skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the new podcast that Carreyrou is doing for the most updated info on the evidence and trial, “Bad Blood: The Final Chapter”.
Zenni Optical.

Here's the lens adapter I use. The description has a link to the exact glasses.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3753906
I don't see this same energy when peope want to nationalize internet or electric companies. Why is it that only when media companies moderate the content available on their platform do we suddenly not care about property rights?

If we're talking about regulating large corporations because they're monopolizing resources I'd much rather start in the energy sector to set some precedent before we just force youtube and facebook to allow nazis and anti-vaxxers to spout off whatever they want during a global crisis.
I keep trying to bring this up at work.

We use a ton of FOSS software. We pay thousands per month to AWS, Datadog, etc... but nothing for the "free" software we use.

People are generally in support of the idea, but then it falls away as a priority, and there's the question of which projects to fund and for how much. We'd have to talk to the finance department, figure out a budget, etc. So it doesn't happen.
Go read the studies directly and see if you can spot a mistake in their methodology that would undermine the study.
Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q3 2021
Funnily enough, I have exactly this problem with ads on a youtube channel right now. On the Channel, one video mentions Covid in the context of healthcare politics. This results in instant rejection of ads for other videos about other topics. Requesting review of the denial results in confirmation of the denial in about 95% of the cases so far.

The video in question is citing official recommondations, i.e. is pro-vaccination, of course.
It appears to me that YT is actively trying to move away from subscriptions completely, relaying on this recommendation algorithm for everything

hell I would not be surprised if with in 5 years they remove the subscribe button completely, replacing it with just the notification bell
That's a good point.

As I hinted in my post, it might be more instructive to see if programs compiled with MyPyC or Nuitka run faster than PyPy or GraalPython.
True, but you can store articles in folders online and bookmark them. You can print a certain number of pages per month - 25, I think, and that adds up. Is it really necessary or even useful to print out or store locally?

It seems like their viewable content is 20% of the available literature, and the coverage is increasing. They appear to have recently added APS journals current up to five years ago. Adding arxiv to that, the physics coverage is pretty good, especially for historical research. (You also can access APS journals via your local public library.)
Huh? The opposite seems to me to be true: YouTube can make "easy money" selling ads on viral anti-vax videos, but choose not to.
You are a dangerous moron, you Nazi.

If you lived in middle age, you would be burning witches, in Nazi Germany killing Jews, but in present time all you can do is calling people morons.

NB: @dang, please remove both my and parent comment. I wrote this one just so that parent can “feel” how it looks to be on the opposite side of hate speech and internet insults.
Did you mean the Thiel Fellowship?
Censorship with little justification, all on top of sneering mockery of everything you may believe in, doesn't exactly strike me as the best way to promote trust.
> One thing is evident: social media is not the venue for scientific debate.

Hum... Any place people can gather to have an online debate is social media. That's the wrong dimension to use here.
Google is a multinational corporation, not a club. Those employees wouldn't get their way if it threatened their company's revenue stream.
That goes both ways.
Youve added an addendum to protect DNS and ISP both of which have been used to censor citizens. Thoughts on pulling payment processing via very generalized Chokepoint?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Good thing they told us yesterday that ‘free speech is a 'core value'’

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-google-russia-putin-...

Well, not that kind of speech, of course!
You're right, that's clearly happening too.
The input field isn’t the problem here. In fact the article even mentions that you need to hijack the request and alter the phone number. So I guess the Apple engineer that created this feature fell for the same misunderstanding that you did: user input can never be trusted, even when validated client side. You always have to do service side validation!
Hasn't the number of would-be holocaust deniers been increasing in Germany?

China is an example of platform-denying taken to the extreme,
> If the science is so clear, why not give an anti vaxxer a huge prime time platform and embarrass them in debate?

That doesn't work. It didn't work for climate change and it won't work for vaccines.
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Honestly, in a world where wackos will take the smallest soundbite they agree with from a moderate legitimate discussion, blow it out of proportion and weaponize it... It's hard to imagine this move by Google as overall bad. It's definitely heartbreaking, but so is the fact that a 3rd of the world is refusing to help out with solving the pandemic.

I honestly have no idea which move has an overall higher cost for society. Yet, we can't keep incentivizing wackos by giving them a platform or there'll keep being more and more of them.

Free speech, amplified to a wide audience is clearly having a negative impact on society and on out ability to be compassionate as a society. Maybe this is a step in the right direction.

Only time will tell but it's far to early to criticize the move. Especially when without it, wackos are gaining agency.
As the moderate and wholesome voices get drowned out by the push of “the algorithm” towards engaging (read: polarizing) content, YouTube will sadly become like Facebook for me- obsolete and deleted. Once I’m convinced that your product is unhealthy, especially in this time, I’m out, and I won’t be back.

Sex, hate, anger, violence, political extremism- so over it.

How about a tech platform that actually does good for once?

What alcoholism and obesity were to the precious generation, we are on a fast track to a mental health crisis of epic proportion if something isn’t done. I don’t know how people work at places like fb/ig/yt in good conscience.
I’ve always wanted something like this extension, but where the brackets aren’t colorized, but rather change size depending on their nesting level, with the outermost brackets becoming increasingly large as the total nesting level of the expression increases — exactly the way brackets do in maths.

Ideally, unlike in TeX, additions to nesting levels wouldn’t require a re-flow (i.e. typing a bracket wouldn’t make the code constantly shimmy around on the screen), but rather these would just be changes in the perceived size of these characters, while keeping them where they are on a monospace grid (since a lot of code assumes a pure monospace layout for indentation et al.)

In my imagination, this would work by just having a set of bracket/paren/brace/etc. graphemes in each font, that have increasingly-long ascenders/descenders, while the base size of of the “functional” part of the grapheme remains constant. As if there were five versions of the letter g, with an increasing length of the stem on which the lower hook rests.

As such, these magnified brackets would be rendered similarly to the way emoji are rendered in terminals: the grapheme would eventually “leak out” of its monospace box (in the emoji case to the sides; in this case above and below), to the point of eventually overlapping surrounding graphemes, rather than re-spacing the text to give it room.
This would be such a relief to me, as it would suggest that many of the trivial, shallow, grossly unchristian things that circulate from those groups don't reflect what Christians think and believe, but instead follow what games Facebook and serves foreign interests. I understand it's not good news in general, but it's reassuring to people who expect more of Christianity.
I’d like to see this integrate more tightly with Rails Turbo framework. Ideally it would understand Visitables and plug into SwiftUI. I took a swing at that at https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios/issues/8 but have struggled to get it working … that and Strada hasn’t come out yet, which I assume is the equiv of the native plugins within Portals.
Indeed, that's what I meant by:

> Is it so that they can better distribute the packaged encodes to their CDN?

The Packager, as far as I can tell, is not actually a cpu intensive process. That article mentions that the bottleneck was caused by IO which was resolved with the Virtual Assembler. It's not doing any encoding at all. It's stitching the encoded video together and packaging it with the audio/subtitles/metadata.

It seems like this could be done at the edge without ever actually packaging the whole file. My guess is the same as yours though, the reason they're actually packaging the encodes is to send them to their CDN. But it's still a guess as maybe the actual reason is that the Virtual Package doesn't work for some other reason.

It could just as well be to allow testing the packaged encode like you would any other deployment artifact before distributing.
Obviously not enough people are shutting up, given the way that antivax content is the #1 propagator on Facebook.

There is money to be made from lying to people. That's why it's being banned. It should have been done last year honestly, but social media companies were afraid to anger Trump. They took the barest actions to add warnings, and no surprise, no one reads them.
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One does feel somewhat traitorous posting references to light blue rather than dark...
> IMHO, this business model is fine when the only things at risk are venture capital [...]

Isn't there always more risk than just "venture capital" to this "move fast and break things" model?

Take Uber for an example, sure, they've burned so much cash trying to circumvent laws, but not only have they burned cash, they have also changed economies around the world by burning this cash and trying to disrupt things. Many normal taxi drivers are now without jobs, and suddenly the risk seems bigger than just venture capital.

Same with AirBnb and changing the hospitality sector, and many other examples where it seems there is just cash being burned, but that burn also have an outside effect bigger than just the burn.
This article is especially interesting to me, as it shows how VS Code still doesn't have the "Emacs nature". Even though I'm a 30-year Emacs user, I do hesitate to recommend it to younger programmers because it's so alien, and VS Code has one of the essential characteristics of Emacs: the extension language and the implementation language are the same. But this article is a great example of how it doesn't — extensions are limited to using an extension API, rather than having full access to the application's internals. Maybe a good thing, if you're a mass-market product worried about malicious extensions. But I'll note that [rainbow-delimiters-mode](https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters/) dates back to 2010, and has never noticeably slowed down loading or display of source files, even in languages with lots of delimiters like Lisp.
I don't know what your building but i just started testing this - https://teslatracker.com/ I wrote the copy and didn't waste time thinking too much about it and I already have people signing up and i plan to test charging $50/year . Don't think too much put something up and list the benefits your service provides ( save time) whatever. Get to it! life is in the doing :-)
Thanks for this. Definitely wasn’t saying they were sanctioned by Kosovo or Macedonian gvt. This gives me a better perspective either way though. I still think at the very least Putin (and Serbian hard liners) sees this favorably and would like it to continue.
I fixed any concern by buying long term disability insurance before I got it. May be worth checking out.
This is deeply ignorant of the actual reality. Most content creator are not technically savvy nor have the ability to setup any kind of distribution service. Also, you're missing the whole point of video streaming, which is becoming huge.

I've know youtubers that did upload videos as a hobby, but couldn't even afford to keep them locally stored in their hard drives after a few years. Makes the videos less valuable? In no way.

I sincerely don't understand any of your points.
Yeah, there are definitely people that want to be full remote. My team is full remote, a friend's team has settled on meeting once a week for retros/sprint planning and a mid sprint catch up.
You're right; but I just want to point out that most people arguing against these actions hold this principle despite their visceral reaction.

Two things can be true: YouTube (and Google) have way too much power and are destructive to democracy, AND they have the right to be that way.

The point is that people believe they shouldn't have that right.
The Crucial Role of Application Management in a Cloud Operating Model
That's TruffleRuby, not JRuby.

And even then, I haven't benchmarked myself, but I wouldn't be surprised most NES emulators written in C or other native languages out there would do way more than 150FPS.

Edit: and it doesn't really matter either way because while useful, optcarrot is a very different workload from what Ruby is generally used for.
I can. The previous generation is largely racist, sexist, homophobic, and bent on going back to the good old days when violence anyone who wasn’t a fist het white man was ok. They aren’t heroes for being born before YouTube.
Banning hate communities does work though [0]. I assume that the results are similar for twitter and facebook. "Hateful" Reddit or FB communities also don't allow "free speech". The moderators will ban people who go against the grain. There is no free exchange of ideas or disputing as if you're going against the grain you'll just get banned from that community (but not the platform). As such, either the platforms allow the hateful communities to just exist in their 'safe space silo' or they de-platform them.

[0] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
I don't think it's wrong to assume that fame/popularity plays a role in open source. Open source developers have to get motivation from somewhere. Taking some pride in developing something popular is fine in my opinion.

That being said, my first impression from the article was quite the opposite of yours. I thought it was great news for CoenraadS. He developed something so useful, that it was integrated into the core. That's impressive! The plugin is obsolete now, but in this case it looks like "mission accomplished".

Of course this move would look different in other app/extension ecosystems where extensions are monetized and/or not open source.
==She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.==

Sounds like she has already made up her mind, in which case I’m not sure it matters if the content is moderated or not. It’s possible she will find whatever reinforces the decision she’s already made.

==The only thing worse than bad ideas is the suppression of bad ideas.==

This sounds good, but is it true? The bad idea exists today and is spreading, does limiting that spread actually cause more harm? Is there evidence of this or a study to support it? In schools, we suppress all sorts of bad ideas. Take eugenics, has suppressing that idea made the belief in eugenics worse?
Wait, that's not her defense from what I've seen. Her defense was that she basically tried her best, was doing actual R&D, there were tech problems, she made some blunders, but failure is not criminal.
There’s a huge amount of psychology in landing page design to show credibility, proof points, address common rejections, etc. I found this udemy course helpful but I’m sure there’s other resources out there. https://www.udemy.com/share/101vOq3@44_8ioaD2oSBpElrM5_5UfPj...
Definitely sucks to be stuck on Windows 10 and not having an upgrade path for a machine that's only a few years old. But always happy to have WSL2 available for Ubuntu.
OT-The flagged/dead comments above and below yours greatly signal the feels>facts that has been invading HN for years now.

Both the comments were correct, and were simply pointing this out, there were no personal attacks or anything. The wokeness of all conferences made me stop going completely (tech, Ted, comics/games/fandom).
I can't even go to tabletop conventions anymore.

Blah blah faux pas to mention downvotes fuck that I'm tired of trolls and CEOs for companies using the forum's rules against us (be polite, charitable interpretation - those should be suspended when dealing with people speaking on behalf of companies, especially since no company ever told the truth, ever.)

If they had said something egregious, OK, but neither did. Jenssons comment even agreed yet was left unscathed.

Several comments in this thread have been simply pointing out facts only to be greyed out.

This wouldn't matter if everyone was defaulted to showdead, but many don't even know about it.
Porn is a great counter example to the idea social media companies have some all powerful control over public information. Nearly all of them ban porn, a form of absolutely protected speech, but behold, it’s easy to find porn.

The whole “death of free speech” argument is such nonsense
> dismiss equally unknown long-term effects of covid?

If you believe vaccines have no potential negative effect beyond 1 week, you'll have to give a serious thought as to why you believe Covid can have long term effects.

Also past vaccine history means absolutely nothing. You can't assume the next bridge is built safely just because you have never seen a bridge fall before.
This one is pretty good (JerryRigEverythin) and even includes repairing a blown tire! https://youtu.be/KGqexebCcUo
Agreed shutting down discussion is not helping matters and we appear to be moving in an autocratic dystopian direction as a nation.

The FDA advisory panel was overridden to endorse a booster shot. Even mentioning FDA officials resigning and the board being overridden gets you labeled as anti-vax and blocked.

Future not looking good :/
You yourself said "Just a simple thing like...", so I thought you were looking for a simple solution. Your complaints are no different if you were using strtol/atoi, so what's unique about swift here? Are you expecting "value of character" to be in some range that's not within 0..<radix?

I have also written commercial code that does this, and I'm just going to paste it here because it's actually not that much code. Sums two strings of arbitrary length, well outside of the overflow limit, for the given base. Returns the sum as string in the base given. No mapping or overflow checks needed. Invalid characters for the base are treated as 0, but you can easily modify it to throw an error or whatever.

func sumStrings(_ left: String, _ right: String, _ radix: Int) -> String {
var left = Array(left)
var right = Array(right)
var carry = 0
var result: String = ""

while left.isEmpty == false || right.isEmpty == false {
let charLeft = left.popLast() ?? "0"
let charRight = right.popLast() ?? "0"
let intLeft = Int("\(charLeft)", radix: radix) ?? 0
let intRight = Int("\(charRight)", radix: radix) ?? 0

carry += (intLeft + intRight)
result = String(carry % radix, radix: radix, uppercase: false) + result
carry /= radix
}
if carry % radix != 0 {
result = String(carry % radix, radix: radix, uppercase: false) + result
}
return result
}
> Someone want to throw out there a better way to combat disinformation than just armchair criticizing their decision?

Actually, people have, we've just moved on from the more important discussion which is whether YouTube (and other similar forms of social media / UGC) should exist in its current form.

I personally do not like regulation, but this is a situation in which the harm of social media / UGC is starting to outshine its benefit. I'm not sure if an outright ban of sites like YT is warranted but I think the frictionless experience of uploading/commenting/etc. on YT should be questioned.
This was amazing to read. Thanks for correcting me and string the record the straight for me. Jobs was not telling the truth.
Last year it was a media hyped run upon toilet rolls. People panic and react accordingly and do wonder how much of this was created by the media.

However if in the next year or so I read about a house burning down that was filled with toilet rolls and jerry cans - I don't think I will be the slightest bit supprised. As always - I hope I'm wrong as that's how we learn the best.
I've tried VR with my phone and it looked promising to me WRT resolution and clarity. I like the idea of a camera to let me see my workspace and I suspect with a few iterations it'll be amazing.

Given what I do to my posture as a desk worker, I'm thinking a little extra weight on my head might do good things for my back tbh.

If the price is right, I'm down to try it anyway.
Not in the same way as Chernobyl.
Yeah, IEEE is always a problem. Even IEEE members have to subscribe to individual journals, and there are a lot of them.
So what kind of mistake is it?
The crazy thing about Theranos is that so many people with experience in microfluidics (developed mainly for DNA sequencing although there are other uses) knew that their claims were impossible, technologically speaking.

Working with such small volumes to obtain quantitive estimates of blood chemistry is so implausible, as you are introducing uncontrollable variability - micro-evaporation, even tissue localization issues, I mean all the trained blood chemistry specialists knew this. I worked a little with DNA microfluidics, and it works because it's not quantitative.

Now, what they could have done is just stuck to pos/neg tests, i.e. 'are you infected with this virus or not' which is a lot more plausible as you don't have to meet a quantitative goal, just a detection goal. Also, one-stop STD screening for HIV / herpes / etc. is possible too (I suggested this and someone responded, 'new company name: ClapTrap").

It's really kind of sad, as Theranos might have been able to pull that off (although new management would probably be required), and then they'd have been positioned to do all the COVID testing (which was a major problem in the initial US response).

What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn't do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.
You can really feel the commitment to public debate!
Although I don't fundamentally disagree with your point, I don't think you're framing the issue fairly. It's not a matter of most people being enemies of free speech, it's just that this is an inherently difficult problem. Everyone draws the line differently on what's acceptable and what isn't, and every platform is trying to foster a different kind of community.
Very succinct statement of the issue.

Not only is Western society too tolerant of sociopathy, corporate structures tend to actively filter to top ranks those with such behaviors (just spend 5min reading Glassdoor or any employment-related NH topic...).