skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember when they were wringing their hands as they hemmed and hawed ("oh, gosh, we do host a bunch of other garbage, how do we word this?") about removing content by a certain ex-politician they loathed. It took them a while to work up the nerve to censor the then president of the US.

Then, it was the ex-president's allies and they established rules about what was and wasn't acceptable in public discourse. What would be truth and fiction. What was conspiracy and truth. What was Covid truth and not (disregarding the often contradicting policies from WHO and CDC)

And everyone on one side f the aisle was like, yeah! Get 'im! Damned liar(s)! It's their platform, they can do what they want. It's not the government so it's not censorship. They only censor bigots.

And how do they treat things in Thailand, Hong Kong or Myanmar, who is the official government and who is the insurrectionist, who is truth and who is usurper?

Well, here we are, very much closer to the plateauing/basining(?) of the slippery slope as we find ourselves at the bottom --with the willful approval of a great proportion of the population because, you know, slippery slopes are fallacies.
We are talking about Giphy, not Facebook.
Sure its "just" CSAM for Americans, but for Chinese citizens, it won't be, of any other sizable market for Apple.
Holding this opinion seems kind of absurd. It’s quite easy to put trust in reputable password managers like 1Password and Bitwarden.
And social security. Millennial and younger generations would be wise to plan for retirement without it.
This is (always) the way.
What's the R0 in a vaccinated population?
Not OP but yes, but free stuff can be as immature as they want, who is it going to be upset?
That's what I want to know. A mucosal vaccine would be a very effective counter to the ramped up viral load and shorter incubation period that delta has brought.
Isn't heard immunity impossible anyway with current vaccines regardless of the strain, since vaccinated people can still carry and transmit the virus? Herd immunity only works if you have sterilizing vaccines.
> Youtube is an entertainment site, not a repository of legal filings

It might not be a repository of legal filings, but it's certainly not just an entertainment site. Opinion-oriented media, news programs, court footage, press releases, and educational videos have all been intentionally promoted in the past by Youtube.

The issue at hand is that some press releases are being permitted (and even promoted by YT) whereas others are not, despite the fact that there's no particularly notable difference in the authority of those speaking. (Obviously I recognize that this press release in particular more likely than not contains dangerous misinformation, but I still object to the idea that Youtube can unilaterally decide what is and is not dangerous misinformation).
Do you think they really care about the spread? If the vaccine will diminish their personal risk, they'll be more likely to cave. Not all of them, but many. If, like other comments suggest, this is just hype to influence behavior, I would guess the "trick" is to get more people to just get the damn thing to lower the danger to themselves and the kids whose lives they have power over.
Dorris' 200ft flag pole flies an enormous flag. There are 2.67 inches of flag pole per resident. The equivalent flagpole in San Francisco would be 178,372 feet tall.
Thank you for your continued hard work. Stay well!
We have 45% of Americans refusing to get a vaccine now, imagine the push back if we are attempting to get people to take a new one every 6 months. I don't have a better answer I just know that absolute chaos is down that road.
It was a month ago and I didn't note down all my attempts. It went something like:

Pushes were not working. I re-entered my password a few times, checked other config settings a few times before Googling the Git error message, which led me to find that GitHub's security policy was changing.

I tried an SSH login (fail), switched to trying locally generated SSH keys.

Used PuTTY's "puttygen.exe" to make an SSH key. Did that, then found it was a newer format that Tortoise could not handle. Used TortoiseGit's copy of "puttygen.exe". Did this a few times as GitHub wouldn't accept the format that my key was in.

Gave up on GUI key generation, tried command-line and failed a few more times.

I think I looked at personal access tokens at some point.

Went back to GUI SSH file creation, and managed to upload my puttygen SSH key by copy/pasting from part of the dialog box that I hadn't tried before.

Used GitHub's "git@github.com:<username>/repo" syntax to get a fresh clone of my repo. Finally I realised that I needed to use the github URL syntax combined with "Load Putty Key" ticked and pointing to my private key

I'm still not sure if it's the right way or the best way, but it worked, so I stopped looking.
My own mother did this, to me! I remember those stories vaguely I think one went full-on-nuts and every news station in the country was all of a sudden calling D&D 'satanic game' or some such garbage.

When I would read my books or play a session she would get all harpy. It was evil and was going to turn me evil. This from the woman who thought it was OK to be Christian only on Sunday as long as she tithed her 10%.

Incidentally I was 'removed' (they asked my mom to please stop bringing the trouble-maker) from our church at like 11 y/o for asking questions no one could answer.
I’d be surprised that a YouTube video of white noise would be flagged for a copyright violation, and yet here we are.

Things may work right now in 2021. Things will always be changing. New hashes will be introduced. New code will be introduce. New laws in different countries will be introduced.

Now that Apple has introduced this technology that no other phone manufacturer has, it can and will be changed to decrease privacy and increase government control. If China passes a law that states that IPhone needs to scan everyone’s phones for anti-government material, do you really think Tim Cook will say no? They already acquiesced about storing iCloud backups unencrypted on Chinese servers.

And before you say that China would never do that, China and Hong Kong are hunting down the people who were videoed booing Chinese anthem in a shopping mall.
Qt Creator 5.0 RC released
That seems more like a problem with StackOverflow than anything else.
The 4 horsemen of the Privacy Apocalypse: csam, terrorists, piracy and drugs!
Personally, I was more surprised by the various groups of people who _don't_ have higher metabolic rates:

> Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20. Interestingly, adult rates are stable until age 60, when they begin to decline. After age 90, humans use about 26% less energy daily, Pontzer says.

> The study also found that pregnant women don’t have higher metabolic rates than other adults; their energy use and calorie consumption scales up with body size

> The metabolic rate didn’t zoom up in hungry teenagers either
We had a chance to keep a new disease under control, but it's increasingly looking like humanity blew that chance. There was definitely political interference in the US, and other places, people prioritizing the success of their favorite politicians over fighting a common enemy, but I'm not sure if we would have succeeded in fighting this back even if the US and other nations with political interference had not had the traitorous attitudes.

Makes me realize how lucky we were with the first SARS and with MERS.
That is exactly what the article says (25x less likely to have a severe case/die).

The point is the transmissability (as also recently published by the CDC). You yourself get a milder case if you're vaccinated and catch Delta. But you can now still transmit it to children that can't be vaccinated (and who potentially are in a risk group), friends that have a contra-indication to vaccination but are in a risk group etc.
energy saved by rust backend to compensate for energy wasted by electron :D
I am the maintainer. I explained on reddit:

>Why the name?

>

>There were many times that I looked at a code graph and said “this is fucked”. Seemed like a good name.

it's just a fun side project. not that serious
Isn't this obvious?

"tests show human drivers can be fooled too"
Don't know where you have been the past four years, frankly I'm jealous. The US president literally did this:
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tweeted-a-sensitive-photo-...
>Remember when they were wringing their hands as they hemmed and hawed about removing content by a certain ex-politician they loathed. It took them a while to work up the nerve to censor the then president of the US.

No? Donald Trump's official Youtube channel is still up and running[0].

And you seriously think the only reason other social media platforms didn't ban Trump for four years is that they needed to "work up the nerve?" Not because he went a little unhinged and started ranting conspiracy theories and undermining the integrity of the election?

[0]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAql2DyGU2un1Ei2nMYsqOA
We mostly don't have a free market in the usual buzzword meaning of that term, and to whatever partial extent we do, it's replete with the kind of asymmetry in information and power that leads to economic outcomes that are both inefficient and inequitable except as corrected for with the beneficial kind of government intervention.

In other words, if you want good outcomes, you sometimes need the government. (Yes, I realize the government can make things worse and not only better; this is also true of the private sector.)
For as popular as Reddit is traffic wise, it's weirdly not a big player in monetization internally or as a platform. That is, Reddit themselves aren't monetizing much compared to their traffic and peers (who are some of the biggest publishers in the world) but also there are not many, if any, third parties openly monetizing off of Reddit, either.

Google, Facebook, Twitter have an entire ecosystem built around them of ad-tech companies, agencies, marketing-tech integrations all involved in driving more revenue or traffic their way so long as the participants get a cut too. This strikes me as a still yet-to-be-tapped market opportunity.
It’s not a US issue. The delta variant did not originate from the US. If we want to fix this we have to help other countries.
It's easy to stop using YouTube, it's not easy to stop everyone else using it.
No, what you have said is bullshit. The perceptual hashes are not generalized. They do not match ‘child porn’ or ‘pride flag’. They match specific photos from a database.

You might argue that that database could contain a specific photo of a pride flag. You would be right, but there are safeguards against that. The system will not trigger with just one match. A set of multiple images must match. So no, the system won’t match a pride flag, and no the system won’t match a specific picture of a pride flag.

The next argument would be that a whole load of pictures of pride flags could be uploaded and then someone who has enough of those pictures would trigger a match.

This is true from a technical standpoint, but there are two more safeguards. The database is maintained by NCMEC, which is a non profit dedicated to tackling child abuse, and matches are visually confirmed by Apple.

So, to match someone who just happens to have a pride flag in a picture is not possible. To match someone who has a set of specific pictures of pride flags is only possible if both Apple and NCMEC collude.

So no - it can’t target a pride flag at all, much less as easily as CP.
It’s eye opening how naive some people on HN are despite decades of evidence that things are always twisted in favor of more government surveillance especially outside of the US.
> If their track record is quality (i.e. no bugs)

They're a (consumer) router manufacturer. I don't care how good they are within that field, no, their track record is NOT quality. Worse yet, 90% of their code comes from the same vendors as every other router manufacturer.

> you can extrapolate that their process is pretty good at dealing with security problems as well.

That is a complete non sequitur; plenty of businesses have made useable, functional (widely-used!) software but had a head-in-the-sand approach to security.

> Of course, nothing is unhackable.

Exactly, which is why only things which must be exposed to the public should be exposed to the public.

The rest of your argument is assuming the attack surface is the same whether remote management is on or off; or that the amount of attack surface doesn't matter. Either way is simply not correct. By the way, an issue in the "transceiver" would require physical proximity. I'm not sure what the "WAN layer" is, but if you mean like... the Ethernet port and interface, that would require physical access.

If the remote management was off, you would likely be targeting nothing more than the units IP/TCP, UDP, whatever stack. With the remote management ON, you could target that, you could target the HTTP server, or you could target the admin panel running on it. Each of those are much more likely to have security holes for several reasons, but moreover there's simply no reason for them to be accessible publicly, while the routing and NAT functions are necessary to the purpose of the device.
Did YouTube delete it, though? The current administration has recently said [1] they are flagging social media posts to identify misinformation. So even if YouTube ultimately clicks the "delete" button, the state is merely laundering censorship through private means, which is grotesque, cowardly, and surely unconstitutional.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/225143126129948/
Many of the vaccines are effective against the delta, but they do not serve as a firewall to stop the spread of infection within a community.

As a simple example, imagine you have a community of 100 people. 1 person is infected, 98 are vaccinated, and 1 is uninfected and not vaccinated.

Ideally the 98 people who are vaccinated don’t contract the virus, and do not serve as vectors of spread for that one unvaccinated person. In essence, you make it so the one infected person has to come in contact with the unvaccinated person.

With delta, the 98 vaccinated people are astronomically less likely to die or become severely ill from covid; however, they still can contract and pass along the virus… Which can eventually make its way to the one unvaccinated person at the end of the chain.

So, vaccines are great. Vaccines work. These vaccines are awesome for how fast they were produced. But they aren’t able to serve as barriers of protection for the unvaccinated in a way other vaccines for other diseases.
Already got it, recovered, don't give a s*it about this virus anymore. Give me my freedom back before I come and take it.
> they view this migration as a pre-requisite

It's hard to picture how it could be.
Ah well... Youtube is a private platform. They are free to remove any video for any reason or no reason at all. If you don't like it, you are free to create your own YouTube. They are not obligated to let you use their website to spread your ideas.
Show HN: Is the summary enough? Save time reading non-fiction books
Hey HN!

Reading a book is a big time commitment. This year, around 30% of the non-fiction books I've read, I've regretted reading in-full i.e. reading their summaries would have provided all of the value without the large time commitment.

This website records whether or not readers regretted reading a book in full, so you can be more informed when making the time commitment yourself.
Seems pretty dumb to talk about them having fast metabolisms and brains all this other forest-for-the-trees. They are going to double their body mass over a year. See how much energy you need if you try that
The same thing happens on technology subs. I was banned on /r/bitcoin for posting on /r/btc.
"They've been fighting with the FBI and the federal government for years..."

Besides a single anomaly, what is the other evidence.
What is the nature of the delta mutations ie what mechanism/a make it more infectious?
I don't think I can recommend anyone use PuTTY on Windows anymore, partly because of issues like this. It might be that TortoiseGit is old, but ssh.exe should be available on Windows 10 now.
I think they were referring to the removal, almost a week after January 6th, of Trump videos and the suspension of uploads to his YouTube account. It looks like the newest videos on there are from 7 months ago.

YouTube deletes Trump video and suspends new uploads: A new video on the president’s account violated YouTube policy on inciting violence. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/1/12/22218757/you...
For sure, but it's not clear that the cited paper's sampling of changes and bugs fixed reflects that. More research is needed.
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Wisdom-Persev...

One of his better works imo
> It's a 2D crystal of electrons that live in a thin semiconductor that is sandwiched between two layers of other semiconductor. You can't pick it with a tiny gripper.

Somehow as a layman I suspect it isn't a crystal in the lay "stays super stable for super long periods with no energy input" sense, but in some other scientific sense. Can a future, more advanced version of this structure theoretically store energy in this form?
Vaccinated people are much less likely to carry the virus.
That study is still an outlier. But I repeat, because you don't seem to understand the point: even if it's that low, and even if transmissibility is completely unaffected, it means that an unvaccinated person will spread TWICE AS MANY CASES as a vaccinated one. That's the difference between a pandemic and a contained endemic disease right there.

Get. Your. Vaccine.
Hacking QR code designs – Create QR codes that look however you want
With all this backlash, now would probably be a tactically good time.
The US is a net exporter of oil and gets over half of it's imported oil from Canada.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
NCMEC is literally just the feds, with a few civilian employees.
I found it hard to use for the primary goal of a wiki: allow contributors to contribute. Wikis need diverse SMEs and it was hard to get SMEs to understand how it worked well enough to contribute and edit content, much less organize. Was able to do this with confluence, mediawiki, and tons of other wiki sites
Are there scientific papers out there that are worth reading on the road ahead with what we know about the delta variant? I remember Neil Ferguson’s paper early 2020 that was a goldmine of information and predicted that we would have to do lockdowns on and off for a year and a half til the vaccine. It was pretty spot on.
> they have no real infrastructure of their own

I think I know what you're trying to say here but this statement is not really accurate. They don't have their own last-mile infrastructure but they definitely have their own network infrastructure to support their customers.

Competitive providers (like Teksavvy) use the incumbent's last-mile infrastructure (the cables that run into all the customer houses or buildings), but once the traffic gets into the telco's network, it exits that network ASAP and the wholesale provider takes over and is responsible for setting up their own peering and carrying the customer's traffic beyond the telco that is providing the fiber/copper loop.

They're not just white-labelling the telco's service.

Also another small correction: TELUS only sells wireless in Ontario, but in Quebec and in BC/AB they are quad-play (wireless, Internet, TV, phone) just like Bell and Rogers are in Ontario.

And in fact Bell and Rogers out west are the other way around, they only sell wireless. Although now that Rogers has bought Shaw, Rogers is looking to become a national quad-play provider next year.
> Something that hasn’t been brought up in this thread is the massive problem Reddit has regarding large scale bot networks.

Well rest assured, Reddit administration does not see this as a problem at all. It's one of the ways marketing companies advertise on Reddit. There's a reason the moderators of /r/all subreddits tend to all moderate the same group of subreddits, and that they all often have super human posting frequencies. These are shared accounts for ad firms. This was discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018
"A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." :)

An established relationship is value, where instead of just sunk costs, you have solved a lot of the problems that most relationships need to solve, and you can focus on just making it beneficial to all involved. At a large enterprise scale, an established process is value because it is stable and can become the foundation for other processes.

When I identify something as value, I mean that it either creates or resolves tension in a dynamic or conflict of some kind, which creates opportunity in the form of new potential. When I say "super valuable," I mean it appears to have opportunity with nonlinear upside.

Price is one of the most interesting qualities of things to think about, as in a way, it's the resolution of separately held beliefs suspended in an super position. There is a "true" price that is the unity of these ideas, and then there is the settling price that it clears at, where all those other factors collapse into it. Negotiation is the art of discovering how close you can get the clearing price to the abstract true price as possible. It's weird, but approaching negotiations as empirical price discovery is an immensely powerful bargaining position.
Happening outside the US, too:

UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/apr/26/uk-catalytic-c...

France:
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/europol-supports...
(disclamer, I work for 1Password)

I can tell you a "secret" you can download any version of 1Password, including version 3 from this website: https://app-updates.agilebits.com/
That's why my comment explicitly said "and other places." I agree that this needed to be a global effort to succeed, and in the past the US would have helped the cause rather than hindered the fight against the diseases. I am still absolutely shocked at the poor testing response of the CDC, both in 1) the huge lag before allowing testing by anyone, leading to the Univeristy of Washington discovering it against the wishes of regulators, and 2) completely botching the initial test manufacturing due to newbie mistakes. It was a failure mode that nobody even anticipated in planning, because it's so ridiculous that the CDCs capabilities fell so low.
I believe lawsuits are public info; try the NY county clerk's office.
You can see a video of a Wigner crystal of laser-cooled Barium ions I made here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe3_IosfaTo
Sterilizing or no herd immunity works if you can push R0 below 1. Below 1 fewer and fewer people get infection and the cycle stops.
Stack Exchange isn't quite a forum, but doesn't its system fit that description and work well?
I think this is hilarious because reddit is so obviously dead on the vine to me. I can't wait for reddit to give me even the remotest reason to delete my account. ngl, been pretty close to deleted it since they hid the nsfw, was practically the only thing of value the site had left.
Maybe start here:
http://learngitbranching.js.org/

GitHub Learning Lab: https://lab.github.com/

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/git/ #Further_resources

https://westurner.github.io/tools/#git
I don’t think it’s that bad. Remember that children < 12 still can’t get it, which is a good chunk of people.

Also, some people are not antivax, they are afraid of new mRNA technology. When the technology has had more time to bake, they will feel more comfortable.

Finally, Novavax will be coming online soon. That should help with some of the mRNA skeptics.