skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under a doctrine of free speech, politics has no "clearly false messages".

Free speech and the correctness of a message are orthogonal concerns - the Earth is flat is a false claim no matter whether there is free speech or not and neither supporting nor opposing arguments have any bearing on that fact, they may however influence other people accepting or rejecting it.
Very nice and quite helpful. However, you should consider adding the "hire your employer" services like coolcompany or frilansfinans. I added an issue on your repo as a reminder :-)
The salient comparison is Bezos and WaPo. Even if Trump can’t attack a newspaper directly, he can (and has) attacked other business ventures to try to force censorship - hit AWS hard enough that Bezos interfere with his newspaper to get Trump off his back. Given yesterday’s WSJ story about Facebook, it seems to be working.

One tactic I think is likely to come from Barr and the DOJ is a corrupt selective enforcement of anti-trust laws - decide Twitter and AWS are monopolies but Facebook and Microsoft are not.
> Our company moved to it and its been horrible with any third party application or marketing pixel.

Isn't that part of the point though? 3rd party marketing and tracking pixels are NOT things that improve the experience or performance for the visitor.
I couldn't find any reference to recent white power marches in Farmington NM. https://www.daily-times.com/news/ Do you have any references to that that isn't a clipping from a FB post? I'd be genuinely interested.
I've seen multiple therapists and while every time I assumed the worst, every single time I was surprised by how seriously my issues were taken, or at least by how willing I was to believe this to be the case :). And I'm an incredibly paranoid/suspicious person!
I've build something like this using Hugo as a SSG and a custom Micropub-backend that commits new content to a Git repo and pushes it to a Git hosting platform. That then triggers a CI build for the site generation and upload to the webserver as well as a CDN purge.
If gravity were reversed you would actually be flung away from the sun. I ask you to please be correct and factual at all times. This is a discussion on the internet after all.
The line between fact and opinion can become very blurry. Whatever you do there will be a lot of issues that can’t be fact checked.
Just going to share a YouTube channel (Skyentific) that I have learned a ton from when it comes to the considerations of sizing and power consumption when selecting motors for robotics. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcgqJ1blFKqbC2bWGY4Opmg
Streamlabs OBS is amazing, it looks like they just had a release for Mac!

https://blog.streamlabs.com/streamlabs-is-live-on-mac-ff543b...
Disclaimer: I am part of the team working on this, although not directly involved. AMA.
You'd be wise too, but you wouldn't be rejecting it empirically.
> Anybody can reply to a comment on twitter and cite the facts, and people can reply to those comments and contest or argue them. The specific difference is Twitter's "fact checking box" cannot be replied to - which makes them the ministry of truth.

Surely you see the irony of your trying to regulate how Twitter formats their free speech on their own platform?
How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I'm reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says "google.com" whether I'm reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com.

Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit. And kudos to Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.
"Goroutines are so error-prone to control since you don't have many options for abstraction, so it's relatively difficult to build long-running highly-stable programs..."

This comment does not really makes sense, Go #1 usage is for backend services, so it's indeed long running / stable program.

"They can be ctrl-C'd if they go off the rails, and any dangling goroutines just die when the process dies"

There are solution in Go to handle that case, using context and channel but ultimatly it's not a Go problem if you kill an app right away usually there is no way to clean-up everything in a clean way.
Please let this go well.
Big Jim
Here's my controversial post of the day:

I'm okay with Google trampling on my rights, in exchange for the things it gives. Personalized search results, better ad hoc translation, all of these things work well only because they have my data. And for me, I like these things enough that I'm perfectly okay with the trade.
This is pretty much what we've been saying would happen since the day AMP was fire presented to the public.

I really hope this AMP thing never becomes anything mainstream, it's an atrocious attempt at monopolizing the internet as a whole.
The young have plenty of stuff to be stubborn about. At my company we've wasted so much time because people are stubborn about using some new tech or library.
There are browser add-ons that do exactly this for you.
This is a tough position for Twitter because they now have to fact check practically all of his tweets. Any tweet not checked will be seen either as tacit endorsement by Trump's political opponents or 'undeniable truth' by some portion of their users regardless of validity.
I might have a unique perspective here: I'm a virology PhD student, and I worked in a wastewater treatment testing laboratory for some time.

Technically, what you are describing is possible. It's actually not difficult, and many communities have been doing it [1].

The article title is misleading, however. Now that we know the genome of the nCoV, we know its gene products, and we can design targeted tests for it, it is a straightforward. However, this is not an early warning sign for eventual other nCoVs that may occur. This will only work for this one, and other discovered ones. This is not going to help us identify a new, unknown coronavirus outbreak.

As far as discovery goes, it's a much more involved and delicate process, and not one I'd trust to the low margin, low wage, low talent industry that unfortunately is sewage testing.

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/coronavirus/wastewater...
I’m confused. Are you arguing for being ruled by non-experts? Sounds like you think we already are, what’s the problem?

The opposite of “expert” isn’t “uses magical common sense to arrive at the right decision”, it’s “crapshoot”.
But it's not. The news on Facebook is in fact those newspapers, TV shows and whatnot, plus loads more amateurs than ever before.

They are a platform rather than a publisher, in my view at least.
I live on Merritt Island. Our power has been out since 6:30 this morning due to intense storms in the area. That having been said, it is currently sunny and calm.

Given what the weather has been like since Sunday I could see it being postponed. I hope the weather holds and gives a window.
I'll agree with you that culture is a major factor and that in a plausible alternative history Kolmogorov and others who worked on fluids would be better known. However, I disagree on the point that people see the impacts of modern physics more readily:

> Maybe if we lived in a different world (underwater?), everyone might have heard of Kolmogorov instead.

We are immersed in a fluid: air. One could argue that the 3 orders of magnitude difference in density could be a factor in popularity, but I'm not so sure.

> one can at least appreciate the engineering achievements

I don't think that (e.g.) aerospace engineering had worse achievements or marketing than nuclear weapons. Around and after WWII both made huge and impressive advances. One could argue that aerospace engineering was more visible as well, with flying being a common mode of transportation and the exploration of space being of popular interest. For some reason that doesn't seem to make fluid dynamics as interesting to most folks as modern physics. (Though I certainly would claim that the space race in particular improved the standing of fluid dynamics.)
Yes, I have reset t2, smc, nvram, even reinstalled the entire operating system. I have the same problem on both 16 inch laptops I've owned (first one was stolen) suggesting it has to do with the software I use.

I am unable to identify a single application as the culprit, unfortunately.
I switched all my default search to DuckDuckGo a few months ago because of stuff like this. No regrets here. If you haven't tried it recently, give it a shot. It's gotten tons better in the past few years. Once you get used to it, it's as good as Google search.
But the whole idea of democracy is that we elect politicians based on their beliefs and ideals. We pick either conservative or progressive, not based on any evidence of their efficacy but on our feelings about those views. And the idea is then that the aggregate of those feelings (especially over time) leads to a prosperous and stable nation.

Maybe I have to yield this point, and say that Twitter should also call out politicians on making baseless statements. (Which will be all of the time because twitter doesn't have a very neat way of including footnotes, and politicians are not known to publish tweets as academic papers) but even then the commentary should be something like:

- the trump administration has not published evidence to support the statement that mail-in ballots lead to rigged elections.

Which is very different from just saying it's a false claim in my opinion.
They're all companies. They'll take as much as they can. It's just how companies are. Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing them.
“Where we are now feels like the inevitable conclusion to the process of eschewing norms for political gain.“

Agreed. Congress should be ashamed of themselves.
Stock photographers and illustrators are already mostly from poor countries (predominantly non-EU Eastern Europe and South East Asia). Individuals working full-time earn somewhere between $600 and $2,500 monthly on average (depending on the popularity of their content). It's going to become unprofitable even for them.
The space suits, UI, design of it all feels exactly what I’ve though the future of space technology would be. Maybe not all the way there yet, but a great leap from hundreds of manual switches and raw aluminum of the shuttle era.
Personally, I’d rather have $5k taken off the purchase price. I got 7500 free supercharger miles with mine and most of them are going to expire. I go on some road trips and use super chargers, but most of the time you’re charging at home. You’d have to do a hell of a lot of supercharging to spend $5000 on it. Frankly, if you can’t charge at home you probably shouldn’t buy the car.
Ford's police SUVs will heat up to 133 degrees to burn the germs away
Interesting thing to consider..

If fraud is more common with mail in voting and some states (or everyone?) converts entirely to mail in voting, how much will fraud increase overall?

Will it increase enough to change the overall results? With Michigan and Wisconsin being decided in 2016 by less than 1% of the vote, there's not much margin for error, fraud, or mistakes.
I've been using Macintoshes since 1986. I've used Mac OS X since 10.1. I've used dozens of different models of Apple computer.

There was only a single combination of hardware/OS X release that I ever recall experiencing kernel panics often enough to bother me. It was one of the first generations of Intel iMacs on release 10.4 or 10.5.

I'm currently using 10.5 (Catalina) on a work-provided 2018 13" MBP hooked to an external display via a Thunderbolt 2 dock. I use it for compiling Android and iOS mobile apps, web browsing, accessing work via VPN, Slack, Google Meet, all the normal things you'd expect of a developer machine.

I also have a personal 2017 non-retina MBA running Catalina. My wife has the same laptop running Mojave. Both kids have 11" MBA's running Mojave. There's a 2013 iMac in the house running Mojave.

I can't recall having seen a kernel panic on a single one of these machines ever. I'm not denying they happen to other folks, but if this is so common an issue, I'm surprised I haven't seen it across any of my machines.

Are there other issues with macOS and iOS that occasionally drive me crazy? Sure, let me tell you about iCloud drive syncing issues I've had to deal with. Or the bug in Bootcamp I just experienced yesterday where it doesn't properly account for the SSD portion of a Fusion drive when partitioning the drive for Mac/Windows. Or how screen rotation sometimes just gets stuck on iOS in the wrong orientation or at the wrong aspect ratio.

But having just installed Windows 10 yesterday... OMG, I'll take macOS over Windows any day of the week.

And no, Linux is still not an alternative. (I'm a recovering Sys Admin and used Linux as my desktop for about 5 years.) I want a single OS I can run on all of my devices, and Linux just isn't an acceptable consumer OS for myself and certainly not for my wife and kids. I want an OS that just connects to WiFi, just works with my printer, can sync photos and music with my phone, allows me to rent movies, sleeps and wakes properly, that I don't have to futz with, etc. I want an excellent tablet experience for my artist daughter. As much as possible, I don't want to have to be tech support for my family.

So that's why this guy puts up with Apple, warts and all. It's the best set of tradeoffs for me and my family.
Corbyn is ultra far left? The way he was getting slandered as some sort of neonazi, I assumed he was considered too rightwing or something.

British politics can be confusing to outside observers..
Or maybe we're just reverting to how things should be. Maybe our internal clocks were disrupted by the artificial five-day eight-hour work week.
because it's a useful MITM attack on the internet
Show HN: An multipass optimizing compiler for a simple language
You're getting entangled in the details. It's clear from his tweets that what he means is that mail-in ballots will cause a rigged election. We shouldn't trust rigged elections, so he's saying that if the election includes mail-in ballots, it will be untrustworthy.

In order to make that reasoning (you could say that arguments are not false or true, they're just arguments) he's using false (CA will not be sending ballots to "anyone") and unsubstantiated (mail-in ballots have been working for years without extended robberies and forging, why would this be any different?) claims.

You can search and reason about the words so that "technically" he isn't lying. But the actual message he's sending is very, very clear.
Why Explore Space? (1970)
Why there is so many bald people in business?
Are the CEOs and bosses so stressed or are they alpha males?
wrt ethics/morals; Is any business gonna pay a SWE for that, or are they gonna pay a lawyer?
One of the reason why I dont like GPU acceleration in general. And this isn't just on macOS, Windows, Firefox, Chrome.

May be it is better on iOS since Apple owns the whole stack from Metal to Drivers to actual GPU.
"Although there is no evidence that the millions of missing ballots were used fraudulently, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which compiled the public data provided from the Election Assistance Commission, says that the sheer volume of them raises serious doubts about election security."

So... no evidence of fraudulent use.

28 million out of how many? "almost 1 in 5". so roughly 150 million ballots mailed out over multiple years and elections, and < 20% are not returned. Or something else?

What does "unaccounted for" mean? They knew they were mailed out. All I can divine from that is 'not returned'.

"There’s little doubt that as the number of mail-in ballots increases, so does fraud."

Yet, right above that in the article, it says of the 28 million - "no evidence of fraud". How many more mail-in ballots do you need to get evidence of fraud? 200 million? 300 million?

What is the insinuation? People are mailing their ballots back, but they're getting "lost"?

It seems that when there's evidence found - as in, criminal investigations turn up fraud and people are charged and prosecuted - "there's evidence of fraud!". When no evidence is found... that's also evidence that it's going on, but not discovered yet. That's how I read this hysteria over 'mail in ballots'.
@augustt Did you even read the article? Those comments are direct quotes of Wikipedia's founder and it is not Breitbart's reasoning there.[1]
Your abysmal reading comprehension and the fact that you chose ad-hominem as initial approach tells everything about you.

BTW you won't get a different opinion from the other co-founder either - J Wales is an old libertarian and he also stands right where an intelligent man of integrity should be standing.

1. https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
Not really. They do have a bias. Regardless of that it's still not fact checking.
It's pointless to quibble about what POTUS is getting at. He clearly intends to claim "mail-in voting is fraudulent." The question of whether it's a lie has more to do with whether his claim is accurate.
I'm in the same boat and frankly I'm not sure what's worse to my internal clock: not having anything to do or not having anywhere to go.
How do you mean because you actually brushed your hair or because they were going for toxic chic?
Forwarding WhatsApp messages is a tiny subset of "talking to people".
I did the same, I don't plan on going back to Google as my search engine.
The Imperial College paper that kicked off the whole thing has plenty of details on various quarantining scenarios, including full population quarantine and at risk population quarantine, or any combination thereof. Did you read it? Do you not agree with the simulations or what are your objections?
Where it makes a difference in the vote at hand? Or, more likely, well before that
There's an extension for this. Works on mobile (at least until Mozilla kills extensions on their mobile app) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
Yes! We'll let the customers drive the priorities. Right now Authentication is our #1 focus
I'm still against AMP on a conceptual ground, but it is so much faster and more reliable than traditional page loading on my phone. Pages can't have megabytes of JavaScript and huge images. It's served by Google's fast CDN instead of some far-away server.
> Paul Manafort, the chairman of Donald Trumps' 2016 campaign is currently serving a 7.5 year prison sentence relating to this investigation.

"He was convicted on five counts of tax fraud, one of the four counts of failing to disclose his foreign bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud."

So, he was convicted of tax fraud and bureaucratic discrepencies. While factually related to the investigation, none of these charges has nothing to do with what the investigation was about.
AMP keeps people on Google owned properties longer[1], so it's a revenue driver.

[1] Via things like taking over swipe motions and the back button on carousel launched pages, for example.
Public officials choose to live a live under intense scrutiny and should expect to be challenged on their positions and able to provide well-reasoned arguments for their opinions and actions. "Fact checking" is a necessary component of a functional democracy. As small and local news outlets die en masse from the social media takeover, someone needs to pick up the slack.
Here's What Hourly Google Search Result Tracking Looks Like
My 10.15.4 tells me since I installed it there is an update, but when I go into settings to install the update, there is nothing to install.
I just had that yesterday. Not sure if I've ever seen it before, but yeah.
Trump Threatens to Shut Social Media Companies After Twitter Fact Check
Today is the 9766th of September 1993.
GraphQL API or REST API? Why not have BOTH?

https://medium.com/swlh/graphql-api-or-rest-api-why-not-have...

You should it if you:

1. Already have a GraphQL API, but your users want REST

2. Want to develop a new GraphQL API and get REST on top of it, for free

3. Want to benefit from GraphQL internally while exposing REST externally as a public API

4. Like your RESTful API to be truly RESTful, on top of a possibly completely different native GraphQL implementation
This is just a link to the SpaceX homepage?
"his policies"?

This is something I don't understand about current politics, a leader uses their people to create greatness. If it's "Trump's policies" wth is everyone else in the political system doing? In the UK we get "Boris says" but it's quite clear all policy decisions are being made under Cummings, and he gets them presumably from liaison with Tory donors.

Trump/Boris clearly know nothing about medicine, epidemiology, public health care so if ideas actually there's they should probably be rejected.

Why this focus on individuals, as if one person should be holding power in a democratic government. That's clearly wrong.
I have trouble measuring how many complaints are real at scale type issues anymore.

I think you could find any popular hardware, particularly with any emphasis on performance where there aren't some issues logged.
> What kind of oversight could even work though? We have...that is not exactly accountable and never does anything to check poor governance...

> How can a separation of powers approach still check itself?

If you approach the problem (and it is in fact a very real problem) from an engineering/computing perspective, would a possibly useful approach be to develop an AI that consumes all (or as much as possible) relevant data, and then spits out instances of events where accountability is lacking? Tune it on the overly eager side so it spits out lots of false positives along with legitimate issues, and then a bipartisan committee that consists of representatives from various factions (government, corporate, unions, finance, law enforcement & military), as well as the general public to sort through what comes out.

This would obviously be a fairly major undertaking, but nothing beyond all sorts of other things we do on a regular basis I wouldn't think, and from the amount of news stories and forum comments on the matter, I think the problem is big enough to spend a fair amount of time and money on coming up with some solution.
And there are so many nice features, like the !bangs search prefixes, and the ability to store and sync your preferences as a passphrase, without requiring an actual account.

The dark scheme is also quite good.
useful to whom?
In this case however the transcription is done fully offline on device - that is why it is so fast. Yes Google may have trampled on your voicemail data and 411 calls to create a model that works so amazingly well across different accents and languages - but it is forgivable in this case given how good and useful it is!
I agree that AMP is a major attack on the internet, not to mention the fact that it makes it way slower [1] and hard to understand what you're browsing. The worst part is that my friends send me AMP links all the time even though I use DDG to avoid this stuff.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18893808
Making an existing Django app run faster
I never looked deep into this but I remember that back in the day there was the "View original image" link in image search and I think they got rid of it because of some EU directive that stated that they can't link an image directly but rather provide a link to the original source, that is the website? Or am I completely wrong?
Astronomers discover new class of cosmic explosions
And other times you understand the game and it adds to your distaste. Like for example, success of Jared Kushner .
If they gave me the 0% financing option like the other auto makers are doing, I’d buy a Tesla today.
I believe it’s already mainstream :(