skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is evidence toward the idea that organized groups can do great evil, which was my point about religion. I am not saying that organized religion is the only ideological method to organized people into wrongdoing, just that it is one of them, and it's one of the most effective ones so far.
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I don't understand their statement about MPLS and security: "a need for MPLS to make their network operate securely"

Isn't MPLS used for routing and building SDN fabric where you applied a bunch of QoS rules depending of the MPLS tags ?, which as nothing to do with security.
Everyone can help preserve Sci-Hub by seeding some of their torrents. See this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
I think this is an interesting part "For the most part, the people who see and engage with these posts don’t actually “like” the pages they’re coming from. Facebook’s engagement-hungry algorithm is simply shipping them what it thinks they want to see."

Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems like the issue is that content farms are able to successfully target Facebook's algorithm. (At least for certain topics)
I have and I still think so. First of all, it is not realistic to assume that you will convince everyone; you won't. Second, practice is necessary and bad faith counterparts will help you get better.

It is not my impression that "energy input of people spreading X is an order of magnitude lower". On the other hand, they obsess over such topics and spend a lot of time spreading their views - that is why they are visible.
The fact that people continue to be surprised by actions like this, betrays a lack of understanding of how content moderation works, and a willful lack of education on the part of YouTube.

This video was taken down because 2 or 3 people reported it in short succession. Those reports flagged it for review by a human moderator, who removed it.

If it had never been reported, it would have stayed up. If no one ever reported it, it's possible a human never reviewed it in those 14 years.

The 14 years it was up doesn't mean YouTube reviewed it previously and decided to keep it.

If YouTube did a better job explaining exactly how its content moderation works, outrage like this might be less common. However YouTube doesn't explain better because it encourages gaming the system and report-brigading.
> it was over religion

And as I've already put in another comment: it's not because religion was the justification for a conflict that we should attribute it to religion.

Many disputes and fights were had over beautiful women. Should we start claiming that women are a problem?
The Sputnik V vaccine might be good. But there’s a fair bit of evidence that it’s mass manufacture has some problems. Which makes it difficult to say with certainty that what’s injected into peoples arms, is effective as what was tested during clinical trials.
It’s interesting that the accounts would be originating from Kosovo and (north) Macedonia. I assume these are just Russians routing thru Kosovar IPs for more deniability, or alternatively this could be tacitly sanctioned by Serbian govt. Anyhow, Kosovo relies heavily on the US, exists only because of a US bombing campaign, and is one of the only places in the world to have a 10ft statue of Bill Clinton in the capitol. I know less about (North) Macedonia, but it is a NATO member and also another state resulting from the dissolution of Yugoslavia; not sure if it is seen as a US puppet state in the same way as Kosovo is but there is some similarity. The origins of the accounts appear to be making a statement about American hegemony...
So you trust the government to decide what is true and what isn’t but not YouTube?
I genuinely don't get it. YouTube, a private entity and not a government entity, is saying they don't want certain content on their platform. This is not the end of your free speech. This isn't really even a movement away from free speech. It's YouTube exercising their right to freedom of speech by not allowing what they believe to be harmful or disagreeable on their platform. They already do this with other categories of thing. This is no different.

You are more than able to start your own company and let whatever you want on that site. Or just go to your local city center with a megaphone and give people your thoughts - perfectly legal.

If YouTube is THAT essential to getting your views heard, you need to take a lesson from business - don't rely on anyone else for critical infrastructure.
> Debates are essential in a free society. The alternative to debate is force. Either you convince your neighbour to do as you think they should do, or else you send men with guns to his place.

This feels like the authoritarian's world view where the only options are ones where you have to involve yourself with your neighbor at all. That's not a free society, it's just kicking the "force" can down the road. Unless your neighbor is doing something particularly egregious (the definition of what is egregious is also subjective and arbitrary), the attitude you should have for a "free society" is to leave him alone.

Force is not an alternative to debate. Force is omnipresent and the threat of its use is what forces those into compliance with policies set forth by governing bodies. Debate is useful in that it can potentially help influence the people with power into creating policies that coincide with your beliefs, but any sort of governance is still forceful.

> If you want to live in a free society...

I've found that people do not actually want to live in a free society; they just align themselves with that phrase because it has a positive connotation. If you examine most people's world views, I'd suspect it'd be largely authoritarian takes. The issue of course, is that authoritarian has a negative connotation but gosh do the authoritarians love masquerading as libertarians.
Yeah, but this wouldn't impact that.
I keep seeing small incremental speed improvements and overall these changes amount to a compounded effect over time. Yet we keep hearing that ruby is dead or rails is dead and the very fact that we have large companies like Shopify or Stripe working hard to make the language and tools faster is proof that this is not dead...
Which concerns do you have?
I love/hate such bugs. Often hard to debug, but totally great to finally find the root cuase and a solution. I've once got a ticket stating "this script always crashes before 10 a.m." [1]

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/script-crashes-before-10/
You are correct about the GP’s bias. Whenever Amazon comes up, David helps his former employer dodge the blame: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1632787200&dateRange=custom&...

Other Amazon EM’s and some high level ICs have a reputation for kneejerk denial of abuse in HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27570837 (just one example):

Speaking by as another EM, “I identify as a former X so X is good!” is a normal defense mechanism. But Amazon’s uniquely toxic working environment makes their cognitive dissonance notable .
>Someone want to throw out there a better way to combat disinformation

Yeah. Don't do shit. Let the stupid run its course.

Trying to combat disinformation is like bombing villages in hope of hitting an ammo dump. The collateral damage is more damaging than ignoring the problem.

Why do we always have to be Doing Something(TM)?
You know a lot of scientists who hang out in YouTube comments?
I wonder how the outcome of education will change with recorded classes in YouTube or things like Coursera, brilliant, Khan Academy in the long term. Self learning with the pandemic, stoped being optional for most children.

One of the main bottlenecks I've seen in classrooms, it's teachers to finding a balance between students who understand the lecture, and those to shy too say they didn't get anything at all.

The possibility of pause and repeat a lesson, I feel it's underestimated
The jet version was memorable.

>… Coors flew two of them as the "Silver Bullets". Budweiser also had a BD-5J called the Bud Light Jet, but that contract has long expired and the aircraft was lost as a result of an engine compartment fire from which Bishop successfully bailed out. The aircraft also appeared in the opening sequence of the James Bond film Octopussy (1983). …
Matthew 7:15 comes to mind.

> Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

https://biblehub.com/matthew/7-15.htm

I guess this verse doesn't get much love in sermons, though. It might lead the flock to suspect their shepherds.
Even if you think the reference will help, I'd still decline.

There's no reason to risk your current job until the new job is secured.
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Why Binary Numbers?
The wackos are the ones creating the context in which moderate voices lose their power. If you want moderation, you have to remove the extreme BS and the algorithms that thrive on it, which process buries moderates and makes their views anathema to the polarized extremes. Why allow polarized extremes to form on your private, I must emphasize privately owned, platform? This isn't the public square, freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom of reach. Content moderation is a good thing, it has the word moderate in it after all, that may signal that it promotes healthy dialogue just like public ridicule and scorn and shame should, in theory, moderate discourse actually covered by free speech in the public square, where it's not anonymous.
Yes. When truth is tied to money we enter a world of infinite bullshit.
>It's not entirely clear to me what the job of the Packager is here.

In the thread article's 1st paragraph is a link to a previous article with more details of Packager:
https://netflixtechblog.com/packaging-award-winning-shows-wi...
"A very nice and well-built tool. .... (very well-documented source too, a pleasure to read)" Could not agree more. This code is really nicely organized and commented. Such a pleasure to read and learn about how this tool works. I wish more codebases had comments like this! Great work and thank you @ErrataRob.
Your comment reminds me of Kary Mullis's Nobel lecture

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/lect...
Ha. I think part of this struggle, to borrow your analogy, is that YouTube and Facebook are organizationally blind to the fact that they built a gun.

Or maybe Google is concerned. And Facebook just doesn't care.

But the root cause is "algorithms for increasing engagement will prefer shock content." Solve that, and they wouldn't need to band-aid issues like this.
No it absolutely does. This has been ruled on by the courts a million times.
I've been doing this for a few days and things are getting better. However I still spend a lot of time hitting hide all from...
== How many of those Christians are promoters of human-rights violations?==

Any of the ones who put money in a collection plate to help fund the church. Those funds helped pay to cover up human rights abuses. Catholics still support the Vatican, where the leaders live and who were the ones sweeping things under the rug.

== Now tell me how many people still support Communist/Socialist revolutions, even after seeing all this historical bloodbaths that they brought.==

Talk about moving the goalposts. People still praise early Americans for their Revolution. How many did that kill? How many native Americans were slaughtered by the people we lionize?

You know communism and socialism are not the same thing even if you write them next to each other, right? Not to mention that all 1.2 billion Catholics follow the same religion, leadership, and structure. Politics don’t cross the same number of borders.

This game can be played all day. Which is likely what you want because it changes the subject off of religion.
This isn't a great specific example (it's "just" a meme and not even a particularly culturally significant one in the grand scheme of things), but in general this is why projects like youtube-dl are important.

It might not be glamorous, and it might be a little stupid, but damnit this is our culture, for better or worse! And we should preserve it.

Private companies seem to be the only ones with the resources to store all the video content we produce, and they're also exactly the wrong ones to be hosting our collective shared culture for posterity.

It's a shame a torrenting-based youtube wouldn't really work for various reasons, both legal and social.

So, short of that, at least being able to download stuff important to us as individuals is an important right to preserve.

My personal stake in this fight is a video of "Scotland the Brave" that I used to listen to a lot, which featured an older Scottish gentleman standing in the beautiful highlands, loudly and proudly calling down through the glen.

It got randomly copyright-removed recently and I've been unable to find it elsewhere. I don't even know who the person in the video was.
First amendment doesn’t apply here. This is not about the government persecuting individuals on the basis of what they are saying.
I think Youtube did a great job NOT banning pro-mask videos which were clearly against CDC recommendation.

Or I would suggest that thought police should lock those with the above-mentioned opinions up.
Good-faith vs. bad faith.

I hate that the CDC did that action, only because it gave skeptics another reason to distrust them. But it is 100% clear to anyone who, you know, was alive when it happened that they did that to prevent a mask shortage for those who needed them most.

I would rather have seen some emergency declaration that N95s must be seized from stores and go to healthcare workers, but that would have caused perhaps an even bigger panic. Because then, everyone would have freaked out, vs. what they did. Now, we only have people who were already going to distrust government giving a shit about the mask declaration last year.

Back to good-faith vs. bad-faith: I'm not certain there is more than a hair's worth of anti-vaccine content that is produced with good intention or even attempted to be backed by statistics. Put simply, I wager there is no anti-vaccine content produced out of a legitimate, well-founded public interest. It's charlatans, fools, anti-science and anti-authority interests.
That was a problem I always had with replicating directly to CouchDB. They have added more authentication methods now, like proxy auth and JWT, so authorizing on a per-database basis isn't too bad.

However, I gave up on CouchDB after my server kept getting hacked by crypto miners. I'm sure whatever exploit they were using has been patched, but I'm hesitant now to use a DB that's open to the world.
My office is an interior room, no windows. VR is definitely better than my office.
People have incredibly short memories, but media conglomerates have ALWAYS been in the business of curating and censoring content.

Sometimes it’s about agenda, but more often than not, it’s about ad revenue and shielding themselves from risk.

This is more about spending themselves from risk because YouTube has been getting a lot of flack for actively spreading misinformation with their recommendation engine, which goes beyond merely hosting it.

If Google REALLY had an agenda, why did they let their recommendation engine push these videos while millions of people around the world died?

The truth is Internet media companies chose to profit from the engagement that misinformation was providing.

All of this censorship you see today is a big meaningless public relations show.

Conglomerates don’t care about free speech and they definitely don’t care about misinformation.

They care about revenue.
Those Experts™ all started life as egg-spurts just like us. Just do a bit more research and trust your heart and judgment. Generally, the method for disease decisions (epidemiology) is to look up the statistics for your area. You may not even have any Hanta virus cases nearby. And plague is extremely rare. Field rodents aren't as likely to carry disease as city vermin. I wouldn't worry too much about rural squirrels. They are cute and generally eat nuts, not insects. It is far less likely for a squirrel to contract a contagion because the squirrel isn't eating trash like pigeons or rats.
Given the prevalence of geofence warrants nowadays, I don’t think the situation needs to be especially nefarious in nature. Perhaps you don’t want to be scrutinized just because you and 370 others were within 300 yards of a crime occurring?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-war...
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Factories and ports with particularly heavy goods, it might make sense. On the land usage of highways yes, they use land but it's a sunk cost - every building already has (and needs) road connectivity, rail would be an addition in 99.9% of cases.
One of the things that gets lost in the arguments around this sort of censorship (and, before I lose you, it is censorship and that is fine; we all engage in forms of censorship in determining what we will or will not ingest - the danger comes when some third party is acting as the censor for others) is the distinction between legality and morality.

Legally, it seems self-evident that YouTube should be permitted to curate their own content however they deem fit, whether it is fair in the abstract or not. I wouldn't want to live in a world where anyone was compelled to publish, disseminate or engage with content against their will.

Morally, this sort of mass banning of a position ought to be a taboo if we want a free society. We, as free citizens, have every right to petition that an open stance be adopted even if YouTube is well within their rights to refuse.

The other thing I tend to think important is to always ask one more question - would I support this action if it was taken if the sides of the issue were reversed? Sometimes the answer is 'yes', but I've found it a warning sign when the mental response is 'but....'
I found myself in the same situation only a few months ago. I was one of the so-called “valuable employees” and was a primary go-to person at the time. In 2020 we lost around 60% of the total personnel count (40% from layoffs, then more and more over time from attrition) from our entire division so they decided to consolidate teams together meaning I wasn’t only doing the job I was hired to do, now I had to do the work that 4 different dedicated teams had to do at the same time. At the start of 2021, my previous employer decided to shift focus purely on cost saving measures in order to make up for the lost revenue in 2020 and slashed ALL planned work for 2021, was constantly told no on all of my requests to do interesting work and work I wanted to do, and was told not to expect any training budget for the foreseeable future and not to expect any merit raises for the year. I did warn them that they needed to throw me a bone … they needed to give me SOMETHING to stay… some glimmer of hope. And they still said no. That is what made my decision.

It was clear they didn’t care about keeping “top talent” anymore. They just wanted button pushers - and that is what they have now. I have heard of big issues going on now, but it is no longer my problem. Obviously I am no longer there and much happier where I am at now.
YouTube of course has the right not to aid them. But we also have the right to point out that YouTube is making a mistake by doing this.
GraphQL (coupled with get ur backend team to build it well) addresses these points. If you're a real zealot, you can use GraphQL to access and modify app state so all data operations across the stack have the same shape
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This is my concern as well. How many people refrain from saying anything about Covid at all for fear of triggering some mindless algorithms?

Human review of such blunders is unreliable at best.
Ha, this is some funny shit, as your tone is from someone who would censor the crap out of dissenting voices if you were in power.
Maybe they started showing the warnings recently, but this practice was in place for at least a few years.
I remember reading an article by a journalist who was on a trip and his iPhone died. Later he discovered it still logged his locations, not only when off, but when dead (I assume the iPhone is designed to shut off with some juice left)
Right. But what happens before it's retracted? The incorrect position of the authority is repeated, and now in this case is basically denied distribution by Youtube.

Now in this case youtube is probably right "scientifically", but what if they weren't like with masks? You basically have 0 discussion or challenge allowed to the authorities position.

And lets just bring in the recent controversy here, a panel of scientists said third shots shouldn't be administered. Yet the government decided they should. Which position will youtube censor?
Just a clarification, there's no subscription required, but it does require a Facebook account. There are other headsets on the market that have nearly the same specs, but are more expensive. The Quest price is essentially being subsidized by the data collection. In my opinion, the data is primarily being used for product development, so I'm more happy to be part of the VR experiment knowing that my usage data will help create the eventual successor to phones and laptops.
But those are all obviously, patently absurd. You’re proving my point. The slippery slope argument immediately descends into hysteria and pretends like people aren’t capable of understanding context.
They do say the dataset is for pretraining. If your application needs the ability to identify humans, then your fine-tuning dataset would include humans.

This seems totally appropriate for pretraining on natural images IMO.
With these specific therapies:
1) Myocarditis (long term heart damage)
2) general inflammation and clot risk
3) long term risks of brand new mRNA technology

For myself and other young athletes, my research leads me to understand that the vaccine is higher risk than the infection.

My greatest concern is the totalitarianism behind vaccine passports. At this point even if the shot cured cancer I wouldn't take it because of how it's pushed.
This is an outmoded concept based on the idea that humans are purely rational creatures, which we already know is false. Just providing better information does not sway individuals. People are far more swayed by information from their “tribe”, even if that information is patently false, than they are by quantitatively better information, because it makes them feel good. That’s why actions like this seem to be necessary.
I can't tell if I'm more disgusted by the anti-vaxxers or the censorship.

IMHO no content should be banned, ever. The only thing is to be held responsible for the content if you are not going to be impartial.

For example, instead of banning videos of anti-vaxxers, put a claim progress list clearly visible together with the video that can be maintained by those of opposing views.

For example, according to some anti-vaxxers, people with mRNA vaccines are about to die en mass. In places like Portugal, full vaccination rate approaches %90. Wouldn't be good to keep the video and see if Portuguese are dying?

Content moderation by elimination is one of the biggest sins of the internet era. The internet has become a place where history doesn't exist because you can't have a history without having the artefacts that make it. We should be able to look back a few years back and see who said what.
That is why I left all facebook hobby groups - the algorithm makes it hard to find interesting content.
The term "free speech" is basically meaningless in general. People will justify their actions by claiming something is an exception to the definition of free speech, but this list of exceptions is unbounded and changes according to the alignment of the stars.