skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an observation, The UK, USA, Canada and Australia are all in the top 10 for type-1 diabetes incidence in the <14yo population, along with Finland, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Norway and Denmark.

Only the USA imposes private health cost burdens on the diabetics (from my quick scan of national health info on the web)
Why? The implementation sounded simple: bus snoop on addresses used by the load unit, invalidate if anyone writes to those lines.
The amount of work that goes into maintaining a yacht far exceeds the financing available to public infrastructure. Of course, bridges are not normally sitting in salt water. Either way I'm not sure the comparison is very meaningful.
what's wrong with normal bridges?
I think fixing popular "mistakes" like this is problematic in its own way. Google/YouTube approach the problem of moderation by using unreliable systems and correcting mistakes when there is enough of a popular outrage. The problem is, people who can't generate the outrage are subject to Google's poor moderation.

If Google did not fix mistakes that generated a lot of outrage, then competitors could differentiate themselves by providing better moderation policies and whenever some popular account got banned from YouTube that would generate a lot of traffic for alternatives. As is, if something popular gets banned, YouTube will "correct" their error while they ignore things below this threshold. This simultaneously subjects everyone to their poor moderation and stifles an advantage that competitors might enjoy.
> Here is a comprehensive list of global problems that humans have cooperated on a global scale to solve:

I think that food scarcity could be on your list. If we were globally connected 100+ years ago, we might have collectively worried that there was no way to feed our growing population, advocated rules about reproduction, about what we could eat, about how many calories we burned... turns out we really did collaborate globally so that most of us are fed well enough for population to keep growing, and for global quality of life to increasr. And the solution was technological, not dogmatic.

Telling nations and individuals globally that they have to make sacrifices for climate change, and that only the selected few will be able to tell them what they can do, is completely untenable as you say. Working together to come up with more efficient ways to live is not.
Inasmuch as I agree with your flawless assessment, how does one go about achieving this oxymoron of "rational faith?
I think the key is "unlawful or wanton".

So no, driving cars, eating meat or heating homes are not suddenly going to be considered ecocide.

But not taking care of your laws to try to minimize waste products of driving cars or heating homes might be.
There is no law of physics which says it’s impossible. But if you have discovered one with solid and falsifiable evidence, it would be a breakthrough in physics!

But I wouldn’t book a trip to Sweden for a Nobel Prize just yet. Over 100 Petawatts of sunlight hits the Earth, which is a factor of 10,000 more than we’d need. And humanity already gathers and economically utilizes some solar energy beyond the Earth.
I liked slg's post, in the earlier thread on RWW being banned:

> Has anyone else noticed that most complaints like this about Youtube's moderation fail Hanlon's razor? I'm just not sure I believe these type of conspiracies that attribute specific and nefarious reasons for these moderation decisions.

> It is natural to try to see patterns in the moderation, but I think the largest pattern is that there is little pattern. They instead have an job that is impossible to do at the scale they do it at the budget they do it at.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666611
Oh, good reference! I like "Peanuts Pattern" myself.
> As the holder of the credit card I can't think of a good reason why I would/should pay the debt off for a purchase I didn't make.

This applies to everyone involved, but someone's going to pay for the loss anyway, unless you can recover from the thief.

There is no reason for the merchant to pay for the purchase either -- he is even less culpable than you are. But that's what everyone is advocating here.
This seems unworkable. Gaining attention is intrinsically commercial activity. Attention has value; you can't stop it bleeding into the rest of the world. Some examples and questions:

- An "influencer" gets her photo on a Wheaties box. After that, the influencer doesn't have to do overt advertising to promote the cereal, their fortunes are bound together.

- In politics, as the former US president so amply demonstrated, attention is a currency.

- What about the exchange of ideas? Can one talk about the contents of a book without selling (or discouraging the sales of) the book?

- Is any mention of brand names to be prohibited? If you can mention a brand, unless all the brand's marketing has been completely ineffective, you are selling the brand. Don't like it? Pass the Kleenex.
Yes it does, this is one of the recent changes to the system.
They're coming for the mono crops! Few things are as destructive as soil depletion.
> If the FTC did file prematurely for political reasons they should've known that the case didn't have a chance.

Perhaps they did know the case wouldn't have a chance. Perhaps there isn't a plan to follow up with the actual complaint. It's not like the federal government has seriously pursued anti-trust activity in recent decades.
Fibreglass boat hulls have constant ongoing maintenance and repair cycles.

Hell, just last week I was watching a video about how abysmal the material has been for the wind turbine industry after it tips apart from hail stones.

Sure, theyre moving at 100 mph but I don't see why people would think building bridges out of this stuff is a good idea.
I would say that holds true for most if not all governments around the world.

So pointing it out is rather pointless.
Will my mongodb instance be even faster piping to this instead of /dev/null?
https://flowbridge.co.uk
There’s no way for you to make me sympathetic to Chauvin. Zero.
I have gotten massively downvoted on various social media platforms for suggesting verifiable identity so I think there are some people that are just really resistant to this idea.

I don't think it would solve all problems but it would be useful for cutting down on bots and spam for certain types of websites. Many people don't realize that a large chunk of content on sites like Twitter and Reddit (and probably HN) are propaganda from marketing agencies or hostile foreign governments. That argument that you had with someone on Twitter - you could be trying to chat it up with a Chinese paid internet troll. How would you even know? There is a complete lack of good faith on the internet now and verifiable identity, it would be nice to think of how the internet would have been different with it. Unfortunately, we also have a huge number of people/groups/companies that depend on lack of verifiability so I think this is why the idea has become so controversial.
Sometimes essential medication costs USD $100,000 per year or more.
Gdpr is totally and complete crap. It has zero redeeming qualities.
Making things illegal is one of the most ineffective counterincentives though - we need systems-aware interventions if we want to change our course in time. A good example would Tesla making electric cars desirable, massively accelerating the transition to electric cars from other automakers. Or SolarCity making solar panels widely available. My only two examples are from Elon Musk because he's the only person I've seen to actually attempt any systems solutions so far, which is depressing.

Just making things illegal is painfully easy to work around for the wealthy and well connected, this should be obvious by now.
Well that's unsurprising since I called that possibility two years ago (And was downvoted). [0] Now it has appeared in Windows 11, I see no point in using Windows 11 if this is going to be the new normal.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21137699
I mean if I am going to pay that much, would be nice to remove it from a huge provider that leads to tons of spammy sales calls, rather than the low hanging niche ones like spokeo
Make your cluster SWIM (2020)
> If you think about Facebook the consumer platform

Facebook is not mainly a "consumer platform" (if at all).
I kind doubt what I know, so looked for a nice SO link for those who don't know the difference :)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34681101
> Install an app on your phone that allows offline maps.

OsmAnd is a great app for this.
Excuse me but I really appreciate your replies, so my reading of what your saying is the launch is less about reaching a height but instead reaching a velocity that can escape earth’s gravity and launching from a higher altitude just decreases the distance the rocket has time to reach this speed?
> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear.

I'm surprised sites this big are even relying on the user agent for determining Googlebot, given how easy (and common) it is to forge, when they could be checking the Googlebot IP ranges instead.
“ever” implies the limit of time. Since lim_{t->Inf} p(at least one 6 is rolled) = 1, I think you could say it’s guaranteed.
Someone posted on HN within the last week that Reddit hired some product managers who pushed a lot of these dark patterns/anti-user features to increase conversions towards account signups and app installs. Nobody thinks you actually like all that broken shit. Though I fail to understand the business reason for hosting/serving videos through a custom media player.

Reddit doesn’t want you to lurk without an account or browse on mobile on a browser. They make less money that way. Eventually I am sure they will break old.reddit.com once they think they no longer need the holdouts (who I suspect are a lot of power users).

As someone who has used Reddit for probably 10 years at this point, it makes me sad that some place that I at times legitimately felt like a “member of a community” would break my use case like this (I have accounts but on mobile I sometimes just want to lurk/browse without logging in). But it’s their website and they can do what they want with it. Our only recourse is to complain and try alternatives.
> I meant in publicly available "box office" figures and all that. Box office earnings alone usually cover all the expenses already, many times over.

Maybe it covers the expenses for the studio but it's not necessarily sufficient for all artists involved in the creation. Movie tickets (and/or other short term revenue streams) would have to be more expensive if artists (actors, writers, directors, ...) wouldn't be able to get a cut of streaming- and other secondary exhibition revenue for a while after release.
Hi, I am one of the scientists working on the project.
We had a lot of discussion on the project about defensive strategies to avoid any issue, since we are dealing with a massive industry. We don't have a definitive protocol yet, so this is why it is not publish. But if you want more details, I would be happy to answer your questions.
If you don't want to speak because of the consequences, that is not censorship. And threats of violence are already against the law.

Anything other than threats of violence is someone else's free speech.
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SoftBank stops Pepper robot production
It doesn't need to be "gentle". It does need to not kill, maim, or paralyze the subject.
Go an and run a site that serves massive amounts of cat pictures for peanuts!

Well, yes, serving static HTML is easy. Serving images is kind of not hard either, because you have free unlimited traffic, don't you? Some hosting plans offer it. They just limit the egress bandwidth. So maybe you need a few more servers to cope with it, just like $50 a pop. You're not gonna need any CDN, people further away from your DC will just wait longer. Or run your servers from two regions, it just takes duplicating your collection of cat pictures, should be peanuts.

Then, you need to store these terabytes of cats. On rather fast disks because else the disks will be the bottleneck, and cats will load very slowly for some users. It would be terrible were something to happen to the collection, so you need some backup for peanuts, like some Backblaze, and maybe a second copy because Backblaze has no^W limited redundancy.

Then, well, you need to monitor all that and sometimes fix issues, because cloud infra is highly available but not highly reliable.

Then, where do the cat pictures come from? Allow anonymous uploads! Or register users and allow uploads.

Now analyze each picture so that it's an actual cat picture and not child porn or a warez archive. Resize them to match your standards. Yes, this is simple, just run a RNN that detects cats.

Then, curate the incoming pictures so that they are actually reasonably interesting. Just maybe hire a few people to do that for peanuts somewhere in Africa.

Ah yes, you want to also deduplicate images; run some image hashing algorithms; use maybe just one or two GPU instances to do that efficiently. And you gonna need a DB, a simple one, that will never need any administering or fixing, won't it?

Well, yes, now you can run that site for just several grand a month, making it your day job, because you're well-qualified to maintain every part of it. Enjoy the peanuts.
Yes.

We should be promoting these alternatives rather than complaining to tech giants that will never change or keep repeating the same 'mistakes' or 'accidents' all over again.
But isn’t that copyright infringement?
The Stop Ecocide Foundation, one of the groups cited in the article, explicitly points to industrial livestock farming as an example of ecocide. (https://www.stopecocide.earth/what-is-ecocide)
> worthless outside of the scope of their enforcement.

Not quite, it makes them so they can be selectively enforced against people or things that whoever is in charge doesn't like. This is what is most worrisome about vague laws or those related to social control. They lead to extreme unfairness where enemies can be legally punished and rulers get to do what they like (see drugs)
I can't immediately see a law in which he wouldn't have been arrested, that seems more like a matter of interpretation and zeal given that what he was doing does seem like it has to be illegal just not subject to such outrageous punishment.
Any particularly repairable and long lasting ones that you'd recommend?
Little Stories
I’m all for new and better designs. I’d just want these proven for all kinds of foot traffic, not just two people crossing it.

What happens when teenagers all cram into one, or a marching troop goes over one?

I think it wasn’t too long ago a footbridge failed to take into account synchronized steps (marching) and swayed under foot traffic.
This. I took my child out of daycare a few weeks before the lock-down orders. We were getting sick every few weeks anyways from diseases being passed around the day care. It stood to reason we would get covid that way as well.

At no time was I ever forced to stay home. It's just that everything was closed-- and a lot of things weren't closed but I wouldn't set foot in there (like the gym).

Ironically, we already had had covid and didn't know it.
Youtube has become such a mindless distraction of mine. Like television used to be.

And their censorship really is loathsome. I don't need mega-corporations telling me what is and isn't ok to see and hear.
what business is facebook in
Not mentioned on the article but present on the screenshots are the Login/Sign Up with Google buttons.

What a nightmare for UX are those, I have a experience to share.

On a client product that I was working as UX designer they have implemented the Google Sign Up option, and a huge problem is that by design, the Login button also works as a Sign Up button.

And a common user case was that people initially create their account with email/password, and later in the login page seeing the "Login with Google" button chooses to use it (even if is below the email/password form), and in many cases you got users that create secondary accounts accidentally. Is frequent that people have multiple emails accounts, even Google accounts, you never know.

My client have many support tickets from people mad because they think that his accounts was wiped because was empty.

I try to get the developers find a way to make that the Login With Google button didn't create an account, just check if an account was already created and then login, if not, show a message that an account with this Google account does not exist (like when you put a wrong email in the email/pass form!). But they told me that looking in the Google documentation was not possible (maybe it was).

Now I always try to avoid use third party logins because of that experience.

Of course this is besides the privacy concerns (logged in, Google can track your users) and the dependency problem (if your users Google account is deleted or they lost access, they lost access to the account on your product).
Noscript page also includes:

<script>var answers="I SAID STOP CHEATING! >:( You will get answers and explanations at the end, you dang dastardly dangusson."</script>

I love sites that have easter-eggs in noscript/console. Noscript I can see being annoying (i.e. instead of showing content), but there are some exceptions like this site.
People don't use energy because it's sexy, they use it because they need or want things that cost energy and they pay according to their need.

The concern is not importing carbon, the concern is countries using the energy themselves. For every Tesla there's a thousand little diesel trucks driving around on the african continent, and that number will only go up, especially if western demand for oil goes down.

I don't think the 'attractiveness' of decarbonization has any consequence at all. Just look at Texas, one of the most oil dependent, climate change denying anti-green states there is, yet they're also the largest producer of renewable wind energy, and are closing their coal plants. That's got nothing to do with attractiveness, it's just economics. Selling wind power is simply profitable.

Vice versa, no one cares more about the planet than the rich people of the world. You won't find more green movement startups, solar panels on roofs, high efficiency buildings, electric cars and even vegetarians in any other slice of the population. Yet those same nature lovers are also the ones who do the most international flights. With each round trip burning as much fuel as a regular person would in a year of commuting to work. It's got nothing to do with attractiveness, they want to, there's no other way, they can afford to, so they do it.
No answers just a couple of downvotes.

If cookies can be stolen, so can cookies that contain "device fingerprints". "Identity theft" keeps getting easier through no fault of the consumer.
Previous related thread:

YouTube permanently bans Right Wing Watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27665188 - June 2021 (172 comments)
They need to become a dumb pipe...
I see a lot of negative comments about blockchains in general here. We are now trying to build a new world order and It is purely built on code. Of course, we will have issues like this. Nothing is perfect.
Subsequent ongoing thread:

YouTube Reinstates Right Wing Watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27668935
It won't stop at neighborhood design or car usage tho. Like everything else today this will be one more weapon that can be wielded by power-hungry ideological tribes.
The day they drop old.reddit.com is the day I stop using Reddit.
Here are a few things off the top of my head (and trying not to duplicate too many things):

- Get rid of ARP - just append the LAN address to the network address like other networks. By default LAN addresses are random. (Note IPv6 enables this basically.)

- Support encrypted DNS and authenticated BGP.

- Let DNS return other metadata including the port as well as the IP address.

- Let DNS caching work. Don't misuse short DNS timeouts for load balancing.

- Ingress traffic filtering - reject source IP addresses from outside the current prefix.

- Not IP per se, but let multipath work in the LAN (and give Ethernet a TTL so that packets don't loop forever if things go bad.)

- Eliminate (or minimize) broadcasts. Use unicast/multicast for DHCP, service lookup, etc..

- Support relocation/forwarding of TCP connections so they don't break when your IP address changes.

- Fix TCP congestion control so that the data rate doesn't decrease as latency increases.

- Second adding congestion notification to TCP to differentiate between packet loss and congestion.

- Encrypt the host name in SSL/TLS.
As someone who knows nothing about chemistry, this was a great explanation of how explosions work. Thanks.
I think this is partially correct.

I hate the FU patterns as well, but there are so many lame aggregator sites scraping for viral content.

I would say FU patterns are: 80% trying to keep people in the walled garden ecosystem, 20% trying to make it hard for scrapers.
I Made a Super Calculator in Python
Description
This is an incredibly powerful calculator that is capable of many useful day-to-day functions. Such functions include solving basic arithmetic, algebraic, chemistry conversions, and much more. This project also features a fully operational GUI application for those who are not down with the normal text-based version.

Releases / Latest changes: https://github.com/JordanLeich/Ultimate-Calculator/releases

TODO List
- Check out the issues page for this project: https://github.com/JordanLeich/Ultimate-Calculator/issues/1
For sure, it's not a perfect solution. Hence 'fixed' instead of fixed haha.
No such thing as "publisher vs platform". That's political propaganda.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Nice to see open source versions of core Azure services.
I disagree.

Sure, nobody is going to come out and ban driving/meat/heating.

But, do you REALLY need that pickup truck which has a V8 and gets 13MPG? Isn't that wanton disregard for the environment?

Do you REALLY need to eat red meat 7 days a week? Shouldn't you substitute with 1 day a week of chicken and another vegeterian, you'll be healthier too!

Do you REALLY need your house heated to 72F in the winter and 70F cooled in the summer? At least we should enforce to make the thermostats networked so we can control peak demand!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

To be very clear, I don't draw any parallels to what's happening here to be a holocaust-level thing. I do think it's A) a very slippery slope of giving control over what I fundamentally believe should be personal decisions over to a controlling central authority and B) I really like that poem.

The fact is, my definition of wanton may differ from yours, especially across cities and states and nations and continents and that's OK. You make your choices, I'll make mine.
A contract isn't a blockchain.
In the U.S. there's a federal pilot program for a vehicle-miles-traveled tax, but the proposal I saw wasn't meant to start until 2026. Some states have also instituted a kWh fee at the utility line. There's some administrative hurdles that needs to be worked out though, like the mechanism to track mileage. It's tougher than the gas tax because it's levied on each driver rather than on a relatively small number of wholesalers.
it's written on the menu of the restaurant at the end of the universe
Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home
This is a great list. I don't think IPSEC would have been a win; it's not a great protocol just as a cryptographic transport, and I think one thing we've learned over the last 30 years is that the end-to-end argument applies especially well to cryptographic security (just because there are so many different service models you can want, and no one design that serves all of them).
Says the carpenter to the architect.