skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was this a real risk or just a perceived one as you stated? I think banning people because they advertised an alternate site would have put YT in a spot of bother.
Wow, I had almost exact same experience and had two more people in my coworking space encounter the same issue basically in the same month - we all tried to sell rather expensive stuff (300-600$ range) and were instantly suspended and no we didn't list it from the same IP.

Does ebay even get new users these days? I bet their banned user table has more rows than the active user one :D
This ham radio is unsafe at any frequency
"Deep state" is used extremely often to mean something non-centralized, and in a sense, aligned with what you describe as "a surprisingly loose collection of various institutions that all have some level of momentum". The reason it's a useful phrase is that much of that momentum was built in completely undemocratic and unaccountable ways, by groups that are illegitimately secretive and deceptive in their activities, and who feel free to use extreme means such as torture and terrorism.

It's a very imprecise term covering bureaucratic norms and blindspots, to unsanctioned domestic and international terrorism, so it's not really useful except as shorthand with ideological bedfellows, so-to-speak, and you're right that it's often used to mean "the government guys I don't like but am too lazy/ill-informed to describe". But OP mentioned Gladio -- I think that's context enough for this thread. Do some reading on the topic (beyond Wikipedia) if you haven't already, and you might get a sense of what this non-centralized deep state can do.

And I didn't make it clear, but I brought up the North et al "shadow government" as an example far on the small-scale end of the spectrum of meaning of "deep state/shadow government". It _was_ a centralized shadowy cabal doing a now-documented conspiracy. People argue about how much authority they "seized" and how much was delegated by Reagan (and how much capacity he had to delegate much of anything), but regardless, it was not democratic to illegal go around Congress. What I've described as the "deep state" is the more common usage, and it's on the "amorphous, non-centralized, competing institutions, largely free of any democratic accountability" end.
Great post! As always. You mention that there aren’t many good books about this topic. You should fix that! ;)
My worry for America and the west generally is that people like Michael Hayden occupy so many positions of power.
It doesn't have to be a malicious charlatan to pounce on value that has already been built, without them having actual consideration for future value that should be more rewarding and more sensibly worth working toward instead.

The corporate-climber-who-can't-build can often do this and nothing else, and they can sometimes even subconsciously exhibit some of the behaviors that end up with the same outcome, and it often can actually be unintentional.
I have been calling it automated stealing.

Does it scale? YES!
Not pedantic, it's clearly not AR.

At least not in a world marketers haven't completely taken over, where words still have meaning.
"Masks in schools are a very good idea"

No.
> 2-3 years old business-versions of Lenovo or something similar with 14 inch of screen and 8gb of RAM top).

I have a 4 yo Lenovo 14" T480 with 64 GiB of Samsung RAM, a magnesium top, 4 TiB SSD, quad core 8650i with discrete graphics, internal WiFi 6E, WWAN, and real 10 hour battery life with hot-swappable 72 Wh secondary batteries and an external battery charger. Newer models like the T490 and T14 G1/2 are much less usable, serviceable, and upgradeable. I have a whole stockpile of repair parts so I'm keeping this for years and shunning developer waste.
yeah, it's not like creators can delete comments ...
> The American perspective is that people have rights just by virtue of existing, and the state can only illegally and immorality interfere with rights that you always possess, unconditionally, no matter what.

Universal human rights isn't just American, it's a bedrock of democracies worldwide and of international law.

Also, the US doesn't say states "only illegally and immorality interfere", but that their core purpose is to actively protect human rights:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...
I used to sell a lot on eBay a long time ago. 15-20 years ago maybe. Recently I login into my account again trying to sell something, was rejected because I sell in excess of $250.

Then I’m told to call the local customer service at working hours. Of course I need to go to work, so I find some time to make a call. Instead of anyway to get a human to answer, I’m told to input a code from my phone. Which the code wouldn’t show on mobile of course, you have to use the desktop version. Hadn’t cared enough to make a call since.

eBay is a dying company. They don’t give a fuck to individual sellers anymore, they try to adapt to the Amazon model. Except their website is very difficult to use, different components don’t even work together.
I wonder what would cause an account to be unclosable, never heard of such a thing.
Given the R+D investment, could they just build and launch another one?
Hi, I'm Quinn, the OP.

I purchased the gift cards directly from Apple, Amazon, Target, and Citi slowly over the course of two months:

2021-11-29 $25 from apple.com/store purchase (Apple Shopping Event 2021)
2021-11-28 $25 from apple.com/store purchase (Apple Shopping Event 2021)
2021-11-28 $100 from amazon.com
2021-11-26 $100 from amazon.com
2021-11-21 $100 from target.com
2021-11-20 $30 from amazon.com
2021-10-13 $50 from Citi ThankYou Rewards redemption
2021-10-13 $100 from amazon.com
2021-10-04 $125 from amazon.com
2021-10-04 $100 from amazon.com
2021-10-03 $150 from amazon.com

I buy them when Amazon and Target have discounts such as “Get $15 Amazon credit with the purchase of a $100 Apple Gift Card”, or “Get 15% discount when you apply Membership Rewards Points towards your order”. The gift cards sold from Amazon and Target are authentic, full-price gift cards.

I’m a risk-adverse person with a good income. I don't waste time on deals that are less than 100% certain.

There is some interesting suggestions on the post I made at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253430231?page=1

I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about my nightmare surreal experience on the phone with Apple today.
I consider maintainability and readability related, but two different things. I'd expect maintainable code to be readable. However, I've encountered code bases that were easy to read, but hard to maintain. I mean that the code was hard to change after new requirements came up.

So when writing some code, a programmer needs to have some good understanding on how the business requirements might evolve, and design the code with that in mind, so the next programmer can not only easily read the code, but also change it in face of new requirements.
Are you going to call me racist and sexist now, snowflake?
YOU WILL WATCH ALL VIDEOS

AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY
If only there were a publishing house that cared an irrational amount about financial infrastructure, but where would one ever find that?

(No seriously speaking, would love to write a book someday, but not sure it would be this book, and between the day job and two young children I don't have a book in me at the moment unless I can clean the calendar for many months in a row and that doesn't seem rational given other uses of my calendar.)
> CCP fosters intense nationalism domestically (maybe after you left?)

I am pretty sure that the domestic propaganda is not too different from what it used to be.

When a nation grow strong, it naturally demands more space for its realm. And they are learning new skills to push back the things they used to feel incapable of (like China seems starting to cultivate an alternative theory on democracy). Also, you have to understand, any ambitious politician in China understand the immense power if the nationalism is used properly.

Imagine a nation back to its pinnacle in the Han and Tang dynasty, that's hugely attractive, and also to the people...

The issue the US media sees, it's essentially that China does not put herself as a subordinate of the US dominant international hierarchy.

If you think in that way, the wolf diplomacy is just normal tic to tac between two rivalry nations. And in fact, each instance of so-called wolf diplomacy action was never proactive. It was always some random Western guy or media provoked previously dormant issues, and the Chinese have to react...
Website that generates a Spotify playlist from the words of a sentence
can hardly call this hacking when it's literally an open door, this has been happening for years
Overall the quality of modern Lego is excellent. My two objections are over-franchising with too many too niche sets (playability of generic sets is better) And, as usual, way too many police sets. What is it with Legoe and police? How many police sets kids really need? How about a hospital or other city structures?
Mind you, it's not actually impossible to take apart -- just impossible with standard LEGO tools (i.e. "your fingers"). An adult building specialized models for display can probably cope with needing to lever something out of place using a narrow edge.
Crypto has and will make many millionaires - it will also ruin many folks.
Why not? They have a hell of a lot more experience running a video sharing and networking service than most folks do.
You can use things like `otool` which will tell you what path to the library the binary is expecting. Here's a tool I wrote to fix paths recursively for an application, for example:

https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/deeplabel/blob/master/fi...
US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots’
> It is easier to right than to read.

I just wanted to point out that I found that particular error really funny given the context.
> and the US has the plurality of it.

What does this mean? Are we breaking payments fraud down by countries? Continents? Currencies? Those can all have different "pluralities". There is no lower limit on what "the plurality of $25B" is.
Based on your earlier misreading of the data, please notice that you have a conclusion that you're projecting into the data. As they say, you can torture the data until it speaks. But it's very easy to look up yearly flu deaths (~40k, up to 60k in the exceptional 2017-18 season), and see that there's an order of magnitude difference between that and what we see here.

In other words, Is the emperor actually naked, or are you simply fishing for the conclusion you want to hear?
Past related threads:

The Deadlock Empire – Slay Dragons, Master Concurrency (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22040117 - Jan 2020 (4 comments)

The Deadlock Empire: A game that teaches locking and concurrency (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19411641 - March 2019 (4 comments)

Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064507 - Feb 2016 (30 comments)
There are very few real communities left. Human communities, tribes, clans, whatever you want to call them, knew how to take care of each other. Of course most humans back then didn’t live till the age we do now, but still. We try to distance ourselves from death as much as possible, whereas past communities had more stories and rituals around it, likely making it more acceptable and in some cases celebrated. Obviously there was the burden of grief, but it was spread across the community instead of concentrated in a few.
Generally I think this kind of thing is stupid, which is the point of the article. The more I see "science" being considered a religion, the more I support this teaching mythology alongside science though.

From what I read, its talking about teaching mainstream explanations of stuff alongside tribal mythology as an alternate explanation. It's not suggesting teaching a different scientific method. The distinction is important- I think its fine to present lots of alternate theories of stuff, including ones we consider nutty, as long as we also discuss that we're not certain about any of them, and here is a (potential but still subject to question) framework for how we might build a model of the universe for ourselves that we can use to advantage in life. Presenting people with mythological theories in this context only strengthens critical thinking. I believe we should never be concerned about exposing people to the "wrong" view, only about people who unquestionably accept things, even if those things are completely mainstream
This isn't economics, but I will say that, in much of the past, Americans had a belief in being productive, contributing members of society, in anyone achieving anything ('you could be President some day!'), and in an obligation to maximize your potential.

As wealth has become concentrated and the wealthy have openly and arrogantly adopted a philosophy of taking as much as they can - that it's what capitalism is about - rather than producing and contributing and thereby earning, it's no surprise that workers might not feel they should do more than the minimum.
Hmm, I wonder if a campaign to tell everyone to go and dislike every video they watch would gain traction. The same way Google destroyed this metric for viewers, it would destroy the usefulness for creators.

Act of petty revenge for sure, and they'll probably remove you from their fiefdom for being a troll.
This should simply go to small claims court.
Terraforming or terrafarming? We already did ruinous terraforming with anthropogenic climate change.

The mainstream is stuck on nice-sounding, impractical, meaningless Bandaids rather than delving into scalable solutions that will likely require economic incentives and international coordination.
Teach her Unity. I would have killed to have access to Unity when was her age.
That stuff is unavoidable with anonymous user-generated content like this. For now I’m relying on human moderation to draw over that stuff after it happens. My hope is that legitimate art will drown out the bad content over time.

Depending on how much time I feel like devoting to this, maybe I’ll turn that problem into a fun machine learning project. I know that won’t eliminate bad actors, but hopefully a combination of tactics will keep it to a minimum.
Oh wow, I completely read it as if you were saying "thanks for condemning me as I expected you would" and was very confused why you'd take it that way. Apologies!
Java isn't the worst choice. It's mostly safe, reasonable to work with, and quite fast.

RAM isn't a bottleneck on most servers these days. Even the cheapest EC2 tends to have 2GB which will run nearly any Java app fine.

Sure, Rust is better. But it will take years to replicate what's already out there in Java.

I'll take a database written in Java over C any day given equivalent choices.
Was there an earth-shattering kaboom?
Not sure about DoD specifically but many datacenters absolutely employ retina scanners, LG makes a very popular line of them.
I feel like 99% of the time I order from a big online store, I get an invoice in the box anyway (which just says paid via PayPal or paid via card 123).
Just don't use YouTube regularly for infinite scrolling. I stopped 2 years ago and only head over for a specific video or two. I don't engage at all.
Ideally I'd like to be able to register my physical token with the manufacturer and have them send me a replacement based on sufficient identification. Things like ordering the replacement with a credit card in my name, sent to my mailing address, vouched for by a notary public, and/or anything else that I check off on the list of factors I find acceptable when I send them my registration form.

The alternative is for me to use TOTP and have the secrets printed out, lightly encrypted, and stored in a safe deposit box.
How many years since a religiously motivated killing at a pride parade?
I will not endorse Mother Jones. However, "outrunning" is straightforward. A forest can "move" a certain amount a year — it is not motion of individual trees, but new trees and plants can grow where there were none before.

If the extents of a forest are constrained by climate, and the boundaries of its climate zone moving at a speed which is slower than the trees can move, then the collection of organisms can meaningfully persist and be said to move north. If on the other hand the climate zones are moving too quickly, then sooner or later there will no longer exist a collection of trees and related organisms that functioned as this forest once did.
Because every gen needs a "day trading" dot com/bomb moment...
I have not been published, but I've written three novels (100k words approximately, each), and put them through multiple editing and revision passes, over the last 25 years while working full time in IT (which may or may not be considered grueling).

Most of the writing was done at lunch, a few hours here and there on weekends and during holidays, and some during 90 minutes commutes on the bus. I don't have enough time in the mornings, and am usually too tired after work to do creative work. I've very rarely been able to plug in a flash drive and write during downtimes at work. There are exceptions, of course. I've been told by un-related people who've read the work that they're pretty good, and I may self-publish someday.

It certainly is possible do creative work while working full-time. It takes dedication and creativity above and beyond that needed to do the writing. I've been obsessed with finding portable writing systems. In the late 90s I wrote on Palm Pilots (using RF-connected keyboards). Eventually I was able to afford laptops. Today my portable writing device is an iPad Air 4 with Magic Keyboard.
All numbers are transcendental, with a negligible list of exceptions. The exceptions are just the numbers you could write down if you spent infinitely long at it.
> To me, 'deep state' implies an illegal conspiracy against democracy.

This is a very new, post-Trump/QAnon interpretation. The “deep state” has, for at least many decades prior, meant those aspects of government which persist from administration to administration, largely unaffected by those in power. E.g. the CIA keeps doing its thing regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in office.

Now in as much as these aspects of government are controlled by unelected officials who are willing to work against the elected representatives (think: J Edgar Hoover), that constitutes a shadow government.
While certainly troubling if it comes to fruition, I do wish that the media would stop promoting some of the more, shall we say, dramatic narratives. If it so happens that this doesn't occur, and this model was a tad aggressive, then that gives so much ammunition to the folks who have an interest in downplaying global climate change.

Just calmly report the median. The median is bad enough, no need to go to the outliers.
>"Tell me about the most complicated projects you contributed a significant part of the design, implementation to, or ideally both."

Start with the problem they aimed to solve.

Probe for how they chose the solution, and what alternatives they considered.

Get into the details of specifically what artifacts they produced, and if part of a team what role they played.

Get them to describe the solution in technical detail.

Probe into trade-offs they had to make or compromises.

Ask what aspects they found novel or innovative.

Once they finish describing the system, ask if it was successful, and how they measured it.

If they were around after launch, how did they operate it, monitor it, what unexpected challenges they encountered that they didn't foresee.

By the way, all along it doesn't matter if the domain or technology they are describing to you is totally different from your own experience. A senior+ engineer should be able to explain their domain to someone equally technical in a different domain with some competency.

This verbatim can very well apply to many different industrial engineering efforts, regardless of whether there is software involved.

>This cannot be upvoted enough.

I agree, and I mean far beyond the message board.
There is no way to conveniently do "select sum(payment_amount) where country = 'US' AND was_fraudy from the_global_economy" but it's broadly estimated at +/- $10B, which is why why I said it was on the scale the gold mining industry, which I quoted. You're welcome to Google various estimates, though they'll end up over the map in the low 10 digits region.
Java already does this AFAIK. If you use a GC that supports class unloading (all the new ones do).

Unused classes can be unloaded from RAM and it's like they don't exist. The executable is still huge but lower memory and CPU cache footprint.
They don't even need to be smarter. They just need to value their time less than you do.
Unlike ents and huorns, terrestrial trees move over generations, thus outrunning, or maybe just keeping pace with, or losing the race against, climate change.

Higher elevation tends to be colder. It’s not as simple as the plant populations moving upslope, though; some plants might have a wider tolerance range, and while evolution involves both competition and reciprocation, too much stress and/or too little time leads to extinction.

Regarding tree growth, selectively logging, reducing soil compaction, and leaving or planting birch/alder/etc along with fir/pine/etc, so long as they’re tied into the mycelial networks of our Fungal Overlords will increase total tree mass [0]. Feel free to replace “mother tree” with “parent tree”, as Doug Fir, for example, are monoecious.

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/finding-the-mother-tree-disco...
OTOH and WRT the comment hiding (i.e. article topic) it's not hard to understand why YouTube doesn't want their comment sections filled with meta. HN "heavily discourages" it as well.

On the issue of hiding dislike counts itself, I don't think it's a big deal, as I don't believe it's the quality signal that some suggest:

1) there's the trolling behavior it encourages, which detracts from the meaning of dislikes

2) relative likes are sufficient, harder to game and less troll-inviting

3) the content, being video, speaks for itself more than text, making it easier to determine what's likely to be of interest.

4) what does dislike even mean on YouTube? Disagreement? Something else? I don't trust that there's enough consistency to give it meaning I care about

5) the number of views is also a better indicator of potential quality than dislikes.

In fact, on that latter point, the percentile of the percentage of the video watched, relative to other videos, would probably be an even better indicator.

That dislike count was essentially noise.
> likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus

> picking up a snippet

whaaaaaaaa?! How does a virus "pick up a snippet"?? Did they mean it coincidentally mutated to have the same sequence? How would it combine with another virus, and why hasn't it done this last year?
Speaking of translations.. the last few days I've been wondering why some YouTube videos are titled in English although the people in it are talking German, and I'm in a German-speaking country (but using YouTube with the English interface). So, apparently YouTube have started auto-translating titles. Or maybe, since the videos have English subtitles, they're using the creator-provided translated title.

But there is no option to turn this automatism off... and this automatic changing of shit is totally pissing me off.