skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure this has been a thing for as long as there have been rich people. In fact historically it’s been common for there to be plenty of noble titles and ministries that have no responsibilities at all, but have a title, pay, and “prestige” - which could be staffed by heirs and unlanded sons to help them build their “career” or give them some perfunctory thing to do.

Now that private enterprise is the hallmark of wealth/status instead of nobility, we have bullshit businesses. I’ve run into several of these people myself and it always takes me a while to figure out where the money’s coming from until it clicks. I’ve also seen these be quite common for wives (don’t mean to be sexist here, but I don’t know if examples for husbands) of rich men to do, either through straight up grift a la Newmann’s wife or something very very lifestyley like interior design or crafting.

What’s worse is that a lot of these fake entrepreneurs are in tech now too. Some of them are even “serial entrepreneurs”. I’m sure VC people run into them a lot, and I’m also sure a lot of them are actually talented and know what they’re doing, but to me too much involvement of the Bank of Mom and Dad makes a person/company lose a lot of legitimacy.
Can satellites provide active radar tracking of enemy aircraft? And if so, in sufficient quantity of orbital passes to avoid gaps?

If so, why does the US still rely on AWACS?
Not a huge fan of sieve either. For spam filtering, I've spent some time over the last few years tweaking spamassassin weights and have had pretty decent results with that. I think this was the one I started with for SA which was pretty decent then did some additional tweaks based on what I was seeing come in https://gist.github.com/ishmaelen/6c7a209dd00f9d2b968fd2bb0e...
Daddy, daddy, can I have 20 RUB for some ice cream?

- Son, why do you need 25 RUB for some ice cream? 30 RUB is a lot of money! Before you ask me for 35 RUB, think about how long I have to work for 40 RUB!
Could it be US Sen. McConnell? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell
No, you’re wrong. If you hook an ohmmeter to a 10 light-second long piece of LOSSLESS coax, you’ll measure the characteristic impedance (50 or 75 ohms, probably) of the cable for 20 seconds.

I have done this personally with shorter coax and TDR.
- Mushrooms can be grown in reusable plastic bottles. Enoki is already grown in them but they are gaining in popularity for oysters.

- Yes, no way around spawn or lab equipment.

- Humidification is relatively low energy. Even a regular consumer-grade humidifier will be enough for an amateur grow operation. And even for larger humidifiers, the water and energy requirement is minimal.

- You can pasteurize substrate with zero-energy methods like cold pasteurization (via calcium hydroxide) or composting (industry standard right now, basically what all commercial button mushroom farms do).

- Sterilization of spawn is indeed high energy, but using electric desktop autoclaves (AA has a few models) significantly reduces energy use. They are used quite rarely commercially, though.
Thank you for the response. Please read this comment.

This does make sense, but why the atrocious support? I mean at least reply to emails even if we have to wait for a month to get a response, just give us something real not the canned, automated email.

I've never ever clicked on any of my own ads EVER and I got suspended for "click fraud" and I'm sure there are many people like me... Why do I have to be terminated without any recourse? This feels, for the lack of a better word, pure evil and cruel. This makes people deeply hurt and hate the brand.

I'm a developer and a business owner and because of my experience with Adsense and Adwords there is NO WAY I'll ever use Google Cloud, no matter how much discount Google is willing to give me and I'm definitely not alone in this. This behaviour is going to destroy Google in the long term. Right now you guys make money on advertising, but as soon as you need to sell something, I'm not sure people who have been hurt are willing to pay for it.
> strangulation via power projection.

Cool metaphor there, but exactly what do you have in mind? Let's say every single neighbor of Russia becomes a NATO member, how does that strangulation via power projection work?

Or in our concrete case, let's say Ukraine becomes a NATO member, who is going to threaten Russia, and how? Preferably in more concrete terms, rather than metaphors.
Stick you fingers in the space between your ear and your head, and you can feel the muscles moving there. That should really help with building a mind-muscle connection since it’s hard to get feedback otherwise.
No reason to be ashamed of luck. I feel tremendously lucky that I have enough brain power to be a decent programmer and engineer. This has helped me to recover from bouts of massive depression. There were years where I basically dropped out life but once things got better I was able to find well paying jobs pretty easily. I feel I am very lucky to have that fallback that a lot of other people don’t have. I was not so lucky that somehow I never seem to be able to improve my social skills much.

I think a lot of life is luck and it’s ok to admit that. I hate it when people who got lucky reject that idea and try to make you believe that it’s all hard work and if other people only worked hard they could achieve the same. I know enough people who simply don’t have the talent to do what I can do and there are plenty of things I can’t do no matter how hard I work.

I am also lucky that I have decent looks so it’s not too hard to find a partner despite my often painful shyness and awkwardness. Other people aren’t that lucky.
Just to note, the US legal definition of free speech, at least according to the courts, includes the expectation to be heard by others. There is actually such a thing as a right to an audience; free speech is not fulfilled if someone is excluded from any space where someone may hear them.
I find a lot of normal watches too thick. You'd think thinness would be a priority for comfort reasons but I guess not. Most phones are thinner than most watches. The Apple Watch is close to twice as thick as the iPad!
It doesn't really matter that much if you want to use the word "banned" in preference to "censored"; the facts of the matter is that the entire right wing's viewpoint is under threat on these channels to the point where people have been decamping and moving on to other platforms in large numbers. There have been quite a few notable social media plays (thinking Gab, Parler & Truth Social) that may as well have started in response to the 2016 election.

So we don't have to use the word censorship but there is a lot of voting with feet going on that suggests some sort of speech suppression. The persistent banning of private opinions by American big tech is probably the major cause of that.
Most things aren't clear cut, and there have been many times in history where widely held beliefs have been proven largely false.

If you'll recall there was a multi year period of mass belief that the president colluded with Russians to steal the election. On the back of very little evidence, other than news heads talking about it and "he said, she said"

There was also a multi year investigation that found nothing, and actually was able to largely disprove documents that helped to kick off the speculation.

I believe we should mass purge all these videos proposing that the ex president colluded with Russians. We don't want the public to be misinformed.

Consider which regimes throughout history have used silencing political opposition the most, and whether you want to be aligned with them.

I certainly don't.
You are correct! Thanks!
If PII transfer to MS servers is part of that, there are certain situations and necessary steps to take to make that not a violation. Moving from one provider to the other can not be done legally without properly informing the individuals involved and (depending on the nature of the data and its purpose and use) getting the right explicit consent.

Taking an extract including PII (names, usernames, IP addresses, or email addresses for example) from your customer prod db and dumping it in a csv in a private repo on GH is most likely a violation unless you have prior explicit consent for that very purpose and use.

This is true even if it's "pseudo-anonmized" in a way that the original PII can be deduced by combination with other datasets.

Finally, I wouldn't be surprised if many of those companies are operating illegally. Drinking and driving doesn't become legal just because a threshold of people start doing it. There is a lot of ignorance (willful or not) among EU businesses even today.
I have! But my landlord and the store where I buy most of my food have not.
with this game, you can entirely solve it on paper - which is cool as hell
Yeah. The Hill is claiming they were just reporting what Trump said. They have a moral duty to report that Trump is saying lies that are very dangerous to the very fabric of society.
No hang on, I'm a free speech maximalist and I totally want YouTube to be forced to do things.
This argument would work equally well to support spreading neo-nazi propaganda material. Trite catchphrases are nothing to base a belief system around.

An argument doesn't have to make logical sense for it to convince millions of people. Especially not if they like the conclusion.
Whether it's Huxley or Orwell, they're both dystopias.

EDIT>> My mistake, censorship falls clearly under Orwell
What would you call it if Democrats and BLM protesters had stormed the Capitol in 2017 demanding the vice president be hanged for not agreeing to turn over the election result?

Please don't try and with a straight face claim it would be trespassing. I'd have called it insurrection.
But complying means that their descendents will continue to experience that injustice and worse.

Not it's simple or I always do the right thing, but there is a right thing to do.
You won't find 100% correctness even in peace time. That doesn't mean you can throw your hands in the air and assume that information from both sides of the conflict is on average equally (un)trustworthy.

There's tons of evidence to show the horrors of what Russia is doing in Ukraine, and stuff like the ghost of Kyiv is just a morale boost for Ukrainians and is utterly irrelevant.

So yes, you should of course be sceptical, but no amount of honest and fair scepticism will paint Russia's invasion in a significantly better light.
It's also your own problem considering your company doesn't exist anymore..
Not so much. Average house in Illinois about 350k. At that you pay about 10k property tax. Salt limit reached.
It depends on the person, plenty of children of rich people run actually successful businesses, but there are definitely “businesses” that are a kind of pomp around not actually doing anything.

I don’t think kids or parents necessarily see it as some kind of scheme, probably it’s more like the parents want their kids to be successful, but the kids don’t have any idea what to do and are super comfortable having their rent paid + a parent’s credit card + a salary paid for by their parent’s investments, so they don’t really try that hard because there are no consequences for failure. And the parents don’t care too much either because they’re proud their kid has a business and think it’ll be valuable experience even if it doesn’t do well.
There was plenty of dodginess in 2020, not the least of which was States executive branches unilaterally making changes to their electoral process rather than going through the Constitutional mandated legislative branch.

Many of those changes have since been thrown out by State level supreme courts for being unconstitutional: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/28/pennsylva...

But judges don’t have time machines so that doesn’t change the outcome of anything.

Anyone that can say that there is zero shenanigans in Philadelphia’s electoral process with a straight face should consider becoming a professional poker player.
That’s a dangerous false equivalence.
> it's not even feasible for the vast majority of individuals, companies or even governments to compete with it.

You haven't defined what "compete with it" actually means here.

> Google also controls the largest search platform

If it was only a search platform, this would hardly matter, because search engines are not hard to replace. But Google search is merely the entry point to a much larger system (notably, a vast online ad platform and data collection system), and that's a problem.
Cool, I’ve been growing mushrooms as well for many years.

Even dried mycelium is much more airy then sawdust. Plus, using sawdust as a packing material will leave a mess when the customer unboxes their product. It’ll also cover the product itself. Mycelium will at least stay in one piece.
Isn't the Apple App Store rife with dangerous apps? The whole point of a walled garden was that they would manually review each one, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Not much of a garden at this point.
This just shows that many of the policies in China are wanted by many, probably the majority, in society there. The policies are not always used for good, but they are indeed used to stop the spread of harmful misinformation or harmful practices (eg. detox via drinking bleach). In the US, you have the right to say something, but that doesn’t mean anyone has to listen to you or have to help spread your message; if you try, you might find a (possibly large) niche that people are interested in such as “the 2020 election was rigged” or “COVID doesn’t exist” or “the moon landing was filmed on a sound stage”, and you won’t be robbed of your autonomy of movement and speech by being sent to jail or a “re-education camp”.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Youtube doesn’t have any kind of monopoly on posting videos to the internet.

A quick search[0] shows that YouTube dominates ~76% of the market. Do you really believe your own statement?

[0] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/online-video--12/youtu...
MIT Open Courseware: Street-Fighting Mathematics

"This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation. ..."

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...
>If you give people who violate policy detailed information about what they did wrong and how you know then it is much easier for them to figure out how to abuse the system without getting caught.

I don't really buy this.

The most effective adversaries already have a deep understanding of detection mechanisms and are typically just tweaking parameters to find thresholds of detection. Other companies mitigate this by delaying bans and doing "ban waves", or even randomizing the thresholds (I have done both for certain types of automated bans for attacks on my systems).

More to the point, adversaries already know what they did wrong so telling them isn't going to make much difference. False positives do not know what they did wrong and telling them will make a tremendous difference.

Full disclosure: I have been the victim of a false positive flag in that my app with over 50M downloads on google play was removed and then reinstated when my reddit complaint post got human attention (thank g̶o̶d Google).
> Once our geometry reconstruction has high accuracy for hard-surface objects we'll move on to this category, collect data, train and improve.

is that really possible though? For complex objects there should be multitude of 3d structure that fit a 2d projection and there's really no way to say "which one is the most correct one".
Criticizing him for it isn't a slippery slope towards censorship, but stopping him from broadcasting Russian propaganda is censorship. We get to hear and see American and Ukrainian propaganda in many channels - why not one (or more) for the Russian perspective?
A former governor and at the time of the 2008 comments the DNC chair.
I'm not disputing the quality of the engineers or other employees at Yandex. So I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Regardless: Arkady issues a press release saying, "This war is fucking Yandex up, we have no idea what's going to happen, earning in ₽ but investments in $ ain't great, and this surely isn't going to increase uptake of Yandex products abroad."

What precisely is that going to do besides land his ass in YaG-14/10?
> Many people seem to chose when to give him that consideration.

You mean everyone, from either tribe, when it suits them?

Personally I always try to figure out what a politician is intending to say, even if they are only semi-coherent in conveying it. This is the leader of the free world, after all, with his finger on the button...
In Canada you get arrested for peacefully protesting: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-freedom-convoy-protest-a...

Note all the attempts in the article to paint them as "armed" and "extremists". There was no violence, no destruction of property. It was a legal demonstration until it was made illegal by invoking the Emergencies act. And this use of the law in my opinion was an abuse as it clearly is for terrorist threats. Not Canadian working class people peacefully demonstrating.
> Blocked my calendar after 6pm with an automated message clearly mentioning that it was night for me and ask the person to reach out about it and that if it’s a recurring meeting I simply won’t be able to attend.

> It’s been 6 months since and it has worked fine. Some other people started doing it in my country after that. Also US colleagues now ask us, earlier they assumed we will just be there.

I work remotely, and did something similar while I was in Europe for a month. Worked a mostly overlapping schedule (so I could take advantage of the morning / early afternoons), and then blocked off the late evening on my calendar. Never really was a problem, and helped ensure everyone was on the same page.
A successful ground and air attack would leave Ukrainian cities in ruin. If Putin is actually bluffing and positioning himself for a negotiated ceasefire, the potential devastation of Ukrainian cities is a thing of value in those negotiations. Why spend it and gain nothing in exchange?

Maybe Putin is holding back the ground and air attack so he can use that threat as a bargaining chip. Putin is the kind of man who would not hesitate to push a threat to the extreme no matter what the humanitarian cost if it eventually gave him a worthwhile advantage.
Some companies put in the extreme effort to make remote work useful.

A lot of companies didn't, and never wanted to, and have been trying to count down the days until they can attend a meeting without their toddler screaming in the background.

Remote work _cultures_ are harder to create, and if you're a low performing company, even two years wasn't enough time to change.
She resigned, she was not fired.

By all means argue that they made her feel that it was not possible or sensible to try to do the job she wanted to do. But she resigned, and that's not the same thing.
I have a copy of the 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (the 'seed' for original Wikipedia), but it takes serious maintenance (dusting plus periodic oiling of the leather covers/spines). Definitely not the best way to make it thousands of years.

It's also public domain, so you can just download it (for a more compact approximation of Wikipedia that's not quite current, less exhaustive, but way better for reading.)
The easiest technique is getting a big plastic tub (>90 qts) from Walmart or Target, heating up a coffee can on the stove, and burning the arm holes in the side.
On board a NATO surveillance plane monitoring Russian activity in Ukraine
But if you actually tried to use 6 digits you'll discover most layers never tested it, including some of the most common point-of-sale systems and many ATMs not operated by your bank. Plus, tellers at your bank won't believe you.
> First, yes, Putin's Russia has started a war of conquest.

Glad we agree.

> Second, no, it is definitely _not_ a total war. See

It’s a total war.

> Third, the theoretical threat of NATO is not so much to Russia: I agree that NATO is not a threat to Russia. However I do also see that NATO and EU are a threat to Putin's long term vision for a renewed Russian Empire.

By this logic all conflicts are both sided. England is equally justified in bombing India because they “threatened” the British empire by rejecting being under its power.

> Please also be careful with accusing people of being fascists or Nazis. Putin and his predecessors in the USSR employed the same tactic. And whether anyone does or does not fulfill the textbook definition of a fascist is besides the point here.

I’m well aware of the importance of being precise and cautious with this term and I chose it carefully.
Nah, Huxley. Netflix is our Soma.
>What is your metric?

Poverty and disease, for one.
Imagine Florida with 140 million people.
Sure, for example a Rust program is allowed to open, read and write files. On Linux one of the files it's allowed to open /proc/self/mem points directly into its own heap, another is a list of what's in that heap and where - it can use these to scrawl on the heap and cause havoc.

That's the price of being a General Purpose programming language. We don't know if you might want to scribble on your own heap, or delete all the files labelled "Important, DO NOT DELETE" or mail a copy of the password database to a throwaway account, and so you can do all those things. Those Linux files pointing into process address space aren't a mistake, I wrote code that needs them (and then I ported it to safe Rust months ago) but with great power comes great box office potential or something like that.

Now you might say, "I'm sure I won't get something so obvious wrong", but the trouble is that's what the people who wrote this GitHub code apparently thought too. Hence I say we should use specialised languages with a deliberately narrower scope where this category of mistake is impossible.

WUFFS as it stands would be pretty exhausting to write a Markdown parser in because WUFFS doesn't believe in strings, at all. But it's already a better fit for this problem than C++ because the worst case scenario can't happen.
I would hate for people to fall out of the practice of critically thinking about what they see in the news. Our whole open society depends on people practicing deciding what they think it's right.
I have problems with Reolink and RTSP compatibility. It kinda works but has frame skip issues with some software.
It's wild to read HN comments advocating for significantly more government control of private companies.

A decade ago that would be pure heresy on any tech forum. Now it's (currently) the top comment on one of the top stories on HN.

That said, I guarantee that a government-controlled or otherwise heavily regulated platform would have far, far more instances of benign content removed for violating obscure rules. Once the consequences rise to the level of regulatory violations, the companies will pull content without thinking because nobody wants to risk the fines or worse.

These companies are rushing to self-censor their own content as a way to get out ahead of potential future regulation. Politicians and journalists can, and will, seize upon even the slightest missteps or unpopular comment to lambaste tech companies as evil. This move was definitely a mistake, but it's part of a larger movement to aggressively err on the side of safety when it comes to any potentially controversial content.
Foreign countries benefit from WWI-era Jones Act
Oof, I'm sure that there are quite a bunch of companies that are sufficiently rich and either government-owned or coincidentally close to Putin's clique, which would like to snatch Yandex when it's declared bankrupt. Can't remember if Sberbank still has the ‘golden share’ which gives the ultimate vote power—or if they passed it on to another gov company, or what became of it. But if it's still around then presumably Yandex won't be Dutch for much longer.