skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, the issue that people are starting to react to is - are some platforms a natural monopoly?

No.

> Is it useful to have all user-generated public video clips be aggregated by one central provider? The answer seems like it’s yes.

The answer is no.

Vimeo exists. Facebook and Twitter both feature user-generated video content. I hear TikTok is a thing. In addition to these platforms basically anyone can self-host in 2022. Plenty of news outlets self-host.

> If there’s only gonna be one platform, or it’s socially optimal to have one platform - is it right to give control of that to one entity into perpetuity?

You have not made the case that there should be only one platform so the second part of your statement is irrelevant.

> That a political question.

Only for people who want to say things without suffering the consequences.
Programming in COBOL is beyond tedious. My encounters with COBOL was as a system programmer fixing stuff COBOL programmers didn't understand about the operating system.

My other involvement was teaching SQL to COBOL students.

FORTRAN shares with COBOL the mantle of the first compiler languages. As pioneers, they were stunted.

I remain a fan of PL/I for applications. It learned from the limitations of the early languages, but too many managements wanted to keep things stupid simple.

Mind you, PL/I would happily allow you to program in inefficient ways with serious performance costs.

You require knowledge of the code the compiler produces and which parts of the subroutine library are best avoided before you can promulgate standards for production applications.

FORTRAN shares with COBO
Salaries employees often work more than forty hours a week. But why do you want to take away an individuals agency to decide what’s in their own best interests?
Decades of Neglect Leave IRS in Tax Season ‘Chaos’
"In freezing weather" would he a more accurate title. There are many, many places in the world where winter doesn't get this cold.
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In principle, I agree, but I should point out that "No meetings outside regular daylight hours" and "My employer shouldn't care where in the world I do my job" are not compatible with each other.

In the course of a week, I collaborate literally with people in the UK, California, China, and Saudia Arabia. People are occasionally have to take meetings outside daylight hours. Best we can do is to (a) minimize the number of meetings overall (a lot more things can be done asynchronously that is often acknowledged) and (b) spread the pain fairly so nobody has to always take meetings at awkward hours.
There's not much in that article about Zelenskyy and Russian relations, before or after his election. Certainly nothing about "reconciliation" with Russia, just settlements in the Donbas war.

"...he leveraged his massive online following into a serious campaign against official corruption. ... [In his post-election speech,] Zelensky vowed that his first goal as president would be to achieve a lasting peace in war-torn eastern Ukraine. ... This confirmation of Zelensky’s mandate allowed him to promote a peace settlement that would see Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed insurgents withdraw from the so-called “contact line” in eastern Ukraine. Zelensky’s opponents characterized the move as a capitulation that would do nothing but legitimize Russian aggression in the Donets Basin and Crimea, but he retained widespread support from a war-weary public."
Sharing of that sort of real time info has been specifically denied repeatedly: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/biden-administra...
It could also be due to a DNS redirect.

I hosted a page on AWS S3 bucket exposed to the web, and had my domain CNAME record point to the bucket public-facing DNS name.

Triggered the same Circumventing ban.
This is the case with so much everywhere really. Maintenance is a hard incentives problem to solve.
What line are you referring to?

-I- said that the system "worked" in the sense that power was transferred peacefully. I didn't say the system was flawless; just the opposite. But to tear down and discredit the system, as Trump has been endeavoring to do, without providing a replacement (other than "Trump is president no matter what the vote says", if that needs clarifying), means that power will no longer be able to transfer peacefully. That's the -one and only feature- that the system HAS to have; and it's that one that we'd be dispensing with.

I have no idea what any other lines being crossed has to do with anything.
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No it's not always relevant, in fact it's mostly a distraction that does nothing to contribute to the substance of the discussion. There is almost nothing of value to be gained by pointing out that Youtube is a private company that has the right to censor or serve any content it so chooses anymore than it's relevant to point out that a restaurant has the right serve shitty food and if you don't like it you can go to another restaurant.

Everyone already knows this... so instead of constantly bringing it up to make ourselves sound smart, let's instead actually discuss something more meaningful, such as whether the food served by the restaurant really is shitty? What reasons might a restaurant have for serving shitty food, do they perhaps gain financially from it? Would it be more effective to work with the restaurant to get them to stop serving shitty food, or would it be more effective to open up a restaurant next door that doesn't serve shitty food? What are the trade-offs?

Those are more interesting topics rather than pointing out the fact that a restaurant has the right to serve shitty food and you can't force them not to.
It’s also a statement of domestic values and proof that YouTube’s conduct is un-American.
Not everybody are in (in fact the overwhelming majority of people are not) in the US. Shipping costs and option vary around the world.
This is not the criticism I've seen in the media.

The people who have criticized Graham across the political spectrum in the US have said this could lead to nuclear war if the Russians took him seriously.

I'm not sure I understand though; I thought the "red line" was supposed to be US/NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine.
Same here. Is it possible to replicate just the “readability CSS” styles with a JavaScript bookmarklet?
My twist on Kant's universality law is to add a "how many golf balls fit into a 747" guestimate.

Yes I think some people would cherry pick skewed numbers to justify whatever action they want, but doing it with good faith estimates is pretty helpful. Usually the answer is don't do that.
> If remote really works and the market is fair

2 MASSIVE “ifs” there.

Remote wasn’t a choice for the vast majority of people over the past 2 years — it was thrust upon them. And despite what the pro-remote people will say, a huge number of them didn’t thrive because of it. They may have been more productive but they were also more miserable. Remote “worked” because it was the way companies stayed in business - it essentially had to work, even if it sucked for a ton of people. When remote truly becomes a choice then we’ll start to see whether it really works or not.

And then there’s the old saying about markets staying irrational longer than most of us can stay solvent.
And the rest of us are entitled to not find those complaints interesting.
+1, this version is better. And Magnolia1234 is more helpful and polite towards her users.
Would recommend.
As compared to English, one of the stated lingua francas, which zero people speak natively
if you not maximizing, it is pefectly fine to learn any language. It is fun and not totally useless exercice. Hey, I tried to learn Latin, what can I say? :)

But if you maximize you need to decide where you plan to travel and use the new language. I assume people learning these pan-slavic artificial languages want to travel salic states in Europe. But once you cross a border from Polan to Germany, from Ukraine to Romania, from Solovakia to Hungary, from Czech republic to Austria, from Belarus to Lithuania, your laguage skills will become usless. My advice to learn a language which you can use over all of Europe, not just slavic countries.
We should organise a global protest in front of Google offices. Let them try ignore that!
The issue is there's not necessarily any fair measurement of "higher level engineer". With stack ranking if you've got five people on a team only one member of the team can be the top quintile getting the majority of compensation. Even if the work of everyone is roughly the same. It's asinine.

There's also no clarity into how to be considered the top of the rankings. The only guidance from managers is to "innovate" and work more.

It's a really demoralizing system unless you're at the top of the stack. It's further demoralizing that the managers are told in no uncertain terms to make the system as opaque as possible.
The avg. American reads at a middle school level. Many read at an elementary school level, meaning ~1/4 of America will take this video as fact. Couple this with an algorithm that will only feed you things you like and you have a recipe for disaster. 100% unrestricted freedom of speech only works with a highly educated populate which America does not have.
Decline of Buddhism in the Indian Subcontinent
I hate the obsession with remote work. I commuted 10 minutes by bike and loved it. Remote work is hell for me. I’ll never pursue work at a remote company ever. I would happily take a pay cut to work in an office again.
Interestingly enough, he apparently had issues understanding how integration by parts worked.
Interesting, I didn't know that. In linguistics, it is the common (only) word for the family of languages that Swahili belongs to.
And even has its own "black site" in NE Manhattan.
The incredibly dangerous outcome of all this is precisely what foolish commentators are suggesting: alternatives will be built, that themselves will become echo chambers.

If you disagree with certain ideas, you have to fight it in the open. That's how we get a big tent with general consensus across key issues, and avoid parallel universes of polar opposite information. The end result of all this is just going to be a truly Balkanised / multipolar world, but instead of geographical boundaries, it's all going to be in the mind. Your neighbour and you could have totally different ideas about certain issues - because you are consuming and contributing to totally different sets of information. And that will lead to immense physical conflict in the future.

Very worrying times right now.
President of comma.ai here. I'd bet against L5 by 2030.
It's probably fine for English, because it has only 26 characters with simple stroke. But for CJK, it will be a real problem. Some characters like 病, 歸 hava far more horizontal/vertical lines compare to English characters. 12px is already bad, 10px/8px will be totally unreadable.

Fun fact: windows actually have different font size in setting page depends on which language you are using. For most Western languages, it is 12/10, but for cjk, it is 14.
Sure, maybe 100f/s.
Sounds like the solution is better education, not censorship.
That's a good point. I didn't imagine anyone would buy from adadruit internationally because that'd be crazy. They have distributors around the world: https://www.adafruit.com/distributors
"Ties" are irrelevant. The question was whether the president colluded with Russia. Unless you believe him to be a genius or master of stealth, I can assure you 4 years of all media investigations and official investigations would have uncovered anything compelling were it to exist.

Also, you can tie most government officials to Russia in some capacity. Everybody in politics is well connected.

It was a widely spread conspiracy theory with 0 evidence given a veil of credibility because many talking heads brought it up as if there were something tangible backing it.

Just because many people talked about and bought into it doesn't invalidate that it was a conspiracy theory
Exactly. Georgia election system in particular is proven to be corrupt. Maybe Abrams is right? From 2020 a whistleblower say he was paid to ballot traffick ballots illegally to drop boxes

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/huge-georgia-ballot...

and videos coupled cell phone data show many other traffickers going in between democrat NGOs and drop boxes. Abrams run some of these NGOs.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/new-video-voterga-r...

This is an example of us living under Marcusas repressive tolerance where people with the correct ideology can make claims with no evidence, while the other side is censored and persecuted even when coming with concrete evidence. It’s a Mao style cultural revolution. For Bernie, orange man and many other candidates we have proof of rampant cheating.
> To the point where it's quite possible they'll lose this war.

Not fast enough. My understanding is the current Western military analyses still predict the Russians will eventually win, it'll just cost them more.

IMHO, if we want to Ukrainians to win, it'll require either some kind of direct military intervention, or giving them control of much more advanced equipment (e.g. cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, etc.)
> ...States executive branches unilaterally making changes to their electoral process.... 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...

That's a ruling by a single state court that's going to be immediately appealed, and it's of a law passed by the republican-held legislative branch.
If they made this into a comedy series I'd probably watch it.
OK, fair enough. There might be several reasons why is air offensive more important for Americans than Russians and vice versa:

1. Russians won the WW2 using tanks on land, Americans won the WW2 using aircrafts over sea.

2. (If we assume Russians care less about the loss of their troops than Americans.) Attacking another country from the air is more expensive, but safer, than attacking it from the ground.

3. (If we assume Americans are more interested in projecting their force globally than Russians are.) It is easier to move airplanes/missiles/drones around the world on ships than to move heavy mechanized ground troops.

On the other hand, Russians have sometimes led the development of heavy ICBMs and nuclear weapons, but that also seems to be more valuable as a global deterrent rather than something you would randomly use during an invasion.
Eben Upton, the founder, was an architect for Broadcom and he worked around the raspberry pi initially. Here are some quick links,

• https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-history/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Upton
The company itself is surely worth many billions of dollars, so can’t they just borrow from a national bank if they need additional cash for paying out bonds?
Uh, your own link - "The state’s Republican-controlled legislature passed the law establishing no-excuse mail-in voting for all voters in 2019 with bipartisan support". That's not the executive branch unilaterally anything.

But, perhaps I should clarify then, rather than the abstract "dodginess", I'll instead say "uncertainty as to whether votes were cast legally, and counted correctly".
Don’t underestimate the value of any suggestions in warfare. Some guy (or woman) once threw out “let’s use condoms to protect rifle muzzles from seawater and sand incursion”. Did it work, maybe?

Sort of a monkeys writing Shakespeare thing. It may not be of value, but why take the chance of your conscience or nationality dictates neutrality.
Don't they have the game on android already?

This is the most stupid statement i ever read, no wonder why their anti-cheat is considered as being useless lol

You only need to sniff network and proxy packets to bypass all their junk, same story with Valorant, their kernel driver is the most useless thing i ever saw

That's what happen when you don't want to invest into security, you let your CEO hold stupid statements
Totally, but only one of those things is within YouTube’s power. There are all kinds of decisions to make where “what do we do to mitigate this now” looks different from “what’s the ideal place we want to be?”
Fan boy? maybe. Informed? doesn't look like it:

> this is redundant because the local go.mod file already has the semantic version of all dependencies tracked

The whole point of having full version path in each file is to allow gradual upgrade to a new major version/a completely different package. Listen to Russ Cox go over this many times.

> Users of packages aren’t alerted about new major versions

Fair point.

> For the client to update, it’s not a simple path change in go.mod

It's a simple command:

gofmt -w -r '"github.com/logrusorgru/aurora" -> "github.com/logrusorgru/aurora/v3"' ./

> Maintainers should be able to increment the major version via Git tags.

Go is not tied to git or any other single SCM system. They can however be pragmatic about this.

> I get why these rules exist, and I think they are great for large open projects

You either don't, or you think that smaller/trivial project's requirements somehow take priority over larger ones.
There are plenty of toy/application specific/scripting programming languages built to be used to write a few hundred lines or glue things together. Go specifically and repeatedly states that it's aimed at large, distributed and long term projects with lots of changes over time and many contributors. You know that going in. So you're criticizing (poorly I might add) the very notions that this language is built upon! This is like criticizing an industrial kitchen equipment for not having pretty colors and curvy shapes to match your home decor.
- Is there something wrong?
- Will you stop talking about the war?
- Me? You started it.
- We did not!
- Yes, you did. You invaded Poland.
Putin can win if by win you mean "Putin made a desert and called it peace and a win" to adapt a recent quote I saw.
Normally I share your sentiments because it's not really worth the fight and I can understand the situation and why generally "no one cares", but in a comment section, I'm more inclined to put how I really feel. I've been out of the country for a while so I know the numbers, but it still really sucks. It sucked when I got lower priority for COVID vaccines because the embassy didn't want to comment, and it sucked seeing (understandably) the local government shrug preferring their own citizens. It sucked when I forgot my FBAR because it didn't cross my mind as being unreasonable to have additional funds where I live. It sucked reading and hearing stories of expats learning too late that they were not going to get health care. It sucks when I can't open banking or crypto accounts because of the passport I hold and the government agencies related to it.

It's compounded though because of the other side: host country. They don't have a modern definition of "work" and so the rules put you in a gray zone so you can't or it would be prohibitively expensive to start a business and hire workers to meet the business requirements for visas (and sole-proprietorships not being allowed to foreign residence)--all for a self-employed remote work which only requires internet, a computer, and caffeine. If I could pay local taxes, then I could support the local community and subtract it from the US side. And I'd rather pay taxes to the local community. Applying for local citizenship is daunting and requires a long residency period and being on a wait list. Some countries like Estonia make it a lot easier.

It is a non-standard and often glamorized lifestyle, but it is filled with so many caveats.
Just saw your nick. Hack the planet!
What to do with us? You have no right to do anything to those of us who did nothing to you. Leave us alone.
The entire topic is uninteresting. It’s a nothingburger invented by divisive voices who want to speak without consequence.
Well, on one hand, there's a group's right to say what they like, and on the other, there's the discussion of what a corporate platform should host for free, what they can remove, what they ought to remove, what they're required by law to remove, and whether/how monopoly status changes any of that. Those are thorny and nuanced questions that catchphrases are no use in solving.

Also, we were already off topic when you mentioned censorship, so Nazis aren't that much further a digression. I think the real topic here is that Youtube can never possibly support a moderation team proportionate to its size while still offering free uploads, so it's limping along with garbage moderation that often has disastrous effects.
So you think the EU is willing to continue sanctions on Russia for decades, if Russia holds onto seized land?
Anybody can make #&$@* up. And do.
As a great late 20th century philosopher said “that’s like, your opinion man”.
We're talking about more than "Russian troll farms" here:

> Trump and his associates' participation in and enabling of this Russian activity

If you want to understand more, there is a summary of "Links between Trump associates and Russian officials" in the Wikipedia article about "Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections"[0], including this section, for example:

> In the email, Goldstone said the information had come from the Russian government and "was part of a Russian government effort to help Donald Trump's presidential campaign". Trump Jr. replied with an e-mail saying "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer" and arranged the meeting. Trump Jr. went to the meeting expecting to receive information harmful to the Clinton campaign, but he said none was forthcoming, and instead the conversation then turned to [US sanctions against Russia]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
Yes only free speech for the 'intelligent.'. I wonder what you might be a bit ignorant about in future that would require restricting your participation...

Amazing how many people support tyranny by thinking they are on the side of righteousness.

Everyone has rights, or no one has rights. Remember that
Current Googler. Everything you say is correct.
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It is reasonable to say that Donald Trump caused the January 6 insurrection. The bigger issue for platform owners is that the insurrection represents catastrophic risk to them, and it is within their power to prevent it.

The social media platforms can't prevent if Russia goes to war with NATO. Censoring the russian official won't do anything.
I mean it's not a condition, but it is a associated health risk. I think they just wrote that out a little weird