skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I think if you are discussing this type of thing in the context of python you have to use the threads/processes terminology to avoid confusion.
There's no simple answers. American has some of the strongest free speech rights, but also a scarily large anti vaxx population. (It's also worth noting that what YouTube decides to allow isn't a First Amendment issue.)
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I think discussions of the free market need to include scale. Scale absolutely matters when it comes to "voting with your wallet", or I suppose, in this case, your usage of a platform.

I think our notions on the merits of a free market, and indeed, the very understanding of a free market itself, come from a time before the network effect and the de-facto digital monopolies we see today.
There are two possible "fake it until you make it" levels going on here. Say you draw a regular sample of blood and run tests with competitor's products until yours work. Tests are real, but everyone thinks your tests are doing the work. That's one way. The other way is you take a drop of blood and produce unreliable results.

Generally "fake it until you make it" has some delivery of the actual product, even if it costs more to produce than it generates in revenue. Or it requires human execution of something which appears to be automated.

The Theranos case is interesting because it straight up didn't work. It definitely crossed over from "getting something done differently than it appears" into "straight up fabrication, intimidation, lies, and buying off the politically influential."

Look at the board for the simple reason it gets a lot of attention (beside hitting all the tropes). Short on medical, long on political influence.
We're now comparing anti-vaxxers to nazis.
They are guided by active radar, passive radar, and optical sensors. Their range is anywhere from 5000-700km, but many can be air-launched.
In the current landscape I do not foresee rsync.net using all-flash zpools.

All of our access is over WAN so disk IO is not that important - it is raw price per GB and even with the "nice" SAS drives we buy ... ~$400 for 16TB is a huge difference vs. ~$700 for 1.8 TB (which is, roughly, the price of the Intel part mentioned in the list of cache drives).
BioCurious received some very nice lab equipment for free when Theranos shutdown: https://biocurious.org/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Map_minus_USA....
Where's your proof that the administration did nothing? Shutting down terrorism content is about the easiest political slam dunk imaginable.

I have never seen ISIS propaganda. Plenty of "Fauci went to school with Bill Gates and was CEO of Moderna" memes, though.
I'm confused.. isn't a secularist party in favor of not involving personal religious beliefs in Civic issues? In that light, what's wrong with someone with personal religious beliefs from participating? Others made his religion important not him, from what you describe
Hard reset doesn't have anything to do with this since it turns back on afterward. As far as letting the battery die, I think it's going to be much more common that someone loses their phone, the battery is dead, and this helps them figure out "whoops, I left it at the bar we went to after dinner."

The power reserve for this only lasts a few hours, but if you don't want that feature you can turn it off.
Lobotomy could be efficient way to lower violence to others. I suppose those mandating vaccines and mask also would be for it to be performed to everyone.
"The symbol was created in 1988 by the plastics industry with the good intention of conveying helpful information to consumers about what items could be recycled. But it went off the rails pretty quickly when package makers started plastering the symbol on just about anything, whether it could be recycled or not. The result is that consumers are optimistically filling up recycling bins with things that have no hope of being recycled, and making it difficult and more costly for recycling facilities to sort."

I never knew the symbol was created by the plastics industry.
> Feels like maybe a case of the "trolley problem".

I think that's it exactly. It seems some (many? most?) people believe that the consequences of actions deserve more scrutiny and a higher threshold to act, than inaction and the threshold to refrain from action. Lots of people—almost instinctively, at least for some of them—think acting to kill one to save five is worse than letting the five die through your inaction.

You have to go get the vaccine. You choose to get it. Getting COVID-19 is just something that'll happen to you, eventually. You don't choose to go get it.

Whether it makes sense or not, I think that really is the difference.
Depends what you consider the radicalization pipeline to be. For example, if you ban a user from Twitter, and they end up on Parler, they're gonna be exposed to a lot more "radical" (for lack of a better word) stuff than when they were just on Twitter. It's really not guaranteed that banning "undesirable" content actually does disrupt the pipeline, so much as just further balkanize and radicalize the dissidents.
> crushed them with facts

”I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5934-i-ve-learned-that-peop...
> Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[6][10][22] using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin;[23] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[6] He said LinkedIn suspended his account over what he claimed were posts he had made questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.[24] Malone has also claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.[25]

> With another researcher, Malone successfully proposed to the publishers of Frontiers in Pharmacology a special issue featuring early observational studies on existing medication used in the treatment of COVID-19, for which they recruited other guest editors, contributors, and reviewers. The journal rejected two of the papers selected: one on famotidine co-authored by Malone and another submitted by physician Pierre Kory on the use of ivermectin.[21] The publisher rejected the ivermectin paper due to what it claimed were “a series of strong, unsupported claims” which they determined did “not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution.”[21] Malone and most other guest editors resigned in protest in April 2021, and the special issue has been pulled from the journal's website.[21]

> Malone was criticized for falsely claiming that the FDA had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone

Sounds to me like he took a hard right turn at some point, and had a conflict of interest besides. Am I missing something?
The recent vote against boosters by the expert CDC committee and the resulting overturn by the head of the CDC highlights the need for broader free and uncensored discussion.

I read a lot of studies and get help parsing them from YouTube occasionally. Watching videos of more competent people poking holes in videos of quacks talking about the same studies is quite useful and persuasive.
But lots if these people DO change their minds. I have a relatively small circle of in-person family and friends, and five of the six hesitant people in that group are now covid vaxxed. There are those who will accept no evidence, but most of the "hesitant" aren't in that group.
I mean, it certainly looks flat (or at least, not curved) to me when I look out my window ;)

it's pretty rare for an ordinary person to have the opportunity to directly observe the curvature of the earth. I personally don't notice it when I fly commercially. you can indirectly observe it with binoculars on the beach by watching ships (dis)appear over the horizon, but a) you have to recognize the implication, and b) this can be confounded by a mirage/shimmer effect.

it's not hard for me to imagine that some extremely skeptical people might doubt that the world isn't simply how it looks: flat.
That's my perspective as well and where I have the most visceral reaction.

But, to be fair, there are a lot of folks who will say 'I'd never go without a car' that haven't lived in a place with great public transportation. I used to think that way as well until I spent six months living in a place that had great bike paths and lots of options for local and regional public transportation. I started off with the intent of trying no-car daily living and it was perfectly fine. In six months I rented a car one time for a weekend trip, that was it.

So to me the lesson is to try to have a bit of empathy for the personal experience of the person making bubble points and focus on expanding their perspective rather than debating their position.

This leaks into the misinformation topic as well but there's another thread for that :)
That combined with an ineffective leadership.

Just look at what these groups spend their time squabbling over. This DSA meeting is reflective of how little chance they have of getting anything accomplished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NdE9CjkvTY

They become a parody of themselves, much like this Libertarian debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ
I mean, I agree with you.

My point is that the actual harms of YouTube and others are from an anti-trust and monopoly perspective.

The problem isn't a private entity moderating their platform. The problem is a private entity that has so much power that moderating their platform amounts to a society-wide stifling of speech.

The solution isn't to restrict how the entities are allowed to moderate their platforms—it's to prevent and disallow them from being that powerful in the first place!
I guess it depends on what you mean by "pro Soviet material" but Academia and adjacent fields were full of USSR sympathizers in the 70s. People like Marcuse were/are very influential figures.
> A little innovation is required here

You can't 'innovate' a doubling of trained medical staff, not in a matter of months.
600k gallons for us is not all evaporated, thats just what we take in from the city and discharge back to them. There are temperature requirements for discharge as well so you can't just discharge 200 degree water. That doesn't really work anyway since our process cooling water has to stay at ~70 degrees.

We have some evaporation loss, but in the Phoenix climate it would be a lot more.
shrug. Labels are quite effective for concise communication, all negatives aside. Such as your classification of my point as a strawman (which I don't consider it to be), you communicate a precise response with a single word.
I like your thinking... but why hide a video on a private HDD?

I was just thinking about this problem from a different angle.

What if everyone, or at least a bunch of willing souls, ran the following script on their on pc's:

1. YouTube-dlc every video you ever watch automatically in the background and save to NEW_VID directory

2. make a checksum of every file that comes into NEW_VID

3. Check by using the checksum if the file already exists on open platforms like https://joinpeertube.org, https://odysee.com or https://d.tube

4. If not, upload the file.

5. Delete the file.
The problem is that landing pages are often sales jobs, and the presence of call-to-action items, email harvesting, etc., confirm that it's a hard-sell job.

Such pages tend not to be useful to people who have not already decided to buy, because the "learn more" links usually don't really inform you about the product, but instead lead you to another sales pitch.
It’s oft forgotten that U.S. intellectual property constructs were created not purely for the natural rights of individual creators, but as an incentive for public benefit: “to promote the progress of science and useful arts”.
You are presenting this as if this is somehow unique to Russia. This is true of every large country against all of its rivals. Anything Russia is doing on this front is dwarfed by what the US, UK, France, Germany etc. are doing.

Somehow things like Russia Today are presented as blatant propaganda, while Radio Free Europe is neutral reality. Both are propaganda.
Watch Matt's Offroad Recovery on YouTube, sometimes you need 4WD and ground clearance to get around reliably. Certainly more people own vehicles in that caliber than are necessary, but that's not always the case.
How likely would she to be dead? I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but even without vaccination the CDC estimated the fatality rate at only 0.6% for the population as a whole. We should take this seriously but exaggerating the risks isn't helpful.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
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Seat Belts affect you

If you're a passenger in the back of a car, and the car stops suddenly in an accident, you will be launched into the seat in front of you. Drivers have died as the result of a rear passenger crushing them. Even seat belts can affect others.

Crash test footage of an unbelted rear passenger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3InF19dzlM

British safety 'advert' about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2aevh6oZ8 (Maybe not for the squeamish..)

This is why people really should wear seat belts in taxis and Ubers.
> If HN readers are the "you" here, then that's accurate.

Unless it's something very obviously shady, I could see myself fall for something like this.
I made a statement of fact supported by secretly recorded videos that I invite you to watch. I am happy to engage in discussion with you. However, I would like to mention the attitude implied by your comment, is probably more appropriate for the YouTube-Truth-Defining department...
There's also just an extreme naivety when it comes to the definition of "politics." If you genuinely think that your position is morally and factually correct, you'll pursue that position.

Now, imagine that your position truly is objectively factually and morally correct. (I understand things generally don't work this way, but stick with me for sake of example.) All you have to do is find a vocal group of people who disagree with the morally and factually correct position, and you can now call this "political stance" which someone can be "biased towards." (a simple example might be flat-earthers.)

Now of course, this same process can work out in nearly any permutation: the mainstream group could be pursuing an idea which they believe is morally and factually correct, but of course simply be wrong. And then the protesting group, calling out the politicization of the issue, could then be the correct group.

It must also be stated that the closer you get to the hard sciences, the less any of this politicization works. It's worth noting that things such as semi-conductors and computer chips all rely on science, and no one is politicizing whether they exist, or work. What is politicized is a bit more predictable: Questions of the cause of the ills of society, (ie, social sciences) questions about the role of men and women, questions about public policy.

I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that it's quite easy to call one man's truth a "political" ideology. If you poll enough people, nearly anything is "just a point of view" which could be construed as political.
It's a social norm that needs to die, since it's no longer reciprocated. It's from a time where a company would typically give you some severance if they had to lay you off. Now they just walk you out and stop your pay the same day you're laid off, so I'd be perfectly morally and ethically okay with doing the same to them were I to quit. Granted, I'd only do that if I didn't like my current employer.
> the population dynamics of what happens when you vaccinate against just the spike

Haven't heard of this before, care to elaborate?

> the massive amount of propaganda and outright coercion that everyone (at least in the US) has been exposed to over the last several months

See idk if propaganda is the right word here. Imagine a world were covid was 20x as deadily, and the vaccine had absolutely zero side effects. How else do you get the message put to get it? Just say nothing? If hospitals are at risk of getting overrun, and unlike lockdowns, vaccines actually make differences in case numbers, the government has an obligation to do something (protect the general welfare clearly is a mandate to prevent overrunning healthcare facilities).
Exactly: that term seems to be used as a strawman to attack the worse positions avoiding the reasonable ones.

Dismissal has been a constant presence. Somebody got damaged after infection? Some will come and dismiss with "anectodal". Somebody got damaged after vaccination? Others will come and dismiss with "anectodal". One tries to tell someone that he lost very real family members and friends to covid: "they must have been already sick". One tries to tell someone that he has known of a surprising number of people with adverse events: "they must have been already sick". And with that the issue has not progressed a bit.
We are talking about freight rail here. Ohio already has more intrastate freight volume than France, and that’s only a small fraction of the remainder of inbound, outbound, or freight traffic passing through. It is France that would need to seriously shape up if it is to keep up with Ohio. Alas, it will not do so, because rail freight volumes in France have fallen by almost half over last 20 years, as France is moving away from rail to road freight.

Don’t project differences between passenger rail systems to freight rail. It is by all means clear that US has the best freight rail system in the world.
> Why not give a flat earther a huge prime time platform?

They did. It happened, and the dude died in the rocket as it crashed to Earth. And following that, I stopped hearing so many murmurs about if a lake surface was flat or convex.
regular immune system. we don't _always_ create (long-term) anti-bodies when fighting a virus.
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So since we can't prevent all harm we shouldn't try to prevent any? That doesn't seem like a very compelling argument to me
Indeed, I prefer "vaccine redundancy" over "vaccine hesitancy".

For people who've had Covid before, vaccine is simply redundant. (If you disagree, please provide sources / data for your view.) Of course, getting vaccinated would increase their immune system's response, but so would for someone who was vaccinated a month ago... at some point, it has to be "good enough" for normal life (not 100% safe anyways).
Some may argue the medical establishment has done this: they made a vaccine.

Everyone pays for maintained capacity. If you believe in a free market then your hypothetical plague-better is going to go bust well before they get to reap benefits from having 100k ventilators in storage.
> I'm curious, does this case get so much publicity because it touches upon all the tropes of Silicon Valley?

I think people are so used to being lied to by companies that they’re really happy to see it come back on someone. When’s the last time you saw a press release that wasn’t spun to contort the truth as far as possible? We’re so used to corporate communication being 99% polished turds and, while we accept it, we hate it. Just like all the experts calling out their stuff as impossible, we all know we’re being lied to.

Finally, someone was caught being full of shit in a way that makes them liable.

> IMHO, this business model is fine when the only things at risk are venture capital and you're trying to sell more widgets

I think this business model is normal when it’s other things at risk, but people are enthusiastic to see comeuppance because they’re so sick of this being business as usual.
I would say the distinction here is allowing some parties "direct influence over millions of people" and not others. As other commenters have pointed out, it feels like the decision on who gets access to the "virtual town square" is a small, un-elected, and limited-accountability group.

I do agree with your final point-- if social media went dark tomorrow, no ones rights would be diminished. But if it went dark for only certain people, I think we would agree that -something- is being diminished (even if it's not necessarily a right or that it's in the best interest of everyone).

I fully believe that this is a topic where people get to land differently, and I respect those that do their mental calculus differently. There's so many second-order and third-order effects when it comes to speech, and then you amplify it to global-level... there's no great, clean answer. But ultimately, we get to choose what we weigh as most important-- as I've heard others on HN say, "If we wrap ourselves around every conceivable axle then nothing will be achieved."
Discord will not let you stream movies via its Terms of Service, so that one is out. The Discord server I am on that I am considering this for is verrrrry paranoid of falling afoul of the ToS.
Nothing is stopping you from running a server and hosting your own website.
The problem is that for any major issues you can get attention and money for publishing a contrarian view. Platforms like youtube then can be megaphones for monetizing conspiracy theories which do actual harm. There is some distance between good faith discussion and promoting the opposite of whatever view is popular.

Content distributors are then on a knife edge with moderation, and how to moderate fairly is incredibly difficult. Youtube doesn’t want to be the vaccine conspiracy clearing house so at some point they decided to just ban it all. Making money from peoples attention brings this problem and moralizing won’t make it go away.
Landing pages are for marketing and they tend to be focused on a specific product, have calls to action, sales copy, etc. They often have a clear goal, such as getting visitors to sign-up or leave contact information. They're the page that adverts, marketing emails, and social media promotions link to.

Home pages are more diffuse and serve a different purpose—linking to multiple products, blogs, about us pages, customer support, and so on. If you only have one product, like an app, or it's a microsite dedicated to a single product, your home page might be a landing page, but it doesn't have to be and usually isn't for bigger companies.
Arguably this should be worked out between the driver and passenger before the ride begins.
The SCS is not claimed as territorial waters. In fact the claims are purposefully vague not just in content but also in scope in order to make it easy for China to negotiate them down in exchange for various concessions.
The recycling numbers are problematic in many ways.

One of them is that any new plastic, which could be superior in degradation recyclability, will inevitably be put into group 7 together with the thermosets. For instance,

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

can be made from biological sources, is compostable and chemically recyclable.
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Here's a fun one: a telecom CEO (named Elizabeth, too) was forging customer signatures - signatures of people she had known and worked with in many cases - to show to investors.

And she took money from friends and employees, and told them they were getting shares in the company. In reality she used the money to pay off her lifestyle expenses.

To be fair, she probably intended to make good on the investments once the company was wildly successful.

The amazing thing is, the company had hired a new CEO and is actually still operating. Last I heard.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-08/quintilli...
This is definitely private. And also against the Terms of Service of either service.