skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment seems either mistaken or disingenuous to me:

> Anonymous allegations

The identity of the alleged victims is not public, but that is not the same thing as an anonymous allegation. The newspaper and television channel know the identities of the individuals, as does Brand.

> from more than a decade ago

Utterly irrelevant.

> procured by a fishing reporter

It's unclear what you mean by this. I can't find anything in any of the stories which suggests that the journalists simply began investigating him hoping to find a story or promulgate the misapprehension that he is a rapist. In fact, the Times' investigation seems to insinuate that the 16 year old Brand was dating when he was 31 approached his publisher seeking an apology before being rebuffed. That seems to me to be the most likely origin for the investigation.

> should not lead to the cancellation of someone's means of supporting themselves

Suspension without pay is extremely common whilst investigations of serious misconduct in or outside of the workplace are carried out, but even if that weren't the case: YouTube is not Brand's employer, he chooses to publish on their platform [presumably] knowing the terms of service, and is not beholden to YouTube as his only source of income. After he was "censored" by YouTube during COVID for espousing inane conspiratorial drivel, he began posting on a service called "Rumble", not to mention the royalties and residuals he still receives from his previous work and of course not forgetting his option to use one of his myriad other platforms (or indeed YouTube's, if it's within the ToS) to encourage his brainless fans to remunerate him directly or via other means.

> This is absurd

Even your straw man retelling of this situation is fairly benign-seeming.

> this is tyrannical

Lol.

> Even the "testimony" they released was recorded by an actor.

You could be forgiven for not knowing this if you get all of your news from Elon and Russell Brand, but it is absolutely the de facto standard in journalism to protect the identity of individuals with a mixture of actors and altered voices. If you watch the Channel 4 documentary you will note that at times they use the real people, with altered voices, and at times they use actors.

None of this undermines the credibility of the reporting or the accusations, and -- again -- the identities of the individuals in the reporting are known to both the journalists and Brand, and the police know the identity of the _further_ individual who came forward in light of the allegations to make _another_ accusation.
No one is telling you to be outraged about it.
What's so hard to understand? Nixon was literally caught on tape[0] conspiring to cover up CREEP payments; it's a bit funny to claim Watergate was all a deep stage conspiracy to screw Nixon when he was recorded committing crimes.

[0]https://watergate.info/1972/06/23/the-smoking-gun-tape.html
Apple files patent on electric car propulsion system [pdf]
Most allocators will do this, yes.
I know someone who’s fabricated almost all their work. Their lab leads always cover it up and don’t retract their work. The crazy part is this person has failed upwards and is currently a senior researcher at a major research institution. They’ve been at UCLA and UCSF for medical research.

Absolutely insane to watch.
My first thought is a java package or mobile app id that you don't want to tie to some real web resource.
The main twist is that we don't know the future but we know how theorical QCs are able to break currently used cryptography, with QCs algorithm like the Shor algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

"As such, as quantum technology advances, there is the potential for future quantum computers to have a significant impact on current cryptographic systems. Forecasting the future is difficult, but the general consensus is that such computers might arrive some time in the 2030s, or might not arrive until 2050 or later." quoted from:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pquip-pqc-engine...
Ah, but don’t worry folks, those vaccines which generated $40B in profits for Pfizer and Moderna, those are just A-ok. Trust the science, which in this case is perfect, unassailable and uncorruptible (unlike everything else the pharma industry does). Don’t question the faith.
Why would you need proof that it has been backdoored? The fact that it can be backdoored should be enough to disregard it for all uses right from the start.
Feel a great sense of relief reading this. This fixes the single biggest wart in Go.
In general it seems like if you keep ignoring videos from a given channel you're subscribed to, they will stop appearing most of the time in the default view despite the fact that you are subscribed, although they'll still appear if you go to the "subscriptions" view.

Basically in the default view I'm not sure it even makes much difference whether you're actually subscribed to a given channel or not; it seems like it's more about whether or not you've viewed the channel's videos recently.
DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest 2023 will not feature t-shirts
I guess we're both "unusual" then.
Show HN: Share notes about how you improved your own life
Right.

My wife and I went to Germany once and my wife, being in TV/movies/theater, took me to some German theater... which was obviously all in German... which she speaks, and I don't. Thanks love /s

Anyway, although I couldn't understand what was being _said_, I could understand what was being _shown_ to me _visually_. I got the idea of each scene: that guy is a gangster and has a blood feud with that guy, who is chasing that chick's heart, and also is on the run from the cops, and so on.

Without the language, I understood easily 70-80% of what was going on.
Like the cyanobacteria before us which killed off most previous life by overloading this planet with oxygen, maybe we're just prepping the world for the next forms of life which will live on CO2.
most podcasts suck because they are full of ads and filler.
But the mathematical inaccuracy is caused by the limitations of compressing an abstract concept on a finite field (of a different base abstraction). So no, it doesn't seem like your wacky analogy at all.
Huge opportunity for X to continue to become the safe haven for "cancelled" content. Tucker Carlson, etc.
As it happens, we considered sum types quite seriously in the early days. In the end we decided that they were too similar to interface types, and that it would not help the language to have two concepts that were very similar but not quite the same. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/-94Fmnz9L6k/m/4BUx...

There is a lot of discussion of sum types in Go at https://go.dev/issue/19412.
At least I was trying to contribute something besides low-effort snark and insults.
Next they can fix nil checks on interfaces.
I disagree with the "most" statement, most online commerce ads tracking is streamlined, user clicks on ads, goes to ebay, buys item, ads platform connects click and purchase through some cookies or fingerprinting and you got reliable tracking.

Google obviously tracks lots of people through multiple devises, because they are in eccosystem.
> The main twist is that we don't know the future but we know how theorical QCs are able to break currently used cryptography

Under the constraints of us correctly modelling the math of QC. Isn't it possible that we have gaps between our models of QC and how it works in reality that could make it such that these algorithms can't actually offer any speedup over classical approaches in the real world? Or similarly, even if they do work, maybe it's just impossible to build a computer with sufficiently many qubits to outperform classical approaches. Anyway, massive gap between theory and practice with no indication we're bridging it in meaningful ways.
A lot of comments making the counter argument "speaking > writing" are smuggling in interactive communication. And in that case I would have to agree, it's faster for most people to talk than write, and going back and forth in conversation is easier than in text.

But that doesn't scale. Even if you have the best ideas, you won't get very far coordinating others if you can't communicate non-interactively.
Young Adults in U.S. Drinking Less Than in Prior Decades
Citigroup Will Let Rich Clients Use Private Blockchain to Transfer Assets
On a somewhat related note: how come we, as a society, have never really adopted the daily "video log" (except for the YouTubers amongst us; the Neistat wannabes), but we have _heavily_ adopted the idea of the written journal?
Major nitpick: also virtual threads are cooperatively scheduled on carrier threads (the underlying platform threads). You "cooperate" implicitly by calling APIs that block the thread. There is no preemption if you hog the carrier thread with, say, number crunching or array sorting.

Straight from JEP 444:

> The scheduler does not currently implement time sharing for virtual threads. Time sharing is the forceful preemption of a thread that has consumed an allotted quantity of CPU time. While time sharing can be effective at reducing the latency of some tasks when there are a relatively small number of platform threads and CPU utilization is at 100%, it is not clear that time sharing would be as effective with a million virtual threads.
That we can conceive of mathematical ideals like perfect circles that are never actually realized or encountered in the concrete, physical world (even if it is the case that they are possible in principle, in practice we arguably never encounter such things) suggests something very interesting about the nature of the human intellect.

And, in fact, even if they did exist physically, the very fact that the concept or predicate of Circularity exists in the intellect (and this concept must be Circularity as such or else we could not speak of circular things) and applies to many things despite their diversity, also suggests something about the intellect, namely, that it is not physical, as the physical is always concrete, instantiated, singular, this-and-not-that, not ideal.
just do whatever tik tok did.
Honest answer for 99.99% of people is that you simply cannot compete at the same level that the big guys compete at. Literally no matter what you do.
Probably would have to go after the false accusers for defamation and damages incurred… probably not worth it.

That said, mere unsupported allegations leading to serious material consequences is a dystopian quagmire and should be actionable in a legal sense without regard to the absurdly inequitable stipulations put forth in the T&C.
I love Apple Music. I like the UI too.

But I also bought the Marvis Pro iOS app. It’s like $10 or something. It’s fantastic and the developer is incredibly active/responsive online. Worth checking out if you’re unfamiliar
I bet they run a useful service. But their post doesn’t really speak well to people who don’t already use the service, because it doesn’t define the used names (e.g. it’s only implied that the service is a VPN, why not just say it up front). That’s why I think it’s not a great press release.
That further centralizes, makes matter worse.

Government is also extremely inefficient. To build the service it'll cost them 10x more than private companies doing it. How much do you want to pay in taxes? There will come a point that even if the government actually is trying, that even if the entire GDP is converted the taxes that it'll still end up with a worse quality of life for the rest of us. Governments is easily corrupt and extremely inefficient. Its almost never the answer.
Americans now need to spend 43% of their income to afford a home
So Youtube will demonetize you if you hurt someone with an internet connection, but not if you hurt someone too poor to afford one?
Amazon limits authors to 3 books a day to combat AI-generated material
A 'cobalt' bomb isn't some mysterious doomsday weapon. It's a any thermonuclear weapon with ordinary cobalt metal (59Co) as part of the tamper or other component. The cobalt absorbs some of the bomb's neutrons to become cobalt-60. The half-life of cobalt-60 (5.27 years) means that initially the effects of the other fission products dominate. However, it stays around a long time and renders affected areas dangerous to habitation, much like the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Spread enough cobalt-60 across, say, the American midwest, Canada, and the heartlands, via a few high-altitude airbursts, and the food system is likely to collapse because the arable land is too contaminated.
Exactly, often quite weak and might not even include an appropriate scope that covers cyber security/information security controls
A topologist once told me "square" and "circle" are synonyms.
If the policy is “Fuck you, your tie sucks”, then that should be written into the policy.

YouTube’s policy does not say “Fuck your, your tie sucks.” They say they remove people for harm to users. But there are many creators who harm users who are not being removed. So that is not the policy.

They can easily fixing this by changing the policy to “fuck you, your tie sucks” or “we ban for any reason at our discretion.”

Until they make that change, it’s perfectly fair to point out the contradiction.
> If he is demonetized, then his videos won’t get ad placement

Not necessarily true. YouTube definitely runs ads on demonetized videos and channels.
writing in a journal, you put your thoughts into something. akin to a deposit in a bank.

recording yourself with a device such as a camera or microphone, the device is taking your thoughts and putting them inside of itself. implicitly, you are more vulnerable.

but times change, and with them so does access to the necessary technology. you haven’t yet reached the terminus. enjoy the ride.
He is not dependent on YouTube to support himself even if 100% of his income today comes from YouTube.

He could get banned from all social media and he would still be able to support himself.

Any party to a transaction should be able to revoke consent to the transaction at any time with or without cause.

If you are a programmer and you work for me and I fire you, I have not destroyed your ability to support yourself. I've only removed your ability to do business with me.

Freedom of association is powerful and important.
> Searches return results not in your library, even when you were searching... your library.

I am floored by just how untrue this statement is
I believe they did pay?
Snes in universal Osaka har been open for a while. Does look very much like you would expect.
No, the version declared in go.mod is different than the version of the toolchain used to compile the project. If you declare an older version even new toolchains will act like the previous versions.
Quite literally subjectively, not objectively.

Some % of communication is non-verbal. Tone, expression, gesture. If the author of this article struggles with direct communication, it's likely because they don't (or can't) pay the necessary attention to these. So, for them text may be preferable. But most people aren't raw information processors.

I'm sure that's why emojis have become so widely embraced - it's easier to indicate tone with a picture than with text.
If you (or anyone reading this) have any interest in doing this, consider e-mailing me (e-mail in my profile) and I might have something very compelling for you. I journal like this all the time now and so does my team. :)
>You are still talking about a different concept entirely.

I am not.

>For example, if I take this test, every single answer I give is a guess.

Just look at the graph man. Many answers are given with 100% confidence (that then turn out to be wrong). If you give a 100% confidence response, you don't think you're guessing.

>I am 100% certain of this.

You are wrong. Thank you for illustrating my point perfectly.
A not-quite-circular argument, even!
He worked for years as a licensed therapist counseling individuals and couples. If you are looking for a source of authority, he's better than nothing, if not as good as a randomized control trial.
Thanks, that’s the answer was looking for.
It's an aberration because it's equivalent to long-standing practice?
Beautifully put. Esp the brother-in-law one :)
> Al you need to fix this is use rational Beziers - same thing but with weighted control points.

Then it is settled, we'll use .TTF as our CAD interchange format.
obesity, diabetes, hypertension, etc. ..it all goes together
The great thing about Kafka is the ability to batch operations. Collect a set of messages in memory and, when its time to commit, submit a bulk operation. If something fails you just rebuild the buffer from the last committed offset. Pretty neat piece of technology.
Can't tell if facetious

Russell Brand has 1.4 million followers on Rumble
Since this kind of trade embargo is so lax, it can only be assumed to be formally a part of the foreign policy strategic goal: create sufficient internal backpressure to liberalise the market, that it makes sense for the Cuban government to give in. I wonder if it works?

There is no specific "only apple" in this. So, all the anti-cuban government info is available via VPN from other places, via the local copy wikipedia &c. It would work on Android. There might be "I trust apple more, I trust icloud more to protect my secrecy" or "Less spyware risk" maybe.

At this point, I would think that being part of a combine which collects old apple gear (actually, almost any ICT gear), puts it in a container, and ships to Havana would work fine. I doubt every US government body wants that so you'd be placed in the position of evading ITAR regulations or some equivalent.

You would think that much the same happens in Syria, Libya, Iran, you-name-it: equipment beyond end-of-life in the developed west winds up either in the waste stream or part of a container delivered via various paths into these economies for the value it has, mending other things or being mended itself.
Any details about the minimum/maximum altitude for this to work?
Not to be confused with RapeX:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rapex/
As someone else suggested - there's no screenshots or live demo, the one link provided requires a google login to run and does not actually work as it seems to also require an ngrok account - ERR_NGROK_6022 Before you can serve HTML content, you must sign up for a free ngrok account and install your authtoken.
I believe HotSpot can move allocations out of the arena when garbage collection happens, which means fragmentation is less of an issue.
Trusting Trust says everything could be backdoored, but somehow I'm guessing you still use computers.
> We avoid a lot of disasters daily because people are actively maintaining things.

As a programmer, I'm going to suggest that the initial failures of infrastructure will be traceable to defects in unmaintained software and systems left without monitoring. Most prominent current example: Twitter
Maybe not head to head, but you can definitely compete. Facebook has tried at least twice to materialize communities out of nothing (threads and metaverse), and they fail because it's not organic, they inherit all the bad stuff that comes with scale and none of the good stuff they organically leads to scale. We were talking about someone being imaginary groped in the metaverse and what kind of censorship it should have before anyone actually used it.

Twitter is the same, Musk bought it and drove it over a cliff.

Create a cool community and you can easily compete with those two.
Well I can tell you that most people wouldn’t have their security clearance revoked for using marijuana, instead likely rebuked or made to agree to abstain in the future. It would be more serious if illegally purchasing or distributing, of course.

Would you be making this argument if it was anyone else?

Since there’s no case of drug decriminalization or other substances in the USA, I don’t think this is particularly relevant. There’s a reason people are up in arms about MJ scheduling alongside these other substances. Additionally, I know this might sound very general, but the security clearance process is extremely subjective. There is no published set of circumstances for what gets a clearance denied or revoked and what simply gets addressed and mitigated. And I think that’s a good thing. In this case, I don’t think Elon’s partaking in any way indicates, jeopardizes or threatens his loyalty to the US, the likelihood that he could be blackmailed, or his ability to keep secure data secure.

Would you be making the same argument if it wasn’t Elon, but a close friend from school that hit a doobie on his buddy’s local team’s podcast?

Sorry for the ramble, but the clearance process is one I’m very familiar with, and I just see a lot of assumptions and misunderstandings in these threads.
That's a great question. A bit of history. Here's more on Pinot, back when it was invented at LinkedIn, before it was ASF-incubated as "Apache Pinot."

LinkedIn originally had been using traditional OLTP systems to power the "Who Viewed My Profile" app; they just simply hit the wall. So LinkedIn looked at other analytics databases at the time. Most just couldn't handle a large number of QPS — which, as a social media platform, they readily anticipated. This is why they defined the category as "user-facing, real-time analytics."

[This is terminology mostly specific to the Apache Pinot crowd, though I see that StarRocks / CelerData also recently started talking about user-facing analytics. So I wrote up an article explaining it here:

https://startree.ai/resources/what-is-user-facing-analytics ]

Other similar extant systems LinkedIn benchmarked at the time just couldn't give them the numbers they needed at the low latency, high concurrency and large scale they anticipated — terabytes to petabytes of data. So they wrote their own solution.

Pinot was originally intended for marketing purposes to capture live intent & action data.

The same Pinot infrastructure eventually grew to other real-time use cases. "Who Viewed My Profile" was followed by "Company Follow Analytics," then sales or recruiting, and even internal A/B testing.

[I wasn't at LinkedIn while this happened; this lore was passed down to me by others. Disclosure: yes I work at StarTree.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/analytics/real-time-analyti... ]
> More generally, will [sideloading] lead to a resurgence of "unofficial" third-party apps for popular platforms like Instagram and Snapchat?

It will lead to piracy in general. But whom will it affect?

Big companies like Meta won’t be worried about unofficial clients much, since the core is at the server anyway. There are many means of ensuring client authenticity, including by constantly changing the APIs, rotating secrets and updating the client.

Even social media aside, almost no big company today releases “buy and own forever” apps that don’t tie to servers or use some sort of subscription model. (Affinity is the one exception that comes to mind.)

So what sucks is that sideloading is going to eliminate the small indie dev who could make an honest living through the simple model of 1) make software, 2) let the user buy it once and own. Note who lobbied for sideloading (spoiler alert: very big companies).
Which programming language is fastest? (Benchmarks Game)