skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1) YouTube isn't doing anything wrong. They obviously support in principle the rights of humans.

YouTube is a company. The default for a company is indifference to every topic. And that's fine. YouTube doesn't "obviously support in principle" anything.

The people there will support things, but companies are not just the mathematical average of the people there. It's specifically about how those people choose to act when they're acting in the name of the company. Nothing about YouTube makes me think it's interested in using the platform supporting the rights of humans.

If there was some clickable and advertiser friendly content produced by people promoting human rights, I'm sure YouTube would be happy to host that. But they're happy to host almost all flavors of advertiser friendly content. I'm sure they would take credit for hosting that video as if YouTube itself was doing something that moved the needle on human rights. When all they're really doing is not prohibiting the content on their default-allow platform.

It's been known for years that YouTube removes evidence of warcrimes because those videos are too graphic.

>2) They are consistently applying their policies.

When videos about a topic they "obviously support in principle" runs up against the general purpose policies, what would "support" look like other than creating a special case in their policies?

>3) They are probably going to be forced to do stuff like this anyway in compliance with local government rules

What government is telling YouTube to make videos about human rights abuses unavailable worldwide? And why would a company that "obviously support in principle the rights of humans" choose to do business within that government's jurisdiction?

yeah, I get that I'm being really critical and holding youtube to a high standard. But it's also totally fine if YouTube chooses not to meet that standard. Most companies barley have the manpower and expertise to execute on a signal focus. YouTube doesn't have to try to move the needle on human rights issues. All I really mean is that we shouldn't default to giving them even a single ounce of unearned goodwill on their human rights record.
Hahaha. Yes, the solution is more centralized control. More power concentration... less competition... There is alternative media for anyone who actually looks for it. We don't need to save the media. We need it to die.
As I pointed out in the last thread about this, various similar things have occurred in Catholic orphanages in Europe, as well, and in greater numbers.

My point somehow got lost the last time but I will say it again: if you let an organization "do its own books," it can go corrupt and stay that way. When it comes to orphanages and places where children are removed from their parents, that means mass unmarked graves.

Not too long ago, in my state, some parents killed their kids and buried them in the back yard. But they were caught, and swiftly, because someone else was doing the books, someone else was keeping an eye out. Institutions that become accountable only to themselves will continue their actions, unimpeded.
The parent comment mentioned birth year, not birthday
I just mean for news that comes directly from US sources. I find things like the Wuhan lab theory to be fascinating, worrying and plausable. But I struggle to find any reliable information about it because (not just, but mainly) US publications have saturated the media with politically driven articles instead of just trying to get to the bottom of it.

I get the impression that most Americans see the rest of the world like some form of a cartoon. They are weirdly detached from the reality of it all. I even get that impression when speaking to regular Americans about other countries and I think the media feeds on, and feeds, this incredibly strange outlook.

If there is any truth to the Wuhan lab leak story, it is an incredibly important thing for every single human on the planet. The idea of a country purposfully, or accidentally, releasing a lab made virus is such a massive threat to every society in the world, even worse than chernobyl, that we need the story to be scrutinised and and reported on with perfect accuracy. Instead, it has somehow become a fuel left/right wing driven click-bait. The articles I have come across on this subject have been pretty much baseless nonsense, or incredibly untrustworthy, and that is just scary.

Europe has problems of course, but it is definitely better. They are partisan but they are less at taking digs at the opposition. America seems to be going through a media war. In the UK it is pretty rotten too, but the writing is usually more accurate and one can find well researched articles.

The most striking thing for me during covid was when it started to make daily news in the US. Up until that point, I felt like I had a really good understanding of what was going on. I found there to be a lot of scientific reporting making it to the mainstream etc.. As soon as it reached America though, it was game over. I was lost. I genuinely just couldn't follow what was going on because of all the noise generated by US media, which inevitably spills over, and intertwines, with all other media.

I probably can't explain it very well, but the amount of noise in American news just seems to drown out anything that can actually help regular people get a grasp on what is actually happening.
I use a Mac connected to various Linux nodes via ssh. Development and sysadmin work.
Just to be clear, it wasn't just the catholic church that was running these, there was also the anglican church.
Why would someone think that the purpose of WASM is to speed up JavaScript?
We were thinking to switch to using Notion for a sizable project, but this thread changed our mind. It is, indeed, frustrating.
In fairness, the parent did just say Birth Year and Sex while Latanya Sweeney used the identifiers you list which give quite a bit more information. I agree with your basic point though that data that appears to be anonymized can frequently be de-anonymized--at least to some degree of statistical certainty to a degree that most would find surprising.
The entire point of the slogan is that it can reasonably be interpretted as both a call for measured reform and a demand for radical change. Activists switch between these interpretations at will.

Also, within activist circles, the most radical interpretation always wins. You're on HN and so you claim you want to "divert resources" but within "ACAB circles," the winning argument is always the most radical (prison abolition, prison = slavery, police are modern slave catchers, violence against police is justified). This pull to the extremes is what disturbs me about radical movements. It's possible that these movements have a positive effect when they interact with moderates and some kind of compromise is struck but the movements themselves are quite scary.
Really, this seems like an effort to save "the sport". If a few people keep doing enough damage with these things, or generally behaving like jackasses, they're gonna receive a lot more regulation than just requiring a brief class, guaranteed.
Great job! Thank you!
Indeed. They weren’t real PCs. Complete software and hardware lock in from RM.
If you believe that YouTube is simply an open and neutral “village square” for information and ideas then I have a bridge to sell you. Same goes for all the large platforms.
Does that even matter? Whether or not an attack is live streamed, it still happened.
Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get diploma
Censorship is censorship is censorship, no matter how hard you try to explain, justify or deny it, regardless if it's about prisoners, Covid, fake news or whatever someone somewhere decided it should not be accessible by a wide auditorium.

But it's not only Google at fault here, it's the voter that allowed government to push such censorship laws upon Google.
Yes and flying is safer than driving.
> Wait, then why don't they just switch over each component in turn? The "divide and conquer" debugging strategy.

My guess would be that they want to try that method only if this debugging doesn't work. Imagine that there's an electrical issue in item 1 that fries item 2. If you switch over to item 2b, then you fry item 2b too!

This is exactly what happened with the Soviet Salyut 7 station. They tripped an over-current protection, didn't fix the root issue, and remotely turned the circuit back on. A series of electrical shorts then rendered the entire station without power, resulting in the need for one of the most daring station rescue stories of all time:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-sov...
I think adventured is interpreting danish integration policies a bit too harsly when it is calling them genocidal. They are hard though, and there is a current of xenophobia in danish policy making.

It would be more relevant in this case to mention that Denmark did very similar things, as Canada, towards the Greenlandic population during the last century. Utilising forced adaptations of kids, suppressing greenlandic language and culture, and force moving communities to hinder them being able to live in a traditional greenlandic way.
The Churches are refusing to release the records.
Exactly what I came here to say.

You don't sprinkle URLs throughout your codebase, as the OP apparently assumes one would normally do. You create a single class (or something similar) which abstracts the API calls. If the endpoint changes, you change it in one place.

I honestly don't see how this solution makes this easier. If anything, I feel like it makes things more complicated and harder to understand.
I took it in jest. I just thought the spiders were eating what they normally do, but consenting to give us milk somehow, despite the fact they don't have nipples.
Same experience. It also hurts me that support for so many things is baked-in!
You're confusing logic with epistemology in the context of legal proceedings and life in general. Epistemically, I prove there's no elephant in my room now because elephants can't be invisible, because I would feel it or hear it or smell it, etc. You can posit an endless number of additional premises to show that there may still be an elephant in the room, but you end up in logical paradox where any evidence of the elephant being present is inaccessible. At that point, what does it mean to say "there's an elephant in here with me that is completely undetectable, so lack of detection is not evidence of absence?"

In terms of epistemology, "proof" means reaching sufficient justification for considering a belief to be true, not validity according to an axiomatic system.
Anyone else thought this was about the Night's Watch in the Game of Thrones books/novels?

I'll see myself out..
I think one issue that has emerged with the 'free' internet is that more people than ever are reading news, but very few people are paying for it. This statistic is often cited by failing newspaper companies about why they are worth investing in. The issue is qualitative more than quantitative. The engagement that most people used to have with news was casual and occasional. There were a minority of cable TV news viewers but for most other people it was limited to short summary programs on network TV.

The news magazines and opinion journals used to be much more cordial and high brow on both the left and the right, more focused on digesting books and important issues and less dedicated to parsing the trending issue of the picosecond.

Now you have tons of casual news viewers participating in social media sharing mostly shallow 'opinions' which are just repetitions of what they have just consumed. It's kind of like what used to be the rich person seafood section with highfalutin organic varieties of wild caught fish has been replaced with 16 aisles of DISCOUNT IMITATION "CRAB" MEAT that all tastes the same and comes out of an industrial tube.

When social media was new I think most tech forward people's opinion was that this was good, and that people would move on from "CRAB." Sure we have one whole aisle of synthetic flavored "CRAB," but in the future it will be better. Instead we just got 16 aisles of "CRAB" and no more good fish, just the memories of what used to be a more refined news culture.

Mass participation in national issues is very distorting for the United States as it is constitutionally composed. Our laws are designed for intense local and state-level participation in politics, with representatives mediating the passions of democracy at the national level. The media optimizes for intense national/international 'engagement,' but this must lead to frustration and unhappiness because mass participation can have zero impact on national issues of import (for the most part) because of the fundamental structure of our system.
The usual tactic of delaying it while the spotlight is focused on it, to bring it back at a later date, likely with a rebranding and hope no one notices or causes a scene.
I saw a stat a while back that showed that any higher levels of policing of minority communities was directly attributable to higher levels of disturbance reports from within the communities themselves.

So police aren’t just looking for offenders in minority communities. They’re going where the communities are asking them to be.
Isn't this package just a different solution for a Repository Pattern?

Create a repository class which contains all the objects and methods for the API and then use this repository as a bridge between the API and your controllers.

Business and data access logic can be tested separately and it's easier to maintain.
Signal responds to dns banning with their own tricks. Previously it was domain fronting https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ I'm sure they wouldn't leave India without a similar fight.
Linux 5.14 to Support the OpenPOWER Microwatt Soft CPU Core
You made an implicit argument that regulation doesn't work, I simply pointed out that it does in many many place.

You now argue that it doesn't work because the item being regulated is in wide spread possession. Drones are not. Thus by your own chain of reasoning it is perfectly reasonable to enforce very strong regulations NOW if we wish to have any chance of managing drones.

I guess, thank you for making such a great argument for strong regulation from the onset.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time (1787)
So for two more years, Chrome will be the only major web browser to provide no reasonable expectation of privacy and security.

Nobody should still be using it by 2023.
Indeed they do.

The training documents that I’ve seen publicly available on the internet explicitly incorporate de-escalation techniques as the first and preferred option.
> Universities sell a financial product

No, they do not. Universities offer undergraduate education to school leavers. Both schools and universities bend over backwards to inform prospective students on the fit between degrees and careers. Students pursue degrees with poor career options despite advice and the offerings in the humanities are shrinking.

A feature you overlooked is how bad the graduate employment market is for even the degrees most favoured by employers.
Here is ARM's explanation in the AAPCS64 (ARM 64-bit Architecture Procedure Call Standard):

> Software developers creating platform-independent code are advised to avoid using r18 if at all possible. Most compilers provide a mechanism to prevent specific registers from being used for general allocation; portable hand-coded assembler should avoid it entirely. It should not be assumed that treating the register as callee-saved will be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the platform. Virtualization code must, of course, treat the register as they would any other resource provided to the virtual machine.

From: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/2bcab1e3b22d5517...
"non-sanctioned countries"? The majority of citizens living in sanctioned countries are honest and have their country sanctioned against their will, but cannot say anything against their government. Why should they get punished for something that's due to their plight? They deserve freedom like all human beings.

Anyway, I think the real danger is if our societies move to 100% cashless. Crypto provides a good counterbalance where we get to retain the benefits of cash while going electronic - if you're looking for any benefit, I think this is it.
> I would support using something like the International Criminal Court or the UN Commission on Human Rights to help produce findings on what went on and what can be done to start to heal.

As you say, Canada had a 7 year process to do just this. It was chaired by Murray Sinclair. Sinclair is an Indigenous man with a lot of standing in the Indigenous community and in broader Canadian society. He was an associate chief justice in Manitoba, and a federal senator.

It produced a bunch of documentary evidence, and a bunch of recommendations.

If people want action on this, following those recommendations would be a start. As it happens, one of the recommendations is funding for the ground-penetrating radar that is turning up these burial sites. While that recommendation was ignored at the time it was made, provinces are now funding it. We can expect more of these stories to come out. We don't need to start from scratch, we just need to make progress on the existing findings.
not sure if you are talking about the same thing. GP mentioned anullment, you said divorce.
especially with extremely long response times.
I wouldn't hold my breath. This stuff operates on an emotional level, not a cognitive/intellectual level. Emotions are powerful because they are largely opaque to most people most of the time and are a strong driver of behavior. Like the old saying: you can't reason a person out of a position or belief that they didn't reason themselves into. As long as this emotional manipulation is profitable (e.g., 'engagement'), I don't see a way out of this.
https://youtu.be/gnU9Vgt8Hmg?t=9
i once read an article on most probably arstechnica about a nasa enthusiast who found some space probe documentation in someones garage. he goes on to actually use that to communicate with the probe and issue commands.
something like the booster had emptied or leaked or something.
i am not sure what exactly it was. that was a fascinating read
Hm I'm not familiar with the specifics of a ''full human rights inquiry at the international level'', but you do seem to know a bit about all these issues. If you don't mind, I have some questions for you;

1) My understanding is that there are two layers of laws ; Indian Act + Treaties. The first affect the 600+ nation-bands, while the seconds are specific to each of them. It follows that not all nation-bands have the same relationships with the governments. Hence, modifying the law might be fair for oen group, but bad for another. Am I right?

2) The 600+ nation-bands are not an monolithic group, they have different cultures, languages, territories and interests. Hence, in a political system where democracy happens inside geographical electoral district, it is not straightforward for nation-bands to become political allies. Am I right?

3) Since the legacy of the "privileges" granted by the treaties are guaranteed under the constitution, (https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/constitution_act_1...), "real change in Canadian Society" implies changing the constitution. Do you agree?

Am I out of my shoes regarding these issues?
I'm sorry. This does not constitute a randomized, controlled, double-blind study. You cannot know anything until you've passed that gantlet. Nothing worth knowing is actually true until this step has been achieved.
That's exactly what it is, and Google indicated as much already, they originally announced this was dependent on replacing their tracking methods with a new tracking method.
Probably someone doesn't understand cache and flushing/invalidate
Like the senior boys at the schools being taken out in the middle of the night to dig graves...
It's easy to make someone look reasonable if you ignore their unreasonable statements.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/aboli...

"to put an end to something, such as an organization, rule, or custom"
The study was done on people that have died from covid. There are not a lot of vaccinated people in that group, to put it mildly.
I don't think it's executives. A lot of executives in large companies don't seem to be in touch enough to really notice if most people went remote.

I always assumed it was middle managers who are worried they can't justify their jobs if they aren't standing over someone's shoulder.
It's not just that, it's the fact that you're preparing for a job interview which is already a stressful endeavor. When you add oh my God I need to learn all these new things, I need to solve these algro problems faster, it's just too much.
I wouldn't expect "innovation" in any big sense.

What I'd rather expect is less flashy but at least as useful. "Hey, it sounds like Mary in customer support is taking off next week. That might be a bad time to deploy the new mods." "Wait, you're working on that code? Maybe it'll also fix the thing I'm working on. I'll go work on something else until you finish it."

These are tiny things. The benefits are probably too small to measure, but it doesn't mean they don't exist. It would be nice if they resulted in Big Improvements For Free, but that seems unlikely. That sounds more like a way of trying to make up a visible model of something that they feel but can't demonstrate.

I have no idea if such things are worth it or not. I suspect it has a ton of variables (personalities, project type, luck) and you couldn't do a good controlled experiment even if you had a mechanism for measuring it. So different companies are going to constitute a natural experiment, and maybe in a decade or two we'll have some intuition for what worked.
How would a completely rule-free economy work out?

How about a completely law-free society?

Tell me, in what other system of human interaction is a total lack of rules and regulations ever the optimal?
You know, it is genocide masked as school. What will pay for this? How these people will be repatriated?
It's really not their problem though, is it. Because there are 2 fixes:

* do nothing and have fake news etc everywhere.

* make it much much harder for users to submit material

Both of those have serious impacts on us. So it's our problem really isn't it?

Before you reply, ask yourself: would I pay a dollar to reply? If the answer is no, you can't really expect YC to spend money on "discernment" for every thread/article/text post can you?
As an outside observer, I don't understand what action you think is needed? Weren't these schools abolished?
My pro tip would be to look for Heinz Five Beans aka "adult" baked beans.

The sauce is more savoury, less sweet than standard and there are, er, 5 types of beans.

IMHO a much better experience overall than your common or garden backed bean, although others might disagree[1].

Also don't forget black pudding.

1. ...but they are wrong!
This is worrying. The FAA was never created to regulate drones. Hobbyist pilots have been safely flying RC planes for decades. We need to return regulatory power to legislators, not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. Another example is the FCC- an agency created to regulate radio is now attempting to regulate internet service providers!
We've seen this over and over in tech. The spotlight is focused on it, so they hide away and bring it back at a later date, likely with a rebranding and hope no one notices or causes a scene.
> Every proposed solution I have seen ends up down some rabbit holes and obscure technologies that are generally too hard for the masses to adopt.

There's an implicit circle in this logic. Manually crafting IP packets is unwieldy to the masses, too, but some kind souls came along and made web browsers to make the crafting of IP packets for the purpose of browsing the web easy.

The only thing stopping us from doing the same for better "obscure technologies" is willpower.