skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the account got restored. Seemingly, nothing got erased, the account was just temporarily unavailable.

> Needless to say, the OOB lecturers were fully clothed and rather obsessed with our historical narrative. Anyone not interested in feminist politics would have probably fallen asleep.

The lecturers perhaps, but the streamed lecture contains full-screen examples from pornographic magazines that obviously should be flagged for verification by any porn detecting algorithm.

Youtube does state that explicit materials are allowed for educational content, but if their copyright machines can't even distinguish white noise from copyrighted music then I have very little hope that context like "educational discussion" will ever be recognised automatically.

As a society, we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. Youtube's scope is too large to be managed by humans who can understand context and their advertiser seeking behaviour provides an incentive to "punish" videos containing even allowed nudity in their self-learning algorithms. Requiring every institution to set up their own video hosting infrastructure is unnecessary and even wasteful of public funds.
This used to be worse than it is now. Today there’s all kinds of warnings about buckets that can be publicly accessed. It takes quite a bit of work to make one public, not something you’d do without knowing anymore.
Sure, but they can ban your payment method, and they care about privacy enough to eat this (probably small) cost.

Also, they do actually keep a link for 40 days, but it seems like some card card networks allow chargebacks past that.
I signed up to Mullvad - my first VPN - literally about 12 hours ago, purely because of how simple, yet comprehensively-explained, their 'onboarding' process was.

I also particularly like the flat no-fuss EUR5 a month fee.
Raku is the new name for Perl 6, which began way back in the year 2000.
For customers who don't go to great length to protect their own privacy when paying (i.e., all subscribers, I assume) Mullvad should persuade them to replace their subscription with the "bill pay" feature of most checking accounts -- maybe even offer tutorials for common banks. I'm not an expert in the implications of a subpoena and if banks get involved, but it seems like it would at least be a way to keep the revenue stream nearly as healthy (recurring automatically) while also meeting their goal of not maintaining subscription data.
> For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page.

The one you pasted is fairly new. I haven't been using their computers for some time now but I remembered that there were no details (or something extremely vague) any time soon after user was suggested to update.

That's a good thing and I'm glad to be wrong on this one.
My body weight would be negative before the first year ended.
Any pre icloud service Apple user knows you can just use your computer to backup all the apple devices instead of iCloud. Although apple is pushing their cloud services, you don't need to use it.

Out of the big tech corporations Apple over all is more trust worthy than google, facebook, amazon. Of course getting LineageOS/Debian on Librium type of phone would be preferable.
Nice one Sri! Looking forward to seeing this grow. Great idea.
also, the waypoint-based restart protection used in AGC software to handle power failures and the decision to reuse that mechanism for handling running out of core sets or VAC areas was due to charley muntz, not hal laning.

But regardless I agree Laning deserves more recognition for his numerous contributions.
Such a simplistic view of it. Psychedelics, when used properly, have a way of making your judgment very unimpaired. They can help one do everything you listed in your closing paragraph.
Swiss expat living abroad. I'm in Switzerland just enough every year to feel the pain of the full fare tickets, and yet not enough to justify the cost of the half-fare card. I live in Asia, but I'm often flying in and out of Switzerland from short hops around Europe, and it's rather shocking and sad to pay far more for the train home from the Airport than my flight cost, almost every single time.

Also then I do fly in long haul, I usually have the choice of a $100 train ride from Zürich or a far cheaper connecting flight to GVA followed by a $30 train. I would much rather take the train from ZRH but it's almost always cheaper to fly.

Switzerland's public transit system is absolutely amazing and I use it anytime I'm in Switzerland — but we have to admit it's one of the most expensive in the world.
> In order to provide refunds and the ability to recover lost accounts we need to store some record of a payment, at least for a short time. As soon as we do not need the data to enable refunding a payment we scrub the record of anything that can link the payment or the account to any personally identifiable information kept by the payment processor (this could be your bank, for example).

So they hold your info and link for however long the chargeback period is (or the average one, probably 30-60 days is fine) and then lose it.

If you're more worried about privacy than convenience they offer other payment methods:

Which payment methods do you accept?
We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Giropay, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24.

https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/

And you can pay for a decade in advance.

(What is Pretzel24 I wonder?)
>She makes a good point that each of these companies has followed a similar >pattern of first courting the kinds of radical experimenters who blaze new >trails, and then later kicking them off platforms because they are not >respectable

IMO/IME this is not exactly how it happens. What really happens is that as these platforms grow, they attract the attention of religious zealot groups who conduct absolutely massive campaigns to take down any content that they personally see as inappropriate. They have their own private blogs and mailing lists, with people given names/emails to contact to lodge complaints about "highly offensive" content that they have never even viewed, they were just instructed to file complaints against it.

A big part of the issue is that much of this content really only appeals to a small group of people, and many times those people do not even realize these attacks are happening in the background. The content platforms then decide it is easier to just ban this content so that they do not get overwhelmed with the religious zealot protests.

I wish we could charge those kinds of groups with the impediment of free speech (at least in the US) and fine them out of existence.
as they say: those who can't do, teach
It sounds like you think there are only black and white consequences in the world. Criticism and differences in opinion can, and should, occur before complete de-platforming if the level of disagreement is not too high (hence my question on the level of disagreement for the content).

That being said, there exists no innate right for content to be hosted on Youtube (or anywhere else for that matter).
I've told this story here before, but I grew up with very health-illiterate parents, who were very "old school" in the sense that if anyone in a white coat said something, it was gospel. Doctor, dentist, nurse, whatever (curiously they had and still have extremely negative opinions of medical paraprofessionals like PAs and NPs).

Anyway, I was around 15 or 16 and had always had perfect dental checkups. One day I had another routine checkup, but now suddenly I had to get nine fillings. I asked my parents to get a second opinion, but they refused and I got the fillings. In a move that would surprise absolutely nobody, that dentist sold the practice a few months later. I'm 100% confident that he was just goosing his revenue to increase the sales price, or make it a more attractive acquisition based on the revenue trend. That was around 20 years ago and I haven't had a single other dental issue beyond getting my wisdom teeth removed a few years later.

I think dental care is super important, but dentists are concerned primarily with maximizing their revenue in a way that would get most physicians' licenses revoked.
They are good for different things, atm. Rust is focused on people writing new code for the Web, and does well there. C++ is focused on porting existing applications, which works well for things like Unity, Photoshop, Google Earth, etc.

The reverse cases are sadly not that great atm. If you have a Rust application that uses SDL2 and OpenGL, for example, porting it to the Web is not that easy (you either need to port those APIs to something else, or mix Rust and C to get Emscripten's SDL2 and OpenGL support). And if you want to write new C++ code just for the Web, current bindings solutions are not polished enough.

But hopefully all those things will keep improving!
> second class citizen

As far as I know, investments in particular in local and regional trains is heavily driven by cantonal investments. For example ZVV (Zürcher Verkehrsverbund) contracts the S-Bahn network from SBB and finances a good part of its operations. While Zurich's network is therefore quite excelent, I am not sure other cantons invest at similar levels and therefore enjoy a worse experience.
Totally agree, 'mobile first' somehow become 'desktop non-existent'.
Just stayed at a off the grid cabin outside Volcano and the rain catch system has inspired me put something in for my backyard vegetable garden in Utah.
For-profit prisons.
https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/day-parkland-surviv...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/06/06/1769711/-David-H...

https://www.gawker.com/5824545/internet-prankster-sends-swat...

https://books.google.com/books?id=sRsxDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT16&lpg=P...

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article257253377....

https://psc.apcointl.org/2011/08/01/swatting-9-1-1-hoax-call...
Regarding: "standards the content violates", I suspect it is a significantly simpler, and revenue-driven, rationale.

Removing the content costs less than responding to the complaints, unless those associated with the affected content have sufficient clout to swing the cost equation the other way.
The iron bar example is a long way of saying that since the encoding of internal states is arbitrary, you can't rely on internal states to verify consciousness, since you could always construct an encoding that would produce a conscious internal state.

This seems like a valid point until you consider the entropy implications of "describing" such an arbitrary encoding. Yes, you can create a cherry-picked algorithm that “compresses” a specific 10TB file to a single bit, but this algorithm itself must contain the 10TB of information. (Or some lower bound of entropy contained in the 10TB file) I think the same applies here: It's not the iron bar that becomes conscious by being scanned with the specific encoding, it's the encoding itself that would already be conscious, and coming up with such an encoding at random would be essentially the same as a Boltzmann Brain popping into existence.
I attribute a subjective experience to the journalist on the basis of similarity with me. No need for "the output", I would do that with someone who can't talk or write too. From where my own subjective experience come from and how can I prove it to you is irrelevant to the fact that I have it so I'm fine with being the bootstrap of the circular reasoning to give it to the rest of humanity.

With that said I maintain that the output proves nothing, it's not because it's all we have that it's not useless. Also it's the only thing we have only with the hypothesis that consciousness is a side-effect of computation (the point of the article), but it could anything, like a property of matter, or electromagnetic fields, etc...
My only concern with Mullvad is that, as their profile and reputation increase, they become a bigger target. That’s mostly a vote of confidence, though the concern is a real one.
Seeking into a large video file is awful and having to buffer the entire thing is a bad user experience unless you're starting at the very beginning. In addition to that, there's a quality-vs.-download-time tradeoff and the right answer to that can vary depending on circumstances. Modern systems use HLS or DASH to enable adaptive streaming. Adaptive streaming chunks up your video into segments of 2-10 seconds and renders it out at different quality levels; a sufficiently smart player can then switch between different renditions on the fly based on system and network performance.
You can actually compile the V compiler with -autofree.

The resulting executable however does segfault - try it with:

./v -autofree -o x cmd/v
./x version

You seem to talk a lot about things, that you are not well informed about.
Actually people do know what they're doing. They're simply making decisions with incomplete and/or probabilistic data. They want to make decisions maximizing the most likely scenarios while minimizing the most negative outcomes. That's why it's called a balancing act and there's various techniques one can utilize for making decisions in such an environment.

This is a reason why many businesses fail. Sure, just about everybody can make good decisions if you have accurate and complete data with which to make those decisions. That just doesn't typically happen too often when running a business. It's a far cry though from saying "nobody knows what they are doing." That's just simply not true.
I agree with the premise of the article, but I would not focus solely on SAML. Support Oauth and OIDC, if for no other reason than easier GDPR compliance.
“They’re basically strong-arming us to switch to something paid after they got us hooked on this free service...”

Google's antics come off to many, as just slimy and unnecessary. Not to mention the poor customer support and outrageous privacy violations, particularly if you are not a big enough business and/or paying them enough. Way too many negative stories and interactions. In general, I prefer to stay away from anything Google (and so do a number of people that I know), unless necessary. There are a number of alternatives to choose from, and growing.
"You could create tools to block WASM based on signatures, heuristics, behavioral analysis, etc."

Yes, the concern is that as the browser becomes the operating system, we'll need anti-malware and anti-virus tools on it just as we've needed them on Windows.
I wasn't privy to this particular incident, but typically:
1. Content uploader gets complaints from users, institutional service desk tickets, etc.
2. Content owner tries official channels that may be slow or nonresponsive by filing a ticket on YouTube's side. If this is something that has happened before and/or they're a large institution, they may be prioritized or have a point of contact.
3. Maybe it gets fixed

I tried a cursory google search of 'cornell library youtube down' and the first result is a tweet from the 18th where someone's taken a screenshot of the content being down.
So I guess Amazon has ONE decent and honest recruiter after all.
The person you're responding to said they'd approach it as an interpersonal conflict if the IC "is combative and fighting with their manager at every turn."

Everyone has to be mature and professional at work. Yes, management might be held to slightly higher standards, but being combative and fighting with your manager at every turn is below the standard for anyone.
which is it, EU or UK?
Germany has a 8.7 times larger area, and a 7.4 times longer rail network though.
You could make the exact same arguments about FB being irrelevant, the difference is that your social group doesn't revolve around iMessage group chats and twitter, they revolve around facebook and Facebook Messenger. Using an android over an iPhone basically locks you out of most group chats because Apple refuses to be normal human beings and develop an open API - So please tell me again how I can ignore Apple when it's actually Facebook you can safely ignore? Note that I am a long-term android user.
If I'll ever use a VPN I will check out mullvad, this kind of attitude is almost non existent now
Anyone here have any experience with PyGame? Much as I love Godot, I've been wanting to have a go at some frameworks for some time, and as I already know Python it might be a good fit. That being said, I dont hear much positivity about it, and as shallow as I know this is, the general look of the website doesn't fill me with confidence. But its also been around for long enough and seems to have enough users, despite the competition that engines bring for new users, that it can't be all that bad.
I don't get it. What's wrong with a <video> tag and a few <source> tags to aid browsers that don't support the necessary codecs? My experience with the browser native video player blows most alternative players out of the water in terms of convenience and reliability.

If you're okay with the privacy implications, you can always set up a Peertube instance to host the content more affordably. Such a system makes it more difficult than necessary to download the video, though.
These situations are best handled by leaving on your own timeline.

Working for a manager who has strong but opaque opinions/thought processes is the worst. It’s like they think they are a grand master of chess moving pieces around the board and don’t want any of the pawns to know the grand strategy.

I worked for a guy that insisted on having the hour++ long sprint retros every 2 weeks in which we’d get the same feedback from devs that he would argue against within the meeting. Sometimes he would complain its the same feedback, other times he would decide to have an argument over it. But always he would insist that the retro is super important to get devs feedback as part of the process so we need to keep having them. We would use physical post-it notes on a white board even though it was out in an open floor plan so other teams could watch/see, and we had 1-2 other offices dialed in via someones cell phone on speaker. It was insane. “Hey so we got some stickies that say x,y,z here.. what do you guys have??”

Some managers I have found are like someone who is incapable of being an author but are very good editors. Unfortunately some of these are also incapable of coaching their feedback in constructive ways to get you to the best edited version of you work. This inevitably turns into repetitive games of “guess the number in my head”.. to which the answer is.. blue!

Sometimes these situations are because your manager is at the end of their own rope politically and on their way out. Also could just be their first real manager gig. Other times its because they have something going in their personal life..
70 million represents 1/3 of all adults in the US. And yes, they all have records.
Are you recommending bloodletting as a cure for some of the nastiest pollution ever created by humans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
That's a pretty sweeping statement to make with no evidence.
Also interested to know this. How many people watching can a cheap VPS like Linode handle?
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo
> Reading more is the best way to learn though.

It’s useless advice to a student asking for specific help. A cooking student asking “why is my rice always soggy” should hear “let’s start by examining how much water you’re using”, not “watch more cooking shows until you understand through osmosis”.

The point of a teacher is to teach. If the only guidance they can muster is “consume more of what you’re trying to create”, there’s no point to having a class.
It's important to note that the comment above is just propaganda. Read the linked articles, they aren't even close to the ideas presented above - but links to RT and Sputnik would look suspicious, and nobody clicks those links anyway.
Hoboken is the city. All of it. There is no other town in it.
The comparison should be on number of incidents divided by area (or a similar thing to normalize the output). That wouldn't be perfect either since some towns are more densely populated and some are basically empty/green.
While the US has approximately 5% of the world's population, it has more than 25% of the incarcerated population.
There is an abundance of coworking spaces available (likely more as employers end their leases). It's not like work-from-home advocates are saying that these need to go away also.

Remote-first has the highest degree of freedom for everyone involved. Office-first only works for those who enjoy it. These arguments are inherently selfish.
I wasn’t responding to the OP but the idea that somehow changing managers is complacent and/or punting the problem to someone else.

Employees have 0 responsibility or incentive to improve their managers (the converse is not true). In fact, it’s a terrible idea to do so, because there’s probably only single digit % of managers who would take that positively, if even.

Especially if it isn’t the manager taking the initiative to ask for improvement ideas.
You want to help me build these ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30505-2 ) water collectors. We could expand to self watering gardens etc.
There’s a mix of jargon and a mix of biology vs psychology (for lack of a better term to describe how the wetware works vs is constructed). Hence, standing on strict definitions without a full explanation of the jargon you use is problematical. Women vs female might be clear in your mind, but does it agree with my approach? Or our reader’s? The meaning was clear otherwise you would not have tried to change the terminology.
You mean a tweet referring to a screenshot of the blog post posted here?
I find a simple <video> embed to be a fantastic user experience, even compared to YouTube.
I remember discovering, and reading, issues of OOB in my college library in the 80s. I wonder if they are archived online now.
China oil imports from Russia soar to a record, surpass Saudi
I find the framing of this to be a little disingenuous.. I would expect that after getting fired (or the contractor equivalent) that I wouldn't be eligible for re-hire, even on another team. Regardless of who is to blame (both of them, IMO) I can't imagine a situation where the company would take the risk on this particular person again.
My intuition suggests that rainwater that has spent less time on the roof won't be worse than rainwater that had spent more time there, but this intuition could certainly be wrong.

Regarding the landscape catchment, if it's not in-situ stone that is laid bare and chiseled into shape it might simply be an economy of scale thing, use roofing commodity instead of reinventing the wheel. And if it's in-situ limestone, a major contributor to the decision for stepped/terraced might still be ease of maintenance access. The chemical qualities seem more like a convenient coincidence to me. Perhaps an enabling quality in absence of which they'd have long switched to desalination, but even that would not make it a causal "why". Particularly the part about UV working better with the reflections white making photons pass twice seems doubtful to me, because nighttime rain is probably not entirely unheard of (yeah, I might be wrong about this)
Have you considered an HR role with a company that has a huge hiring pipeline? UPS, FedEx, and Accenture come to mind (I’m reluctant to recommend Walmart and Amazon, but you get the idea).
The comic does not apply when it's a system controlled by sentiment of being advertiser friendly.
Or maybe peertube? https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/...
Probably true. So, how does Mullvad handle this?
Can a Drone Push a Bike?
Yes. I deserve that if Microsoft decides to do so. One should take care of its data and not trust anyone.
Privacy.com abides by KYC. So it's not very private.