skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fanatical certitude" isn't exactly the same as "science". Maybe change title to "Why fanatical certitude will never settle political disputes"?

What bugs me about these thesis is that they lead people to question science, as the best set of tools we have for reasoning, when used properly.
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I misspoke. I let the Forester. I just don’t use it for this anymore.
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The modern wisdom, "fake it till you make it", requires you to make it, otherwise you'll pay for lying to us.
One option is to use cloud storage and to pay for it. If thats not an option, how should an add-on decide what video to archive? A button besides the video, how often you watch it or whether you paste it somewhere else?
Honest question: are these the results of the seemingly industry-wide push to axe QA departments?
That’s the whole point of the feature: being able to track a phone that has been turned off.
If you’re afraid of FBI, CIA or Mossad tracking you with this feature, you can disable this on settings
I looked it up and YouTube is indeed headquartered in the United States of America, a known rogue state that regularly commits war crimes.
People forget that politics is preference.

Science deals in the objective while politics deals in the subjective (preferences).
Ethos is the hardest claim to assert. You have to live that one out; your community must, quite literally, bear witness to your actions which earn trust.
all of that loses to freezing an account and making your customer lose business, right? I can imagine having a bank account frozen, how much money and customers you can lose because of this.
Youtube should have instead declared war on the companies and people that are simply generating junk content to game their creator funds...

No one really wants to uncover the fact that most disinformation campaigns are simply created by people who are desperate to make money off of video views, and also those who want to sell off products (like horse de-wormer) that they may have an overstock of.

YouTube should de-monetize all independent and unverifiable political content instead of this censorship approach. Taking away the money making for people who just want to stoke public emotions to their benefit of popularity.

Politics should not be a for-profit business... No content platform wants to give that profit up because it generates a lot of money, but we face peril if the profits rise.

Make politics boring again. MPBA.
>The report found that troll farms were reaching the same demographic groups singled out by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA) during the 2016 election, which had targeted Christians, Black Americans, and Native Americans. A 2018 BuzzFeed News investigation found that at least one member of the Russian IRA, indicted for alleged interference in the 2016 US election, had also visited Macedonia around the emergence of its first troll farms, though it didn’t find concrete evidence of a connection. (Facebook said its investigations hadn’t turned up a connection between the IRA and Macedonian troll farms either.)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...
And for the whole story:

> In particular Rich and Textual, but also pyfilesystem and lomond

> In addition to working on Rich and Textual, [...] contribute to open source in other ways. [...] code reviews to open source projects

His focus seems to be mostly on Textual, which looks pretty neat.
Yup! Specifically we extract the full text for each website 8 URLs at a time right now, but you can still search over the titles and URLs while the full text is being collected
Honestly, the world has gone off the deep end. I don't even know where to start to explain, but it should be obvious for anyone what's wrong anyway.
You can probably do it just fine for every video you watched twice.
The challenge is to determine how misinformation is defined. Would peer reviewed scientific papers that come to different conclusions than the current CDC guidelines be considered anti-vaccine? Should we consider conflicts of interest or sources of funding when determining misinformation? Are open ended questions about the safety and efficacy allowed? What about other medications?
The point I am trying to make is way things work in US, most likely C-levels and high level officials of companies get away with it. I am sure there are cases when folks got into trouble. Apple had Antennagate for one of the iphones and even with a class-action lawsuit people got like $15 reimbursement. For these huge companies in most of the time amount of fines are more like margin of error in accounting spreadsheet.
While I agree that free speech is important, misinformation is nonetheless an important topic to discuss.

Public policy debates are important because it leads to a more accurate state and more informed decision, but not when anti-vaccine opponents continue to undermine accurate information at every turn.
It's not possible to embarrass someone with no shame. It's easy to lie and debate dishonestly[1]. Engaging in such a debate would only legitimize a position that may have no legitimacy to begin with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
The article is about keeping YouTube users from saying certain things on YouTube.
Consider the source of the article. Religion is very much the point for a website with a "Faith" heading.
I see you submitted 0 of those news stories to Hacker News.
Not sure whether to laugh or cry
The problem is that this assumes academics want to change and use new methods to distribute their work. The primary goal of all academics is to secure more grants - what happens afterwards is an afterthought.
> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.

Hell, I always thought anti-vaxxers were looneys and was first in line for the COVID shot when it was available in March... but even I'm starting to be convinced that the anti-vaxxers might have a point because of all this effort to silence them. I'm becoming vaccine... remorseful?
Precisely. This is a private company taking a stand against dangerous medical disinformation in the middle of a pandemic and HN is willing to die on this hill. Meanwhile I see HN cheer what you just mentioned. It churns the stomach.

Reminds me of how Reddit just dropped the ban hammer threat on /r/hermancainaward because it was making right-wingers angry, while leaving up /r/conspiracy and other antivaxx disinformation subreddits. The faces of the dead have to be censored now, sanitizing the entire experience of /r/hermancainaward, making the experience little more than a bunch of anonymous antivaxx memes.
Hmm, I wonder if Facebook could do that automatically? Like, write an algorithm to detect content farms and automatically hide them from your newsfeed.

I wonder why they’ve never done that…
You can't expect people to be informed and able to vote without access to information, including dissenting views.

The quacks do need to be out in the open facing ridicule. I think it gets worse if they are pushed to a telegram channel where they have no opposition.
The problem is that performance is variable. For example, it's not just wrong but meaningless to say "6x slower” because there are cases where Python is either faster or slower than PHP or JavaScript and you need to know what specific things you're comparing it to provide a number.

For example, I've seen people write entire programs in C and, after taking several weeks, realize their code was nowhere near as fast as the Python version because the code was bottlenecked on dictionary operations and Python's stdlib version was far more tuned than the C implementation they'd written (repeat for image handling where they wrote their own decoder, etc.). This is not to say that a C programmer shouldn't be able to beat Python — only that performance is not a boolean trait and it's important to know where the actual work is happening.

The important thing to know is that the GIL can be and is commonly released by C extensions. If your programs tend to be I/O bound (e.g. many web applications) or are using the many extensions which release the GIL as soon as they start working, your performance characteristics can be completely different from someone else's program which is CPU-bound and has different thread interactions.

This is why you can find some people who think the GIL is a huge problem and others who've only rarely encountered it. These days, I would typically move really CPU-bound code into Rust but I would also note that in the web-ish space I've worked in the accuracy rate of someone blaming the GIL for a performance issue has been really low[1] compared to the number of times it was something specific to their algorithm.

1. I'm reminded of the time someone went on a rant about how Python was too slow to use for a multithreaded program working with with gzipped-JSON files — 3 months and an order of magnitude more lines of Go later they had less than a 10% win because Python's zlib extension drops the GIL when the C code starts running and was about the same speed as Go's gzip implementation, both running much faster than storage. The actual problem was that the Python code was originally opening and closing file handles on a network filesystem for every operation instead of caching them.
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> What do you think people should do differently when reporting these issues?

... sell vulns to bad actors for Monero or something?
I also noticed the writing was particularly poor. And not just the technical detail... Everything from grammar to general syntax needs tweaking for ease-of-reading.
I still use xv. And yes, I registered it :)
== but you want to find an excuse to the supporters of the things you agree with.==

We should be aware of our mind’s ability to play this trick. Have you analyzed if you might be falling into this trap? Who is it that I agree with, exactly? I don’t remember stating. It seems you have filled in your own details of who I am and what I believe with a nice straw man that you can attack.

Ironically, I’m struggling to think of a historical figure that was more socialist than Jesus.

== or that "those bastards deserved to die."==

And I’ve heard from plenty of “Christians” that the Crusades were justified, slavery wasn’t that bad, immigrants are rats, Manifest Destiny justifies Native American slaughter, and on and on.
Tale as old as time:

VSCode vs Atom

WebExtensions vs XUL

Mod API vs patching game files

Vim vs emacs
Good luck. https://xkcd.com/386/
Right to ask, but not without also balancing against the issue of people being utter idiots. A little sensible conversation has lead to tens of thousands of hours doctors talking patients down when they come in demanding anti-parasitic medicines.

I don't know what the best balance is. One thing is evident: social media is not the venue for scientific debate.
You’re right, Caramack has been working on the Go.

Sideloading does work on the Quest. The Go work has been a more open OS.
They should have gotten an even larger fine when they announced that you shouldn’t talk about personal information near your television. I mean, WTF?!
I agree strongly, but my point is that in modern social forums the only difference between advertising and content is who is getting paid. I can promote my drug through traditional advertising, or I can promote my drug by sponsoring channels, or I can promote my drug by hiring a "viral marketing" firm to try and spread rumors about how my drug is so much more effective than the competition but being held back by an evil shadowy cabal of big pharma.
I would like to point out the underlying thought behind your comment - that truth is more on the left then right. If a professor doesn't tow the line, they will lose their funding, reputation, and job.

As someone who was a chemistry professor with great reviews for the majority of a decade, and left after being told by the dean of science that "it's not advantageous that you are a white scientist" and "you came from a well educated family right?" (I didn't). This came after years of increasing discomfort with the state of college education.

I wasn't and still am not a republican - I see myself much more comfortable as critical of the left. The political left in college environments is now super unhealthy since it's the vast majority of the professorate - to the point that ideas that can be associated with the right are simply wrong if not morally repugnant.

Do you agree that any disparity is evidence of racism, and that policies either increase disparity (and are racist) or decrease disparity (and therefore anti-racist)? That was the current discussion when I left the field. For example I'll pull from the nytimes discussion (not a right leaning news source) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-bl... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/world/boston-mayor-janey-... Are new york vaccine mandates racist since they disproportionately effect BIPOC? This type of discussion was so far removed from science and so deeply held that anything other than full acceptance of that was career suicide.

At the college I worked at, the 80%+ of the faculty I worked at was female, 80%+ of the department heads were female, 80%+ of the deans were female, 80%+ of the VPs were female, the college president was female, and the majority of the students were female. Female was considered diverse in hiring and diversity was considered very important.

To your comment, I was trying to be a truth-seeker as a scientist and academic, and I left the academia because it stopped seeking truth in an honest way.
Nope, I'm happy to be tracked. I actually enabled Google Maps to track me all the time because I would like to be able to
look back at Google Timeline[0] and see where I have been at particular time in the past.

Since a few years, I'm in Turkey and I know that in this country the GSM operators track your location constantly and keep the records indefinitely. How do I know that? Well, in Turkey every SIM card is tied to a proven identity(ID scan is required even for pre-paid SIMs) and getting the GSM signal records to prove whereabouts of someone at particular time has become a standard practice on criminal cases. Everyone is well aware of being tracked by the govt. With Apple and Google, I at least get something out of it.

[0]: https://timeline.google.com/
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Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have been censoring content that nearly exclusively goes against left wing opinion narratives. At the top of Twitter right now are the DNC's "expert" opinion on whether the vaccine mandates are legal. They're shoving their political speech down everyones throat and censoring as many opposing views as they can get away with. But let's say that's legal for now.

If we take a equitable view of the situation, the vast majority of content that they're removing is simply being removed for wrong-think according to the DNC. This gives the Democratic party a leg up through overt censorship and information warfare of a sort they couldn't possibly have achieved through direct government action.

Whether that's legal or not is immaterial to me, they are stifling legal free speech of the de-facto public square, and those who cheer it on now won't be so happy in the future when the alignment of special interests shifts against them, I promise you it will happen and sooner than anyone thinks.

Google is a cancer on public discourse, how many fake media narratives have to collapse before people realize censorship of wrong-think is not a good idea for a healthy society?

Edit: Looks like Twitter finally removed their ridiculous propaganda from the trending section.
What happens when multiple packages want to modify the same code?
I'm really having to rein in my SWE-desire to start pitching "what if we just" fixes to this thread.
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If it was illegal to point out they are wrong, would they have retracted it or protected their ego?
>I think we have to ask if this won't have a chilling effect on open discussion by moderate voices

first, youtube isnt where open discussion by moderate voices happens. Its a cavalcade of endlessly random videos promoting everything from free energy to colloidal silver cures and get rich quick schemes.

Second, the topic of conversation is vaccination methodology during an ongoing pandemic in which a sizeable quantity of affected persons refuse to vaccinate. This is without a doubt a sensitive topic and likely shouldnt use Youtube as a forum. You should have a gatekeeper and there should be a minimum level of scientific competency and acumen required to participate in the conversation. A moderator should exist, and that moderator is not youtube.

Might i suggest matrix or signal? or perhaps even pleroma?

as an aside, the concept of an "anti-vaccine activist" is puerile and absolutely should be banned. No reasonable person would evangelize healthy adults forego vaccination during a global pandemic.
I feel this misses a larger point: a large chunk of valuable OSS work isn't about innovation, but about maintenance: keeping the same things working in a developing ecosystem.

As long as we keep framing all software development as "innovation", there will never be enough money for the infrastructure underpinning the real innovative work, and that both makes it appear that innovation is much more expensive than it really is, and that software development is somehow maintenance-free.
How do you know the information is accurate?
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
Don't be evil, eh?
"youtube is a safe place for all" YUCK
There is a certain legitimate distrust at this point over the lab leak issue. That's because of those two papers published in I believe Nature and the Lancet claiming that the evidence strongly supported a natural origin theory; those papers have now been discredited and some of the authors have deleted their Twitter accounts after exposure of their own emails that questioned natural origin theories due to anomalies in the viral sequence. That's very suspicious behavior for 'peer-reviewed research'.
Not having the ability to properly interact or socialize with people is a pretty significant handicap, IMHO. Sure, a person with ASD and a high intelligence can eventually find a place in society. It's the people with average intelligence and ASD that suffer.
That would be another sensible approach. Or Youtube would need to employ doctors that judge on a case by case basis and articulate their decisions. Anything else is a bad solution in my opinion and this current position warrants a lot of pushback in my opinion.
> I almost feel like people are siding with the anti-vaxxers out of "principle".

I can confirm your suspicions in my case. I'm vaccinated (against COVID, the flu, and tetanus, and all the other things you can get vaccinated against), but I think YouTube is wrong here.
>why is a Packager necessary instead of virtually packaging and presenting an interface of a packaged file?

Maybe I'm parsing your question wrong but perhaps the confusion is cleared up if we remember that the "CDN" in the Netflix architecture diagram is not physically stored at AWS S3 : https://miro.medium.com/max/350/1*A5PR2QJ7STPbUd2xTg6z_g.png

See: https://www.google.com/search?q=netflix+cdn+appliance+%22ope...

And a recent 2021 article says the Netflix CDN appliance has ~280 terabytes of local disk storage: https://dev.to/gbengelebs/netflix-system-design-how-netflix-...

Thus, the "output" video files of Packager is eventually physically transferred to geographically distributed ISP datacenters.

So to attempt to reconstruct Netflix's thought process...

Once we work backwards from the need to eventually store copies of video content on distant Netflix CDN appliances, the question becomes which type of video file to store:

(a) the codec-specific format (good for archival storage that can generate new downstream formats) -- but not optimized for client playback such as fast random seeking, a/v sync across dynamic changing resolutions, etc)

-- or --

(b) the codec-agnostic format -- which is good for client device seeking, etc

The option (a) wouldn't make sense since it you'd still need a cpu-intensive process (the "virtual packager to read chunks" in your words instead of The Packager) running at the ISP appliance to present client-device-optimized a/v streams. You'd have wasteful cpu cycles across multiple appliances creating the same "virtual package".

So that leaves option (b) ... which means you need a batch process of some type (what Netflix calls Packager) running against AWS S3 storage to create a package for subsequent distribution to all appliances.

Therefore, if your proposal of "virtually packaging and presenting an interface of a packaged file" can be reworded as "on-the-fly generated ephemeral a/v frames from the chunks" , their physical topology and need for efficient use of cpu wouldn't make that an optimal architecture.
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Good. They're dangerous morons.
Surely vim can manage its own display and you don't need multiple terminals each running their own instance?
You can mirror Youtube channels with Peertube. No need for the extra step.
Fortran has the more optimized libraries (blas) and is also capable of optimizations that C isn't (guarantees that pointers dont alias).
The two are not contradictory.
They're making an effort to silence them after allowing rampant misinformation for a year and a half because in the US we still have over 30% of the population not vaccinated and the death toll continues to climb.
Alternatively: a palm and its print are easily fooled

I'll see myself out
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This article is just trying to sell the reader on the "Rare Breed" idea. For every successful "Rare Breed," there are nine who failed. I say let the companies decide who they want to employ.
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I would expect tapping the power button would turn most devices with a power button on. With respect to charging it, for most users that's probably the correct behavior. There are 2 reasons people seem to turn off (not just airplane mode or disabling some things) their phones:

1. To preserve a low battery or because the battery has died.

2. To fully disable the device.

(1) is by far the most common of the two. In that case, once it's charging then turning back on automatically is the desired behavior. In the case of (2), if you have a strong motivation (avoiding detection, for instance) then you'd presumably have done a bit of research or noticed that this happens and make deliberate choices around how you use and charge the device.
> If only Hacker News crowd noticed when thousands of videos with interviews, medical lectures, news footage and even congressional testimonies were removed for political reasons within the last couple years.

Do you happen to have any reference that points out which content was removed for political reasons?

You're on HN. If said censorship exists then nothing stops you from pointing it on HN.
> [...] when reading many small packets from a network socket [...]

Yeah, I should've said it more carefully. That's what I was hinting at with the mention of Amdahl's law. The separate bits of I/O are done in C extensions which can release the GIL, and those can be done in parallel (with each other and your computation), but if each bit of work is small, the synchronization cost (reacquiring the GIL for each packet) becomes relatively large.
Why do we always assume that it's "misinformation" and that if people were told or shown better, they would want better. Many times, people actually want the bad thing. I can't help but see the "Free Speech" alarmism on HN originating from the fact that the market of ideas is no longer participating in arguments about right-wing viewpoints, but is actively moving against them and taking them off the shelf.