skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> more effective barrier

Tor, or more specifically the Tor Browser Bundle is not some huge hurdle to overcome if you want to browse certain content. I imagine for the audience of Sci-Hub, downloading then using Tor is no biggie.

The only real hurdle may be discovery of the right .ONION but once you search for `The Hidden Wiki` on DuckDuckGo you will be soon in Onionland and there are plenty of search engines and directories on there that could potentially point to the latest Sci-Hub .ONION
There is no "fundamental tenet" of being candid

To remove false information is not a failure to be candid

We have always removed false information

A private company removing content is not censorship

Public health has always been in favor of removing false information

The perception is being reinforced by false moral equivalences and false claims about the past

There is no downside to removing structured false information being presented by a foreign power

Your hand-wringing doesn't make sense
I know this comment will be lost in the shuffle, and I notice this was submitted by danso, so I imagine there's an intentionality here, but I very strongly believe submissions like these are a substantial and growing threat to HN.

Just remove them! Let's talk tech, startups, science! Submissions like these distract from the stuff I like on HN, but more importantly I worry they chase away the people I like from HN.

I flag each of these, hoping enough of us can get content like this removed, and I'm willing to be outvoted on that count, but I personally think HN is better off without this content.
Sometimes the Root cause for problems is buried one or two abstraction layers deeper than the "responsible team" is comfortable to work at.
This is where the "lower level" expert comes into play.

At my place the abstractions start at high level user facing code, reach down into the hardware interface (driver) code and down to the actual electronic circuit design.

EVERYWHERE something can go wrong. In case the circuit deteriorates too fast you need to get the material analysts to "debug"

Rule of thumb is: there is always one layer of abstraction below you where stuff can break which feels like magic to you but is fixed with a glimpse from the lower level guy
To most actual communists, the DSA is a complete joke. If it wasn't a neutered organization as it is, the whole woke thing has put the last nail in the coffin.
Xenia (Greek)
>No, I'm not sure where you're getting this from?

Sounds like a misunderstanding then. Your initial comment was

> > We're in the middle of a global pandemic and we're not allowed to discuss whether GoF research is too risky? We're not allowed to discuss the nuances of what a "lab leak" may really entail?

>When the polio vaccine first came out was the public (i.e. non medical personnel) allowed to discuss whether the use of inactivated virus was too risky?

The quoted poster seemed to be anti-censorship, so when you replied in opposition to that, it gave the impression that you thought there was actually censorship going on for polio vaccines.

>but isn't that precisely what YT is doing..? They're banning bad faith actors here, no?

They're banning everyone, bad/good faith actors alike. That's bad and should be stopped.
MiniHack: A new sandbox for open ended reinforcement learning
Agreed. EBITDA in general is hot garbage, but that is egregious.
Raku's New Dispatch Mechanism Has Landed
Mistakes will always happen. Content moderation is hard, especially at the scale of YouTube. And no - adding more human moderators wouldn't make it better.

Most people would support it. Based on your response, I assume that you wouldn't mind if YouTube recommended you some ISIS beheadings for example. Who would be to judge if the video is real or not? It could be just artistic reconstruction. Free speech absolutists would never trust YouTube to make this determination.
> Sounds like she has already made up her mind

Exactly. My experience with people taught me that once an adult made up his/her mind with some belief, it is extremely difficult to shake. Confirmation bias will be in effect most of the time. The only chance to change it is when someone really close to the person (who he/she trusts), or someone this person admire/worship says otherwise. And in this case, since it's Youtube, it will never happen.
My opinion is a private entity like youtube should be able to choose what goes on their platform. We're free to criticize of course, and not use their product if we choose. But they have the right to not host content they don't agree with.
> At Gratipay, we believe that companies want to pay for open source, and will pay for open source if it’s easy enough—bureaucratically, technically, and socially.

I think this is the right insight, but clicking around the links on their website I don't think they were executing on that insight particularly well. This looks more like it was a platform for individuals to make recurring donations than for companies to support the tools they use.
No, the point is clear but missing an essential detail. Vaccination results in much better outcomes when you do get the disease. Ergo the ideal is to be vaccinated, and then if you so happen to get sick, recovery is quicker and you have a stronger immune response.
>Banning X communities does work to achieve the goal of people not talking about X.

Honestly I'm not sure that is even accurate, I would imagine it does the opposite. People are drawn to what's not allowed, it's even one of the morals of the Adam and Eve story. Pretty old but still relevant idea of human nature.

Here's an interesting story about Goldberger who defended the Neo Nazis in Skokie.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rights-protesters/sk...
Ah, this takes me back. HLA really helped me to learn the basics back in the day. To be honest nowadays my assembly skills are mainly read-only. Usually when I'm debugging some weird crash or looking to see how something gets optimized (or doesn't). Still, I'm very glad to have learned.

If nothing else, it rid me of the notion that C is "portable assembly".
Thank you for the clarification.

Let me ask you a quick question that is surely on the minds of many other HNers:

Are you guys using the prototypes for day-to-day work (i.e., are you dogfooding Simula hardware and software)?
Artificial Intelligence completed Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony
"Except people will take any and all things that happen as conformation of their beliefs."

Then doing things on basis of motivating them is a dead end, and we should staunch the flow of falsehoods to keep other people from becoming contaminated.
Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases
Beyond all the fraud, lying, and deceit, the real shame is the lost opportunity and the associated colossal mismanagement. Theranos was able to marshal about a billion dollars with an overarching goal of democratizing access to health data. They basically accomplished nothing. Generating such a concentration of resources for this goal was a notable accomplishment. The subsequent arrogant (and stupid) inability to discern "hard" from "impossible" and adjust their approach to maintain some chance of success to the overarching goal was a grotesque and massive failure.
> The hate for Electron comes from how the average Electron application works.

A lot of it, given the comments I see in relevant threads, comes from the inefficiency of every electron app having its own copies of node and chromium in memory (and on disk, and being transferred over the network when installed/updated, though those are smaller issues than run-time performance). Though that is unavoidable given how it works unless particular LTS versions can be enforced so everything is tested against those making sharing easier/possible. I'm not sure how much of an issue it really is anyway: how many people are running several instances of Electron applications at once?

Also I get the impression that a fair amount of it comes from people who are parroting what appears to be a popular sentiment, without actually understanding or having skin in the game! This says something disappointing about technical communities.
we need a distributed torrent-like distributed youtube yesterday (maybe peertube, maybe something else). a system which democratically shares the load and where people can vote which videos get the most bandwidth. this dumb technocratic stewardship is just getting annoying.
Heck, I view it all as 'misinformation', and I certainly don't need some cubicle drone at youtube to decide for me.

Certainly the average person is smart enough to understand the statistics of the thing, after all that's something of the point of epidemiology.

There should be enough data points by now to tell me a few things.

. What is the real value of a cloth mask worn inside in a crowd with strangers? What is the value of a properly fitted N95 mask? Give it to me as an odds calculation.

. Just what percentage of covid is picked up in bars? grocery stores? schools? at home? Our local health department is notably mum about that preferring only to hand out the county-wide ages and that's it.

.Actual strong data on value of vaccine in terms of infection and symptoms. 1st, 2nd, 3rd dose. How long are these valuable? How long will they remain so due to mutations? Odds.

.Actual data on nasty side effects of vaccine including odds.

.Fairly presented value of home remedies, anti-virals, etc.

.etc.

You can twizzle out some of this, but rarely. Cut down to the essentials, it wouldn't take up a single sheet of paper. Post that sheet of paper whenever anyone feels the need to opine.

Instead I'm treated to shaming and scolding and peoples' fear about their precious bodily fluids and I'm sick of everyone. Somehow this has become a proxy for the 2016/2020 elections complete with all the religious overtones. Please stop.
i regret that i have but one upvote to give. I'm a little tired of the constant state of emergency and pearl clutching since about this time of year 2001.
Pandemic pushes Chinese tech giants to roll out more courier robots
Which is true, as long as they accept no medical use!
If your account is enabled for zfs-send then it is a bhyve VM which has a zpool just for you (which is running on top of our zpool).

I will have to look into this - does your zpool benefit from the metadata cache ? Perhaps not since it is a different zpool ...
Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions
In this situation my money is on advertisers who are being criticized on social media for sponsoring 'undesirable' content because the algorithm put their ad in front of a random video. By and large I don't think YouTube cares what is in a video unless it is illegal or something advertisers don't want to associate with.
> 2020-2021 has shown me that most people happen to be 'fair weather fans' of civil rights.

A close read of the constitution itself shows that this has been the case since the very founding of the united states.

> The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Ask HN: What software / service to create quizes to help kids wih Homework
> Isn't it a bigger/more important mystery why proto-indo european language was so successful at supplanting the local languages it intermixed with?

Language domination tends to stem from conquest and/or domination of the population or flatout genocide. Also, if the established elites speak it, the population will most likely follow. The spread of PIE probably mimicked the spread of european languages around the world.

Why is english spoken in us, canada, australia, nz, etc? Why is spanish spoken in much of the americas. Why is english, german, portuguese, french, etc spoken all over africa? Conquest, genocide, mass rapes, etc.

The real question is what technology/tool/etc gave the PIE speakers an advantage over speakers of non-PIE languages ( semitic, basque, etc.). Also how were central asians, east asians, southeast asians, etc able to withstand the PIE onslaught.
We have 10 years of data[1] behind other mRNA therapeutics that use the exact same technology that the vaccine uses.

1. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-...
Personally, I don't care what Youtube bans and believe they should just do whatever they like. I don't care because Youtube does not provide any essential service to society. The content they serve is entirely expendable. The same holds for Twitter and Facebook. You could close these content distribution sites tomorrow and nothing substantial would change. A few of their competitors would gain a larger user base and that's it. If you rely for your income on some of these media channels (like ad revenue), you have a bad business model.

Principally, however, there could be a quasi-monopoly that turns out so essential for society that they should be treated as a public utility with a right to access instead of a private company that can enforce whatever house rules they like within the boundaries of law. I just don't think YT (or FB or Twitter or Google...) are there yet and find it hilarious that butthurt Youtubers so grossly overestimate their own importance.
> I'm confident there was also some element of "if I get it now I'm telling them their tactics worked."

Thanks for your vulnerability admitting someone very close to you has behaved out of spite and contrary to their own interest and the interests of their community.

How is your mother’s behavior in delaying^ not “too stupid to make their own decisions” though? Behaving out of spite is stupid (and totally human! Not judging her character, but yes her behavior was wrong on several levels).

Is it that Yes people are too stupid to make their own decisions, but a government mandate isn’t the right tactic to influence their behavior? What’s the right tactic to influence stupid people?

(Genuinely curious since you appear to see both sides)
> Is putting scripts in a phone number field (or any input field) a well known way to hijack requests?

100% yes. It's called an XSS vulnerability. It was no 1 in the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten 2017, although now that sites don't make this mistake very often, it's fallen to number 3 in the 2021 list.

> ... wide-spread across the entire iOS and mac OS code-base

It's not in the iOS or mac OS code-base, it's in the Apple website codebase. It could well be widespread there.
Plus, EVs have to amortize a lot more R&D costs/factory capital still. Actual posted marginal costs seem similar/cheaper on paper and it seems only a matter of time before EVs at the same trim level are cheaper than their ICE counterparts. Though we'll probably see the "shell game" of EVs never having easily comparable trim levels continue to play out for at least a few more years to keep consumers on their toes (and continue to amortize R&D costs/factory capital, at least at the major manufacturers).

The interesting things to watch right now for EV costs are the Chinese manufacturers with very different capital expenses (and already complete R&D amortization) entering the EU and US markets, and the German manufacturers in a sharp game right now of trying to hit 100% EV production by 2025. If the German manufacturers hit that 100% goal it will still be tough to compare ICE to EV trim levels as there won't be ICE trim levels left to compare from them, but it will also mean that they intend to hit the full breadth of trim levels and the economies of scale of delivering them all on the same base platforms.
> And it is also confidence in the abilities of other drivers on the road.

I'm reminded of that old standby: "Anyone who drives slower than me is an idiot, and anyone who drives faster than me is an asshole." Even the best driver in the world should plan for all the idiots and assholes out there.
> Deplatforming ... helps stop disinfomration

And also confirms the scepticism of those who have grown diffident of dominant narratives.

Deplatforming can also stop information.

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The issue is an old epistemological issue: it is the "demarcation problem". We have been there. It's not trivial.
It says a lot without saying anything meaningful.
Idiomatic Kotlin: Solving Advent of Code Puzzles, Traversing Trees
There's always someone that has to make sure no one is being unfair to white people
Zero mentions of Fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon, PeerTube etc... -- the things which actually build decentralized social network, and which have solved the problems of lock-in data and centralization of power.

21 mentions of "web3", 15 mentions of "token", and 10 mentions of "NFT"

Looks like another crypto scam
This is shifting rapidly. We are not living 25 years ago.

Kickstarter initiated a trend of paying for things we want by funding people that are creating in our niche areas of interest.

Platforms like Patreon and Ko-fi let you support the creators you want directly. You can do it on a subscription basis and have a 1:1 channel to talk with the creator. You can get custom work, support, advice, etc.

Github introduced recurring donations directly on user pages, making it seamless to contribute to open source creators. I chip in $5-30/mo to my favorite projects. I'm not the only one doing this, and the money adds up.

Twitch and YouTube introduced subscriptions, bits, and channel points, which gamify contributions and make you feel involved. These have resulted in a massive windfall for creators, and that same technique will propagate into open source. "Get your name in the README", etc., distributed on millions of machines is a compelling technique.

The world is changing.
I've said it before and a bunch of people objected to calling out Reed-Elsevier specifically. You know what? Too bad.

Reed-Elsevier. Reed-Elsevier. Reed-Elsevier.

Here's the summary of that article: "For the academic publishers, it is about extracting rents"

They don't want to sell Cokes at the beach; they want the official government monopoly on selling Cokes at the beach.
If you don't need it to scale crazily, yes. E.g. microcontrollers in nodes and then a local gateway as an embedded Linux system would not surprise me to see.
The right answer might be to sit back and do nothing. That seems just as likely to be correct as any intervention.

Eroding trust by overtly controlling information sets the scene for propaganda to take deeper root.
What if the original content creator does not want their content shared in this manner? For every view not on YT, they lose metrics/money. It is not your decision to do this.

I'm just so not understanding how the concept of ownership is lost to others.
> So, is it the idea that one could keep the peace by utterly destroying the enemy _after_ they lost that ought to have been banned?

I wasn't advocating for banning any ideas, but rather than private entities should have the freedom to moderate their platforms. That private entities and persons should be allowed to say: "I won't share this idea".

One of the points asserted was that this requires us to agree to the point that "some ideas are harmful".

So, I was defending the claim that 'some ideas are harmful'. That is absolutely not the same as defending the claim that 'some ideas should be banned'.

Most of the rest of your comment deals with that latter claim, which I don't support and don't claim to.

My point wasn't that the idea should've been banned, but rather that the idea was harmful.
I'm not sure what you want to pick.
>I am an open source/FLOSS enthusiast

What does "enthusiast" mean here exactly?

>if you're just that tad below the "everyone knows your tool"-line, you will never ever make your living from donations.

I wouldn't be so sure.
https://awesomekling.github.io/I-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-Ser...
I had a reply about attention algos promoting content higher than it deserves being the root problem. In the old days content with more credible links to it made it to the top for all regardless of your preconceived notions. Now everything is gamed out to your existing profile with God like precision.
> "But it's private companies! They can do whatever they want!" The telephone companies are private. Do they have a right to kill your connection when you talk about unapproved subject matter? Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and so on are the modern de-facto means of communicating long distance and to wide-spread audiences.

If I started robo-calling millions of people with unapproved subject matter, I'd wager they'd kill my connection fairly quickly.
This is Youtube, not SciHub.
It was common in the late 18th century to provide a rationale for the passage of a law, but the law itself by its very passage becomes legitimate irrespective of whether it fulfills its stated purpose. The rationale doesn't restrict the scope of the law, it's simply a belt onion: there because "it was the style at the time".

Courts have ruled that the justification in the Second Amendment, of establishing and protecting "a well-regulated Militia", does not bind the amendment to apply only to the establishment and protection of a body designated as the militia (e.g., the National Guard).

Similarly, IP laws need not "promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts" to be legitimate. If Congress passes IP laws to protect large cartels with no public benefit, and maybe even public harm, those laws are in full force and 100% constitutional.
Well, if the app is installed, then there's a gajillion methods (GPS, Wifi, etc)

For conventional browsers in a desktop environment I'd suspect all the normal methods of fingerprinting browsers would reveal a lot. And Netflix et al can detect VPNs from a browser, so clearly that's not impossible. I notice that Google Maps on my browser knows where I am despite me using a VPN, but then I'm also logged in to Google on my phone, so maybe it's just tracking my phone location rather than my browser location.

Interesting question - anyone know anything definite?
Fighting the good fight, day after day, without end? There is no way to force the right thing. There's no law that can't be repealed, no power that can't be corrupted. So we have to work and be vigilant, always.
> Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that.

The studies from the CDC indicate the opposite: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

Which studies are you referring to?
I am gonna go out on a limb and say Google's product dashboards likely all have engagement metrics and probably close to zero have "social trust" metrics.
YouTube's algorithms probably radicalized a good chunk to begin with.
The "edge" is a more recent invention, or rather, the level of abstraction now available to the public for "the edge" lends itself much more readily to such things when designed from scratch. If Netflix were to Greenfield/rebuild it from scratch today, from what I'm reading off Netflix's blog, your proposal seems reasonable. It depends on what their internal abstraction on what their edge actually looks like in practice but I'm guessing it's simultaneously more and less advanced compared to eg Cloudflare's edge workers but institution inertia means "if it ain't broke" is a guiding principal all its own. If you wanted to get a job at Netflix, propose that change, and implement it, I'd bet they'll reward you handsomely for it.
Ask HN: macOS GUI software to find and replace?
I use VS Code as my main text editor but I dislike its find and replace controls and visuals. Is there any specific gui software to find and replace?
You mean "Congrats to Drugs", right? (You put "The War on Drugs" twice, which doesn't make sense)
This. I'm a scientist working on identifying therapeutics for COVID-19. The number of relevant kinds of expertise is very large. There is no COVID-19 expert whose background covers everything, thus everyone has blind spots. It doesn't mean we should throw up our hands, but it does mean a bit of humility is in order from everyone involved. Unfortunately, that level of nuance and honesty does not seem possible in public debate. I really hate seeing science in public because it is quite different from what I experience in person.