrible thing.

At first I start to feel a little bit "stupid", like my brain isn't functioning properly, and is working in slow motion. Talking is more difficult. Next I start to feel a bit weak/shaky/trembly. Next I start to feel anxiety/dread. Sometimes now I can get very aggressive (which isn't in my nature at all!). Then comes an incredible desire to eat sweet things - once you start eating, it can actually be difficult to stop! Depending on how bad things got, I might feel too confused to actually just go and eat something.

Now, all being well, I did eat something, and will start to feel a lot better within 10-15 minutes.

If I didn't eat something (because there wasn't anything available, or because the "stupid" feeling had given in to confusion, and I didn't know wtf was happening), everything ramps up - the anxiety becomes full on dread, the world seems to be caving in on me, and I literally feel like I'm going to die. The weakness feels like I need to lie down (a couple of times I have, but thankfully my partner was at home and found me). The "stupid" feeling gets much worse - my speech is slurred, and finding the right words to talk is very difficult - mostly what comes out it is "umm.. err.. what?.. uhh..".
Because that's a constant and would have been present the entire time and would not adequately explain why a second wave would have more young people succumbing to the disease.
> But today, for Tom to even mention the word at all would be considered beyond the pale — so to speak.

Hmmm, maybe a bit too cutesy covering the etymology of a racist slur and then using a different racist slur in a light hearted manner)

Beyond the pale being historical phrase to refer something savagery(Dublin being the Pale, rest of Ireland being outside it), which was anti-Irish racism by the Brits at it's finest.
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Intent may affect legal culpability, but people are not robots, and are free to consider something punishment whatever the intent. If the effect of reporting abusive behaviour is to be forced into a change you consider punishment, then it is punishment to you, whatever the intent was. And some jurisdictions it would put the company at legal risk even irrespective of intent because e.g. employment tribunals can often take a dim view of actions taken against a victim without their consent even if the intent was all good.

More importantly, I'd consider a place that cared so little about victims of abusive behaviours a horrible place to work that'd be worth leaving regardless. I'd start thinking about leaving such a please even if I just observed it happen to others, because it says something about the lack of fundamental respect for employees.
Bipartisanship Is Bad
Oh, have you seen tweets from Basecamp leaders calling people out? you could actually say that the execs are activists as well based on their posts on social media.
Yes, it is often impossible to source things like Intel CPUs or chipsets. They sell them to device manufacturers only in millions. Even if you have IR rework station and can solder BGA chips you have no reliable source of these chips. It is even worse with Apple devices where they often use parts not publicly available at all (custom-made for them) and sometimes if they use a common STM32 micro, there is no firmware available to program it and it won't work without the firmware.
You can’t solve that question using these statistics. You need to carefully define your question and then look up the data. A lot of it actually is available!
The point is that you're significantly less likely to lose your home at 2x.
If you wrap the whole tickettape display in something like a black stocking (legging) you will get much better contrast especially for filming where the bright leds clip the image sensor.
Copyright cannot be fixed, it should be abolished. It made sense in the era of physical books and huge printing presses. That era is long gone, copying have made copying trivial.
1) Feed a computer with MIDI files of public domain music and render it as audio

2) Upload to YouTube

3) File copyright dispute to YouTube for any (future?) uploaded video which contains the music which used to be in the public domain

4) Have Google reject the videos

5) Create a site or an app which allows you to license that public domain music for a fee.

6) Notify YouTube who has licensed this public domain music.

Ok. that's the way Google thinks is the way it should work. Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good.

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Two days ago I uploaded a video which was a screen recording to demonstrate a bug in the Android app "Komoot". It was unlisted, the link was attached to the bug report I sent to the company. It was just a short video showing how the caching (or something in that direction) of uploaded images in the app seemed to be broken. The content in the video was 100% adhering to all the guidelines, specially to those of "for all ages". The content was nothing else but scrolling photos of an MTB-trail with a bit of UI. If your video is flagged or you mark it as "for 18+", then it can only be viewed by logged in persons.

After uploading the video I got an email that it was not complying with the "for all ages" requirements, which is kind of bad, because now the support team must log-in with a Google account to YouTube in order to see the harmless but useful video.

But then again, videos related to Instagram celebrities or Chinese ASMR-binge eating are totally ok for them.
Funny but I can actually see peertube appealing to big YouTubers, especially if there's an ecosystem around it, like apps and fully hosted servers.
Proof-of-stake can never achieve the same trust model as proof-of-work. Proof-of-space-and-time can.

See Andrew Poelstra ‘15: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/on-stake-and-conse...
If you hit me I cannot feel 'murdered'.

Murder has a definition, which is precisely why we can do something about it.
https://goo.gl/maps/MEyZ5tsHVCSaeDHV9

There's many more beaver dams visible in the area:
The water is running towards the north, so the dams are roughly horizontal, with a brownish swamp underneath.
What happens when the price of BTC/ETH falls by 50%? I don't see how would lending at 3.5% (unless it's very short term) would make sense considering the risk.
Their /jobs page says no current openings, however.

I do love the idea of no politics at work. Politics is not intellectually interesting for me.
My point is the reduction of child labor hours was impossible before industrialization improved productivity.

It's not until around 1800 that the population ceased to be constrained by the ability to produce food. We live in a time of amazing abundance, they did not.
scroll, caravan, ndtv and surprisingly agenda driven.. and are extremely biased in their reporting .. just like newslaundry .. especially their villainization of majority is atrocious .. we news better news media which give news, and not agenda driven politicaal biased 'news' .. they are basically republic for the left.. full of $h*t
The people are fickle. They need to be led.
> I will never stop being amazed that European's think Europe is a Utopia

I never said Europe was Utopia. All I said was, decent living.

> that is nothing short of a dystopia for me a person that wants Individualism, and individual freedom. rejecting Authoritarianism and Collectivism

Ah yes. Says the person from a country where charities stop giving aid to poor African countries and redirect their aid to Americans.

> If people in the US like the EU model soo much then i encourage them to expatriate to that location.

Those who have the means to, do.
I think most of the pics, articles like this one are from Delhi. Which i think is in terrible shape. With cases not decreasing most hospitals would any way be stressed. But i assume it not terrible everywhere. My citie's Govt Hospital and Pvt ones are not over crowded or even anyway looks stressed as of now.
owyn: Same here! Did some digging and noticed something that might help. Notice in the "Symbol not found" the WebKit is looking in the dylib for a big honkin' symbol with "_jPKhmttEPFiS0_" near the end. When I opened the libwebrtc.dylib file in TextEdit, I see a very similar big honkin' symbol, but it's missing "tt" near the end. So that part of the symbol reads, "_jPKhmEPFiS0_". Don't know who's to blame, the WebKit or dylib file, but these two parts of Safari appear to identify some "setVideoDecoderCallbacks" code by 2 different names, and that's causing this crash!
For anyone wondering, he’s taking about the word “cunt”. It would have been simpler to spell it correctly, both here and for the word “nigger” in the original post. I assume it’s a form of dumbing down for the benefit of readers who it is assumed can’t grasp the difference between direct and reported speech.
The epistemology of software quality (2019)
I can't be certain, but I think this video might be the "original" that the algorithm matched: https://youtu.be/-ThyLB6bakk

What is to stop bad actors pumping out a stream of interpretations of public domain melodies to prime the matching algorithm then using the robotic nature of the appeal process to extort ad revenue? Nothing, apparently!
> 6. And do you know you need a permit and negative covid test report to participate in this religious event?

Well if this were true, how were hundreds of people there found to be infected [0]? In any case, there was absolutely no need to allow it at a critical time like this. We're probably very lucky that the event did not end in absolute catastrophe, like it very well could have.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56742231
Thank you. Something just snapped into focus for me. Fizzbuzz always seemed easy to me, because I'm a math nerd, but I just realized that the concept of a "remainder" isn't something people often use in their adult life. Also, the fact that programming languages have any sort of remainder operator might not come up in a typical web dev coding bootcamp or a self-taught programmer's education. Or even a college graduate could easily gloss over the boring math operators, eager to make cool stuff in the worlds of OOP and web dev.

It's sad that Fizzbuzz is used at all. At present, using Fizzbuzz selects for people who either (1) Are math nerds or (2) Are already in the "in group" and possibly read HN. That probably makes a small contribution to the lack of diversity in tech.
> The solution to this is NOT government housing but less government regulations about building new housing

Where and when did this work? Have you any examples?
Yup, and its only a matter of time before a uncollateralized + decentralized stable coin takes over from USDT/USDC…
Suppose I know of a number of people in India who have covid symptoms and difficulty breathing but cannot get treatment in any hospital due to overcrowding. As someone who lives in a Western country, what is the most effective way to help them?

I could simply send them money, but they might use it to bribe hospital staff for treatment, or outbid other people for oxygen cannisters. They would benefit but other people would lose out.

Maybe I should buy medicine in my home country and send it to them? Or maybe buy oxygen concentrator machines on Alibaba and have them shipped to India?
The height problem was a result of the population outpacing the food supply.

The height of Americans started skyrocketing in 1800, and this continued right up to WW2, when it leveled off. As historian Eugene Weber observed, America in 1800 was the first time in human history when enough food was produced to end the constant threat of famine.

P.S. The pre-Columbian North American Indians didn't have it much better. Their bones show repeated episodes of famine.
Maybe if you can't read the comment you should shut up
I don't agree that it's too hard to not talk about politics at work. I have been doing it as a rule at most of my jobs for years now without thinking of it (and so do most workers). The idea that mentioning public school is "political" is a wrong idea.
A disease that affects peoples' breathing and you don't think air pollution has anything to do with how severely the outbreak has affected people?
My comment reads this isn't "hacker" "news"
> ...for having the dishes done in 40 seconds (!)

While my next home dishwasher will be an industrial / commercial-grade dishwasher after one too many services calls for a supposedly premium residential make (Bosch, and I've heard rumblings Miele fares no better), I also have to acknowledge there are trade-offs.

1. I need to supply higher voltage and amperage than most homes plumb for dishwashers. Fortunately not three-phase for the smaller units I'm looking at.

2. I cannot put my more delicate dishware into them, and hand wash them.

3. While there is more energy and water use, I'm okay with that. That marginal inefficiency is more than made up for by keeping a residential dishwasher from entering the landfill in just a few years. Under residential use, I can reasonably expect to run it until parts run out, which for the better brands like Hobart, does not appear to happen for decades.

4. While I have to use detergents that are not available at the grocery store, I'm okay with that.

I sometimes wish there were open source reference blueprints for the big ticket household appliances built around a design dimension that will not change for the foreseeable future: human planiform scale. And manufacturers plug into that frame so the basic core like the tub of a laundry machine or dishwasher doesn't change common mounting points and dimensions while everything around it changes and swaps Ship of Theseus-style over the decades, radically reducing the footprint of these machines entering the waste stream. What I'm really wishing for is more cradle-to-cradle design however, and I should leave the actual implementation to the domain experts.
Upload videos to her own website. Problem solved.
Then again, maybe we'll see the reverse of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law and they'll be 5 sprints ahead.
OpenOffice did what looks a bit like a "squash merge" way back in the day. It's a nightmare to work out where things got changed. I don't recommend it.

I quite agree. Fix your commit history via an interactive rebase before you push. Learn to love fixup.
I have 5 Rokus, it's at least $250 for me. The YTTV DVR content isn't actually "mine" and could disappear at any time and can be re-recorded. It's worthless to me.
I am OK with everybody paying +3% more than few unlucky ones paying another 100% because they received faulty pieces.
In EU there is mandatory 2 year warranty for everything (with exceptions like food etc) and maybe extending to at least 3 years could be fine compromise.
That sounds super political and pretty extreme and probably not appropriate to bring into a work context when talking about how to appropriately punish people who have been making stereotypical jokes.
Exactly - the enormous population of India means that there are definitely going to be huge numbers of younger people who scum to the disease. Straightforward arithmetic.
at least you spoke to someone and now know why your screwed vs an automated AI system that doesn't tell you anything /s
I used to have a bunch of time lapses on YouTube- my office for a few years was above the ferry docks in Seattle. I chose music from the YouTube collection of free music for background music. I have copyright claims on all of them now; I’ve taken almost all of them down. https://youtu.be/TgzqOvTvWzw As an example
Not the guy you've been talking to but I looked into the Statista data because that surprised me. Turns out Mother Jones used a very specific set of criteria (possibly to spur page views like my own?) that isn't supported by the AP, nor the FBI or criminologists.

https://reason.com/2012/12/17/are-mass-shootings-becoming-mo...
My daughter plays guitar and violin and this is a very common issue. Moreover Youtube automatically labels some original performances as if they use third-party soundtrack. Both annoying and flattering.
I read a summary of the situation and it seemed to me like both sides handled it poorly. It sounded like there was indeed a lot of activism, which is something you don't really want in a workplace, but the C-levels didn't handle it terribly graciously either, what with looking at past logs to find an employee's messages. It's more than a little impolite, I think.

I have to admit there's a certain elegance in filtering out political people by banning public discussions of politics, though. I especially cringed at this bit:

> Jane Yang, a data analyst at the company, told me that restricting internal conversations would negatively affect diversity and inclusion efforts. For example, she said, the company’s profit-sharing plan gave more profits to people who have longer tenure — a group that is majority white and male. Making that discussion off limits internally could ensure that inequality in profit sharing becomes a structural feature of the company.

It's not like they had a rule that white males get more money, it's a seniority rule! It seems unreasonable to me to extrapolate that to systemic racism in the company.
I agree, and I think the mechanism that causes people to feel this way is, people are angry about a system that has failed to be equal, and work feels like part of "the system", so people feel as though a change at work will somehow change the system at large. And there's some truth to that.
Do you actually have any evidence of the author, Kendi, being a neo racist or is this more right wing trash?
> "Most of the content we read in a newspaper [sic] is false" is a very strong assertion to make,

Just read an average science column.
Hahaha I forgot about this
Here in Thailand they sell those chunks of alum at village shops. Called สารส้ม in Thai. Villagers follow the same routine, swish it around in a bucket of dirty water to settle it out. Photo on the page at this link: https://pantip.com/topic/38053321
> 7. He talks about Narendra modi rallies. Seriously ? He took rallies in the states where elections being conducted by Indian election commission, like all all other political parties he has to support his party. This is saying like Biden cannot take election rally while Trump goes on giving daily speeches. Importantly, do you see the state of Westbengal where election allies happened in the top ?

Yes he was not the only one conducting mass rallies but as the leader of the nation, was it not his responsibility to set an example in the country's fight against covid? Should we not hold the Prime Minister to a higher standard? Yes, every party held mass rallies and shame on all of them - it does not excuse Modi though.

He has a termendous fan following in India ready to do what he says (lighting lamps, clanging vessels) - he just does seem to be able to channel that devotion into something positive.
In the winter people (at least the women) spent most of their time spinning and weaving. I expect the men were likely taking care of the animals, doing repairs and maintenance, and endless hand work we have machines to do for us today.

There's a reason parents sent their kids to those factories. They desperately needed the money. I doubt they hated their kids.