skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I got from the article was that system as a whole is consistently throwing roadblocks in the way of experimental/small-time science. The author focuses on YouTube, but also cites a government investigation as well as deplatforming by PayPal, Square, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook, and Patreon. These are private companies, with their own policies, but private companies are part of the system too. So I don't think the concerns are conflated.

Regarding YouTube, I think the author would agree with you:

> The problem is big tech companies making billions of dollars aren’t capable of doing basic analysis of scientific work, or hiring a team that can, which is why the best they’re capable of on the pandemic front, for example, is attaching a link to the CDC website on every post that mentions “Covid” or “vaccine.”

I don't think we need to assign blame to YouTube here, but it's still the reality, and we should consider what it means for access to science.

Maybe we (as a society) should in fact keep experimental science off YouTube. (I don't agree, but I can see an argument.) Even in that case, the decisions made here are disproportionate. The author starts the article by describing how he's banned from even logging in, not just uploading; he ends by saying how he has to worry about being locked out of his email. I agree with the author that we're in dangerous territory by giving companies unilateral control over this process, even if we do it for good reasons.
Every authoritarian regime is a pure hypothetical until it is not. I believe that the US has not fallen to that, partly, because the population is armed to the teeth.
I was simply saying it is incorrect to say that we are not a US-based company. We have a large support team in Europe but we were founded in the US and remain a US entity. We have always been a distributed company with remote teams all around the world. It is indeed absurd that their attorney suggested that they would have to through the "Ukraine court system."
I remember when people wanted an aids tattoo to keep those who have it segregated from the rest of us.

I hear those peoples kids say that vaccine passports are completely different and absolutely essential.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

In 2 to 6 years when Gay McBasher comes to power you bet your bottom dollar that anal sex, IV drug use and being in Britain during mad cow disease will be added to those passports, just to give us informed consent of the dangers we face when meeting people in public.
Wait until they pivot to become the new trendy sns
> Even Apple and Google have both figured out that screwing around with UX every release is a recipe for making your customers HATE you.

...are we talking about the same Apple and Google? Big Sur? Material You?

Sure, maybe it’s not “every” release, but only because they have a faster release cadence than Windows.
The first 3 points are something we hope to solve by making theming/configuration for new admins easier. Ideally I'd like to be in a place where those are all easily editable and Discourse can be as dense/sparse as you'd like!

Because of infinite scrolling the timeline is a critical component that I don't think we'd ever hide by default. If you enter a topic with 5,000 posts for example... without the timeline you have no way to quickly move through them. With the timeline you can click and drag to jump to the start/end or anywhere else.
That's the thing though, not all legal requests get the same weight or priority. I wouldn't trust a VPN to not roll over for your example cp case, but I think a middle finger equivalent isn't unreasonable for the less severe and more common case of receiving a complaint that the IP was observed as part of a swarm seeding copyrighted material. For lesser things, where does DO sit on the spectrum of will rat you out (which ISPs do), and likely won't rat you out (basically any paid VPN because their reputation depends on not doing so)?
The sad reality is that UX groups don't want to fix existing UIs, they want to design new ones. That's the whole issue here. MS wants to hire and retain the best UI people, but those people don't want to fix a UI that was created 20 years ago.
It’s premise is to express what’s going on with you internally without pointing the finger of blame or criticism. You don’t have to use it everyday all the time, but it’s helpful when things get heated to take a step back and own your experience without assumptions about what the other person is doing or feeling.

Basically: I’m feeling ______. And I’m needing ______.

So, here’s an example violent response: You obviously don’t understand NVC and you probably have serious issues in your own communication style if you find NVC insulting.

And an example NVC response: I’m confused why you’d feel insulted by NVC. What about it feels demeaning to you?

The violent response makes assumptions and lays the ground work for a confrontation. NVC makes no assumptions and lays the ground work for dialogue.

Is the NVC response really the more insulting of the two in your point of view?
This is a pretty mild set of reforms. An analysis of SB9 in particular, written by the Terner Center at UC Berkeley, is available here: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/duplex...

Out of 7.5 million single family parcels, 6.1 million are SB9-eligible, and 521k would be market-feasible for construction. This would result in 714k new units of housing.

Clearly SB9 will moderately increase density in some neighborhoods, but it will only lead to construction on ~3% of all single-family plots statewide.
Surely the US or China would immediately seize control of any organization that crucial to national security
HN is run by a benevolent dictator for now, I suspect the moment it started shadow-banning or deploy the same sleazy tactics as FB no one would tolerate it here. It would probably go to the oblivion.
I worked at a place that, until a few years ago, allowed unlimited PTO rollover. You were allowed x days a year on a sliding scale that increased with tenure, but you could roll over all of it if you chose. This was also the kind of shop where some folks had been working there for 20 years, and had worked their way up from the shop floor to upper management. There were people that retired there with 2000-3000 hours of PTO banked, which of course paid out at their current rate. The were doing everything they could to switch peeps to a capped rollover plan.
The prevalance of these state sanctioned laws and their rebranded remnants reminds what I liked about the first few episodes of Lovecraft Country.

Its basically like the show Supernatural except with the twist that Dean and Sam Winchester had to hunt demons but also had to escape white only neighborhoods and sundown towns every episode, because they were black.

That kind of perpetual threat alongside a different non-race related plot isn't portrayed often.
A list of countries by homicide rate is useless in a gun-control discussion without comparing it to gun ownership rate.

This article presents a graph of gun homicides vs. gun ownership rate: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121218141207-462880-in-case...

This one presents a graph of all homicides vs. gun ownership rate: https://zachmortensen.net/2013/01/10/gun-control-four-must-s...

> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

So many failed foreign wars against poor countries, most recently Afghanistan, and all the lessons vanish from the mind when it comes to applying them at home.
In what ways is this app better than Flickr's?
To be clear, millions of people would have died even if there weren't a pandemic. I know you're probably saying "millions of people have died because of the pandemic", but a better line of argument would be "millions of people have survived who wouldn't have if governments didn't implement lockdowns".[0]

That leaves the question of whether the lives saved were worth the cost of the lockdowns, I suppose, but I'm sure the people who survived due to the lockdowns (if they knew who they were) would generally answer "yes".

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52968523
> And how should they add code to a ROM of yet bricked devices?

I'm criticising the original design. Read that "should" as talking about the past.

> Well, ask Google? :-)

Why? I don't care what they have to say (unless they have something surprisingly interesting to contribute), I'm just accusing them of doing this wrong.
Poland here - we also had issues with gangs and organised crime after collapse of communist government. It took few years for situation to stabilise, but then we got rid of gangs with legal system and police. So it looks a little bit weird that USA with older systems and democracy (not to mention better armed police) can't won with organised crime.
How does bitwig do with multi channel audio? I need 32 in and 32 out. I have Merging and RME available as audio devices, but I don't suspect that either of them would actually work with multi-channel recording, despite both of them offering drivers.

If someone could guarantee rock solid stability, I *might be willing to switch, even though I'm fairly invested in the Ableton / VST world. 10 years of projects will likely force me to always run mac / windows unless Ableton decides to build for linux in the future. Who knows, maybe ARM will force their hand.
It's not dormant. It's fine as-is. Websites don't need endless upgrade/update churn cycles.
Its distribution model required vast amounts of storage and bandwidth even back then, before the days of spam and Internet marketing.

The NNTP distribution model was you could take whatever subset of feeds you wanted and keep them however long your storage and bandwidth allowed. Back in the day, a 56Kbps link worked pretty well. A T-1 meant you could pick up the funner binaries feeds. You don't need some multi-meg JS frameworks to read that content. Now, it works fine with GigE and multi-terabyte storage. There's even an RFC for running it over TLS.

Reddit is the modern replacement? Things are that bad?
It's 2021. Most companies of our size have an international presence. So what?
https://imgur.com/0AmI1pf
Wasn't that the point? They're talking about being mad about someone taking 2 months of PTO off and then talk about how they always take 6-8 weeks cough of PTO with no one batting an eye.

So the reason for being mad is the company and team culture. The first company had a clear unspoken culture that actually using the benefit was off limits.
If you have reason to believe that the home invaders are their with the purpose of killing you, you may be right.

The odds of that, vs just an armed burglary, are very small.
From March (when he quit his day job) to December 2005 he turned $2M into something between $15M and $30M. That sounds like a success to me. Most companies acquired by Yahoo end up “sun-setting”, so I don’t think there was anything particularly bad strategically about the del.icio.us business. There are many knockoffs making their founders money.
When i hear the term "Manic Miner" i think of endless weekend sleepovers at my pal's place trying to solve those goddamn levels .. we would take it in turns on that crazy rubber keyboard of his Spectrum .. what a machine of the times .. awesome :)
What Is a Cloud?
You are still welcome to email me and I will try to help you however I can.
It’s interesting that as a dev my feeling about PM’s is more or less the same. Transforming the garbage in Jira tickets into something resembling a product is a challenge.
Haven't the Taliban just taught us a 20-year lesson on how some guys with rifles and pickup trucks can humiliate a superpower? Low intensity warfare isn't about winning battles but disrupting governance. The guns in US citizens hands would easily be enough to disrupt governance in rural areas.
In my circles, this is often the first time legislation (often not even that - often executive action, sometimes by unelected folks!) has had such an immediate, clear impact on people’s lives.

Many of my friends and family have had their closest interaction with the government be taxes & vehicle registration at the DMV - inconveniences, but not much more.

What you list are indeed spectacular failures, but they happened “over there” or “to other people”.

Suddenly, the government is telling _them_ they can’t buy something, they they have to wear a mask, they have to inject something in their body, they can’t go to a concert. Many in my circle have never felt the hand of government so directly.

That’s what’s new and remarkable for a lot of people.
These are just epoxy and fiberglass - - just like boat hulls in the oceans for decades . . .

Could be laid side by side to make platforms to build houses off hillsides, a zillion uses I bet.
I'll grant both points. But ...

We traditionally grant children less rights (at least as far as self-determination) than adults, so this aspect is really in keeping with broader cultural norms.

And sure, the google.com/YT/chrome empire does move closer to the government example, but how much closer is a matter of some considerable debate. I'd argue not by much, but I know others would disagree.
only if you’ve never visited the site before and you didn’t access it by clicking a link starting with https://
Nikki Minaj on her twitter being disabled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoAx5hwHPfM

Nikki claimed her cousin had a bad reaction to the vaccine.
As has been replied to this exactly fallacious point multiple places in this thread, 75,000 men in Afghanistan just defeated the US military.
Cloudflare Stream could be a good solution for some.
The US government (these days at least) is perfectly happy to let private enterprises take on the costs and risks. They'll just contract it out. You see the same thing across the entire intelligence and defense sectors (some major systems are maintained not just by contractors at military facilities, but at facilities owned and operated by contractors).

Space launch is a contemporary example of an important capability that the US has demonstrated they're happy to mostly hand off to private enterprises (mainly SpaceX these days).
It absolutely is true. Antibody production declines at an exponential rate(1). You don’t lose your immune response quickly, because T-cells and the like “remember” the virus—but your body doesn’t waste energy producing antibodies forever when there is no active need to have them around.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179

Late edit: if you think you’ve lived through a sars-cov-2 infection, get it in writing within a few months.
> i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

There's a difference between "fight" and "defeat". Anyone who thinks that a motley band of citizens with small arms is going to force the government to surrender is delusional. What they can do is make martial law very costly, by turning the country into a war zone (see also: Afghanistan).

The government really does get its power from consent of the governed. It may not seem that way, but most people are happy enough just to have stability, that they're going to stand by and keep their head down. But with a sufficiently armed populace, maintaining stability becomes simply impossible, which makes maintaining political favor an impossibility. The idea of a military coup is that you take control of a nation, not that you inherit a war zone.

Small arms aren't about winning, they're about making certain actions too politically costly. I have a tough time imagining the CCP's recent actions in Hong Kong, or the Uighur genocide, working so well if they were armed like the US. Arms necessitate boiling the frog.
My OnePlus 6t drains only 10% during an 8 hour night! And it is 3 years old!
Alas, I will never be able to email you :).
Municipalities that do this will be punished for it in the upcoming RHNA cycle. Laws like SB10 give them the tools to increase housing supply, but if they do not, they will become subject to ministerial (automatic) approval of certain projects under SB35.
The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech
Next: try to convince everyone in America to stop treating houses as an appreciating asset.

Tear down houses, recycle what material is recyclable, and build new ones.

And build smaller.
The phrase "everyday occurrence" does not mean that something literally happens every day, it means that it happens commonly enough that it's not broadly notable.

You derailed this comment thread by quibbling over the specific frequency of these tragic events, rather than focussing on the point - which was that these accidental killings do indeed happen frequently - perhaps more frequently than you realised.
Rest assured, the lockdowns will be lifted as soon as we eliminate Covid.
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About 60,000,000 people die every year, which is absolutely fine. Everybody who’s alive today will eventually die. Everybody who’s born in the future will also die. Everybody who gets to live will also get sick occasionally. Most of them will eventually get so sick that they can’t continue living.

Nothing can be done to prevent this. It is just a fundamental fact of life. If you believe that it is the governments duty to extend lifespans and prevent illness at literally any cost, then there is literally no level of tyranny that you won’t tolerate. Why should you be free to choose your own diet? Why should you be free to choose for yourself how much you want to exercise? More people die every year from making those choices badly than anything else. Why should you be allowed to leave your house for anything except the most essential purposes? The outside world has so many things that are liable to kill you.

“Oh but x number of people will die” is just a fear based argument that dismisses all other considerations. 100% of people will die. If you believe liberty is important on any level, then you would believe people should generally be able to decide for themselves what risks they want to take with their lives. If you believe in democracy on any level then people should certainly be free to discuss what risk decisions they should be denied by the government making them on their behalf.

The fact that we’re debating whether we should be allowed to leave our houses is somewhat shocking. The fact a significant number of people believe we shouldn’t even be allowed to discuss this is a more dystopian reality than I could have previously imagined.
absolutely based
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-003...
As a member of the "modern left", I, too, found the OP's characterization to be cringe-worthy.

While I do know a few people who fit that description ("guns make me feel manly"), they're in the minority. I don't have many friends who own guns, but those who do mostly derive their enjoyment from them by going to the range for target practice (I've tried it and found it fun, too). One acquaintance owns some fairly old weapons and appreciates their construction & design as well as their possible future resale value.

I'm fairly anti-gun, and don't own any myself, but I'm just as tired of the "compensating for something" trope as I'm sure y'all are. It's tired and juvenile, and I assume the only reason it's pulled out is to make the name-caller feel better about themselves.
I always enjoy watching Americans accuse other Americans of living in places "with strict gun laws", as if nearly all of the US isn't a moderate drive away from a place with lax gun laws.

It's also fairly absurd to refer to places with few gun laws as "much safer". The only way of making that trick work is to compare big cities in areas with stronger gun control with rural areas and small towns elsewhere. The worst US cities for murder rates show no real pattern of being in anti-gun jurisdictions (or the opposite).

St Louis has the highest homicide rate in the US. You figure Missouri is anti-gun? New Orleans, Kansas City, Memphis and Las Vegas also make the top by murder rates.
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HN regularly uses shadowbans, although there's a setting that lets you opt into shadowbanned comments if you really want to see them. The unfortunate reality, as anyone who's tried to run a discussion forum can tell you, is that some users are very dedicated to ruining the quality of discourse and they'll find a way around any attempt to stop them from posting.
After installing Windows for the first time in easily 6 years, I was shocked that things like the device manager and disk management still look like they're from Win95. It's not better if it's not remotely consistent
So, you would prefer zero regulation?
I would say that if you do a research exclusively for harming that is bad. Of you do it and it can be used in several ways, some bad, but you do not do it with that ontention and someone comes grab ur work and misuses it... that is not your bad, I think.

I would also refuse to be involved in programs to harm people honestly.
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Even your example would depend upon the context. There are many cases where a programming question in 2021 is identical to one from 2012, along with the answer. In those instances, would you rather a shallow answer from 2021 or an indepth answer from 2012? This is not meant to imply that older answers offer greater depth, yet a heavy bias towards recent material can produce that outcome in some circumstances.
There is no right to life. Everyone dies.
>there is very little compromise possible while still maintaining a free society.

How do you feel about copyright? Or false advertising? Or slander? Or bribery? Or harassment? Or threats of violence? Or conspiracies to commit crime? Or revenge porn? Or child porn?

It is so weird when people pretend that free speech is binary considering we already outlaw so many different forms of speech. Free speech is a spectrum and there is valid debate on where on the spectrum we draw the line. Germany happens to be draw the line in a difference place than the US but that doesn't mean they aren't a "free society".
OT, but: oh man sad. i still am not 1/2 way done but start of the pandemic i started building my own co-watching thing, & called it TeleParty Tonight. bah. sad to hear i need to rename.
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Who cares if they are backed. Are they fighting with small arms or not? The answer is yes.
I had a (relative to my profession) decent understanding of web languages(HTML/Php etc) from years in the marketing world, had a decent technical understanding, watched parts of the Stanford CS courses, and a lot of guess and check.. Google and throwing ideas around with technically minded friends/devs helped validate the ways I was approaching it. In the end I went to the source - Xcode and swift.

In a fortunate way, moving to Canada right as the pandemic started meant I naturally had a lot more free time that I may have spent catching up with friends, travelling etc. Initially I was searching for local devs to work with but without a network and no one wanting to meet up with randoms I gave up and started to try do more and more myself.

I should add it took me far longer than I would have liked - or a real dev would have taken. But my hope is with a true MVP in the hands of potential real clients it might be more appealing to the right person to take it on.
You might have misunderstood the 6 weeks. That's 6 weeks actual vacation.

Bank holidays (different depending on the federal state you're in but minimum is 9 - in Hesse) are on top of that.

To be fair 30 days PTO is simply the standard in tech jobs. Minimum by law is 21, which some other industries do stick to.
My three-year-old Android OnePlus 6t lasts 36 hours on a charge even after 3 years of daily use. I have to laugh at these Apple fanboys who don't understand how far behind apple is in many ways...