skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, those "many people" blocked for "no reason."

Google is free for most users. If they block someone from their services that's their prerogative. I doubt they do it randomly for "no reason," just like I doubt someone who says they got fired for "no reason." It might happen but more likely Google had a reason, just not one the blocked person agrees with or wants to tell anyone about.

What happens on YouTube with the advertising policies hardly seems to rise to "techno dystopia of tomorrow." Russell Brand didn't have his Google or YouTube accounts blocked. His videos are still there. YouTube de-monetized his channel, which means they won't run ads on his videos, and Brand won't make money on YouTube. YouTube has obligations beyond Russell Brand's ego and income -- they have contractual obligations to their advertisers and all of their users. No one has to watch or post on YouTube, and we don't descend into a dystopian hellscape if YouTube does one thing or another -- if it disappeared tomorrow most people in the world would barely notice, and a few wealthy celebrities living parasitically off of attention and advertising would have to get real jobs.
Andrew Tate has been indicted on charges of rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women. He is by his own admission a violent misogynist and, in his own words, "probably 40% of the reason" he moved to Romania was the perceived ease of evading rape charges there: "I'm not a rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want. I like being free." That's the same Romania which is known as one of the sex trafficking capitals of the world.

Given that there are many many more individuals with similar credentials (i.e. - none) doing the "just asking questions" schtick about vaccines, Ukraine, big pharma, etc. who have not been accused of rape or criminally indicted, why do you think that two people -- who constantly and openly discuss their predatory behaviour -- and have multiple accusers with independent witnesses, and documentary evidence, are being "silenced" for not conforming to the status quo?

It's self-evidently more likely that these are two predators who happen to truck in conspiracy theories, and they've been caught. Plenty of morons abound on Rumble and elsewhere, and frankly Tate and Brand's audience is nowhere near large enough (or, honestly, intelligent enough) that any government or organisation would orchestrate a fabricated "take down" to silence them.

I can tell that you're a conspiracy theorist, so let me state it plainly: very few people care about what you think as much as you do, and nobody holds your idols in the sort of esteem which would necessitate them being deliberately silenced for their opinions about "war/ukraine" or "pfizer/moderna".
Sikhs maybe, this is referring to “BC Sikhs” a group on Facebook which is, based on the post, obviously Khalistani sympathizer.
Correct, I was only replying to "censored the Biden laptop with no good reason[.]" The rest of your post was not worth considering.

I appreciate the "we can do what we want with our property" trend in big tech now because I adore the idea of private property rights, which include the right to exclude. One example of why the right to exclude is so excellent is this thread, where the community has combined to inform you that your opinions and attitudes are not useful or within the spirit of our rules. Under your proposal, we would have to listen to you go on forever about how you feel the law should work. I am thankful internet platforms are able to institute such measures in order to control the insane nonsense we have to wade through.
Hey, nicely designed. A bit of a retro look but not tacky. I like the niche market you are aiming for (Linux hacker) and the work look impressive. I sound like an investor evaluating but I have no scratch to give. Just here to give encouragement and will root for your success
Which is why I could never truly appreciate calculus.
There are KYC APIs that can do identity verification for you.
Plaid’s Zack Perret on Visa, valuations and privacy
LinkedIn is just another social network, more work related. When you post something new, you do want to see how many likes/comments. Just like Ins. "Who viewed my profile" is real in LinkedIn. It can be someone who is hiring, someone who may watch your talk, someone who may buy your product. I personally started some business conversations when I realized someone viewed my profile, or at least add they as new connections.
If the NSA had hardware backdoors everywhere, it seems to me there would be no need for TAO or hoards of 0-days. And yet we know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA invests a lot in that stuff, correct?
And you are qualified to judge right?

My point is that there are a lot of people that would make perfectly fine CEO’s skipped over because they’re not already a CEO/born into connections.

The strongest signal people use for determining whether they would be any good is whether they’re already one. Which is how people that torpedo a company get re-hired anyway.

Unlike for example, engineers, where we assume they can’t program their way out of a pack of butter even when they come in as a principal.
(It's worth noting this about the author's personality: "... as an antisocial autistic person, I am afraid that I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things ..." - so the author is antisocial and autistic. Worth knowing when reading my thoughts, below.)

Writing and speaking have their places. It depends on context and the situation, really.

If I'm in a room with someone, and I say, "I dislike the work you've done", but it's delivered with a sarcastic tone, with a smile on my face, and a flowery movement of the arm to denote that I was joking, ideally the whole statement will be taken as a joke.

However...

If I'm in a room with someone, and I email them to say, "I dislike the work you've done", then everything else mentioned above is lost. How is this perceived by the other person? I, as the author of the statement, have to do extra work to portray meaning which can _still_ get lost:

"I dislike the work you've done! ... lol j/k ;-)"

That's not superior in this simple example, so I doubt it's going to be superior in more complex examples.

So I would ask the author this: why do we attend courts to solve complex legal matters? Why not do it entirely in writing? Would that not allow the highly educated, skilled labour that supports the legal system to "scale" better? Could a judge now not handle many cases at once versus having their time pinned to a physical location in which one case can be heard at a time?
...which never worried them in the past, and they were happy to make money from.
And those weren't simple studies they were self-policed and self-reported trials. Trials that determined FDA green lighting. How can the FDA operate like that when the incentives to profit are 40B x more than being honest.

File under: Follow the money
Losing one job is not remotely close to losing your livelihood.

They didn't saw off his hands, they demonetized him. He can go do stage shows or wash dishes or something if he wants to eat. He's famous and popular, he has a million ways of making an income.

People are acting like YouTube robbed him of something he was owed. They did no such thing.
Reed Jobs on how his venture firm tackles cancer
Suddenly this is the thread that has snapped for you and said this is wrong? For most of modern history an accusation was all that was needed to have you removed from your job. The cops showing up at your office and just 'questioning' your behavior around minors without even making accusations is generally enough to ensure you don't come back the next day. It's one of the reasons I don't post as little information about myself online as I can. Doxxing can have terrible outcomes.
Proving my point by flagging comments critical of my interlocutor's intellectual capacities for misrepresenting me while ignoring that they both misrepresented (I'd say on purpose) my comments. Funny! Don't change silly cone valley! ps. to reiterate I said that three-letter government agencies dictating what these platforms censor is totally illegal.
I’m speaking from experience, not from those benchmarks.
I find when trying to listen and focus that the back and forward (mostly back) buttons are indispensible and that having them set to a custom length for my attention span and typical concentration loss helps immensely.
That's why programming is more of a challenge and more exciting than ordinary old computer games.

Games only hold a challenge until the game-writer's secrets are broken.

When I first started out in computers, I thought the games would be thrilling. They weren't. But programming .. trying to pit my wits against the very fast moron who insisted on deliberately doing no more and no less than I told him to ... that was thrilling.
It would be hard to trigger it in Java. All references are pass-by-value, so you would have to do something like creating an array, passing that array and then replacing an element in it in on every loop iteration. Unless I got something wrong, it would be hard to do this by mistake IMO.
Seems like the real actual data would just be embedded inside the pdf.

Hopefully anyway.
3 books a DAY? How about 3 books a month? Or 3 books a year? Only the most prolific authors have managed 3 books a month.
Nope. The no good reason was the government intervention. You can't just ignore one half of a sentence because you identify as not wanting to acknowlege it.
The problem with generic advice like this is that it is invariably opinionated and unexplained.

For example, what makes Firefox, Safari, and Brave ethical browsers but Edge and Chrome not?

Firefox development has undergone plenty of unethical decisions, and I'm not sure what even a distant justification for Safari being 'ethical' would be.
Your spidey-sense is wrong, for the reasons I specified. It is not economical to do this. The effective way to solve open source Bluetooth drivers is with a carrot, not a stick, regardless of how satisfying it would be to try to beat bad companies with it.
Facebook is an American company with a lot of American employees. It also has a lot of Indian employees, and I assume those will be held responsible if things don't go well.
Built-in port forwarding in Visual Studio Code 1.82
I don't quite understand hypertension medication.

It treats high blood pressure to lower the number for its own sake, but isn't hypertension really a symptom stemming from a root cause?
Very well written and digestable. I have much respect for the Signal people.

However I'd like to mention using usernames instead of phone numbers has been met with the classic "soon™" response for years now. When will they actually do it? This the the only thing I really really dislike about Signal - their lack of communication on oddly specific things. Like them holding back the codebase for months on GitHub so as to not spoil the.. Surprise! MobileCoin!
People have always been tried in the media. We just have more media now, compressing time from days (newspapers) to hours (TV) to seconds (internet).

Harvey Weinstein got tried in the press because the police and Weinstein's enablers failed to do anything about him. I don't see that as a bad thing. The media have a role to play in society, and that sometimes includes penalizing or ostracizing people for their behavior before the slow legal system slogs around. In some countries the government and police are too inefficient or corrupt and the media is all people have. Why do we celebrate social media for things like the Arab Spring, but not for warning us about a possible rapist? Those are flip sides of the same bargain we've all made to some degree.

It's easy enough to ignore social media and not participate in it. Lots of people do it. Russell Brand made a different choice, turning himself into a social media (and TV) fixture, for fame and fortune, and sometimes that bull throws you off.
The issue here is not a technical failing or a bad policy on the library's fault -- the problem is we've allowed this sort of thing to go unpunished so often that the perpetrators (correctly) view it as being nearly risk-free. Have the FBI or some other well-resourced and knowledgeable law enforcement agency start investigating these threats and making high profile arrests that result in long prison sentences and I suspect the problem will dry up rather quickly. Unfortunately, the local PD (making the generous assumption that they even care) are simply not capable of tracking down threats delivered via telecommunications even if the threats originate from their own community.
> Although we know Hacktoberfest t-shirts are loved by the community, producing over 50,000 t-shirts and shipping them around the world has become logistically challenging. Even with the support of external sponsors, almost all of the program’s operating budget in past years has been allocated towards these physical rewards. Furthermore, we’ve run into challenges in many countries with participants being required to pay customs taxes and import duty fees which often exceed the value of the gift itself.
I agree with everything, except that I would not call the German reaction to Russia's fast mobilization "panicking". The German war planning was very aware of the meager prospects of a two-front war and that in order for a fast victory it was mandatory to beat France before Russia was (supposedly) ready. The fast Russian advance into Germany was just unexpected, and there existed simply no developed plan for such a situation. And of course no one would have wanted to simply let the Russians march through to Berlin.

To add to the debate about Cannae: Talking strategy is talking about abstract principles. The abstract patterns are here "frontal assault" vs. "flank movement" with the aim of encirclement. This is the only relevant and quite vage analogy of the Schlieffen plan and Cannae. However, the Schlieffen plan as it was adopted (and modified) by the German army was a plan of an assault with a very strong and fast right wing, but at Cannae, the battle began with a frontal attack by both armies, with Hannibal subsequently having his centre retreat and later advancing both flanks and finally his cavalry into the back of the Romans to complete the encirclement. So the analogy between Cannae and the so-called Schlieffen plan is not very far-reaching.

If we are looking for a better analogy to Cannae, the German invasion of the Low Countries and France in May 1940 comes surprisingly close. Here the advancing Belgian, English and French armies failed to cover their right flank sufficiently. A hazardous, rapid German tank advance on this flank cut them off from possible lines of retreat and threatened to envelop them from behind. Only the beach at Dunkirk remained as a way of escape for some.

The German plan of May 1940 has been described by some historians such as Antony Beevor as a variant of the Schlieffen plan. Beevor writes in "The Second World War" (2012): "Manstein's [the author of the plan] left-hook Sichelschnitt was thus a reversal of the version of the right-hook Schlieffen plan attempted 1914, which the French now expected them to try a second-time." (p. 97) -- In other words: The French expected another attempt like 1914, they operated accordingly, for that very reason walked into a trap and were defeated by an exactly opposite flanking manoeuvre.
My proposal being that the government is not allowed to censor? It's not a proposal, it's the first ammendment
Looks like there's 3 copies of Snowden's files: https://www.spytalk.co/p/the-curious-fate-of-citizen-snowden...

Bart Gelman has his copy in "cold storage" whatever that means. He doesn't sound happy about having it.
> Why would they kill off a complementary product?

Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems:

https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...
Right, but there's a difference between "we don't think this person should be profiting from our platform because they are causing harm" and "we think this person causes harm so we're going to let them use the platform but take the money we would have paid them".
Heh, I bet there is an age gap here in the replies. Older people remember the days of TV/magazines where if you did the wrong thing, suddenly your face disappeared from the media like it never existed. Then the wild west days of the internet was a weird time where there was all kinds of crazy crap on the net. Now we've recentralized the services and it looks like traditional media.

I do not blame Google on this. They are behaving in their business interests exactly the way one should expect. The problem is as a society we grow massive corporations that have large near monopolies over multiple aspects of the internet and think it's perfectly fine.
Yeah, but until that part is over, nobody else can do it.
I don't think the government requires storage or transmission. Competing systems don't all do it in as intrusive of a way.
Perhaps a moral opportunity if you believe that people credibly accused of and under investigation for rape (Brand) or spreading white supremacist dog whistle conspiracy theories (Carlson) is a moral imperative.

Not such a great opportunity when you consider that the audience for this sort of content is poorly-educated, credulous, reactionary, and anathema to advertisers who can actually support the businesses behind the platforms.

This is the most surprising thing about Elon's lurch to the right: it has already cost him c.40% of Twitter's ad revenue because, huge surprise, nobody wants to be associated with conspiracy theorists even when they aren't rapists or racists.
is this a mod over HD ?
Yep... read up on interrogation resistance.
Protected minority, covered by civil rights law. You must know the difference. People accused of sexual assault and rape do not comprise a protected minority. Internet celebrities happy to make money from advertising and pushing boundaries until they get caught or go too far do not comprise a protected minority.

YouTube did not ban all Brits, or all comedians, or all white men with long hair. They demonetized one person. There's no sign out front that says "No White British Comedians With Long Hair." Russell Brand is not a victim. He doesn't have any right to get money from advertisers on a platform he chooses to publish on. That is hardly comparable to a restaurant excluding people based on their skin color.
It's also sad that they're even considering this. They first considered this 20+ years ago before they launched the first Xbox; it was more plausible back then, compared than now, considering Nintendo's strengths with the Switch. Imagine if MS had succeeded with acquiring Nintendo back in the 2000's - I'm certain the Switch would never see the light of day.
Just because it’s second nature to you does not mean it’s user friendly.

Especially when you can fix it by just keeping the menu open.
What trouble are you having with jpackage? It's easy. Anyway, in order to AOT compile your JavaFX compilation you will have to run(or test) your application with Graal's tracing agent to collect the metadata and then compile it. You can use Graal's native plugins for Gradle or Maven.
There's complete demonetization where videos have no ads altogether (e.g., videos from BBC if you're in UK).

There's partial stuff like Content ID matches. If you post my song, YT still shows ads, but you get no money. I now get your ad money (and YT its cut).

Not sure what they meant in case of Russell Brand, but I bet they will show ads for advertisers who don't opt out and pocket the profit.
We use computers because it is pretty much impossible to live in modern society without using computers.

But by the time Dual_EC_DRBG was published, we already had alternatives that were better in just about every way, including being much less likely to contain a backdoor.
AFAIK, these are stored locally. I think some third party shops are able to recover them? At least they can for the other cameras.
So what happens if the allegations turn out to hold no weight? Does he get his channel back and the bureaucrat NPCs self-flagellate with hashtag mea culpas?

I suppose not

The culture wars are out of control
There are some algorithms where there's no obvious way to back door it, but it's always conceivable -- the person designing it may know some clever mathematics that you don't.

With Dual_EC_DRBG, everyone knew that it could be back doored. It's not some guess, or "maybe it could have". It was obviously designed to be back doored. It should have been called "NSA_BACKDOOR_RNG", because that's literally what it is.

And yes, all organisations that are not under the thumb of the US Government laughed at the transparent attempt to introduce a back door and rejected Dual_EC_DRBG. Only US-based companies use it, which ought to give you a hint.
More discussions over here a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37505168
I use msys2 bash sometimes to collaborate with people and projects who are using it. Adoption of WSL2 is still a work-in-progress at secure enterprises.
YouTube has not deleted Russell Brand's channel. Go look, it's all still there.

They did stop running advertisements on his videos, called demonetization. YouTube has contractual obligations to their advertisers, and those reputations, and their own, to consider, along with the opinions of millions of other users.
Yup. The linked article is a little confused. It thinks that an optimization to pass by value is affecting the behavior. In reality it only passes by value when it is indistinguishable from passing by reference (and it thinks it would be cheaper).
Another classic example of used products given new life in an organized matter: a lot of used cars end up in Africa.
There is no "correct" behavior here; either one is a valid choice that can be documented and that programs can rely on and exploit.

Code doesn't care about when it's written, only what you run it on, and with what compatibility options.

E.g. one possibility is that ten-year-old code that wrongly assumed the opposite behavior, and has a bug, will start to work correctly on the altered implementation.
When i shared the same conrwnr over nfs and cifs from truenas scale nfs was faster by about 15%..
Heroes is significant in the eastern block because, in my opinion, Heroes 1 and 2, effectively came close to becoming 3D chess with level-ups. Then, you add a charming crayola palette (no black and white) , almost perfect balancing, and an award-winning opera/orchestra soundtrack - you have yourself a timeless jewel.
This is one of the best viewpoints criticizing the “I’m being silenced” victim position of conspiracy theorists.

Also, consider that the ones that are silenced we are not hearing about and from.
Then break up Google from YT and their ad network. Have more competition in the market. You are going to get exactly the opposite of what you want by having one huge monopoly that's controlled by the government on what they can and cannot say.

>It’s not unreasonable at that point to require it to adhere higher standards of evidence, law, and reason.

Civil law is based on contract. Nearly every civil contract regarding media has disparagement clauses.
Like Feynman once discovered how different people have different processing architectures, just from the simple act of counting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y
The “need” for proof here determines whether there was likely malicious intent or negligence/ignorance.

People who live in an evidence-based rational world don’t skip the evidence step and go straight to possibilities and counterfactuals.