skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started doing true crime on my channel a couple months ago (e.g., https://youtu.be/rahUfvkIGE0) and have been following this story. Essentially, JCS's content keeps getting flagged for "violence" and "sensitive events," and YouTube's response has basically been to handwave the complaints from JCS. When you actually look at the flagged reasons, JCS's content clearly falls within acceptable guidelines.

My best guess is that JCS got too big, and his videos have popped up in even non-true crime fans' feeds. YouTube is trying to walk on eggshells with its advertisers after its many past problems with ads being pulled due to advertisers not liking certain content.
How curious that both of the most incredibly voracious people ever both served Napoleon in the same time frame and their stories come from few isolated documents..
really nice game, and very addictive! I imagine that an "AI" would excel at this game by calculating the most efficient trajectory.
The internet has killed most print publication, but the internet does not have good profit margins and so every corner is cut to maintain profitability.

A single ad in a single print issue of the New York Times can easily cost a quarter million dollars. A Google Display ad costs pennies. Online advertisements can no longer support real journalism, only click-bait.

Most news organizations have gone back to the idea that they have to then have users pay subscriptions to view their content online. This, unfortunately breaks the sharability of news stories and creates a frustrating user experience.

I only see two paths forward for print new:

1. Bundle with other services print, streaming, etc etc. Most people won’t pay 20 dollars a month or whatever it costs to subscribe to the NYTimes, but they might if it was part of a package that includes other things.

2. News organizations should go non-profit. This alleviates some pressure to have profit margins and opens up donations as a potential revenue stream.
Italian pizza and American pizza aren't really comparable, in my experience.
nodejs came out on 2009, I've used it non-stop since then and probably built close to 100 things with it. I am on the author's list of both node and v8.

I write it as nodejs because that's how I got used to it on the mailing lists and several places that I frequent.

If a "team" decides not to hire me because of the latter, then ... thanks, I guess?
>Does this mean that the switch points were blocked by the trash/dumped packages?

Potentially, I know they can get clogged up with the right mixture of snow turned into ice. Trash is hard to pack that densely without trying though I suppose a large object could have jammed the switch gear.

>There was a video showing that one of the rails had fallen over on its side.

A train riding two rails will put a lot of sideways force on the rails pulling them together. Rails aren't shaped to resist very much force in that direction.

>where the US Army had a tough time derailing trains they were trying to sabotage, so this is all amazing to me.

They were working under very different constraints than you or I.
> You can still have the trial expire and the credit card isn't ever charged; but you can track people on trials more easily.

I think that someone who doesn't want to give their real email address to try out a service is even less likely to trust an unknown service with their credit card number. There are just too many "free trials" that promise to not charge your credit card and then make you jump all sorts of hurdles (e.g., having to call) to cancel the free trial.
it's true that domestic orgs should be guaranteed peace and stability at home on American soil. But the us government only guarantees you and your property/business interests to a limited degree abroad and domestically as well.

Banks and stores in US routinely employ private security. There is no reason why US public should foot the entire security bill of Tiffany's or CVS.

US gov should have defensive and offensive cyber capabilities deployed strategically to assist and deter, but uncle sam can't babysit each and every it vendor or client.

US gov also needs to hammer shit IT practices and make it too expensive for bad guys to do harm and too expensive for "good guys" to be morons.
I've often wondered about the talk of always needing 10,000 x more processing power before we can emulate something like the human brain, seems to me it should be possible now but running at 10,000th of the speed. I would still be impressed.
Besides Sega vs Accolade mentioned in a sibling comment, there's also this attempt --- which was similarly defeated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_International,_Inc._v.....
Most of us aren't merchants we as a society aren't obliged to let you do business save on our terms. If they think they can get more favorable terms elsewhere they can very well sell locked down elsewhere. This is a trend we ought to have shut down 20 years ago and we should darn well shut down now.
I am under the impression that many hospitals are overwhelmed because they have a lack of nurses, not a lack of rooms.

lacking nurses because they were already sparsely hired in efforts to maximize profits over patient comfort pre-pandemic,

of those that were working the field; many have left their job to make 5 times more money as a traveling nurse elsewhere (?) - many have left the job because they find it too stressful for the benefits it offers them - and many are out sick.

Does anyone think that hospitals are going to raise what they pay nurses now? are we going to invest in nursing in ways that gets lots more to choose it as a career path because X and Y things are going to be so much greater for them in the future?

I'm not holding my breathe that hospitals are going to change the pay rate for the most missed resource, or that they will hire twice as many as they've had in the past.. and that the future of nursing is going to be any better - so we better hope that treatment pills become a thing.
You are saying a different thing now. Your previous comment touched a philosophical matter. Now it's about using, in a commercial product, OSS software people develop in their own time and that they might promote too much (I read this as "irresponsibly"). Both of these do not apply only to this kind of software and even if they did, what is the point of having this discussion (which could be an interesting one) here? If anything, we should encourage people that choose do this sort of work in this day and age.
Considering the node ecosystem, wouldn't those with mistakes on their resume be the perfect fit?
You don't get fat on 2k calories per day or less, unless you're very small.

I met some people who ate a lot but were super skinny, but I never saw or read about the opposite, obese people eating healthy but gaining weight.p
Not even China did that. You think it’s likely?
I understand some of the imperatives GitHub's people must have felt. I've advised folks providing open source infra under drama, though I can't talk details.

I'm sure the people who got burned on builds had bad days. It's not fair to blame them entirely, for not locking deps. It is fair to point out this isn't the first time builds have broken, with npm or other repositories. Nor the most widespread in effect. Does this count as a crisis?

If anything, I suspect a crisis of faith. Seeing bad things can come of `npm install`, and those bad things might be intentional or just plain weird, instead of well intended but accidental, can make people anxious. Publishers to npm don't just disappear or malfunction. Their faults can be byzantine. But there are defenses against them.

On the maintainer side, like it or not, we all have an editor when it comes to publishing on GitHub. But it matters how invasively that power gets wielded, and how heavy-handed it's perceived. This episode suggests to me that the threshold for intervention in the name of user interest's pretty low.

That's based on the information I have. Perhaps GitHub will share more on the blog.
Really thanks Phil! My email address is in my HN profile.
I have the opposite question. I have been programming in R since I was 19. I know no other programming languages.

Hence my question:

What's the advantage of Python if you already know R?

I've heard they have similarities. Is there anything Python does better than R in terms of statistical analysis, charting, etc.?
You can store anything painted on a computer in a vector format and just rasterize it at will, no?
> You can't "join", there's nobody "in charge"

That's not entirely true. Working Group Chairs and Area Directors have significant say in what is adopted.
The linked study does NOT say that past infection is less protective than two vaccine doses. It says that getting vaccinated in addition to having a past infection provides additional protection. It says nothing about the protection provided by past infection only versus two doses without past infection.

The CDC issued a false press release misrepresenting the conclusions of this study, at https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

That's the sort of thing that destroys the CDC's credibility.
This method works to eliminate spam, but it doesn't prevent different services from being able to match your identity together. It also prevents a user from signing up multiple times (tho with gmail, you could use the `+` to generate more unique looking addresses, but it's easily detected and eliminated too...).
The supply doesn’t exist. Attempting to purchase large quantities would drive the price up, obviously not trivial..
I'd be more sympathetic to this idea if I hadn't seen the tactic executed repeatedly over the last 10 years to ensure vendor lock-in, which ultimately burns the end user. And/or requires them to insecurely freeze a portion of their IT infrastructure in time.

And honestly, if your GUI/designer is standardized, then it's trivial to define a stable serialization to and from text anyway.
Tour of Mars assembled from NASA images reveals a wondrous but uninviting planet
> Again, they didn’t reverse engineer it. They retrofitted it. They are not the same thing and the latter requires massively less understanding of the hardware to achieve.

The X-302 and the Prometheus were fully human-built. They added the Asgard tech in later seasons, but they had hyperdrive prior to the retrofit you're talking about, see:

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus

> It was weapons tech that SG1 couldn’t secure.

They reverse engineered the gliders by capturing some. That was the point of the X-301 retrofitted glider, which went bad, and the fully human-built X-302 fighter from reverse engineering glider tech. This includes human-built naquada and naquadria reactors, so reverse engineering this tech was not beyond their capabilities.

That's why it makes no sense that they couldn't reverse engineer the staffs and zats in all of that time. It was a convenient plot point they used to drive exploration and trade with other species, but it never really made sense.
Also, he never got sick from such a diet?
Python and the Tkinter canvas is fairly easy and available. There are lots of tutorials for it too.
Impact is probably a big factor: sectarian, religious, or ethnic violence on India's scale has the potential to displace or harm tens of millions of people.

Quack medicine (which you'll find in just about every country) tends to have a much smaller harm radius.
He's not processing it. Mostly pooped.
You have to let the supporters make that decision.

You can make that decision easy, you can automate a lot of it, you can inform, but you can’t change which project the funding is going to without explicit consent.

And yes, for these purposes, the new fork should be considered a new project. It is a completely different situation than if the project itself decided to change maintainers, etc.

This is really a crazy situation where the original maintainer blows up the project. The best scenario would be for the original authors to hand over the project in some capacity. But that seems pretty unlikely.

To put it in different terms… this was not a SQL UPDATE. The was a DELETE. You don’t just change foreign keys to a different project_id when you delete a record.

I would also argue that the author was completely irresponsible, and made life difficult for everyone that used and supported the project. But that’s a separate issue and doesn’t make what the open collective decided right.
Those training zats are not real zats or they'd be using them more in the field rather than the less practical Go'auld variants.
I have experienced this for months. I'd search for something obscure and it would show a few results with the rest being videos I had watched partially or things I had liked before. I guess the idea was to just return a bunch of videos with the idea being maybe I'd be willing to watch something else or to meet a bare minimum of results to display.
Source? The statistics disagree:

https://img.etimg.com/photo/msid-65207066,quality-100/graph....
A lot of webdev is just pre-built stuff. When webdevs say "don't reinvent the wheel" it means "I'm too scared of doing it wrong to program it myself."
1. It’s actually pretty common, my PayPal account is frozen for no reason, I would need to send passport scans to unlock it which I won’t do.

2. We aren’t necessarily the target market. Think more large investment / B2B transactions not consumer payments.
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This reminds me a lot of the advice of John Perry Barlow.

1. Be patient. No matter what.
2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
11. Give up blood sports.
12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.
13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.
16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.
18. Admit your errors freely and soon.
19. Become less suspicious of joy.
20. Understand humility.
21. Remember that love forgives everything.
22. Foster dignity.
23. Live memorably.
24. Love yourself.
25. Endure.
A quick warning: be wary of that computation because of how it's likely made, and it's worse than higher the vaccination rate gets.

The sources section says:

> Sources: California Reportable Disease Information Exchange; California Department of Public Health, California Immunization Registry; the U.S. Census Bureau, 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.

So the the numerator (number of cases) from the reportable disease database and/or department of health data (which probably includes vaccination status, or alternatively is matched against the registry). The denominator for the rate amongst the total population is the population estimate from the census bureau. The denominator for the rate amongst vaccinated comes from the immunization registry.

The rate against the unvaccinated? There is no count of them, so instead you subtract the number vaccinated from the population. The problem is that both of those are estimates, and as they get closer the error on that denominator goes through the roof. So the rate amongst the unvaccinated becomes meaningless.

As an example, take a hypothetical place with around 100 people. Might actually be anywhere from 98–102, that is ±2%. If you've got a very high vaccination rate (yeah!), say there are 96 people on the immunization registry. You could have anywhere from 2 to 6 people unvaccinated. You'd report 4, but the error is now ±50%, which is huge. And when you use that as the denominator, you get very different answers. (OTOH, of half the village was unvaccinated, 50±4% is a much smaller error!)
U. of Michigan president fired for inappropriate relationship with uni employee
Of course! Just a few years ago people called that "free speech". Now the enemies of free speech are trying to win the terminology war by convincing people that stopping "hate" and "lies" is more important than protecting the concept of open and free exchange of ideas.
There is also something called lying.

I've seen a study that says that the average overweight person reports around 30-50% underestimation of calories.

There is that British show that shows off exactly how much difference there is.
I still keep failing to see how it's malicious to gh users and I've red all your comments.
Very early blogs often had more of a Twitter/Tumblr feel in single-sentence posts. The style of longer articles/essays with titles only developed a little bit later. Take a look at one of the earliest weblogs, kottke.org in 2000. The posts there displayed have titles, but that is a post facto artefact of the CMS and current theme, not how kottke.org looked in 2000. If you imagine those titles and metadata away it looks more like a Tumblr.

https://kottke.org/00/01/

Most blogs in the early 2000s evolved into longer articles; but some weblogs kept the style and evolved it into another direction, mixing short posts with links, images, quotes and such. A term for that new mixture was tumblelogs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050722001616/http://redhanded....

https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

https://leahneukirchen.org/anarchaia/static/faq.html

http://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/04/thoughts-on-v...

That was all 2004/2005ish, before Twitter and Tumblr. So yes, Tumblr has is original inspiration in the the early blogging scene and I suspect the name too. But you’re not wrong, another essential part of Tumblr is the builtin social network and the new mechanism of commenting and reblogging. If I remember correctly those came a little bit late.
This article has a link to 120 pages of redacted emails made public by the university: https://regents.umich.edu/files/meetings/01-01/Communication...
> You aren’t in control on a platform that isn’t yours

I wish everyone to read the above about 5 times and try to let it sink in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
If offering "free forever" causes problems, maybe that's too generous? What if it was only free for a couple of weeks - enough time to evaluate the service but not enough time to use it for commercial purposes?
It makes me think back to when I had to convince my boss open source was ok and safe to use at work. It was an uphill battle for years. It gives open source a bad name to play shenanigans like this.
Amen to no in-app purchases.
Pizzas are typically shared here is my best guess; I would hope it plays at least a role but shrug.
Github owns npm.
>Good reporting involves investigation, not assuming that the first time you’re seeing something is the first time anyone is seeing it.

What gave you the impression otherwise? Three paragraphs in, there's a person being interviewed who claims "he comes to the tracks regularly". That definitely suggest they know they're not the first people seeing it.

>If you’ve gone anywhere near railroad tracks in industrial parts of Los Angeles in the past decade, you’ve seen things that are hard to believe are happening, but have indeed been commonplace for years.

Like what?

>I’m not asserting this mess is commonplace or isn’t, but it would be great if the reporter bothered to investigate whether it was, so that readers have context.

The article mentions: "Union Pacific reported what it claimed was a 160% increase since December 2020 in thefts along the railroad tracks in L.A. County.". An increase of 160% suggests that it was not "commonplace for years".
Awesome! I may adopt this. Thanks
I haven't read that book, but your description reminds me of this recent video which I thought did a good job explaining why the Amiga was so great: https://youtu.be/PHN8ANlR8KI
General rule (at least for me) is to avoid people wanting to be a people-pleaser or politically correct without offering real tangible solutions at the problem on hand.

What he just did is intentionally mess with the society for the heck of it and naturally the society will find ways to fix it and restrict him as necessary, right.
This is constantly changing as each provider battles the perception that free = worthless and goes to base price of some amount.
I'm too deep in randomness to let go. I've randomized most of my lifestyle to remove bias from my decisions. I randomize my to-do lists, my exercises, my next destination...

I feel the benefits this has brought me greatly outweighs the losses. I've gained willpower, novel experiences, reduced cognitive load... More people should do this.
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But would more density really solve the problem? An inability to produce $800 per household will make anything hard.
I don't think British Empire is considered feudal society, the English civil war probably marks the end of anything you could call feudalism.

The argument is diffetent - feudalism gives you multiple warring rackets, its even worse and more expensive
Isn't it a bit silly o worry about extremist "ideology" when there are people in the US who will seriously tell you that the earth is flat, covid isn't real, and Bill Gates is satan?
Thanks. I think it would be difficult for me to live off of that amount of money, considering that taxes would eat up over half of it. But it's cool to see that some are able to do it.

I think the dream of most people is to not sell the game to someone else, and instead create their own revenue stream from it. But that's probably much harder.

I also found it interesting that they were using Unity for web games. I would have thought it would be best to use a JavaScript framework to reduce file size, and gain extra performance.
Wat? The article is just talking about automated software parsing different file formats. If you're worried about 'Equifax-like companies that verify all the bullet points' I'm sorry to inform you that's already happening. Not that I agree with this system but that's where we already are. People can't get jobs because the current zeitgeist in the industry is using algorithmic software to select candidates. The entire solution is just bad software built on a crap idea that has real world consequences. If we can't get something better at least having some standard format that we can feed this crap software it can actually parse is slightly less worse.
State of accessibility on Linux, perspective of a blind user
DOS on Dope (2010)
Résumés are boring.

On the employer front: I always hated looking at 1000x pieces of white paper that all look the same. It was mind numbing.

On the employee front: I always ensured I used very graphical resumes that stood out. They always got the attention of the hiring managers, and it was a great filter of either "You're boring so you threw my resume away" or "You're awesome and the kind of company I want to work for by having some fun with it".
I don't really see it that way -- GitHub is run by a company to (albeit somewhat nebulously) make money. They almost certainly made this call because distributing an obviously malicious package like this was damaging to their brand, not through some philosophical framework.

Expecting a company to have a moral framework is just setting yourself up for disappointment. They will always just do what they think will maximize their long term ROI. Possibilities lay between "enlightened self interest" and "barefaced self interest."
List of resume.json's on gist.github.com -> https://gist.github.com/search?l=JSON&o=desc&q=resume.json&s...
Okay, so how are they supposed to do it then?