skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] No privacy means no one can hide anything, and
pressure to change things can be focused. People can vote for the correct politicians [...]

Large assumption. Privacy is in my interest. There is a reason why it is often brought up as a human right. That there is little appreciation for it is an educational deficit and naivete in my opinion.

People call for accountability for internet comments. I don't want to share anything with those with such proclivities, not even the name of my pet. I have enough problems on my own I don't need those of third parties on my shoulders and it wouldn't be a good fit anyway. As you said, they mostly inhibit free dialogue.

It isn't reasonable to have the same level of privacy for strangers or family, friends and lovers. Trust is of course important. Some people give that away relatively freely, something we call oversharing.

So what if we banished all privacy while living in a theocratic society? You might argue that we do not as of today but I would argue that the inclination for prosecutions did not change at all and they may never change and we probably did not reach the end of societal development. No privacy would mean stasis. I think it is interesting to look at the extreme case of having no privacy.

You can make good cases against privacy for people in official capacity. Here transparency is a boon and essential for democratic checks. But even here we need limits for anything personal.

> when people have no power, no privacy for everyone should be preferred

Highly depends. That might be true in a very contemporary cultural context where pop-sympathy is with "victims" and we are all knight against oppressors, although if you look closer you can identify that as a lie. These "victims" are just delegates for peoples fears, hence the sympathy. Not in all cases and this isn't an indictment of humans, at most of pop culture perhaps. But in reality minorities are the largest benefactors of privacy and certainly would face the most amount of scrutiny if they had none. Their freedom would be extremely restricted by expectations alone, completely irrelevant if people smile at you or scold you. Again, lack of privacy redefined as transparency of institutions and not people, that would again switch the argument around.
If I see a call-to-action or a subscription form I hit the back button faster than Doc Holliday could draw his Colt.
I grew up in a family that debated politics over the dinner table in a neighbourhood full of professors and lawyers, which is different from talking about say, astronomy, animals, food, etc. It was an adversarial, socratic intellectual power struggle from as soon as we could all talk, and it changes how you relate.

My own intent with debate is to discover the basis of a difference in principle, and then decide whether that's something we can appreciate, without reconciling it. It's discovery. I'm genuinely interested in people whose perspective is different and why they believe what they do, because the personal experience that led them to that belief is interesting enough to connect over.

However, recieved talking points and recycled slogans are boring, and I'd be more likely to sever ties with someone not for what they believed or said, but over the quality of reasoning and reflection they had applied to it to conclude it.

The more interesting question is, are there views and opinions that necessarily can only exist without experience or reflection? Arguably that's the definition of ideology, as it is the logic of an idea, iterated - independent of experience or reflection on anything external.

Probing to find out whether an opinion is the consequence of experience and conviction, or the artifact of the logic of another recieved idea is the best application of debate, imo. Discovering truth and litigating positions with tacitcs and talking points are orthogonal approaches that are at cross purposes. Public discourse has been mobbed by people trained to litigate positions and ideologies, and not to discover truth, and so until you can determine what sort of person you are dealing with, it's best not to engage in debate in public.
> Aren't they already 'demonetised'...

That affects only content creator. YouTube, even if not directly profiting from ads, profits indirectly from you staying on the site and moving on to other 'monetized' videos eventually.
We are on a news site focused mostly on tech, startups, and entrepreneurship that often just has other intellectual conversations. It makes sense that the general flavor of submissions leans tech.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Sputnik V isn’t the only sars-cov2 vaccine with manufacturing issues.
As articulated four years ago: https://gratipay.news/your-company-should-probably-pay-2000-...
Tidelift[1] is one such approach to encourage cashflows in a sustainable manner for open source projects.

[1] https://tidelift.com/
Agreed 100%. One bad relationship with a manager and there goes your career.
Hey shmapf, Nik here. I know what you mean, Alfred is a great tool.

We’ll be adding an option to run in the taskbar rather than as a full-fledged app-with-dock-icon soon to help with this —- being able to do everything fast and from the keyboard (including switching apps) is high priority for us
If you don't think a meme sensation video that's received millions of views and copycats hasn't been reported thousands of times over the years, for any reason, or no reason, just because people can, because people want to watch the world burn; I want to come live in your world.
Good to know; in this case it was across the state, not across a line. Tampa to a little place near Jacksonville, FL.

And in that case "Sue the new owners" wasn't gonna work anyway, they were the family that owned the rest of the county. The paper had been the effort of one of their strays and was being ended with prejudice. The story was quite entertaining, in a squalid local swamp politics way.
I wonder if Starlink will ever implement a smallband broadcast channel, that can be received with a cheap antenna.

Some projects like othernet also tried this.

I imagine a selection of international news, weather warnings, etc. that everybody can receive.
> balance between free speech versus disallowing harmful ideas to propagate?

There is no balance. The very fantasy of such a balance relies upon the presumption that 1) there are harmful _ideas_; and 2) that there is an authority that can certify some ideas as _safe_ vs _harmful_.

The discussion here gets overwhelmed by several generations of people who never actually understood what people had to give up for the right of everyone to speak and for the right of everyone to be able to expose themselves to any idea they themselves deem interesting or appropriate.

Also, enmeshment of barons of industry with powerful political operatives to suppress competition to both is literally fascism (regardless of the historical revision of the definition 100 years after the fact).
You may have the same inputs but think in a creative way - for instance: start by taking two dissimilar things and explore the possibilities, real and metaphorically.
In German there is the “Schweinezyklus” (pig cycle”) which is basically the same.

It’s often used when industry asks for more graduates of a certain subject. Then people start getting degrees in that subject which leads to an oversupply of graduates who can’t find jobs. Then people stop getting these degrees and a few years later industry starts complaining again about the lack of workers.
Reminds me of a scene 'Killed for Reading' from the movie Equilibrium.

Partridge: Don't you see, Preston? It's gone. Everything that makes us what we are, traded away.

John Preston: There's no war. No murder.

Partridge: What is it you think we do?

John Preston: No. You've been with me. You've seen how it can be, the jealousy. Rage.

Partridge: A heavy cost. I pay it gladly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJf9Pf9rjO4
That's funny, I didn't have nearly as bad eye sight, but also distinctly remember first noticing leaves on trees when I got my glasses around that same age.
It's not just a Slack issue, it's a general thing.

This puts the finger on one of the main reasons that I'm very concerned about the general state of software engineering these days. It's a lack of quality and stability.

Well, that's a little unfair. It's really that the industry is making a fundamental engineering tradeoff that I think is a terrible mistake: prioritizing rapid adaptation over robustness. We as an industry have decided that software should be ephemeral and disposable.

There are arguments for why that's a good tradeoff. We've been hearing them for years, and I was reasonably on board with the notion at the start (at least for some use cases). But I think that now that we've had experience with the results, my opinion has changed. I no longer think that the tradeoff is the best one.
Thanks! Seems like that report mostly just has speculation without much evidence about their motives, either way.

I appreciate your caution about jumping to assume the motives are political, when financial motives on the internet are of course so common.
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It’s almost strictly better to leave your phone home in that sort of circumstance though. Your phone looks like you stayed home all day, and you don’t need to worry about things like whether any information gets sent out despite being “off”.
> The 14 years it was up doesn't mean YouTube reviewed it previously and decided to keep it.

You cannot possibly know, unless you work on YT moderation in Google. Also, moderation rules might vary over the years, so it might have even been checked once per year and survived for 14 years, til now. The real issue here is that nobody outside an internal Google team has voted on these policies.
Thanks for answering. Some suggestions after using it for 5 minutes: I apparently have close to 100,000 URLs from Firefox waiting to be indexed.

- Show the date range from the earliest bookmark to the latest

- Let me open the downloaded content for a URL instead of redirecting me to the current online version.

I'm also wondering if the downloaded "extract" is somewhat complete. For example, reader mode doesn't really work on HN or Reddit, but the individual comments could be what I'm looking for. Anyways, I'm keeping an eye on this tool. Not sure if it really fits into my workflow, but maybe it will :)
> Just because they got big enought to be global?

I'd say yes, this is why. I think that since the FAANG's are so successful that they replaced the public square with themselves, they should have to preserve the freedom of speech just like the old public square used to.
Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)
The old BlackBerrys didn’t even do a full OS startup unless you did a battery pull, I think the “clean” shutdown just hibernated it at best.
Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)
The heat part is especially weird considering androids also go scorched earth when fast or wireless charging. It’s just got phones work currently. And their point about losing 15%, after an update all phones are going to do reinfecting. My Samsung flip drops battery like crazy when not doing anything too. Phones are one of those grass isn’t greener things.
I also lost access to a most beautiful poetry recitation from an older fellow who has passed. In hindsight, I wish I was more active in saving videos.
> but multiprocessing is a mess

Could you share a little more about your experiences with mp? I'm in the other camp - I use multiprocess in several python applications and am more or less happy with it. My real curiosity I suppose is what data you are trying to pass around that isn't a good candidate for mp.

My own use cases normally resemble something like multiple worker-style processes consuming their workloads from Queue objects, and emitting their results to another Queue object. Usually my initial process is responsible for consuming and aggregating those results, but in some cases the initial process does nothing but coordinate the worker and aggregator processes.
That's not really what I was saying either. The technology behind it costs nothing to reproduce. Sure there are costs, ex. there were costs to develop the technology, there are costs to maintain infrastructure and costs for continuing development. However those costs also exist in our current system and they could easily be seen as lower with cryptos.
I remember when Fraps was THE capture software. My computer couldn't run it due to some issues with Intel graphics not being able to run DirectX (or something, it was 10 years ago).

It was really good software for the time, assuming you has an OpenGL or DirectX window.
Let’s not add misinformation here. It was a panel of researches at the CDC that said the evidence for boosters for under 65 at risk individuals was marginal that the thought it wasn’t worth it. A similar panel of researches at the FDA said it was a close call but they said it was worth it. The CDC panel is advisory to the FDA panel, not the other way around. The debate here is specifically for under 65 at risk individuals.
Workers who keep global supply chains moving warn of 'system collapse'
Off the top of my head:

Weakening of the US's power in the world.

Weaker NATO and EU.

Weak/delayed sanctions as a result of Crimea and no other action.

Worsening of US/Iran relations, keeping Iran close to Russia.

Left Syria to Russia.

Ongoing influence in the Republican party, which is now pretty much officially pro-Russia.

Edit: this seems like a pretty good list: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia...
I find Haskell to be absolutely impenetrable, but I run XMonad and work with my config file just fine.

So users will probably be able to hack together what they want, but they may struggle to grow a large developer community. But that can still work out okay.
I've found the opposite. Most people have disagreements on fundamental viewpoints which means there's no point even discussing. For example I take the position that freedom of speech is almost sacred, which rules out the chance of any productive conversation with most people who prioritize things like preventing somebody from getting offended. Instead I choose to avoid topics where I know I disagree with the mainstream, unless it's with a close enough friend where I know our relationship won't be damaged by touching on a topic of disagreement.
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Fighting Climate Change as a Technologist
One of my favourite memes of all time, so it's sad for the original video to be removed from Youtube, however, I am confident it'll still be available elsewhere, and, of course, as part of thousands of existing meme compilation videos.

Sure, the Youtube team removed it, but ultimately, they're a private company, right? Aren't private companies allowed to moderate kind of however they want based on their own terms of service? They have a "graphic and violent content policy" that they're allowed to enforce. I always found the distinction between a private company's ToS and "the public good" a little tricky to understand.

Anyway, maybe this news will, in a tiny way, help other online video-sharing projects like PeerTube or Vimeo.
The problem is, who decides what actively harmful content is? For anyone in favor of this ban, imagine if Google had an anti-vaccine CEO, and was banning all pro-vaccine content for being "actively harmful" instead.
Yeah, that 'important' part, never going to happen. Good luck wasting your money on that! Also, they don't need to say anything, a lot of people will just assume you got fired for gross incompetence because that's what usually causes people who disappear overnight.

And it's not about your team it's everyone in your company. Plus potentially a bunch of their friends they mention the story to.

"Hey Joe, didn't you tell me about a guy called Giant who just disappeared one day when you worked at Acme? Was it Giant G?"

"Yeah, it was, why?"

"Oh, he's popped up as a potential hire, I'll tell HR to nix him"

I guess it really depends on the size of your local market, but in my area I've bumped into multiple people more than once across jobs/contracts/meetups/etc.
Well there's a few services to help[0], and I see many Github projects with a link in the readme asking for donations and such.

But then the project is basically `donationware` and the income is unreliable.

I think we need more /reliable/ streams of income instead of digital panhandling.

[0] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/

[0] https://www.patreon.com/

[0] https://liberapay.com/
Shelter and housing are not the same thing, homeless housing always refers to non shelter housing, it's an actual apartment or a house.
Apple says the iPad mini's 'jelly scrolling' problem is normal
That's irrelevant, as I understand it. The debate wasn't about the scientific merits of a third shot - the debate was on the prioritization of whether the limited resource (the vaccine) was best allocated for a larger set of boosters, or if they should be used for others who are not yet vaccinated (perhaps worldwide).

Anyway, like I've said in another post and in a blog before, I think Youtube has less responsibility to be a neutral platform than ISPs and registrars do. If you want to host content, you should be able to do it yourself with Internet connectivity and DNS - IMO those should be "common carriers" that don't get the privilege of bias the same way platforms like Youtube do.

Think swallowing a tube of veterinary-grade medicine is safer than an injection that hundreds of millions of people have gotten with few problems? Go for it, on your home server with a domain name.

Now, I'm gonna get some coffee.
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I am interested in the means by which they DO identify user location, and whether the ones they use can be spoofed.

And for those who cannot help but ask "But why would....", while that is an interesting and valid question, it is orthogonal to this specific question.
I find your lack of cynicism disturbing. The system works as designed. The system is designed to teach obedience and conformity. In schooling, academics are a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. The system takes real boys and girls and turns them into puppets ready to be strung up by any corporation, institution, or movement that can find a use for them.
If i remember correctly, the first thing I've heard about fake news were the farms over in Macedonia. Those guys realized in 2016 that you can make a pretty penny feeding Americans shit they wanted to hear, regardless of the truth.

Sometime in all of this, Russia must have taken notice (or was quietly in the picture the entire time) and started spreading misinformation for the purpose of division rather than clicks.

I have a few thoughts on all of this. First off in a way I sympathize with all the folks running content farms abroad. You have to respect the hustle and ingenuity. I also think that much of this fake news is on Americans for eating the shit up.

One thing that has always bugged me about the narrative of "fake news" and "disinformation" or "misinformation" online is that it always made the readers/consumers seem like helpless victims. It's always "we have to stop misinformation", "we have to stop these troll farms", never "we have to educate ourselves to be more savvy". The narrative seems to be that the readers of this crap have zero agency, and we have to go out of our way to protect them from his harmful information.
We had some sort of rodent, probably a rat, eat almost the entire engine wiring harness in my wife's car. In 48 hours. In the middle of Austin, TX.

Took 6 months to get the thing working again.
> That wouldn’t feed the narrative of conservative Christians being idiot rubes

Yeah, I don’t think that is Relevant’s goal here:

https://www.relevantmagazine.com/about/

Our Mission

We’re twenty- and thirtysomething Christians seeking God and striving to impact the world around us. We are people who want to live well—outwardly, creatively and intentionally. We are pro-Church and want to love our neighbors as ourselves. We serve the Creator, so we love great art—whether that be redemptive music, movies, books or design. We are daily seeking to show how God is at work in the world and in our generation.
How does a landing page work if it doesn’t offer a next step?

Maybe we’re not aligned on what a “call-to-action” is, but sort of tautologically a landing page should direct me to how I can try out / buy / learn more / etc. If it doesn’t do that, what’s the premise? I see a thing that looks interesting and then it’s my job to go on a hunt to figure out how to get it?
What's worst is the pages that hit you with several pop-ups before you can even read the content: sometimes they ask for your email address twice and also ask if you want to get push notifications.

As they say in Germany, "Bitte Keine!"

Seriously, the "call-to-action" that doesn't flow naturally from the content is a scourge of the web in 2021. There's the audiophile blog that pops up a dialog asking if you are "confused" and want to book an appointment (Pro tip: that's why I haven't been to a stereo store since 1999) There's nothing you can do that makes you look more inauthentic than that.
This legislation should have been implemented 10 years ago. A good step as it seems.
Sideloading to the Go, not Quest right?
Don't quit! I'd rather have good, honest people working at Google, instead of them quitting Google. What would Google be like if no good people worked there?
> “We have empowered inauthentic actors to accumulate huge followings for largely unknown purposes.”

So, almost like a religion?
Exciting stuff, congrats. One note, the sponsor link on PyFilesystem is broken, https://github.com/PyFilesystem/pyfilesystem2
You are correct - thanks!
Facebook banned all anti-vax content 7 months ago, according to the article
"That was a special case. They messed up..."

Well good thing that'll never happen again, right? /s

Given the repeated failings and intentional or unintentional misinformation we've seen thus far, why do you believe them messing up is a "special case"?
There's nothing wrong with a contact link.

Collecting email addresses for the sake of collecting email addresses is a mug's game. (It's the royal road to having your emails end up in a spam folder.) Collecting email addresses of people who are deeply interested in your service or product is golden. Doing the first is the enemy of the last.
Agreed. I don't want to gain steam though. I want to facilitate meaningful, one-on-one, anonymous discussion, through minimal interactions with my website. Showing the resulting discussions to the general public only comes second.
Even if everyone quit, they could hold the ship steady and hire anyone else in the world that wants to make millions of dollars, because we know consumer habits will not change.

I could even imagine people wanting to work for Google to actively harm society as a form of Cold War. Because of this, it is probably better for people to stay and fight for good, but I might be wrong.
I agree that handling offline devices is important. I've tried before an "offline first" database before, and it ended up really difficult to feel like an online and synced app. So I think I'm going to have to go with some caching system.

I'm hoping this thread produces some good choices. Ideally, other than account creation (which seems like requiring internet is fine), everything caches automatically and syncs magically. Offline account creation would be great, until you want to verify people's email addresses or use OAuth