skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a funny twist of fate, I for one have become less and less worried about the "opposite" scenario coming to pass, as time goes on and we observe the evolution of political discourse at least in America (and to a lesser extent globally perhaps).

What I mean is, the general trend towards anti-intellectualism in the right-wing, means that their policy positions generally trend towards being based on opinions rather than facts, and become further and further divorced from reality. For example, think about banning contraception or sex education, which are proven to reduce teen pregnancy and abortions; these are counterproductive policy positions the right wing takes, because they don't care to judge policies by their factual outcomes, but instead by what "feels right".

Ergo, as time passes, I find it less and less likely that corporations or organizations that have to live in the real world, deal with practical real world facts and outcomes, will end up taking right wing policy positions or censoring pro-reality positions. It would be fundamentally anti-profit and anti-capitalist to do so and goes against their self-interest (which is an incentive structure that political parties don't share, as spewing misinformation and even acting irrationally won't necessarily lose them voters or supporters, but companies who act irrationally will over time tend to be less profitable), which is cynically the best available guarantee of good decision-making that we have in our broken society.

TLDR: I am not worried about a world where "round Earther's" or pro-vaxx positions get censored, because corporations know that round Earth and pro-vaxx policies lead to better outcomes, being better grounded in reality.
This. Im wondering how this is possible, high haskell reusability / easy to get familiar with codebases & extend them when familiar with hs or being a genius? I guess its the first
Thanks for the assumption, it clarified a lot about what you think about the situation.
I wouldn't blame YouTube here. I would blame the anti-vaxxers. They created an impossible atmosphere for youtube to navigate.
I’ve been archiving some content before, but recent occurrences keep strengthening my belief that there needs to be a collaborative archive.

A single party can’t archive everything they may ever look for, often enough you don’t even know what it may be (and when you do it’s too late).

Are there any projects like this? I imagine a decentralization through something like torrents or IPFS (with the caveat that different encodings of the same video will of course have different hashes).

Is such a project already a thing? Are other people interested in doing this?
RGB color cubes use the color space poorly. That's why the Nintendo NES looked better with 54 colors than a 256 color space organized as a cube.
Taken to its logical end, that would also prevent many very useful channels from existing. What about all the people who live with a mental illness and also have a Youtube channel documenting that experience? Should that be prohibited too? For which disorders? If you remove all ADHD-related individual content from YouTube, you're harming the platform and a crapton of people who have bettered their lives with the aid of such videos.
> Private companies seem to be the only ones with the resources to store all the video content we produce,

If you are producing videos at such a rate that you as the producer cannot actually save the content, then maybe you're doing it wrong.

If you are producing content for the exclusive use/distribution by a private company that is known to have draconian automated decision making processes, you have to expect that you will one day run afoul of those decisions.

The majority of content produced in mass quantity is also content that is such banal quality that it deserves to be lost to the ether.
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Can't it be? Like at the router level, maybe?
Surely. But frankly I don’t feel like it.
Interesting. You want to assign all blame to the followers of the things you disagree with, but you want to find an excuse to the supporters of the things you agree with.

> Those funds helped pay to cover up human rights abuses.

Possibly true. But the people donating money were not doing it with the intent of "let's help the child molesters go unpunished". On the other hand, I've heard/read from far too many socialists that they fully support Che's actions, or that "those bastards deserved to die."
I like the model of charging for open source software, perhaps with slightly better support in return. It doesn't have to be as serious as the RedHat model either.

Something like how Bitwarden does it seems reasonable to me. You can run your own server if you buy a license, or you could just take their source and comment out the license check, but the license is so cheap so why bother?

I do wish they had a lifetime license though. I hate subscriptions.
I'm happy the hardware isn't locked down.

I love my iPad, but it's ultimately an expensive content consumption device.

The Steamdeck can run whatever you want on it, this opens it up to being useful even a decade from now.
Sounds like you realize doctors do have some expert knowledge after all.
What? The “competitive landscape” is for companies trying to hire people who can deliver anything, thus creating workers who absolutely cannot be replaced without severe ramp-up times on many projects.
If I was this sort of scammer, I’d have the text being posted and progression of how hard it is to figure out pretty well ironed down. Then you just try it on lots of platforms to find the ones that don’t figure out how to solve the issue. So my guess would be they tried because they might as well, and then they hit the limit of how much effort they had put into their own generation systems and moved on to the next mark.
Science backs nature as key to children’s health
I think Dan addresses this in the post. "Core business" just isn't well enough defined to be useful. Why is optimizing the kernel Twitter's core business, but not writing it? Because the ROI on the former is high for Twitter, but the ROI on the latter is low.

If you're going to stretch things to call the kernel maintenance and optimization Twitter's core business, then you have the consequence that you don't know what your core business is until you spend a lot of time exploring which things are going to be effective uses of your money. Imo, that's too much of a stretch.
Yeah because they turn into nerds looooooooool
This is a well written and in depth article, it must have taken a lot of time and effort to write. Big thanks to the author and Microsoft for releasing it.
> But for some reason, the only “free speech” issues that get attention here are radical right-wing viewpoints that get moderated on private tech platforms.

Do you mind reading the HN guidelines once again? [0] HN is not for flamewars or ideological battles especially when comments like this are unsubstantiated with lack of evidence.

From [0]

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Simplifying down the history of the Balkans to a "US bombing campaign" is not only cynical but bad history.
I think "effective" there is being used to mean "effective enough that once you're vaccinated, you don't need to take any other precautions against that disease in particular in everyday life".
Fantastic, and thank you. I'd searched for something like that, but was finding a mish-mash of USA state licence images.

Did you count the other 33 as all having 'Driver license'?

Not that that's terribly conclusive -- it looks like each licence design is performed without the benefits of an experienced sub-editor.
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I think change user's layout suddenly without explaining is definitely a way to speedrun 'how to get all user's hate' in 10 seconds. It should be either 'prompt and let you decide' or 'use new defaults on new install'
True, I guess my interpretation also erred in favor of the other explanation, but the political motivations as interpreted by the article are far from clear-cut.
Very cool, I’m curious to see how that is implemented, you would think that having thousands of dummy interfaces on all your edge nodes would be a pain to manage. I am guessing they have developed some way of creating interfaces dynamically
How does that refute the fact that the Mayo Clinic says that wearing a mask won't give you hypoxia?

Also, what's the date on that article? Because it looks like April 2020. There's been several studies since then, along with just the raw statistical data, that shows masks do help.

https://www.npr.org/sections/back-to-school-live-updates/202...
As you can see all over this thread, tons of HNers are willing to blithely assert how they work, and isn't that enough?
"Content featuring anything listed above where the viewer is not given enough context to understand that the footage is dramatized or fictional" would be my guess as to the specific stanza of the violent/graphic content service term this video trips over.
Can the same thing what you've written be said on youtube without being banned?
Albanians are quite entrepreneurial and this is the poorest part of the Europe. By far. And 30% of people living in Macedonia are Albanians. And in general they speak English very well.

It might be the some foreign government involved I this but I doubt they are running this. This is all about money. And this article validates these assumptions.
Managing harmful vaccine content on YouTube
The civil nuclear power stuff that you refer to is just easily funded incremental refinement of the military applications from way back when, and those had huge budgets that were risky bets. Especially if we account for compound interest of all that 40s and 50s fundamentals research and applications research money, representing the opportunity cost, it's.. a lot. And a lot of time to develop materials (60-70 years).
I am also in the camp that thinks elisp is fine.
yes to 'reshaping'

frontend schemas differ from backend schemas because they need to support sync, but it should still be possible to inherit the backend schema, transform it in predictable ways, save a lot of work

'full stack schemas' would be a 'pit of success' change IMO
Does it have to be implanted within the body?
> It's a shame a torrenting-based youtube wouldn't
> really work for various reasons, both legal and social.

https://joinpeertube.org/
Workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of a 'system collapse'
Companies often don't appreciate “innovative” personality traits
in my case it was official S60 app for .mobi ebooks, the format that most people might now know as Kindle (the difference is, afaik, to this day one byte being swapped).

To make it funnier, the files were essentially a Palm resource container with simplified HTML, and I had a reader on pretty much everything from my small 320x320 screen of nokia e51, through le random windows mobile GPS, various android devices, PCs, etc. :)
I know a lot of scientists who produce content on YouTube. Do you think we should limit where science can be freely discussed?
You really think this video was only reported recently by 2 or 3 people after 14 years? People will report and dislike videos all the time just to be trolls. I don't have any sources to link to on this outside of my experience moderating content on much smaller subreddits/forums, but I'm willing to extrapolate and imagine a video that's been up for 14 years with millions of views has received its fair share of reports.
Depends on what you mean by contribute. If you contribute by hiring the maintainer to do maintainer work then that falls in the great company category. If you contribute by just shoveling a bunch of patches at already overworked maintainers then not so much.
Sorry to take the low-hanging fruit, but...

I can't believe they've done this.
Lina Khan's big tech crackdown is drawing blowback. It may succeed anyway
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This is semantics. In this case HN is censoring opinions right now through its moderation. Every forum on the internet censors. Your spam filter blocks others speech from reaching you etc.
That's a very optimistic view of what happens to a company with a lot of technical power and solid procedure for maintaining it in place if all the people with a conscience leave.

You are assuming a correlation between technical competency and moral competency that I've never observed history guarantees.
Many for-profit journals are now giving authors a few freebies of final versions to share with friends as the PDFs have DRM included. Old school researchers back before social media would use new articles they can't access as a reason to introduce themselves and build the professional network, which I sincerely hope is still going on.
This. Once general abortion is on the table, what sense does it make to restrict some reasons for it? People, after all, are perfectly capable of lying if asked.
Moreover, whoever grabs power in future will be able to do the same by argumenting that this has been done before and their opponents said it is right back then.
Then leave the phone at home. Because knowing which cell a cellular phone is in, is how it works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking
What is the advantage of Fortran over only C in numpy’s case specifically?
You are literally sliding down the slope where the government is mandating the injection of untested corporate concoctions that it gave the manufacturers blanket immunity from liability for and you have been under prison lockdown home confinement for essentially 18 months now to "flatten the curve" for 2 weeks.

You seem to have lost all ability to objectively see what is going on.

The rather anemic response to the tyrannical state descending on all of us is hardly "hysteria". You think that after we "flatten the curve" for two weeks we are going back to normal … as all kinds of draconian and oppressive laws are being rammed through all legislatures at the same time?

You may think yourself as safe since you were an obedient little citizen to Government Inc., but they will come for you too one day, they always do once you have outlived your usefulness.
If anyone truly deserves a very long prison sentence it is Elizabeth Holmes. I think we're about to confirm what we've always known and that has been apparent since the start of this case. That rich white people, even if they got their money by taking advantage of others are pretty immune from harsh punishment in the criminal justice system.
Your eyes do move, and they point at other stuff, but the focal length afforded by the lenses is fixed (it makes as if everything was at a few meters IIRC).

I also wonder what could happen if the ciliary muscle isn't used enough. Does it get weak and you rapidly get short-sightedness, or is occasional exercise enough?

Edit: maybe an answer could come from looking at people who recovered from extended comas. Does their visual acuity degrade? If not, that's promising. If yes, it could also come from other causes like the light of light (lack of UV light, especially during teenage years, has also been linked to short-sightedness).
> you mentioned I was sidestepping the issue, but hope it is clearer now in any case!

Ahahah, my apologies I didn't realise I was commenting directly to the author, otherwise I would have not have referred to you in the third person.

I disagree about "too much detail" here, in that clarity and simplicity, not vagueness, are the correct remedy to the risk of overinformation.

But yes, your comments here add a lot more clarity to the idea, and it is indeed an interesting proposition, thank you for taking the time to elaborate. Hopefully someone who had the same initial impression as I did might find their way to this thread and be equally satisfied with your added thoughts here.
That's not affecting Googs though, that's affecting users you have a beef with instead. The Googs seem to be impervious to any kryptonite.
MIT Technology Review is subscription-based and they have podcasts and YT channels. You could run expensive ads in print mags like Scientific American or Harvard Business Review, but you'll reach a far bigger audience online.

This will be true even if the subscription fee was hundreds of dollars per year. Podcasts and short videos are effectively low-cost infomercials for your product. Their purpose is not to make revenue by reading out intermittent ads, but attract an audience that might subscribe.
An hour ago this was in the top 5 of hot. Had undern20 comments.

Now it's 77 and nearly 250 comments.

What is going on with HN moderation?
I'd take "wouldn't really work" in this context to mean "not be very successful/widely used", a bar that PeerTube has yet to pass IMO.
> Meanwhile, China has been aggressively expanding its influence worldwide, in South America, Africa and Afghanistan.

In contrast to the U.S.? When other countries did this in the past and present, it was ok, but not for China? The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast?

I'm not thrilled with China's behavior, but the U.S. needs to stand down until they can act from the high moral ground. They have a lot of work to do to rebuild a working compass. Until then, nobody can trust their navigation.
Apple hires top hardware engineers, good software engineers, and ok web engineers.
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windows - close source spyware vs Ubuntu free and open-source software
I don’t see the issue here. My comment is on-topic and not more flamebaity or ideological than the average comment in this thread.
The problem is that none of this will work against her defense, that she was not of sane state of mind at the time.
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Yep!

I had an eyetest in primary school, I couldn't read anything. Looking back on it years later I assume she thought I was joking or else just royally cocked-up!

It left me with some strange cognitive coping strategies - like I would always dictate what the teacher was saying rather than reading it off the board.

The offshoot is I have very poorly formatted but fast handwriting!
They've been there done that. They've been to the EU as well and came back with a tan (which let's face it is an impressive feat on its own). Have they even "suffered" fines in the EU that the Zuck has received?
Many companies get their engineers to contribute to the open source projects they use as a normal part of their responsibilities.

That's how it should work - users contributing back.
Then there is probably indeed something wrong with the vaccine. Some side effects or anything. I did take it but maybe you should not.

Especially since this is again tied to Russia in some way I cannot really can recapitulate, it is probably due to propaganda efforts. I think civil disobedience in this case is very healthy.
The trouble with most communities is that they do not really hold elections. As a result, anyone loud enough can sell themselves as an "advocate" and make demands, regardless of the real level of support they enjoy among their peers.
It's like you're an entire comment forgot the Cold war existed, we're both sides extensively studied ESP and psychic abilities and repeatedly tried to out bluff each other with various technologies.
Can you give more details—the name of the law, for instance? I'm very interested in that. (though fortunately not for pressing personal reasons!)
SpaceX will (and does) have good coverage but the accuracy will not be to anywhere what people have come to expect from GPS. At least not without major design changes to focus on this as a product from SpaceX.
This video was recently part of a Vice article, which is going to multiply eyes on by several orders of magnitude.

It might not have been literally "2 or 3 people," but it's a reasonable assumption that the differentiating factor in 14 years is that a bunch of people saw it all at once, and some critical mass of those who saw it flagged it.

The fact that this one specifically was taken down while copycats and reuploads have not strongly suggest it was hit by community moderation flagging.
Or really any non-curated browsing experience.
I didn't read the article in its entirety and this comment isn't directed at the content of the article.

Science itself has been politicized where the pursuit of truth has become secondary to the pursuit of funding and the alignment with the political agendas du jour. When I was younger my faith and trust in science was quite high. As I have aged and seen more of humanity and how it permeates all aspects of our existence I don't trust science like I did when I was younger. Now all I see are the motivations of those who are doing the "research".

Having studied statistics in college with the express intent of how it is used for scientific studies I am well aware that with enough data you can get any statistical result you want. Even better vaguely word it so it resonates with main stream media and still gives the authors an out with their peers.
And with how big Google is, how effective do you really think that would be?
Radiolab’s “Debatable” episode (March 11, 2016) goes into the subject: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/debat...
What use would this be if a thief could just power off the device?
Yeah, I know they exist. But they're never going to replace youtube in the foreseeable future, so having tools like youtube-dl, which would allow us to load content from youtube into peertube, for instance (or to archive it anywhere else), is important.
Yes, but I feel like extensions are not considered "apps" in a way that would make people feel they should be able to write anything they want to change the editor. That way lies madness.
Yeah but type checks and compiling adds more developer overhead than simply turning on a flag when you run the interpreter.
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It could be a slippery slope. Still I wonder if such a ban could also have positive effects by fostering smaller, more collaborative communities too.

As it is YouTube is becoming a (mostly unidirectional) public commons that is captured by a single profit-seeking corporation.
> built on top of a fairly slow interpreted language

Correction: built on top of a bytecode-compiled language that, few years ago, became a native-compiled language (both AOT and JIT) - initially as an experiment/optional feature, and as of ~5 months ago, this has been merged into the main repo branch.
“I should have access to a billion-user ecosystem and hosting and serving and discoverability for free. Never mind that every other platform also costs something to publish on it.”
Yes, I'd be okay, and I would stop using them, as I have done with FB, and start looking elsewhere. Like I said before, I don't agree with Youtube taking anti-vaxx videos down, but I do think they, as a private company, should be allowed to. If they take enough content down, they'll end up losing users.
>wanton violence

>punching someone outside of a boxing ring

I could probably find 100,000 unique instances of violence solely from big Hollywood studios on Youtube as we speak
> In the recent BCG Most Innovative Companies survey, the share of companies reporting innovation as a top-three priority jumped ten percentage points to 75 percent, the largest year-over-year increase in the fifteen years of the survey.

Right beside it on similar surveys are the importance of things like talent retention. That doesn't seem to be a priority anywhere. So I am skeptical about this being anything more than a wish (backed up by no action) to be more innovative.
Nicely said.

> No privacy would mean stasis.

Could you expand? I found this particularly interesting.