skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's entirely legal - and often appropriate - for someone with shitty views to be persecuted. People who march in neo-Nazi rallies with swastikas should see non-governmental consequences for their actions.

Who decides what counts as shitty views? Is it decided solely based off your political preference? How do you feel about people who march in pro-socialim rallies facing see non-governmental consequences for their actions, during the mccarthy era?
Yeah, sorry, i was misled by a google shopping ad summary. Edited the post for correctness.
Israeli study says getting infected creates 13x stronger immune response than the vaccine versus Delta. How much stronger do we need to get that justifies taking the vaccine at that point? This is the entire point of why they say vaccine mandates are wrong for those that already had it.
Banning means the content is not accessible at all.

Changing the Algorithm would mean the content is less discoverable but could still spread outside the platform via alternative methods, such as Tweets, Links, emails, slack, etc.

There is a difference, and the effect is not the same
Trucks or vans with 4x4 drive are pretty common in Mexico, Brazil, the middle east.

You're falling into the same trap that the article and GP's are highlighting: your experience that a FWD vehicle is enough "for me / my relatives" does not apply to this situation.

1) survival in animal / vehicle collusions with bears, deers, and moose

2) delivery of goods, including building material, animal feed, human food, etc

3) lack of even basic road infrastructure maintenance by government or municipality

4) "over prepared is only prepared", you're it, you're on your own

I lived for 20 years in a semi-rural area; you could certainly live for 99% of the time without a large cargo vehicle or 4x4. The other 1% you were chancing your life. Cargo and deliveries were certainly an issue though. Now just slide that ratio towards the middle.
The other half of the population probably believes you are evidence that free speech has failed. Would you give up your own free speech to show the strength of your convictions?

More seriously, what would be your solution to a country where two major power blocs both believe that free speech is acceptable so long as it stays inside their respective overton windows?
The real answers:

* YouTube’s team of content moderators who are directed ultimately by YouTube’s ELT. So… humans. I mean if we expect every highschooler in the US to be able to read a book and interpret its meaning I think we can figure out what anti-vaccine content looks like.

* That same team is going to draw the line. If it were me I would bring the banhammer on any content that had hints of grey because unless the fence is electrified people will try to cozy up to it.

* I mean yeah. You trust them literally every day 24/7 if you use YouTube at all. I don't see what's different now.

The solution is that groups of people who are actively purposely spreading disinformation that is right now in real life killing people loses the platform they have to spread that disinformation.

In the trolly problem of “I can’t say the vaccine contains government microchips and my relatives who are susceptible to this garbage might actually get the vaccine” and “I can say that spike proteins are causing salmonella but Aunt Susie will actually believe me” I know which way I’m pulling the lever.

What’s the body count and risk to others where you think it’s time for someone to be the adult and say you’re not actually allowed to be this stupid anymore because it’s hurting people?
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> The design of Haskell also encourages users to be very clever, which only makes code harder to read.

This is BS - find me some "clever" code in one of these Haskell projects and I bet it's not clever but simply using a set of abstractions there maintainers like and grok and the reader just doesn't understand.
I see, I'll definitely make one.
hmm I mean yes but

author mentions doing science because 'scala is slower than java' -- they're talking about in prod, but build times are also slower. why not just use better tools?

heard a one liner once about react I think which was like 'FB is hiring rocket scientists to get to par with 90s web performance'

twitter is a cool site but it isn't curing cancer, it isn't feeding people, it's solving rails bugs caused by a celeb selfie during the grammies.

is the subtext here 'hiring rocket scientists in organizational sea caves because you can't hire rocket scientists to run the company and impose good practices top down'
In terms of human viruses, governments have only eradicated smallpox and almost polio. We will not be able to eradicate SARS-CoV-2 the same way. Unlike smallpox and polio there are animal hosts (most other mammal species can carry and transmit the virus) and the vaccines don't reliably prevent infection. So I encourage everyone to get vaccinated to protect themselves, but we need to face reality that the virus will never be eradicated.
At this point in time, nobody not vaccinated yet is interested in your propaganda. Also, the post you are replying to is already sort of doxing his own wife, so please dont make it even worse by capitalising on that.
My thinking exactly... but it's a vicious cycle.... As long as YT is the biggest source, people will flock to it to search there first...

A proposed solution is:

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.
Doesn't that kind of depend on the license?
They aren't credible, but for other reasons. Remember when covid wasn't airborne and thus masks didn't do anything unless worn by professionals? And border closures wouldn't be necessary and only xenophobes would call for them? And then how they banned corona tests by anyone but the CDC? And the approval delays?

They're playing politics, worry about second-order effects before first-order ones and do 180° turns instead of focusing on the core mission of assessing whether something is a) safe b) likely effective. The same situation happened again with the booster approvals, they dragged their feet again and decided that only those above 65 should be allowed to get them when in practice some international travelers already are forced to get more than two shots due to inconsistent regulations.

More nuanced policy, communicating uncertainty and "currently not recommended but allowed" middle grounds would help their credibility.
I've followed the case fairly closely. I'm not aware that this is part of her defense. Where did you get this from?
Rescuetime changed my life -- I once hired someone to slap me in the face whenever I was unproductive on rescuetime -- and I ended up being all over the news because of it! https://blog.rescuetime.com/how-i-saved-4-hours-per-day-usin...

Because of the experience, I built a wearable device company to make sure I stay productive -- we even integrate with rescuetime! (i'm getting vibrations right now whenever I'm in flow/90%+ productive).

Thanks for building such awesome tech, and let me know if you'd like to work on an integration together!

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Hello Paul.

At the bottom of that guide is a link, alongside the following copy: When less is more: Empirical study of the relation between consumer behavior and information provision on commercial landing pages. In a nutshell, less information increased conversion rate. Lack of context, but still interesting:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324965555_When_less...

Landing pages are not meant to be done and dusted, they are meant to evolve. Landing pages are not meant for all, so visitors do need to be based on a persona. A persona has to be based on facts, therefore you should know the visitors to a certain degree.

"What do you know about me?"; if too many people are creeped out, then the landing page needs working on. If there is an acceptable conversion rate, and a small percentage are creeped out, then that may or may not be acceptable. You can't win them all, so you win the ones you can and see what can or should be done to attain more.

What is important is that there needs to be understanding and appreciation of the internal dialogue, and you show and/or to tell to whatever degree.

If the landing page creator is overwhelmed, so be it. If the visitor is overwhelmed, then either the visitor was the wrong persona or the landing page needs working on. The guide is not meant for all, it is meant for a specific persona.

Edit: To clarify my last line: If the specific persona is overwhelmed, then yes it will need working on, but based on showing it to them. Some have said it is heavy, and it took a bit of time to get their head round it. That's acceptable. However, there is a v2 that covers a lot more, but it will have to wait.

Cheers, Ace.
I agree. This is actually my chief complaint about YouTube's front page. I wish there were options to categorically remove videos from channels I'm subscribed to and videos I've already watched from the recommendation feed.
I shouldn't need to be "warned" about some wrongthink by a platform that believes they know the world best. It's dystopian as fuck.
> Right and Trump got boo'ed for saying people should get vaccinated because he's reaping the consequences of speaking without thought.

Trump saying that massively reduced Democrats opinion on vaccines and massively increased Republicans opinion on vaccines though. People shift their opinions really easy over tiny things, every little bit that makes one side more convincing helps pushing people to the correct realization and vice versa. So it is very possible to convince a lot of people, thinking otherwise just ensure those people wont get convinced. It is a spectrum, every tiny step helps a lot, there is never a point where being more convincing no longer helps.

https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro...
Do you any evidence this is is common? Plenty of heads of open source projects are hired by large companies. I've seen zero evidence of them not remaining independent but maybe I'm just unaware of those cases.
Companies LOVE unpaid labor and they push incessantly for "company-friendly" weak licenses.

We need to take back FLOSS from SaaS providers and similar megacorps: please use AGPL.
The "put other people in danger" fallacy is the same appeal to emotion again. Its nonsense, you would never apply this kind of "logic" anywhere else.
Do you ban cars because you dont need one and all others put you, your children their grandparents in danger? No you dont.

If you dont want to be run over at any cost its your task to stay away form cars.
Similarly if you dont wanna get covid at any cost its your task to hide in the basement and dont let anyone in vaccinated or not.

Alternatively you can accept that life is a deadly risk and do the common sense things to reduce the risk for you and your loved ones and move on.
This may be taking the vaccine, putting on a mask, avoiding crowded places or even ware a warn west so you are less likely to be run over by a car. All of that is fine. It stops being fine if you demand others to do something so you can feel safe. Especially if what you demand infringed basic rights and/or is not solving the problem but just lowers the risk by an unknown possibly insignificant amount.

Its reasonable to demand that cars have working breaks because they need them anyway. The breaks aren't there to protect you from cars. Its however not reasonable to demand that all cars have advanced pedestrian detection that makes in impossible to run over people. It doesn't matter if you would feel safer that way or that it would safe X numbers of lives. Not because we dont care about lives but because making such a requirement would simply make most car driving people criminals and not actually save lives. Similarly if you demand unvaccinated people to stay at home, all you get is that you criminalizing people for leaving their home. It wont make them take the vaccine and it wont protect you from covid.
Good. It's long past time we stop humoring the destructive delusional narcissism of anti-vaxxers. Let them build their own fucking YouTube to host their bullshit.
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Youtube doesn't give me a reliable feed of my subscriptions. If I haven't watched something in a few months, it's basically dead to the algorithm.

This is obnoxious since I tend to watch series of documentaries, and I prefer to watch many episodes in a row. Stuff just poofs out of existence.
Or you could have convinced Lisa Shaw:

"Lisa Shaw: Presenter's death due to complications of Covid vaccine"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-58330796

Or this lady in New Zealand:

"New Zealand woman dies after receiving Pfizer vaccine"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58380867

Or the parents of this boy

"Michigan boy dies 3 days after getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, CDC is investigating"

https://eu.freep.com/story/news/2021/07/02/jacob-clynick-pfi...
We live in a world where the rat that heads the NIAD cannot bring himself to publicly say that natural immunity (i.e. you’ve recovered from COVID) provides substantial protection and instead says things like “we’re still looking at the data on that…”: https://twitter.com/drsanjaygupta/status/1436133536239599619

If we’re going to let that continue unchallenged then banning dissenting voices is a drop in the bucket.
If those in the positioning of governing achieve a sufficient disdain for the governed, they convince themselves that the populace is too stupid to pursue truth. You may find this a stretch, but it's roughly consistent with calling the voting public "deplorables."
Take the case of motorcycle helmets. Not wearing a helmet increases the risk of traumatic brain injury in a crash. And, people living with TBI get a lot of care at the expense of federal and state taxpayers.

Would a "libertarian" approach to motorcycle helmet requirements deny social security disability income or medicaid to persons injured in a motorcycle crash without a helmet?

Similar questions apply to car-crash injuries without seat belts, and to serious disease in people who refuse vaccines.

At any rate, I do a lot of road bicycling in New Hampshire, always wearing a helmet. Some motorcyclists, legally, don't wear helmets. Enough of those same motorcyclists disrespect other users of the road that it's wise to pull over until they pass.

We don't all live in places with less than 100 people per square mile.
This isn't "expert" level knowledge. This is a basic principle of any client / server system.

In fact, including default client side protections would not have fixed this issue (since this issue involved bypassing client side protection.)
Or even their entire account (to continue with the YouTube parallel).
Right, people like you need to be stopped. Lets stop talking to people like you, and support them in our community. Lets stop helping people like you if they need something. Lets just drop people like you out of society.
Refusing a safe and effective vaccine (that clearly wins any risk/benefit on your personal level!, not just population wide) is such an odd choice.

Past vaccines, like against measles and smallpox, were so effective that eejits like you never had to learn the importance of vaccination, before now.
But you can inform yourself on both sides of a given issue by simply watching videos from different channels.
I can't believe you've done this.
I said to myself, before opening the Guardian article, "I very much doubt I will agree with the Guardian that this (as yet unnamed person) is the most dangerous man in the world."

Hmm... Perhaps not the most dangerous man in the world. Perhaps Xi Jinping or Putin deserves that moniker. But among public thought leaders, yeah, Singer is up there. Kudos to the Guardian for allowing this opinion to be expressed on their platform.
The sleepiness of a vaccinated Covid victim is not a scientific way to measure their risk prior to vaccination.
While I'm not aware of anything quite like what you've described, some possibilities for accessing the scientific literature as an individual are discussed here: https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/how-do-you-access-recent-...
Fortunately the First Amendment doesn't allow the US government to regulate such activities just because elitist authoritarians consider them harmful. This is an area where fundamental rights overrule cost-benefit analysis.
It would also be much harder to render or edit.
> You want the government to start mandating that a company can't take a stance . . .

I, for one, want less monopolistic media so that the people can exert viewership pressure; they can get their media elsewhere and the ad money will follow. The content being stopped is not the only loss of people's voices happening here.
You're only "knowingly transmitting an infectious disease" if you leave your house with COVID symptoms or a recent positive test result, not just if you aren't vaccinated against it.
He has a more recent edition that deals with x86_64, too

https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly

I haven’t read it yet, but skimming it, I don’t see many references to HLA which is nice.

It’s oriented towards windows and masm, but seems like a good intro to the subject even if you’re working with macOS (intel) or Linux.
Yeah, looking at the linked study in the article, it seems folks who fought it off easily (often with low initial viral load) tended to be the ones who consistently tested blood serum antibody-negative. So if you had it and didn't get much more than a cough, there's a fair chance you didn't develop antibodies. Generic and local immune responses beat it in a lot of those cases (I gather), not virus-specific antibodies and a broad system-wide immune response.
They're deleting a digital copy of evidence of war crimes. It's not like you can prank someone into being a war criminal filling up their storage with war crime videos, so that they're forced to delete it.
I just think Big Tech not using scrum is a strange way to make an argument against scrum since there are sectors in tech that ship faster imo. So why not look at the fastest shipping segments and see what they use.

I would love to hear from Big Tech employees if they feel like they ship a lot. To give a baseline, 1k LOC per developer per week is a lot. That's what the highest performing teams can produce.
There in Germany y’all do lots of stuff:

Scientologists in Germany face specific political and economic restrictions. They are barred from membership in some major political parties, and businesses and other employers use so-called "sect filters" to expose a prospective business partner's or employee's association with the organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_in_Germany
It used to be that I didn't want to work for Google because I'm not a fan of surveillance capitalism and all of the second order effects. I'm now realizing that there is a second, just-as-important reason: the level of censorship that Google enables.

A few years ago I wouldn't have thought there could possibly be a second reason just as important to me as the centralized, pervasive surveillance... but here we are.
What exactly do you expect me to link to? A thousand "this video does not exist" pages? YouTube does not track its own moderation. That's part of the problem.

Here are some well-written examples by Matt Taibi:

https://taibbi.substack.com/?sort=search&search=censored

Here is Glenn Greenvald explaining why he moved to Rumble:

https://rumble.com/vl268j-welcome-to-glenn-greenwalds-system...

Note that he doesn't claim he was censored. He just doesn't want to support a platform that censors in general.

...

The latest example I've seen directly was a strike against Dr. Mobeen Sayd's channel because he interviewed Pierre Kory. To put it into context, it's a channel from an MD with 10 years worth of educational content. It got a confirmed strike last week because he interviewed another doctor several month ago. There were also 50+ other videos deleted from the channel.

This is the video in question:

https://odysee.com/@DrMobeenSyed:1/dr.-pierre-kory,-ivermect...

Here is YouTube search confirming it does not exist on the original channel anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/c/USMLEOnline/search?query=Dr.%20Pie....)

It's time-consuming to provide these examples and it's impossible to know when people are asking for proof in good faith and when they are just play-acting ignorance.
They keep moving the number for herd immunity. Biden want 97% vaccinated. Fauci is following Biden.
> Across the entire spectrum you're at less risk from the vaccine than you are from the disease.

The current survival rate from the virus is at around 99.2%. The vaccine may or may not have long term health effects. How is taking the virus head on less risky?
You consider seat belt laws a violation of your personal freedom?
Yo. I want! How about Oculus Go compatibility, especially since Facebook decided to be a step closer to "reasonable" when it comes to sideloading et al?
As someone who already stubs every stubable body part, I don't need new ones to bash into things.
To be eccentric, you need to be crazy and rich. Otherwise you're just crazy.
You have premised that some content recommender uses an algorithm that creates clusterization of positions, and you conclude that «the only way» is to eliminate one of the two positions. I hope this sentence makes it clear where the issue is.

Which /also/ means, the reasonable moderates of the censored position disappear. With consequences.

Which should contain the rebuttal to that first "proposal": the "centrist algorithm".
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Given that Ford gave its classic sportscar "Mustang" badge to an EV SUV rather than anything resembling a classic Mustang, Ford seems to be putting a lot of work into avoiding sedans/coupes even in EVs.
All your points are true but they don't lead to the conclusion that censorship is the answer. The problem is the attention algorithms create an echo chamber with little room for distasteful alternatives. The quack content is on page 1 getting all the money from anyone on a particular rabbit hole. There shouldn't be this rabbit hole, the quack content should always be on page 12. And in the earlier days of Google before the heavy focus on personalisation, this is the way it worked.
> one of the missing pieces is situations where some parts of the object graph should not be visible or editable by certain users. That sort of thing comes up the whole time and can be pretty complex yet is often just handwaved away.

I discovered this problem in my domain about two months ago. My solution was to split my Aggregate Root into smaller pieces, to use DDD terminology. In my domain, each user/client owns their own data. However they may choose to publish that data and have it be publicly visible so others may view/comment/copy/pull-request it. It's basically Github for flashcards. So, I have an Aggregate Root for publicly visible flashcards, and another Aggregate Root for a user's personal flashcards. It helps that there are distinct behaviors for each Aggregate Root - there's no real point to leaving a comment on a personal flashcard, and there's no real point to "studying" a public flashcard (because that implies logging your study history to the public card). It does mean, however, that there needs to be a translation layer - it should be possible to convert a private flashcard to a publicly visible one, and it should also be possible to copy a public flashcard to your own personal collection.

Obviously this is very domain specific.
Give me liberty or give me death. Very simple.