skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, contrarian can be useful to identify strongly held assumptions, once you get past all assumptions you arrive at the first principle.
technically not the most influential obviously given that the US utterly transformed its economy into one laser focused on killing nazis for 5 long years
You're arguing to let low information or critical thinking challenged people die because of the actions of others (whether those actions are in good faith or not is immaterial). If Youtube decides it wants to take action to promote the public welfare, that's their right as a business.

"Doing Something" is usually harm reduction within the framework of law and public policy, and there's a lot of harm out there, hence the continual debate over a) should something be done? and b) what can be done?
This is a generalization. Go on /r/exmuslim, /r/exjw, and /r/exmormon on reddit to find countless stories of people from whom religion provides quite the opposite of a safety net. If often as not creates a source of fear, emotional and physical danger, ostracization, and shunning. Not to mention extreme cases like honor killings. You may as well say North Korea gives you a safety net and community (as long as you ignore the ways that it doesn't).
Not the parent commenter, but yes, that's exactly how I feel. Hacker News isn't a quasi-monopoly like YouTube is.
Does it use textract directly? Or are you doing some preprocessing?
RIP Gratipay:

https://gratipay.news/the-end-cbfba8f50981
>We need better ways to fund Open Source projects.

Yeah well, at least in the EU, we could start funding the awesome OSS projects that already exist around here, like KDE, OpenSUSE, and many more, with some of those billions of taxpayer money the EU has promised for "innovation", instead of shoving them in the pockets of publicly traded 100-year-old corporations like Siemens, VW, Daimler, T-Systems, Dassault-Systemes, etc.

But of course, that would only work if those funds were actually for innovation and not a hidden form of wealth transfer and corporate charity.
Google would destroy "Liberty Leading the People" for depicting violent content if they could.

What's the line here? A scripted video depicting one friend punching another gets taken down, but MMA fights, movie scenes of executions, and Jackass clips stay up?

It's dangerous how much of our culture is in the hands of private companies who can restrict or deny your ability to view that piece of culture. They do so on a whim and you have no recourse.
Have you considered HP Reverb G2?
The original commenter was proposing that there's multiple perspectives. The replies were all completely ignoring this and adding nothing substantive to the discussion, so I thought a short jokey reply would suffice.

To be serious though: there's a lack of acknowledgement of the functional benefits of tracking by those advocating for control and privacy in this particular instance. The fact is as long as Apple's closed walled-garden is offering actual value to users (FindMyPhone works, and works well, for the common use-case most "consumers" experience day-to-day), while open alternatives are actively sticking their head in the sand around features like this, then closed solutions will prevail.

What's needed is proper discourse on the challenges of e.g. providing practical asset management features that bad actors cannot easily overcome, while at the same time ensuring full user control over their own device and privacy. This is a real world challenge without easy answers: "just turn it all off all the time" is an easy answer, and a cop-out.

If we want to provide quality solutions to e.g. activists, those solutions need to be mature and practical.
> organized groups can do great evil, which was my point about religion.

If your point can be made by replacing "religion" with anything that can characterize a group or society, your point is not about religion. You are trying to make a particularization based on a generality.

That is not only a cheap rhetorical trick, it is also the kind of thing that leads to biases, prejudices and "othering", which ironically enough is one of the things that do lead to one of the most effective ways to lead people into polarization and conflicts based on segregation of individuals.
> How does a landing page work if it doesn’t offer a next step?

Does the front page not have links to other pages on the site? If not, then whoever built it fucked up. I don't want to be "directed". I don't want anything that resembles a hard sell. As far as I'm concerned, a website's front page should be a menu, not a "call to action".

> I see a thing that looks interesting and then it’s my job to go on a hunt to figure out how to get it?

Exactly, and what's wrong with that?
Also: People who just do not have service for accessibility reasons. I meet many people who only use WiFi either because they can't afford service or can't deal with the paperwork or some other reasons.
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A road warrior VPN is as opposed to a site to site VPN. A laptop that might be anywhere.

The site to site problem is a little easier, as it can be handled by the network hardware at each site and doesn’t need a desktop/mobile UI or personal authentication.
I wonder if the EU's next (justifiable) excuse to ride those companies in court is going to be "the gross negligence to protect user data". Not that anyone would expect them to ever be bug-free, but those recent reports on how they handle the white-hats, they really deserves to be slapped with some hefty fine. And it wouldn't really be the money, but the bad publicity that would actually cost them something.

Just imagine those Google ads "mocking" iPhone's "security/privacy" after them being found guilty of not giving two f*cks.

Disclosure: saying this as a fully-invested but otherwise pissed Apple user.
I think they are common in federal work places and workplaces that involve the operating of heavy machinery. That's pretty much it these days.

It was more common up to about 8 years ago and then just pretty much faded overnight to my recall.
I wonder when they start banning people who don't want a not-compatible with the EU vaccine passport jab (for example Sputnik and Sinopharm)
All of these posts are feeding off the FB's "share" functionality. Almost no one is engaging with these posts on the page. These posts spread like wildfire because someone will be scrolling through FB, see a meme they get a chuckle out of or agree with, then hit the share button, never taking into account the source of that material.

With this sharing, the post spreads like wildfire from timeline to timeline.
Vive Liberapay (2018)
I wish freedom of expression were GPL-style freedom instead of MIT-style freedom, e.g., "You're free to express whatever opinions you want. You may not keep others from expressing whatever opinions they want."
it definitely could have been worded better:

"You iPhone continues to report its location to Apple when it is powered off" or something

seems software has gone back to extremely hostile user-facing strings, after about a decade of "oopsie doopsie our system had a crashie"
> A study shows the vaccine accumulating in the ovaries - False

> This theory comes from a misreading of a study submitted to the Japanese regulator. The study involved giving rats a much higher dose of vaccine than that given to humans (1,333 times higher).

> Only 0.1% of the total dose ended up in the animals' ovaries, 48 hours after injection. Far more - 53% after one hour and 25% after 48 hours - was found at the injection site (in humans, usually the arm). The next most common place was the liver (16% after 48 hours), which helps get rid of waste products from the blood.

> And those promoting this claim cherry-picked a figure which actually referred to the concentration of fat found in the ovaries.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57552527

"Anecdotally I've heard many pregnancies ended from the shot."

No you haven't. You've heard of pregnancies ending in people that happen to also have been vaccinated but you have no proof connecting the two. The reality is that a lot more pregnancies fail than anyone cares to admit in public because couples tend to be private it about it. This is nothing new. It's heartbreaking for everyone that experiences it and anti-vaxxers latching onto it to serve their agenda is incredibly sad.
Good companies fund open-source, great companies contribute.
I don't think that's the point they are trying to make. I think it trickles down from research to journalism to everyday people.
See, I'd have thought that everybody tacitly understood that YouTube's scale has redefined presentation of videos over the Internet and as a consequence is the premier video archive for all of Humanity. This doesn't erase their fiduciary duties, but it does attenuate them -- archiving and presenting videos (to show ads) is actually how the money is made. But I'll bite -- I'm a credulous idiot who's confused YouTube for an NGO. You are a wise cynic who's come to correct me.

>Their mission is to make money, not to archive the internet.

So how did deleting this make YouTube money?
Well, in the field of immunization, the WHO has done quite a lot since its creation.
Nice post, learned new things about QR codes. I noticed in the wild when doing check-ins, unreliable QR codes have been due to glossy paper and/or their placement, either being too high or low causing distortion. https://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html illustrates the impact of different destruction cases

I'm surprised I haven't seen NFC tags being used for covid check-ins as a secondary option to QR codes
To be fair, it is violence.
The guy took it like a champ, and quipped something funny which I found the reaction to be really hillarious. But the internet, including MMA sports and other things have really de-sensitized people on real violence. I for one can't say I like real violence.
> There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to start. These are people.

This whole comment is basically just an emotional appeal trying to shame the other commenter. It would be more constructive to the discussion to provide actual arguments and evidence than to just say the equivalent of "how could you say such a thing". People don't have a right to live in SF specifically; there are plenty of other places they can be handled, and that is a fully reasonable suggestion.
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Same here. Two years into a job and I start to get restless and have a hard time continuing. Recently diagnosed with ADHD at 39. Knowing the cause helps a little but it's still a bitch. No real suggestions to combat this but, there are others out there suffering with this.

> maybe this industry is just plain fucking boring and I should accept that and move on

I've been trying to get out of the industry but the golden handcuffs make it so difficult.
> Well, "the Bible" is a complex concept.

The "everyone is a sinner" part of it is not, though.
Yes! Every. Single. Time. Apollo Client is the closest thing I have used with that works decent out of the box.
Isn't this already the case?
That's why I archive my favorite videos with tools like youtube-dl. Their automated systems, censorship mechanisms, user reports (even if they're fake), even the "fact checkers" ask and remove videos without a real reason. If the account is still active the owner can start an appeal process that rarely works.

Most of the times no appeal is done and the video is lost until someone risks his account and reuploads it again.

Never trust an online website to keep your content up for you. Always back it up since it can be removed anytime and without asking.
Not just history of the internet: Youtube takes down videos of war crimes. Destroying or covering up evidence of war crimes is, itself, a war crime. I'm surprised that Youtube isn't in hot water over that.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170812/01102937985/once-...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-ai-deletes-war-cr...
Personally I'm glad the author doesn't like Gemini, because all the stuff he dislikes about it seem to be stuff I actually like, and if he had his way with Gemini there would be all sorts of stuff he seems to like and I dislike.
yea, it seems very strange to have an offer contigent on your previous employer being amicable to letting you go...
Surely it would be great if you might provide a better description of the event (and the timeline, long after the outbreak in Wuhan).
If YOU want that option, that's fine. However, why force everyone to use this? From the comments is seems Apple is pretty aggressive with it and you can only turn it off temporarily.
Imagine this attitude applied to climate change. Letting the stupid runs its course and choosing inaction, will lead to disastrous warming outcomes.

So, maybe there are situations where doing nothing is okay, but I don't think very large scale problems that require coordinated large scale action over long time scales to address, like global pandemics or mitigating the impacts of man made climate change, are the right situations for that kind of approach. Too many thousands/millions will die, too many billions/trillions of dollars of damage will be done, via inaction.

Of course, it all comes down to whether you can stomach the cost of inaction, because maybe you don't think the impacts are all that bad. I don't have an answer to that, if two parties fundamentally disagree about what the cost of impact will be or whether that cost is acceptable (e.g. many folks in the US apparently think 600k+ COVID deaths in the US isn't a big deal, and wasn't worth the interventions applied to mitigate it to that level).
So you can't moderate HN if it gets big?
I would not ascribe malice to these people but cold heartedness and lack of empathy. One common pattern is that they usually advocate tough measures for others but not for their own class.

In 2008 all financial guys suddenly told us that they need bailouts when for decades they advocated for large scale layoffs, reduction of social systems, keeping wages low and other stuff because it was “creative destruction”. But when this destruction reached themselves they suddenly needed bailouts and of course we were told it would have been immoral to take away their million dollar bonuses.

A lot of these analysts are psychopaths who are capable of only looking out for themselves.
Well spotted. Fixed.
You should still strive to use accurate terminology, however. Yes, your point got across, I don't deny that.
Depending on what you were doing those bombs could appear. Then you would had to reboot the machine.

But most of the time it was indeed pretty stable.
There is a lot of malpractice in developing countries like China & India wrt black market kidney trade.
I wish this becomes mainstream.
Headcanon accepted. The fae are notoriously afraid of iron, and harmed by merely touching it. What's the equivalent for Google?
IMO, go further. Remove all medical recommendation and assertions from YouTube. Leave YouTube for entertainment, and have other platforms - perhaps ones better regulated and better managed - for medical discussions in a scientific context.

There's inherent difficulty in trying to judge between wackos and pros, because wackos do their best to masquerade as pros. This is basically a turing complete issue, because there's always people straddling the line between wacko and pro. YouTube has mostly avoided the difficulty with this issue until now by avoiding moderation entirely (aside from certain categories that suffer from the same problems, like copyright claims), so the issue with most of YouTube is that you can jump from pro to extreme wacko and not realize it as a non-professional yourself. Meanwhile, all content creators, wacko and pro, are given the same platform to promote their claims - one that incentivizes eyeballs, clicks, and engagement, not one that incentivizes accuracy or merit (or one that allows discussion in a context independent of monetization and ranking, which are known to poison good faith discussion).

Similarly but unrelated, let's also ban drug ads on cable TV. These are much like buying a social media influencer to push your medical claims. It's disgusting.
Most large companies I have worked for now have switched to a system of only confirming employees employment dates and providing no other information. Litigation cost has driven this move. Seems like a good one, your entire career could be torpedoed by one disagreeable manager otherwise. Interviews are there to ensure the candidate is a good skill / social fit. If the interview is not doing the job then you need to change your interview process.
It's not very productive to compare countries with extremely different cultures. For example, places like Singapore and Japan are famous for being very clean and functional, but they're also extremely homogeneous ethnically and have wildly different cultures from the US, which is extremely individualistic. Solutions in one place won't always be solutions in the other.
This. I finally convinced an optometrist to grant me a perscription in my third year as an undergraduate. It was a weak perscription, but it made the difference between getting a C average and suddenly getting an A average because I no longer had to put so much brain processing power into seeing what was on the board and could put the same processing power into understanding what I saw.

Then it happened again as I got older and my arms grew too short to be able to read a book and the fonts grew too large to display enough information on a single screen.
I understand that Russia's "GPS" system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS ) has been fully operational for a while now. The Taliban (or North Koreans, or others non-friends of the U.S.) don't need to count on U.S.-run geolocation services for their Important Stuff.
Have you ever heard of the Vault 7 WikiLeaks release? You should look into it. In sum: You can't make any assumptions about where anything is emanating from because all of it can be spoofed.
For the vast majority of people in the vast majority of situations, it's a very good thing and is ideal behavior. It is only in conspiratorial "but what if nation states are tracking me" noise that this is cast as a bad thing.
The whole thing is a "correlation does not imply causation" fallacy because you just assume that changing one thing lead to the change of something else while ignoring all the other effect it has. For example by leaving the content and being a neutral platform the subjective value of the content on the platform is higher. More people who are not sure about something can listen both sides and choose based on that. However by removing it you exclude these people (for a million of other topics too) even trough they could very well end up on the "right" side after doing their own research.
They wont do this if its clear that the platform already removed one side and the other therefore is propaganda.
So by removing it, how many additional death would this actually cause? You just leave this out.
What if it causes thousands of deaths too? Let’s say in absolute numbers it is 10000 people.

You can now make a non-emotionally decision whether removing it or not is actually a good idea because the arbitrary appeal to emotion evens out.

This is the way think about such stuff, not by making arbitrary emotional "arguments" which can not be proven or disproved and may as well be completely irrelevant or even in reverse.

Whenever the "logic" of "X people (less) die if we do Y" is used its an attempt to make it emotional instead of rational it should ring some bells and raise some flags. You can see this with autonomous driving or gun control an many other topics. Its some kind of appeal to emotion fallacy combined with false cause fallacy. And instead of convincing anyone or find common ground it just pushes people to more extreme opposition. Because you "literally kill people if you disagree with X".
Imagine, for a moment, a world in which 1 out of 15,000 fully vaccinated against measles are getting hospitalized from measles and an additional 1 out of 50,000 fully vaccinated against measles are dying from measles. And these numbers are increasing.

That is the case for the COVID19 vaccines. Visualization here[1]. The domain might be banned, but the code, snapshots, and the chart output here[2].

[1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/vaccine-breakthrough/

[2]: https://github.com/nanis/covid19-breakthrough
In the rest of the world you just fold your seats or stack your stuff better?
The user problem- for those who see it that way- is that right now, digital stuff related to a person, is tied up primarily with the person's email address, or in some cases with the person's phone number.

(For the purposes of this discussion, call the email address or phone number an "identifier".)

Why is this a problem? Two reasons:

1. People don't "control" those identifiers

Many email addresses used in this context are controlled by employers, and the person's right to use them ends when they leave employment. Or they are controlled through expensive commercial arrangement between the person and the platform, and the person may lose access if they are no longer able to afford the platform. Or, they are free, offered by large data harvesting/advertising platforms, who mine data stored on the platform, and as below, linked to those identifiers from other platforms, to create advertising and propaganda targeting profiles.

2. Those identifiers are used by others to contact the person, and are therefore long-lived, which means they are also a vehicle for correlating an individual's activity across internet platforms who are necessarily presented with those identifiers by the person when they engage with the platform.

DIDs are an attempt to have identifiers that are controlled by people that:

* are inexpensive
* can be short-lived and "rotated"
* can be specific to the relationship between a person and a particular platform
* can support more tailored association of personal data to identifier
* can better support the person's management and correlation of their platform relationships, while minimizing if desired that the correlation of identifiers back to a person by the platforms themselves
* and support other use cases

In terms of "decentralization" and "publishing"- there is definitely a need to publish identifiers in some cases. People want to find others, and want to be found. Whether that publishing constitutes centralization is nuanced.

But the key issue is that right now it is hard to impossible for a normal person to engage with a small or large platform that does not involve a widely used identifier.

[EDIT: whether normal users consider this to be a problem is an open question, and as is whether they would if a solution existed to the problem...]
Without good people, Google will be driven into the ground faster, and all of us can move on sooner.
this; govt and taxing might quickly get at least some money into the right hands

maybe some push by OSS activists to expose how much current govt software relies on their projects?
I have no tips, no hacks, no shortcuts. Honestly this is such a big topic, that I am tempted to just share v1 of a guide to landing pages I made. However before I do...

So, one thing that would make a real difference to a landing page. An appreciation of the foundational blocks of a landing page, which are:

1. The contextual factors: business, market, your solution, target audience, positioning, tactic, financial.

2. The Key Narratives: basically where they are now, and where they will be in the future with your solution.

3. The Overall Narrative:

a. What Are You?

b. Who Are You For?

c. What Do You Know About Me?

d. What Do You Do?

e. How Do You Do It?

f. What’s In It For Me?

g. Why Should I Believe You?

h. How Do I Get It?

I'll share the link now, but like I said, this is just v1, not had a chance to put up v2 yet: https://startizer.com/blog/startup-landing-page-guide